CHAOS RISES! | Abyssal Champion #1 | SOVL

[@MrMyself8989]

I don't think it was communicated well, but around 30:30 when you were engaging the Dwarfs you noticed that your saves were lower - I think that was because you exchanged shields for a second hand weapon, hence having a worse save, not because the dwarfs were more able to overcome your defence

[@ASHFAR578]

Hemoglobin for the hemoglobin god. Craniums for the cranium throne

[@posthumor2097]

glad your doing another run. i instantly got the game after your first video and am super addicted to it. never played something like it before but its so awesome Janet; thank you!

[@Th3Nark]

Oh it's supposed to be Soul? haha Yeah I call it Sovl as well, did think it sounded a lil silly, but glad I'm not the only one 😅 Love the content, thanks heaps Janet!

[@Caranelen]

Absolutely same here. I never even considered it might be Soul. I assumed an acronym.

[@JanetOnOccasion]

It could stand for "Softly Oiling Vinny's Loins". But it probably doesn't.

[@Derkosson]

Probably told elsewhere, but the reason people use a V instead of a U dates back to the romans, who found that carving the curb of a U into rock is really hard, so they just used a V instead since it's the closest letter.

[@xensan76]

Our ancestors would spit on us for the horrible things we've done to their alphabet

[@Derkosson]

@@xensan76 We're literally just doing exactly what they did.

[@zealot824]

Thanks for the added music! Makes it more dynamic to watch. :> Edit: you can have an earbud in one ear for your own music so you don't play in near silence.

[@TheAshHeritor]

Listening to you play SOVL while I play SOVL is very relaxing. Keep em coming!

[@MarsAtlas]

Fyi, the +50% to loot for elite battles DOESN’T apply to the loot you take instead of replenishment from each troop. The +50% honestly only seems to apply to the amount you get for winning the battle, that’s it, but it pre-calculates. So if it says you won 111g from the battle “+50%”, you don’t win 166, you get 111

[@willmannn]

You sure? I've gotten like 14 gold from looting with the +50% modifier, but only like 4-10g from looting in normal fights

[@MarsAtlas]

@@willmannn ah right I hadn’t considered that, you might be right!

[@JanetOnOccasion]

Regardless of how it works, the game doesn't do much to make it clear one way or the other :P

[@Erligan]

15:58 For telling about buttons you need to press to Charge and Range, have my Like and Comment for the Algorithm.

[@hak1111111]

14:06 You can adjust the number of ranks for each unit. If you find it difficult to maneuver (like I do), keep the doggos units (or flank units) at ~5 wide. Edit: In late-ish game, doggos units only serve as interceptors, plus we have more units to play with, I like to reduce them to 4 columns

[@deatheven13]

I too am hoping they add some -armor save modifiers. It's irritating when goblin spears shrug off bolt throwers and hand gun rounds. It also means handguns are just crap bows since they're shorter range. Would love charge reactions too so you can flee from a bad situation though you risk not getting the rally.

[@dragonzd97]

i mean handguns have 4 power instead of 3 like bows so they do force higher armour saves. elven bows keep up due to their hit consistency and rerolling misses.

[@TheChieric]

in the army view u can change the formation of the various units

[@Xexelli]

Love this series, thanks for the videos.

[@markweevil3985]

You can change the formation / frontage of units to make them less wide

[@Blinks77]

Elven spears are hilarious. They're not so bad at start but soon as you get to an anvil you can buy them both heavy armour and longbows. They still use the low tier skills though. Most importantly the unit increase. Skill 5 longbows of 30 models with heavy armour and shields are glorious to behold.

[@joshuahamm5911]

Yeah, it's 'Soul' In ye olden times, making typeset at a blacksmith for printers was time consuming and expensive, so they would reuse letters. U & V, F & S. Was close enough ppl could recognize the word. You'll recognize it if you look at American founding documents, Congress is spend Congreff, etc

[@JanetOnOccasion]

You’re absolutely right, but you’re missing the part where the game itself has absolutely nothing to do with any of what you’re saying. It seems to be using the V in place of a U purely because the developer thought it would look cool or maybe the word Soul spelt correctly was already taken. The fact those letters have been used interchangeably in the past doesn’t help communicate anything within the context of this title. It doesn’t convey anything about the setting of the game takes place it. It’s just a bad title that I will continue to mispronounce. Also the Y in Ye olden times was a result of the same typesetting shortcomings.

[@Akheloios]

At least it's not ancient Greek, they had no typesetting or punctuation,so every word ran into the next, and they cut out the vowels, so you had to guess.JSTLKTHSFRXMPL.

[@Wothanaz]

I would love a game like that with full fleshed 3d models like the ones in TW:W. RTS is really good, but also a more TT approach will be awesome

[@sagittariusa9012]

15:21 So a swamp is infested with Trolls and then.... Desert? :D

[@mattialarocca8914]

I found out about this game thanks to you and to be honest I fell in love with it. I hope to see an art update sometime in the future to get rid of the AI art.

[@AxiosXiphos]

Sure - pay them enough money to hire human artists to replace every piece of art in the game.

[@deathnotehell1]

To be fair to the team, while I don't like the use of AI art when I say team the game is being made by one guy so it makes sense as opposed to a full sized developer like Paradox using it.

[@mattialarocca8914]

I agree with both of you, thats why I bought DLC to support the Dev

[@thewolfpack5290]

THE WARP IS OVERTAKING ME IT IS A GOOD PAIN

[@lazorr3260]

BLESS us.... HAH HAH great one..

[@karotconcarne3325]

@@lazorr3260 MY SPLEEEN

[@Trypragmatic]

Skipped plus 5 for the warriors 😢

[@TheEarlofBronze1]

Agreed. Its 100% Sovl

[@korfits44]

Would love a Lizardman campaign afterwards

[@CastellanMaben]

I was spoiled a little by playing elves and building my noble to be a horrifying melee monster, then I played undead things were not dying and even my Vampire on a T rex could not save things.

[@MartyrPandaGaming]

"There's too many trolls in the swamp!" **Fight on desert map**

[@JanetOnOccasion]

Well there were too many in the swamp, but the desert had just the right amount.

[@lazorr3260]

I just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to this game, its weirdly nostalgic. Also... How occasionally are you Janet? Is Occasionally your first name?

[@ML-zv6tr]

If you're taking requets for WH; Drazhoath plz

[@choonoomoonoo8256]

Hi Janet! Will you do a skarbrand campaign for your next warhammer run?

[@ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman]

I don't know that one track was a banger

[@Gunner6000WarZ]

Dark Omen from the 90s did this “fantasy table top but not tabletop” genre better imo. Biggest difference is this is turn based.

[@Fanncyfox]

TBF, It's Soul spelt in old English, where V's and U's were interchangeable and both meaning U

[@oldmanramblingatclouds]

As good as this game is, I do hope they add a little more flavour to the factions. I've only played the Undead and Walmart Empire so far, but they do seem a little samey.

[@Smaakakor]

Dawi dawi dawi!

[@dragonzd97]

trolls have pretty high power esp if they have great weapons, then they have around 6 on the charge? which would force a hefty save on your abyssal warriors, they had their weaker weapons though and abyssal warriors are the deepguard of that faction that are better in melee, them losing to trolls which are unironically cheaper point wise for a unit would be a bit whack considering the mobility difference.

[@joshualafaber1686]

I’m going to be honest, for total war I’ve never seen a slanesh campaign pop up on my feed

[@Chyll07]

I get it.... but going back to Latin the letter U didn't exist and instead Classical Latin relied on 'V' to represent both of the sounds we would know for /w/ and /u/. Which means it may be Sowl.

[@JanetOnOccasion]

Why would we be going back to Latin? If this game was a Romans strutting about it would make a lot more thematic sense, but there's nothing in this game to suggest Latin is the language in vogue :P

[@Chyll07]

@@JanetOnOccasion I think the scholars documenting these fantasy legends are doing the best they can with what they have, & the written word for us always circles back to Rome eventually. :D

[@tomlaptain646]

​@@Chyll07 apart from, you know, all the languages that don't have roots in Latin. And a number that do that also have roots in other language branches as well. 😂

[@Chyll07]

@@tomlaptain646 of course. I was being the humorous

[@Chyll07]

@@JanetOnOccasion I think I failed to convey, this means we could choose to pronounce it as if it rhymed with 'bowl' or 'fowl'. :D

[@anders8204]

Could we please get a game with the Undead Nations?

[@stepans20]

I didnt know it could be pronounced anything other than Sovl.... huh...

[@benshaw9951]

Slaanesh is his deal, lol

[@Dwarfurious]

Turin needs to get some tournaments fro this game going asap

[@Smaakakor]

Moear Warhammer moar all day moar everyday

[@walterverlaan1286]

Honestly? I do not mind you can't make up your mind on with campaign to play next. I really like you to play this game.

[@JanetOnOccasion]

I'm really enjoying it, too. It made the decision to play more of it very easy :P

[@walterverlaan1286]

@@JanetOnOccasion Nice! Thnx Janet.

[@Smaakakor]

Yaaày more squint

[@sodabru1764]

the map running from right to left is just wrong, did the defs not realise most of the world reads right to left, our eyes are trained to do so, and this map is just offensive visually. thanks for the video.

[@ThanatoselNyx]

But you do travel left to right on the map?

[@supdude1878]

Tyftv

[@Cipher655]

This really seems like a very bad knockoff of warhammer. Sad.

[@JanetOnOccasion]

And yet it's a lot of fun

[@Cipher655]

@@JanetOnOccasion I am very happy you enjoy it! Keep up the wonderful work!

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

Warhammer itself is a bad knockoff of many fantasy stories, tropes, mythologies...