This Thunderbarge is beautifully crafted, but its current strength is awkward—essentially carrying over TW2 mechanics into TW3. It is ineffective against any unit type: inaccurate against large targets and lacking aoe capabilities against infantry. It only shines against enemies incapable of engaging air targets—and only if given enough time-which other dwarf air forces could use to eliminate twice as many foes. Heavy micromanagement required, with extremely slow movement speed and manual bombardment/shooting. In TW2, someone made significant improvements by replace default weapon to broadside firing. However, no such improvements were made in TW3. It's not suitable for the current Total War environment; I can't think of any army composition that would require it. The vanilla version is better, with multiple weapons and full automation. I hope someone will rework its mechanics.

Would love it if someone would update this mod.

Does it work with the new update?

this barge trash VS vanilla

Will this mod will ever be updated? It's such a shame, cuz your work is extraordinary!

Great mod Update please

does not ctd these guys just can't mod

Pretty please update :)

ctd on 6.1 indeed

causes ctd on 6.1

So what happens when playing as Malakai? Gonna have 2 Malakais or......??

Friend, add the opportunity to hire for the empire, please, please, please!!!!!!!

'The real Thunderbarge' ? 'The REAL' ? This one is the REAL Thunderbarge, it came out long before CA sold theirs.

Why is this cheaper than the real Thunderbarge? Should be more expensive

mct에서 활성화를 해도 퀘스트가 발생하지 않습니다... 으아악

so what happens when you pick malakai as your lord? Do you get the hero malakai as well for 2 malakais?

When I recruit a MK2 Thunderbarge it is glitchy in Battle map. The hull of the ship keeps spinning, also it uses the vanilla Thunderbarge model. Should this not be used with Malakai's campaign?

i am stupid. how do you shoot the cannons in first person? the command is not listed

Radious compatibility mod has been abandoned for years, might as well delete it from description

I 2nd the idea on an empire barge

there should be a mod that gives Thunderbarge MK2 to The Empire (Malakai works as a lector in Nuln University of gunnery) MK2 should be Imperial Thunderbarge version.

Help is needed. Malakai does not appear for me after the release of version 5 of the game. There is a thunder barge, but Malakai is not. I tried everything: restarted and reinstalled. And there isn't even a quest to access Malakai.

o7

hi, i would like to ask if this mod will be updated to the latest patch, thanks

o7

Last but not least @authors Consider linking the mod "Spirit of Grugni mechanic scaling adjustments" by @Cerb here somewhere as the two are related and work together well <3

After some careful meditation, followed by a flawless brainstorming process, I am proud to present my suggestion here for players in all these scenarios (@lore police, please close your eyes now and quickly change the Workshop page!)

Instead of turning off the hero Malakai from spawning via MCT, consider that you could (whenever the lore police patrols are not looking!) click the "Rename" icon on the hero's character screen to give him another name. (Malakai has a twin brother but they haven't seen each other in a long time worked well for my simple, shameless imagination....)

@authors Given that the MKII version of the barge can be considered still superior to what CA's team of professionals cooked up, I think this mod absolutely makes sense to be turned on in

- Dawi campaigns - You want to be able to construct the unit, you probably want the massively missile units boosting hero Malakai too

- Empire / Bretonnia / Kislev / Cathay campaigns (You prob want the hero as he can mow down 200+ troops of the opponent if he can get in a good spot on the battlefield, plus buff missile units - and you probably don't care as much about 2x Malakai (1 LL / 1 hero), as much as when you're playing a Dawi faction

@2Scribble / all

Well, it honors you that you're so absolutely polite, respectful and loving towards CA here, but pretty much EVERY SINGLE THING that was part of the last PAID DLC had already been implemented in some shape or form (and in some cases in superior form) by modders before, no?

@RavenTNT - negative, the Dwarf Thunderbarge predates both this mod and the version CA did - CA simply chose to do the Tabletop version while this mod did Age of Reckoning version

Use both

I do

Wait so did warhammer rip of this mod? O.o

So how does this work? Like if we recruit Malakai does that mean we have two Malakai's running around the map?

it is possibile to do the same model but recruitable for empire?

after deleting this mod and re downloading it is still crashing on start woth only this mod enabled any ideas

Well, a bigger mustache

Please give "Malakai" a mustache so we don't mix them up

planning on making edits now that we got thunderbarge assets in teh game like cannons that can shoot to the sides and under it like on the normal and not just forward, because i feel the new CA thunderbarge got an edge in that department as its cannons can shoot down and wider with 2 of them as well?

I need Crank-Gun！

Hey, do you think you could increase the speed of the MKII slightly. As of right now, it's damn near impossible to catch even the slowest of units, to drop bombs on them, and the ship gets shot down before it can really do any damage.

Hello, is it possible to have a MCT toggle to add the vanilla thunderbarge to the MKII cap?

This mod has the stamp of approval of The High King of The Karaz Ankor and Emperor of Man!

Even though we have them officially, this is still a must-have mod for me. Thank you for all your hard work.

After several test later the issue seemed to be Snek kislev. Sorry for the misdiagnosis

This mod should be honored as a legend for all dwarf fans, as now, after so many years, we finally got the thunderbarge itself. This mod has been an essential part of many dwarf playthroughs

You sir are amazing! thank you for keeping this beloved mod going.

Awesome that you updated the mod and made it more distinct.
CA copied you of course
Love from Mooseman

Also, can the side cannons actually fire independetly now, considering the technology just released with the thunderbarge, or are the side cannons still just for the broad side ability?

Also, would love for the bombs to get automated as well.

Damn, I remember when you first released this I thought this felt like actual CA work in all respects, but the balance, since I thought this way to OP to feel like official content.

Que to the official thunderbarge's release and OH BOY! The thunderbarge CA just dropped makes the release version of this mod feel like a toy in comparison. Its crazy that such a wildly OP unit actually released as official content

The issue with YinYang's Total Resize has been resolved.

Just to let you know in case you haven't tested yet. When hovering over malakai's sapper skill the game CTDs