Never played Warhammer but these descriptions of the game sound cool, like I’m reading about World War II in a fantasy realm.
So…
I had been waiting until the price dropped, but when I noticed That WH TW I was still full price, I realized II won’t be discounted anytime soon and paid full price.
I loved the game, I was playing as the HIgh Elves, and had one-more-turn-itis until 4 in the morning more than any other game in years.
I have a technical issue near the end of the campaign, I wanted to ask anybody who completed the High elf story about. It’s a new enough game I’ll spoiler it to be safe, but it’s really not very spoilery.
I did the fifth ritual and seemingly last ritual, and lasted the 20 turns. But as soon as other armies move their pieces, and my turn is going to start it tries to switch to cutscene. But the screen freezes, the sound stutters and it crashes to desktop. I’ve done the normal voodoo; checked drivers, verified game files, tried running in a small windowed mode etc. It doesn’t look like an easy fix, and my question is whether there is a point to debugging it at all. I can watch the scene on Youtube if that is all there is left. I there anything left? Does it just roll credits? or is there a shocking twist and the campaign has more? Or can you continue in open mode kicking the asses of those who still need it?
I’ll answer in the spoiler as well, though I’m not sure I’m understanding where you are exactly:
[spoiler]So, when you complete the ritual you get the option to fight the final battle. I assume you did that and during the initial speech in the tactical battle pre-game where the general is giving a speech it’s dying on you. Is this the case? If so, I’m not sure what you can do. I’d check my mods and make sure you don’t have one that’s doing the deed. If you have an earlier save try going back to that and see if it makes a difference…I’ve found that often the auto saves and quick saves can become corrupt, so this is definitely a ‘save early and often’ type game. I’ve also found that since the Tomb Kings came out the game has been a bit unstable for mods. I’ve lost 2 campaigns so far to some sort of patch that destroyed my saved games. Luckily it hasn’t happened lately, so I’m hopeful they worked things out. I don’t play the Vortex campaign much, so haven’t run into your specific issue…I generally play the combine worlds campaign as it’s just more fun with all the races.
ETA: And when you finish the final battle you can continue the campaign, IIRC, just like you can in the regular campaign once you meet all the victory conditions.[/spoiler]
Hmm I don’t think I had a final battle. I went through each of the first four rituals. they took ten turns a bunch of foreign armies appeared. Then on the turn when the counter was on one, I ended the turn all the AI went, and my turn started with a cutscene that expositioned the next act of the story. On the 5th Ritual when I started it had a counter of 20 and a bunch more invader armies. When the counter hit 10 It gave another cutscene, and a bunch more Skaven armies appeared in my land. I fought them off and played turns until the counter hit one, I ended the turn All the AI went through their turns. Then as the last one finishes the game crashes instead of being able to play the cutscene I assume is supposed to be there.
Screwed up game file I guess. I went back 10 turns and replayed, and it worked fine.
Yeah, there is definitely a final battle. You trigger it much like you trigger a quest battle…in fact, that’s what it is. Basically, you get teleported to the vortex and you fight, one at a time the armies of the other races that are trying to gain the vortex. It’s a pretty tough battle, especially if you aren’t going in with a good mix of troops. You do get to heal between waves of attacks, and the first battle that is up hill is the hardest. After that you have some time to redeploy your guys on high ground to take on the next waves.
I did go through the final battle after getting a save file that worked. I didn’t really get time to heal up through. Or rebuild formation. The second their last unit broke, the next army appeared. And I’m pretty bad at army management anyway, and keeping all units directed where there are supposed to be. By that point my flagship army had 10 high rank dragons, and 5 Dragon princes so my army was tough enough to hack and scramble my way through it without too many loses. Mostly realizing that a dragon or knight unit was chasing a fleeing unit to the corner of the map, and directing them back into the fray of the next invader group.
I was able to reposition my troops for each wave, but it was certainly one of the tougher quest battles. Glad you got through it. 
With the mix you described there probably isn’t a lot that you couldn’t handle even at 2 or 3 to 1 odds.