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Honestly I’d say don’t overthink it, and start with something easy. Turn the difficulty low and go from there. You don’t need to understand everything to play, and you only need to really focus on playing to all the intricacies if you get really in to it and want to play on harder difficulties or multiplayer. 95% of it you can just try shit and then learn from when things go badly.

If you have Warhammer 2, the lizards are pretty straightforward. Make a line of sauruses, and once they’re fighting the enemy line, throw a dinosaur in like a wrecking ball. Enjoy watching the carnage.

If not, I can try to recommend other factions if you let me know what you do have. Otherwise, most normal factions are some flavour of have some melee units, some ranged units, then go to the enemy and fight it out. Put cavalry on the ends of your line to deal with other cavalry, attack special units, or charge the enemy’s rear after you’ve engaged their line.

In general the strategy layer boils down to build buildings in towns to get more money or access to more units. Conquer more towns to get more of that. Again, strategy in those builds or army compositions is good and all but don’t let that stop you. Start with a bunch of whatever, then add things based on what it seems like you need or what would be fun.

Definitely. It is great if you’re playing it as a lifestyle game, but if you’re at all intermittent at some point it’s just unapproachable. Especially because it’s not like the free updates add stuff that is just around and you can ignore. A lot of it is mandatory systems that are half baked without the associated dlc.

This model works great the way total war Warhammer does it, but I kinda wish paradox stuck with traditional expansions and a base game experience that stay stable.

Related, I miss the asymmetric ftl from 1.0. i understand why they changed it, but it sucks that game is just gone.