The Changling, the Most OP Lord with the most insulting ending

[Lucius Kern]

Okay, I get it that Changling is brokenly powerful, but what the hell was that ending?
I mean come on, did you have to word it like that? being played by Tzeentch? why?
You are doing his bidding after all, and sure Tzeentch plays everyone but the Changling is a loyal follower and devoted subject, the ending should have been. Most Prized Champion of Tzeentch ALMOST as good a schemer as the god himself, but noooo you are being played by Tzeentch? -sniffles- Poor Changling.... Here is a loyal subject and the developers spit in his face after having placed a cult in every city, every fort and done all the small schemes, grand schemes and ultimate schemes.... for that much work he deserves a better ending :D hehehehe

[cernodan]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. It was exactly what I needed for that final push. Now I can flush and get back to work.

[GeoG85]

He's fun when you Confederate him as Kairos. You come with pre-forms too. If you Confederate as Kairos, you can get Sarothel the Ever Watcher to boot. Changling has 0% chance to get Sarothel unless CA changes that. And Kairos can check what traits Sarothel has with the CTrait Manager Mod.

[The Grand Mugwump]

It's just a stupid ending. If his ultimate scheme did something more interesting and disastrous to the world, it would make sense for all of the order factions to unite to stop it. Not this "lol lol no throne for you changeling!" Sitting on the throne doesn't even do anything for him if his lack of a victory buff is any indicator.

[Lucius Kern]

Mod: Confederate Defeated Lords and Factions solves Sarothel issue, as he gets beaten you get him as a "Refugee", also helps when Legendary lords in your faction gets beaten to a pulp before you got to confed them, you get them that way as they join you in a hope for payback.
Also Mixu Legendary lords for more delicious Tzeentchy factions to grab.

But honestly, what makes Changling so broken OP is the fact he has no cities but can have bases in all other cities, and as you spread with Symbiotic cult with 1 military building and stay at war with everyone they can't really do anything to you or your units which are like 99& of the time hidden from enemies :P it is sooo brokenly fun.

Compared to the Changling the Hag and Jade Dragon are..... eh... meh.
but they get better cinematics :P

[Kharnath]

if you think tzeentch cares about any of his followers you might be grossly misunderstanding tzeentch.

[Oku]

Tzeentch's schemes are incomprehensible to all but himself, every single mortal breath, every single thought and feeling, any action taken is part of a scheme so grand and unknowable that only Tzeentch himself could even begin to fathom the ambition behind the grand design. The Changeling, like everything and everyone, is nothing more than a disposable pawn in the great game. He had no free will, because everything he did and everything that became of him was pre-ordained by Tzeentch to play out exactly as he wanted it to.

[Heru Ra Ha]

Originally posted by Akfiz:

Bro, read the lore, Tzeentch cares about his followers as much as CA cares about its playerbase.

Tzeentch is as willing to discard his loyal followers when they are no longer useful as much as CA is willing to scam their loyal fans when they are no longer useful.

The Changling's ending is not insulting, it's the perfect metaphor for players who bought Shadows of Price Change.

You got played by CA, 2 lords at 10$ + 1 free lord is now 3 lords at 25$ + 0 free lords. The same way the Changling was played by Tzeentch.

And in fact, blind loyality is what makes one the No.1 fool to be played with. So the Changling's being a loyal follower and devoted subject is actually more reasons to be played by Tzeentch, rather than less.

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