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[unique prairie]

[fallow sleet]

Well I started my YT with it

[cursive berry]

My favourite memory was being told they would shut down the entire series if we didn't buy the latest DLC. Good times.

[hidden marsh]

15 vampire count armies having a party on the same city💀

[stone yew]

hhahahaha

[gritty jetty]

My favourite memory comes from game two, when the Dark Elves still had access to Elven Colonies. I'm not bitter or anything that they've been missing for three years or anything in Immortal Empires, perish the thought.

[worn portal]

I loved when i lost my hero because of gate bug

[wet vigil]

Having Settra rule once again after GW cancelled him!

[neat vortex]

When you play as Karl Franz and you get into a solo with Archaon

Also when Gelt was in Cathnam

and all the memes

[formal sphinx]

The retinue system from 3K is perfect for 40K

[night timber]

Nuln Ironsides holding the line against chaos

[autumn relic]

Opening 3k for the first time ❤️

[pallid hazel]

Killing dwarves as Grimgor Ironhide

[mellow stream]

Learning that ikit claw's quest battle has a flanking army that spawns and getting my weapons teams fried by lizards

[raven turret]

ME and a few of my freinds have been playing campaigns on and off for a long time but getting the mortal empire was the thing that we felt got the ball rolling

[neon peak]

my favorite thing was playing the game at 20 fps because my computer sucked then now i play at 20fps with 100 mods lol

[junior oak]

Tretch Craventail.

One of my most fun campaigns was when I started to learn how to play him and Skaven. The unique early mechanic in TW:W2 with the rereat and constant treachery for buffs. Plus starting with the Doomwheel was fun. Failed a lot, but learned a lot as well. I still miss running over Dark Elves as Tretch. Stunties and Orcs are fun but not the same.

[alpine moth]

When the dinosaurs ate rat guys

[wintry sierra]

Hearing Gelt say "WELCOME TO ESTALIA, GENTLEMEN" and knowing a meme was born.

[subtle coyote]

The Tomb Kings reveal. More recently the WH3 trailer and at the end the tease for Cathay. Never in a million years could I have guessed we'll get something new in WHFB, that was one of the craziest things ever

[swift tusk]

When my generic Norscan lord defeated Bel'akor and turned a siege defence that looked impossible around 🫡

[zealous minnow]

My favourite memory is probably beating my first campaign in the Realm of Chaos campaign with Katarin. Probably the best total war I’ve ever played.

[vale atlas]

When you announced that Nagash is finally coming.

[rugged zealot]

Lines of Warpfire throwers just below lines of ratling guns just below lines of warplock jezzails 🥹

[patent hollow]

• having the game in MP campaign telling one player "your are too good, increase difficulty please"
• and next turn, that same player triggered end crisis
  => epic campaigns 😛

[jagged oracle]

I love Nakai the wandering boxigor and every campaign with him is a favourite memory - he just looks so excited all the time

[old talon]

Gor rok, lord kroak, a stegadon, and about 3 units of seraphon warriors defending my capital against skulltaker with a 20 stack
A hour long fight but I kicked them out of lustria

[light cliff]

Yelling at my friends to look at the screen between turns because they won’t pay attention to trade deals

[summer zinc]

minotaur

[solar nest]

Way too many, but the easiest are, every time I had to fight 1v4 and winning during the campaign.

[grizzled whale]

When the multiplayer campaigns hit the "corrupt save file" stage after 50 turns

[final pulsar]

too many to list but, every time arahan is maniacally laughing while pelting the enemy with arrows in manual battles

[fallen fractal]

This was in Warhammer 2. I was playing Karl Franz, and I was down near Blackfire Pass. Grimgor had a full WAAAGH! going, so I was essentially fighting two whole stacks at once. My veterans, some of whom were with me since turn one, fought a huge battle for the fate of the Empire. My wizard cast the Comet of Cassadora Sigmar-knows how many times, but in the end my entire army was almost wiped out. It came down to Karl Franz and Grimgor. I had managed to almost nock out Grimgor, but he's still a mean combatant. The two dueled, and by the very skin of his teeth, Karl won.
It was awesome; felt like something that'd come out of a novel.

[naive mango]

Settling grudges with varying calibers of artillery

[rotund summit]

Showing the elves that skaven can in fact make it to ulthuan

[broken dragon]

Running a thousand orks and skaven over with Chaos Dwarf trains. CHOOCHOO

[blazing shuttle]

bombing orks

[pallid hazel]

Putting my entire army infront of a reinforcement and just sending them back where they came from

[formal igloo]

Working with my friend to micro manage cavalry charge a much stronger vampire horde to oblivion with only my lord and her grail knights surviving the fight

[cedar stirrup]

My best memory happened when playing as Malekith I gave those dirty elgis what they deserved (for the first time)

[shy shard]

Rematching the same battle over and over again because I’m stubborn and refuse to take any casualties

[tropic fiber]

Breaking the empire in tww2 as the everchosen. It was so much fun seeing chosen with 100 MA and MD just butcher spearmen

[fallen fractal]

I'd post the screenshot I had of the post-battle scren, but I can't put images here. But it was peak Total War for me.

[eager crypt]

Hotseat campaign! Also painting the world purple as Malekith. I played with Black Guards in a box formation facing outward, and then Darkshards in the middle when outnumbered, or in a checkerboard formation.

[random horizon]

The first time I played was already in Warhammer 3, and my favourite lord will always be Queek, because when, with a lot of effort, loses, and everything in between, managed to conquer eight peaks. It felt really accomplishing, and to me, the best feeling is to be able to feel that the character is alive and the world accompanies surrounding him with new adventures... Maybe this sound a little ominous and grandiloquent, but the feeling is kind of intense for me in this kind of things, and that's how I perceive it, so please, give my stormvermin lord some love

[crimson sentinel]

So many good memories, but the one that sticks out the most is probably the Immortal Empires trailer. It just got me so hyped.
Honestly - you should make that the start up trailer for the game or at least have it play when you click the immortal empires campaign.

[fresh silo]

When in a multiplayer game me and two friends managed to micro a Kislev settlement defense to victory against a chaos horde that was two stacks large.

We used every single ounce of ammo for that victory.

[cobalt girder]

Picture it, 2016. You’ve just overhauled your PC with 2000$ worth of new upgrades solely for Total War Warhammer. It’s the very first battle of Black Fire Pass battle you’ve experienced as the Empire. Front lines are pushed to the edge, hand gunners are low on ammo and your steam tank is surrounded. Then you hear the horn, the Dawi have come. The day is won, you hold the Gal Maraz as your trophy. SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS

[south spire]

Dealing with every endgame crisis at once simultaneously in 1 turn with stacks of Horned Ones

[cyan mantle]

My first campaign in tww2 I played as Isabella and ended up working with Karl to defeat Archaeon.

[worn portal]

oh, i also loved that during my Tehenhauin campaign Ikit, Throt and Snikch just kept sailing to Lustria

[gentle whale]

Well, all I can say-say is that I started with tww3, and instantly buy-buy the skaven dlc's, they are so fun-fun.

I think the best memory I have is using my first ever nuke, not knowing that I'll do damage to my own units

[rancid fossil]

The UI not looking like it did in the game awards show yesterday was my favorite part
#justiceforPCUI

[nimble pond]

... Eigrimm von hortsmann the LL for Tzeench FLC Shadow of change 👀

[nimble mulch]

True

[digital pelican]

i remember back in wh2 before the mount change that gave people their mounts as soon as they were available automaticly, in one of my imrik campaigns i ran malus in a circle for 20 minutes after he activated his transformation until he died out of his own dot damage, was honestly so hilariously silly to cheese one of the hardest lords to fight like that

[marble inlet]

The Vortex Campaign from TWW2 was great! I am really hoping that Total War: 40k will have a strong emphasis on narrative! 😬

[rose tree]

I remember my very first very hard ungrim campaign and I lost the campaign as ungrim died fighting grimgor. #slayeroath

[swift warren]

going from day one Warhammer 1 as Manfred to Warhammer 3 as anyone but Manfred

[south spire]

That UI made me think of some 'squad tactics' games where you have inifinite supply but only a unit cap and just send them to control point 💤

[simple sonnet]

Before the Grom Greenskin reward my Wurzag and his separate waaagh army besieged Khemri and Settra
After a long grind I realized I wouldn't make it, so I retreated (since AI doesn't pursue you past the walls)
Over the end turn Settra pursued, killed my waaagh army and then managed to catch up to Wurzag who couldn't retreat any further
So I did what we all loved to do in Wh2: I corner camped like a coward
The fight was brutal and when my big uns started breaking and all hope seemed lost, Settra finally died which made his entire army wither in an instance won me the fight - I retreated home safely and never entered the desert again in that playthrough XD

[trail tree]

Dont let WArhammer 3 die!

[flint lichen]

One of my friends had played the series and tried to get me into TWW2 and I was like "I think I would hate that type of game". I separately got into AOS tabletop and when Warhammer 3 came out, I got it purely for the characters I recognized. Now I've 100% completed the achievements and it's now one of my favorite games of all time. Listen to your friends 😂

[pallid hazel]

Stealing all of The Orthodoxies land by winning the election. I did this by spamming Orthodoxy Shrines in all of my settlements. Easy dubs

[south spire]

If I would listen to some of my friends I'd be paying to beta-test every doomed-to-flop open world survival crafting rpg and buying crypto...

[upper flame]

in TWH1 during my first game ever of any total war, i had a very small dwarf army help the last bretonnian stronghold against the chaos endcrisis. It was one of the most cinematic battle (even though i lost) i have ever fought, seeing the strengh of man and dwarf fight to the last in a desperate struggle against chaos never ending tide. I promised to avenge every death here tenfold

[simple sonnet]

Way less impressive, but I also played 4 campaigns to get the beastman and WoC achievements BEFORE the Beastman rework
In the hard beastman and chaos campaigns Bretonia spread out from norsca to the Southlands
While in the Very Hard campaigns Bretonia died super early, which unironically made the harder difficulty SIGNIFICANTLY easier

[pallid hazel]

Accurate end times?

[upper flame]

i did end up winning this campain but a lot later lol, so almost

[pallid hazel]

I love setting up a trade empire as the Chaos Dwarfs. Peak capitalism

[sturdy crow]

My favorite moment has yet to come. It's when you're going to announce Dogs of war! #rememberDow

[flint lichen]

😐

[pallid hazel]

Remember when they had that Warhammer 3 Bretonnia dlc? I member

(Please CA, bless Bretonnia with a new dlc and my life is yours)

[barren copper]

My favoritt memory is probably vortex repanse when You had to fight skaven early. 1 stack of mixed peasant and knight vs 4 stacks skaven infantry Mhhhhh hard battles but very fun

[brazen harbor]

so fun agreed

[vale herald]

One time playing the Empire, my main army with Gelt defended against a greentide, my cavalry (main unit of my army) somehow lined up in a straight line, only to be annahilated by my own artillery, protecting the incoming greentide

the rest got of course destroyed by the greentide

Only Gelt survived, both of us deeply sighed

[steep canyon]

The fact that its a PC game first and foremost, and not a dumb downed console game, made for the mobile generation. I know another SEGA game that recently got butchered.

[real hare]

my favourite memory is fighting a battle with my brother as dark elves against 3 armies of high elves in Warhammer Total War 2, we were certain we were going to lose but we fought wave after wave and eventually won "the battle of marnies evil brewery" a minor settlement but it meant a lot to me 🥰❤️

[foggy rock]

Destroying the elven triarchy of ulthuan and their bretonnian "fans"

[gusty socket]

Wondering why my archers weren't shooting. So I look back to check them and see nothing but a mushroom cloud from a skaven warpbomb!

[upper orchid]

Encircling ppl using the gatling rats very fun war crime

[vocal sluice]

sending morathi and malekith in the athel tamarha prison at the same time

[final barn]

Playing a Temu version of Doom each time I start as Boris is fun

[lavish portal]

Having a fantasy setting finally got my friends into Total War, all of the crazy shenanigans we get up to in MP campaigns has been a blast.

[rancid fossil]

I will wait before i properly judge it but first impression wasn't good at all

[south spire]

Yeah it's way too soon to judge, but first impressions matter

[spring drum]

this stupid game got me into the tabletop tow now i have no money thanks ca

[karmic anvil]

My co-op games with my brother. Him playing lizardmen and me playing bretonnia. Him getting attacked by 4 enemy armies and me reinforcing him with a doomstack of grailknights, wiping out everything with some rear charges.
And his lord getting the trait "likes men" was really funny haha.

[rancid fossil]

Exactly after all this is what they decided to show us, infront of millions of people so it can be said they are "happy" with it

[south spire]

To me, a TW without fullsize bottom screen unit cards is heresy

[rancid fossil]

Not just that also the planetary overview looked really.. minimalistic to give the child a proper name lets call it "shallow"

[zenith cliff]

Gonna be a bit of a longer one:

Just a few days before Thrones of Decay, I finished one of my favorite campaigns ever. I was playing Orion's Wood Elves and found myself towards the end of the game.
Orion had recovered the Sword of Khaine to fight back against the expanding Dark Elves and Chaos Cultists. One turn away from the forewarned start of the endgame scenario, Orion gets the chance to keep the Widowmaker and be forever bound to it in exchange for greater bonuses, almost as if Khaine himself was using the imminent crisis to try and and root itself into the heart of the King of the Woods, but he chooses otherwise for the sake of all elvenkind.
The turn immediately after, the Chaos Dwarfs begin a mass invasion of the world, burning down most of the other factions running for world domination.
Instead of going all in with the Sword of Khaine, Orion manages to form a massive military alliance with the High Elves, Bretonnia and Grand Cathay.
Orion himself leads an army of Elves, Zoats, Grail Knights, and all kinds of dragons against the heart of the Dawi Zharr, managing against all odds to raze Zharr Naggrund to the ground.
I purposefully kept the Quest Battle for the Oak of Ages as the final battle of that campaign as a culmination of that little story, with Elvenkind reunited under the Asrai, Humanity under Alberic's Bretonnia (Louen had been killed in battle by Belakor), and Grand Cathay rebuilding after losing most of their northern and western regions to the expanding Dawi Zharr.
It just felt like everything fell into place perfectly for that one, I still remember it very fondly.

[south spire]

But anyway back to the topic... Probably 2nd place was my introduction into TW WH2 by a friend, where I was told to bring Lord Kroak to a siege and a token lord, nobody else. Little did I know

[oak zodiac]

Playing as skarsnik back in wh2, fighting against all odds to take eight peaks.

[crude storm]

One of my closest battles I can remember in game 2, was a mid game battle between my Vampire Coast army, against a Lizardman army, that was 4 full stacks, and ended with only my fleet admiral against the enemies saurus old blood. The scale of the game has always been incredible

[sudden parrot]

A fond memory of mine was when it was just post Queen and the Crone DLC I believe. Was on a warpath against Naggarond with Tyrion in the lead wielding the Widowmaker. Alas despite a fine end-game army, I ended up with four elite Druchii armies bearing down on me, with a good chunk being Blackguard of Naggarond.

One manual battle later, and Tyrion stood upon a mountain of corpses. His army is mostly dead and/or so low in numbers they disbanded. Of the four armies, none remained. Like the Avatar of Khaine that he is, Tyrion was drenched in guts and blood, with kills in the thousands and at half health. Pretty sure Khorne would've Exalted him for that.

"So much pain, for so small a thing." - Boromir

[valid sorrel]

my first memory after coming from rome 2 is: "this cannot work" and "why are there monsters?"

[urban rapids]

Total war warhammer 1, because of this, I started to love your games 🙃

[visual yew]

Got to be when I first heard Karl Franz va and still thousands of hours and multiple games later and for all of my negative experiences with the game all it takes is ‘Summon the Elector counts’ and I’m hooked for another campaign

[minor solstice]

When I was a kid I was a Skaven player on the tabletop side of things, so it was a dream come true when they were introduced in in the game world. I think they were captured perfectly and still remain one of the most fun races to play in the game!

[grave pagoda]

Without a doubt, my most cherished memory of TW:WH is that in WH2, I played the Vortex Campaign as Tretch Craventail and I won! I know that Tretch is not the most popular campaign but I still loved it. I played it with the Legendary Lore mod and the mod creators wrote some good fan made-lore for Tretch. Also, on a side-note, I really loved Tretch's Vortex speech. I remember that it gave me a good laugh. Now for WH3? My favorite memories are the ones where I'm playing any type of Tzeentch-related campaign. I adore Kairos and the Changeling. I just need to play as Vilitch now.

Thank you TW devs for making (I believe) one of my favorite strategy games of all time! You all are awesome! Here, have a heart!

[tropic lagoon]

When I was 14 I was captivated by total war rome big army battle, when I try it I can't understand a single thing, it seems complex for me. So I just recruiting 3 unit of peasant archer and 2 swordsman and running around map until got attacked by an army containing 8 peasant swordsman and 2 archer units. That was my first battle and it's bloddy battle, stat wise I'm deployed 360 and enemy around 1000. I win because I'm using the high ground with archer and bait the enemy with swordsman. That moment really feels awesome and I feel like great general. Weirdly idk why I can win lol because enemy really swarming me

[lament zinc]

Played the warhammer series more than anything else
But my intro, and favorite times was playing total war rome in my friends basement on his dads computer.

[crisp kernel]

Discovering the existence of the perfect woman, Mommy Morathi

[storm hound]

I love the incredible extraness of the Warhammer series. The over excessive gore. The animations of dragons throwing people around. The massive cav charges that will send small skaven slaves flying 500 yards away. Spells that will decimate whole armies. Putting down a doomstack army and just watching them destroy a late game end game scenario 60 stack

[noble arrow]

I think my favorite memory in a recent game is when I was playing Greasus and suddenly Tamurkhan comes around kicking Grimgor in the teeth. I manage to push him back, and three turns later he comes back with three toad dragons, two soul grinders, some chosen, plague ogres and rot knights (at turn 60 or so). I was like "yeah well my ironguts can't take that", I try to at least slow him down, to no avail, he just bulldoze into my country and ravage my camps, cities and all. I do like a good challenge, and this was one I can remember fondly, even if I was not up to it.

[real locust]

So this was well before Aislinn & the Lizardmen rework, but I was playing a Mazdamundi campaign and had worked to secure Lustria from the humans and rats infesting it, and then moved to save Ulthuan from Morathi & N'Kari (who had all but taken it over). It was a gruelling back and forth, but ultimately I conquered the donut and moved to fight the oncoming Skaven crisis.

I conquered all of the donut except for Nagarythe, while Tyrion camped out in Galleon's Graveyard. Nagarythe, razed, sat unclaimed as my campaign continued.

Like 20 turns later, who comes over to retake Ulthuan but Tor Elasor (who sat on a secret island back before Aislinn was added). They sailed all the way over there and retook the entire province, doing what Tyrion would not.

[earnest adder]

I bought a very good friend WH1 during the sale a few weeks ago, and we've been playing pretty much every evening since. He's a huge RTS fan and has somehow managed to sleep on the series up until now... no longer! We normally play a round or two of the standalone battles vs each other, and then take a few turns in a co-op Immortal Empires, so I'll share a story from each.

For his first battle, I wanted to show him the sieges. He spent a while ooh-ing and aah-ing over the playable factions before settling on Dwarfs, and I chose to play Tomb Kings to show off how cool all the units looked. After kind of a hurried explanation as to how best to use his Gyrocopters, how to hold the archer towers, how the supply points worked, etc. we launched into battle. We went outside the walls to practice flanking, cav charges etc. before he drew his forces back inside and we actually fought the battle proper. The battle itself was relatively uneventful and went about as you'd expect it to go (my experience narrowly won over his naturally just being better at RTS games) but just playing around like that with my friend felt really warm and wholesome in a way that you probably wouldn't expect from the last bastion of the Dwarfs being overrun by undead skeletal monsters.

A few battles later and we decided to play the co-op campaign proper - he chose Karl Franz, I went with the Barrow Legion because they were close together and we could defend each other's borders. We started out on our respective campaigns of greatness before he ran into his first real land battle. He was outnumbered almost 2-1 by the Empire Secessionists, the autoresolve predicted a "Close Defeat", and I advised him to play the battle manually since the actual units were largely in his favour. Once the battle started, he drew his battlelines and I advised him to hand over control of his cavalry to me, so I could harass the enemy archers and bait their spears out of formation. By this time we'd both started almost roleplaying during battles, jeering at the enemy out loud, shouting at our troops to hold the line, cursing at them when they routed, cheering when fights were won and important enemies killed or driven back. He gave me his cavalry, one unit of Reiksguard Knights, and I rode them up and around a central ridge to hide them from the Secessionist forces as battle was joined. My friend's spears held the line well until a group of Secessionist archers set up on the ridge and began firing at them from a distance, just out of range of his own archers, and so I did what any good cavalry unit would do and charged their flank, yelling battle cries down the mic and demanding the traitors' blood be spilled. The Secessionist archers did not merely break under my charge - they splintered as my friend drove forward his own greatsword units to finish them off. I was not with him in person at the time, but based on the elation in his voice through my headphones, his eyes just lit up watching the full scale of the battle and seeing it all come together for a grander purpose than battle for battle's sake. We finished the battle as a Pyrrhic Victory, but spirits were high and not a single unit was fully lost.