Can you beat Greenskin End Game Crisis using Bats?

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[@darumanu9276]

He didnt even bat an eye

[@farenhaight4133]

His skills are bat-shit insane

[@gotmilk5899]

He easily won the bat-tle

[@xensonar9652]

What a Joker.

[@darthnihilus6211]

Puns for the Pun-Grave!

[@nicklindberg90]

🦇🦇🦇

[@Kholdaimon]

84 bats lost versus 2457 Orcs, Goblins, Trolls, Warmachines, Characters and Monsters lost... Close Victory... Right...

[@torquevonthorne948]

This is a tier above heroic victory

[@Mythic_Echoes]

If commander is unbreakable he can probably win with the two casters alone.

[@paulenan9636]

Another case of "Legends video titles slowly transforming into Light Novel names"

[@RepliAmras]

"I have been playing this game for 1313 hours, died of heart attack and now I am reincarnated as a Horned Rat?!"

[@danpitzer765]

Surviving the end of the world by making friends with bats and birds!

[@paulenan9636]

@@RepliAmras "Is it legal to exploit zombies without paying them?"

[@R3GARnator]

My next life as a ghoul, I will devour the living and live a slow life with their reanimated bodies!

[@RepliAmras]

@@paulenan9636 "I have raised a random corpse and it turns out to be a cute girl, is it ok to date her?"

[@tristianbernardauthor]

Those last 3 rogue idols were like "HOLY CRAP! WHAT'S THAT SCREECHING NOISE ABOVE US-" Literally disentegrates.

[@andreasaa2000]

Turn 150.... 3.4k income.... bats.... Think the disaster was 150 turns ago ngl

[@Floris_VI]

I couldnt agree more😂😂

[@goldeninnos3411]

bats are free with von carstein. its a good army

[@Dandudanable]

KEK true brother

[@TheLordofMetroids]

As Vampires. I genuinely don't know how thats possible, they have such a strong economy and such low upkeep that its easy to fix. Good old Blood Dragons with their 0/60 graveguard and 0/100 blood knights.

[@Grooviebones]

"SCCRRREEEEEE" -The bats everytime Legend zoomed in that battle

[@spyke403]

legend you had access to 2 tormentor swords. thats fucking godlike in vampires because you can hold everything in one spot for the wind of death!

[@gabet1347]

LegendofTotalWar here and today were going up against 4 full dwarf end game doomstacks with only a lord with 1 health so lets see what we can do.

[@hurstcifer7286]

😂

[@jakeeb2441]

Hey Legend, I got into TWH3 about 2-3 months ago and I must say your channel is awesome. Not only is it informative and entertaining, but it adds a sense of community to this (mostly) singleplayer game.

[@ambifira]

Using flock of doom to synergize with a flock of bats pleases me

[@LapsedPacifist79]

Seems you’re getting some particularly interesting disaster battles recently mate, I’m loving it.

[@jeezjack]

Have you considered creating a google drive with the battles attached so that we can try them ourselves? A lot of these battles look like a lot of fun!

[@adriankoch964]

He used to do that in WH2. Maybe not enough people downloaded the files to warrant the effort and storage, by now he must have 1000+ of those campaign saves.

[@davecolwell725]

yeah, I'd be up for that! I would like to try my hand at some of the battles he plays.

[@jeezjack]

@@adriankoch964 google drive is free cloud storage

[@splattbinat1542]

I love the frustrated and scared screams of Orcs and Goblins when they get eaten by bats and their waaagh doesn't go their way

[@biowiener7825]

another 1 hour banger, really appreciate it legend!

[@R3GARnator]

The way I like to use bats, is to combine them with two units of Vargheists. You send the bats in first to soak up hits, then attack with vargheists, much like you'd do with Skinks and Kroxigors. As another bonus, the bats tend to attack from ABOVE, while the vargheists land to attack. So, if you'd hitting the rear of the enemy's line like this, you've got: skellies hitting their front, bats hitting their top, and vargheists hitting their rear.

[@Sercotani]

would be nice but 20/20 unit limit in an army is a thing. this only really works if you're fighting against chaff. 16 bats 2 vargheists aren't gonna do shit against a proper army, which is what endgame crisis armies are.

[@R3GARnator]

@@Sercotani Vargheists are incredibly powerful, you go after archers, then flank. I do often keep two armies together as VC though. If you're not using hordes of chaff as VC, then you've got them confused with some other faction; it's what raise dead and dead rise again are for.

[@vendellin6230]

Love seeing the vampire counts, I'm newish to the game and still learning a lot and my favourite faction is the VC, but I can't find many videos about them.

[@daedalusdreamjournal5925]

bats can be free upkeep now? :O I had no idea. Good to know. And it's true the vampire counts have fallen out of favor from the players lately it seems :(

[@Debilinside]

They are just simply boring to play.... I generally really really like their design, one of my favorite faction, but gameplay wise they need an update, a new faction mechanic and a few new units to make them interesting.

[@ianover6838]

@@Debilinside Jeah sounds about right, been playing since warhammer 1 release and only played them once.

[@maxwhite4177]

​@@Debilinside Only having one DLC (and the worst) is brutal.

[@Sercotani]

mods fixed them somewhat for me and I value fluff/aesthetics over everything, plus their battle tracks are really good, easily matches up to the best TWW2/3 has to offer. but unfortunately yeah, it's a night and day difference going from like, Elspeth and Malakai recently and starting Vlad, then seeing VC buildings/economy being super boring to manage. Good thing Winds of Death is still absolutely cracked though, and so is Invocation of Nehek.

[@Landrisslg]

I strongly dislike the fact that they have no missiles at all, and if I ever wanted to use a melee-only faction, Khorne is just so much more fun.

[@LanceF7]

Finally, some Vampire content. I've been hoping and waiting for them to have some kind of content

[@user-mw9rs8zk3n]

this is bat shit insane

[@dembro27]

Greenskins: "DIS IZ A BATASTROPHE!"

[@warhead5000]

He really took those greenskins to bat

[@movingtarget12321]

What a great showcase of a doomstack that I will never ever want to use simply because those bat charges may have given me mild tinnitus. SCREEEEEEE-

[@peterwright5311]

17:33 a few stuck bats make them use fanatics on three of their own units lol.

[@ChrisWilliams-rz2op]

Do him a favor and show him how to fuse items -.-

[@PlayerSlotAvailable]

...fuse items?

[@Sercotani]

having had massive successes with my recent Arkhan campaign recently against endgame Dwarf armies, it really is re-enacting horror movies every single time I fight my battles and swarms of bats just obliterate any Dwarfen artillery unit lol, including thunderbarges. Isolated infantry units are very doable to be instantly wrecked too.

[@deanprowell7947]

Leaks deconfirmed boyz! It's Khorne, Orkz, and Ogres! THEY WERE NEVER REAL

[@jebrooks]

source?

[@frankhayzley6922]

@@jebrooksCA

[@tomayto70]

@@jebrooks Community lead confirmed on Reddit; cited more information will come June 26th, likely an official dev blog/road map like the one that announced Shadows of Change and Thrones of Decay last year.

[@jebrooks]

@@tomayto70 can you link the post?

[@ManCheat2]

@@jebrooks you cant post links on youtube bud.

[@KrytoRift]

Your videos are the highlight of my day. Imagine my delight when I see an hour long one. I don't get to play as much as I'd like so watching you is the next best thing

[@booradley6832]

Bats are one of the most underrated units in the game because people try to use them for damage when that's not what they're built for. Look how they stat up with experience- at 9 chevrons they have like(off memory, my apologies) 57 melee defense, 21 melee attack, their leadership problems are fixed, are super fast and can be healed. Their stat gains through exp are like 19MD but only 4MA. This is a not so subtle hint they're trying to give you on how to use them. Excellent unit for tying down higher priced units because they WILL catch them out in the open if the enemy strays from the pack. You want to stop a cav charge? Bats are faster, charge the cav from behind. The intercepted cav now get no charge bonus and are stuck fighting something they cant possibly run away from. TL;DR- someone gave you an infantry unit with their statline and they would be hailed as a great tarpit unit for the cost. Same unit but 5x the mobility? "Oh they're trash."

[@booradley6832]

I mean all that is from a MP perspective. Campaign buffs make anything possible.

[@listerineclean343]

It’s not fair to compare bats with tarpit infantry on a pure cost or stat basis because the mass and model count are different. I agree with everything else you said, except that in MP, I somehow doubt that a bat with 9 chevrons will be worth its gold cost. Your own argument kinda works against itself, because there’s no way I’m paying that much for even a good to great MD boost on a 45 model unit (not even 60, but 45! Not good) with

[@gonkdroid9325]

Except they are very fragile and will die in seconds if you don't babysit them. I like them for their role, which for me is dealing with towers or tying up weak units. But they are always the first unit to crumble and die in my army. Not saying they are a bad unit but they are situational and fragile unless you focus your army on them and buff their stats enough to keep them alive.

[@R3GARnator]

I've also seen big youtubers dismiss vargheists as if they were carrion.

[@quint3ssent1a]

Legend: this isn't some 4hour long battle where I just use wind of death on everyone Also legend: this requires a lot of patience, I have that but I'll do it other way The battle was 1 hour long...

[@Treladero]

bats eating archers like they're popcorn

[@seanpkrueger]

Bats off to Legend for the effort.

[@danmartinac3266]

Glad to see flock of death being utilized

[@danmartinac3266]

I think the collision physics are correct. Infantry against infantry you have front side and rear hitbox. The flying unit bats is attacking the top, there is no front therefore all entities make contact

[@Almanbu]

Legendoftotalwar = Batman 🦇

[@waterramp1]

I approve of this video. Please like video for more vampire exposure. We need to make Vlad a elector count guys.

[@the_noble_pumpkin_king]

Im suprised they held out this well in an army that didnt have Isabella, or have the regen landmark claimed

[@commmarine9547]

You can also tell it’s the commander of the Waugh because the unit has an actual name “furt” in this case

[@MagisMagiTony]

Why do people not fuse their magic items? Fuse away guys you can get BLUE items. BLUE! Also the black Periapt is my absolute favorite Item in the game, and I wish I could get more of them but they(Atleast as far as I know it might have changed) only drop to VC player who are fighting VC factions, so it might be worth keeping one faction alive just to beat them up, but That never feels like it is in the spirit of the game. Also if you spam move commands units stall instead of actually trying to move. Spamming move is useful on SOME units but they are rare and usually already moving. Also Vassalizing factions stops you from being able to confederate them, so only do that if you are 100% not wanting to Confederate them.

[@DavidMartinez-nu8ky]

BATS, BATS, WE’RE THE BATS!

[@jason_eh]

Its like Hitchcock's The Birds. Definite Britannia Hippo attack vibes here but smaller and peskier. Stun stun stun and they all dead.

[@5050snowman]

Bats bats, we are the bats.

[@hybralisk]

Flappy little flappers made the enemy flip out for sure!

[@Shadesofone]

Bruce Wayne is getting some flashbacks..

[@hybralisk]

Invader Zim and Gir would be using wind of doom!

[@tomaszkisiel9915]

@1:03:45 That really reminded me of the Count von Count counting bats XD

[@jerubaal101]

Billy Bats was a made man and we weren't. It was real greaseball stuff among the Vampire Counts.

[@darthnihilus6211]

You could've used the Necromancer as a bat re-fuelling station for health. (If that one has access to a healing aura corpse cart). As long, as the bats don't have aggro.

[@DinisF97]

At 13:00 how come bats are able to all attack when they get in a mosh pit like its medieval2 but every other unit in the game derps out? If CA investigated why I imagine they'd permanantly fix the problem of units running down units not dealing damage.

[@adriankoch964]

Bats and similar units that keep going back into a blob that has a single of their entity stuck is the biggest reasons why I avoid those units. It's just so much pointless micro. CA need to further improve the game so that you don't have to fight it at every corner to get the utility out of your units, be it some overall "stance" or whatever toggle to stop units from running back to help stranded units, or overaggressive charging into nearby stuff, or archers yeeting themselves into melee through your frontline when they run out of ammo.

[@reecedactyl]

dunnananana batman!

[@GPStarters]

would the reinforcements not come in hidden in the trees? if so should have chosen full army's

[@fenner1986]

"That unit that's coming in there could be a pile of *looks and finds a rogue idol*.......rocks. " ~ Legend 2024 On a more serious note, I do hope that we get a Vampire Count update, they are long overdue for something more in their roster that makes them interesting to play as a human player. As AI they do amazing with just swarming their respective regions, but as a human player they get boring very very quick.

[@acefinelli5847]

Spinning loons= night gobbo fanatics. In short Fanatics.

[@libertusprimus]

Legend of Total Sonar

[@BlizzardAcolyte]

27:52 can I just point out how humorous it was to have him point out-as if we can’t tell-that the Bats are neither Large nor armored Next thing you’ll tell me, Scroll of Leeching sucks

[@JunGlisTs0Ldi3r]

So how about them leaks huh? Lmao

[@TheGingusa]

i always think its weird when people don't fuse their items, look how much shit he doesn't even have equiped?

[@eristaviserbia]

As in baseball bats? Sure.

[@bar_jumper1312]

can you still change a normal unit for a real comander inside of your own waaagh?

[@Joker61861]

That was great

[@amenoraswtor9717]

when I saw the sheer amount of bats I closed my eyes for a sec, shook my head and thought „what an absolute madlad!“ and had a good chuckle

[@sev1120]

That ain't no hawk, ain't nothing but bats!

[@GloriousLastStand]

Ooo, what a reference!!👍👍👍

[@slycooper1669]

I understood that reference.

[@davidhavel6242]

Legend is truly a legend in this game its so impressive

[@goldeninnos3411]

legend just wiped 2+ full stacks with bats and people still say they suck. bats are damn good with free upkeep, you just have to know how to use them

[@sholahverassa8582]

Forgot to rate the doomstack :c

[@CarolusBuchwurm]

I never knew that those bats could be good for anything.

[@ashesofaranea]

when you stack them up instead of matching them against units they do a lot of damage and don't crumble since their leadership doesn't instantly drop, i use them a lot against lizardmen terradons for one, as long as they are outnumbering they melt those units

[@R3GARnator]

They take the hits for your vargheists to do monstrous damage.

[@tulkdog]

Can they do it? Video length 1:08:51 I guess they can, but it’s going to take a long time

[@melloncollieowl]

Long form unfucking video! Yeah!

[@senshibat8920]

Risk it ofr a cheese biskut..^-^

[@GinoNL]

Why is it better to attack instead of defend? From a campaign pov or battle pov?

[@ezkiller93]

Both usually. You dictate the terms when you attack. On the battle map, you are forced to react when you defend (eg if the enemy goes left, you must react, you can't do whatever you want ‐ you don't have the initiative; and the enemy will usually rush you from the beginning if they're the ones that initiated the attack on the campaign map, giving you less time to organize your reinforcements). On the campaign map it simply means you get to decide where the armies come from and how many armies will fight. If you let the enemy attack, they have a chance of brining up an army from the fog of war that you didn't account for. If you have two armies, one in front of the other for example; the enemy might decide to attack the furthest army and have your reinforcing army come in from an awkward position, or risk having them take longer to come in by moving their reinforcements elsewhere on the battle map (which allows the enemy to defeat you in detail, among other things). They might also put themselves in a position between two of your settlements, forcing you to choose which one you want to defend, and they will go for the undefended one (like a chess move where you threaten two valuable pieces from the same position). After the battle, you're the one that did the attack, you can choose to pursue the enemy or go elsewhere to replenish for instance. You can't do this when the enemy launches the attack. They might attack, and even if they lose the battle; they can march stance away from you where you can't reach them to destroy their armies.

[@GinoNL]

@@ezkiller93 Thanks a lot for the information! 😄

[@isaacalves97]

i think healing bats was a waste of winds of magica in my opinion

[@adriankoch964]

The more entities they have left the more damage they deal, also their health affects the balance of power, letting him get the win earlier. Remaining WoM counts less than entity health for army loss. With some half entity swarms of bats he'd have to kill even more units to get the win, making his victory overall more costly. Not a huge deal with VC, but important with other races when you face consecutive battles.

[@isaacalves97]

@@adriankoch964 👍

[@m.artotzka3404]

Morbius appreciates this video

[@ilari90]

I think main thing to do with harpies and bats is to leave some on the edges on the ground, lure units, then swarm them with 5 units at a time and instantly destroy them, then rinse and repeat, had to learn that with rakarth harpy stacks back in the wh2 days.

[@ZCid47]

Apparently, Richard the intern in charge of making the coffee for the art department is not a good source for leaks

[@xLast_Wordsx]

Hell yea let’s get it

[@oodaangel9079]

So about them leaks…

[@tristianbernardauthor]

Grave Guard stack 🚫 Zombie stack 🚫 ALL HAIL THE BAT STACK✅

[@8heimdall8]

even bats are a doomstack in Legend s hands

[@LethosMarvill]

I think the bat screams are not loud enough

[@Redneckkratos]

“THREE F&$£ING FLYERS!!!! AH AH AH!!!!” - Legendoftotalwar, probably

[@kreuzrittergottes9336]

Bat doomstack when?

[@Chrisis2cool2]

It was viable in wh2 early to mid game, when Isabella was her own lord. I'm not sure how she works now, bat buff wise, but could still work

[@MikeLemmons]

Leeeeeaaaaaaaaaak Leeeeeaaaaaaaaaak Leeeeeaaaaaaaaaak...

[@tristianbernardauthor]

The bats weren't batting around in this battle.

[@IREAPCATS]

Anyone know how you can tell if you miss cast? 😂 been playing for years and never gave it any mind 😂

[@ManCheat2]

Usually ur caster is hurt when u misscast.

[@roberturlaub8526]

The sound alone is reason enough to never build a bat doomstack

[@Vonadu]

A seven-foot frame Bats along his back When he sees your save It all fades to black Yeah, he sees your dreams And feasts on the AI screams (hey!) We don't talk about Legend, no no no!

[@whzpoor]

The Matt Berry Bat army.

[@emib6599]

I think vampire rarely get disaster battles, because for example, when i love a whole army with them, i summon another one the next turn

[@easytanksgaming3238]

QUICKLY, SWIFTLY!!!

[@ZincMaster]

Bats, Bats were the Bats

[@matiensso1081]

Another accurate leaks video pls

[@-ItK]

Hey Legend, awesome content. Is it prerecorded or are you still with us daily?

[@jofac22]

LMAO this guy's campaign is a disaster

[@tristianbernardauthor]

Greenskins: Ha! They have no units! Other Greenskin: Are those birds? Greenskins: Nothing to worry ABOU- *Face gets ripped off by several thousand angry birds.*

[@bigredmarchingon3200]

Ok now do an entire campaign with bat storm stacks!

[@ilari90]

@7:15 I think still, using 3 flock of dooms vs one upgraded wind of death is way worse, depending on how you hit, should watch the damage numbers to see how it goes. Still, never think you aren't playing optimally, it mostly hinders the usage of spells, at least for me, if on tight spot.

[@andrewj3372]

The random twirlies....

[@skupipup]

I sure can't but I bet you can.

[@srtfrostbite]

Ok, the bats are rather good, but they aren't worth the medical bills for my ears.

[@CarrubsLP]

close victory lmao