A Staunch Line of Spears

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[@Th3RealRaga]

Seeeelllllout! Grats man for pulling a big fish. Very well deserved. All the best, thanks for the vids!

[@alessandroarchetti2575]

reminder that the "staunch line of spears" meme is almost 5 years old

[@honkworld9405]

thanks for reminding me I'm old

[@Wunderkind04]

And it's still hilarious lol

[@gamedude412]

I have 7 full armies, I have a bridge and 4 unit of pikemen.

[@aswadianknight4766]

what is it about?

[@alessandroarchetti2575]

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[@pacocheung1864]

Lore accurate elf gameplay???!!! No way we’re so back spear bros

[@howardlam6181]

Proud warrior race

[@patrickknoph6313]

7:30 This point here about the type of victory always bugs me with the game. Game says, "You used up a lot of you balance of power shooting all your ammunition so even though you took 10 losses against 1,000 kills we're going to give you a close victory." I sit there thinking... Yeah game, that's the point. I spent a lot of ammo so I wouldn't spend lives.

[@saintpres4ge533]

The main point is had the enemy thrown another army at that point, without ammo most of your troops are significantly weaker, few archer units fight as well in melee, and most of them are either High elf or Kislev, so the game says "Hey if there was more to fight, you'd be losing"

[@GamerAccounts-s7s]

​​@@saintpres4ge533 That doesn't make sense either. You ALREADY won, its not like the ammo spent is reflected in the next battle even within the same turn. And yeah, most archers ain't good melee units, they're not the worst though, the worst ones are inanimate dead units of any type.

[@saintpres4ge533]

@@GamerAccounts-s7s True, but the calculation is in that battle, if it was 4 armies not 3, if the enemy didn't break etc. It also calculates as archers losing 50% of their balance of power by spending the first 20% of their ammo or something It's like how having a lord or hero waste all enemy ammo shifts the balance of power a ton because those units lose their value as their ammo drops.

[@GamerAccounts-s7s]

@@saintpres4ge533 They definitely need to tweak things, or change how victories are called, does it really make sense for you to have a Pyrrhic victory since you used up all of your ammo? Or to have a Heroic one since you never spent any?

[@Shane2020xxx]

“Think of how many arrows gave their lives!” “We’ll make more.”

[@SignumInterriti]

"My Lords, as our greatest warriors, you have the most important role in this battle: Call Vlad and Isabella ugly and run for your lives!"

[@settratheimperishable4093]

💀

[@teosandev6116]

"Vlad, your dad is a female hamster and Nagash smells of elderberries."

[@megashark1013]

"But Legend, taking the attack to them is cheeeeeese!"

[@madness1206]

I said this.

[@GrantClark-gs6my]

After fighting six stacks of vampires, there were only 5 stacks remaining. Sylvania moment

[@sharilken]

When all hope was lost. They returned.

[@blugger]

They never left They were staunch

[@The_Blackshield]

It's a staunch meme, but it checks out.

[@bar_jumper1312]

what a funny place to be as the elfs... never went east in my campaigns, always south ,nord and west

[@bar_jumper1312]

na other Darkelfs are just a urbanlegend... it just works, why would you go west ... not like morathi is hidding out there or something :D

[@anaremelam5998]

You mean to tell me that you never felt the need to make lesser races submit to your rule? Dwarves, humans. What kind of a high elf are you?

[@kentknightofcaelin4537]

​@@bar_jumper1312I assume he negotiated an alliance with Reikland and then got roped into fighting Vlad.

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Ngl lads, the very straightforward and earnest plug for nvdia was 100% more effective than all of the "natural" segways I see from content creators.

[@EagleScoutmano]

Plus it's over and done in 30 seconds

[@MarcinTrybus]

It's OK, as long as you remember the new generation is right around the corner and buying a GPU now without a huge discount is a mistake. 😉

[@Kroq_Gar]

especially when they trying to be funny with their woeful reddit humour.

[@dembro27]

Adamant 180 degree one-dimensional (embedded in the third dimension) object with no width, depth, or curvature of metal points sharpened and fashioned into a leaf shape affixed to shafts of dense wood. Love to see it!

[@warhammerguy]

The staunch meme that keeps on giving 🤣

[@BogdanLarchenko]

Just remember folks, every arrow is just a tiny spear!

[@danmartinac3266]

Plainly and more plainly, through the gloom appears, far to left and far to right, in broken gleams of dark blue light, the long array of helmets bright, the long array of spears

[@blugger]

Okay, but the sea guard are cheating

[@SplendidFactor]

By Eldrazor! A staunch line of Asur Spears and Shields!

[@GarethNewtonWilliams]

One of the things I find really helpful is the way you talk through your thinking. You make mistakes, talk through them, you look around, you reconsider. It's excellent.

[@gilgosseyn6602]

When you minimize Satisfactory to watch the new Legend upload, and see Satisfactory footage...

[@CdeM]

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[@alexkaplan6581]

The factory must grow.

[@soldier22881]

@@alexkaplan6581 sounds like some type of horror saying or eldritch

[@captaincool6785]

he is in your walls

[@PurpleAppleDrink]

The sudden transition to advertising then back is both smooth and rough at the same time

[@ethancrowe280]

Just glad they get it over with

[@glasscannon1815]

"What you can put one banner from another army to another?!" My honest reaction. How have I not known this? How long has this been in the game? Was it always there?!

[@kroxigordundee7767]

Only in Wh3 In wh 2 you had a 1 turn cooldown

[@norbi6699]

Had the best nap ever, Thanks Legend of Calming Voice

[@Marmamartha]

Eltharion with Silverin Guards is such a disgusting army. They can get like in the 90's MD and still have grim discipline.

[@EagleScoutmano]

Yea, a waste to not transfer 3 or 4 over when swapping armies at the end...

[@shizunne]

Remember, when fighting high elves, they will make a spear wall, and behind the first spear wall is another spear wall, and behind the second spear wall is, you guessed it, another spear wall.

[@rdbiv6874]

Magic just isn't as easy as it used to be 😂 i remember the days when the Ai didn't avoid magic at all. Now, they can dodge artillery and magic bombardments with ease.

[@msf47]

Many ppl say Skarbrand but nah man Vlad with his insane regen and items is pain in the arse to deal with

[@Greshgore]

Exactly, skarbrand is a Bruiser but he's also a demon, fight smart, even as simple as concentrated ranged attacks, and he'll eventually beat himself through morale loss, especially because usually the AI sticks him into a fight and leaves him there instead of moving him around.

[@CrimsonUltrafox]

Vlad is definitely harder to kill. Skarbrand is so large that he's easy to shoot. Plus Skarbrand is easy to occupy with trash infantry where Vlad is a spellcaster making it dangerous to surround him. Archaon is probably the hardest unit to kill when you don't have mages or missile troops. The only thing that makes Vlad manageable is the fact that he's slow and doesn't have a mount. He's easy to kite unlike Archaon who's super fast.

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Comments about the comments about the bots are more annoying than the comments about the bots

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​​@@chocov5183comments about the comments about the bots are more annoying than the comments about the comments about the bots

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Comments about the comments about the comments about the bots are more annoying than the comments about the comments about the bots

[@Ron_Jambo_]

Thank you for saying it, bots usually disappear after less than two hours, but these comments ...

[@ElephoontOfTheShapes]

Opening the replies to this comment didn't disappoint, thanks for the laugh.

[@jabloko992]

A Staunch Line of Memes

[@soldier22881]

Thanks!

[@balticbvll2987]

reminds me of the days of spear militia with mercenary crossbow spam from med 2. Hold a chokepoint with them and aint nothing getting through.

[@Thegoldenwatermelon]

6:50 i didnt even know you could equip your second armies banners after 2000 hours.

[@sarahhatesit]

6:53 you said exactly what I said in my skull not even 1 second later LOL

[@gabrielhelmlinger6812]

6:47 ...huh, the combat hasn't even started and i have learned something

[@AspectPL]

I really enjoy the staunch line of spears. It looks so cool to have combined arms in your army :D

[@FatBunny168]

ahhh the corner tactic! It will never fail you....unless they got massive range and artilleries

[@bommel5099]

Hey Legend. In the last part of the Video you said something like "Always take important skills first, but also level up your charakters as you want". Sometimes i don't know what skills are important and what skills are not. I want to level up important skills first, but simply fail to do so because i don't know better.

[@thepowerofsand6180]

The special skills are usually the important ones. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter if 2 more Melee Attack or Leadership but a skill that gives you faction wide buffs or a unique ability (like infinite ammo for archers) is more valuable

[@blakeisthebeast]

Context for your skills matter. Like what enemies will you be facing? What army am I building for this lord? Some of it just takes practice, but what legend usually means by that is there’s usually an optimal way to level, but unless you’re playing a faction with a tough start on very hard, some players can get away with not worrying about the most optimal level path

[@strangestecho5088]

It's very context dependent. If you are likely fighting Greenskins then you probably want to rush Lightning Strike to deny their Waagh armies. Generally you want to prioritize the skills that globally boost your faction or make a large portion of your army better, but there are occasions where the lord really needs to be a better fighter. Magic can be get you hundreds of kills even in the early game, so it is often worth focusing on that with caster lords, particularly big AOE spells. However, if you already have a good caster hero in the army then you can prioritize the other trees first.

[@blakeisthebeast]

@@strangestecho5088 we making it out of the end times with this one

[@EagleScoutmano]

For almost every magic user, magic is an early priority. Next up, for all of the LLs, as soon as the special line is available, it provides the biggest buffs (some rare exceptions apply but those are just bad/old LLs that need overhauled). The next thing is, focus only on two skill sets for armies- based on comp; basic infantry, boost them. Elite infantry, boost them (rarely both). Arty heavy army, boost arty. Missile heavy army, boost them. Get to the temporary buff (+MD or +MA) and basically never put another point in army comp. Get lightning strike early unless always running with reserve forces. Lords' combat skills are almost always last priority, unless it's an extremely combat heavy LL.

[@shaulkramer7425]

I love it when a plan comes together.

[@MScotty90]

7:24 I've always been kinda curious about how the game determines which victory type to give you. I've had a few cases where I was fighting against a vampire army and completely wiped them out while only suffering a few casualties of my own, only to be given a 'close victory' in the post battle screen.

[@samueldisturbing761]

Its also about initial odds, if the game thinks you will get your ass beat and still kill them with minimal casualties and low ammo spend you might get a heroic victory.

[@dembro27]

I believe it’s determined by the Balance of Power, which takes into account how much ammunition (and Winds of Magic?) you spend as well as how many casualties you inflict and suffer. Not an expert on how it’s calculated, but you see Legend manipulating it in almost every battle.

[@MrVeps1]

@@dembro27 Yep, if you have an army of archer spam, and they loose all of their arrows, and kill all the enemies, the game might see that as your forces losing 70% combat effectiveness even with 0 casualties. That's a "phyrric victory" because you "lost" most of your army. Of course, losing 70% of your melee army is a lot worse than losing all of your ammo, but the game's a bit silly like that.

[@soldier22881]

using ammunition loses you balance of power, even if you take no casualties if you spend all your ammo you will get a pyrric victory. hope this helps. each unit has power, units with ammo lose power level the more ammo they spend, hence they take "losses" to their power rating

[@westonryan1407]

Hey Legend. Casually mentioning that if you put the faction you're fighting as in the title, it'd be easier to search your library for how you pull off feats with specific factions. Like if I wanted to see only crazy plays from Vampire counts or High elves. Ex: High Elves - A Staunch Line of Spears

[@Ajoo124]

The KZbin algorithm does not like repeating titles like this, thats probably part of the reason why he does not do it.

[@EdwinReyes-sx6rg]

Fun videos and glad you're getting crazy sponsors! Keep it up :)

[@Freetolicious]

Get spears, lure heroes away, get more spears, profit

[@RedJesseGaming]

"that is a nice hit" *one kill*

[@jzmott82]

Legend moving that banner, me in my 3k game time being perfectly and justly parodied. Oh my god😂😂😂😂

[@bar_jumper1312]

Eltharion drive by goes brrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@pzatotalwar]

Another great Legend video, Love these disaster situation.

[@ImpTheSimp]

6:54 over 1k hours with all the total warhammer games together and I had no idea about this

[@jacobscott2473]

I think they did actually patch in the ability to point blank fire spells like magic missile. Not sure if you know that and there's another reason why you said you can't use it in melee, but I thought I'd mention anyway. There's so much too this game that a small detail like that in an update is easily overlooked or forgotten

[@KazeKoichi]

Legend's nemesis.

[@steakdriven]

Wow that Meme is older than the Hills

[@revpembroke3082]

Be! Aggressive! Be! Be! Aggressive!

[@bappo2693]

I’m glad you’re getting sponsorships man

[@Monochromatic_Spider]

Note to Legend: They mega-nerfed Vlad's damage immunity. He's now just annoying, not completely unkillable. He can in fact be shot with pistoliers, handgunners, or gyrocopters, whatever you may have on hand. Not super efficient but if you've got 6+ units of ranged stuff with heaps of ammo then it should be enough to overcome him, assuming you can make him stand still for a moment.

[@unidentifiedbiomass4106]

I like the improvised format of save a battle maybe fix a bit of the campaign

[@jackeriksen6753]

I really wanted to see Franz mop up lol.

[@samlachance1]

does 1st-person control of artillery still work by pressing the "Insert" key? It takes a fair amount of your attention away from the battle at large, but you can shift/rotate your front line to create a clear line of sight wherever their forces are thickest, then manually fire right into the center of their formation every couple seconds. Line of sight does more damage, with less risk of friendly fire if you manually control it at a close range. Usually my entire defensive formation is designed to funnel the enemy into a cauldron 50 yards in front of my artillery.

[@Serviner]

Lord dueling with Lu Bu was one of the few things i really liked about TW 3 kingdoms, warhammer lord dueling can be so frustrating

[@dregonxz]

o my god,again the spears...

[@lorenzmanalastas4839]

11:09, takes a rear charge and gets launched a couple meters off the ground, takes almost no damage. Dumb as hell.

[@soldier22881]

it is good to see the staunch line of spears

[@baconbadger5463]

These battles were very cool, love to see it

[@commentsaretrue4570]

Where are the arrows from space coming from

[@andyvanmuilekom7390]

Eltharion passive get shot by his own archers from time to time 😊

[@capadociaash8003]

@@andyvanmuilekom7390I’m thinking of that scene from endgame “Fire everything” “But sir you’re literally right their-“ “Do it!”

[@commentsaretrue4570]

@@andyvanmuilekom7390 lol wth

[@DefNotCriss]

THE RETURN!

[@martinlarsen7354]

Fucking love LSGwS - they're such a good unit.

[@RedJesseGaming]

12:30 where the hell those arrows come from aimed so far away

[@Severin1111]

"We need to ram into him, else Vlad won't take us seriously" might be the most lore accurate thing that ever came out of this guys mouth.

[@WhataviewNOR]

great vid, love this format

[@WhataviewNOR]

its like a puzzle senario

[@TheSpaceWomble]

Damn......haven't had the empire fall once in one of my play throughs 🤔 WHEN ARE CA GOING TO ADD A BUFF AND MINUS FOR FACTIONS PRE CAMPAIGN START!!!!!!!! 🤬

[@KristianKumpula]

I like to use the campaign editor by Bombardier to mix things up. It takes more work, but the end result can be drastically more dynamic and customizable than cheat buffs/debuffs.

[@eltharions_flying_zebra6811]

Why was healing the characters at the end of the second battle pointless? Great video as always though!

[@pascaldifolco4611]

Playing Empire/KF and used the same kind of tactics to get rid of Wurzzagh that had 3,5 armies, all with Waagh, vs my 2,5 Have to be offensive and decisive !

[@jjj7783]

6:55 God damn it legend, don't call me out like that

[@Izznogood76]

Hoping for an Eltharion live stream where you go after Vampires and Chaos

[@Srz_bzns]

Hold the fucking phone. You move where the reinforcements come in?

[@EagleScoutmano]

In almost every video that Legend has posted since TWW3 came out, yes... XD

[@Srz_bzns]

@EagleScoutmano I skip to the good bits

[@SilverScarletSpider]

reminds me of my yari ashigaru army

[@andyvanmuilekom7390]

Cudve gotten royal gaurd on alastar i think 10%ward save

[@Nobdythere]

Eltharion seems like a fun giy to play. I should give him a try.

[@eshaan570]

most of the player traps can be avoided by not playing passive af lmao

[@righteousham]

Another impressive victory.

[@jorgeescobar2915]

S T A U N C H

[@captaincool6785]

What, you can put banners from one army to another?

[@SuperNovaDwarf]

Why was he in sylvania! Malakith still lives!

[@lukalovric2463]

Side quest

[@mackenzieobrien7579]

Odd to see high elves into the empire.

[@MsArchitectschannel]

You should do double dammage to an enemy general if they refuse to fight you not no damage wtf is that?!

[@hentielover]

I also don't know why charges do no damage, regardless whether the lord is standing and fighting or running away. The charge at 11:10 flung that lord 10m-20m, but did literally zero damage. Why is this? Wouldn't something like that do a bunch of damage in older Total War games?

[@FoReJeR]

​@@hentielover1) Because the maximum hit chance cannot be higher than 92, so it could just be unlucky 2) If you look closely at the animation, the charge was a bit crooked, so the enemy may have entered the fall animation before being hit, and in the fall animation you are completely invulnerable

[@honkworld9405]

"Geometry doesn't matter anymore, only stats and numbers" - Volound, about modern Total War

[@hentielover]

@@FoReJeR That just sounds broken. If it was melee defence that countered the charge, then the unit should have just dodged the charge in an animation or at least completely negated the charge by not moving. And being invulnerable in an animation where you are actively flung dozens of feet is also obviously broken.

[@frankkobold]

​@@honkworld9405 and volound would be wrong with that, if he thinks that only stats and numbers are relevant.

[@tomas.zentrich]

Sends enemy lord flying halfway down the hill, does no damage. Yup, collision system still sucks.

[@TrentBattyDrums]

what a legend.

[@FirstEcho]

Not used to seeing ads on a Legend video, but I can appreciate the need for them. Being a dad isn't cheap! I also appreciate that the ad is only 20 seconds, unlike the minutes long ads you sometimes see. Anyway, great video as always!

[@FurryCruz]

Consolidate the spears?

[@Doctharkun]

Awesome sponsor legend...also...SPEAAAAAAARSSS

[@Corwolfe101]

0:35 I HATE IT when my battles have 6 fpf

[@finxxz-plays]

but legend 😅

[@jakelillis3505]

Does anyone know what game that is during the advert?

[@fingers752000]

Yes! 😁

[@TehFishey]

Satisfactory

[@jakelillis3505]

@@TehFishey Cheers!

[@Coeurebene1]

Satisfactory

[@planomathandscience]

Love me some Eltharion

[@Nightmare_52]

not enough spears obviously

[@alirezarezaei2976]

SO Nvidia is approved of disasters yes?

[@TheMMOCafe]

Get that money legend 💯

[@richardhogben3776]

genius

[@Winston-lf7sb]

so ta seems to utterly rely on these "player traps" and not sound tactical play. this game is fun to watch but it suffers from all ca games shortcomings. the better you play, the more cheats and aggression the ai has. if you make what would be considered bad tactical choices, you are rewarded with the ai making even worse decisions and far less aggression

[@thrusherthrush2515]

..You can fucking move the reinforcements?

[@frankkobold]

Thats cheating, you cant name it like that and expect me not to watch it!

[@unidentifiedbiomass4106]

Elder scrolls hates this army

[@senshibat8920]

Bat tharion and his butler and ward Al grason v Vlads jokers