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We’ve seen some of you are upset about the Markus nerfs, so we thought we’d explain some of the reasoning behind it. While Markus is supposed to be powerful against monsters (after all, he’s the beast hunter!) he was also too powerful against single entity units, and more powerful than we intended – in both campaign AND multiplayer.

This meant that he could take out lords and heroes in a matter of seconds, which wasn’t what we wanted. The design goal for him was to create a monster slayer ranged character, but we accidentally also created a character sniper. We identified that this was primarily caused by his Amber Bow and Kill Shot/Executioner abilities being way too strong in terms of damage. Combining the two in quick succession would kill most characters.

In addition, his basic ranged attacks were considerably faster at taking out single entity units than many melee characters. The melee defence reduction was added because Markus was also surprisingly hard to hit in melee, allowing him to keep running away and getting high damage shots in at point blank range. In summary, he was dealing too much damage too quickly against high value targets and that capability needed to be toned down.

Statistically Markus is still one of the strongest ranged units in the game after these changes and these changes give us a better platform to continue balancing him in the future. Hopefully this helps you understand the recent changes, and of course balancing is something that continues to happen and isn’t a single static change and we are taking your feedback into account.

"As even a par as possible"


Not everyone will get 6. Not everyone might even get 4. Some might even get to 8 or 10 while others might be stuck at 6 at best, despite having a lot more LLs ready.
Rule of thumb here can be seen as: A Core race will always have a better chance for more, then a DLC race.

You can also already seen in this very forum, that everyone has his own views about those LLs. Some people want all Electors because they are friggin Electors. Others argue that Electors are just boring humans with a magical weapon and will not be diverse enough among themselves so why bother putting all in the game? We have people trolling how Malus Darkblade is "to generic" and then argue for Rakarth becasue he is obviously not a standard darkelf. And then we have people who atcually argue againts a Eltharion VS Grom DLC, because since never ever has rivlary, lore or common sense ever played a role for those DLCs. And so Imrik VS Grom would be better since Imrik as melee lord on his mount with a magical weapon, is certainly the better choice then Eltharion as a melee lord on a mount with a magical weapon.

------Red Dox

Total War: Warhammer 3 - Theoretical Map

This is an updated version of the theoretical Game 3 map I posted here a couple of months ago. As seen here.
The map is my attempt to create a lore-accurate campaign map of the region that Total War: Warhammer 3 is likely to take place in.

I've taken a lot of the complaints I got last time to heart and made changes accordingly, the presence of the Old World has been reduced and multiple factions have been culled in order to reduce the clutter of the map a bit. A lot of other tweaks and additions have been made, a bunch of regions have been removed or reworked, a lot of regions have renamed to more lore-accurate(or at least more lore-relevant) names, and borders have been rejiggered. I've also added a couple of things based on suggestions I got.
I think the map looks a lot cleaner now.

There was a bunch of mistakes in the old map that no one called out, like the fact that the Eyebiter Tribe, Clan Crooktail, and the Gutripper tribe were all named the wrong thing. There were also two 'Gorger Rocks' for some reason. Hopefully all of those obvious mistakes have now been dealt with.



Here's also a version for the people who really couldn't stand having any of the Old World in game 3.
Be warned, the Legend isn't updated to reflect the cut factions in this version.

No Old World Version:


And just because I have nothing better to do with my time, I made two other variations:

Climate version:


Topography version:


If there are any mistakes on the map, or I got something wrong, or there is just something you plain disagree with on the map, tell me and I'll try and fix whatever it is eventually, probably.

Most of us agree that we all would like more death animations that are appropriate to the method of their demise. I've got some general ideas of what I would like, and would happily pay for, in another DLC for death animation.


1) Immolation: This is the 600 pound gorilla in the room. There are so many monsters, missile and infantry units that use death by fire. Lore of Fire is one of the most common lores in the game being in 5 different factions. There are fire breathing dragons and hydras, flamethrower units for the Dwarfs and Skaven and units with flaming attacks like Swords of Chaos or Knights of the Blazing Sun.

With so many source of fire death it would make so much more sense for there to be burning animations rather than exploding into blood. Have them drop to the floor rolling around before they stop moving, or just run off in different directions on fire. It should look chaotic and painful as burning alive would be. You could even use animations for things like Steam Tanks and Lightning attacks.


2) Poisoned: The next most common source of damage would be poison attacks. There should be animation of units falling to their knees vomiting or scratching at their necks like their suffocating.

3) Turned to Gold. Now this is the most niche animation I'd really like but its a quick easy thing. When units die of Final Transmutation, just freeze frame their models and change the model color to yellow/gold.

Can anyone think of anything else they'd like to see in an death animations DLC.