Karl Franz going in the BOOK

[@GeraltofRivia22]

As an Empire veteran since Warhammer 1, I never thought I'd see the day when legend calls a stack of Reiksguard a good army.

[@jason_eh]

They are half price...so yeah its Legend.

[@dernium]

Legend tends to use them often in Empire campaigns. There are other options but he tends to think Karl can make it work.

[@ktvindicare]

He's been calling it a good army since Warhammer 2.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@ktvindicare has he? I recall him constantly shitting on Empire cav mainly for having 66 speed, which was only changed in Warhammer III.

[@eshaan570]

@@GeraltofRivia22 yeah idk what that guys talking about lol reiksguard were trash until warhammer 3 and legend never said they were good in wh2

[@nessa-parmentier]

legend doing some foreshadowing in the end "at least it's not a full stack of steam tanks".... yeah now we know why you said that

[@Tyrazial]

I give you a 10/10 for having the patience to do this and managing to keep losses almost to none.

[@Pontifex777]

Yes, I'm just not sure I'd have the patience for this type of battle. I'd also have lightning strike 😉

[@SlightlyIrreleventAustralian]

The fucking leader of the leading dwarf army was called Grimm Grimtidesson

[@Count.Saruman]

Sounds like a jolly fellow

[@scrollexdestiny]

Trully Grimdark

[@capadociaash8003]

It’s like a joke character someone would make for a Warhammer meme

[@BlacK40k]

My favourite one was a tzeentch Lord of Change General called "Lia'r Lia'r pantz'on'fiar" or something like that

[@Benebazsi]

Ah yes, cousin of the famous Slayer John Vermintidesson

[@crzystpdguy]

On the normal player scale, 10/10, on the Legend of Total War scale 8/10 for that poor engineer that you kept forgetting about.

[@OliverBL]

This is a 10/10. A full hour of battle, with melee cavalry, not abusing magic, and yet barely 10% casualties when going against three stacks of decent to strong units and the terrifying Grimm Grimtidesson (the grimm slayer).

[@Vampire123411]

Karl: "Welcome ancient allies. In these troubled times dwarfs are a fine sight to behold!" Daemon slayer: "Silence! 200 years ago your payment was short of a copper coin! Now pay with your blood!"

[@NotTheAbhi]

That was the merchant Ea-Nasir's fault not the empire.

[@Tyrazial]

@@NotTheAbhi All you sons of sigmar look the same to the Dwarves!

[@darkwelder9736]

@@NotTheAbhi the copper was so shitty that it's a crime of whole humanity

[@ConsueloWubba]

Karl: Don't you think that a little extre... SLAYER: *LITTLE?!!!!!!*

[@beratseyhan9996]

By the nine!

[@MrWildEast]

53:02 "good smash those miners"

[@aristodemosii.1980]

I feel like the endgame crisis armies tend to fall 'short' these days.

[@samscopeproductionz]

SHORT!?!!

[@BigPapaKaiser]

​@@samscopeproductionz He meant they are a little underwhelming.

[@samscopeproductionz]

@@BigPapaKaiser LITTLE!!?!? UNDERWHELMING?!!? THATS BLOODY GOING IN THE BOOK!!!

[@bar_jumper1312]

9/10 got caught a little by the slayers ❤

[@megashark1013]

"But Legend, what if you heal a single entity that's already at full health?"

[@raunleashed1604]

For your standards. 9/10. A lot of damage done to the engineer. Nice video sir

[@rexxpowercolt]

😂Just seeing the Reiksguard blob ramming a unit into the edge of the map is hilarious

[@joshuahellier4093]

Mmmmmmm, Legend commanding a fat stack of cavalry is a beautiful thing!

[@askoldkeithsson845]

A Legend performance, one of your main strengths that separates you from other players is your patience whilst fighting always waiting for the moment and trying to get zero losses, also the insane micro abilities you have, apart from the poor engineer you kept leaving behind

[@flyleaftears9738]

Wish they have huge maps like those in the older games. Warhammer maps, particularly siege maps, are too tiny that I don't even know how to use calvary.

[@colonelthyran7755]

I liked Warhammer 1/2 siege maps. cavalry has no business in a aiege.

[@GCOSBenbow]

@@colonelthyran7755 This is only true due to the clunkiness of hitboxes in the earlier TW games and the small scale of the maps in modern TW games. Cavalry had many uses in a siege historically, in the early stages they would be used by the besiegers to protect against sallies and stop information flow, and by the defenders to conduct sallies and go on raids for supplies and the like. When assaults were in progress they would be used to break up enemy formations and to minimise the effectiveness of barricades from the perspective of both attackers and defenders. Obviously they had little use in the actual taking of walls and the like (while mounted up anyway) but they certainly did and should have a business in a siege.

[@primary2630]

@@GCOSBenbow these features aren't in the game obviously.

[@GCOSBenbow]

​@@primary2630 Sallying out clearly is a feature in the games, you can just walk out of your gates for rear charges etc. It isn't effective in WH due to the god awful siege map designs but its clearly a feature and one I used heavily in Rome, Rome2, Medieval, Shogun2 etc. As is charging into infantry blobs with the large mass of cav, in fact its one of the only uses for cav in sieges currently. The only 'features' of cav in sieges that aren't in this game are supply raids and that's the least significant.

[@mrrupernater]

@@GCOSBenbow So what your saying is in Total War, Cavalry have no place in a siege... because we are talking about TW and not historically

[@samscopeproductionz]

Franz is getting a whole chapter for this one

[@Raptor747]

Very impressive win for a cavalry army in WH3. Hard to rate it on a scale, but it was definitely interesting.

[@nightrunnerks]

There is a bug with Missile Infantry (even Oxyotl) where you can get them to rapid fire their ammunition and delete units by making them face away from the enemy then right clicking the target. This will cause them to fire multiple times instantly which deleted enemy units. I think the engineer in this battle was doing that to the Slayer Lord unintentionally

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

Full cavalry army? Check. 4 stacks of dwarf endgame crisis? Check. Over an hour runtime? Hell yeah.

[@TopGameplayWorld]

1 hour bullying the slow dwarfs

[@Scythe054]

10/10 is perfect in every way, it wasn't but was close so 9/10

[@easytanksgaming3238]

Karl Franz and his IRC searching for Gotrek and Felix, who hide in some dwarvish stubbornes...

[@kreuzrittergottes9336]

9/10, you SHAMED the Engineer! lol. should have put on skirmish.

[@michaelbeasley9401]

Karl Franz has been in the BOOK because he has a hammer that doesn’t belong to him.

[@rickylahey657]

He's holding it for the guy who will inhabit his body later on. So it's kinda his for now

[@michaelmoran2125]

Fr?​@@rickylahey657

[@BlacK40k]

​@@rickylahey657waiting to become the Sigmar Male, literally

[@XxZigonxX]

I dunno seems a little short sighted 🙄😂

[@miguelafonso6375]

@@XxZigonxX *SHORT* ?!

[@LadyMorrigan]

I would rate this 9.2/10, a bit taken off for that poor engineer who got forgotten so many times. Excellent game, I was very impressed

[@AtmosphereEnthusiast]

thanks for saving my disaster. didnt expect it to be picked so i solved it myself (with unlimited magic cheats) but thanks anyway

[@juicemoose11]

8.9 OUT OF 10, Criticisms: Do it faster with fewer losses :P Great work and patience as always!

[@fabrizioboccalini3025]

10/10 with a seal of 72 min of battle. best dissaster battle

[@aspiringmarauder666]

You get an 8/10 Legend

[@OttoPussner]

I'd rate disaster battles off of the criteria of what resources were spent vs the severity of the threat. In this case, considering you didn't actually use any army ability resources or any major casualties I'd rate this disaster battle a solid 9/10! 10/10 would be taking so few losses that end battle recovery would put you back up to full.

[@booradley6832]

anyone else yelling at their monitor at 18:25 as he actively runs into the slayers and pulls away? I dont blame you for it legend you're trying to run an extremely difficult battle and narrate your thoughts in a manner that is friendly to the viewer. Just was one of those "dont go in there" moments.

[@trowachess]

The "human" grudging from yesterday carries over!

[@guilhermemarello5698]

I think the AI now places the artillery crew back on the artillery pieces; happened in my campaign an was definitely a surprise

[@Eliwood29]

Aye that's a grudgin

[@Zeldrake]

I think Legend did a 9/10. I'd give 10/10 if the Engineer wasn't forgotten about in melee a few times XD and if a bit more blobbing for Dwellers Below was able to occur - I think you could have done some really good hit-and-runs on some low-MA targets with Franz and just Dwellers Below'd on top of him. But still, stellar performance aside from the engineer Took a while, but that's what inherently happens with these huge battles, especially with a cav army where you have to wait for opportunities.

[@skupipup]

13/10 yes-yes

[@Khayne]

I would say a 8/10. That army is very well preserved, except for the poor hero. 😂

[@jessewilliams1422]

Each and every time i watch a "Save my Campaign" battles, i am astonished at the skill it takes to master the battle and win again seemly unbeatable armies I know you dont like to give yourself the credit that is obviously deserved, but damnation, its a pleasure to watch you work.

[@Uhthis]

33:22 Legend wistfully tries to get the restock :( a shame he can't use his own ability!

[@EngryFlo0ok1]

Youre just insane bro...

[@bodenggamer9342]

10 out of 10

[@jenbroness3765]

Lol this is basically whack-a-mole with all the reinforcement locations

[@senshibat8920]

So tall the Franz.. Drinks ale like a dawi

[@evgeniykulivatskiy]

I would give you 12 out of 10, but you didnt healed that poor bastard mechanic, so its just 11/10.

[@lordsolaire6202]

8/10 : Could have paid more attention to the engineer and could have used more magic

[@JayvH]

Damn it. I send in a Wissenland & Nuln disaster just last night and I think he won't cover a pretty similar battle. My Pistoliers spam stack and a RoR emergency army are trying to defend Aquitane vs 3 Skyre armies. Nevertheless maybe I can get some micro tipps out of here.

[@mandowarrior123]

9/10. Can't give it 10 due to the occasional blunders but it didn't cost you, takes a lot of experience to maneuvre on these small maps and endurance. I'm not a fan of cavalry armies usually because for such a fast unit they make for slow battles, with the exception of campaign movement range or ranged cavalry. I enjoy the occasional one of these but I couldn't do a full campaign- that said its often my third army/relief army or to keep up with a high movement boost army, which might be split into 5 other armies later. In warhammer I rarely use any good cavalry, because i want to play more fun units. Did play repanse which was okay. Feel a bit useless to me. Not flying mobility, too much good vs large, vulnerable to guns, monsters, single entities, artillery, etc so i don't mix them in as often in big armies. Good vs magic though. But I also get annoyed by the siege issues.

[@reav3791]

Day #2 of asking for more AOW4! Love all your content legend

[@cap258]

Valmir Helborg is the only guy that wouldn´t rate this a 10/10 😀

[@MrBlueSleeves]

51:44 There's a massive difference between 5 minute battles and 1 hour long ones

[@halwakka504]

...So what would've happened if a few Reiksguard had blocked all three reinforcement zones and the rest of the army dealt with the small army already on the battlefield? Will the game force reinforcements to arrive or will the battle end as a victory once the main army is dealt with?

[@senshibat8920]

trot up takes time but saves vigor? Use army abillies stacked to the dwellers?

[@rudypady4698]

Thats why there is no alliance

[@BloodDjimon614]

9.5/10. That poor hero

[@thynellynator]

The daemonettes have invaded the chat, BE GONE Slaaneshi THOT

[@darkywarky]

1:00:35 Very late campaign, the guy has almost the whole map

[@WhatsleftofTom]

9/10

[@lukazivkovic4099]

What is the speed of mechanical steed curently?

[@culibrkhnuj]

10/10

[@p1553d0f]

I don’t understand why people still enable the dwarf end game crisis

[@wangpasta]

damn shame to see legend go the way of other popular youtubers 53:01

[@davidbanas7938]

It's giving Medieval 2 cav spam

[@d.kennyfrank3144]

1h u microed fast units, 10/10

[@thecentralscrutinizerr]

8.75 out of 10 battle performance.

[@IggySniff2000]

I always wonder what mouse Legend uses and how many he burns through in a year with all that clicking.

[@cmania1239]

Why were the army abilities not being used when they were in a good blob?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

They cost campaign resources each time you use them and I didn't come close to needing them to win.

[@danielcramer4146]

id give this one about 7 out of ten. would of been an 8 maybe a 9 if you hadnt let the heroes get caught so often.

[@marvelouspatches8577]

I wonder how many entries Legend has in the book.

[@troll925]

a lot, actually, only 1 stuck down when he saved the wood *lv*s, but his game crashed

[@notbotheredable]

It is not, shall we say, a short list.

[@SaltyRocksPew]

oh my god the fact they can't restock themselves SUCKS so much.

[@axyramariel7557]

It's really not 10/10. Such a victory is, in principle, 14/10, and with losses of 10% - 20/10.

[@Qualityrubbish]

Those engineer heroes are actually really damn good at taking out groups of poorly armoured infantry with the explosive shot, might have been a good way of dealing with the slayers a bit more safely!

[@dark_side_cookies]

I dunno, in my and Legend's experience, skirmish mode is extremely unreliable. I can't count how many times I have watched a missile unit just sit there like a deer in headlights as the enemy gets into melee range. I'm talking completely isolated 1 vs 1 so there's no detection or pathfinding issues due to other units in the vicinity, and the missile unit should easily outrun the melee enemy unit. Skirmish has pretty much always been crap in every TW game to date.

[@BluetubeRising]

​​@@dark_side_cookiesit depends on speed, if the enemy outspeeds quite a bit, skirmish mode can get caught for sure, but in this case with the engineer hero against slow isolated single entities it wouldn't get caught, or at least much less than legend let it that battle

[@carlwilliams6541]

To be honest if i played this fight i would just give up. Spending 1 hour for a repetative fight plus i am not that good in micro

[@JohnQPublic11]

Does Legend play "the Empire" the way the designers of the game intend "the Empire" to be played?

[@faeezf]

Seeing this battle happening on the highest graphic settings is really something on another level

[@The_Blackshield]

4/10, not very short. :P

[@XxZigonxX]

SHORT?!

[@bubbleeistee1761]

Playing dwalfs aganst a cavalary based army must be annoying... These legs are not long enough.

[@draak4066]

a new LoTW upload, nice.

[@willc1294]

Lord Of The Warhammer 😉

[@ilyas2778]

Legend is getting rusty. So when is the next aow4 video?

[@billybob01234567]

I think empire is easily the most boring faction in the game

[@kristijansvitek6293]

10/10

[@superjduderino]

10/10

[@edgarf3152]

10/10