RPI - Josh King

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Hey everyone! Welcome back for another Rally Point Interview. Very happy to welcome Josh today. As always please keep questions relevant to his workings and let's have a bit of fun 🙂 I'm shortening the amount of time between every question so please be respectful. Vote or react on any questions you'd like answered!

[cunning ember]

Can we get any hints as to what's to come for the Empire this Holiday season?

[restive rune]

regarding the newly revealed tri-race dlc packs, how would it be structured? is there any hints allowed regarding that?

[pastel gyro]

Hey Josh! Please tell us more about your team. You guys do great work 👍

Edit: Basically I'm always interested in how teams in such complex games work together to design complete systems. What's your process to design something? How many people are usually needed to work on one mechanic?

[willow karma]

Hi, I don't have a question but I would like to let you know, as well as the rest of the CA devs working on WARHAMMER III, that I am very happy with how the game has turned out so far 🙂 Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs has proven to be everything I wanted and I am fully content with the game; please make sure that you all know that your passion and hard work is recognized and very appreciated! Have a good day

[royal dagger]

is there any chance of Wurrzag's dance animation being used by other Savage Orcs (even if only ones in his army, or perhaps as part of his WAAAGH effects), it also feels like a bit of a shame that he stops dancing when mounted on his boar, any chance that he might one day get an animation change so that he can dance full time?

[winter idol]

Hello: Heres my question!

The great thing about wh3 is its faction variety. To show it off more, have you considered increasing interaction between allies? If we could attach an army to an ally's army, as the waagh mechanic allows, then we could help an allied faction with our troops in their battles and fight their enemies. This is a way for us to tell stories in our campaigns, establish more of a sense of a "LIVING" world, and it'd also be perfect for coop campaigns, as instead of having to always give us units, making the ally feel like he's giving away his toys, our ally'd have our own troops there. An example of how awesome this'd be is to send someone to help Belegar to get back his mountain, or joining a beastmen horde with allied norscan warriors for long-distance marauding.

Another path would be the outpost system: let the garrison you put into another town through the outpost be under your control, allowing you to help an ally during a siege. Imagine how epic that'd be, the elven soldiers helping in Couronne, like Haldir from LOTR. Worse case scenario you autoresolve if you don't want to fight those fights. Fights alongside allies, as is, are very rare, which is not very exciting; plus these battles as the "help" would be lower stakes for the assisting player, letting them focus more on the graphics, zooming in, and bask in the glory.

[wraith lily]

https://tenor.com/view/wurrzag-total-war-warhammer-dancing-warhammer-fantasy-greenskin-gif-15577123

Thank you for this Joshua

[wind dawn]

What should we be expecting as far as Old World updates go, potential reworks, minor changes, or overhauls? Please and thank yous

[modest wing]

Hi Josh who do we have to bribe to get Wurrzag and all Savage Orcs to dance the Macarena in perfect harmony?

[wraith lily]

After 3 games you've been working on, what do you think you use more as inspiration for new abilities for units? Previous ones the team implemented or the rules from GW?

@winter idol only one question, edit your post please

[lament nest]

Hello Josh, I know that Bretonnia is meant to have relatively weak melee infantry, but have you considered buffing Foot Squires? You need a tier 4 building to recruit them and they barely get buffs from the tech tree and skill trees. I think that a simple speed buff would already be quite helpful since Bretonnia is such a mobile faciton and Foot Squires are extremely slow with a speed of only 28.

Also give Grail Reliquae a frenzy aura for SP you cowards. 😤

[silent python]

Will we ever matched animations expand to various unit types?

Can't remember off the top of my head, but Boris Ursus has a matched animation on his bear - but not on horseback or on foot. Or infantry to monstrous infantry etc.

[gilded creek]

Hi Josh, with new each DLC new campaign mechanics are being designed and added, are there any particularly interesting/challenging campaign mechanics in the upcoming DLC that you could shed some light on?

[amber sphinx]

With the chaos dwarfs being released I can say they are my favourite race because I've been waiting for them for so long. Everything goes so well from synergy to effects, especially the economy.

Seeing how the chaos dwarfs brought a whole new type of interactive economy, should we expect future updates to touch upon other economies to make them unique from one another?

[dapper storm]

As an associate designer, how often do you get to research and go through any of the community created mods/content in the workshop. If so has any of that research or mods influenced any of your design decisions. Or brought them up to Design leads in daily scrums ?

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Josh: Awww thanks, we certainly do like knowing what we put out is liked by the community! Sorry, what specifically do you want to know about the team? (Feel free to edit your answer here @pastel gyro 🙂 )

[steep girder]

Hi Josh! I’ve always felt like TWWH could benefit from having different character skill mechanics than the ones we have today. It’s probably not feasible to overhaul now that there’s so many characters in the game, but if you could rewind time back to the start of WH1’s development and change 1 or 2 things about how character skill trees worked, what would they be?

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Josh: That's very much appreciated! Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs was an absolute blast to work on. Please do keep voicing your feedback as it's invaluable 🙂

[quasi holly]

Hey Josh! Can we hope with each DLC for one of the older very "Vanilla" lords to get their own campaign mechanic with their own UI? For instance for Balthazar Gelt it doesn't really make sense to be involved in Elector Counts mechanic, but would be awesome for him to have Ikit's Lab type of feature, where he can also get Elector Count units in upgrade milestones.

Is this on your radar design-wise?

Also, not really question but more something I'd really love for designers to be aware of: please fix the miscommunication issue between designers/CMs/Playerbase on what does it mean to have a unique LL mechanic. Just faction and lord effects aren't LL mechanics, but ever since wh3 launch they are being advertised as such. It always leads to heightened expectations and disappointment on player-side when you say lord X will have a unique mechanic but he just ends up having a boring "+10% Replenishment" faction effect instead 😄

[wraith plover]

Hi, Josh. So, contrary to some different videogames, the controls, such as casting a spell or ability, or the unit charging, are tied to the animation, as in, the animation must run its course for the spell/ability/action to take place. This implies a focus on the animation rather than responsiveness, which is a typical norm. When this decision was made, was it concerning the engine of the game, or really more of a design/gameplay choice? And if so, what was behind that decision?

[sly wing]

Im curious- what was the project you spent the most time on, or just generally felt like you did?

[copper ridge]

What would you like to design if you had unlimited budget and a dedicated team? (A dance off endgame scenario we know that)

[humble escarp]

Do you plan to rework visually old lores of magic like you did for fire/metal/death ? I think some of the oldest lores (big/little waagh, vampiric) etc... would really need something.

[static kestrel]

Is there any plan to rework some of campaign items in near future? e.g. obsidian amulet, obsidian lodestone, obsidian trinket. These three give like 10 or 20% magic resistance to one character which dont feel impactful, since magic resistance no longer resist magic attack damage in game 3

[glad cape]

As we know Andy Hall mentioned that 100th legendary lord will be someone really special. And as you mentioned you're now working on Thrones of Decay DLC so it means we have just little characters to reach 100. Could you give some hints about your candidates or if it's ready a bit of hint? Warm regards.

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Josh: Awww thanks, we certainly do like knowing what we put out is liked by the community! The beauty of being on the DLC team is that we have the opportunity to improve on the original designs, while at the same time adding new features. We look at what's feasible, what adds value, and is just overall fun. Having a spread skillset most certainly helps, being able to commune with others whose knowledge of say the campaign side is vastly superior to mine to see if my design works with their area, while at the same time being able to help them with the areas I know more about. Working with the crazy talented art, animation, audio, and QA teams to bring the content to life as you see it before you are the end result! I hope that answers everything 🙂

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Josh: I'm sure I've seen a few videos of this already (modders are pretty cool), though in regards to a change on our side. No plans at the moment, but if there's ever anything specific you'd like to see from us just let us know!

[fair flicker]

Just an FYI for everyone, I'm sure you all know, but we can't answer anything regarding the roadmap I'm afraid 😅 so let's try and keep questions focused on anything else you'd like to ask Josh 🙂

[lyric ivy]

I see you dabble on the campaign side of things. When do you think the lords and heroes who don't quite have 50 skill points to spend will get an update along with updating the rest, giving them a slight face lift. Maybe even improve the starting traits? 🙂

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Josh: We definitely look at quite a few different areas to see if they can be improved, and if there is any need for improvement. We do have a lot of ideas when we got into research, documenting, and prototyping but sadly everything has a cost associated with it. Sometimes we aren't able to go forward because the circumstances don't permit it, but we make due and hopefully, that's reflected positively within the product 🙂

[winter idol]

Do you have any plans for re-using the Cathay caravan mechanic for older factions that logically would trade like that, such as high elves, empire or dwarves? I'd like to ask if you might consider it, because it just adds value to all the factions that could have it.

The caravans mechanic serves MANY purposes in a meta-sense; and in-universe it also makes complete sense, but mainly, as a player though, beyond the "lore", it has 2 clear benefits to have the caravan mechanic that make it hard for me to not feel like I'm missing out by choosing a faction that doesn't have caravans: that sense of having "more to do", as it's something to do in between turns that otherwise might be dull, like turn skip to finish a construction. It helps fill a gap. Plus, it allows us to tell more stories; because suddenly we have a caravan fighting vampires by Sylvania for example, which is pretty cool in of itself, as you get to explore the world more.

[sullen wasp]

Do you have any plans about improving/re-work of Bretonian?

[teal pelican]

Seeing that you work on the battle side of things, I'd like to ask if there any plans regarding making battle terrain more impactful? There was an AMA back during WH2 where I think CA_Rich expressed interest in adding new terrain types like haunted forests, is that something that the team is still thinking about?

[odd plume]

Wurzag dance is brillant thx for that Joshua

[inland jewel]

Are there any plans regarding reworking Sieges? Seeing that they are pretty much the most unfun aspect of the game in its current state due to many factors?

[stable locust]

Why does it seem like the majority of patch changes are focused on multiplayer, when the majority of the player base only plays sp campaign? When will we see a focus on balancing campaign, especially with regard to issues like higher tier buildings and units being insanely overpriced and never worth investing in compared to spamming lower tier armies?

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Josh: Both are pretty important, the tabletop has established rules regarding existing abilities so I generally see how we can translate that over to work in Total War, along with keeping faithful to the content as much as I can. Existing abilities are always a good reference regarding balance and how they generally work in battles, but also a demonstration of what we can do with the current tech. Generally, it's always nice to experiment and see if we can go further with it.

[pastel gyro]

Since you work on unit balance as well, what would you say are the top 3 units in terms of priority for you that you want to change the performance of?

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Josh: Oooo now that would be a video that I would unlike just so I could like it again, maybe someday we'll see it! 😉

[lofty stone]

Pick one only. Monkey or lizard?

[wraith lily]

Squig

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Josh: I can't say I have but that's not to say it won't be considered, we regularly look at unit balance and work with our multiplayer QA team on what the concurrent issues are. If you feel strongly about getting the Foot Squires some attention please do feel free to open up a discussion about it on the forums or even here, a few of us regularly keep up with what goes on in the discussions! 🙂

[fair flicker]

Josh: Sorry I'm afraid not, all I can say is keep an eye on our channels and we'll reveal more as we go along.

[final lark]

Hey there fellow Josh! What did you work on in the most recent DLC, and what was your personal favorite thing to accomplish in Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs?

[storm latch]

Is there a chance we might get to see free for all battles eventually in Warhammer 3 for campaign battles? Would make for some fun battles

[muted blaze]

Are there any plans to give Alberic a more unique look/voice? In my bordelaux campaign i keep losing track of him when i check my army lists because he looks and sounds exactly like half of the generic melee Lords

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Josh: It's definitely one of my favourite things about Chaos Dwarfs, well... when I wasn't going into a deficit in my home playthroughs XD But it's very early to say if we'll look at the way other economies work. Maybe, maybe not.

[graceful gorge]

Do you know what makes the iron daemon not fire while moving even if it has the trait?

[neat ginkgo]

Hey there, have you been able to take the community's temperature regarding the addition of FLC Legendary Heroes instead of FLC Legendary Lords ?

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Josh: We're always afforded time to research and solidify our designs before going forward and getting them signed off, the awesome content the modders create generally doesn't influence our process but we're definitely aware of what gets made 👏🏽

[oak folio]

Hello !!! Do you have any intention for fixing cav speed inconsistencies? like kislev cav riding at 84 speed with 80 armor or empire cav riding at 78 speed. Since neither should be that fast with that amount of armor for both gameplay reasons like making wild riders ..etc trash as well as lore reasons.

[novel dome]

Is there much discussion about reworking older races to incorporate new unit ability implementation that can use some of the newer design ideas based around thresholds (examples being kill counts or time spent in melee) or any of the other really great ideas seen with wh3 races and the CoC DLC (another example being Cathay harmony or the Chaos Dwarf contempt being adapted to Lizardmen Skink/Kroxigor relationship)?

[median spoke]

Can high elves be removed from the game?

[balmy rose]

If you are the one made luminark good after 6 years please continue to do so make forgatten units better

[serene wagon]

So with Legendary Heroes becoming a real thing as part of the DLCs, were there talks of reworking the "OG" LH which were Gotrek and Felix ? Is it something we can eventually look up to ?

[wraith lily]

Cries in Green Knight and Krell

[fair flicker]

Josh: Man that nostalgia slapped me proper. Truth be told I've always felt the skill tree was somewhat limiting in regards to what could be put on there, you risk a certain amount of bloat, and having to scroll endlessly to view everything can be a chore too. I probably would've gone down the classic MMO skill tree progression route, and maybe open it up a bit more in regards to what you can do (e.g. evolve certain abilities, allow for greater customisation). It might've worked well in some areas, but it probably wouldn't have been as straightforward as the current iteration is.

[harsh prism]

I very much appreciate the changes made to Skill trees!
I used to get eye strain and feel sick from flicking between the upgrade versions of skills before this latest skill tree update, so thank you.

Any idea if it'll be made easier to see what an upgrade to a skill does without flicking between the two versions?
(This would SO reduce the turn time I spend checking skills in multiplayer campaigns!)

Thanks!

[fair flicker]

Josh: We look into what best fits with the product, as well as anything that could be improved. It's always good to see the community's suggestions and who they would like to see brought into the spotlight, with the recent release of the roadmap hopefully that gives a rough idea. Otherwise, keep watching our spaces for more info 🙂

[wraith lily]

@harsh prism only one question at the time, edit your post

[swift blade]

Hi Josh, was it intentional that Chaos Dwarfs don't have supply lines, and do you have any idea why?

[hardy lava]

Will we likely be able to get certain factions endgame battles or battlemaps from wh2 in IE. Like thr battle of the black pyramid for TK or the Battle of the Eternal Tides for coast? Those maps are so cool and thematic for those races and are available in skirmish mode.

[wraith lily]

@hardy lava ontopic questions only

[fair flicker]

Josh: It's a mix of both, the limitations of the tech do mean we can't do certain things, but at the same time, we follow an established rule set (e.g common type spells have a wind-up of 1s, with rare and unique types having increased wind up durations).

[lofty cedar]

Can we have the Champions of Chaos LLs and Sigvald as dual races ? The community was obviously very split about where to put those LLs and I think having them playable either as Warriors of Chaos or their respective Monogods before you start your campaign would be a good way to make both sides satisfied as well as adressing the issue that Monogods currently only have a single faction to pick which offers poor replayability for those races. If we get to have this choice for custom battles we should in my opinion also get to have this choice for campaign.

[wary axle]

Prismatic amplifier is an arcane item of blue (very rare?) rarity with 33s of duration and 90s of cooldown. But it gives 16% recharge rate. I think this item should be 160% if considering all abilities/items for recharge rate. This item exists from game 3 release and it was overlooked. Hope you notice and fix that. Cheers!

[fair flicker]

Josh: Oh definitely Total War: WARHAMMER I, that was back when I was on the QA team. I was moved onto that project very early on and came off of it with the release of our last DLC. Maybe two and a half years or so? Might need Kairos' help to narrow down the number for that 👁️

[full anchor]

Will you ever merge the main settlement building slot with ports to give port cities one more building slot? Now port settlements feels like a penalty, especially if you have a province with many port regions and resources in some of them

[muted blaze]

Could Game 1 races (cough, Bretonnia,cough) get a buff to their "unique" items? As an example, seeing Louen's "unique" armour provide no campaign boni or battle ability whatsoever and have stats that put it in the ballpark of most green items is disheartening (weirdly enough, Alberic's game 2 item, the braid of manaan, is pretty good).

[next iris]

Howdy Josh, got a question concerning Vampire Coast: considering hearing that getting out such a faction was kind of a miracle considering the IP for Dreadfleet, will there be any more DLC for them as a whole or major changes (ie Aranessa being her own faction due to her in lore hatred for the undead) within the far future?

[lofty stone]

Hi Josh, one thing I dislike about mid-end game is AI spamming SEMs (eg. HE having 7-10 dragons in their one army). I'd rather have them spam more armies but balance. Are AI SEMs doomstack intentional?

[analog hollow]

Hi Josh, I don't know if you can give an answer about this as I'm not certain if it's off topic. Units balance is obviously essential for multiplayer but is there any plans to have a bit of a better balance on the campaign map ? I have felt that lots of the recent content and reworks from the DLC team had a lot of powercreep which can make the game trivial with some campaigns, for example Warriors of Chaos had an excellent reworks all the new mechanics are great and very thematic but despite having 8 different campaigns they are all super easy to play which isn't inherently wrong but as someone that enjoys tough campaigns I'd like to have some challenge playing the newer content too. I think each race in the game should at least have one tough campaign and one easy campaign to try to satisfy everyone and currently some races have only tough campaigns while others have only very easy ones.

[fair flicker]

Josh: secretly notes down dance off end game and places it next to dating sim end game

I've always felt Total War could be expanded in some areas, (I've always liked the idea of corruption affecting your Legendary Lord and you could choose to turn to Chaos), one thing I liked about Daniel as well was seeing the equipment change his model. I'd like to have something like that for all characters.

[fair flicker]

Josh: We've reworked some in the past and tend to revisit them as we add more mechanics to the game, it's just a case of it popping up on our radar. If there's any more you feel could do with a looking at then do let us know!

[fair flicker]

Josh: All will be revealed in time! Sorry I know that's not exactly what you're after but please keep an eye on our channels 🙂

[sly wing]

total war warhammer 2 was a fantastic game overall but a few of the starting factions suffered heavily from 'feature creep' with more abilties, tricks and so forth then most other factions.

Whilst its awesome having so many options for factions its gotten to the point where some (mainly skaven and high elves imho) have become a major chore to deal with especially in campaign.

Are there any plans in place to avoid this happening in TWW3?

[novel dome]

On the topic of unit balance, will older race tech trees be revisited with each of their specific reworks in the upcoming DLCs to allow for differing balance between singleplayer and multiplayer? I particularly enjoyed unit abilities being added by WoC tech trees and found that a really nice way to add flavour without throwing off multiplayer balance.

[fair flicker]

Josh: Can't say for sure, unfortunately, it's definitely been raised by our QA team so we're aware of it. But I can understand how annoying it is (I've had it in my home playthroughs)

[fair flicker]

Josh: We've got some changes planned for 3.1 to increase the interplay between Knights and peasants, which should hopefully refresh their gameplay in battle. Along with that, we're enabling Damsels to use the Troths feature in the campaign.

[fair flicker]

Josh: It's definitely something I think about when I toy around with the design of abilities, if the circumstances permit it and it works with the product is something you'll have to find out as we reveal more.

[graceful gorge]

Hi there The empire are looking a bit old would you ever go bk and give there models a work over I no stat troop look the same but the crossbow men maybe put there bolts on the things like that

[full plover]

One question about the race updates, specifically for monogods. I just need to know are cults being looked at again.

[fair flicker]

Josh: It's... definitely a contentious subject that's for sure. In regards to them being reworked is something I don't know about sadly. I can only advise keep talking and highlighting the issues to do with it.

[fair flicker]

Josh: We have data that are drawn from the multiplayer side regarding things like how many times this unit has been picked, their matchups, and overall win rate. With the campaign, you have external factors that affect this (e.g. the player will be inclined to choose a unit whose upkeep has been lowered), and that could distort the results we see on our side. Sadly there's a whole lot more to it which would require more time for a concrete answer. But we definitely don't neglect the campaign balance, please do keep voicing your feedback and bringing it to our attention 🙂

[fair flicker]

Josh: Monkey, it'll annoy Frieza 💪🏽

[inland jewel]

I am thankful for that reply, but the issue I have with it is, we are voicing the concerns and feedback since warhammer 1 and over a year for the issues in wh3 sieges, and we still have popup towers and the exact same gameplay for every siege for every race.
Nothing of this is meant personal

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Josh: Greetings fellow survivor of the Josh fight.

With Chaos Dwarves it was a mixture, I was mostly focused on battles with unit and unit ability design and implementations. I also dived into the campaign side to create ancillaries and work on some skill trees (Ulrika for example).

It was definitely an interesting project with its own challenges, though, some of the work I did eased the load on others and allowed them to focus on areas and get them sorted. Knowing that I had that impact is something I'm definitely proud of.

[fair flicker]

Josh: I thought the same thing, it could certainly make for some whacky scenarios 😅 But nothing for the moment.

[jagged laurel]

Nurgle still very weak in multiplayer and not great in campaign, especially daemon side of the roster, tech tree, econ. Is this being addressed in Thrones of Decay?

[fair flicker]

Josh: Oh definitely, a lot have already been updated with some of the new mechanics we've introduced in Chaos Dwarfs alone. If you feel we've missed some do let us know!

[fair flicker]

Josh: High King is that you? This is not the time for shortsightedness

[lunar lake]

I love thé abilities you guys have made there are some very cool creative ones!! They are so fun to make themed builds with. My question is can we expect AOE abilities on infantry/archers to get larger specifically from the first two games. I think the switch to ultra size didn’t account for the units getting bigger and a lot of the AOE abilities can’t reach very far outside of a outstretched unit. Similar to how Cathay harmony was too small at launch. A example would be the high elf ROR scions of mythland when stretched out their 10% wardsave only barely reaches their outer models. I love the idea of them buffing their allys but they would have to be on top of each other or really compact to give the buffs.

[analog pond]

Considering you have been involved with items: Will there be QoL improvements to the item fusion system? Maybe some automation or being able to craft multiple of the same type and rarity into new items? Maybe an easier way of selecting multiples? And there definitely needs to be a fix for the order reshuffling when you sort by "Category" (Maybe others, too) , when you fused an item.

Thank you!

[novel portal]

Nurglings are a bit unique as they are considered a swarm , I think building on that aspect could be cool.
Maybe a conditional merge ability in combat between two units of nurglings?
Also! What data suggested Curse of the Leper needed a nerf? I find it hard to gauge how much value it can generate, but it seemed weak prior to the nerf.

[fair flicker]

Josh: We often rebalance the legacy abilities to accommodate for the latest releases so it's definitely on our radar, some may fall through the cracks but we get them eventually.

[indigo phoenix]

There are a few races (e.g. Beastmen & WoC) that after receiving reworks have generally been considered too easy to play across all of their lords. Will there ever be nerfs to these races so the challenge is brought back?

[fair flicker]

Josh: It's definitely a hot topic that's for sure, but we're very aware of the discussions and people's feelings toward it.

[timber portal]

With the new DLC format of 3LL1Lh being split up over 3 different races, how will that affect some of the dlc races that need more than a single dlc to get up to game 3 standards?

[muted blaze]

Will the "interplay between knights and peasants" just be the "malign autority/contempt" sytem but reflavoured to Bretonnia? Considering knights are best used running around the map, incentivizing them to stay near peasants would be strange

[neat ginkgo]

Any insight on the "Pokemoning" tool that was mentionned regarding confederation ? You obviously had this part in mind when working on the tower of Zharr. I assume this is something you are likely to progressively add race by race, starting with Kislev, Cathay and Tzeentch.

[amber sphinx]

Josh, seeing how you work on thrones of decay, do you sympathize more with the dawi or the uzkul-dhrath-zharr considering the changes dawi will receive?

[fast cypress]

Is FLC LL a thing of the past now? Also is it still accurate that there’s 2 dlc teams on the game?

[fair flicker]

Josh: It's definitely something we're aware of, and generally we do bear in mind the legacy content and how the creep can approach the horizon. But we do try 👍🏽

[eternal crater]

Hallo Johsh and CA_Yeuey - got a question bothering me - what was the reason for choice of Morgiana le Fay starting position, fraction name and heraldry - Carcasson, while by the lore she is most ofen wisiting a certain chapel in Quenelles, and the Dukedom has also Unicorn Heraldry more fitting with the fey fnd her mount?

[lyric ivy]

I see that you also work on battles. Is that in regards to battle AI or just battle abilities? If it's related to battle AI, are there any future plans that involve making the AI 'smarter, in regards to flanking, cycle charging, and pulling out troops of precarious situations and improving the AI in general 🙂

[dire sphinx]

Do you ever have plans to try to go back to earlier DLC and improve things? Example adding more visual flair to the mortal units in the Champions of Chaos DLC?

[fair flicker]

AAAAAnd that's a wrap for today I'm afraid everyone! Thank you thank you thank you for everyone's questions. We appreciate every one of you. Apologies from Josh he wasn't able to answer everyone's questions but wants you all to know, our teams are looking and reading at all feedback so keep it up 😄
I'll keep this open till tomorrow but until then, have a great evening everyone!