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[@LoremasterLiberaster]

Hey Legend, thank you so much for covering this! Sent this primarily so that you make people aware of the absolute insurmountable bullshit that the A.I. is pulling off these days. It is definitely something unacceptable even on legendary

[@cathulionetharn5139]

Your turn twelve: 20k gold in bank 2570 income My turn twenty: please let this treasure be sunken isle so I can afford an archive to continue the tech tree. Not that I'm criticising (or am allowed to since I don't play skaven) we just have completely different playstyle, I build an army and can wipe out threats like that at the cost to economy, You don't have enough shit in your armies but a pretty impressive economy.

[@LoremasterLiberaster]

@@cathulionetharn5139 at turn 12 or 20 you cannot afford anything doomstack-worthy. Having doomstacks actually helps the economy because you don't overbloat your military with supply lines. With Skaven it is easy to manage early game, each of their buildings produces money + a lot of money from post-battle loot + skavenslaves are cheap af Try them!

[@cathulionetharn5139]

@@LoremasterLiberaster indeed but you can rush 2 armies (one full, one between 10 and 20 units). This has the added benefit of being able to bait and ambush (stronger army infront of the weaker army uses ambush stance, minor income bonus if on enemy territory and the smaller army raids), siege a city with one army and if there is another just outside scare it off or destroy with the other (make sure to have siege attacker tho), with two armies you can do two sack-cities (if you can find the right settlements for that). It's also helpful for that one single settlement faction that sits in it's only bloody settlement with it's entire army and refuses to leave. But yes, eventually you need to either get something to reduce upkeep or enough settlements and money to build an actual economy.

[@lunarixis9957]

@@cathulionetharn5139 Economy is much more valuable imo, being able to field 3+ cheap armies over 1 expensive army gets you much further from my (admittedly still somewhat limited) experience. Especially as the Skaven factions.

[@cameronroy2129]

Hey I gotta ask, but were you the guy posting this on the total war reddit or was that a completely different guy with exactly the same problem

[@TheYannir]

Sending disloyal generals to their doom is probably the most lore-friendly thing you've ever done.

[@Rafael_Fuchs]

Should do it, if you don't already. Those loyalty dilemmas are able to be easily farmed for more value spent on the lords. Recruit a couple slaves into the army and you get what's basically a free revolt without having to wait for public order to tank.

[@messiha666]

Nobody's getting sent to their doom. It's called a battlefield promotion, thank you very much.

[@vadimsegida2320]

Agree 100%

[@andrewstarks3530]

A full hour build up for an auto-resolve battle

[@matthewcarson3736]

55:51 That might be the most skaven thing you've said yet.

[@NcrXnbi]

How to solve every day problems? Just throw a shit ton of rats at the problem. Still not fixed? Throw more rats.

[@sim.frischh9781]

Half the army´s units wiped out, other half heavily damaged. "Acceptable losses". Yes, definitely, THE most Skaven thing.

[@elzabethtatcher9570]

"He chose to be disloyal, what i gonna do about it?" says Legend as he sends his commander to its doom.

[@JB-xl2jc]

Doom!? No-no, just giving him chance to... prove himself! Not-not my fault he FAILED!!

[@leznets91]

- scurry away - send rats to die - corrupt the land - vermintide them to death 10/10 skaven tactics

[@sim.frischh9781]

Skrolk´s starting position is really f*cked, he has no Dino killing starting units starting in an area where basically everyone has Dinos. He and Lokhir Fellheart are usually gone very soon, though sometimes the Blessed Dread manages to get strong.

[@gobz8965]

My malus campaign the blessed dread are still alive at turn 100 never seen that before

[@stefan1360]

Dark Elves destroy Dino's with darkshards, the ai seems to be doing just fine for them

[@Cooli167]

Skaven have to overwhelm them in Early game with slaves and clanrat spears. Darkelves just need a decent line of Daerkshards and Dreadspears to kill everything, but thats their MO anyway. Only thing the Dark Elves should fear are the long range and number of High Elven Archers to counter them.

[@Samot0423]

In my sartosa campaign he had a strong start, wiping out teclis early, but Itza came in and devoured him like turn 40

[@ajuicywaffle9037]

i played a markus wulfhart campaign where skrolk had controlled 90% of lustria and had allied with either the blessed dread or vampire coast (cant remember). either way i barely came up against any lizardmen that entire campaign and it felt like markus went from being the huntsmarshal to pest control.

[@blurghthebuilder8793]

with any other faction it would be catastrophic to lose 3000 men but with skaven its just like "acceptable casualties"

[@ninjacom3]

Yeah skaven and undead are generally like that.

[@lolWillieP]

LOL scrolling over that full dino army and the casual 'looking at ours, looks like we've got skavenslaves.' Almost spit out my drink, what a funny scenario

[@gp-1542]

Literally the slann definition of “I want you to screw over that guy in particular”

[@wbishop]

39:50 "slavenscaves"

[@flashbaggins427]

at 12:41 Skrolk says 'Better than Thanquol yes-yes' :D

[@diocletianscabbage7972]

I think it’s one of the grey seers.

[@flashbaggins427]

@@diocletianscabbage7972 Gray seer from the Gotrek and Felix books indeed, its why I brought it up :)

[@michaelhobson1007]

@@flashbaggins427 I think he meant that it was not Skrolk who said it. The Gray seer lords say it. Different voice.

[@flashbaggins427]

@@michaelhobson1007 Oooooooooh fair enough. Thought he had Skrolk selected at that point

[@Tom2182]

When the Power bar shift a bit, Legend laughed in skaven*

[@douggibson2030]

saw this on the reddit this morning, was wondering if it got sent in to you!

[@LoremasterLiberaster]

Fortunarely he saw and covered it

[@alexandruvisan7509]

Came here to say this. I'm very glad he did it

[@madman-wv1wm]

Same

[@timothykurdt7645]

@16:40 you can tell the rite of primeval glory army has disbanded some of the units they had a few turns ago. It started with 19 units, now it has 16.

[@TarsonTalon]

Legend: *Sees a Primeval Glory army heading his way. Realizes he's playing as early game Scaven. Also Legend: "Alright, Ima scatter-flee..."

[@gokublack8342]

55:52 You make good Skaven yes-yes!

[@bruceeboy0627]

That was one of the most anticlimactic SYDCs I have ever watched..........i love it!

[@deni140492deni]

This is why I don't play with pestilens. This and clan skryre forbidden workshop is fun ahhahhah

[@TheDarkkilla12]

It happens when you play as Khalida in TK, you get a foothold by killing the Vampire Counts sub faction where you start off in and you WILL meet a Last Defender monster doomstack when you KNOW it’s still way too early to do that. It’s not just on Pestilence that gets this type of issue, it’s a Lizardmen issue.

[@HylianDefender]

You can acquire units from your faction revolts?! That's AWESOME! Also, as the Skaven, I, too, enjoy a snack city

[@delenix23]

55:45 epic laugh with ACCEPTABLE LOSSES. Classic Legend, made me laugh out loud

[@adamstilber8382]

yeah I've had super early rite of primeval glory's when playing clan pestilence before. Like not even turn 20 and get shat on by dinos

[@jimbob4447]

And despite this there are still absolute 2heads that think there's nothing wrong with the Rite of Primeval Glory and it doesn't need a complete rework.

[@bbdf21]

There is absolutely nothing wrong, fugg the Skaven :P

[@shuttze]

seems balanced to me

[@bbdf21]

@@shuttze Who cares about balance, if the Skaven get into the lategame or just, you know, get Weapon teams, they do the same to everyone else.

[@Ludvik789]

It's just a threat in the very early stages of the game xD I've never lost a campaign to it, ever. A nuisance at best those 2 or 3 times I've encountered one

[@jimbob4447]

@@Ludvik789 I's a dumb right that could be changed so easily to something far better. For the AI it basically just gives then an opportunity in the early game to completely screw you over whilst for the player it's basically an instant 'crash your own economy' button.

[@healinglight333]

That was pretty interesting! You have a lot of patience! :D

[@grimgorironhidedabestdamas3602]

55:50 2500 LOSSES Acepptabel!

[@MrMortadelas]

That is a small town!

[@usokitsuki]

@@MrMortadelas now its a small town with LOTS OF FREE PROPERTY

[@funngy1122]

@@usokitsuki THINK ABOUT THE ECONOMY

[@Riwillion]

Pro tip: Do this crap on purpose (you can even wipe your own armies using AoE magic/artillery to this end) to end up with a 20% HP buff trait on your lord. Extremely nice and useful for melee-centric lords you really want to max out for maximum bullshittery.

[@KazeKoichi]

One look on the thumbnail, and I knew it's going to be rite of primeval glory.

[@Kaiimei]

I do like how you covered this in spite of the fact it's turn 12 because it's honestly interesting to watch!

[@TheVergile]

Meanwhile at Clan Skryre: prepare the nukes!

[@akshayjb8205]

Just be positive, at least there are more meats to share

[@mattteague6190]

I do not comment on KZbin videos but I had to just to tell you that your videos are AWESOME, Legend! As a "Total Noob" I've learned a ton from you. KEEP IT UP!

[@rangerminsc3152]

Watching all of Legends Disasters Battles inspired me to start a dwarf campaign with the slayer king as i never could bring myself to give it a try in the earlier days of Warhammer 2 after all the greenskin updates as it always seemed to dissolve into a grudge match but i decided i would try it anyway and i watched a unit of Giant slayers and regular slayer units kill hundreds of goblins each in the early game battles were the A.I spammed nothing but Goblin stacks. the slayer units may be of limited use later on but i think i'm hooked on slayer units for better or worse sorry Mr.Legend.

[@lazyking7444]

I hade to deal with Malus monster army on turn 15 as Khaleda. It sucks. XD

[@dantesparda14175]

Rest in peace Skavenslave slingers. For context I’m from the future where legend doesn’t use them anymore. Truly heartbreaking

[@shadowjezzter]

“Hey guys! How should we make it more fair for the A.I, since players are big brain?” “Give them DINOSAURS on turn 12!” CA

[@brillybobs4544]

I had this on turn 2

[@Josh-qu1gs]

Had a Loki game down their and 12 turns in on normal that showed up had no idea what to do

[@gerrygunawan4130]

Yeah me too get the same problem, last week i play as Khalida .. around 15 or 20 turns, suddenly Last Defender declare war and already near my capital city with thos Dinosaurs... almost full stack of Dinosaurs, and nothing can u do.... imagine ur army mainly consist skeleton suddenly those huge dinosaur with anti infantry abilities roaming and destroy any army i mustered...

[@NotTheAbhi]

Saw it on Reddit went back to see if its the same.

[@NagshforPrimeMinister]

this happened to me early in my Vampire coast campaign as well, but at least I had guns and that was on Easy

[@leebroyjordans9472]

Imagine this happens to me on turn 12? Well... 1) this army dies for the glory of the great-mighty Horned Rat 2) a new army is hired quick-fast to kill-slay wounded lizard things 3) profit-profit

[@ericposey4124]

I had this happen to me in a luthor harkon campaign. Thankfully it got bogged down in the marsh but MAN was that a pita.

[@dragonkingofthestars]

Legend of total war: Clever girl.

[@ztrowey4790]

At least it aint as dangerous as clan angrund on a skarsnik campaign

[@henrik617]

This just happend to me on turn 16 and they got 3 feral carnosaur, 9 feral stegadon and 3 feral bastiladon. I just wanted to play a Lord Skrolk campaing, but the game didnt like that :/

[@Daddylonglegs93]

I had this happen to me playing as Lybaras. Managed to win by hiding in the trees with two full stacks, but that was a GRIND. (And that was turn ~20, so a bit easier)

[@saxontaylor4787]

This guy must have the worst luck in history

[@alexpacheco2031]

Yeh seems fair uuugh

[@dragonlord2451]

"acceptable losses!!!" the most skaven thing ive heard .-. Legend is a different man playing skaven lmao

[@keto3883]

45:20 .... the lord was right not to trust

[@Sorloth12345]

I've had this happen to me turn 15... as Itza... because mazdamundi was a dick

[@isaacscerri9696]

Hi Legend if you could give me tips on how to play the Mortal Empires Deathmaster Sniktch campaign as Brettonia keeps bugging me over could really appreciate it mate thanks for the content.

[@thebackround4578]

39:50 "Start replacing these with sleeping escapees" Oh KZbin subtitles are a wonderful thing

[@vadimsegida2320]

AI always saves money for that dino mini stack

[@lukascreech3229]

Eyyyy, thats how ive won to walled battles! Clear the walls with warp lightning and let warpfire throwers and ratling guns mulch anything in the doorway.

[@rosalina2938]

Oyxl... that sounds so wierd

[@Darek_B52]

Right here is why I hate fighting lizardmen.

[@x0lopossum]

I just realized Oyxl is pronounced "Oiksl" not "Oxl".

[@dragoons292010]

This always happens to me on Clan Pestilens campaign, and I play on normal difficulty. And being a noob, I get fucked badly.

[@baudsp]

legend talked about another disaster battle between skaven and a rite of primeval glory army, which video was it?

[@DeathSithe92]

"Imagine this happening to you on turn 12" *Laughs in that happening to me on EVERY faction I play at turn 3 on normal.....*

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Ah, another beautiful day on Ulthwan. The waves are crashing on the docks of Lothern, the tower of Hoeth is visible in the distance, and- GWAAAAAURG ...Gods, the Carnosaurs figured out where the dragons fled to. Ulthwan is doomed.

[@jonny_kung]

I’m too early here it seems! Whilst you’re reading this, perhaps I could get some help? Is it still possible for Chaos to get the sword of Khane?

[@toddhoward3471]

Im pretty sure legend did a live stream where he had pretty boy go fetch it

[@rockabady2345]

Yes you have to take it off someone

[@jonny_kung]

Thanks guys. I have been reading that it’s not possible anymore or that you have to get lucky to get it. I’ll try and give it a go.

[@obamabinladin1134]

@@jonny_kung not really lucky. Usually from turn 1 to 100 or 150 it's on Ulthuan and normally Tyrion/Everqueen/minor HE faction has the sword of khane, so u can just B line towards it while you unite the north.

[@danielwinoto9596]

Got the same scenario... Same unit.. As pestilent too.. I think its a bug lol

[@AdeptaKerillian]

This has happened to me playing Lybaras a few times. Just gotta grind them down lol

[@AlanLamb11]

Yep, that and once playing Teclis I had Vaashnar's Conquest appear on turn 16... took 3 battles where Teclis died twice to wear them down. That combo of bolt thrower + chosen + black orcs + cold one knights + dragons is almost impossible to deal with only tier 2 units on VH/L in a single battle.

[@AdeptaKerillian]

@@AlanLamb11 yeah college of pyrotechnics is the bane of my existence. Outsiders grenade launchers and steam tanks sub turn 10... like why

[@harryb7661]

acceptable losses!

[@zachrobertson684]

You say lightning strike not necessary for Skaven. Is this bc of their ambush attack? Is that a sure thing? In my Snikch campaign I had one instance where I had to Lighting Strike four Last Defender armies into dogshit in one turn, ambush didn't trigger when I attacked.

[@Mithirael]

31:40 I've actually gotten Grombrindal to have so much armour that Goblin Archers did zero damage to him. I was dodging shots with him during a siege, had to manage my artillery and he stopped. Went over to him and well... nothing.

[@Mithirael]

@Deathsdayoff person Well he is immune to arrows from Goblin archers now. It's probably a combination of his insane armour and other resistances, but he takes absolutely no damage from them.

[@Mithirael]

@Deathsdayoff person Well then I may have broken it cuz he ain't taking any damage, impossible or no.

[@blakeisthebeast]

@@Mithirael did he have that dwarf talisman you have to craft that grants regen?

[@Mithirael]

@@blakeisthebeast Negative.

[@UnbornHeretic]

I was thinking I want to see a clan pestilens mortal empire campaign because its such a hard start.

[@hutchenscarter]

That was so goddamn anticlimactic

[@jakubs.5966]

Haha. Turn 12 xD Niceee one!

[@memesarentfunny2248]

if he would have put the slingers on the wall it would have ended the city fight sooooo much faster

[@miroshan6560]

When you put too much mods on your favorite game

[@TheMrYadrian]

About this title: I do not need to imagine this because in my Wulfhart campaign I had pleasure to meet a such nice dino stack on turn 18 XD

[@jakemartin5553]

Ive always gone slinger spam. They arent significantly worse than spears at tarpitting the enemy but they can put out decent damage in the process (with focus fire and skaven armor shredding options). Slave slinger missile strength is misleadingly low as well. You gotta think that most missile units come with 80-100 models while the slave slingers come with 140. Obviously theyd still lose to an archer stack but you can bring entire army stacks of slaves that cost a total of 500 gold per turn.

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Aye. They can put out disturbing quantities of damage through sheer brute mathematic force.

[@kelleren4840]

I always forget summon units degrade in vanilla. Such a stupid mechanic. I know it's for multiplayer balance, but HONESTLY, just make it a MP mechanic then, and leave campaign alone lol. Anyway. Random rant lol

[@Twlfmon]

It happend to me like a week ago

[@link31793]

That happens to me when I play alith anar campaigns and its terrible

[@cerionic6733]

Wait I saw this on reddit, funny how the world works.

[@blagerthorpnonersense1894]

Rats deserve this on turn 12

[@chilidoghamsalad9952]

The ai will also disband those early game big stacks slowly if their income is still early game

[@ThomasL12.]

on legendary they usually don’t because the amount of cheats they get.

[@chilidoghamsalad9952]

@@ThomasL12. they do when it's an army like that, on legendary too.

[@koheletcalaforexclan6508]

I’ve started a Thorgrim Campaign, 60 turns in I’m slightly rich, I’ve killed the bloody spears, have good relations and started a war with Grimgor I start working my way towards black crag, wondering if my eastern shaven neighbors are okay when after I charge for a lone goblin army, Grimgor assaults the Peaks with a huge army from the east! 🤦‍♂️🥶

[@keeganviegas9208]

Is it just me or does TW 2 look and feel better than TW 3?

[@bennemeth625]

Lots of Skaven disasters lately. I guess they're one of those factions that are difficult to learn but rewarding once you do.

[@Amyante]

Might give it a try, it sounds like a "How fast can you build Ratling Guns" race, with heroes to bog down the enemy with summoned Vermintide fodder.

[@bennemeth625]

@@Amyante Well, that's legendary. You can get away with balanced/gimmick armies on easier difficulties.

[@johnnatandc]

With the greenskins at my turn 20-30 confederate and send me full stacks with spiders at my province... I am playing like gromdinval

[@jaydaytoday3548]

Disappointed in that it was a big build up the whole video on how to he was going to fight the Dinos and in the end he just auto resolved it. I was envisioning Armies of dead Skavens and the brink of defeat only to be saved by a few rattling guns. We lost out on an epic battle in the end.

[@Rgoods1991]

Pretty much every Skrolk campaign I've ever played....

[@christianeichmueller8637]

Man I just got crushed over 20 times on legendary because I always got this army’s coming my way between turn 10 - 17 :D super easy barely an inconvenience

[@tychoschenkels7841]

@@christianeichmueller8637 If you lizardmen could just get waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off my back, that would be great

[@jardakkspiritfang5962]

Turn 12 Primeval Glory army is exactly why I am not ashamed to admit I still use the backspace exploit when the A.I. decides to pull more cheats out of their ass. If they won't play fair, neither will I.

[@metrozeegle4985]

Play on legendary they said ! It’s gonna be fun they said !

[@Qatrebew]

what i'm getting from this video is that his problems would've all been solved by playing hardcore clan pestilens and spreading horrific diseases everywhere.

[@megamarine]

I don't like how theese days Skaven response to everything is just ratling guns. Yeah they are efficient, and cool but gets quickly boring as well

[@changliu7346]

Do what you like, I guess you can do a no ratling guns

[@megamarine]

@@changliu7346 Yep. That's true. It's hard to not to recruit them though.

[@changliu7346]

@@megamarine the thing is they are so versatile, it's not best against everything, but it's more than okay most of the time

[@TarsonTalon]

It's almost like guns are more powerful than swords and bows, or something...

[@changliu7346]

@@TarsonTalon I think that's the problem when it comes to warhammer. It's has so many variety. You don't hear people complain about guns in something like Rome 2.

[@santhinal7767]

I wish I could afford this game. :( darn college.

[@udozocklein6023]

give some lessons. the money can be easily made in 2 days by giving lessons! good luck

[@markuswil-fart1901]

I mean…. With WeMods….. you can handle anything on round 2 ;))

[@cielghoul2034]

Oh, I know that one from reddit!

[@gustafmannerheim9720]

Can you do the open the gate cheese on them?

[@maximilianh.3890]

yes it's possible, just did it yesterday playing Luthor. Only issue here is the lack of dmg Skaven ranged troops possess pre weapon teams

[@alfonsocyrusjoshua9551]

yes but not enough amo to kill enough dinos for the skaven slaves to deal with

[@alfonsocyrusjoshua9551]

@Deathsdayoff person didnt think of that but i still think that it'd be a huge waste of time to do so but yes, your method would be victorious

[@alfonsocyrusjoshua9551]

@Deathsdayoff person i suppose so

[@ChristopherBrown-bj4zl]

Can it be called a campaign at only 12 turns? lol

[@postmaster6414]

how does he speed it up at 6:33 ?

[@nicholasrobinson41]

r

[@TarsonTalon]

Heh, I can just imagine what the person who got this was thinking. He was probably thinking "That's b******t! What can I possibly do? Wait...I'm just gonna take my problem, and move it over there! Here ya go, Legend!"

[@Eggsecuter]

Does legend play with mods typically?

[@ThomasL12.]

no. hasn’t yet. he said he might

[@GeneGear]

He has tried out SFO before, but typically he does not play with mods because mods tend to make things easier, and he himself says that him suffering brings in more viewers/cash

[@ThomasL12.]

@@GeneGear i agree. only time he used mods is when they were balanced (battle of sol is an example) or id assume if they are completely in the AIs favor.

[@GeneGear]

@@ThomasL12. I JUST saw that video, and I don't think that counts because Legend was doing it to show off more than anything else and to fuck around while he had the chance.

[@ThomasL12.]

@@GeneGear yeah 😂 just showing off cheese. that’s the only time i’ve seen him use mods

[@stormrunner4081]

Ah yes the rite of screw you the ai gets this for free and will pull this when there this close to death

[@dennispashin4393]

If you don't have a stackfull of rattling guns and plagueclaw catapults by turn 12, then you're not playing Scaven right.

[@AnvilMAn603]

turn 12? its early just restart