Elspeth von Draken Campaign Mechanics & Empire Rework - THRONES OF DECAY DLC - Total War Warhammer 3

The Total War Warhammer 3 Thrones of Decay DLC has been announced and revealed, so let's discuss Elspeth von Draken Campaign Mechanics, Unique units, Balthasar Gelt and Karl Franz love, and the Empire Campaign Rework coming in the form of a Legacy Update.
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[@champdynasty8992]

Gelt in Vietnam is a great change. 😎

[@MyTomServo]

SOME FOLKS ARE BORN GOLD SPOON IN HAND

[@MostlyUnreadArmchairExpert]

IT AINT ME - IT AINT MEEEE

[@thegethconsensus393]

They need to move him to Kuresh when that land mass becomes playable.

[@ozalfy2319]

OOH THE RED BLACK AND GOLD YEAH

[@christopherlane467]

Honestly, if they ever get around to the Naga in Khuresh, this is what needs to happen. Welcome to Khuresh, Gentlemen.

[@Zon501]

That last image thou…

[@garryame4008]

"It should've been me! Not him!"

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

lore accurate (unfortunately)

[@KingInBlack69]

​@@garryame4008it's not fair!

[@2prize]

😩

[@brandostacks]

Wow the steam tanks look beautiful

[@joedatius]

I'm so happy that the Knights of Morr are heavy melee cav and not shock cav. I thought i saw them with lances in the trailer and was kinda disappointed but now seeing them with unique swords and shields is just so damn cool.

[@charlesHC]

I love seeing the Mechanical Steed in. Always been such a cool model.

[@joedatius]

Very good to see Karl Franz being changed into making sure he plays as the defender of Empire rather then having play as a weird conqueror who's incentivized to just obliterate the other elector counts and control everything himself. It was like Franz was taking the German inspiration for Reikland a little too literally.

[@Banzaiiii2223456]

Did he fail art school?

[@papazoulou9326]

To quote Greed from FMAB : "Aw, I've had enough. Yeah. That's all I really need. They gave me everything I could want."

[@sbraypaynt]

8:48 The empire have discovered conical projectiles. It is so over for literally any other faction.

[@fallenhero4550]

I thought that aswell, give them 29 years and they'll be fielding WW1 Artillery Guns and Dreadnoughts will rule the Oceans.

[@ButTheCatCameBack]

Everyone revealed so far has been....well.....really good. It's almost scary. Whatever meetings they had after SoC did something. Can't wait to see dwarf dlc info.

[@somerandomperson8282]

I strongly suspect that its a change of management and giving more power to people like Richard Aldridge.

[@user-sd9dk5ir7v]

@@somerandomperson8282 whatever it is its working. It was so sad seeing this amazing series spiral downwards but now things are looking up again. Lets hope they dont shoot themselves in the foot again.

[@chozer1]

well they did fire alot of higer ups responsable for the SOC dlc so thats good

[@kilowyatt1107]

They finally recovered from the bathroom tornado that was hyenas

[@akumaking1]

Summon the Elector Counts!

[@Cpt_MacMillan]

such a great rework. all thats missing from my wishlist is the master wizard lord option

[@chilliewhk]

I would really like if we could at least get Max Schreiber as a LH master wizard.

[@carsonnesbit1178]

@@chilliewhkthat would be great, even without the LH though, I’m definitely going to try my best to form the Gotrek and Felix squad. We have Gotrek, Felix, Ulrika, Malakai, a generic gold wizard for max, and then I suppose I can just use 3 generic slayers heroes for Snorri, Bjorni, and Ulli. I’ll have to find a mod that lets Malakai recruit Ulrika but I imagine someone will make that very soon haha.

[@chilliewhk]

@carsonnesbit1178 apparently the Dwarfs are now able to recruit Ulrika. So no mod needed for that 😀

[@carsonnesbit1178]

@@chilliewhk hell yea!👌

[@seanrigsby4350]

I personally dont mind the Carmine Dragon's look. Yes, it has that Elven look. Many magical-oriented dragons share that look across the warhammer, And "DEATH" Dragons definitely should be one of those "magically supercharged" dragons. Maybe nothing on the tier of Star dragons, or Nightmare Dragons, but a powerful middle ground above things like Forest, Zombie, or Sun dragons.

[@The_People762]

11:35 franz jumpscare

[@mranderson9553]

the amber wizards can ride gryphons, summon 2 eagles (i forget if its group or great), and now with the college system they can temporarily summon beast incarnates, the college increases your hero cap each wizard you purchase through it so doomstacking with them isn't even that hard, can't wait to roll over people with 19 gryphons, 38 eagles and 19 incarnate beast

[@milkandcookiesTW]

sounds pretty gross lol

[@chasejordan5676]

Do we know if it’s 1 incarnate per army rather than 1 per wizard?

[@xPureAndTheTaintedx]

How are they summoning 38 eagles?

[@seegurke34]

@@xPureAndTheTaintedx Id guess 2 summons each - requires alot of magic though

[@xPureAndTheTaintedx]

@@seegurke34 At base you would need 760 winds of magic. With the generic -cost, you would need 608 Winds of Magic.

[@adults_talking]

About time empire codpieces got some love, 9 years late is better than never

[@Uriahthedevourer]

So nice to have you back bro

[@milkandcookiesTW]

thanks bro

[@rhada8264]

my boy pumpin' some videos late tonight. Thanks. I always listen carefuly to your opinion, Indy

[@nickg8100]

The Empire updates and campaign diversification make me excited for hopefully a Lizardmen rework someday sooner than later

[@cybernurgle6413]

I feel the same way with my boi Skarsnik.

[@heistingcrusader_ad3223]

Hope High Elves and Norsca get some too

[@Thukad]

Yeah. I love the Lord options, but lizardmen mechanics are rough

[@scudgaming603]

@@Thukad I would use the word nonexistent, the mechanics don't really change or add anything to base total war gameplay.

[@josephtucker8456]

@@scudgaming603 Yea the Lizardman mechanics boil down to occasional quests that pop up randomly that give you a random special unit, a single building chain that buffs commandments aaaaand that's about it lol

[@rhysiieboii]

Empire changes are amazing. Surprised though, I came here for Elspeth but stayed for Karl and Gelt lol

[@fallenhero4550]

We all stay for Karl, whenever an update comes out we play Karl.

[@carsonnesbit1178]

I know what you mean, I honestly think reworked Gelt actually looks more fun than Elspeth, they both look really fun though! I’m just really surprised that a game one character got so much love.

[@Laid2Rest94]

I wonder how many will hover over Elspeth before just clicking Franz again to SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!!

[@alistairbolden6340]

@@Laid2Rest94 Im going to play Karl, his new campaign options look dope, 5% damage and life for state droops per rank will mean Karl played as a melee/cav army will be very decent. I love that he can give his fellow electors free armies to use so ostermark and middenland don't get crushed while you take out all the bad guys in Brittonia. Gelt looks extreamly OP. I would totally return to the empire as him and go take all the woodelf lands.

[@Atercor-kx8hs]

Speaking of repeater's - I honestly was expecting those to be an RoR if Ironsides or the state variant (or whatever those are called, like Carroburg Greatswords). Shame, but those gunners still look both sexy and scary for the enemy!

[@oreledoria2537]

I've avoided dwarfs and empire like the plague ever since I first got WHII back around Vampire Coast release, but now their new toys have me chomping at the bit.

[@Yangager]

12:23 I've been looking forward to this since the Immortal Empires trailer. Let the fun begin!

[@carlosfred8673]

Gelt + Zhao Ming BFF

[@thomasdaywalt7735]

now this is war hammer

[@BloodyBobJr]

Hardest part for me with this DLC is who to play 1st..Nuln or dwarves. I love them both and while Nurgle looks cool its a distant 3rd for playing. I love me some Dawi slayer action and Nuln gunpowder destruction

[@alistairbolden6340]

Gelt. followed by dwarf and then Karl.

[@seranonable]

I just really wish there was a "all LLs start in their homeland" checkbox option, even if it meant stacking them on a single faction like in the first game. I really don't like the dartboard approach to starting locations. I want the option to have a loreful experience. I'm assuming the RR of for the ironsides will get repeaters. It would be weird if they didn't.

[@hunter0moo]

They don't

[@GlamdringandOrcrist]

Much needed positive outlook injected into the game. We love to see it.

[@Ratt611]

Yet again, the empire calls ! 🎉

[@Caranelen]

I love seeing the new steam tanks. By coincidence, I'm currently painting a Steam tank for my Cities of Sigmar.

[@felipealvarado8801]

Even though i know this is an english channel i need to put the spanish meme of one piece on this: Zhao Ming: Porque estas aqui y nos estas ayudando?🤨 Balthasar Gelt: Porque somos amiguis 😁🤙 Se ponen a bailar juntos.😁😁

[@MiguelSanchezDelVillar]

Zhao y Gelt son panas

[@nonya1366]

Well, could you translate it to english so we can enjoy it too? Or don't, I'm not your dad.

[@MiguelSanchezDelVillar]

@@nonya1366 Zhao: Why are you here helping us? Gelt: Because we are besties. They start dancing together

[@felipealvarado8801]

@@nonya1366 the problem is the meme is on the "amiguis" that is a funny way to use it on english I can translate you, but the meme part is lost: Zhao Ming: Why are you here and helping us? 🤨 Balthazar Gelt: Because were friends 😁🤙 They start to dance together.

[@nonya1366]

@@felipealvarado8801 Still, very wholesome.

[@Noblesix84]

This wait is already killing me, I want this DLC so bad.

[@dinoblacklane1640]

Oh man I hope that they go over the other game 1 factions and give them this sorta TLC Vampire counts have always been my #1 love (played them on the tabletop) and I so hope that they give this amount of attention when (I hope it's when) they get a focus

[@carbodude5414]

Can't wait to play as Evil Lyn

[@guilliman1990]

empire update has me so bloody happy

[@12345langham]

As someone who is fairly set on buying these DLCs (after post-embargo reviews) free reworks are the things I’m most excited for. Makes Shadows of Chamge even less appealing - new units are cool, but if their factions are still rotting in the campaign area, I do not care

[@chozer1]

And with the free update we get the nemesis crown finally

[@haldir56]

I mean, between Elspeth and the new changes to how the Empire’s campaign will play in general, the Empire finally sounds like a faction I actually want to play. I’m pretty excited.

[@QwH007]

Keep it up CA, keep up the good work

[@Luizguilherme-iz9yl]

I LOVE everything about the steam tank btw

[@secretspyguy9200]

Time for my 93rd Karl Franz Playthrough

[@bibby659]

When it comes to Elspeths dragon, it isn't conpletely stated how it is designed outside of being a crimson red dragon. And since most dragons all looks the same outside color, there isn't much for them to go off of. I wouldn't be surprised if they had asked GW on if there were any special features or anything, but they likely didn't give a good response outside of "go off the lore tab." So considering that I am not really dissatisfied on the whole thing. I am just surprised they at the very least changed the color, cause for all old management likely would have cared, they likely would've just given her a generic dragon mount and named it after her lore entry crimson dragon. In a way, they likely did technically do that, but until I see it, I wont be able to thoroughly guess as to any of the actual differences in models or features. But considering the dragon, there isn't much they can do with it unless its a corrupted dragon, like the chaos one, the undead one, or the dark elf ones. Otherwise most are just the same.

[@sierm020]

Gelt and Zhao doing lines of crushed warpstone off each other's ripped abs.

[@milkandcookiesTW]

very hot, very spicy wow

[@grilledleeks6514]

Between gelt going to Nam, and the new hot gun witch lady, empire is going to be a new favorite

[@alistairbolden6340]

Gelt looks so damn good now.

[@stormerjc9493]

I'm really liking this update but I'm a little scared we aren't getting wizard Lords or the celestial hurricanum cuz I thought for Sure they'd be in this dlc and the master engineer would just be a hero, didn't think they'd get a lord version

[@joshuacollins9346]

Honestly, I feel like if the Hurricanum was coming, it would be in this DLC.

[@stormerjc9493]

@@joshuacollins9346 yeah I thought the theme for the empire would have been gunpowder and sorcery in this dlc but they seem too have really doubled down on the gunpowder

[@samueljackson605]

robohorse gives hardcore giddy up buttercup fallout 4 vibe. Marienburg landship seems like it's going to bust alongside that thunderbarge the dwarves got. 'we have a land ship.' "Well look up mate, we got us a ship ship"

[@pinkfloyd19831]

By Sigmar, YES!

[@haloclockt]

My BOI INDY OUT HERE HUSTLING LIKE LEO DICAPRIOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@ethanlang276]

Can't wait for Okoii's "20 Wizards" video now lol

[@zarteen]

This is going to make the Old World map so fun

[@MrMogwaiMan]

I'll be honest, my only complaint is that it sounds like only elspeth gets the gunnery school (correct me if I missed something or misheard that). I play empire, and damn if I don't want better gun play. Hell, I've run that WWI mod my last 2 play throughs just because the empire's guns feel really lacking in their punch, and their artillery gets pretty useless after a certain point in most battles I've played, particularly against later game, high tier, high leadership, small but elite units/monstrous units. The idea of better buffs to them to make late game gunnery units absolute paradigm shifters, to show the effects that massed use of, and drastic improvement in firearms tech could have on war is something that draws me to the Empire. The idea of a juggernaut that, if it was ever allowed to get truly unified, motivated, mobilized, and continue it's advancements without supposed "giant rats" murder-killing/sabotage-booming their greatest inventors is one I've always wanted to see realized in the setting. Hopefully such an idea can get implemented before they go full "end times", because otherwise hordes of chaos monsters and aspiring champions, or really any single entity units that cause terror, can charge through formations into the back line, and can sow chaos in formations, will tend to wreck any non-dedicated counter armies from them

[@clopperz]

I hope in future they allow to keep provincial colours for Empire troops.

[@joshuacollins9346]

Empire rework sounds amazing. I'm not overly thrilled with Gelt's new location.

[@honorguard7616]

He is now down by vietnam, also in around 10 turns can return to the empire

[@bruuuuuuuuhhhh]

You're just jealous that Zhao and Gelt are bromancing all over the place

[@milkandcookiesTW]

where would you have preferred him to be? i feel like Cathay is a pretty cool start location for him and gives the Empire some nice diversity

[@generalvibes5853]

You can return to the empire fairly early on

[@JohnSmith-qb9ex]

Yeah, it's sad because as a Cathay player you gonna kill him in basically every campaign because there is a lot of trading goods and unique landmark in the south.

[@fosterbennington6405]

Time to prepare for a Gelt campaign😊

[@user-sd9dk5ir7v]

Yoooo that steam tank is looking sick. Ive been itching for a good empire campaign again and now is certainly the time for it

[@raynightshade8317]

I do wish their were even more Orders of Morr added with this, love the astedic and think Knights of the Raven would have been cool as hybrid outrider shock cav. Waralter of Morr for Death Wizards would have been great to

[@KingInBlack69]

I am still hoping that one day we'll get a DLC with knightly orders and grandmasters, for a proper melee lord.

[@alexs_toy_barn]

Us getting Theodore Bruckner just upsets me more that we don't have Kurt Hellborg and Ludwig Schwarzhelm 😔. We're still missing so many minor characters from the pre-legendary hero era

[@DeltaComp]

The Empire update looks great. I might just try them first when the patch is released.

[@RexorInvicta]

This is so epic, I love all these factions and these new units!

[@jessierine3981]

My idea for the amethyst armory: handgunners now cast spirit leech every time they hit a unit. Mortars now shoot purple suns :))) fair and balanced

[@andreasottohansen7338]

1:00 Okay, so i won't say I play TWW3 casually, but I had not noticed the thing about the dragon.

[@Minifutzi_o.O]

grenadiers are my favs. very mobile and can shoot the enemy from behind

[@yurisalesmendes5948]

When Boris will get his own campaign?

[@dreamaboutcoffee4967]

Damn. Was really hoping theyd add some frontline unit with actuall staying power. Ah well. Was getting really excited i didnt had to use clanrats disguised as state troops anymore.

[@bernhardterblanche7905]

Therapist: Extremely pixelated Karl Franz isn't real, he can't hurt you. Indypride: 11:33 Me: ゞ◎Д◎ヾ

[@milkandcookiesTW]

BRING ME TO MY MEN

[@carsonnesbit1178]

I’m very pleased with the reworks for all three factions, but I must say that I’m especially pleasantly surprised with the amount of love that Gelt has received. I didn’t buy SoC but I will definitely be purchasing ToD :)

[@sierm020]

*new recruit for the HLR* uh, sir, we are long range snipers. Why are we issued massive crotch guards? HLR commander: we're long rifles for a reason.

[@Alessus95]

Is the Empire update in addition to the current State Troops/Elector Count system or is that gone?

[@joedatius]

the State Troops/Elector Count system has been changed but not gone. from everything i've seen its just been made better and even Franz gets big buffs for State Troops

[@joshuacollins9346]

Another question I have is, will Gelt still have all his quest battles? I hope they don't disrupt or remove those due to his new starting location.

[@milkandcookiesTW]

i doubt that will be an issue. most people just teleport to their quests, so he very likely has all the same ones

[@joshuacollins9346]

@@milkandcookiesTW Yeah, I just saw Mercy's vid on Gelt and he still has his quest battles.

[@robovinefilms1811]

kind of strange the Nuln Ironsides are holding repeater rifles in the trailer but in the dev build they have generic long rifles. Hoping the trailer has the correct look.

[@milkandcookiesTW]

they confirmed to make it more lore friendly (and maybe cuz GW stepped in), they changed it to regular handguns. they will not have repeaters in the final build

[@ptavangar]

Side note: is Tamurkhan a DoC subfaction? He and a lot of his units are chaos beasts, not daemons...

[@milkandcookiesTW]

he is a Nurgle subfaction. Khorne, Tzeentch, Slaanesh, and Nurgle aren't daemon-only factions, they are monogods. Which means mortals and Daemons dedicated to each God, combined into singular rosters. So there will be mortal and Daemonic legendary lords for each of the Gods. But yes you are correct that Tamurkhan is a mortal champion, not a daemon

[@malachishock9343]

Nice

[@simonbas6]

I heard word that the empire was getting hero tier gold wizards too. Can you confirm?

[@tunencio7288]

yes, it´s true

[@milkandcookiesTW]

yes gold wizards are a flc hero choice, cool model too

[@Machina_EX_Machina]

Heck yeah, this looks promising ngl.

[@raynightshade8317]

You think Maranburg will start with a ship? Also i hope theor dock can rectute them

[@resileaf9501]

I hope Marienburg gets the landship in their garrison. It will make them a lot more resilient in the early game.

[@NeonNoodleNexus]

Does Gelt himself count as a wizard for the purposes of his new mechanic?

[@Azmodian]

Is everything so blurry cos of upload quality, or this new 'high bitrate' thing youtube has introduced if you pay?

[@bobbo8u]

bro you didnt even mention our boy had a mecha horse!

[@HorusHeresy1982]

Problem with the Empire Elector Count regions is the main factions shit on them within 10-30 turns and there's nothing you can do to help at the start. Reclaiming was only ever useful to get back the Authority you lost for them being shit.

[@damo9961]

Hopefully the Dawi DLC is just as good.

[@garryame4008]

In addition to the dragon model, Elspeth's dragon also seems to lack a name :(

[@quaqamolgreatandmightyskin7312]

Do volkmar and the huntsmaster get some updates too?

[@joedatius]

Volkmar was was already updated and the most i know about Markus is that he gets to use Empire Mechanics if he returns to the empire

[@resileaf9501]

Markus already has a pretty unique campaign in Lustria, so he doesn't really need an update.

[@quaqamolgreatandmightyskin7312]

I've watch a vid, they have some minor modifications so fair enough. That's good. They'll probably benefit from the empire update either way :)

[@yasminasbolla1383]

No dismounted reiksguard? 🥲

[@IronStaff7]

Empire looking sexy. Defiantly going to reignite those Empire Campaign lovers including me.

[@MAZGamingUK]

SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!

[@KommissarAlexander]

DLC looking good so far. It might be the first DLC I buy since Champions of Chaos. It's a shame it took some catastrophic failures by CA part to finally start caring for this title. We could've had this type of quality from day 1.

[@QRC19900]

Hope karl will get the school if he occupies Nuln

[@FaustLiber]

I pray for a vampire coast dlc and Vampire counts REAL rework

[@CrzyLion]

the changes sound amazing, just hope theres a reason to play demigryphs now.

[@altromonte15]

Buffs for the Gabe Newell tanks? Finally they got out of early access and are playable.

[@yaboku1686]

No way did they actually not give the Ironsides repeaters if the have the model...

[@CT-Clone]

I feel a bit scammed by the fact that the Ironsides won't get repeater rifles and the Master Engineer has a grenade launcher and not a Hochland Long Rifle... but everythinge else is *chef's kiss*

[@JedrzuGaming]

The nex big thing for empire could be Religion ubdate. Nie i am nordland pilled cuz of RPG campain i prepare so manan and sea lords would be fun, Taal and Horned knghts, Ulric as you said. Like one priest and knight devoted to said god

[@fanofwar40k]

8:28 I was kinda expecting them to be wielding a sort of blunderbuss from the artwork I saw from the End Times. Like the Ironsides would be medium or short ranged infantry who hit hard but with a limited amount of ammunition.

[@dafq9149]

There waa mention somewhere yhe Freelc is an gold wizard hero, so now we have lore of metal hero for empire finally

[@tienyabut2152]

Wait no changes at all to Volkmar

[@em4rtzz]

damnn Turin is about to shit himself!

[@borgCube100]

Edit: I will say this - I can not look at Elspeth and see anything other than Katarin. Like ridiculously so. High Elves are my fav faction, and the one I collect in TT. But Empire campaigns in TWW seem to give the almost more fun battles. I never get bored with their campaigns. Very much looking forward to this DLC. back in 2015/6 when TWW was being teased and announced, I played Wissenland in Call of Warhammer and it got me so hyped. To have a dedicated DLC to them is making me cream.

[@williammitchell6254]

I hope the dawi doesnt get as many changes as nurgle and empire. Only faction of the 3 i was happy with before this dlc.

[@bertschmert]

Sweet mother of god. We are in for the best mother fucking expansion we have ever seen in Warhammer TW.

[@nicolinrucker5181]

SNIPE MORTARS LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!