Hun Respawn?

[winged_snail]

Hi I'm new around here. Playing as the Anteans I had just defeated two Hun armies, assuming there were only three or four I was feeling like I was well on my way to eliminating the Hun threat ... and the very next turn two 20-stack hun armies appeared at my northern border. Was that just some kind of coincidence or do the huns just continually respawn if you get them down to one or two armies? If the latter is the case that's kind of disheartening, it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hun treadmill.

[Not so Supernova]

Historically speaking, Huns are not people, but ethereal beings who manifest from negative Chi. They spawn stacks like crazy late game, even if you destroyed all of their old stacks, the faction itself will respawn. And even if you kill papa Attila in battle, he pulls a action-hero movie villain 360 on you claims it twas but a scratch. Eventually they'll stop spawning after like turn 3892 or so... And you can finally kill Attila, and he'll stay that way.

As WRE I just garrisoned crossbow stacks, and went pew pew on unsuspecting hunnic masses at my border cities, das my advice.

[IGX]

If you play as Anteans, flee to Britain and build the temple of the wolf there. The damage decrease on open ground for them is absolutely horrendous and you should focus on finishing the campaign as quickly as possible while avoiding the Huns completely.

[winged_snail]

Ahaha thank you both for your humorous and valuable advice. I was planning on proudly standing by ground where I spawned but if stacks and stacks are just gonna appear near me that's kind of crap. Do they respawn only if previous hunnic armies were destroyed? Like at this rate am I better off just keeping the existing hunnic armies alive but weak?

[winged_snail]

Related question, a lot of people have said this stops when Attila dies (I googled the question) but he's not listed as the leader of the huns currently. In game news notifications had rather led me to believe he was automatically the leader of the huns so long as he was alive, but if the huns keep respawning and he's not their leader does that mean he's still alive just not the leader of the huns at this point?

[David]

hiii, yes,
He will be born in 400 ad and then be leader around 420 ad, after u killed him 3 times , the Huns can be defeated like all the other fractions.
I played the Anteans many times, because they are my favourites....
I fleed to Persia and started there a new big ANtean EMpire and conquered nearely the whole map and i am around 450 and Huns are no more,
but the advice to leave and build the Totem of the Wolves in Britain might be the best strategy to win your campaign, u even can have the necessary settlements for the totewm around Sarai in Scythia, because in the north u have timber and in the south u get the iron.
U simply need wood and iron, then you can build the totem, good luck.

[sam.pidgeon]

Once Attila dead they stop spawning

[winged_snail]

Ah okay, yeah I realized it was the year 417 or so when I wrote earlier so he was not yet in game. Strangely now he still doesn't appear as the hun leader but I can see he is the leader of a hun army, I guess I'll send all my assassins at him as my armies aren't near. And I'm relocating myself to the middle east, it looks like there's one stack of white huns there but assuming they don't respawn I should be able to handle them. I must say, I enjoy a challenge and all but fighting an endlessly multiplying enemy is just depressing and gets not-fun-anymore. I was enjoying this TW edition until I encountered this. I want to win as the Anteans (because its the least-won achievement ;) ) and the WRE but then I'l probably move on to other TWs :-/

[winged_snail]

Okay yet another question on this topic. Now that Ii send an assassin after him it says there's a zero percent chance of a critical success, is that because if I wound him it just counts as one of the three strikes against him, or that I literally can't knock him out of the game through assassination alone?

[David]

hi, no, it has nothing to do with his 3 lifes, even if he would be a normal general game would tell u about the low chance, your agent simply needs more experience, but if u really plan to go middle east the Huns are no more important for u. As Slav i recommend u to simply settle the Settlements which are destroyed by white huns, because it does not cost u anything. It was one of Parthias or Afrighids settlement which had iron and the wood u will have in north in Scythia or Hyperborea.....
I can feel U, i wanted to complete the ANtean campaign for the same reason XD.... i need sooo long time until i realised that in the east u have the two required settlements and can live most peacefully of the whole map ;)

[sam.pidgeon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2348876717 try this mod u have better economy as slavs with this

[sam.pidgeon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2188666541 and extra units for your faction
and better garrisons so where ever you settle got more chance of keeping hold of the lands you control and if huns attack u when u expanded got much better chance defending against them

[winged_snail]

ah thanks for the mods. Solving the food consumption is definitely a good one, managing food production is definitely another bit of tedious busywork about this game that I think just decreases the fun factor without benefit.

[winged_snail]

Man, this is coming "down to the wire" I've killed Attila twice now (both as he sacked and razed settlements of mine), but I'm down to five regions in the very NE corner and _every_ _single_ _turn_ I am attacked by at least one 20-stack from either the huns or one of three Sassanid puppets directly south of me (if not 2 or 3 20-stacks simulteniously). I'm hoping hoping once I kill Attila the third time that will relieve the pressure enough that I can stop losing ground before I'm totally wiped off the map. I think this has been the hardest TW campaign I've every fought.