Turning Kroxigors into KroxiGODS in Total Warhammer 3

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

That "merging the kroxigors with infantry" thing used to unironically be a thing you could do in the tabletop game, not even joking.

[@spiritofthegorg6950]

I remember the charge through skink mechanic all the way back in 6th edition (even in the WD supplementary before the army books came out) scored me a rank 3 finish at the local tournament❤

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

@@spiritofthegorg6950 Man, this takes me back to the days where the Stegadon was a metal model that didn't fit together properly and High Elves were utterly busted lmao

[@MithrilRoshi]

@@directrulefromgamerchair3947 It is unironically cool seeing these stories of vets in the wild.

[@perrycarters3113]

@@directrulefromgamerchair3947 *reads 'back to the days'* *Looks at old, busted up metal stegadon model sitting in its GW briefcase* *ages 500 years*

[@loupdeguerre]

@@spiritofthegorg6950 I used this exact tactic in total war on sheer reflex the first time I played lizardmen, and I still used krox with skink to this day xD

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

"They're funding a proxy war against themselves, like no government has done. Ever" welp he's doomed, guys. it's been fun

[@additionalstupidity]

Going for the world record any % CIA watchlist speedrun

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

To do that you just have to search up how to build a home-made bomb

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

I am legally obligated to inform you that that was a joke

[@MrDiego121979]

The Romans are crying right now

[@bookkeeper7]

@@MrDiego121979 Romans be like: let's build half our army out of war tribes with absolutely no loyalty, that we have been fighting for 300+ years straight. No way this goes wrong. !!!! Warning: a vassal has declared war on you !!!! Warning: your capital is under siege !!!!! Warning: Your capital has been destroyed !!!!!

[@thesnagglewolf]

This Nakai slander will not stand. You better be careful or he's gonna wander his way to your front yard.

[@The_Industry]

Look, I love Nakai. He's my favourite character in Warhammer, and, based on his feats and simple logic, should probably be the single most powerful combatant in all of WHF (and potentially AOS as well). But... Aside from his ability to effortlessly create a god-tier economy, he is absolute trash in-game. For a character who should be a greater-daemon sized, unkillable, unbreakable, inexhaustible, being who is either the straight up manifestation of Lustria or the reincarnation of a war god (or both), with thousands of years of experience, and a sentient weapon containing the spirit of the aforementioned war god, he is so incomprehensibly mediocre (and small) it genuinely hurts.

[@darkyuraptor3315]

@@The_Industry agreed

[@Gabronthe]

Nakai's fine. It's just Kroxigors that suck.

[@tomsebire9758]

@@The_Industry i agree he was my first campain in wh3 and it was fun to use him but then i used other lizardmen like oxyotle and the i found out he is dog shit sadly i hope they give him a rework any time soon

[@thesnagglewolf]

@@The_Industry yeah goofs aside I don't fully disagree. He definitely feels better than he was in 2 but for who he is as a character he feels like he needs some love.

[@darkyuraptor3315]

Nakai was done real dirty when it comes to incorporating him to the game. I know many other races and factions need updates, but I can't help to think Nakai REALLY NEEDS one.

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

Doing a Kroxigor run is better as literally any other Lizardmen LL lmao

[@dragonriderxx7888]

A generic krixogor lord is better choice for a kroxigor stack

[@etuanno]

I really like the chameleon LL in the southern wastes (forgot his name).

[@shorewall]

@@etuanno Oxyotl

[@thetaleofzulu3693]

Why's that?

[@dovahkitty4401]

​@@etuanno i got you Oxyotl. Hes alot of fun for skink stacks

[@Southerly93]

Fun fact. Croxigors regularly have their weapons chained, or otherwise attached to them so they don't just drop their weapons and resort to just being wild animals in the form of body building aligators

[@catsndogs98]

0:39 you know, its kind of lore accurate. Nakai doesnt build infrastructure he just kind of murderhoboninja his way out of the jungle, wrecks face, and then leaves. Like some kind of rampaging armored bulldozer.

[@somnius2519]

Sometimes reasonable Kroxigors must do unreasonable things.

[@thecursed01]

Killdozer you say?

[@alfadasfire]

Well, at least he CAN recruit kroxigors now. For the longest time he couldn't. Couldn't recruit temple guards and some other dinos, I forgot, either. So there's that I guess? But yeah, Nakai does need a "bit" of love.

[@Andy-iq6rk]

There is two things i consistently hate in this game, the horrid sieges and the incredibly uneven diplomacy, seriously if you got positive on it you will be payed in pocket lint but if you got red for it even by a few they will steal your kidneys and wallet, bleed you dry, it's insane.

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

Yeah, its like all of the AIs are conspiring against the player to fuck them over

[@Smilemonster1912]

They literally are conspiring to kill you. Another example of player bias is how if the AI is at war with the player they will send their armies across the ocean to kill you even though they have a nation they are at war with on their doorstep. That is how i ended up having 9 factions that i didnt even border, all sending armies at me at the same time even though i only had 4 cities as bretonnia.

[@hafahya6545]

18:00 That map, so beautiful yet so nonsensical. I guess you can call it brilliantly stupid

[@Gospel-xm7vd]

I love his videos man, but I think I lost brain cells listening to him at that section. "KZbinr sees mountains and waterfalls for the first time and compares them to AI."

[@Rebelk95]

tbf tunnels would explain everything nonsensical about it

[@CatroiOz]

There is literally a region of China that looks like that. It's called zhangjiajie

[@seangallagher9435]

This KZbinr is named additionally stupid not brilliantly stupid, I think you got KZbinrs names mixed up

[@magosmallen2973]

@@seangallagher9435 this is a second channel, original channel is Brilliantly Stupid, linked on his channel page

[@Her_Sisko]

I almost died when bro was roasting the design of that map, the waterfall specifically killed me

[@jtd2117]

I've been binging your Total War videos, and was sad that I've watched them all. Just seen this and it made my day.

[@AmbushIntheDark]

The nonsense layout of that map was hilarious

[@skiefyre123]

Well you see directly under that waterfall is extremely porous silt sitting directly above an underground aquifer......

[@deckofmanytoyboxes8845]

Constructs only tomb kings? Incredibly difficult...but technically possible

[@additionalstupidity]

Currently finishing up a High Elf infantry only campaign as well as Dwarf Gun Only. I will eventually cover the Tomb Kings but it's probably a while off considering how much awesome shit is in the next dlc

[@deckofmanytoyboxes8845]

@@additionalstupidity I just tried the challenge recently and it was hard, but I, unlike you, am very bad at the game so I wanted to see you take a crack at it. Love your videos man keep it up!

[@andreasottohansen7338]

@@additionalstupidity Dawi firepower? Oh lord, this get's my beard all the way to the floor.

[@olafthemoose9413]

Didn't Zerkovich try something like that and it was veeery hard?

[@deckofmanytoyboxes8845]

@@olafthemoose9413 maybe? I dont usually watch zerkovich

[@Max-ek4dn]

This style of vid is so nice. The genuine hatred for the games mechanics mixed with a clearly well thought out script/jokes is awsome

[@the_angel_eye6804]

That "pick up the vase" level of being angry at the pathfinding hit home for me

[@Sid6point4]

Florida crocodiles on steroids

[@Scriptures_K]

With low enough stats that they still get yoinked by the Florida Man

[@thecappyking]

Can confirm

[@mranderson9553]

gonna be honest id rather see a kroxigor on my porch rather than a gator

[@BuboStabbins]

Krox should be one of the best monstrous infantry in the game, instead they are somehow worse than rat ogres.

[@larsdragerl]

I sincerely hope the next DLC adds stuff for Lizardmen and reworks Nakai.

[@Thebigchung]

I remember doing this on my own. Love me kroxigors, I’m glad you did this idea :)

[@petulantpeterturbo]

48:10 Him having an aneurysm at the fact that Croxigors are too dumb to go through a gate that's open right in front of their own faces is peak.

[@evanwilliams1839]

Most reptiles have undescended testes and the rest of the bits are typically tucked away in a protective sleeve beneath and enclosed slit that makes them almost impossible to spot.

[@NewkTheGeckgoat]

It doesn’t help this challenge that Nakai is indisputably and undeservedly one of the worst lords in the game. Because they just forgor he existed. It sucks, I think he has two of the most annoying quest battles in the game currently. Especially the defense of Itza. It’s a great idea but the AI literally runs their lords in and dies and if either of them dies you IMMEDIATELY fail the mission, and you can’t save one of them before he dies because you’re all the way across the map and as a Slann he runs in to Melee vampire depth guard and dies immediately almost every time. I’m not sure how I managed to fumble my way into winning this battle at one point, retried it recently and I ran it dozens of times and each time the slann dies immediately almost.

[@TheStrongNerd]

There's a mod that lets you autoresolve story missions. Helps a lot for me because I hate fighting the lord kroak mission because it's super boring.

[@randomcanadian6690]

Im playing gor rok, I find the best way to play that mission is to send 3 or 4 of your stronger units over to your ally to help while you deal with the main army

[@Kaiimei]

I think that's the idea, everyone forgets about Nakai until he wanders in during a crucial moment in a Lizardmen-based book to save the day a la Gandalf, then wanders off again.

[@Wanderer-nw2so]

I still think the lizardmen need another rework to everything, but I wonder what that DLC would have to be? Maybe they could make a legendary lord and put him in ind or kuresh?

[@ZeroFormLak]

Total war Archaon 2 campaing is somehow better than his

[@hooktraining3966]

CA devs have so much of a hard-on for elves that they can't even make giant humanoid crocodiles good

[@Big-J0211]

Bro your war hammer videos are the only reason I got the game and now I have 300 hours please keep posting incredible content like this we all love it

[@MrKylljoy]

The overanalysis of the fluid physics on the cathay map is top tier. There is just nothing else to talk about, Nakai is just a second role in his own campaign

[@coolcolorado127]

The OSRS soundtrack that blesses my ears during all your videos elevates you to top total war creator imo

[@thanatoes537]

Nakai is such a funny crocidile. Dude literally shows up where a big battle will happen, fucks shit up, refuses to elaborate, and then leaves. All of his followers is like some forest gump stuff when people just see him, think he's cool, and go join him in his murderous travels.

[@grudger95]

I legit love Vivaldi's Winter. Well used in the video, imo. I've loved the "Idea" of kroxigors ever since I first saw them but have never stacked them like this before. This video was enlightening lol. Great video fam

[@amigdalalovecraft4892]

after rewatching this video an immense quantity of times I noticed that at minute 19:14 a kroxigor jusr scratches his axs then procedes to sniff and lick his hand. this is just absolute gaming experience

[@lakincz2359]

My man making my day again and again with these videos. Much love man. Greatest warhammer 3 videos ever.

[@salveteinfernum]

I know im just one of your many viewers, but this format of video is really enjoyable. It really fits your commentary & witty style.

[@40kVallin]

Gods I love your videos. They are so wonderful to watch. And I´m amazed how you beat some of the early battles with like a Lord and one unit.

[@additionalstupidity]

It's less about playing extremely well and more about making as few mistakes as possible. Just taking the absolute minimum number of unfavorable fights and using every resource at my disposal is the real trick to it. After ~15 turns of that, you're *far* stronger than the AI due to your levels, unit ranks, economy, etc, improving faster than theirs.

[@mrsquid1555]

They're just workers and builders leave them be!

[@additionalstupidity]

They're calories. Nothing more and nothing less.

[@KenoughsEnough]

I just thought yesterday that I missed your videos. Yay! Great post.

[@r2primespaire604]

Finding these videos of the wonky challenegs has managed to get me back into the WarHammer scene... thank you

[@LezbionestHere]

Gods I love the Furi OST. Excellent use of it. Mind you, any use of it is excellent

[@bigquazz3955]

Kroxigars are definitely one of the monstrous infantry units that were intended fight inside of your regular infantry. Alot of units work best when you charge them through your own troops instead of trying to flank.

[@kaptenrotskjeg]

Love your shit dude! Edited long form warhammer is so great, and with your charm on top its just perfect!

[@dragonfan9818]

All I can picture at the 48 minute siege battle is just a field view of Brilliant Stupidity just being the commander looking at these lizards turning their heads left and right not understanding where to go.

[@mctbaggins2084]

Dude...I am subscribed now. This was too much fun to watch. And your background music is my jam. So double sub.

[@PandaWolf525]

Really shows you how bad a unit is if he has to turn down the game difficultly

[@additionalstupidity]

I do actually think Normal battle difficulty is about the same difficulty level as very hard in most cases (in manual battles). The AI is dumber but it also makes better decisions in terms of the pacing of battles. It dosen’t wait until you've slaughtered half of it's army with spells before moving up to attack you like the VH AI often does, for example. In this case, I turned it down to test it out because I kept hearing that it was actually harder and also I knew I'd be auto-resolving a lot of super easy battles with a low casualty replenishment rate. Basically, if you fight every battle manually it's the same, if not harder than very hard. If you autoresolve a lot though, it's dramatically easier.

[@bigquazz3955]

@@additionalstupidity I've been saying that for awhile now, but people like to shit on the idea of hard and normal being harder than very hard. On top of ignoring your wizard while you destroy half their army with spells, but the AI on very hard is also prone to sending their forces in waves even when they have overwhelming numbers.

[@TheFirstHoneyBadger]

Video Idea was good, Your Voice was good, the content was good, the Kroxigors was good, but the FURI remix song was just f'ing awesome dude.

[@spikedemon42]

The rage about getting through 2 gates was so funny I could feel your pain 😂

[@mernferd6449]

The only way that waterfall could turn into a creek is if the waterfall immediately falls into a cave system but lets some water splash out into the creek. It also would have to be a fairly new waterfall since the water would just cut through the ground to all go into the cave.

[@M12Z0]

That start scared me. The moment you started to gain territory with 2 armies hope found it's way into my heart. That massacre of the Skaven was legendary

[@blanck7457]

0:22 …..HEY Slaanesh, I got a request

[@additionalstupidity]

You'll get salmonella..... Don't ask how I know that.

[@blanck7457]

@@additionalstupidity lizardmen are more resilient to ilness are they not?

[@ChrisMoore-y7t]

​@blanck7457 They are. You aren't.

[@The_Industry]

2:37 You say that, and they definitely should be close to that size (maybe 15ft), but in game, they are a truly pitiful 10-11ft tall. Everything Lizardmen is smaller than it should be: Saurus should be like 8ft, but are just under 6ft; Temple Guard are basically the same size, when they should be even bigger at 9-10ft; Oldbloods like Kroq-Gar should be even a little taller than that at around 11ft but are barely over 7ft; Gor-Rok should be like 50% bigger than a Temple Guard at 13-15ft, but is less than 9ft; Dread Saurians should be the height of city walls, not the height of regular Giants. And as for Kroxigors. If they are massive, bipedal saltwater crocodiles, they ought to be (in order to be taller than Gor-Rok, which they should be) at least 15-16ft tall and weigh between 2 and 3 tonnes. And Nakai should essentially be a bipedal Deinosuchus, and be well over 20ft tall. Instead, Kroxigors are around 10ft like most other monstrous infantry, and Nakai is barely larger than Grimgor.

[@craftycraff6083]

Loving the more “free form” video style. It reminds me of my favorite series (Skaven slaves). My input would be to forego the turn competition restriction and go full on the one unit type challenge.

[@SlearTechno]

Really love having the turn timer edited in, very nice touch

[@H20Hybrid]

Was that some OG Runescape music in the beginning? and then the slow evolution into stressful climactic strings. Dont sleep on this mans soundtrack

[@tomlaptain646]

I know there was some RuneScape music starting around 10 mins in.

[@CaptainRasmot]

Turns out; Kroxigors have the same deal as orange cats in that they share one communal brain cell, and can't figure out the concept of a "hole" if their lives depended on it

[@gataylor6982]

Thank you youtube for playing this next under half an hour of its upload

[@Spacie_Boy]

"We do not have a lot of gold, but we spend a lot of gold. Which is not the best combination" sounds like my life 😂😂😂

[@AusartheDead]

Love hearing Quirky Bones by Borislav Slavov playing at the 16 minute mark

[@dontgankmebruv7273]

2:40 one issue I’ve seemed to have with breaking down gates with larger units is that they often get stuck trying to attack the gate without being able to actually attack it so they all just sit there and try to walk towards the gate. Adding more units just ends up making it worse.

[@beatzdyer]

New vid had me SPRINTING to my laptop

[@AAIIEEAMDANIEL]

Thank you for spotlighting how dirty they did my boi akai

[@captainservoofzetasquad4509]

Furi's soundtrack is so good, always love hearing it.

[@PesterJester3]

love how you have been talking about the maps a lot lol. Also, hide of the cold ones is the worst item for the lizardmen, me and my friend talked about this for a solid hour. Every lizardman lord and hero eventually causes fear or terror, they get high leadership, items like armor of destiny provide better buffs, and dont remove leadership. Hide of the cold ones needs to be better or a green tier item, or white

[@Dragonseer666]

Average fighting against skaven experience: That is a bad idea. I take that back, you have more armies than I thought, maybe that is the right move for you. That is a fourth army. Okay, we have a problem here. Or do we? We don't.

[@Skaven_enthusiast]

Love the vids, and I’ll still love em wen you blow up

[@majorgillis4082]

This warhammer content is what I live for

[@dragontamer2474]

17:28 mans got the thunderdome!! 2 armies enter one leaves! I love this map idc how buggy it is the map is glorious and is super fun because it's elven forest but cut in half distance wise!

[@jasoncrawford4929]

I could barely focus to the first siege. Was too busy vibing with my nostalgia to that song

[@GlizKhalifa]

This, and this alone, makes me want to actually try a Kroxigors and heroes only Nakai run. I'm positive it'll be hell. But I'm also positive it'll be all kinds of fun if I can get through the slog.

[@VioletWarden1023]

We’re getting Through the great plan with this one boys!

[@JetLagRecords]

AdditionalStupidity, Subscribed because your videos always make me smile!

[@bradb3723]

Im do glad i used the sfo mod cause vanilla nakai is just..so so painful.

[@brycewoodard1098]

43:30 "Like No Government Ever Has Before..." "Ever." *distant Kroxigor scoffs*

[@Armore2]

3 days ago? Damn, must have missed it. Fun video, as always, thanks for the entertainment.

[@TheOracleofClocks]

A Lizardman focused video? Finally, some good fucking food

[@seardrax527]

I actually had some issues when I saw brilliant not put the campaigns at max difficulty but then I remembered the second part of his name so now the tension of "can he do it?" came back

[@electricVGC]

crazy to see a challenge where you can't even go only, that's wild would love to see some tomb kings

[@snairmanthe4th261]

They look badass though. Like an army of leatherheads.

[@Ash2Flame116]

Bruh enjoying the ogryn commissar experience

[@alfasolmega4458]

Suggestion: WoC but with only non-Daemonic units, and we get to see you make Aspiring Champions into gods

[@ShardtheWolf]

I'd love to see this. Aspiring champs are so good with a filled out tech tree

[@xaldrortenderofthevats8948]

next idea: turning Ungors into Ungods with Khazrak One-Eye

[@rileyhinderscheid8113]

Love the OSRS music in the background lmao

[@Dik2BG]

I felt the frustration with them going through the gate on a primal level

[@jammyjimmy666]

You had me at Kroxigors

[@ReinaSaurus]

ladders, stairs, siege towers or even shovels would be a better option than the front door here 🤣

[@cookiecreep9204]

The Furi music makes it, gotta say. Great choice!

[@injiktoplqktor]

Kroxigor earthbenders: *exist* All other races: 40K universe seems chill

[@Kaiimei]

Oh, btw, don't forget the emphasis Cathay places on balloons, that's how they get to those isolated buildings and hanging sky watchposts, they get delivered by balloon and, aside from flying enemies, or enemies with projectiles, or magic, or magic projectiles, or the ability to climb...other than those, they are safe from attack.

[@davidring681]

I literally just finished this campaign. You can get them really buffed and down to 2 turns by mid-late game. Also don’t sleep on the blessed ones. They have double the charge bonus. And perfect vigor

[@blackscarfs180]

Nakai Could easily be one of the most fun LL for lizardmen but instead he is a walking meme. Ah yes i sure do love watching the land i took get overran by Communist peasants because the defenders are as useful as wet paper bags

[@HALO_-ks6dp]

Fgreat video really enjoy watching your stuff

[@Pyromaniac77777]

I’m excited to see what you do with Thrones of Decay!

[@crafty_badger]

Thank all the gods for SFO and how awesome large units feel in it.

[@notareptilianiswear.6600]

Please be nice to my lizard boys.

[@thewhitemask]

I can hear the Furi soundtrack in the backround, mmm, yeah, good stuff.

[@TheDefaultgameer]

So once I picked up WH3 my first big campaign was as Nakia, honestly loved it. Much better then in WH2 when it came to tech tree and growing your forces.Trick is to just keep your armies next to Nakai or who ever you spawn them in on, transfer units as needed and build up while fighting. And then you take over the world.

[@deathninja16]

I wanna see more taurox and count noctilus know they're drastically different but I wanna see either one of those. Mayne a challenge run with them to only use one army? You can add to it and replenish. But only giants and minotars. Count noctilus could just use zombie gunners and plain ol zombies. With the fantastic ship artillery of course.

[@captainducktape689]

I personally am a pretty big fan of Nakai. His campaign is the one I have played by far the most of, and the only one I have technically finished- endgame crisis and all that

[@michaelblevins1651]

Honestly They should make Kroxigors with that are The Temple guard version of kroxigors Like imagine Kroxigors in golden armor with massive swords or hammers as opposed to the ones we have now

[@ilikethewaysnrubberthinks]

kroxigors aren't guards.

[@Dokari-l9m]

Aren’t they just the builder caste and general laborers? They only have some semblance of intelligence thanks to skins being nearby. They are not warriors, they are just strong

[@Deliverance90]

Gerudo Valley/DOS2 music go hard

[@tomlaptain646]

Don't forget RuneScape music too!

[@lmao_nope]

12:15 "One of the best victories of my whole career" - Yup, blob and pray, the true greatest strategy of Total War.

[@Krethak]

I was looking when you did that video and it should've been past the 4.0 Lizardmen "buff" (that also crippled Coatls in not being able to use their Stealth field any more and apparently the summonable Skink Priest from the Garrison Building has no spells any more) So yeah, took you a while to include Skinks in your army for the 10% Weapon damage buff on the Kroxigors :x And while I find all your troubles with pathfinding and units refusing to attack funny, that's sadly not a Kroxigor problem, but an A.I. issue in general ^^' I'm currently doing a Nakai campaign myself and just defaulted to disable guard mode for Kroxigors and just let them run down the enemy. Works decently well. Also it's baffling on HOW bad he really is ^^' I'm playing with mods for months now and can only say things like "Lustria rises" or just the "Warband upgrade" Mod are absolute godsends in making the factions more fun to play with ^^'

[@Dracowinges]

Our brain boy strikes again! Huzzah!