Deathmaster Snikch Beginner's Campaign Guide (First 20 Turns - Vortex) | the Shadow and the Blade

[@italianspartacus]

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[@davidvanrensburg1959]

Legend of total war is top notch too

[@Narakuda]

I'm so stoked for this DLC, I pre-ordered it and I'm just waiting for it to drop. Love the videos that you guys are putting out. Much love

[@italianspartacus]

thanks so much man! hope you enjoy it when it lands :D

[@thecentralscrutinizerr]

Thanks alot. New to playing Warhammer 2, and I struggled to get the hang of it with Schikch. I could never take out Sudenburg though and I forgot about the 200 percent increase for non Echin units and by the time the dwarves declared war on me, I couldn't beat them either (perhaps I shouldn't be playing on the hard difficulty setting). One thing you didn't go over is Undercities. Not sure why you would want that when you can occupy a city outright.

[@thegreathornedrat1219]

1:32 its recruitment cost, not upkeep

[@LordEsel88]

It's so easy to mess up. :P

[@thegreathornedrat1219]

Its fair enough. I'm not criticizing him, just pointing it out

[@Muongoing.97c]

I honestly think it should have been upkeep, would have made it nearly impossible to keep non eshin units that way. As it is you can just stockpile a bunch of money and then no problem.

[@garetjaxusmc]

Holy cow, that end of turn. They optimized the hell out of that!

[@MrHorribad]

its BYOTIFUL

[@R5h2x]

BTW, this was on ME but I see no reason why it wouldn't work on Vortex. You can use the Shadow dealings thrice (action, stash rations, action) with Snikch, then attack your first enemy, make sure they survive, attack them again, and you're Level 6 with Snikch at turn 1 :)

[@JohnDoe-pc1qf]

It seems more like this was on Vortex. I started playing ME and started all the way to the east near some Goblins.

[@chance4513]

Just did this and it's a great feeling to have your lord pop 5 levels on your first turn haha, thanks for the tip man :)

[@XenoMike]

Thank you very much for this guide, I was a little intimidated by starting a campaign with Snikch but now I feel I can begin. Does anyone have tips for tactics in combat? I used to struggle playing dwarves until I learned about chevron formations, so I'm wondering if there's any tricks to playing skaven too.

[@italianspartacus]

At the end you should see a link to all of my guides and I have a combat mechanics guide in there :)

[@undermuh]

Oof, are you going to make two videos/strategies for Malus? Since technically, he has two different ways to start; keeping ha graef or not

[@Bladerxdxi]

Can you Lightning Strike with ambush? If not, that would bei redundant.

[@lord_alderaan9283]

ItalianSpartacus, who wins in a dual between Queek Headtaker and Deathmaster Snikch?

[@AbominationalFailure]

Snikch, no contest

[@lord_alderaan9283]

@@AbominationalFailure So far in custom battle Queek and Snikch stand about a 50/50% chance of beating each other. Still don't know about campaign though. :)

[@robjanssen3474]

will the new skaven weapons teams be added to the clan skryre's forbidden workshop to have unique upgrades?

[@chrisspink8873]

rob janssen no sadly maybe in the future but they are Separate dlcs. But might be a nice bonus for having both dlcs!

[@robjanssen3474]

@@chrisspink8873 You are wrong they are being added to the forbidden workshop just asked on a warhammer facebook group and i got a screenshot of the new workshop(bombadies and globadiers are also added now)

[@chrisspink8873]

rob janssen could you send me a link or picture?

[@robjanssen3474]

@@chrisspink8873 preview.redd.it/zr68go0o7u341.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=4fe89aa2b2e242001ff31522a8550bd6a7703cd6

[@robjanssen3474]

@@chrisspink8873 My link doesn't show

[@Revanchist-PL]

Personally I'd pick Snikch to do the first Shadowy Dealings since it gives him free XP.

[@sgtgriff9967]

Yes! I strictly use him to level him as fast as i can to get to Anarchy as fast as possible, to get more uses out of it since it's a 100 turn count down.

[@Revanchist-PL]

@@sgtgriff9967 Exactly, he can level up like 4 times in the first turn!

[@NightWhisper8462]

I wonder if the effects of toxic rain and poison stack since they are listed as different debuffs? I get the feeling they won't and that poison will just override toxic rain since it's stronger but it'd be insane if it did :)

[@thegreathornedrat1219]

They stack to my knowlege

[@colossusslayer1234]

man, i appreciate these vids so much but at the same time watching you guys get early access so much earlier is killing me lol i can't wait for the 12th to finally come.

[@v12Airb0rne]

How do you beat the snikch vortex campaign? Where does the final battle "Rise of Darkness" appear? I have done the other two parts of the Vortex Victory.

[@methodkid93]

I think all the campaign battles + item quests are in your starting province or at least nearby.

[@enigmaticnasser9335]

Curiously why would you get Lightning Strike if your ambush chance is at or nearly at 100%? isn't that kind of redundant, if I'm wrong can somebody please explain to me why because I don't get it

[@italianspartacus]

If two armies attack a city I believe you can choose to fight only one.. I'm a little foggy with skaven because I don't play them much, but I think if you attack two armies, even with ambush, you fight both unless lightning strike is active

[@enigmaticnasser9335]

@@italianspartacus If an ambush is successful I am certain you only have to face a single army, the defender in an ambush isn't allowed reinforcements, which is why I thought putting a point into lightning strike might be a bit unnecessary especially if Snikch has 100% ambush chance

[@Iantropic-Decay]

@@enigmaticnasser9335 You are right about that (at least from what I've seen). I cannot remember the last time I fought two armies at the same time while playing as Skaven or Alith, and have never taken Lightning Strike when playing these factions. There is always the chance for the ambush to fail, I suppose, and for lightning strike to be used. Worth using up a skill point for that possibility? Eh, not the choice I would make, but some will likely disagree with me on that. Am definitely interested if there are benefits that I am overlooking (will have to look into that city defence aspect that Spartacus mentioned).

[@Krvaviot]

First time I was this early I was in my mothers womb!!!

[@Dreamscythe1]

you said 200% upkeep, thats not true. its 200% recruitment cost. upkeep is not changed

[@Lee54]

Those turn times tho!!!

[@harryrashid9467]

60% faster due to QOL update then came along with the update

[@zakturf]

don't mind me i'm just 6 months late on getting to know that you can improve the turn times

[@lorvilleredenbacher8949]

are you secretly fightincowboy from the dark souls/sekiro scene....?i swear you sound alike, do your content alike, explain things in the same pattern, "what to do, and why, predicated by example"...you have to be the same guy

[@italianspartacus]

Hahahaha no.. But do you know epicnamebro? He's one of my KZbin idols and I'm close friends with his cousin. That's about the closest I get to that scene I'm afraid my dude

[@lorvilleredenbacher8949]

@@italianspartacus sorry so late. epicnamebro's lore series was great back on DS1. don't watch streams unfortunately though so idont see him much :O

[@MrHorribad]

U flash git. me not even have dlc yet :(

[@0786RICARDO]

How not to play skaven would be more appropriate

[@jamesraposa942]

you didn't show a single combat stage for how to actually play with the lord, which is all I came here to see .-.

[@italianspartacus]

I'm not sure what you're looking for brother. If you'd like to see how he performs in combat, I'd suggest a quick Custom Battle to see how he fares 1 on 1 against certain lords?