Let's talk about landmarks

[Falaris]

Hey, guys. So, I've been looking at the landmarks in WH3, and .. honestly, I'm disappointed.

In WH2, a lot of landmarks were available for multiple factions, with multiple effects depending on who had it, like the Arcane Academy in Altdorf which is a great school for wizards, but if taken by Vlad, becomes a school of necromancy.

In WH3, everything - or everything I've seen - are available for one faction only and if someone else holds the territory, it's nothing there. It feels a lot poorer, and increases the 'cardboard' feel of the setting. I hope they can improve this for the IE map version of the locations.

Also, taking for instance the Khorne landmarks, one is amazingly good, the two others are... very much meh, and I'm not convinced a regular building wouldn't be better. With their rarity, they should be at least attractive.

With that said, Cathay and Kislev do have a wide range of landmark buildings in their starting area, but little incentive to go out and find things, that I've seen.

[Aleera]

Come to think of it, I've yet to find even a single landmark as Nurgle. Other then the generic council all 4 Chaos factions get.

[Ainess]

The Blood Fortress (I think?) in the north-easternmost corner of the chaos wastes has a unique landmark for Khorne, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch. But yeah, other than that, pretty meh.

Not that that´s anywhere near the biggest issue of this game though.

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Ainess:

The Blood Fortress (I think?) in the north-easternmost corner of the chaos wastes has a unique landmark for Khorne, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch. But yeah, other than that, pretty meh.

Not that that´s anywhere near the biggest issue of this game though.

Eh, the biggest issues get plenty of attention. Nice not to forget things like this though.

[Ainess]

Originally posted by Falaris:

Originally posted by Ainess:

The Blood Fortress (I think?) in the north-easternmost corner of the chaos wastes has a unique landmark for Khorne, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch. But yeah, other than that, pretty meh.

Not that that´s anywhere near the biggest issue of this game though.

Eh, the biggest issues get plenty of attention. Nice not to forget things like this though.

Sure, wasn´t complaining or anything, just mentioning it for completion´s sake.

But if you are really disappointed by the landmarks, a lot of landmarks in ME got added along with patches and DLC releases. There will surely be some more once Chaos Dwarfs and maybe some other factions drop.

[Butcher]

Brass keep should get nurgle landmark

[Elitewrecker PT]

And another lot of landmarks were exclusive to specific raves...

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

And another lot of landmarks were exclusive to specific raves...

Yeees...?

[Elitewrecker PT]

So the situation is similar. There are exclusive and shared landmarks in both games.

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

So the situation is similar. There are exclusive and shared landmarks in both games.

Actually, I'm not aware of ANY shared landmarks in WH3? If there are, that'd be nice. But the ones I've seen, at least, are all for single races.

If you mouseover the landmark in the map view, it will say 'this landmark is of interest to X', and I've never seen more than one faction name.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Alness mentioned the one in blood fortress. But I haven't seen for myself.

[Dan]

Not enough landmarks for any faction, made the game world feel kind of stale and no real desire to take a settlement area for a cool unique building / benefits. Even the ones you get are kind of meh

[Ashardalon]

the chaos gods should atleast get a special building on the opposing gods special landmark spots
just to spite them and get some extra garrison just to spite them even more
not a massive strong building, just a little bit of pettiness, but it fits

[Ainess]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

Alness mentioned the one in blood fortress. But I haven't seen for myself.

It´s actually Red Fortress, just checked. But yeah, it is shared between 3 factions afaik. If having 3 different builds from the same landmark counts as shared that is.

[Ainess]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

the chaos gods should atleast get a special building on the opposing gods special landmark spots
just to spite them and get some extra garrison just to spite them even more
not a massive strong building, just a little bit of pettiness, but it fits

Khorne has a 30% upkeep for bloodletters landmark in the starting province of N´kari.

[Ashardalon]

but its the blood keep right? or red keep, still sounds khorne
blood keep sounds very khorne
dont know why or how nkari started there, but assume hes squatting on khornes keep of red blood
does nkari get to build something there to spite him?
nurgle also has nothing to spite tzeensh, some fire resistance building wuld be nice