Saving an unsavable campaign

[@zalkenth2190]

So, I am the guy who sent in the campaign and I'd like to say a few things. First of all, really glad this video is doing great, glad to be able to provide good content. Secondly, my full carnosaur army was actually able to beat multiple Dwarven stacks. I found that putting them all on one enemy unit throws all the enemy soldiers down and the carnosaurs dont take that much damage. Eventually I lost my skink priest though and it all went downhill from there. But I still beat 5 full stacks, then I got surrounded. Also I couldn't recruit Engine of the gods because I don't have the dlc, I think... Dwarves came in so fast and hard I didn't even have time to recruit new units better suited for fighting the dwarves or Kroak or anything like that. Great vid as always Legend, keep up the cheese.

[@christosneder]

Yeah you could do the same strat as the stegadons + healing with carnosaurs instead, but it isn't quite as effective as stegadons can take out the really high damage targets before they get close, also carnosaurs can go berzerk and get themselves killed

[@Kalenz1234]

If you are missing the dlc you won't be able to do anything with the safe file when lotw sends it back. You need all the dlc he has (which is all)

[@zalkenth2190]

@@Kalenz1234 not really, you can just click enable all saves, and you can play the save file and it wont crash

[@doktarr]

@@christosneder also stegadons are anti-infantry while carnosaurs are anti-large; the strategy works better with anti-infantry.

[@Scott-zi7xv]

Are you Dutch, per chance? I saw a few agent names that resembled Dutch words lol

[@brandonberger8520]

"Or I could continue it myself, it will likely depend how popular it is." *Moves mouse over like button* "It's largely based on views, I don't give a shit about like goals" *Moves mouse to **00:01*

[@Blottingpaper]

is 95k enough?

[@SmokeytheBear66]

There's no sequel is there... :(

[@gustavosanches3454]

20:27 >"These settlements are just lost..." > "Lost Plateau"

[@Beowulf_DW]

I don't actually play Warhammer myself (those models look expensive) but I've always loved the lore. Especially when it comes to the Lizardmen. I've always like dinosaurs, and I also once saw a picture of a Slann fighting a demon with the caption "You see that big magic toad? Yeah, he's half-asleep, can't even be bothered to stand up and probably drunk. And he's STILL going head-to-head with a Lord of Change and WINNING!" Lizardmen are awesome.

[@Arachija]

This one is great right off the bat, I really like how you are explaining everything that you are going to do and what you are doing.

[@Raygeing]

Learning is fun with LegendofTotalwar!

[@TheSuperappelflap]

yeah, the balance of power at 0:00 immediately grabs your attention

[@kreuzrittergottes9336]

the explaining is the biggest reason i watch legend or else id play the damn game myself lol

[@victuz]

Wow you have some really old videos.

[@alacaaaaa8029]

@@victuz lol true

[@andymion]

9:10 "What are you researching? Yep-yep" Calm down there Ikit Claw

[@MostUndignified]

I noticed that lol, and also he gets faster and faster each passing video at checking those windows too lol. Takes him a split second now

[@midnightproductions3442]

39:22 I like how it's specifically Kislev that defeats chaos. Not the Empire, not Karl Franz, or the golden whatchamacallits, Kislev.

[@Galdenberry_Lamphuck]

Kislev Stronk. Steam Lada crush all heretics.

[@clairelili873]

well, generally speaking, kislev is closer to the waves of chaos. although, one time, palying as the high elves, i have seen the empire in a pretty bad war with the chaos legions. for every victory that the empire gained, they suffered a defeat. it was a good sight.

[@stephendabbs2213]

@@clairelili873 I can't remember what mods I was running or which southern faction I was playing (I think it was either greenskins or skaven) but I finally crossed over that mountain ridge and the entire empire was gone. Just burning ruins with multiple chaos and nosrca stacks roaming around. Few times have I experienced such joy in this game at something I didn't engineer

[@redelephantsdotnl]

Kislev.

[@Murasame13]

Now with WH3 out, it makes a lot of sense that Kislev killed chaos.

[@otwk]

Turmoil at the front, Thorgrims forces on the hunt There's a thunder in the east, an attack of lizard-beasts They've been facing Dawi's wrath, 7 armies charge en masse Turn the tide of the attack and force the enemy to turn back!

[@chetnikcheeto2300]

And that's when the lizard-men come charging again!

[@Galdenberry_Lamphuck]

I don't know enough about lizardmen to continue this but I'm glad Sabaton references continue to be epic.

[@JohnXina97]

This is perfection.

[@dracolich3348]

r/unexpected sabaton

[@slaysnow1694]

@@dracolich3348 r/beatmetoit

[@benjamintpoon]

"Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics."

[@MrWyald]

I always have the opposite of what Legend kept saying about the “good guy” factions. Dwarves are always wiped out by Orks, Kislev is wipes out by Chaos and/or Skaven, Dark Elves and High Elves are 50/50 for who survives and the Empire is usually a wreck by the time I find them. It makes it tough for me when playing as Empire or Dwarves since I rarely can confederate but at least I don’t have to worry about allies dragging me into wars lol.

[@MrSaltycrackers]

I like the campaigns way more than the battles

[@victuz]

I thought the same in the past, now I'm prioritizing battles, as campaigns can start to become boring the soon you notice you're doing a repetitive path.

[@BigPaPaRu]

I just love these games. I have so many games and consoles but I only keep coming back to TW for the past 5 years. And I suck but I dont care

[@phutureproof]

@@BigPaPaRu Same here, I have 400+ games on steam alone, I always end up installing this game again and getting my ass kicked 👍

[@Danneman92]

@@victuz If something is repetitive, it's battles, especially on Legendary difficulty. Due to the fact that meele units sucks and ranged units are king on Legendary, you tend to use the same (best) unit composition over and over , thus also the same strategy, and this will lead to repetitive and predictable battles. And even if you now play as a faction with bad ranged units and focus on monsters instead, the same principle still applies. The battles will still be repetitive. Compare this to the campaign map, in which different things happens literally every (end) turn. Hell, even if you play very passively/defensively (which I personally never do, UNLESS it's absolutely necessary) the end turns can potentially offer a vide variety of events: Events which are all unpredictable. Battles are in NO way unpredictable in the same way, mainly due to the fact that a big portions of your battles will be you vs a certain race over and over (Skaven as the Lizardmen, Empire and Norscas as Chaos, Dwarves as Greenskins and so forth), which means you'll more or less fight the same units, in MANY of your battles.

[@theupperechelon7634]

His name is the Legend of Total War, General of the Legion of Jeff, Commander of the Armies of Cheese, loyal servant to the true Jeff, in charge of a fallen lizard, husband to the Lady Legend. And he will cheese the AI in this life and the next.

[@YoBobNJ]

I'm dead :P

[@deatheven13]

@@YoBobNJ But are you not entertained?

[@sizzledog5595]

"Is there NO ONE ELSE?" Oops wrong movie

[@adriltythorin6702]

The campaign has swung wildly over the last few patches. Early on in ME it was the Dwarf tide all the time. Then they overcompensated and it was the Greenskins conquering all the mountains. Now it's swung back again towards the Dwarfs.

[@juselara02]

This is perhaps your most cerebral and cinematic video of the "Saving my disaster campaing" series. Heck, the first battle takes place 50 minutes into the video and every end turn I was holding my breath!

[@silverlocust5191]

You see an army of 6 giant slayers and build only stegadons? Those are some balls you have there.

[@TheLostArchangel666]

Continue this campaign please! It's amazing so far.

[@negreanuneko]

well, its gonna be same battle as this again and again and again until he defeat dwarf stacks on his territory. and a lot more of same battles to claim all of dwarf land (+siege battles, which is not that intreresting too)

[@belisarian6429]

@Osman Nuri Güzel I disagree, if you keep winning without loosing too much, then rewards from those wins will fuel your offensive, and then in like 30 turns your empire will be rolling over dwarves.

[@Cross_111]

Please make a vid with all the doomstacks for each faction With a bit of explanation and hero/lord choices with best indiv leveling

[@gabrielrubens4505]

I agree! Would be a good vid

[@ToTheNines87368]

Watching this having the old turn times is brutal.

[@allnamestakenlol]

"We're going to utilize this short period of time to do...nothing." I lol'd.

[@anxietycat9286]

I'm so glad you explain everything. I can barely handle playing on easy mode but watching this gave me some pointers on how to make the most out of my armies and hero units. Thanks!

[@lovisericachii4503]

"I expect this region to be lost, might as well pull some cash out" ... A true principle of a fellow businessman LOL

[@jimmehjimjim4810]

Great video Legend - your attention to detail, knowledge of the game, skill trees and skill benefits, coupled with ability to formulate effective plans make you entertaining to watch just to see how you do it! You also have clairvoyance of predicting what the AI will do etc with alarming accuracy!

[@cairoingram1329]

Yo this was dope. I’ve said it before but some of my favorite videos that got me hooked on you was taking that HORRIBLE wood elf campaign and basically taking over half the map. Like you said this defenders one is unwinnable which means you could probably do it with painstaking determination. You’d get my views.

[@windoge1031]

i had a 3x dwarf upkeep mod installed once, they still dominated most of my games

[@greensun11]

Money for the Dwarven AI isn’t an issue, because of cheats they literally have millions laying around in the late-game, upkeep will do very little so slow them down

[@jmoa5758]

Yeah like wtf lol I'm in late game and I'm #3 in strength right behind Tyrion who I will Confederate soon but Dwarves are #1 and the power balance is like 70/30 in their favor lmao.

[@FailbaddonTheHarmless]

When you said something about transferring units to Slann and fighting a quest battle I got concerned, but thought to myselft: "Damn, it's Legend, he probably knows what he's doing". But at 49:37 I got shocked...

[@Murasame13]

Yeah I was also surprised. Can't know everything though.

[@adamstilber8382]

Here I am over 2 years later and the big issue went from the Dwarves always being the strongest to Grimgor always confederating every greenskin faction to become DA GREAT'EST OF 'EM ALL

[@CrimsonUltrafox]

The literal Last Defenders fighting off the Dawi tide.

[@Dorunek]

there's something amusing about watching like 8 massive dinos charge into a small formation of dwarfs ngl lol

[@bertjebever]

Yes! Such an amazing video. The impending doom timer made it so much more exciting!

[@ErikaWeiss633]

As the Prophet of Jeff, it would be in great reverence to continue this, because it is quite interesting to watch comebacks.

[@sebastianmocanu6399]

I think what made the video so good is the strategic explanation about why you basically destroyed your settlements to just focus on recruiting a suitable army. Would really like to see at least another episode of this or even on livestream

[@ForceM1782]

Dwarfs on Legendary. Just great... But basically what you do at the beginning is so cool. Seeing that a scorched and delaying action earth tactics works in Warhammer 2 is pretty cool!

[@Turinnn1]

"Gets 15 stegadons.. Complains about not having 16." I guess you can always do better ;)

[@mertgokgoz4073]

I would love to see the continuation of this. You stopped at the best part!

[@Killloius]

You're among the few professional gamers that don't sound like you hate your life. You have an impressive analytical mind and I appreciate the depth that you go into your explanations

[@MrRIIISEN]

Looks like recently Dwarfs have a really hard time with you, Legend. Poor guys.

[@PumpkinHoard]

Dwarfs love cheese. Little known fact right there.

[@Canaris3]

Pff please, have you ever played Dwarf Fortress ?? Like half of your migrants are always cheesemakers...

[@PumpkinHoard]

@@Canaris3 But do they corner camp?

[@Agentcoolguy1]

Cheese Ale is their preferred form of cheese.

[@Canaris3]

@@PumpkinHoard of course.

[@johnolsen8772]

If goblin slayer is anything to go by, Lizard men love cheese even more

[@MrBawBagz]

Love how you tell the truth , honesty is what we all need and deserve in this world , if your good enuff go for it, if not get better , love you man

[@jamesraven6766]

I hope you continue this. Its always awesome to watch you destroy wave after wave of dwarves. Like in the World War Beard campaign when you made roads with dwarf skulls.

[@JL-ti3us]

I honestly wonder sometimes if people personally manufacture bad campaigns to give to you. But your an ace at getting through them man. Thanks for the great content.

[@SmashingSnow]

Some do and some don't

[@syltis1994]

Super fun to watch, this is peak tw. Hope you'll continue it!

[@justinfrazier9555]

"There's no hope in there." -LegendofTotalWar

[@ThatDragonGuy]

*Looks at the End Times series of novels* Ain't that the truth

[@Minimumcomparison]

Legend please consider giving this one another go. Would love to see you dig your way out of this. Go get karaz a karak. For the great plan!

[@FuelDropforthewin]

Video idea Legend: How to level lords. Not a case by case, but a general guide. Stuff like "Push for lightning strike first" is fantastic advice for most factions, but isn't necessarily something everyone goes for right off the bat.

[@GutsofEclipse]

In my last Empire campaign, the Greenskins were actually slightly winning over the Dwarfs and Border Princes. I had an agent down there disrupting the Greenskins so that they didn't win and turn their attention to me.

[@StreetRyder87]

This was awesome. Definitely would like to see it continued.

[@Oliolli3]

23:14 Can you imagine how badly a Skink named Klo'aca gets bullied?

[@TheSuperappelflap]

The lizardmen lord names are very funny, the one at 0:00 in the video is called "Ratte Pletten" which means "Squish Rats" in Dutch.

[@gman6899]

man...we need to see this...

[@jooglip4947]

Kislev always defeating Chaos makes me think Archaon should hand over the mantle of Everchosen to Melvin

[@MrBawBagz]

I love how you try and fix even a big mess , i think the is the worse mess ive seen , so yes your amazing

[@xcrusad3rx395]

I just started playing total war warhammer series and I haven't played any of the other total war games and just by watching your videos legend I'm learning so much that I feel confident in being a newbie haha love the content

[@katsunada]

Regarding what you said about order vs disorder, i played a wood elf campaigb recently where a combo of skaven and dark elves had waylaid all of ulthuan, a most of the western continent. And chaos had wiped out most of the eastern empire. But then next game as dwarves yeah, dark elves skaven and borsca were completely wiped off the map almost entirely by the empire

[@pineappleguy7495]

47:59 that was not needed, I say it from personal experience, it's not that he doesn't have movement available, is that he has to change the stance think of it base on forced March having 50% of it is LESS that having 40% on regular March so it affects it accordingly

[@tuffelmann]

For me one of the most entertaining sydc in a long time.

[@Protosz2]

I would be happy if you would continue this campaign because for me its really satisfying to see the constant wins with an army

[@solosalvador]

Lizardmen: give me your council oh wise one Legendoftotalwar: 2:26

[@Quitze97ABM]

"In ages past, Legend had a plan"

[@pakornwattanavrangkul2550]

The easiest way to beat any doom scenario is to abuse the ambush mechanic as well as lightning strike.

[@juselara02]

Man this is a role play gem. Lizardmen last stand against the armies of dwarves.

[@lowkey_Ioki]

I love the way this starts off like "Let me preface this with saying this campaign is absolutely butt-fuck run into the ground dead, let's go!"

[@Shadesofone]

39:30 - don’t agree, in my campaigns lately Malekith always beats the crap out of high elves.. Perhaps after some patch?

[@WuW0w0-m8m]

Alex B same here

[@Alej0xXx]

Something the game doesn't tell you is that the rite of Primeral Glory summons Feral dinosaurs with random LOWER stats (from what I've seen they have lower melee attack and defense that if you recruit them yourself taking into account the ranks).

[@sim.frischh9781]

You keep calling us Fokkers, but i always considered myself more of a Messerschmitt, particularly a Me 321 Gigant, you know, so fat it needs three others to get up XD

[@drone9948]

Bruh I have over 500hrs in this game and I never knew you could change the direction of spells >_< I've been repositioning the casters in order to change the angle at witch the spells are fired! My eyes have been opened!!!

[@bearvanhelsing6035]

Currently in a similar situation in a Clan Mors playthrough but not nearly as dire as this yet. I have all the territory south of Karak Eight Peaks but the dwarves are just able to build doom stacks faster than I can destroy them. I had Queek ambush and kill four full stacks that were right next to each other in one turn and come the start of the very next turn the dwarves already have 5 more stacks on the way. It was at that point I realized I wasn't really having fun anymore. Fighting factions that are stronger than you is fun but chipping ever so slowly away at a faction that owns half the continent is not. Hope CA patches the Dwarven snowball eventually because it's kind of annoying and not fun to fight in my opinion.

[@yangvincent7408]

The dwarves can’t stop the great plan.

[@zarahandrahilde9554]

Closed captions: It's unsuitable here.

[@Knightguy18]

Just saw an ad for ck3 I'm really hyped now

[@doktarr]

@John Constantine If it's good enough to justify it, heck yes. I get annoyed at the prices of DLCs for CK2 and WH2 (my two main games), but then I remember that I spend way more on lunch (and I don't even go out for lunch much). Compared to a lot of hobbies, and even to a lot of games that have BS blind purchase loot boxes, DLC games like Paradox and CA are really really cheap.

[@thswinther]

Great combination of Battle and strategic gameplay and thougths - best content IMO. And leaving it as well. Mindlessly slogging through repeats of nessesary onesided tactic in order to survive, would be a waste. The point is well proven as it is.

[@Dont_Fear_Phil]

I've also noticed that dwarfs and high elves are ridiculously overpowered. If you're playing a campaign as an Order faction that isn't one of the two of them it ends up becoming way too easy, you win the game just from alliances.

[@Eefbrgr1]

Don't know anything about Warhammer, but I love strategy games and still watched this video and enjoyed it! XD Good job, great content

[@petrspetsnaz630]

So thats how it looked for Last Defenders in Wood Elves disaster campaign? Thousands of dwarfs from every direction

[@Dubickimus]

"law of averages" is the gambler's fallacy

[@warwickthekingmaker7281]

some games implement this into gameplay. I have no idea if total war does, but I know that crit chance in League of legends works that way for example. If you miss two crits in a row, critting on your next attack will be more likely. Otherwise you would be completely correct

[@FearDeniesFate]

@@warwickthekingmaker7281 The term you are thinking of is called pseudo-random.

[@jyidorne8042]

I never realized lizardmen have an option to have a hero named Klo'aca. That's the same as if the Empire had a dude named Pe'nis.

[@lazaruslong697]

They have Gelt. That is basically the same, lol.

[@blueberrymcphuckerson9821]

02:23 Lol. Imagine a fan-art drawing where LoTW is saying that to the camera in cold-sweat and then it cuts to a bunch of bodybuilder dwarfs in the middle of juicing while practicing competitive poses lol: speedos and all.

[@sadettinarslan5324]

the only thing CA can do to stop dwarves is spawn chaos invasion right in front of karazakarak at turn 25-30. even then dwarves would defeat them but maybe not steamroll that hard. now chaos can't even destroy praag.

[@nikitamysakov846]

- But Legend, this is so cheeeeseee. - Shut your filthy mouth Timmy, before I throw you as a decoy to 5 full stack dwarven armies!

[@hoibenthomas]

The first saurus is called ratte-plet'ten which is ratten pletten which means squashing rats.

[@tromedlovdrolmai]

Id like to see a part 2 to this one please, preferably not in a live steam.

[@ultimaaxe]

That is funny, because i often see the Orcs and Empire taking over the map. High elves and dark elves on the other continent.

[@Wearableputty]

“Champion of cheese”

[@saltedllama2759]

See, I have a very different experience with the AI on harder difficulty settings. The Dwarfs virtually never do anything. They either stay on the Silver Road and never progress, or get wiped out. I play with no mods. Hundreds of campaigns and I have never had the big blue monster that other people seem to experience.

[@andyl8055]

I'm playing Last Defenders at the moment and the Greenskins went nuts. By the time I waded through their settlements all the way to the Silver Road, the dwarves and Imrik were extinct, and the Greenskins, Sylvania and Mousillon were busy raping the Empire. I allied myself with the Empire and the Wood Elves, and I'm busy trying to save Reikland from disappearing.

[@redelephantsdotnl]

Oh man, the sacrificial Kroxigor is just *brilliant*

[@bruski3901]

You f**ked with the dwarves man, you don't f**k with the dwarves

[@hakeador4000]

those kroxigors in the thumbnail look so chill and happy

[@WuW0w0-m8m]

39:00 I agree on all that but in my campaign dark elf always won against high elf. I still have an empire campaign which dark elf crushed highelf and gave me hell lots of trouble

[@thmmerd]

Please also continue. 💪🏼

[@yarugatyger1603]

We need a medieval 2 exodus disaster campaign, where the dude right at the beginning goes to the opposite map side with all forces...

[@midnightsummer1462]

I actually watched the whole video. It was so blood intresting and i would like a continue of it.

[@michaelbuzza2095]

Hes going full lizard-stalin against dwarves. Stegadon=t-34 rush.

[@filipefhn]

The dwarfs only get to top 1 spot on my campaigns after I deal with the High Elves.

[@filipefhn]

dark elves ai should be able to beat the dawi. but as legend said, the evil factions always loses. the de always loses to the he before the old world factions start to show up.

[@denisic96]

10 months later, and in my vh campaign mama is wrecking ultuan, grimgor was number 1 fraction with momma and son 2nd and 3d before I started to fight them, vampires wrecked empire and dwarves have 4 settlements turn 140.

[@Alernategem]

🎶 summon the great and mighty cheese To win the game for us with ease 🎶

[@kylarstern7550]

Facing three full stack dwarven elite-armies with a few skinks: This is not a disaster battle :D:D Jep, only at legendoftotalwar :D

[@Quilly_DM]

I wanna see more of these impossible to win games. Cheese VS Cheats is very interesting. Almost like a puzzle.

[@fukyomammason]

I use a mod that doesn’t allow the ai to confederate (except greenskins and Norsca) and it prevents the stuntytide from happening, thought Karaz-a-Karak is usually still stupid powerful. Also prevents the ai from sniping confederations out from under you since they cheat. Half the time one of the Vampire Counts ends up being OP instead though. To the point that in my Wulfrik campaign the empire and Brettonia love me despite occupying Altdorf and Courroune because I’ve been slapping Manfred around so much. Like, +200 rep with most of them.

[@blagerthorpnonersense1894]

Kislev only survives Vampires about 50% of the time.

[@Jhaelddf]

32:49 High sanity loss

[@TheMoosenugget]

A delicious and CHEESY meal! preheat oven to 425 degrees F or 220 degrees C get an oven-safe pan and pour in 1 tablespoon of olive oil. put into oven for about 10 minutes chop up some potatoes and put the chunks into the pan along with some chopped portabello mushrooms and crushed garlic mix them all together and put back into oven for around 10 more minutes take it out and put in some baby spinach. the heat of the pan will cause the spinach to wilt after a couple of minutes. once spinach is wilted grate in 4-6 tablespoons gruyere cheese make 2-4 wells, depending on pan size, and crack one egg for each well I know it may be tempting to some to season the eggs now, but wait until they are cooked first. put pan back in oven until eggs are done, then season with salt&pepper

[@TheMoosenugget]

if you don't have gruyere cheese then use swiss, both are similar in flavor, but gruyere is the more flavorful of the two

[@raydaveyrd]

in my campaign I allied with the dwarves and betrayed them after green skins were no longer a problem. But I had to let the skaven beat up the dwarves a bit so finally beating the skavern got my friendly with them.