Warhammer II - Legendary 20 Turns Guide - Malekith

[@lighteninglancelot7021]

Legend: Request... When you do these First 20 turns guide... at the end tell us what final (Doom) stack you will he heading towards and in addition How you will level the specific Legendary Lord (What skills you give him and in which order)... That would in my humble opinion make these Videos priceless, rather than just excellent.

[@horstschlemmer9578]

I fully agree. I'm not good enough to play on legendary but I like his videos, so it would be nice to get some out of them too.

[@alexpeti5513]

Go for the dreaded "Malekith the bitch-king" build. Malekith and 19 death hags.

[@datuputi777]

@@alexpeti5513 10-12 death hags gud enough you need casters and artillery for maximum efficiency.

[@datuputi777]

@@alexpeti5513 gotta love t3 building giving death hags and of course the nasty malicious trait stacking.

[@alexpeti5513]

@@datuputi777 yeah but that ain't no bitch-king build! Just kidding mate, usually go for Malekith, 1 death hag, 8 black guard, 8 shades and 2 dragons/hydras

[@iainmstanding]

"Burning Head is not just a venereal disease" :)

[@bogdangontar1363]

Out of context quote- "Slaves are good"-Legend

[@maxmustermann-zx9yq]

we call them minimum wage workers now

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

The Grandmaster "I don't like that word."

[@thisisaname5589]

I always make sure to hire the superior version of wizards, Grand Wizards. To complement all my slaves.

[@Mannydamon]

"Mainly doing it for the slaves, slaves are goooood." 17:55

[@martinch.6257]

Legend, after anything bad happens: "This is actually a good thing."

[@oattyrant2035]

Still true today

[@marcellommunoz]

you can reach the first settlement if you stood there and recruited, you just have to be precise where you stand. You did that in a legendary malekith campaign that you played a long time ago, and since then I've did that every time I play malekith.

[@revenantgamer4514]

Marcello Morales thanks for pointing this out. Ima try that now

[@mackmasters325]

Maybe that's been changed since?

[@MaxMustermann-rh2uq]

@@mackmasters325 nope did it just yesterday, you need to stand a little bit more left than legend in this case

[@rafaelb.m.4756]

But you wouldn't have movement to sack and then occupy like he did.

[@creativedegree]

@@rafaelb.m.4756 good point

[@apollonbuntos3464]

barrow legion next pls

[@yourethatmantis5178]

I’d hate to ask for 2 dark elf guides in a row but I would like a 20 turn Mortal Empires guide for Kraken Lord Fellheart. I think he has the hardest start of all the dark elf factions in Mortal Empires.

[@dillonhillery8173]

I just started a campaign for Fellheart and found it easier then any other Dark Elf faction

[@datuputi777]

@@dillonhillery8173 It's till chaos invasion hits and your first one on the chopping block but I reckon skilled players would be strong enough to beat them at that point.

[@mandu6665]

@@dillonhillery8173 Seriously. He's got dirt cheap Corsairs that carve through everything in the early game (especially Skaven, your biggest annoyance because of corruption), a black ark, a gold mine and buffs to slave pens for even MORE money potential.

[@finnkircher3827]

Cult of sotek, they have a really difficult start anyway and I'm finding it difficult to get a good start on legendary difficulty

[@finnkircher3827]

@@bogdanleshenko7149 that's a good idea, I don't know why I didn't think of that, thank you

[@jjrap3]

Do Vlad von Carstein next! I always have problems with him in legendary difficulty

[@JSNDragon]

Move just inside Manfred's province, raise dead his skeletons leave the zombies, come back across and raise your own dead. Manfred will move north to attack the other vampires. Next turn you dow Manfred and assault/take his capital. Finish up Manfred. Ignore your territory to the left as securing the main vampire counts starting province is higher priority. Once you have the two main vamp provinces you can push into the empire. Also beeline for the free skeleton tech.

[@kaydens6964]

You can either take manny out or befriend him and take on stirland, Manfred is gonna lose his army sooner or later and then you can confederate. I prefer the later cos ai builds cities really fast and you get a buffer zone from the dwarfs.

[@norrosliroth2458]

Now that the Empire update is out, can we please have 20 turns guide for Karl Franz?

[@Dahoihoihoi]

Wulfrik the Wanderer next please!

[@charleshixon1458]

Malekith was my first warhammer campaign and he’s still probably my favorite straight forward power campaign.

[@unknownunknowner2903]

I'd say Tehenhauin better next, his start is one of the toughest in the game as for me

[@veyder1723]

"I jumped on a wall here...", LOL I just love the automatic captions, a perfect start of the video!

[@antonio5478]

Yes finally. I was waiting for this guide to begin my new campaign, thanks legend for the good content, keep it up

[@keremaksu1861]

You mentioned these guides don't get that much views but helps us. Thank you for your time.

[@lewishand3531]

I absolutely love these guides! Can you please do a Vampire Counts 20 turn guide?

[@MrArthoz]

I just like to share my strategy when being sieged, the towers are the deadliest weapon of all especially if you got several strong cavalry. I played as Kemmler and was assaulted by one and a half stack of Bretonnian army. Sent my Vargheast to the center to bait all their unit into a clump while all my infantry activate every tower. Then my cavalry make rounds outside hitting from behind any infantry trying to set up ladders. Cycle charge as my cavalry was harassed by archers and horse archers. The towers killed 80% of the enemy and my cavalry mop up the rest. The Bretonnian left with only three units left...only to be caught by my incoming small reinforcement who at that time could easily wipe out their remnant huge army in one auto battle. That singe battle ultimately destroy all the strenght of Bretonnia and allows me to perform a massive counter attack.

[@MrJosdp]

I have finished 4 legendary Malakith campaigns 2 in vanilla 1 in SFO and 1 in Radious. The Mung attacked always before turn 20. I was flabbergasted not to see that here

[@datuputi777]

In legendary campaign they don't attack early when they didn't get prod by the rats. They'll definitely be a pain the longer you wait it's certainty. Just remember their there waiting to pounce.

[@creativedegree]

@@datuputi777 i just started mine. they sent me a non agression pact on turn 2. should i kill them? im on turn 11 and at nagaroth

[@datuputi777]

@@creativedegree They have no one else to fight but you eventually thus defaulting that they'll fight you eventually. heh

[@MrUndertaker316]

Thank you, I wanted to start a new DE campaign with Malekith for a while, this makes it so much easier

[@hamnisek]

Make nakai the wanderer in mortal empires- hardest campaign now to start

[@Escritorez]

Since when was Nakai hard?

[@koshar7081]

What i really want to see now is where that rebel army has wandered off to, i've ever encountered this behaviour in my playthroughs.

[@masterxl33tl3gacy9]

Unless you have reduced movement on legendary difficulty you can recruit first turn and still reach first settlement in one spot in specific I main dark elves in multiplayer and in campaigns I know this campaign very well and if you recruit first turn you can auto resolve all battles for this Provence and lose nothing or one dread spear

[@gaborbartucz2482]

Please do Wurrzag Da Great Green Prophet

[@adenforrester7079]

Can you please make a video with every race's best Doomstack and rank them on how fun they are?

[@Joensen83]

Great stuff. Would request a first 20 turn guide for lokhir fellheart

[@Penguinmustache]

20:58 Good to know, can save on trips to the VD clinic and dodge the dreaded umbrella treatment

[@Psilocybear]

Lokhir Fellheart guide next please!

[@LoremasterLiberaster]

Will you be doing Peasant Mob challenge campaign? Army lost penalty will hit hard :D

[@drZer0]

Always great to see these, personal favourite!

[@anthonyv50189]

Since Skaven was already done this probably won't get any upvotes I'd imagine. However, I'm having a hard time with Skrolk's campaign. It's an odd start surrounded by 2 empty settlements, and a Gor'Rok coming in hot turn 4.

[@SilentMorbus2]

very useful guide as ever,needed it. for the next i vote for grimgor

[@grizenator4836]

guide on Lokir Fellheart,

[@nerdytom6881]

Cover Teclis please, and can I have a levelling guide for him (beyond 1st 20 turns).

[@soulseptem5281]

I LOVE ALL YOUR 20 TURN GUIDS KEEP IT UP THANKS ALOT!

[@mikestafford6900]

Hexoatl? You haven't done Lizardmen yet and for some reason I just can't get into them

[@solaufein1374]

Note to first turn: You can actually recruit and then atack in next turn. You have to step to on closest possible spot on border, next to wood/mountain on the west.

[@finn5568]

now i want to try Dark elves... a faction i always stayed away from even in the Tabletop ~

[@filmerboost12]

I really like these guides. great work they are very good. Even if one does not play the faction you are doing a guide on you still teach a lot of general stuff, which is great! Would you consider also doing one on skaven Klan Pestilens? Would love to see that since I (and probably many others too) find the beginning very hard. Anyway, keep up the great work!

[@pooriariahi2909]

I'd like a chaos guide

[@ericmyrs]

Like, all Legends Chaos campaigns are 20 turn guides.

[@pooriariahi2909]

@@ericmyrs He has played pretty much each faction so based on what you say all the guides are pointless

[@ericmyrs]

@@pooriariahi2909 that's not what I am saying at all. I am saying that a Chaos one would be pointless. Because the tactics he uses are easy to pull off, and repeatable.

[@Dah4ka104]

You can actually recruit (or i could previous patch) on turn 1 and reach settlement turn 2 if positioned correctly

[@deatheven13]

Using bolt throwers to siege a settlement hurts my brain ... is there a difference between the single shot vs multi shot for walls vs towers or does it even matter?

[@johnmcmanus2447]

Single shot for towers would be best i think. Use multi shot for troops

[@barnebyoconnell8176]

I just started playing TWWH and am doing a Noctilus campaign. I'd really appreciate a first 20 on him.

[@johnmcmanus2447]

Rush Necrofex Colossus. Nothing can stop you after that

[@barnebyoconnell8176]

@@johnmcmanus2447 Sound's hideously boring.

[@lighteninglancelot7021]

@@barnebyoconnell8176 Oh it's Not! I'm turn 163 and have Noc and 19 Necrofex... Plus another stack of necrofex, plus 3 stacks of normal stuff... 2 more attacks and Ulthuan is mine!

[@Regnier575]

You're so damn good it's ridiculous

[@deemerald3990]

How about cult of sotek?

[@bodiah7633]

I don't know if they patched, but I'm playing on Very Hard and I've played a couple times while following your guide, and Mund almost always comes and razes Altar or Har Kaldra by turn 10. He always runs away if I start moving up there and comes back within a few turns if I start moving back south for Hag Graef. I've played three times and it's happened every time, so I guess I won't be able to follow this exactly lmao. It's still good info for buildings and getting the black ark early and perk allocation, though. Come to think of it, damn near all of my games have panned out almost entirely different except for the Skaven one. I bet CA is watching these and making quick patches to spite you; I'm starting to think that email was fake xd

[@alexpeti5513]

Have exactly the same issue, so what I like to do is attack them first, right after I take care of the rats and the rebellion. Hag Graef usually accepts peace after trying to siege Naggarond. So I take Malekith and sack/occupy both the Mung settlements and then let them rebel and get razed by the chaos stack. Imo they're not worth having early, too much corruption and PO problems there. Usually Har Ganeth occupies them and builds them up so I have them at tier 5 and 3 respectively after confederating them. They're a nuisance to keep early. Malekith with the fire sorceress, 8 darkshards and 10 dreadspears is more than enough to beat 1 mung stack and the garrison or even 2 stacks if you cheese and corner camp!

[@adammcdonald2251]

Love the video, I'd love to see a Clan Angrund first 20 turns guide.

[@Codeeris]

Fantastic work again, love these warhammer videos!

[@revenantgamer4514]

“If Clan Septic ask for peace... Tell ‘em to fuck off!” - Legend 2K19

[@illuminaticonfirmed6572]

Is Alarielle Vortex out of the question?

[@gibbjonathan22]

As someone who is trying to play his first total war campaign, there are SO MANY mechanics in this, where it seems like i simply don't know what button to press, and then guess work completely ruins everything.

[@alildude1640]

What is the reason behind sacking a settlement first than occupying it?

[@romandolgiy4351]

What my DE campaign looked like: got a good wizard first try - coll; capital besieged on turn 3 with 11 unit stack - not cool, but I'll manage; Mung brought into war on turn 4, Angol on turn 5, Rictus on turn 10. FML, restarted...

[@wersande1454]

Where were you supossed to vote

[@kacktustoo]

When a province revolts is there a place where the army usually spawns, like next to the largest city in the area or something?

[@Lycoargaming]

Can you do a legendary 20 turns with clan pestilence? I'm confused with what I should do especially with lokhir fellheart and gor-rok around

[@mandu6665]

Not a 20 turns guide but for all Skaven lords, sack and raid to get enough food so you can settle a conquered settlement at tier 3, build the Plagueclaw Catapults building and recruit anywhere from 4-6 catapults, demolish the building after to get some cash back. Gor-rok can't do shit to you once you've got those machines of death in your army.

[@FantomMisfit]

Doesnt Wh2 AR actually weigh Skavenslaves negatively? Like it says oooh slavery bad and actually make your AR worse than if they werent there at all? I heard something like that

[@ershin_chaos5815]

Can you make a video on how to build lords? Discussing what is optimal like red line vs blue line?

[@Kazmahu]

I have three votes on this one. Manfred/Isabella Von Carstein (since they share a faction and starting situation, and can recruit each other from turn one, which one you pick is part of the strategy), Ikit Claw, or... Western Roman Empire.

[@johnmcmanus2447]

He's already done a WRE 10 turn guide

[@ChrisBZ86]

@LegendofTotalWar: Could you please do a Tyrion / High Elf one next? Also: I second Lightening Lancelot's request concerning LL build. Keep up the excellent work!

[@alexpeti5513]

Tyrion is probably the easiest one, you just have to get an 11-14 stack and as soon as you have that, attack Angerial and then rush the other two settlements in the Eataine province in order to unify it. As soon as you have that and a 20 stack, Yvresse will be invading followed by Cothique. Take care of their stacks and keep working your way to Tor Yvresse. Once Yvresse is gone then it's smooth sailing. Bonus tip, defensive alliance with Avelorn, the sooner the better. They will attack every elf faction and conquer them, leaving you to develop Eataine and Yvresse, two of the most rich provinces on Ulthuan. Plus, once public order has stabilised, probably no one will invade so you can take Tyrion and visit Malekith's mommy. As far as your early game army goes, disband the silver helms and the chariot after you fend off the first Yvresse army and just use 8 archers, your noble and the rest of the army should be spearmen. When Lothern is at level 3 recruit a mage and a couple of bolt throwers and you're good to go for the next 50 turns or so. Good luck!

[@ChrisBZ86]

@@alexpeti5513 Thank you so much for the detailed explanation Alex! I'll definitely give that go as soon as I finish my Hard Mode Thorgrim ME campaign. What traits would you recommend for Lords (Punitive? Ardent? Dragon Willed?), Loremasters (Fecund?), Mages (Entrepreneur?), Noble (Conscientious? Frugal?)? Thanks in advance!

[@alexpeti5513]

@@ChrisBZ86 Ardent and efficient are my favorites in order to save money on upkeep but sometimes I find a trait that interests me and build an army around that trait. Entrepreneur and Administrator are the best for mages. If you farm influence with nobles you can afford to spend 40 on an administrator mage and have her run around Ulthuan and save you money and time on upgrading buildings, plus leave some Entrepreneur mages on Lothern or Tor Anroc in order to boost your income substantially. For Nobles I like Emolient, Conscientious, Resilient, Frugal and Honed. Don't really use Loremasters a whole lot but I think Medic is the way to go. I'm happy to help you with more tips for mortal empires or the vortex campaign if you like, just ask! Good luck on your Thorgrim campaign, it's a fun one!

[@alexpeti5513]

I just noticed in my first post I said Angerial. What I meant was Tower of Lysean, Angerial should be the second settlement you attack, although I think they changed the map and you can no longer cross into Angerial from Tower of Lysean. In that case, Angerial should be your first target and then capturing/colonising the Shrine of Asuryan.

[@designwagon6652]

When did Cold One Chariots get their model count cut in half?

[@karlwittenburg5868]

Could the next one be Karl Franz? I’m still having a little trouble wrapping my head around the new elector count system

[@TheBladeRoden]

Is there a version of this for Vortex?

[@TheImweg]

Why does he attach his sorceres only after inital siege?

[@isaacdechant9025]

Can you do Tretch Craventail of clan rictus please. Awesome video

[@Soso64bit]

why didn't I get the sorceress in the beginning?

[@brotharzed3434]

We need an updated guide

[@Ashannon888]

Was it a mistake to disband that sorceress instead of having her colonize the Shrine of Khaine? Wouldn't have had to use Malekith then and could have disbanded her afterwards

[@Odenmeepius]

Awesome guids keep it io legend. I hate to ask for a back to back Dark elves but a Morathi would be an awesome guide if you would do that one.

[@iopohable]

will you update all of these mate? they are very good but they are pretty much all outdated. cheers

[@resultantdoor6630]

Great video Legend. Any way you could make a ranking for total war warhammer 2 towers? You've mentioned that the skaven have the best towers, but it would be nice to have a comparison if it wouldn't be too difficult.

[@UCeagle79]

I started a Malekith campaign after your play through of him. He's one of my favorites now. But I would love if you tried Tullaris Dreadbringer from Mixus Legendary Mod. He's so hard and one of my favorites. All the high elfs start attacking you from turn 1

[@DreamingGod05]

Any chance of doing a first 20 turns for Malus Darkblade? For either Mortal Empire or Vortex. I am finding him a hard start.

[@MultiEminemguy]

Karl Franz next please!

[@Loispealz34]

Great video, time for me to smash some bad ratz. also might you consider doing Belegar Ironhammer? I managed to get to karak but those first 30 turns were complete shite, i have no idea how to deal with skarsnik in a timely manner.

[@willc1294]

ok this is a sort of necro I guess, but how did you have the first tech 'Choose or Die' already researched at beginning??

[@xarhtos7474]

probably in older versions thats how it was

[@the_wierd_guy0234]

Could you do a Legendary guide on Alith Anar/ Nagarythe please

[@footybg]

Wulfrik guide pls....Norsca on legendary is so hard due to the no-walls in settlements limitation.

[@konkonking2136]

Would be nice to see cult of sotek as next faction

[@charleshixon1458]

Those slow chariots are rough. Best thing I’ve tried is to stack them up as a column and ram the corners.

[@kulicek6153]

can you do guide for malus darkblade ? iam getting so F by the lizardmen

[@BigPaPaRu]

Anyone know any good videos that go into skills you should take for lords and heros?

[@LordMacragge31]

You actually can make it to Har Kaldra on turn 2 if you train 3 units on T1

[@digilydave9923]

huh my campaign map looks different? has it changed?

[@jackdorrington5908]

Skarsnik next please

[@jasondoherty7497]

Lokhir Fellheart

[@ew1468]

I would say the next guide should be on the empire.

[@SecretOrd3r]

A better way to start off as DE playing as Malekith on legendary is to declare war on Ghrond right away and take the great arena on the first turn (Be sure to have the fire mage embed into Malekith army and be sure to get burning head/flame storm when ranking her. Also when ranking malekith save his skill point starting at rank 8). Recruit 3 darkshard and gift small treasury to Har garnet each turn but don't gift any on 1st turn. Only use your treasure for recuiting darkshard and nothing else. Ignore the skaven, mainly clan septik since they very easy to beat and never get far in campaign without your help. Make a beeline toward Ghrond capital for the gold mine (continue to upgrade it when able but don't build a 2nd army). On 2nd turn, open trade agreement and use as much treasury as possible to get har garnet to agree to defensive alliance. Move Malekith as close to the border of Ghrond as possible and recruit at least 2 more Darkshard. 3rd turn attack Ghrond and claim the capital. No matter how much troop they have there it very easy to beat. First put all troop at the far left side of the map and have reaper bolt take out the far left tower. While it doing that have malekith hug the far corner of the left wall and repeatedly cast chillwind on the line up ground troop. As this is happening move the fire mage behind the tree near the far left wall within range of the their darkshard. The tree will provide cover and if you angle her right she will take nearly no damage at all while the darkshard waste their shot. After all your wind of magic gone, have only malekith climb the wall and have him engage the archer that still have ammo. Before his climb be sure to move your darkshard close enough to to shoot everyone on the wall. Once malekith is engage in melee on the wall, have your darkshard kill everything on the wall and battle over (Ghrond troop will continue to get on the wall turning it into a firing range for your darkshard making it very easy). After battle, claim Ghrond, build gold mine and continue to gift small treasury to har garnet. Point of this is to confederate her very early and before turn 20 so you can get a 2nd army and a powerful lord who yet to fuck up her skill tree. On turn 4 hag graef prob. laying siege to your capital which is good (ignore rebel that appear at Ghrond, with the defensive alliance, har garnet will 95% of the time take em out). March malekith back but just enough so he can go into ambush stand. If hag see him coming back they will lift siege and raid region instead. Turn 5 move him closer, within the border of great arena and enter ambush. turn 6 engage the hag. Depending on rng, they either stay and fight or flee but if you move malekith close enough during previous turn, they will still be within range of attack. Beat em and they should offer peace. If not it fine since it take to long for them to build another army and by that time the warherd will appear and rekt their region causing them to request peace. From this point on focus on defending your region, farming rebel and invading army for exp and gift treasure to har garnet til she offer confederation (at this point AI can differ between game). I find it that if you have malekith go into ambush north of the great arena and near nagarroth border, the rat or ghrond invading army tend to march into it since the great arena have no wall they usually aim for it (it also a good place that provide good coverage of the area). It also near where rebel show up in nagarroth so you can rush em quick. If Clan septik offer peace be sure to accept it as soon as it is offer since this will get mung to attack em in a few turn saving you time and resources (if it take to long to get peace, there chance they will get mung to join them in attacking you) Once har garnet confederate, depending on AI in your game, if ghrond is still alive within Askrak region take em out or if mung have already raze it, you should focus on farming rebel to get malekith to rank 12 and building up your region. Use the crone as 2nd army and have her farm exp. as well. Once malekith is rank 12 get the leadership skill tree and get all the skill in that tree (you should have enough point if you been saving point since rank 8) to reduce upkeep and reduce attrition. At this point march north to take out mung while leaving the crone who you confederate to farm rebel, secure region and gain exp. After Mung gone march south and take out the clan septik securing the entire iron mountain. Depending on AI, you can achieve all this just a little above 20 turn (can't remember if it possible to get it within 20 but maybe if your good and AI on your side?). From here the game is really easy til late game, however you should focus on claiming hag graef as soon as you can for the mine. DE malekith was my fav. faction (before Nakai, his faction almost broken ahaha, CA please don't fix. Nakai also only faction I'm able to get legendary long campaign victory). I had try many different way to start off as malekith and find that confederating har garnet early and getting morathi afterward make DE very easy early game. Late game with empire and dawf, they need nerf, not fun. Only way to get even ground with empire and dawf is to attack em early which is not possible when you on other side of the world.

[@OMoanaigh]

So for some reason whenever I start a campaign clar karond isn't at war with me, also why do you have the first tech unlocked on turn 1?

[@colt4531]

Old guide, games been greatly patched.

[@0786RICARDO]

Someone explain the physics of warhammer helmets/masks..

[@pallandoromestamo8861]

Why do you have the first technology already completed at start? I don't

[@pallandoromestamo8861]

Also, I did stay back to recruit in the first turn and could still just reach the settlement in turn 2. I guess this guide is severely outdated.

[@GlebT92]

Played this particular campaign so many times so now "I hate snow" just like Malekith does... In my opinion, capturing The Great Arena on turn 1, Ghrond on turn 3 (using cheese) and then XP farm with 2 cheap darkshards/dreadspears armies is more rewarding.

[@rogerhill2707]

That's my go to strategy too, that gold mine is tasty. BUT that strategy is more difficult to pull off.

[@mr.paperbag771]

Von Carstein guide?

[@rodrigogiancristofaro5110]

Do a guide on the empire please

[@thelejund7944]

Wulfrik the Wanderer - Norsca - SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

[@iGleeson]

I always want these to keep going! That's what the streams are for I guess!

[@Sh1snoShooter]

Do one for Vlad von Carstein.

[@CapitanBarbaschiuma]

next video i think it should be vampire counts or norsca, any lord is fine. nice series btw

[@greetingsmars]

Why does his Naggarond look so different than mine?

[@willc1294]

he also has the first tech already researched on first turn??? Go to 2:18 and see.....

[@OldSpaghettifactory89]

So, is there actually a difference between close and decisive victories? Does it get more xp or loot or something?