While reading about the Empire I came across a section that mentions this particular battle at the beginning of Karl Franz's reign. In lore is was the ultimate battle against the Spiderclaw Forest Goblin tribe that inhabited the forest but in game it's the first quest battle and you have to fight rebelious reinforcements from Middenheim, even though both Toddy and the Ar-Ulric have voted in favor of Karl Franz coronation in the end...
Does any one knows why this strange change in lore? It seems to make even less sense considering that the introdutory battle with Karl Franz is to counterattack greenskins (I imagine from that same tribe given the lore remarks about it) besieging Altdorf AND during the game battle against the insurrectionists he even warned the soldiers to be aware of the "existence of more than just rebels in the those forest", meaning that he still hadn't yet purged the place.
I know that it's a small issue but just made me curious as to why they even changed...
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New models for all the forest goblin units would have probably taken up unnecessary dev time which would have been better focused elsewhere particularly since, at the time, CA was quite cautious about how successful the Total War: Warhammer series would be.
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1 · Disagree AgreeMight have something to do with them being so low tier, and I, personally, would have preferred it to be more lore friendly with the forest goblins.
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1 · Disagree AgreeAs for his army:
Raknik on his Araknarok mount
Goblin Big Boss on Giant Spider
Regular Goblins Spearmen/Archers
Spider Riders (both melee and archers)
A couple of River Trolls.
A Doomdiver catapult or two
An Arachnarok Spider or two. Even better if they get the Spider hatchlings summoning ability (same as the one from Grom's Cauldron and the Araknarok RoR).
It would be a not so easy to fight army (fast, with artillery and big monsters).
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0 · Disagree Agree... this guy is right.
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