The Longest Disaster Campaign Ever

If you want to send me your disaster campaigns email it here. [e-mail]
Please only send campaigns on the verge of defeat or battles you can't win. Auto resolve wins won't be accepted. Modded campaigns are not currently accepted. Please only send campaigns/battles on large or ultra unit scale. Normal and small unit scale will not be accepted. Not currently accepting Realm of Chaos campaigns/battles.
Please keep in mind the volume of emails I receive and that not all disaster submissions will receive a response. I will try to get to as many as possible. Feel free to "bump" your email once every 24 hours by responding to your submission with bump. Do not resend the save file multiple times as it will clog up my inbox storage.
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[@Zazume_]

"I hate you! "Break your treaty with Bretonnia, it would be good for me." "Okay."

[@Willdroyd]

"I hate you so much I am gonna go and kill my ally! thats how much I hate you!"

[@s1n_er387]

@@isaacalves97 then dont use it

[@Cross_111]

@@isaacalves97its a perfectly good option to trade settlements Truth be told its also not so „easy“ to do You need land adjacent to the one you want to give it too and it should not hurt you To give f.e. some of your heartland away is not a good idea (even temporary) Plus it’s realistic to do that

[@marcusbergman6116]

@@isaacalves97 It is, however, completely and utterly optional whether you use that cheese or not.

[@andregon4366]

​@@isaacalves97 People asked CA for settlement trading for years. Yeah, CA made it too op, since what people wanted was mostly trade settlements with their allies so they didn't have fragmented regions and having to declare war on them to have the whole region, and not ways to cheese the game.

[@biowiener7825]

these are my favourite videos, its basically a livestream without chat and donations interrupting him and legends has to pull out so much to fix these mistakes where he himself would never get into. its just super fun and i cant wait to finish the video

[@KanKazable]

Chat is enjoyable to me tho. And I like to see donations cuz Legend deserves them :-)

[@biowiener7825]

@@KanKazable yea i dont mind them as much as it might come across in the comment but its just refreshing to see him being able to fully think stuff out without having to answer the same questions over and over again. it was just alot more fluid and i feel like he can accomplish alot more in a shorter time this way.

[@knarftahw]

Preach! I'm hear to watch Legend not a bunch of wannabes.

[@anon4854]

@@KanKazable Chat annoys Legend which can ruin a livestream when he gets cranky.

[@noahprussia7622]

Literally. Can't wait to sit through several minutes of silence just to be interrupted by him reading a single comment that consists of 2 words. Engaging

[@Zigzf]

*Looks at this clusterfuck of a campaign* *Bumps the difficulty even higher* What a legend.

[@pacocheung1864]

“We’re gaining assets here…… and special people…….” *Hovers over slave tab, does not elaborate*

[@JeffCaplan313]

😅

[@Garret007]

that was hilarious tbh

[@juanfp]

you can almost hear the gears in his brain turning to avoid saying slaves outloud, one of the best moments by far

[@glebkrawez5046]

Incredibly inclusive empire, it welkomes everyone - saurus, human, dwarf, demon - matters not!

[@khinzaw77]

We're gaining -slaves- Firespray-31-class patrol and attack crafts

[@eliminshrintar]

Chiming in with a +1 for these saving disaster campaigns. I know it is probably not commercially viable from an effort point of view but I learn SOOOO much watching these and I know I am not the only one. It is actually kinda shocking to me how much stuff like techniques, behind the scenes math, and etc is straight up not told to you by the game. Like how the hell are we supposed to know some of these things!? Enter the Legend himself to teach the ways of this game that CA never could. Love these!

[@TheGreatestChuck]

@@isaacalves97 Then don't use it...

[@DaveFrags]

@@isaacalves97it happened historically all the time all over the world. Both as exploitation plus many other ways and reasons for it. Lol go back in time and tell all the kings and generals that used this or did this to just keep their country from being invaded it was cheap 🤣 good luck with that 🤣 There is no problem with it at all really

[@DaveFrags]

@@isaacalves97 lmao sorry brother ! Love ya really !! Man I feel you tho, everything these days just feels like rushed over priced tat ! It’s all more for less of our hard earned bread! Fuckers!!!! Hopefully things will rectify in time if we keep screaming enough. The frustration is felt by many, but you’re reply legit made me laugh 😂 not disappointed at all 🤣🍺

[@Avengedtenfold]

There was a Saving Your Disaster campaign about Clan Angrund a few years back. It was the video that got me into Total Warhammer at all and also introduced me to Legend so seeing a DC of the same scale is wonderfully nostalgic.

[@DaveFrags]

@@isaacalves97 no sarcasm intended at all

[@Rickac88]

Saving your disaster campaign > Saving your disaster battle

[@dylanq1126]

This is my campaign legend and it was amaizng to see how you completely salvaged the campaign by conceding cities I would lose anyway. You also showed me just how important it is to manage your warfronts and to keep your enemies on the defensive. 1 key thing I've learned from watching this is how you used my minor army crapstacks to just completely dismantle the northern lizard men. A mistake I realise I've been making is that I rely too heavily on my legendary lord as my only source of attack and I'm wasting these armies by keeping them on garrison duty.

[@dylanq1126]

Also garrison and public order buildings are worthless on dark elves, I should just build more money buidlings and speical resources.

[@slowbro-]

Keep in mind that rebellions are a good way to get slaves. The rebels usually lose to tier 3+ settlements

[@nonesuch6833]

How to run a Dark Elf economy: Sacrifice some slaves. And if that don't work? Sacrifice more slaves.

[@imma5761]

No wage workers

[@SoSoCrates]

Followed by part 3 of the Dark Elf Economic Plan: Go find more slaves.

[@ilari90]

@@isaacalves97 Why? Slaanesh loves it.

[@heygek2769]

The sacrifices will continue until the economy improves.

[@dembro27]

“Sacri-NICE!” - Dark Elves, probably.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Almost 3 hours of a disaster campaign of Dark Elves holding back Lizardmen and Bretonnians. Not what I would call a good situation, but something I feel Legend could somewhat manage. The Great Horned Rat Legend himself really blessed us this day.

[@BlacK40k]

The Great Horner Rat

[@therexyogaming]

What about the Great Hornest Rat

[@krispypriest5116]

The Great Green Ganja Horned Rat with his Hooka!

[@oreledoria2537]

@@therexyogaming Hear me out. The Great Hornet Rat.

[@omarali262]

Hello Legend, I'm not sure if you will see this because your videos receive so many comments these days. But I remember once during a livestream some time ago, you said you wish you had more ideas for different video series you could do. You said this in reference to the success of some of your video series such as: disaster battles, rating your doom stack, early campaign guides/reviews , and tier list videos. I thought of something you could do for a new series that I'm certain would garner a large audience. In Warhammer 3 there's more complicated mechanics than ever before, and a lot more planning and mathematical min maxxing can go into things now. I think you'd have great success making videos giving guides on how to get the most out of these mechanics. For example one you could do could be the Chaos Dwarfs and their economy mechanic. People often stress over how to balance raw materials, armaments, etc. You could explain how you like to do it, how you set up the Chaos Dwarf provinces for best effect, how you handle special buildings like marble and iron etc, Or explain how to get the most out of Clan Moulder, like which levels of the growth vat to wait for early game, what to spend mutagen on, how to build the armies, etc. Similar to your previous "early campaign guides" but instead of focusing on specifically who to attack and where to move early on, instead it focuses on how a more general guide of how to manage certain factions with special mechanics throughout the entire campaign in general. With every new DLC Lord getting such intense and varied mechanics I think this would be a great video series for you do that you could easily get over 100 videos out of, especially considering some factions have so many mechanics it might require multiple videos, with Chaos Dwarfs again being a perfect example but also Yuan Bo and others.

[@Balgoriusis]

Sounds like Blake videos 'why you suck witch faction xy'

[@omarali262]

@@Balgoriusis Who cares? They both probably have different opinions, strategies, etc.

[@nightrunnerks]

Alberic: "How dare you take slaves filthy dark elf!" Rakarth: "how much are you paying your peasants? How much paid time off do they get?" gor rok: "BOK BOK!"

[@Grivehn]

Crazy how easy it was to get out of those wars. Just sell a settlement, bam. Its one of those tricks people dont usually think about. Then the glitch about making them break treaties... I'll watch it through, but honestly this campaign was fixed in the first 10 minutes.

[@tenchimuyo69]

I guess its kind of like how Paradox land trades work after wars, but Total War isn't typically meant to work that way... it just happens to a lot of the time.

[@fireandiron4181]

Yeah to be honest, settlement trading is probably a big reason why we don’t see nearly as many disaster campaigns anymore. Got in trouble, at war with all your neighbors and they all have multiple stacks pushing into your territory? No worries, just trade them some T1 settlements and you can have them all at peace with you, breaking their alliances with each other, and even at war with each other in no time.

[@jamesbudd437]

Its very similar to disaster battles, which mostly seem to be caused by people not turning off large armies. More units = more chance of victory, right?

[@NotAHaloReference]

Don't know if you'll see this legend, but yes, you get multiple black arks per sacrifice right now. It's bugged. That's why the AI dark elf end turns take so long, cuz they are just shitting out black arks like no tomorrow. Edit: also, I actually very much enjoy these videos, despite the length, I watched the whole thing. Disaster battles are all well and cool, but they do tend to play out relatively similar after a while, and there's only so much you can learn from watching you overcome in-battle odds before it just comes down to having to get better at micro and awareness. I feel there's much more to learn from you in these disaster campaigns about how to do things to prevent ending up in a disaster battle in the first place. I wouldn't mind more of these, even if they are long.

[@libertusprimus]

Legend of Total Diplomacy Shenanigans

[@rockandrolljew89]

I don't mind disaster campaign videos being so long. They are arguably the most interesting content you put out.

[@Varloth]

This guy just wanted legend to play some dark elves

[@Vibealite]

The disaster campaign vids are my fave vids that you do. Ever since the Grom vid where he bugged out to the South. Love seeing the different approaches that you take and the strategic aspects as opposed to the regular tactical aspects in the disaster battle vids. Awesome content, keep ‘em coming!

[@Cross_111]

I really enjoy those disasters campaigns the most! Love this strategic handling more than the disaster battles themselves

[@jamesnankervis9215]

I love these disaster campaigns and seeing you fix them, Legend! Like many have said, there's a lot of skill on show that we wouldn't otherwise get to see, and although these videos are clearly more effort and probably don't reward you as well, they are some of my favourite videos from you.

[@JoshuaLikesGrahamCrackers]

But Legend, you need to get Marienburg!!

[@nightrunnerks]

YOU NEED TO CONFEDERATE MARIENBURG!!!

[@VTubersAreGross]

fucking love disaster campaigns man, i learn so much

[@anarchy_god]

It was my first time seeing you play a disaster campaign and i must say it was so good and i learned alot from you hope we see more of it❤️

[@Mefungpoo]

YES - the long video I've been waiting for. Didn't expect 2 hours and 40 minutes but I live for these videos. Thanks Legend!!!!

[@paeltechnik9362]

The idea behind this campaing was "fuck lustia, all my homies hate that damned place" lol

[@dustysdisciple]

Love the disaster campaigns even more than the disaster battles

[@tristianbernardauthor]

I love how at one point the most concerning threat was a random rogue army

[@piotrjurewicz8181]

Saving disaster campain is back in the menu boys! And in a greate style! I'd love to see more of saving disaster campains. I learn a lot from each one

[@trowachess]

What a great day for an almost 3hr SYDC !

[@Sam-ey2ns]

I would totally watch more 3 hour long disaster campaigns. I watched the whole thing and learned a lot. I get very discouraged when everyone on all sides declares war on me and would have probably given up in this situation. It is cool to see different options for diplomacy cheese to get out of the situation.

[@AROSP]

@LegendofTotalWar this is one of your best disaster videos. The amount of work you put in before hitting that first turn end was 👌

[@-Haunter]

Has someone ever sent you a disaster campaign that was just entirely unfixable?

[@michaelmacdonald8656]

My life 😂

[@ThomasL12.]

obviously

[@alessandroarchetti2575]

he doesn't show them but I think there is a lot

[@KitchouaTembo]

I think he often was sent fabricated campaigns that where obviously tailored to be featured on the channel! People like to push him to the edge :P

[@soundboyeric2276]

In the past he said he's never been unable to fix a disaster campaign but there HAS to be one. Then again with cheese and corner camping hell who knows.

[@lobear3074]

Saving disaster campaigns in this long format is probably the best content on the channel for me. Its more fun to watch Legend pull out all these crazy moves to fix a problem, then watching hours of a livestream of him just easily beating everything.

[@Woodrow512]

The longest single video, yes, but not the longest disaster campaign. I still remember Orions migration streams or the journeys of poor Belegar Ironhammer in Warhammer 2

[@huntermad5668]

Bah, they are not funny as the time he lost half of the Invasion fleet against a single Pirate playing as Rakaph. Getting them back home from Dark Elf Land took many turns and to lose half of the constructs against some Dwarf Pirate in auto resolves is sad.

[@BogdanLarchenko]

Oh my Lord! Nearly three hours of Wh3 DARK ELF content?! And a staunch line of dreadspears at the end? Christmas came early this year! Thank you Legend!

[@ThomasL12.]

i like the long videos once and awhile. learned a lot watching

[@joshuasheldon7182]

I really appreciate this campaign correction video even if it is long. I got to learn a lot of little tips in here to help me keep my campaigns healthy

[@xavier2866]

I love disaster campaign. Its my favorite format. Happy to finally get one back

[@garyg.1979]

That was a voluminous sack of golden tidbits and tricksy shenanigans!

[@Albanachid]

The insight these videos give are so helpful!

[@darkywarky]

These disaster campaigns are great, it helps me learn from other peoples mistakes and they are entertaining to watch!

[@Carpatheon.]

That was really impressive.. truly Legendary!

[@creativedegree]

As a disaster campaign enjoyer this was a real treat

[@DJ-1Q84]

I love the subtle flex of turning up the difficulty.

[@iamargon]

really enjoyed this extra long campaign disaster, learned something new as always watching your vids and enjoyed it as well thanks Legend 👍👍👍

[@Sunny-zo6qy]

Yes! Thank you for blessing me with this video, i love longer format vids. My monkey brain loves.

[@thesnagglewolf]

Love videos like this i feel like they're the most educational for me. There's so much stuff here I wouldn't think of or even remember i could do.

[@joshualegroulx9629]

LOVE the disaster campaigns, I suck at the game but I always learning many things in videos like this, thank you.

[@Tomezilla514]

What a masterclass. Bravo 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@DwafishTaco]

I know you don't love making these long videos but I just wanted to tell you that this was the most fun I've had watching one of your vids in long while and I watch em every day. Great stuff and I hope you do more like this.

[@gingersroc]

An absolutely pleasant surprise this morning. It has been a long while since the last disaster campaign.

[@JJS563]

In 13min this man turned a doomed campaign into a bright future for the Dark Elves good god

[@Catsbobs]

More like these disaster campaigns please

[@luisvazquez8182]

Legend pulled some overtime in this one.

[@amilitarymind]

Yes, these are the disaster situations that we love. Its rare when you upload them, but that just makes them higher value. Very entertaining and informative stuff. The other type of video thats just as delicious is a Tier List.

[@Alphax8]

Loved the content, one of the more interesting vids i've seen on TW3 ! Would absolutely love to see your own campaigns as well, see how you approach things

[@cerboris521]

Don't stress the time it took. You are a magician how you turn campaigns around.

[@SJ-tu7io]

Thanks Legend - this video has kept me through the early hours looking after my newborn so my wife can get some sleep 👍

[@bmachine420]

"Normally I would fight this manually but I got to move this along a bit faster" - Legend 14 minutes into a 2h40m video

[@armoredplatypus1876]

And.... special people

[@jebrooks]

idk if it's the optimal way to do it but i usually do well in my DE campaigns by building only economic buildings and hero recruit slot buildings in settlements, and doing all my army recruitment through black arks.

[@ktvindicare]

That is what you are supposed to do. This is why Dark Elves can't globally recruit and why they can't easily increase recruitment capacity in their provinces. It's because recruitment and replenishment is supposed to be handled via Black Ark unless you're deep inland where you can't rely on them. Lustria on the IE map is super skinny and the coastline is NEVER far away.

[@Name_Some]

@@ktvindicare Those are famous last words before entering Lustrian jungles.

[@Toactwithoutthinking]

Almost all of my disaster campaigns start with "And then the lizardmen declare war on me".

[@Phil_3491]

Props for the guy not quitting and keep playing.

[@RenegadePawn]

1:27:17 "Lord, they're advancing through the lumber field! Are you sure this is the wisest po-?" "Do you take me for a wazzok? This way none of you boki conscripts fires till we see the whites of their narrow elgi eyes!" "But-" "Fired far too soon last time, I say! Only our slayers had it right, rest their bearded souls. There's no missing with a trusty axe." "..." "Besides, all this oil and molten tar ain't cheap! We've lugged it halfway across Lustria, and by Grungni, I'll see not one drop of it wasted!" "..." "Not a drop, Skorri!"

[@Almugavar]

Best comment.

[@tittymcswaggins1924]

commenting for engagement so we get more disaster campaigns in the future

[@calebmclarnon6211]

I love these videos! Like a longer live stream with a more interesting and challenging situation.

[@pvinvictus]

When you don't think you could learn anything more from Legend... he makes this video... great job Legend.

[@12coudak000]

yeeeey, disaster campaigns are back!

[@Valforg]

I like my campaigns how I like my feature films

[@devinrogerson3035]

I mis-clicked liberate a faction in my campaign with Malakai. Brought back demons and I was like, Awe crap, now I've gotta kill them. So I broke the military agreement that happens automatically from liberation, then declared War. But now I've had "Very Low reliability" for about 30 turns. lmao everyone is very "Short" with me.

[@BlizzardAcolyte]

17:46 NGL, did a happy little dance when you said this…a common lategame tactic when you need an instant army I know, but one I rarely see any of the dudes I follow do Will take me several days to watch this in full I bet, but am still glad you gave my favorite faction a huge spotlight!…even if the way you pronounced Pahuax had me wanting to step on your toes and kick your shins

[@LoneWanderer727]

That has to be one of the worst end turns ever on an SYDC....

[@todie]

21:52 legend living in the country side confirmed

[@duckdrake164]

I went into the video knowing the recovery of this campaign was temporary, and was still sad when it ended. Just... one... more... TURN!

[@MinscS2]

That breaking-treaties because AI hates you feels so bugged... Ahh well, cheese is cheese.

[@maelmir]

The thing I've noticed most with these videos other than using cheeky battle tactics ;), is the diplomacy. Getting out of bad wars and making factions fight each other by trading settlements that will either be lost no matter what or are useless to you at the time to allow for you to recover for a later war.

[@skywalker6119]

More done in 10 turns than in the last 80.

[@jamesbudd437]

Me: Struggle to get out of starting area with op provinces. Legend: Takes a clusterfuck of a campaign and conquers Lustria.

[@bullronin1]

The first 15 min is bonkers. I had no idea you could manipulate the AI like that

[@fireandiron4181]

Yeah settlement trading is stupid broken. It’s probably the reason we don’t get nearly as many WH3 disaster campaigns as we did with WH2. You can just trade settlements and get yourself out of basically any bad situation.

[@Vikyhnat]

Legend on stream: “I wont be doing any saving a disaster campaign i simply dont have the time” Also legend a few days later: *Posts 2h40min of disaster campaign*

[@XYNTEN]

Great video to pick up some emergency handling techniques.

[@chris251188]

I hope this video is popular, as I've really enjoyed it.

[@ilari90]

For eco, figure out how many turns a money building will take until it pays itself up, and remember that at tier 3 you want usually money, growth and garrison. You usually need only one of every type of troop buildings (for global recruitment) and some more for getting more heroes. You should build those money buildings to tier 1 at least, later stages take more time to pay up. Also, don't make long empires, you will get struck from the sides eventually, and try to smash the strong factions nearby you first.

[@AruillavainSaebrar]

That admiral was plotting against Malekith. Legend had to take him out.

[@Cynndora]

i get that slaves are nowhere near as powerful as warhammer 2 but i honestly really like how they're used now, so easy to get your settlements up and running, especially if you need to force a tier 2 settlement into instant shade building to get your shade doomstacks going.

[@puarkchop]

You should call this series ‘Pimp My Campaign”😂

[@willdee3616]

Think this might be my favourite video I've watched so far ❤

[@thegreatestbaldeagle2999]

I looooove your disaster campaign fixes!

[@benfoster93]

Thats my afternoon sorted thanks ledge

[@Boumhaar]

really like seeing disaster battle , thanks legend

[@YuzimZ]

I'd love to see more of those longer videos ^^

[@Malicus]

So we get a bonus Rakarth campaign hell yea! Now I just need Thrott Skrolk and Noctilus for my wishlist to be complete. *done with video* Insane video dude I would love to see more of these in the future!

[@splattbinat1542]

Legend... We love long videos

[@SaltyRocksPew]

Something that I've noticed is that black arks that are garrisoning a settlement are completely invisible to the ai. They will attack a minor settlement with a black arc guarding it and only bring enough force to beat the garrison in auto resolve it's actually stupid. You can park a black arc outside of tor yvresse and watch eltharion basically commit suicide trying to take that minor settlement back.

[@3lli384]

I like the long format, prolly tough to find disasters this long deliberately tho!

[@TisTheWay]

I love your work Legend, but I think of your "War of The Beards" Series was the biggest disaster campaign as it started with Orion with a single army in Dark Elf territory. Mind u that was Total Warhammer 2.

[@thekrausecollection15mmmin53]

Absolutely fantastic. Loved it time no problem

[@Bobcatlazerwitch]

I think this was an elaborate ploy to get legend to play dark elves in tww3 🤔

[@hybralisk]

At around 16 minutes into this video, Legend does some construction shifting. It seems like he somehow ends up with less money after canceling all 4 structures that were under construction, possibly because he reorders 2 after canceling them. I haven't played Dark Elves enough to know exactly what happened, but it seemed strange enough for me to comment on. Anyone know what happened here? I mean like, it's not a huge deal, but the whole point of shifting it all around there was to save some money. He did not only lose money by doing it, he missed out on the other two buildings that had been qued, right? Edit: ok so I watched it again. It seems like the two buildings he ordered to be built were ones that had started out with an order to deconstruct them. Apparently the player had not wanted those buildings, but Legend got it mixed up in his haste?

[@juanfp]

At 16:25 you can see that both economic buildings have the red hammer icon, so they were actualy being demolished. Legend ends up upgrading the Residence, spending 2k

[@dillonfloyd]

I like this type of content

[@annormal1414]

I always so happy to see that new Saving disaster campaign is dropped and it's 2+ hours. The only downside is that its 50\50 will the race be one you like or not. Unfortunately I dgaf about dark elves. Oh well. Maybe next time.