Recent reviews by Mononc

Cool faction.
And CA did a nice rework of the dwarves.

Some drawbacks.

1. If you're like me and you dislike the northern areas of the Immortal map, well, Malakai spawn there. North of Kislev.
It sucks. Havent try Malakai in the W3 regular map yet.

2. The faction's unique mechanics is about Malakai doing stuff all over the map. And most of these missions you cannot teleport to them to accomplish them. Like fighting a specific race or fighting in a specific terrain type. So the end result is by the time you become super powerful and that your campaign gets boring, you haven't done most of these missions.

One of the best DLC of the 3 Warhammer games.
For its price, its my favorite.

The only downside is both campaigns(W3 map and Immortal) are too easy. Although on W3 map, the ogres to your western flank can give you some big trouble at the beginning and mid-game. Depends how fast the AI empire gets wiped by 'em.

The faction's unique mechanics and units are the coolest.
You get access to the best Elector Count State unit btw - the steam tank with a melee AoE.
Towards the end of my campaigns, my Elspeth's stack had 7-8 of those tanks.
Coolest and funniest thing ive seen in Total War.
I was owning everyone so bad and it was funny to see ♥♥♥♥♥♥ tanks in a line shooting, advancing, and seeing your enemies run in panick. Its like Panzers vs french.

If you're not very good at this game, I still recommend campaign Hard difficulty. If you're good at this game - Very Hard or more.

Pros
1. Cool legendary lord and unlockable heroes.

2. The recent nurgle remake, which is decent, applies to this faction.
Thats about it.

Cons
1. You don't get the new Exalted Hero of Nurgle unless you bought the DLC with Festus.
This is complete BS. You're buying a DLC thats about a SINGLE NURGLE faction and you don't get access to all regular heroes? FU! That hero should be unlockable with either Festus or Tamurkhan DLC.

2. On Immortal map, its the same boring super easy campaign as with Archeon or the centaur dude(you spawn on same area between them). I play at Very Hard and its a walk in the park just like with Archeon.

3. The unique campaign mechanic is pretty dull. Although its cool to get special heroes, its pretty MEH for it to be the unique campaign mechanic. And those guys make your campaign EVEN MORE EASY when its already too easy.

I bought the DLC deal of the 3 new factions together. I've played Elspeth and Malakai before Tamurkhan and I recommend both Elspeth(one of the best DLC of the 3 Warhammers) and Malakai. But I can't recommend Tamurkhan. Although the fairer prices now doesn't make it such a big deal. If you love the lore and love Tamurkhan, its not a bad DLC for you. But other than that... meh.

Pretty good.
Nothing extravagant or amazing, but did the job at getting my expectations.

The biggest change i've noticed is how Prestige is harder to get on this campaign.
Which makes the overral DLC quite harder than previous DLCs. Which is a good thing for veterans with a brain.

I'm really not a fan of those splitted-missions where you need to make a choice. With the alternate german history, it made sense. But here it just makes your campaign shorter, and forces you to start a new campaign just to be able to see those other missions. And basicly forces you to play that new campaign with easier settings to play those harder missions. Because theire's always an easier choice and a harder choice. So when you're like me playing at harder difficulties, you can't go with harder choice cause of the Prestige problem.

Its even more of a pain in the ass when you consider theire's gonna be more Allied DLCs, which allows to keep your forces going. But when you need to restart just to see those splitted-choices... UGH! Please stop doing that crap with your next Allied DLCs. Theire's no alternate history here, no need to diminish the quality of our experience.

I've been playing Total War since the first Medieval. I played the first Shogun's demo, but I really started at Medieval. I've played all Total War games except Empire(my PC was too crappy at that time, I switched directly to Napoleon) and Troy(reviews told me it wasn't worth it). And almost every single game, I played it like a maniac(5000+ hours each except Britannia and Three Kingdoms).

So i'm an old historical fan of Total War, but I think the Warhammers were the best ones. Cooler characters, and better tactical battles due to magic and flying units mostly, but also, fantasy allows factions to be alot more diverse than historical games. But Pharaoh is the first real(worthy) comeback of historical Total War since the Warhammers!

I've seen reviews of Pharaoh, people complained mostly about the setting(Egypt), cause they want Medieval 3 or Rome 3. But I gotta tell ya, CA did a GREAT JOB on this. The map and its events remind me of Shogun. It is BY FAR the best Total War regarding the campaign turn-based. CA finally elevated the strategic and political elements that Total War REALLY NEEDED for a long time. The campaign map always was too simplistic. Now its near perfect.

You have to handle alot more stuff in the turn-based campaign, and the monetary system\trade is really cool. You have several different ressources to manage, and trade is no longer a passive income like before. YOU have to balance out your different ressources(by managing your settlements and managing your trades).

Even units cost different ressources to train AND for upkeep. Theire's a court thingie and personal choices that requires some management each turn. So the campaign side of the game requires a similar amount of thinking like a good city-building game. I'm only at turn 30 in my first campaign, and i've been playing for 2 days non-stop, without showering(cause theire's alot more ♥♥♥♥ to think about each turn). I've never seen this before in a Total War game. Even the way you manage your territories based on your needs of all these different ressources based on short term and long term, its awesome.

Theire's a crisis bar that makes the map turn into a similar Chaos Invasion.
Theire's a political fight to be, not only the Pharaoh, but getting political positions under the Pharaoh, that each gives benefits. Theire's civil war, and the great diplomacy system from Three Kingdoms is still there, and it keeps getting improved.

The AI so far, seems alright, both in campaign and battle.

Theire's some minor bugs i've seen, but nothing major. Like Ra's buff to devoted general not giving it's buff.

Some silly stuff like heavily armor units(90 armor) running around in naked chest.
Even 40 armor shouldn't be naked chest :D
I understand CA tries to keep it lore-friendly while having units with more armor, but... this is silly. Maybe give the units a better-looking shield, bracers, vambraces, at least?

The 80$ sell-price is a bit high. I got it on black friday at below 50%. I recommend waiting for the christmas sale.

Great game so far. Now I gotta try to eat and shower...

This DLC is great. Its basicly 2 campaigns. One historical campaign and one alternate historical campaign.

The alternate thing started a little bit in 1943 DLC, but its nothing compared to 1944.
Its a whole campaign here. I didnt play the historical yet, but I just finished the alternate and I loved it.

The last mission is INSANE! The biggest mission ever, and the by far the most difficult. You field the largest army ever, but you face a ridiculously huge soviet army with constant respawns that make your army look tiny. One of the only issue ive always had with Panzercorps 2 is that its a little too easy. But during that mission I went "wow wtf were they thinking?" haha especially on my first run where I followed the script's advices to push north. The soviets go through Romania like theyre made of butter. No time to go north.
So I restarted and pushed through the 2 southern fortified paths instead. Went alot better. I think this part was badly tested by the team hehe.

This mission requires an elite army with multiple heroes, and its where the game rewards you for playing well and carefully, during your whole campaign, to avoid your units and heroes getting wiped out. To get to that alternate mission, you have to do great stuff in a couple missions, but to be able to beat that soviet army in the last mission before they destroy one of your objectives to defend... it takes a good general :P I wonder how many people will be able to do it at the 2 hardest difficulties.

The rest of the DLC is good too, the missions are original and the script has never been better. Now I understand why the wait for 1944 DLC was longer than usual. On some missions, I spent 2-3 hours in the deployment phase. The alternate campaign ain't for impatient idiots ;) probably why the campaign didn't feel short once I finished it.

The DLC being splitted in 2 does bring this bad side(about 10 missions per campaign). I like my core army that I started in 1939. But to play the historical campaign now, i'll have to start it with the default army the game gives you.

Sea battles completely suck. Which is the main thing about this product. Stay away from this game. Not worth the money. I regret buying.

Their other Ultimate General games are good though.

I almost have all the Warhammer Total War DLCs. Im on my second Taurox campaign. Both played at Very Hard(id play Legendary if it wasnt for the forced Ironman and no-pause battles). Haven't play the lizard faction yet.

Taurox is my new favorite faction. I love the mechanics, the style, and you can settle anywhere on the map, compared to most factions where every campaign will be similar due to start location. On my second campaign, I went directly in the middle of the high elves island and waged war to all of them BY MYSELF in the first few turns. Which brings me to the main and pretty much, the only flaw, of this campaign - ITS TOO EASY! And dont get me started when Taurox has Sword of Khaine :P

Its a walk in the park. Or should I say, the RUINED park :D

Taurox feels like a friggin god on the battlefield. And its army is the most mobile and powerful i've ever seen since Imrik's all-dragon army.

Campaign and faction combines a bunch of good and cool elements, making this an awesome faction.

But its just soooo easy. Reminds me of the first Rome Total War. Even with only 2 armies unlocked, i'm already unstoppable and pretty much wiped out all high elves.

I just finished this 42` campaign and I thought i`d give my 2 cents.
Yes I recommend it... BUT, only for fans of the serie like me. If you're new to Panzercorps, wait until you finish the base game to see if you're a big fan or not. It might be better for you to buy the DLCs on sale.

I was slightly disapointed. It just seemed like most missions felt meaningless and boring tactically. And I went through it faster than previous DLCs. After Operation Blut I was like ''WHAT? Already over?''. I was expecting 2-3 more missions LOL

Although some of the missions were alot harder than previous DLCs, namely the last few ones. But only because of the limited number of turns. Didn't make them more fun to me. I play at the 4th difficulty with 50% less heroes setting since 39' though.

Some good points: the story is cooler(although too many typos to my liking), the commendation points buy is alot better - no more meaningless units that you end up wasting your CP on. And I mean, its still fun, its just that the bar is high to stay on that same level of awesomness. The price is low, its still worth a buy for big fans, and it makes that whole big campaign cooler with all DLCs. But if you're reading this later after release, you might wanna wait for a sale.

Ive went through this DLC twice. First time at regular difficulty. And second time at the fourth difficulty.

DLC feels rushed. Its unoriginal. And the 2 bonus missions are failures. Especially the first one where you need to lure the 2 french armies so they fight each other. Its the worst scenario in the entire Panzercorp franchise. The second one is alright fun-wise, but you end up wasting alot of prestige for a few useless commendation points. When you play at higher difficulty, it's not even practical to play it. Its better to skip it.

The only real scenario is Warsaw, and it takes too long for nothing. You just go through the city slowly, repeating the same strat over and over. Meh.

I can't recommend this DLC for the casual gamer. But I do recommend it to hardcore fans like me. But if you're reading this(1941 DLC was released), you might as well wait for the next sale.