Azhag the Slaughterer Immortal Empires Campaign Review

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[@cybergeist8932]

I love that these reviews are quietly and slowly becoming guides lol

[@zacharyjackson1829]

he cant help it and i dont mind lol

[@buttqueef9900]

Yeah but now he kind of needs to redo the first 10 or so lol

[@darthtom100]

@@buttqueef9900 "yep this campaign is good I recommend it for all players see you next time"

[@indrickboreale7381]

It's good. You don't need to go to another video to know how to play early to have solid campaign

[@Sarcasmses]

it's probably just me, but I liked that these reviews were only 2-3 min early on. Short and concise summary of each campaign. Now they are getting more and more verbose and moving more into strategy which was the purpose of the guides, so the reviews have now become faction guides part two.

[@konradcurze8176]

Crazy how you have been doing this daily for over two months, yet there are still over a dozen more lords to get through.

[@Tutel0093]

​@@RickAndMortarionSHORT?!

[@konradcurze8176]

@@RickAndMortarion aye, they deserve a do over

[@H0kram]

@@Tutel0093 Please put that book down

[@nickstone1167]

And more are incoming. Incredible replayability.

[@banilo1022]

​@@H0kram DOWN?? There will be no alliance!

[@BailensdeLykenos]

*A'right Iron Hat, we'z here. Now what?* -Azhag's unique Nagashizzar landmark

[@ORO323]

Aka one of Katarin’s many annoying neighbors.

[@pietreks3409]

I think that going for Nagashizzar, since Azhag has an uique landmark there, made for a fun campaign.

[@BittermanAndy]

What's the landmark?

[@pietreks3409]

I could tell you or you could play the game to make it so much more rewarding!

[@gloubiboulgathefirst5784]

Thanks for nothing I guess

[@kriegaone3658]

Definitely play with Rhox's "Feature for Azhag: Wandered and Lost" mod

[@bastienbovard8159]

It is the case in tw:w2 too?

[@coolin2761]

Azhag’s probably the most fun green skin lord just based on vibes. His quest battle dialogue is legit funny.

[@Warpmek]

I really like how he buffs regular orc boys and boar boys

[@detectivecotton6824]

Azhag is so much fun, I Allied with vlad and helped him take the entirety of the empire, then helped ghorst take the mountains of mourne, and allied with khemri. At that point I could just leave the world edge mountains and kill whoever I wanted because I was surrounded by allies

[@ponli7532]

a true puppet of Nagash.

[@scarletcroc3821]

Never enjoyed his campaign much because of Ungrim, thank you so much for the beginning guide

[@TisTheWay]

I'm excited to see what approach you take for Boris

[@piratepat44]

Thanks for continuing to make these daily vids Legend! Even if they were all made on the same day and just timed to upload like this, not sure if you did it like that... either way xD

[@alagass6466]

I believe he starts next to w Chaos Dwarf LL after next Xpac, might be worth revisiting this one in a couple weeks

[@phallocrat]

Make some NOOOISE!

[@Mrnamcak]

I am glad you are doing this for us❤ Thank you Legend ur legend 😅

[@antoniodecicco1207]

Azhag is my favorite greenskin LL, I decided to try your guide and it's gone well so far on very hard/ very hard. Didn't quite get lucky with as ungrim had 3 armies by the time turn 3 rolled around but I'm having a blast boxing with him 😅

[@getbigstayhungry]

Big fan of these and the tips of how to handle the lords. Maybe Skrag the Slaughterer or Count Noctilus?

[@jarrlaxle]

I've been waiting for Skrag. It's such a nightmare start until you figure out a solution, curious what Legend did. Mine is to take Belegar's province capital and then trade it back to him for a non aggression pact, otherwise I get crushed by the ordertide.

[@MrPink-qe1rm]

Not a bad idea to ally vlad. Drycha as well if she will go for it reasonably. Just my own playstyle of course, i enjoy the +40 relations with vamps for a different ork experience.

[@josgretf2800]

Im not good at the game, but with Azhag I built one of my biggest empires and I really enjoyed it. All the mountains, darklands and badlands under my control. He's a lot of fun for newbies like me

Would love a Noctilus review, seems fun in IE.

[@rabgix8805]

This has been my favorite series

[@christianehn5495]

I agree with W. van Burik that the campaign 'guides' are a bad move. I think the problem is even worse than he writes - the play suggestions somtimes don´t actually work or are a bit sloppy. For example, Legend says you have enough movement to attack Laurelorn with Khazrak on turn 1 without mentioning you need to detach the bray-shaman to do that (which IMO means it´s not really intentional for you to do it). As for Azhag, when I play as the video suggests, Ungrim does not force march into my territory, he goes back to Gnashrak´s Lair if you withdraw. (It´s possible I have the army in slightly the wrong position, but it happened more than once). If the video suggests a move it should IMO also show it, and show it working. And in any case, specific suggestions dependent on certain exact movement and recruitment may very well not survive patches. Also, personally I don´t WANT tips and tricks in campaign review videos. It reminds me of the Civ 6 fandom site, which is a really bad (read: much much worse) offender when it comes to unsolicited gameplay advice. I want to be able to enjoy a LoTW video without it going "oh and here´s this trick move". Put that stuff in a separate video. I think it´s clear that Legend has more fun and it´s less stressful to put out these videos than streams, and it´s nice to see, but I would prefer less pointers.

[@dcchillin4687]

Amusing to watch these reviews go from 2min overviews to 10min start guides. Not complaining, but may be time to bring back the first turn guides

[@JL-ti3us]

Hey Legend, just wondering, would be inclined to rank all legendary lord equipment by category? Like one tier list for all Legendary Lord weapons another for armour and so on and so on?

[@simoncodrington]

Like your little intro discussing what you'll do for the first x turns. That might be a good mini series if you can jump through the first 5 or so turns and highlight what's the best steps to take

[@OldBaldWookiee]

Now legend .. I know you hate the dark elves ...but I'd love to see your take on a rakarths campaign.

[@Boingy420]

Did you do a campaign review for Settra yet? I think you need more Settra.

[@ragnarosdanneskjold3743]

Thanks for the breakdown Legend, love these videos. Do you know if the "affects allies in rage(all)" effect on his quest armor includes Azhag himself? Is that the case with all of these aoe buffs?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

99% of the time it also affects the character casting the ability

[@ragnarosdanneskjold3743]

@@LegendofTotalWar Thanks!

[@DoctorCurse]

I love Azhag, such a fun start, so many gits to slaughter.

[@desfefe]

I find that all the greenskins have become really fun in WH3 now. The crap stacks perform so much better now, and dont route as easily.

[@DoctorCurse]

@@desfefe I got a bunch of events one game that stacked loads of leadership and had orc boyz with more guts than the stunties, had like 80 odd leadership, they performed surprisingly well. Back in wh2 that would’ve been a detriment cause of how bad being in melee was. I still respect the ranged meta but man I love that the black orcs and even big uns are actually good now.

[@benjaminsorensen9334]

What are your thoughts on Cylostra? Vampire Coast wedged between Alith Anar and Taurox seems ugly.

[@MrMagpie36]

Teaming up with vamps as azhag is so fun, and getting the maximum settlement sacking % on a rich one can bank roll you for aaages.

[@5964lego]

say: "i love you wankers" as an ending sometime please

[@nachos34961]

Played as Nagash's green pawn not long ago on usual VH/VH and had quite a lot of fun first 20 turns. Aroung turn 20 I wiped all the dwars I could and went for green prophet. After I had Scarsnik and him I got bored and quit. Best campaign if you wanna wipe dwarfs from the face of the Old World fast.

[@eriklechman3418]

Did you make Khalida review alredy ? Or is she not that different from Settra ?

[@01Durhamguy]

Is Azhag wearing a backwards red baseball cap when your zoomed in close on him in the beginning? lol

[@Lark88]

I wonder what you think about Queen Khalida.

[@p1553d0f]

I like Azhag because I don’t have to worry about dealing with Vlad

[@thecommuterzombie]

Is he any good in a fight on his Wyvern now? In WH2 he seemed to lose in melee to Gelt on his Pegasus.

[@Largecow_Moobeast]

This is one of my fav greenskin campaigns not sure why.

[@ap_ace7237]

What I love about azhag is that he sits between grimgor and skarsnick so in my campaign I was able to easily confederate both factions. Fastest I've ever expanded in a greenskins campaign

[@Hoddevik92]

It is my favorite campaign since you got so many options. You can confederate crooked moon early since he is closeby and the options to travel everywhere even though the long victory wants you to smash Reikland is really nice

[@MrVinny333]

He started at Karak Ungor in WH2.

[@JManAboutTown]

Was going to point this out, but at the same time his new start is preferred since it's the province capital

[@oORoOFLOo]

Never played azhag but he seems pretty fun, whats surprises me the most is his gear being this powerfil, his black orcs are stronger than grimgors. Also he has nice position sorta in middle between grimgor, skarsnik and warrzug. Overall seems to me as super strong campaign.

[@Romczy]

Yeah, the bonuses grimgor gives to black orcs are laughable

[@Romczy]

I must notice however that Azhag does not boost BO at all

[@forsenlevel2425]

Rakarth next maybe?

[@rogergraf1634]

I've to confess, i never tried Azhag. But his Campaign sounds pretty fun.

[@signoreVanici]

I am not going to play Azhag until Chaos Dwarfs appear on the map, but still - this is a very good guide for start :) Edit (Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs has been released): I started the campaign a few times and Legend was right, but it's worth bearing in mind that Ungrim probably didn't watch this review. He chased after my second lord once, but only brought back 2 Slayers. My poor archers had to cut through the armor of the rest of his army. The second time he actually took a lot of Slayers with him, but... he didn't chase my army, after my retreating he just went south. And I thought he was waiting for me in ambush, so I did the same. Very frustrating ;)

[@shorewall]

Same. I'm staying away from playing in the world's edge mountains for that reason.

[@roarwestby3861]

Thanks again Legend :)

[@Rexalt]

Plz remake the first 10 of these to be more detailed and my life will be complete

[@kaadod]

6:25 but icon tooltip says it is 100% armor-piercing, no?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

overcasted does 3x the damage of regular cast. both are 100% AP.

[@kaadod]

@@LegendofTotalWar I thought overcast deals the same AP damage, extra damage is just normal, so even not overcasted it is useful against high armor units like dwarfs in general. But regardless, I agree that 24 damage is not as impactful as 72, and for whatever reason when I first watched this I somehow heard that only at overcasting you get 100% ap, my bad. :)

[@skupipup]

Iron hat best hat

[@adamszczerba9116]

"Azhag iz hea"

[@XUndergroundRap]

I've noticed most all the hero items from Twwh 1 are superior to the expansions

[@kriegaone3658]

Definitely would use Rhox's "Feature for Azhag: Wandered and Lost" mod if playing Azhag

[@torquevonthorne948]

Ogres in the World's Edge mountains? Other greenskins or skaven would have been more lore friendly Glad Kazid Irkulaz has changed province from Peak Pass to the Northern WEM, anyway It doesn't make sense it has become the provincial capital

[@oORoOFLOo]

The strategy worked greatly, t30 confederated #1 wurzag and quit the campaign.

[@MTREDHEADS]

do clan pestilence

[@juakingsf]

Livestream Azhag men

[@Romczy]

Boo

[@Choisaikendo]

These campaign reviews are becoming more and more like your guides, and to be frank, I don't think this is a development for the better. Sure, it's what you are personally good at, but make them campaign guides, not reviews. Your initial ones were really good primers: they told you what you get of a campaign, what you get out of it, if it's fun, and maybe what is in need of an update (but that's pushing the limits of what should be in a review). They were short (2 to 4 minutes) and told you what you would get out of playing that particular faction. These guides, on the other hand, tell you how you should play. However for a review, such information is superfluous. Reviews tell you about the experience and are descriptive. Campaign guides are about optimization and are prescriptive. A review does not logically contain prescriptive elements, unless it is absolutely essential for the experience, e.g., your entire campaign experience hangs in the balance between good and bad if you play it a certain way. The optimal first turns strategy is not such information. Initial setbacks can be overcome, and the player will easily discover this themselves, so it's unlikely to be relevant in the first place. I suggest to drop any campaign guide information, and set a time limit of 4 minutes for these videos. As hard as it is considering where your strengths are, I think the quality of these videos would improve if you make a separate video in which you *do* tell about such video, and then you can refer to that video in your reviews. Think of a video that tells you what the experience is, and if you're interested in this campaign, there's another video they can watch to see how they should get started and an in-depth explanation of the campaign mechanics.