How to play Norsca Roster & Battle Strategy | Total War: Warhammer 2

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[@codybonds]

I love the thumbnail on this one!

[@ColonelDamneders]

Everybody loves throggy ❤️

[@ThePelly]

Except perhaps Sigvald the Magnificent...

[@tryxis5570]

Don’t even own the Norsca DLC, just love the videos! Keep up the good work man!

[@ColonelDamneders]

❤

[@S1ms1mmm]

I don't even own the game...

[@garrettlich7140]

Me “I only play the lizardmen and dark elves for dinosa” Norsca “mammoth attack” Me “I main lizardmen dark elves and norsca and any thing else with prehistoric shit”

[@garrettlich7140]

Thank you for the like what’s your fave race and units

[@themelonn6313]

Yes this is a good guide! Not only did you explain well but you show them in action too.

[@90snetworkproductions79]

How ironic, watched the Norsca experience videos, MAX TESTOSTERONE. cruised through my VERY FIRST ME campaign as them on normal, popped Couronne, told Archeaon to jump off a bridge, and he came at me with Kholek, and random chaos lords. Got that buff for popping chaos which is -75% upkeep across the board, MMM!!! Helped me get 7 armies up and going full of mammoths!! (P.S. why did I not see any of those regiment of reknown you showed besides the frost wyrm and the Ice Cannon?)

[@Zephyrion_]

you need to make a total war access account and "unlock" the 30th anniversary RoR pack from the website in order to get the other Regiments of Renown (The pack also had the Bretonnian, Wood Elf, and Chaos RoRs)

[@Theosis10]

Well as Norsca you have to do the special champion challenges and hunts to unlock RoR units.

[@90snetworkproductions79]

@@Theosis10 there’s only like 2 that are good, the others.... not so much...

[@Theosis10]

@@90snetworkproductions79 I don't claim to be an expert on which ones are worth it or not. He was just asking how to unlock them.

[@ColonelDamneders]

This should be higher up mate. Not a sponsor at all but TW Access gets you all sorts of good stuff

[@yahoody1978]

This is my first total war I have ever played and your guides are helping me not lose immediately and I thank you for it.

[@ColonelDamneders]

Glad I can help

[@randomwingman545]

Yes, we needed this.

[@corywarren5297]

I've been patiently waiting for this one

[@ColonelDamneders]

I've been patiently waiting for this comment

[@corywarren5297]

@@ColonelDamneders I was patiently waiting for that comment also ❤ you're doing great and I really enjoy your content!

[@TheYannir]

Berserkers are one of the best infantry units of their tier. Bringing Great Weapons over THEM would be a mistake.

[@danielolsson7134]

Artturi: Great Weapon Marauder have 10 more armour-piercing damage over Berserkers, that's it.

[@benedeknagy8497]

@@danielolsson7134 Thats why i like to bring along a metal caster. Glittering scales and plague of rust can compensate for the weakness of berserkers.

[@DIY_Miracle]

Skin wolves are my absolute preferred anti cav unit and I much prefer them to actual Norscan cav, can clear up archers or just counter enemy cav if they have the high mobility superiority (like Bretonnia)

[@Hdhhdhdjfjdndndskmdjdjddjdjjd]

As someone who is a big fan of chariots I'd like to say that the ice wolf chariots are really nice to use. They cause frostbite, have a lot of weight and armor and haveing fear makes them good for routing enemies quickly.

[@CiceroSolo]

Great video! Why do British make the best TW videos? My only real issue is I love Skin Wolves but they don't have any armor piercing so I don't really know exactly who to target with them. Aside from minotaurs, trolls and cheap cav most large targets are armored. I actually had my first MP game ever the other day. I played Norsca vs. Vampire Counts. Femir and beserkers were the backbone of my army and I won!

[@Liverpaul1990]

Personally I very much like the Manticors and sometimes bring them rather than a Frostwyrm since the Manticors Do an excellent Job in Sieges against Archers on Walls and you can easily get their building in captured capitols if they Happen to Die. Also I always mixed the Marauder Champions with Shields and Greatweapons.

[@haveagoodday6060]

Btw you can set keys to move time in the controls menu. Ex if the time is slow mode and you have the hotkey to move time up you could press that hotkey to move up time.

[@ColonelDamneders]

It's T by default to speed it up and I like to set SHIFT+T to slow time 👍

[@OneBloodyBloodGod]

Marauders rule. Get the Bladeworker's hammer, Metalworker's Anvil, and butchers captives' tech, then get you Lord's "Fearsome Warriors" skill maxed out and the use Skinwolf heroes for the fighting buffs and viola, dirt cheap infantry that will fight to the death and do tremendous damage in the process.

[@brad5498]

"One of the most APM intensive games in the world" *laughs in Dawi*

[@crioTimmy]

Well, even being an absolute newbie in TW (just a month now), I've already realized that to be "APM non-intensive" as a Dawi you either have to play with constant pausing (which I do; also, does pushing the P button counts as an action?), or totally not use aircraft and Slayer (which, ironicallly, I'm also doing right now playing as Belegar Ironhammer)

[@CalebAdams]

Yessss been waiting on your Norsca guide!!!

[@kthissen94]

I’m sold, buying right now lol 😂

[@theingeniousone5141]

Today is my birthday thank you for the upload

[@ColonelDamneders]

Happy birthday gamer

[@shirtlessviking9225]

marauder horsemen and masters are also great to make the enemy split up, so your melee can ez kill them in waves

[@juliotavares3638]

Man love your Channel, good content and informative. Waiting for the video for beastman's roster ;)

[@ColonelDamneders]

Thanks gamer. Beastmen Guides should start in about a month!

[@Razielts1]

Queue Vikings OST!!!

[@spideyboi1896]

The winter is here...

[@glenr7393]

Just one mistake, Fimir Warriors are large entity size not small (it's on the unit card @17.35)

[@JWootton]

Ooooooo yes

[@shirtlessviking9225]

about the ''rush'' strat, i have tried for lols to make an all horsemaster/horsemen with axes army, it was FAR from as good as mammoths but it opened up a lot of strategies with ambushing (Ambush without the ambush stance) and such... Really fun but not as powerfull

[@kimarous]

15:05 "shared by like three factions at this point." Wargrove of War makes that four.

[@ColonelDamneders]

Dern i was close

[@AlexK07779]

funny your comment about playing this with a xbox controller as I have over 200 hours in this game with just an Xbox controller! I work on a pc all day and have had some RSI issues, and using a controller is just more comfy than more Keyboard & Mouse plus I enjoy playing on my 65 inch TV in steam big picture mode. The game plays fine you just have to pause more and it can get annoying with more micro intensive armies or units with abilities but overall the game still plays well enough with group commands and movement + pause.

[@ColonelDamneders]

It was honestly fine aside from battling but playing dwarfs made it more bearable

[@pvtdraco]

U can play with controller lol wtf

[@AlexK07779]

@@pvtdraco yea steam controller settings. Turn down deadzones. Left stick mouse, right stick movement. D pad zoom and rotate. X and y left and right mouse. B pause, a group. Right trigger is shift key. Rb is next unit left shit is previous unit , left bumber is alt. Etc.. It works just need to pause more

[@pvtdraco]

@@AlexK07779 thats wild

[@ColonelDamneders]

Be sure to check out the streaming channel here: www.twitch.tv/coloneldamneders What's your favourite Norscan unit?

[@Razielts1]

Fimir, Skin wolves, Ice trolls and Warshrine mammoths!

[@sympunny8636]

@@Razielts1 out of interest what do you like about warshrine mammoths? They're worse than the war mammoth in almost every way, they have less hp, more upkeep and recruitment cost (good thing norca's economy is so strong...:( , require a t5 building rather than t4, don't have that sweet constant ranged attack. And in exchange for all of that, they get an ok leadership buff?

[@Razielts1]

@@sympunny8636 2 of each make the perfect match let me get home and I can give you more details they don't just increase leadership.

[@Razielts1]

@@sympunny8636 they have encourage = +8 leadership if no lord / hero is nearby, +10 leadership ( that one stacks ) and finally they have an active buff you can give to a specific unit of +16 leadership +24 melee attack and imbue fire damage. With 2 warshrine mammoths you can give that buff to the other mammoths, the skin wolves, or any unit you see needs the buff, so yeah i prefer to have 2 buffs and less ranged dps so i can make other units stronger.

[@sympunny8636]

@@Razielts1 i guess but then you're making weaker units ok through leadership buffs, instead of making strong units, stronger and cheaper and easier to get, I mean, you can just spam an entire army of war mammoths and they'll eat through anything, you don't need to buff the leadership of your marauders and trolls so they don't run away like the cowards they are, (man, greenskin trolls are so much better than norscan ones, what happened there?) Not that you need to do that, but either way at that point you normally already have units with decent leadership, so you're building to t5, upgrading, getting a secondary building (taking up slots) otherwise you're not allowed to recruit war mammoths, paying more both recruitment and upkeep per turn, giving up health and a really solid ranged attack, for some leadership and one melee attack buff? It's really not the most exciting given how the t4 variant is possibly the best unit in the game. Don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with playing with units you like, whether they're good or not, but the warshrine is just such a disappointment compared to the war mammoth. The ranged attack alone makes it so much faster at clearing through units, since it keeps constantly firing while in melee.

[@richardglowinski6554]

Woodelves next?

[@ColonelDamneders]

Yep already started playing them on stream

[@richardglowinski6554]

@@ColonelDamneders very excited

[@danielolsson7134]

I think it's a bit sad that Marauder Spearmen don't have sheilds. I'm sure the Norscan Warhounds have a variant with poisoned attacks? www.honga.net/totalwar/warhammer2/unit.php?l=en&v=warhammer2&f=wh_dlc08_nor_norsca&u=wh_main_nor_mon_chaos_warhounds_1

[@proudpatriot3491]

Hell yeah I just said the other day I wish the Colonel would do a Norsca.

[@AnvilMAn603]

build mammoths build more mammoths keep building mammoths

[@swapertxking]

how do you get the regiments of renown? i've only got the three units.

[@ColonelDamneders]

Level up your faction leader is the way most factions do it

[@swapertxking]

@@ColonelDamneders when i play norsca i only have the dragon, mammoth, and hellcannon regiments of renown, there arent cards for the others regiments of renown

[@swapertxking]

okay so, i need the ca connect thing for the extra RoR...

[@blaster23456]

Everyone talk a lot of crap against Wulfric, until they get within boating range.

[@brianolson5003]

Sir... You did not just say total war uses the most apm... Starcraft you do about 10x the amount of Apm...

[@Rucka_Inc.]

"Total War is one of the most amp intensive games" Someone clearly hasn't played Hungry Hungry Hippos.