SonOfThunder Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Fluff-wise the game is meaningless, best ignore it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Fluff wise the game is intentionally a caricature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint13 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 ^^ Seconded. I think they would have gone with a completely different visual interpretation if it wasn't at least a little tongue-in-cheek. Exhibit A: Adorable cartoon Angron, with dominatrix tendencies (as helpfully evidenced by Khârn the Bloody) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God-Potato of Mankind Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 There's a difference between a visual art style and unbelievably :cuss dialogue. Still, I am enjoying htis. It's replace CoC, the theme is enough to be worth it. I'm doing my usual ploy of maxing all upgrades per every HQ upgrade so it takes a while. I'm thinking of just running 6 Cataphractii and 14 Marines as a standard force, once I get my 4th pad. Are the jetbikes any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint13 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Not every warhammer game can have riveting dialog penned by Dan Abnett... Just look at 40k Carnage :D The jet bikes are great in skirmish since you can play keep away and nab points when your opponent commits to one. I'm still having decent results with a giant Cataphractii wad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Yeah Cataphractii are the best tanks through end game. You get too few Predators, Dreads, Glaives compared to the number of Cataphractii you can get per Pad. I would upgrade Cats to max as time / resources allow. Edit - The other thing is that the Lascannons do double damage to Preds, Dreads, Glaives but not Cats. And the Heavy Bolters do double damage to Tacs, Supports and Bikes but not Cats. Nothing does more damage to Cats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint13 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I have noticed that lascannons and flamer turrets are about the only thing that gives my Cataphractii pause. Those are always my first targets for a haywire and beacon for a mob of bloodlusted Cataphractii. **EDIT** Is there something I'm missing about the death storm pods? The seem to do super minimal damage to not a lot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfThunder Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Used my first death storm this morning and I withdrew and started the same attack again with orbital strikes :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spu00sed Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 The war master will be even more pissed with the III LEGION. We have stolen his talon! :D I'm also finding emp are dirty in pvp. Hit the loyalists with emp, then fury them to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint13 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 ^^ Isn't it sweet when they clump up in one easy to EMP group? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Some other things I've found. Unless you're expecting a horde of Predators attacking your base (which happens but is very rare) go with Hunters over Lascannons. Once you upgrade them past Level 10, Lascannons cost almost 4 times as much to upgrade and only do a fraction more damage. The only thing about Lascannons is that they do double damage to Preds, but then Hunters can hit air while Las cannot. They way to avoid having the Titan kill all your defenses (before your opponent rolls in with ground forces) is to inter spread buildings between your turrets. I've found that the Titans Apoc missiles are not really AOE but rather a fixed number of shots that hit a fixed number of targets within an area. So if you have buildings, it spreads the hits over more targets minimizing the likelyhood of completely killing any one turret. And Cats still rock end game. While Deathstorm is completely useless except for clearing a large patch of mines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint13 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Thanks for the heads up, Kilo. All of that is hella good to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtoof Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Have we got a bolster and chainsword chapter in game? Or two, for the two sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conn Eremon Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I keep meaning to ask something like that myself. Are there player groups? If so, what do they provide/do? As for a B&C one, it is my understanding that such a thing can only be created/approved by an Admin, under their and/or mod control, and all B&C rules would apply. At least, that was what I gathered when the possibility of a Steam group popped up once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 In game you can create 'Chapters' of up to 50 members. Every 2 weeks, the total Glory (not Exprience) of the Chapter is totaled and ranked against other Chapters. First place gets 10,000 Machine Spirit to be split between members. So that's like 200 if 50 members. Second place gets 5,000 MS, and so forth. Glory is then reset and the fight goes on for the subsequent 2 weeks, etc. Not sure if there are more rewards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint13 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Oh gosh, I felt bad for this guy yesterday. I beat him with a single Cataphractii because he ran out of ammunition for a beacon. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/908/5olyOj.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hushrong Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I've had that done to myself once or twice. I just stare at the screen wondering why I double tap it (and waste munitions) when I want something to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spu00sed Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I've noticed a lot of my opponents dropping tons of beacons at the start of the game, whilst my mob just waddles forwards to the ammo caches to boost my ammo reserve. This allows me to out emp them later in the game. I've also noticed a strange pattern with the AIs bases. Yesterday they all dropped from normal defenses to a single turret! Today the new bases. All have 6+ level massive turret systems, and all I have is lvl 9 available troops, so I'm getting creamed. Even my level 4 orbital strike does nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Yeah it seems the Devs are making server side tweaks on the fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spu00sed Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Just found out that relic bonuses don't stack. Had two +23% to starting energy but only had 61, which I got from one +23% to energy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint13 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Huh... that's kinda lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Just found out that relic bonuses don't stack. Had two +23% to starting energy but only had 61, which I got from one +23% to energy. Yeah, when its greyed out it means there something better it won't stack with. But it will still work on its own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spu00sed Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Just found out that relic bonuses don't stack. Had two +23% to starting energy but only had 61, which I got from one +23% to energy. Yeah, when its greyed out it means there something better it won't stack with. But it will still work on its own Problem was they were the same level, so no greying out. So I thought they might stack. At least we have learnt from it. Though I am now wondering if relics stack with legion special rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Some other stuff; Glaive Volkite Carronade Beam has the range of a Mortar and it does damage to everything in its path. BUT, it will only start firing at half that range. Which means, it will be in range of opposing LasCannons, etc. before it will start firing, though it will do damage to everything behind its primary target. It also takes an hour to build, is very slow so takes a minute or so to drive across the board, and can get blown up by a single shot from a Beamer Turret (which does double damage to it). So, don't use it. Edit. - I understand why they made it fire at half max range; its because its rate of fire is so slow they wanted to maximize the number of targets it would hit. Otherwise, if it fired at max range, only the nearest target would get hit. But it then stinks that Turrets will kill it by the time it fires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incinerator950 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I keep meaning to ask something like that myself. Are there player groups? If so, what do they provide/do? As for a B&C one, it is my understanding that such a thing can only be created/approved by an Admin, under their and/or mod control, and all B&C rules would apply. At least, that was what I gathered when the possibility of a Steam group popped up once. We had a BnC group in Space Marine. Admins have no authority off the board unless they control the faction themselves, and no one is stuck up enough to follow g rating for coms when we're all adults. Especially when you have an ex sailor like me mucking around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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