Campaign Difficulty Tier List Total War: Warhammer 3

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Tier list for Total War: Warhammer 3 ranking the difficulty of each Legendary Lord's Campaign in Immortal Empires. Let me know in the comments whether you agree or disagree.
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[@LegendofTotalWar]

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[@Garret007]

Your mic sounded quite rough here during the rating. You should definitely check that out Legend, I got a headache halfway through the video. Hope for you it's just settings and not the mic itself!

[@Caveman62]

Hei, can you put in time stamps if not in this video but many in other similar videos?

[@rushi5638]

Now that the DLC is out would you change the placement of any of the new lords?

[@Chaos_Cultist]

So how would you rate the New legendary lords now that you had a Chance to play them?

[@watwatindbat2378]

The fact that you mistook Settra... Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds... and many, many more... for Khatep... is disappointing...

[@dylanscheck7359]

LegendofTotalWar should bow to Settra the Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds and beg for his forgiveness for this heretical mistake.

[@Elzeoo]

JESUS! No way he actually has that many titles??

[@XellosDarkSlayer]

@@Elzeoo Not only he does have those titles, it's not even a full version. According to tabletop, Settra got so many titles you need TWO HOURS to read them all.

[@Th1sUsernameIsNotTaken]

@@XellosDarkSlayer, Settra out here trying to give Khaleesi a run for her money lmao

[@Elzeoo]

@@XellosDarkSlayer That is one hell of a display of power, lmao!

[@DaemonPrince]

1:42 Wood elves 6:35 Warriors of Chaos 15:03 Vampire Counts 19:49 Vampire Coast 23:38 Tzeentch 27:10 Tomb Kings 31:55 Slaanesh 33:05 Skaven 39:00 Ogre Kingdoms 40:52 Nurgle 44:04 Norsca 45:49 Lizardmen 52:25 Kislev 56:11 High elves 1:03:53 Khorne 1:05:34 Greenskins 1:09:44 Cathay 1:11:59 Empire 1:16:12 Dwarfs 1:20:51 Dark elves 1:25:41 The mighty DANIEL! 1:26:21 Chaos Dwarfs 1:28:34 Bretonnia 1:31:15 Beastmen 1:33:29 Omens of Destruction Lords DLC

[@clintcarmichael6935]

Ty!

[@easytanksgaming3238]

You have the official grace from the Court of the Phoenix-King

[@georgeliu1149]

Thanks

[@OllieTurner-h6x]

THIS ACTION DOES HAVE MY CONSENT!!!

[@Syngrafer]

I find it slightly interesting that he made it in reverse alphabetic order this time instead of the usual

[@Mr.Rhox69]

The feeling of validation when Legend put a campaign you struggle with into the "Brutal" tier is better than dad coming home from the store after 30 years.

[@nicky640]

nice

[@skyrimjones1138]

Exaclty how I felt a noobie playing his first proper game today. Choose the fate weaver cause so many options and he seemed cool. Managed to conquer most of the map after a wobbly start, but man was it gratifying to know that my pain wasn’t just because I’m new to this!😅

[@Yorkshan222]

With Khalida, the assumption I've always had is "she'll get a rework when Neferata is added" with some special anti-vampire units and quests to wipe out vampires(possibly with a Tomb King rework that makes them less painfully slow to start). Maybe in another 7 years we'll have Neferata to justify that.

[@jonasfull]

I'd say her campaign becomes extremely easy if you manage to beat Thoreks army as soon as possible in a manual battle ( its obviously going to be a decisive defeat no matter what army u have on auto resolve tho of course )

[@AzoRevan]

@@jonasfull Yeah, HOW do you beat Thorek's army on manual? Anyway, there are other strategies than just banking on such a battle. The one I've found is go Doom Glade - Rasetra- Temple of skulls(!). If you do it properly, you beat Kroqgar to it, then you can trade it to Kroqgar for an alliance, or even in some cases a vassalage. After that, double back and try to snipe Granite Massif or Mahrak, and trade that to Thorek for at the very least a non agression pact, but military alliance and vassalage is possible. During this, the Silver host will likely take your capital, but once you've covered your flanks you can deal with them...and now it leaves you with two covered flanks leaving you to deal with Queek.

[@jonasfull]

@@AzoRevan Oh it was probably and still is the hardest manual battle of my life, the irony is i had to fight him like 6 times because everytime he runes away he fully replenishes without me being able to catch him so i had to defeat him many times until his actual army was gone. I really got the hang of killing him with my snake armies by then tho

[@Okoii]

I would say Golgcigarette belongs in Easy, the rework and especially his contract make him so insanely overtuned. Ironclaw's campaign can be very difficult sandwiched between Thorgrim Queek and Skragg i'd say top of hard Skulltaker is in the right place, Khorne is nuts strong

[@WinXitheP00h]

@@Okoii you agree with Malakai as an easy faction? I always get fucked by all the surrounding Chaos factions.

[@clockworks5069]

@@WinXitheP00h I haven't played much malakai, but I did find that you can just pack up and leave.

[@blurgalsklech2929]

@@WinXitheP00hMalakai is super easy for me. I can see where people don’t handle the multiple fronts well though.

[@johnpsmith8132]

@@blurgalsklech2929once I get in my province 4 Throgg armies, one Archaon, 2 Daniel’s and 2 Azazel. And I didn’t even started first adventure. That was my first time and I still struggle in the 4 playtrough: if I deal with one faction, the other came in and catch me by the balls. Sometimes Slavs can beat rat, but last time I shoud’ve do it myself, after defeating Azazel and now I get a rat invasion (I take the Hell pit, but the just jumped their 3 armies into my territory) and 3 chaos dwarfes armies coming in. Soon I expect Daniel came in and Throgg. My second playthrough I tryed to deal with Theogg, but he have too many territories after the first turn, when he confederates some monkeys, also get Azazel in my ass, at least Throt is killed by slavs, but patriarch occupied settlement in my region and I couldnt rebuy it. Third time I almost beat Throg but shoud’ve deal with fucking annoying Daniel, who sends his armies into my territory every 3-4 turns. I beat him, but decided to help that lost Slav guy and beat Epidimius and after that beat Archaon, but get again fucking invasion by norscans. I just haven’t money to defend my main province from 2 sides while main lord chilling in the chaos wastes. Also fucking Tzeentch switched my settlement with dark elves so I started war with them too. Ah, yes, in that campaign I decided to fight small tzeentch faction, but got invaded by small slaaneshi faction, almost constantly. Fuck this shit

[@blaksoulmc7863]

Skill issue ​@@WinXitheP00h

[@Zquirrelthing]

microphone tier list when?

[@tony-te7gd]

I thought it was just me

[@kl3664]

Brutal. Ears bleeding.

[@TheSpaceWomble]

Franz is a great campaign now BUT sadly it usually sucks towards the end because IF you do a good job then you keep Bret alive, Dwarfs alive, Ice Court alive and with you securing their backs they wipe out what should be your next threat so you are left there in the middle surrounded by allies ☹

[@fedorevdokimenko3978]

That means the campaign is easy. In fact Empire has great units, economy, tech tree, many allies. Only the total war beginner can lose such campaign.

[@kreuzrittergottes9336]

Literally what happened when I played elspeth. Had no enemies within 3 turns of my borders, like uggggg

[@tylerellis9097]

@@fedorevdokimenko3978No because Kemmler can gangbang you in the beginning. If the player isn’t experienced with Empire they can be getting ambush stack wiped by Khazrak and then declared on by all their neighbors 1 by 1 if on a higher diff. Late game total snore fest now yeah, it’s just a bad balance right now as is

[@Brother_O4TS]

At that point, I'll take a leaf out of Bretonnia's book and go on a crusade to either the Chaos Wastes or the Badlands

[@realxlogicx]

Easy solution, make war on allies

[@Cleanrotknight456]

There will be more tierlists soon, considering the upcoming dlc. I am so excited!

[@Iceman-135]

Audio is a bit scratchy in this one.

[@Cleanrotknight456]

I agree.

[@basinox]

Sounds a bit 2008e

[@TranquillShot]

Sounds like his cable needs a slight wiggle, that's all :)

[@дмитрогаркавченко-е6т]

Oh damn I thought those were my old bluetooth headphones dying on me! Thank you :D

[@mrbjorndekker]

Yep, it's the rat squeel, he must have been playing Ikit just before this one.

[@kentknightofcaelin4537]

Just remember, if your name isn't Legend, all of these are probably one tier lower.

[@caindis-abel-dhisbrother9601]

or his tier list is dogshit

[@Dropbare]

corner-camping do be like that

[@MrBlueSleeves]

If they're all a tier lower, then does that mean they're all the same tier still relative to each other?

[@hardcorelace7565]

​@@MrBlueSleeves relatively they remain constant, absolutely they all get harder.

[@thevermintide1290]

outside of warriors of chaos absolutely true, WoC are just a step above everyone else imo

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

legend grabbed the 2000s mic for this one 🔥🔥

[@willc1294]

I want him to do a video with his pre-puberty voice from back around 2013 😂

[@hyper_5pace902]

Bro finished puberty at 25 💀

[@ScentSense]

Isn't he like 35? How was he a prepube at 25 years old 😂😂

[@hyper_5pace902]

@@ScentSense One of the mysteries of the world. Legends voice aged 10 years between 2 particular videos if you go back far enough and it's hilarious

[@ClapYourHairFlip]

Thought I was going crazy 😂😂😂

[@AkaRystik]

For Malakai I totally understand people saying he has a rough time, because while I agree his faction mechanics make any threat easy to deal with its the fact that he is being attacked from so many different angles and its really hard to defend the incredibly spread out territory. Every time I try a Malakai campaign I usually get frustrated and quit because no matter what direction I focus on I will always have two or three enemies from different directions declaring war and moving in on me the moment I dont have an army defending by their border. Norsca coming from the west, demons north, chorfs east and rats to the south, area so spread out it takes multiple turns to get between settlements so when an enemy decides to declare on you they usually have a couple turns before you can respond. The last time I tried his campaign I started by crippling thrott and azazel so kislev could handle them, then while focusing on the chorfs epidemius come out of nowhere and backdoored me. Time before that I handled azazel and norsca while holding off the demons to the north and astragoth sent a pain train up the coastline to wreck me. Its just too hard to hold off so many major threats from so many directions.

[@thatdmguy4512]

Never feel bad about ur videos being long it really is a privilege to hear your thoughts on things like this

[@NotOfWomanBorn]

Love these tierlists! Can only imagine the massive effort that goes into these vids, even with Legend's years of experience with and knowledge of the game.

[@NuStiuFrate]

Hell yeah, i love tier lists. I don't have much to learn from disaster battles and stuff anymore but i never get bored of tier lists.

[@Cynane27]

I enjoy these tier list videos and usually find myself coming back to them.

[@bofad6074]

Dear ca: Please give Teclis the gelt treatment. Pimp our guy plz

[@anthroposmetron4475]

Desperately needs a skill tree rework. Only direct damage spell is chain lightning, crazy stuff.

[@MrBlueSleeves]

@@anthroposmetron4475 the skill tree is the least of his worries

[@olafthemoose9413]

​@@anthroposmetron4475huh? Is Flock of doom a joke to you?

[@gotmilk5899]

I mean I definitely agree but good lord would that make kairos’ start so much more difficult 😭

[@OllieTurner-h6x]

@@gotmilk5899 And it's already quite bad with no wall to back up against and Oxy with a good run up towards you.

[@sidders1943]

Just want to add that Hellebron might need to be bumped to brutal tier, because Valkia is really difficult to deal with early with the khorne DLC and she seems to double team you early with the other Norscan minor faction. Once you get past that it's not too horrible, but similar to playing Kairos you have to do some Confederation cheese with Ghrond to stop Valkia snowballing over you while you fight Sigvald. This also has the disadvantage of making Malekith hate you. After that, assuming you can keep Malekith off your back until you start beating on High ELves then the campaign gets much simpler.

[@liamjennings5199]

Katerina's campaign was a real slog for me. Every single regional enemy declared war on me from the start. I was fighting a never ending stream of defensive battles. I wasn't really able to seriously go on the offensive until around turn 90. Then I took great pleasure in cleansing chaos from the world.

[@moth7579]

I actually just use drukha every game in that region, lol. It's easy to force her into fight with someone if you give her land. Doing that forces her out of fighting empire and over allies as well so you get more friends on south border. Wth addition of malakai her campaign probably became much more easier

[@nim86p]

Kinda weird time for this tier list as a big patch comes in two days with 4 new factions, moving one faction and so on...

[@reddestliquid]

Given he has a sponsor, bet is he made the deal and video a while ago and uploaded it out of contractual obligation. Makes sense when you remember how late the DLC was finally announced.

[@friendofyoda5194]

Good work mate, can't believe I've been watching your content for almost 10 years now. Hope all is well for you!

[@Grivehn]

Belakor also has a ticking clock pertaining to when the High Elves will declare war on him. Since they share sea borders with Cothique, it pretty much always happens. And if one HE faction declares, the rest will follow, and as a Chaos faction, peace is just not an option. Like it or not, youre doing yourself a favor if you start a Belakor campaign by either helping out Nkari and take the donut -whilst he still lives - or just migrate from Albion to somewhere else. Either those or you'll have to be content with elves doing a D-day on Albion from time to time. Same goes for most baddie factions around Thorgrim and Ungrim. Dwarfs (even as AI) are extremely overpowered now, and seem to be even more so with Omens dlc. Mid/endgame stacks on turn 20ish... good luck fighting those with goblins, clanrats and skeletons. So if you play say Vlad, Skarsnik, Gorbad, Tretch, Astragoth, etc. do yourself a favor and rush the dwarfs before they get like 3 endgame stacks and will knock on your door, quite possibly when its inconvinient for you.

[@ambermurray2496]

I've never found high elves to be a problem at all with Belakor. I generally ignore them and if they declare war on me I can send a hero down and watch them and can always teleport back to my capital when I see them coming to me. I have ran multiple 100 plus turn Belakor campaign ands always ignored them, and never truly felt threatened by them.

[@woodplank212]

@@ambermurray2496 yeah agreed, some belakor campaigns i've done you can go 70+ turns without ever even meeting the High Elves if you push hard east into norsca for many easy dark fortresses. nkari rarely wins the donut but can always be revived

[@Scaphism36]

Would’ve loved it to see you invite people who had early access to collab with the tier list for the new stuff. Love the tier lists, just tickles my brain to see creators I like doing stuff together

[@RovalisGTO]

Something work mentioning in favor of Miao Ying is that the Northern Bastion wall-settlements significantly reduce the upkeep of the army garrisoned there… so you can pretty much just park a doomstack in each of them and hold for the entire game.

[@wt891]

Can’t wait for the next faction strength tier list!

[@RaveCoaster]

That audio took me back 15 years ago 😆😆 Jokes aside, great video!!

[@saintpres4ge533]

There is a cheese strat with Eltharion, if you capture the greenskin settlement in Ulthuan, you can choose the Expedition option, giving your capital to Tyrion, and gaining like 20k gold, but since your only settlement is still on Ulthuan you keep your 2 armies, allowing you to use that army to fight the green skins and secure a foothold on Ulthuan eventually either trading settlements to get back Tor Eyvress (however it's spelled) and carving into the badlands, using your army to reinforce Skarbrand as he fights orks allows you to chill and let him take all the damage then you fight him right after, and quickly take him out Confederating Tyrion or another high elf faction allows you to keep building up a home base while pushing into the badlands, it's more micro but allying with Settra means Araby generally is fine with you, allowing you to focus more on Greenskins and Skaven

[@33RoyCorpPor]

Great list and thank you for compiling! Just started a Bretonnia (Lady) campaign after Empire/Elspith and it's sooo much harder, I love all the extra reasons for your choices very informative.

[@jaredcullum117]

Kairos is actually really strong once you manage to get through the early game. I tried him recently, confederating Sarthorael on turn 3 with some diplomacy shenanegans. I got a little ballsy sending Kairos to the east while building up an army for Sarthorael at Fateweaver's Crevasse, but I managed to manipulate diplomacy and changing of the ways enough to keep Teclis and Oxyotl at bay. Very tricky campaign start.

[@synth712]

Karl Franz = Too Easy = Very Very Recomended for New Player

[@alessiobaccetti2235]

level easy is simple

[@judyhopps9380]

nah, because he'll have beastmen, undead, and goblins ignoring their nearest rivals and heading straight for him. Then Belakor will come in, and the Fecundites.

[@duncanwraight]

this may be true on lower difficulties but on legendary the sheer amount of enemies you have / armies you have to face is really brutal, especially in the early game and it's not a particularly satisfying campaign because if you do save the day, your allies then kinda surround you and give you not a lot to do

[@zilpzalpmukkefukk]

I'd say Karl is not beginner friendly anymore because of the quiet complicated faction mechanics. They are good and add depth, but might be overwhelming for new players.

[@synth712]

it is a sarcasm guys.. i said it because karl franz is hard but have a recomended icon.. many new players fall for this trap

[@tenkhong6967]

man , I still live in total war 2 and you content on it, that is very good

[@AshenVictor]

TBH I'd call Drycha's campaign easy. Nothing you meet in the first 30 turns has an answer for her starting Treeman so you can just fill up on cheap Dryads to buffer him and he'll solo all of Sylvania, and as soon as you complete your first ritual of rebirth you just sell all the settlements around your tree except Mordheim and the AI ignores it because it's not adjacent any more.

[@rajkaranvirk7525]

I think Drycha is a she

[@mace7077]

Really appreciated this video, taking a hiatus from tww3 while sfo updates and playing poe2. These long form videos are really pleasant to listen to while working, so thanks for that. I'm curious to see how thorgrims start goes with wurzag being further away and the new walmart gorfang rotgut in black crag now

[@awkwrdturtle9082]

Amazing video dude, I love these long tier lists that you make. Always super insightful and helpful.

[@nobodyimportant6582]

So, a quick tip from an ok player on the Ikit section around 35:00 Ignore Estalia. The beastmen are pretty stationary, and having the same enemy means you can get diplomacy with him. Miragliano has Pastures. Which means extra food. Snipe Tilea from Sartosa, take Miragliano before Sartosa can. Then you have not only a capital, but a good one that gives food. And if you settle it at Tier 3, then attack Sartosa, by the time you reach the end of the province you can get ratling guns. At that point, sail an army back to Estalia and fuck up Morghur, with another army to handle the Border Princes so you can get on Skrag's good side and focus on the real threat: Belegar the god damn unbreakable

[@kevingriffith6011]

The funny thing to me is how the prologue guides players into playing one of the hardest factions/campaigns in the game. Sure, some people will pick Daniel after the prologue, but I'd wager more people would be interested in running a Kislev campaign than a Daniel one after that lead-in.

[@DyingCatalyst]

1 hour and 38 minute legend video? Fuck yes

[@Kfo221]

Simp detected

[@gyletre675]

You could also make an update to the tier list somewhere down the line, moving around the relevant factions

[@ThePopeOfAwesomeness]

khalida was my first campaign ever. I had a lot of fun with her but it was a challenge

[@GrandMasterNutBusterYoda]

What makes Grom difficult is he's literally surrounded by enemies. Some being incredibly hard to deal with if you end up at war with them in the beginning. You have the potential to ally with Ikit claw but he just does his own thing rather than helping you deal with Britonia. He's def between hard and moderate due to his starting position and the enemies you have to face in order to secure your borders and claim a good chunk of land that won't get nabbed by some random legendary lord when you're not looking.

[@MorganF729]

I'm not even playing that much any more, but if you did one 60' tier list every day, I would still watch them twice. Love you mate!

[@wizardofwaz1175]

Man, I was re-listening to the campaign review playlist when this dropped, what a gift. Thank you Legend 🙏

[@SaruyamaPL]

Legend I appteciate the work you do! Thanks for hours of free content!

[@jshadowhunter]

I managed to finish a dwarf campaign for the 1st time using Belegar (post-update), and it was satisfying. The key to success is the approach: First, kill your starting enemy. When confederation for minor dwarf faction is offered, take it, as it will save you recruitment money and you get a grudgethrower. Move south and declare on vampire coast that should've finished destroying their starting enemy by now, bait them into an ambush. After the main army is gone, take the city they were stationed in, then provoke the Skavenblight into attacking as well and wipe them out. Focus on killing the vampire coast, and sell your conquered cities with bad climate to Border Princes for some good money and other benefits. Wait for Skragg and Wurzag to come your way as they're killing Border Princes and kill their main armies one after another. By now you have enough money for 2 armies, so make your way clearing out both ogres and greenskins. After that, it's a hop skip and a jump to Karak 8 Peaks. The grudge settler armies helped alot.

[@GuyTheSheep]

Great video, i wouldve liked to see a Warhammer 2 version of this. Also, the audio is scuffed and sounds like it was recorded ina box.

[@willc1294]

Maybe it was? Times are hard...

[@navox933]

I think he did something similar for wh2

[@hawkeye42152]

You should make a video on how to start a Daniel the Daemon prince campaign. I am pretty new and I am struggling with the start even with normal difficulty.

[@thomasfitzpatrick8077]

Just started a legendary difficulty Setra campaign. I managed to keep Skarsbrand from declaring war on me by allying myself to a nearby tomb king faction. He ended up going to war with the Black legion of Nagash, attacked their city, and lost. I was able to swoop in after and defeat skarsbrand and take the city without losing any important units. It's probably not a guaranteed strategy, but it worked out great for me. The ally was taken out shortly afterwards, and I'm now expanding west towards Arkhan the Black

[@niekriemens1316]

I still remember my first campaign in warhammer 2. Thought it was nice to start of woth belegar. Feels great to see it in the brutal range. Great vid!

[@spacesui-t]

The key to Kairos campaign is rushing force peace. That way, you only fight people you actually want to fight. Also Scarbrand might receive a slight nerf in the new patch because you have to spend skulls now to get free armies, no big deal late game, but early on it can matter.

[@SkullivanBones]

"the enemy simply doesn't travel by sea very often" *Meanwhile my friend who has to leave a garrison army every campaign because the maelstrom gets besieged every 3-4 turns* *1000 yard stare*

[@Richyrich531]

As Boris Ursus, I just followed some online advice & took out Archaeon in the first 15 turns- then it's a chocolate box of a campaign.

[@SpicyWaffles.]

the fact you called a noctilus campaign easy baffels me, taking the donut with him is hell

[@azraelangelusmortis2427]

I absolutely love him but he isn't easy You have to take out the donut because if you don't they will declare war on you and every 5 or so turns each elf faction will send 1-2 armies at the graveyard

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

You can do mega cheese with Nakai that actually turns your campaign into point-and-click adventure game. And it’s super easy to do, just don’t declare wars straight up, join other people’s wars. Your vassal can’t join, nobody can declare on them so they just become invincible and you can take enemy settlements for free. It’s hilarious to watch like 5 skaven armies running around Cathay trying to catch your armies and if they lose all settlements the AI just gives up.

[@danem.9402]

Just wrapping up my first ikit claw campaign this video came out at the perfect moment. RUN! RUN! MANTHINGS! SKAVENBLIGHT's GREATEST-BEST INVENTOR!

[@tobiasaberg8659]

I've always felt that Vlad/Isabella is tougher than Manny these days, and Kemmler is easily the thoughest of all vampire campaigns on higher difficulties (since a certain greenskin is coming for you asap with 2-3 armies of better quality). As manny on the other hand it's pretty easy to deter the dwarfs and everyone else is a pushover thanks to Manny being able to bully lords/SEMs with his spirit leech and crush everyone else in hand to hand. With skaven I honestly find Tretch being one of the easier lords. His army is just so powerful when ambushing and depending on how your neightbours go it's relatively easy to work out a non-aggression pact with enemies to your east and west (and having the ocean/nagashizzar to your south as a buffer).

[@dopaskillz]

kemmler is super easy, u just build cav building and go for winds of death, use it to rush the dwarfs, get gravesite, you are now snowballing hard with a solid army (even without a gravesite a vamp army with 6 black knights and casters can eat all their neightbors early)

[@Slie1988]

Would really like to see your take on Gorbad. I genuinely find his campaign rather hard.

[@Aumar58]

Really thanks for this legend quality video.

[@louiscypher7835]

Thank you so much for creating this list. I'm not exactly great at Warhammer (okay fine, I'm actually rather awful at the game), so it's nice to see which campaigns I can start with, and which campaigns I can work towards as I get better with the game. It's also nice to know that it wasn't just me; some factions are just harder to play as than others!

[@zanestearns2143]

For belakor I always bumrush sigvald and rampage across the northern wastes, you might lose about a turn smashing sigvald up crossing the sea but you get a fortress and a new legendary lord instantly.

[@woodplank212]

belakor campaign is great, he has so many early turn options. you can also try sending the exalted hero through the portal turn 1 to drycha and running him NW towards festus/khazrak, then open a gate, vassal the beastmen and confed festus early to knock out/subjugate franz. Or instead push hard east into norsca for early dark fortresses for huge eco

[@jazzgeary2339]

The duality of the Tzeentch factions is something I deeply appreciate

[@Archer3051]

The Masters of Innovation should definitely be ranked higher than Easy/Too Easy. At the start, you are surrounded by enemy factions in a home province that isn't conducive to using 1 army to defend it. The Skaven will jump from the Hellpit directly into your eastern province while also possibly stomping on that southwestern province as well. Trogg will come east and threaten your capital. In addition, players will often (50% or so) get a turn 4/5 dilemma offering to declare war on a faction, and giving a large amount of grudges out. But it turns out, that faction is Azazel's, and then you end up with 3 enemies all targeting you. If you try an early-ish jump at Hellpit, you risk an attack on your undefended capital, and if you push west to take Trogg out, you risk discovering factions such as Daemons of Chaos and Epidemius, who will tend to declare war on you and generally make any attempt to get the western province as your 2nd province a huge PITA. You end up scrabbling around your home province constantly on the defensive, and right when you think you've got a handle on things, Archaeon or the Chaos Dwarves show up from the east. None of these factions are really amenable to diplomatic hijinks, and your Kislev 'allies' to the south generally fold like a wet paper bag (looking at you, Kostaltyn). If you survive the early game, then yes, the MoI have all sorts of fun tools and units to play with, especially when enhanced by the Adventures faction mechanic. But in both of my playthroughs, I've found the early game to be a brutal struggle to expand beyond 1 province. And by early game, I actually mean that it wasn't until turn ~60 before things got rolling.

[@azraelangelusmortis2427]

It is indeed tough The worst part is even if you can save kostaltyn and Elsa and become allies they just don't do anything to help secure the area leaving you to fight everyone yourself And if they do help its them taking settlements you once had or want

[@Shinekage]

And then Skulltaker and Golgfag were both utterly broken. Golgfag is arguably even easier than Changeling because he has better early game, ungodly income , superb lategame and can literally just "ok I quit" Any war by just quitting or completing a contract.

[@SummitVS]

I seen your other tierlists thanks man great video 👍

[@eljouser]

I've found that playing as any chaos faction (melee focus) and facing the empire in the mid-late game is excruciatingly painful. 2 3 full stacks of missile units kiting away, every turn🥶

[@BlingLingification]

A discrepancy I will point out is the difficulty of the Von Carstein campaign BEFORE Elspeth DLC and AFTER Elspeth DLC. BEFORE Elspeth DLC, I think the Von Carstein campaign was definitely in the easy category because the nearby empire minor factions really don't put up much of a fight. AFTER the Elspeth DLC, a Von Carstein player will now encounter one stack after another consisting of pistoliers, outriders, outriders with grenade launchers, warwagons, mortars, and an infantry complement. Usually, I would say just chase them down with direwolves (or whatever variant VC has), but there are just SO MANY outriders to deal with that they often were able to box in the direwolves. I often had to cheese things by just using trees to block the missile attacks while my zombies and skeletons chipped away at everything else with a holy lodestone corpsecart nearby. I turned many "decisive defeats" and "close defeats" into pyrrhic or heroic victories. Turns 10-20 were definitely a slog for me because I often had to juggle Elspeth and Karak Kadrin at the same time. Going from Warhammer 2's Von Carstein Campaign to Warhammer 3's Von Carstein campaign after the Elpseth DLC dropped was whiplash lol.

[@mybloodbeforehers]

Agree with the ones I’ve fully played so far (about 9 of them). Good stuff, gives me a list to work through for a challenge.

[@kacperkowalak149]

tbh this kind of Tier Lists content is the best idea for streaming

[@undeaddread]

Hey legend, you need to take a break some times dude, recording on the toilet shows your passion for your work.

[@icarusjumped2719]

Here's what I find is a strong start for kahlida. Capture upto rasetra, and then basically ignore the vampires and go into Ironbrows territory. If you time it right, and get the casket of souls, you can decimate Ironbrow. You can sometimes get a team up with the orcs, or you can hit him after he has fought the orcs. And then you have a strong mountain province. Then you can work your way back towards Lamia. By the time you finish, you can have three provinces and one of your main threats dealt with.

[@ancientweirdo]

on Wulfrik: "AI Be'lakor doesn't usually do that (invade Wulfrik) i have to call bull. Be'lakor has always attacked me if i confederated my initial enemy as wulfrik. instead, i beat them, then blackmailed for peace and a good sum of money as i go east. but yeah, the maneaters likely starting next to wulfrik is gonna end that era

[@AndrewCooper-oe3up]

I would put Tiktaq'to as hard for the early game because his initial settlements are a bit of a distance from each other so difficult to protect them all and you can be attacked on 3 sides with additional enemies potentially appearing in the latter part of the early game if Kairos comes up from the south and skarbrand comes down from the north. And now Wurzzag will be added to the mix.

[@simonmurphy4316]

Love it! Have you considered a landmark building tier list?

[@Blemmo]

I love your tierlists :)

[@SirHector1999]

These are my favorite videos! Thank you

[@aoffydosy1530]

Belegar before capturing Karak Eight Peaks : PAIN as always

[@Feasting14]

Mom, a new tier list is out!

[@tmasta]

Hey LOTW, been a longtime viewer but never commented. I would love it if you could do a multiplayer campaign tier list for all the factions. My buddy and I always have a hard time deciding on fair match ups, especially with the power creep. Thanks!

[@apparatus8744]

Thanks for the vid, Legend!

[@X7-kk9mp]

as someone who just started playing Warhammer 3 recently only 30 hours in and i did few runs to like turn 60 small victory. this list is a great for me to pick and choose who to play next . for example sometimes i will pick brutal start get my ass kicked and then move to a more chill start lord. atm i picked Jade lord the one that does expidtion . i gave away my capital city so i can focus on expedition and got extra 20k gold

[@JasperLane]

The timing of this video seems interesting since not only will the DLC be out soon meaning most people don't have a hands on opinion of four legendary lords but also specifically in regards to the Ogers thanks to their new mechanics they might be much higher now

[@bobthor9647]

Excellent video ty

[@Adjusting1]

So I got myself the big main Manscaped package, let's see how will it perform. Thanks Legend for a discount!

[@fanglord13]

It's like you read my mind! I have just got back into TWWIII and was just thinking "I wonder who Legend thinks are easy/hard campaigns?" Going through Kairos on Normal difficulty (as I am not good enough for VeryHard/Legendary) and agree that it is super rough to start. started again after a test run and had a go at making a beeline for Teclis to nuke him then immediately toward Oxyotl. Teclis had to be cheesed HARD in that early battle and had to use the Changing of Ways carefully to squeeze him out (Force Rebellion is gold). After dealing with those two, it's largely been smooth sailing, even saved Sarthorael :)

[@МаркЮспин]

I watched the video and immediately wanted to try out the whole difficult level. I just don't understand the complexity of the Nagorronta. Thanks for the tier list and all the videos on the channel

[@blackmoon2128]

Just got my king of kings achievement, playing as Khalida. And can confirm, pretty brutal, specially at the start. Your enemies's early units are far stronger than yours (specially because lizardman and dwarves love to declare on you), and it takes far too long to get a second army (that you generally need to keep alongside your first to stand a chance at fighting others because they are so much stronger), and ambush spamming can only get you so far.

[@CoolCool-zc1rg]

You should do a faction soundtrack tier list. The skaven battle music is so good.

[@yairtayb8665]

I just read a post in reddit about this exact question and you were mentioned as well! (Regarding malakai's campaign)

[@Dwane77Loki]

let's gooo, thanks for the Teir List!

[@Solmyr77]

One thing that makes Mazdamundi's campaign harder (same goes for Yuan Bo once he controls that area) is that the Isthmus of Lustria is completely open to invasion from every side and everyone can and will sail towards you to sack all your minor settlements there.

[@AkilZodiac]

I just want to say that for the Kairos campaign (VH/VH), I always conquer the east wastes before dealing with Oxy and Teclis. In all my campaigns (I essentially main Kairos, he’s my go-to campaign), by the time Kairos makes it back to the capital after securing the east, that’s when Oxy shows up, and Teclis hasn’t declared war just yet. I’m kinda proud that my favorite campaign turns out to be one of the most brutal ones though, I thought it was a fairly average start

[@matheusferreira5203]

As a VH/Normal player ,The hard part about malakai is that if you go after throt then throgg comes for you from the other side and vice versa also if you go start conquering norsca epidemius and astragoth will come after you. Tldr everyone attacks from every side and while its easy to beat them with malakai he js not everywhere and your economy takes awhile to field armies to deal with fronts. At least that was my difficulty early on with malakai

[@pucciomatrix23]

We are ready for 4 new Livestreams!

[@samgregory5690]

great video as always, wuld like to see a vilitch/ khloek stream sometime

[@thatoneoctopus7494]

Amazing microphone quality today Legend lmao

[@maelmir]

Interesting you made a tier list right before a major update.

[@Tuboshi0815]

Belakor's portals make recruitment super easy. Supreme WoC

[@woodplank212]

his faction mechanics are definitely among the strongest in the game 💪

[@LocalCelebrityPTD]

I will say, as the resident biggest lizard fan, Gor-Roks start position is at least slightly more difficult with Skulltaker so close to you. 9 times out of 10, Skulltaker makes a bee line straight for Itza and CAN completely wipe it out within the first 10 turns of you're not ready for him. Still pretty easy overall, though, especially once he and the rats are dealt with.

[@Lapeno456]

Happy to hear i was not the only one having a torture of a time playing as Boris lol

[@dardo1201]

My Boris strat: burn everything all the way down until you reach the wall at Cathay and then move back down, but yes, does make the campaign pace pretty slow, although most settlements are usually not reoccupied by the time you start re-settling them.