Balthasar Gelt's Alchemical Romance in Cathay is GOLD! NEW GOLD WIZARD HERO! Exploring the Changes!

[@erikbuchsenschu1645]

So Gelt basically has three campaigns now. One in Imperium, one with Cathay and one against Cathay. And on top he becomes one of the strongest Magical Factions in the Game. I love it.

[@draconomega]

This update honestly deserves another trailer with how much it's bringing. I am so hyped bois, I am so happy it's real and it's good :"D

[@draconomega]

This is CA when they try. This is what happens when "upper managment" doesnt get in the way. *WE* *WON* . And we get to rip what we saw :'b . Thank you all for fighting, and thanks to those on CA who were wise enough to surrender.

[@giuseppe9653]

The entire cinematic is Gelt walking on foot towards Cathay

[@InquisitorThomas]

The dislike came from Andy.

[@chrisnicholson5974]

Hahahaha

[@Marko-wv2dx]

Who is Andy?

[@trianqren127]

@@Marko-wv2dx andy deez...

[@Creticus]

@@Marko-wv2dx Andy Law. Guy hates Gelt for some reason.

[@dreamwar1586]

@@Creticus Good. He is dumb.

[@kapitankapital6580]

I love the idea of sending Gelt off to Grand Cathay to help out Zhao Ming. Imo they're a natural pairing, and it helps give a little more fluff to the unique identity of the Western Provinces.

[@InquisitorThomas]

I agree, but I wish that Gelt started to Zhao’s West instead, we can help Gelt carve out a safe caravan route through the Gnobler Country and the Darkland, and deal with the threat of Necromancy and Demons to the South. With this Starting position Gelt is going to take over Cathayan cities and potentially our entire coast, or he’s going to get helplessly stuck in the South.

[@ΩΜΣΔ]

@@InquisitorThomas gelt is now right next to ghorst and kugath

[@TheNzFox]

it is also lore....well at lest adjacent, as he was forced into exiled after using necromancy to defend the Auric Bastion so the idea of him going on a enforced sabbatical fits

[@ezkiller93]

They moved Gelt out of the Empire mainland? Unforgivable. How is he going to welcome us to Estalia, gentlemen?

[@викторавилов-ь8х]

I hope there will be a mod that returns him back. I don't care.

[@taintedgoose9138]

No bro, now he’s fighting the Vietcong 😂

[@chalzen1012]

Welcome to Cathy, gentlemen!

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

Welcome to Khuresh, Gentlemen!

[@Legion12Centurion]

@@викторавилов-ь8х You can just choose to teleport back in an event. You get an option to go back to the empire (and give back your new territory in Cathay to one of the dragons) or stay in cathay and play from there.

[@cscotch1127]

"My Alchemical Romance" I AM DEAD

[@trashynecromancer1155]

This. This is the update we've been waiting for.

[@multiversepatriot3148]

"Who's your favorite Pokemon master?" "Balthesar Gelt." "Wha-" "Bright Wizard, i choose you! Burn down his walls, towers and siege supplies!"

[@zacharyjackson1829]

i choose Amber Wizards. Give me my gryphon mounts, 2 free summons of great hawks, and the ability to snipe single entities with the Amber Spear in the sky

[@Brutalyte616]

...So what you're saying is that Gelt has gone from having more money and bullets than God to STILL having more money than God and becoming the Patron Saint of Wizard Pride Month.

[@Eliwood29]

Sotek if you have access to talk to anyone at CA ask them to rename Simon warner (gelts starting hero) to Andrew Law for reasons...

[@InquisitorThomas]

YES!!!

[@jackpapercut2699]

Probably just a generic character name, but giving Gelt a unique Empire Captain or maybe even a Witch Hunter by that name to start off with might be fun.

[@DrRipper19]

Ah wow, four captains could turn a cav-heavy empire army into a real force to be reckoned with now.

[@linussyren9221]

Recruit a few Bretonian high tier knights and that be stomping.

[@loremasterofsotek]

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!

[@RynoxTheOne]

I'm pretty sure the post-battle replenishment action has always existed, you just needed to fight vs another non-chaos human faction (basically not norsca) such as Empire and Bretonnia.

[@LordEsel88]

It's cool that in the faction video of Balthasar Gelt they have changed the buildings in the background to Cathayan ones. Nice touch.

[@Olochgu]

WELCOME TO GRAND CATHAY, GENTLEMEN!

[@misas8542]

Teclis's bug eyed face right now must be priceless!

[@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs]

The fact that Gelt goes to be buddies with Zhao Ming is pretty cool, since the Iron Dragon likes to interact with humans more than his siblings and they have similar interests in alchemy. It's probably the reason why he is my favorite of the Cathayan Dragons so far, though Li Dao seems just as promising in my eyes. Balthasar getting to deal with the House of Secrets would also be interesting.

[@InquisitorThomas]

I’m honestly surprised that the House of Secrets isn’t already a landmark.

[@noahandrulis9077]

@@InquisitorThomasit’s because technically it doesn’t exist, since Alchemists are technically illegal in Grand Cathay.

[@stefankrzeminski]

Helm of Discord and The Other Trickster's Shard on turn 1. That's lucky.

[@CFX992]

I am a little disappointed that the captain did not get a demigryph mount.

[@zacharybecker8228]

yeah jsut like i wish the high elf noble would get a griffon instead they gave it to the princes like 1 level underneath getting a freakin dragon

[@sherkhead9638]

Great mod for that Karl and two captains flying their beastly mounts surveying the battlefield waiting for the right time to attack.

[@1YCARADOFACAO]

I think captains couldn't ride demigryphs ever though

[@GutsOfRivia]

Im a bit annoyed Franz didnt get his dragon.

[@zacharybecker8228]

@@GutsOfRivia id at least like it as a one of ror or a summon if nothing else

[@TheRuff112]

also notice gelt starts with a hellstorm instead of a mortar

[@Hazel_Velociraptor]

Just want to say, Storm of Renewal is limited to grounded target on current patch as well, found this out when I got scammed out of my heal as Be'lakor'd Changeling.

[@adrienwarad]

finally balthasar gelts some love

[@zacharyjackson1829]

my plan is to use Battlesay's gimmick with Gelt's return to the empire buff to go straight to marienburg (id rather leave altdorf to franz) and take it and use the population surplus cheese to abandon and retake the minor areas to get Marienburg immediately to population 5 and enjoy a fun new campaign with the empire as marienburg's protector

[@Micktrex]

These legacy updates in this DLC give me hope that when CA do update the Lizardmen their mechanics will be far more interesting. Kroq Gar having his own mechanics like Gelt would be great though I have no idea what that would look like. Specific upgrades for Oldbloods? Pimp my Carnosaur for Grymloq? Either way I'm excited for the future of this game!

[@dropkickpiper3204]

I love that this gives immortal empires a story campaign, even if it’s just for the starting reason. It’d be great if they kept doing that.

[@7337simi]

very, VERY cool. New mechanic as FLC, great. An event with the Bromance to live that Immortal Empires Trailer scene you have on the thumbnail. And event he opportunity to come back to the Empire with the old mechanics. Great job at CA.

[@Horaxto3]

Holy shit that is an insane update.

[@FUNBadTime]

I feel like I would enjoy returning to the empire as Gelt greatly. It almost feels like the germanic tribes in Attila TW, where you just take all your stuff and set up shop somewhere else where you can find a place. It feels like a great emergent gameplay element too, since I can come and look at how well the empire has been doing in my absence and whatever invasion force I feel is most dangerous, I will help deal with and take its regions for myself.

[@anon2752]

WIth Gelt starting there i wonder if they'll be opening up Ind and Khuresh as starts for the Monkey King and Li Dao.

[@Riddick608]

This gives me much hope for Teclis 🤩

[@Mrspopcornpops]

Like how they changed his selection intro to have a Cathay building in the backround

[@anthonylittle666]

CA is really delivering with this DLC and update. Hopefully going forward this is the kind of content we can expect with the DLCs and legacy faction reworks.

[@marcbeans3057]

Great video Loremaster, thank you. If you have any contact with devs, I noticed in this video that Gelt and the Gold Wizard had Mastery of the Elemental Winds before you got the unique landmark building for it. Seems an issue.

[@Slie1988]

The fact they changed his background in the character select screen is amazing...

[@1YCARADOFACAO]

I'm the type of guy that never really disliked the original empire rework, i found it awesome and the new threats for the empire just made it better. I was satisfied with it and missed just little thinfs like the colleges of magic. Now that this is here i can say for certain the empire may not be my favourite race (that being Cathay) but it will for sure be my favourite campaign

[@zacharyjackson1829]

i just didnt like the facr that a lot of the Empires mechanics often had you hardly interacting with them. Prestige? you hardly ever use it except for boring pop-ups and when do you EVER need to boost relations with empire factions? Imperial Authority? a game of catch-up that pretty much means you avoid confederating and you dont want to own province capitals because you want to restore factions and get more authority which means you dont get the special regiments. Combine that with the fact that 2 out of the 4 empire legendary lords feel like homeless wash-ups that dont know where to go or what to be and you have a race desperate for improvement

[@ShadowofNox948]

I'm very excited to see what they eventually come out with for the Lizardmen updates.

[@SoulRuninFree]

I think this might be my favorite rework they have ever done for a character/faction.

[@TheSakurambou]

The reworks look really good so far. Will probably do 3 empire campaigns to try it all out. Hoping for a Hat Trick with the Dwarfs so I can alternate them.

[@NotNewButYork]

All the other wizards get their cataclysm spells for 2 turns. Gelt just gets his cataclysm spell. Franz seems to be the only one who has access to the Runefangs (except probably Toddy's one since you can confed him). Would be nice if they equipped them on all the electors, so that should you confed them, you get their unique item too. This shouldn't take too much unique power away from Franz' faction, since he will still be the only one to get the faction buffs each electoral position provides. On the other hand, Franz is the only one who actually needs to confed (or conquer) them to get the State Troop units he buffs, while at the same time being focussed on diplomacy and supporting the counts in keeping the Empire intact. He should probably gain access to these units (and maybe the buffs) at high fealty or upon establishing an alliance? Wonder what changed in Volkmar and Wulfhart's tech trees and campaigns.

[@martinjurco1814]

Thank you for great video :D It was nice to see a detailed deep dive into new mechanics for Gelt.

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

I wish that returning to the Empire had a follow-up dilemma where you get to choose where you spawn in the Empire. It would be nice to be able to spawn further East, to start off by reclaiming Imperial Territory from Vlad or something like that.

[@liamcullen3035]

My guy, that thumbnail is INCREDIBLE 😂❤

[@boyanpenev9822]

The empire mechanics look a lot more solid. CA still seems to have no idea what to do with the detachment system from the tabletop, but the captain now serves a better support role. A pity that wizard lords, hurricanums etc did not come with the "Magic and gunpowder" and seem to have been too much trouble or saved for a fourth DLC.

[@xPureAndTheTaintedx]

Sir, a Helstorm Rocket Battery is certainly an upgrade from a motar in Gelts starting army.

[@houlinfan7835]

wish there is a way for Karl Franze to confederate all the empire legendary lord factions through his imperial perteige systems kinda like how he used to confederate Gelt, volkmar never want to confederates he either just die too early or controls a couple princes and never accept confederation, hopefully after the update confederating gelt and nuln wouldn't be a pain in the ass

[@guimts8881]

In theory, if you were to gift one of the elector capitals to Gelt, Wulfhart or Volkmar (Elspeth already starts with an elector capital), they should become an elector count, no idea wether that's gonna be the case or not. In the new Prestige system, Karl can just confed any elector count with ten fielty if he's got enough Prestige, at the cost of all other elector counts losing 2 fielty. I mean, it's a bit cheesy, but it could work, I have no idea wether this will be feasible in the rework.

[@zacharyjackson1829]

i find the game unplayable without mods and I've had the Recruit Legendary Lords mod for so long i forgot that it wasn't a vanilla feature.

[@2Scribble]

"Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen. I will not lie: the chances of your survival are small. Some may even turn against your friends as living corpses. But you have my word, that I will use my arcane gifts to ensure your bodies are given unto Morr's garden. This is the greatest reward, more than even gold, for the fate of your soul is an eternal concern. Now come, follow me: Strike down the undead that rise against us, allow me to find this eldritch amulet! I ask not for my own selfish studies, but for the good of the Empire!" ~ Balthasar Gelt

[@RoninX33]

I hope the lizards get their campaigned overhauled, everyone else is getting juicy stuff.

[@Micktrex]

Our time to bok will come.

[@guimts8881]

I belive they will be dealing with the most clunky races first, such as ogre kingdoms and poor old tzeentch, not to mention kislev still feels like hell to play. Cathay feels better now, but the monochrome twins could use some love, especially Zhao Ming, he needs to reciprocate Gelt's bromance, and he needs to ditch the great bastion mechanic for a mountains of mourn mechanic. And by that I mean changing the endless kurgan hordes for some dealings with the Ogres in exchange for some cool goodies, giving the option to ally with goldtooth or turn him into an enemy.

[@loremasterofsotek]

All things in good time

[@wombataldebaran9686]

Trust in the Great Plan

[@SmallFOV]

Wow that Shadow cataclysm spell looks so cool

[@shaydumaargaming4993]

I approve this update, hope we get to see other Lords who moved from their main locations receiving better benefits, like my boy Alberic de bouderloux, has abilities that make him great in sea battles and trades...places him in lustria where cavalry is bad there xD

[@firepengu7410]

The return home option says that you transfer all CATHAY territories to Zhao ming. So what if you, early in the campaign, go a little east a capture a settlement in mountains of mourn or near Ghrost? would that enable you to keep a foothold near catha (and potentially trade settlements to get that landmark back)?

[@linussyren9221]

Im also curious if AI gelt and iron will go together again ghorst and Kugath instead of Iron dragon being ghorst BFF like it usually goes now.

[@DelightfullyMADD]

My boi finally getting the respect the Supreme Patriarch deserves. Gelt's been one of my favorites in Warhammer for a long time, so it's awesome playing through his new campaign and enjoying his new faction mechanic, which I'm not gonna lie is pretty busted... and I wouldn't have it any other way. It's a ton of fun, especially running an army full of wizards with a line of handgunners and artillery and just blasting everything until nothing but a glassed crater remains. Long live the Supreme Patriarch!

[@Kilen_BE]

Choices on the campaign map are interesting, it’s a nice addition to the game 👍

[@mikelhalsey5210]

Balthasar Gelt finally has access to the Shadow Wizard Money Gang

[@SleepyFen]

Saving the Empire is always the correct choice. But giving up Mastery of the Elemental Winds on every wizard is a steep price to pay... Also, seeing the captains and wizards updated makes me wonder if the other heroes and lords got updated too?

[@michaelbraddock467]

39:41 Gold wizard doesnt know how to ride a horse, he literally stands at this poor creature( maybe because of the teleporting). And BTW Empire can take captives after battles( in the current patch) when fighting against human races.

[@loremasterofsotek]

Good old Early Access build

[@kylewolf740]

I hope khuresh gets filled in eventually, the blank spot left on the map annoys my puzzle piece brain. Naga racepack pls

[@TheMarcman77]

I hope you do another new landmark video you can never have enough landmarks

[@eoghanwatt8029]

this is way better than I expected, and everyone gets it regardless of the new DLC. very good

[@CrimsonLord224]

The colleges of magic kind of blew away my expectations. I was thinking something like a reskinned Kislev ice court recruiting, but this is way more interesting.

[@gamerz1172]

honestly the dillemas with Zhao ming remind me of a Three kingdoms campaign where they have story events fire off

[@hollow8136]

Thanks for the great overview Sotek! Not sure if you can answer this, but has there been any animation updates for any LLs with this free update? Similar to how they gave Archaon a refresh with the WoC rework? I thought Gelt was pretty deserving of one in particular and this felt like a great opportunity for one.

[@jobvermuyen5382]

Two questions, it seems like the cataclysm spells cost 20 wom each, is that true in battle? Or are they free army abilities? And are the cataclysm spells also changed for the blue scribes?

[@Nephlyte348]

So excited for this!! Love Gelt but hated that he was basically an Elector Count which never made any damn sense. This is great!

[@Canuovea]

This is basically three campaigns for Gelt.

[@aidancampbell5644]

It is kinda funny that Balthazar Gelt’s campaign lets you emulate the British.

[@Many_Bones]

Have all wizards in gelts army and thundercunt a entire region on his lonesome

[@mp5284]

I’ve always thought that it’s really the free content that sells the paid content for tww. It’s using development time to not only add new content but also improve older content which keeps it selling and competitive as the games develop. All the new units are great but it’s the constant improvements to older content that really keeps the game great and makes the content worth buying

[@mp5284]

Really hope they lean into giving more cataclysm spells in immortal empires and unique magic buffs. Especially for zteentch as kairos feels like a great but not top tier magician. Maybe they could change the useless cult destruction option to change all your armies to having maxed out winds of magic and access to the cataclysm spells for a few turns?

[@Auvinius]

Vell, vell, vell... Cathay might soon haff a new Emperor it vould seem, but not von of dragon-kind, nein. He vill be somezing much more gloriouss! All hail ze Golden Emperor!

[@rocketroux5838]

Am I to understand that Knights of Morr are both a normal unit and an elector count unit now ? They did not renamed the Elector count one to a lesser knightly order ? That seem like an hard thing to miss...

[@rabblerouserorc8649]

Zhao Ming and Gelt bromance is real. I would throw so much money for a book of them just hanging out, fighting some Skaven, talking alchemy shop, and bitching about Yuan Bo or Volkmar. Also this Gelt rework will do so much wonders with the IE Expanded mod where he can venture down into Ind...

[@GutsOfRivia]

Glad Gelt wont be overshadowed by Elspeth in terms of magic. I mean he is the head of the collage so he should be the magic guy of the empire.

[@ghostlyswat12]

Going home sounds good in theory due to money etc but if the empires doing well you’ll have nowhere to set up base and will spend a bit running around trying to find somewhere Or the empire could be doing trash and your have plenty of options Personally I think staying and allying with the big boi in Cathy is cool

[@gsauwce5488]

Can you please show us Zhao Mings campaign and if there are interactions??

[@Blecco]

Remove fear and terror also makes them susceptible to it. So good

[@Spenglenoodle]

29:45 this is an MCR reference btw if anyone doesn't know

[@lorenzolupusdei8372]

Yes, off course Zhao would skip familly dinner to crash with Gelt at Greasus place.

[@simondiebolt5354]

They said the updates were substantial, and they delivered, this looks potentially like the best Patch/DLC of TW3, maybe even TW2. The hype is real!

[@КонстантинГребенков]

Can't wait for Tarriff to make a lot of videos on this one.

[@charlieawerbuch5352]

Man, I was hoping the hero skill tree updates would be more indepth. It's bullshit that basically all heroes don't need skill points after rank 20 because you have obtained everything that matters.

[@Living_with_Narcissists]

These mechanics all make perfect sense for the only wizard Lord in the empire... just in time for him to not be that anymore. Sorry, I'm just salty that this is coming just after I finished an ultimate victory on IE where I specifically was playing a Balthazar Gelt with one of each wizard in his army, so that I had each lore of magic!

[@Eliwood29]

I said they would move him to that exact settlement a few days ago in the discord lol

[@InquisitorThomas]

And I said it was a bad idea, and I still think it’s a bad idea.

[@Cyiel568]

My question is : what does his long campaigns looks like ? Because one way or another it will be a pain the ass except if they change it based on the final choice which would be cool but i don't have any hope about that.

[@DakotaDean-cd3zg]

Sotek, can you say if any update has been given to the generic empire general, Ive felt that for a long time he's always been significantly outclassed by the huntsman general and the arch-lectors.

[@landeler8888]

Does the Elector Count Troops still take 10-15 turns to recruit a single unit?

[@SilentGhostSG]

i haven't had TWW3 installed since the SoC debacle, didn't buy the DLC for the first time in forever either but these FLC and DLC updates and content releases have my faith slowly renewing in CA. I'm still not sure if ill come back to the series with this DLC release but they've at least made me more confident that at least some of their... questionable decisions weren't their choice or at least not entirely. CA still have the magic when they want/get the leash to use it but im not sure if this new vigour is temporary still.

[@chalzen1012]

I can't wait for this expansion... I'm gonna have trouble deciding between a dwarf campaign or an empire one...

[@daangoes121]

Why not both?

[@ThatsOk83]

I see Nurgle (greatest of them all) is missing here

[@chalzen1012]

@@ThatsOk83 agreed the stinky bois are the best of chaos... I just don't really like the maggot lord all that much...

[@TrueLegateDamar]

Only minus is having 'New Formulations' be limited to buffing Hellstorms and nothing else.

[@TrapsterJ]

So he doesn’t have any quest battles anymore? There’s no quest battle where Zhao Ming and Gelt can team up against an enemy? I guess they wouldn’t bring back the voice actors for this update, would they?

[@quakdoktor5351]

Was gelts character picker animation always with a cathay castle in the background

[@fidelcashflow4940]

You think they will eventually add wizard lords as FLC? It is a little weird that Empire still doesn't have them.

[@Johnnythefirst]

This looks really really good. I'm curious about the mechanics Franz will get.

[@katchinska]

shouldnt high elves have access to cataclysm spells too? Atleast teclis.

[@emilsoderman3691]

This looks fantastic. Now they just need to update Teclis to keep pace.

[@tonarinookami]

They need to do something for the High Elves now. As the High Elves taught humans how to be mages....

[@Dan-vo7vc]

So, if Elspeth confederates Gelt, and he has an amethyst wizard equipped with that Shyish item....

[@jasonquigley2633]

Wow. Balthasar might have the best campaign this patch...

[@JPereir4]

Am I the only one that feels we dont have nearly enough chaos aligned enemies in or near Grand Cathay? Order aligned out here racing to fight the first enemy they can find :/ Curious which remaing Legendary Lords chaos aligned could be put there?

[@fallenswan1670]

Looks nice, but two main questions are: 1) how much this effect on game balance, and 2) how AI can handle this system?

[@ninsanity8184]

It's that smile. That damn smile.

[@berendvanbeerschot1472]

Is the nemesis crown gonna give you access to these spells?

[@GutsOfRivia]

Im kinda worried now that since Gelt is far away and not witin the Imperial Authority system thats its fuctionally impossible to confederate him as Karl or Elspeth with out some major campaign gymnastics...