LIZARDMEN ARMY GUIDE! - Total War: Warhammer 2

[@TheNomnomnom0815]

I've watched a couple of lizardmen 'guides' so far and all of them pretty much just rattled down unit names and their stats without any actual tactics. For a Total War AND Warhammer noob, your video is a blessing.

[@Zerkovich]

That's why I'm here man. Thanks for watching!

[@simpleman3898]

Ikr this is what's needed

[@kalebarnold5173]

Puts footage of Skink Priest for Skink Chief... Puts footage of Skink Chief for Skink Priest... *RAMPAGE* *INTENSIFIES*

[@Zerkovich]

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[@hammerking05]

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[@davevd9944]

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[@Titanic_Tuna]

8:17 "Give us a kiss love." "B-b-but people can see us." "We might die any minute now so lets go." "......Alright......"

[@RawkL0bster]

i cri evrytiem

[@mouse_burger8051]

lol

[@dogeknows6086]

BBC I b. I. I BBC. I. I.

[@duross101]

Knowing nothing about this game I chose lizardmen solely due to the fact that the Argonian was my boy in Skyrim

[@duross101]

Only took a month to play 400 hours

[@MelficeN7]

@@duross101 Nice.

[@Werdiknight]

@@duross101 One month just has ca 730 hours - that is just unbelievable. No life besides sleeping, eating and TW? :D

[@AveSicarius]

@@Werdiknight I'd imagine that includes a significant portion of time loading and AFK. I personally had like 70 hours on Skyrim the week it came out, and I know I definitely didn't play 10 hours a day.

[@iamyourmom2]

@@AveSicarius I dont think hes talking about Skyrim

[@RafaelElectronic]

I’m obsessed with this faction’s aesthetic ❤️

[@gooeygo2515]

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE!

[@mopeymarmite3409]

As much as I love this faction,I don’t know why but I have more love for the greenskins!! But the lizard men are great as well

[@gooeygo2515]

RABBI Shekel These are magic Aztec lizards why would you expect it to be accurate?

[@lordwarlockthangwrath8662]

Filthy scaly-thing, I hate-abore them, only good dead-dead, on plate-bowl, feeding slaves, yes-yes!

[@gooeygo2515]

Darth Tatoris This does not comply with the old ones plan.

[@traumateaminternational4732]

Use RussianBadger's build. Nothing but Carnosaurs. A carnosaur Lord, an army of feral carnosaurs, and a single group of saurus warriors to act as spectators.

[@madmanvarietyshow9605]

Can confirm the Badger Build is hilariously fun

[@LeKain08]

@Tsar 3001 "I cAn PrOvE iT aS bEiNg a RuSsIaN ..." ... cringe...

[@crispinwellburn5719]

Yeah, but Badgers build was primarily focused on campaign tactics, where Doomstacks work, it does not work nearly as well for multiplayer

[@Georgious]

But if your saying; "Zerk I don't like big brutish melee lizards, I'm a man of the arcane!" Lol

[@duc_de_sel]

Virgin Fat Toad Nerd vs. Chad Sword Lizard Quarterback

[@some_shitposting_idiot3023]

Toad nerd all the way

[@Ghost1170]

You do realize chad sword lizard obeys the virgin fat toa- I just realized thats real life LOL

[@warhawk9566]

Saurus don't use swords

[@Tucher97]

Really cheap Temple guards or Free Saurus units (or making non shields entirely worthless)

[@bluephoenix7111]

Remember that the nerd is at least 500 years old and can cast a nuke on the quarterback

[@Destyvirago]

At 13.06 I suddenly noticed that the front Kroxigor was scratching his ass, then sniffed his hand before he licked it. I was like WTF is this!?

[@SinerAthin]

When they made a 9ft tall man-crocodile brute thing, I don't think Etiquette was so high on their list of things to give it xD

[@Acmecaboose]

Maybe he sat on the remains of a clanrat. I’ll bet the lizards find Skaven tasty.

[@HemeHaci]

Ahahah

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

I wouldnt dare point it out to their face

[@sim.frischh9781]

Glad i´m not the only one who saw that...

[@seangage1812]

I’ve been waiting for this guide for a while, so happy to finally see it in all of its glory.

[@Zerkovich]

I hope you enjoyed it homie!

[@bennioswald6436]

you missed that the chameleon skinks have 40% missile resist

[@Zerkovich]

That explains the Toad Hat eh.

[@damienvalentine5043]

♪ ribbit hats ribbit hats lil' bitty ribbit hats ♪

[@warriorfire8103]

A unit I didn't expect to become one of my favorite units. They do a lot of damage and the combination of speed/poison makes them so hard to catch. Plus they take out giants very quickly oddly enough.

[@DanGalarzaCyber]

In my first campaign fight with Chaos, their Throwing Axe Cavalry charged in at my infantry and wailed away knowing my ranged units were limited, and limited in range: I let them hit me until they ran out of ammo and then charged into the infantry :D

[@ecabernet]

Just noticed how much I love watching slow-mo of dino's ripping up elves.

[@procrastinatinggamer]

Main way to tell how prone a unit is to rampaging is to look at the icon for it at the bottom of their stat card - yellow means they won’t rampage until below 50% health, red means there’s a chance they’ll rampage from the get-go.

[@VegaO3]

Oh wow, I never knew this. Thanks!

[@procrastinatinggamer]

I've made it a bit of a habit to check all of the abilities at the bottom of the statcard and read exactly how they work. The tooltips aren't the most straightforward but you get a feel for reading them soon enough. Like the yellow icon says it gives the Rampage debuff but is disabled while the unit is above 50% health. So once they go below 50%, the unit then gets the red icon's ability and they now have a chance of going nuts. I don't know what that chance is though, whether its a lot of damage or any instance of damage.

[@warman48]

13:05 you can defiantly tell these things are "monstrous" when that croc scratches his ass and licks his scaly hand right after

[@thedrunkzaku]

Just wanted to thank you for doing these videos, I truly helps a lot for someone new to the game, able to get a run down on which faction I want to focus on.

[@Zerkovich]

You're welcome my friend.

[@hectorcooper4485]

'Are the Shaggoth Sausages cooked yet'

[@Zerkovich]

That Salad Dodger Mazdamundi ay...

[@Rodnallac]

Hell yes, thanks for the great guide Zerk! The art design on those lizardmen is just stunning!

[@liamcarnahan1346]

Fighting against lizard men early game just sucks

[@Nerazmus]

Well, what do you expect? They are like dwarfs, but instead of gunpowder, they have dinosaurs.

[@mandu6665]

Casket of Souls, Khalida with a ton of archers and they melt before they even get to your frontline.

[@ImaTigerRawrXD1995]

Liam Carnahan imagine trying to rush enough anti large units on the clan mors campaign....

[@hollowgetsuga425]

Was playing as the high elves in campaign. Got absolutely shit on by a Lizard men rush. Didn’t even know what fucking happened. Had like 6 elite units and they were all dead or running away before I could even get my flank off.

[@madmanvarietyshow9605]

@@ImaTigerRawrXD1995 fuck I know this pain. I'm playing through a Mors campaign right now and those lizard shits are on my fucking shit list. Kroqgar can choke on a bag of dicks.

[@sunttu333]

Finally a Lizardmen guide! War-Pepe is pleased

[@LethalOwl]

Shadilay onwards, Lizardmen!

[@BenAHowell754]

The legends were true... by the gods, the legends were true! It does exist...

[@Emmerich88]

3:46 "that's OK we've got some big fat magic lizards for you" you killed me with that one XD

[@dracolupine9441]

I had picked up the game recently and was trying really hard to figure out how to work Lizardmen. I caught on to some of it but I appreciate the video, it pointed out some ideas I hadn't seen or thought of yet.

[@rudrabasu8112]

Yes, the lizardmen guide. Now I can live peacefully.

[@Traced7]

Dude I've watched several hours of your videos. I never comment on anything on KZbin. All epic. Thank you. But had to check in with this one. IM A MAN OF THE ARCANE dead.jpeg. Thank you.

[@mikejeanfreau]

DUDE. Great guides. I've watched too many of your Warhammer II videos, and they're all enjoyable. Keep up the good work!

[@camiloparada9529]

Such a professional set of videos, good shit man

[@theunfortunategeneral]

Feral cold ones... The dogs of the Lizardmen. Pretty much.

[@valendrien6517]

I seriously love the humor you put into your videos.

[@D3LTA48]

Lizardfolk are the first faction I really dedicated to in this game. Loads of fun with little micromanagement as I got used to the game. And as you said, it's easy to build an army since most of it is going to be Saurus Warriors.

[@synthetic221]

So sassy about using non-melee lords. Lol

[@Zerkovich]

Fuckin' Wizards.

[@catfishjack8169]

SyntheticMoron I smell a man of the arcane.

[@jamesmontgomery1930]

Can not explain how much these videos help a new comer to war hammer. Very appreciative.

[@Hexley_Vexley]

Short version of Lizardmen guide: Do pretty much whatever because they're OP as fuck. It takes 3 stacks of Skaven of equal tier (which uses 3 times as many generals and 3 takes times as long to recruit) to take down 1 Lizardmen stack reliably.

[@Maladjester]

Eating crunchy chips so I turned on the captions. Best auto-generated are "Soros peers" and "therapist telethon."

[@thisonelad24]

I would actually argue that Kroxigors are made for flanking. They RIP through enemy infantry like there's no tomorrow. Sticking them with your front line is just a good way to tie them down and essentially negate their brutality.

[@Joe_159]

You are my new favourite KZbinr, thank you for all your quality content!

[@Zerkovich]

[@eunsollee8209]

Happy to see that Saurus Old Bloods and Kroq-Gar ride connoisseurs (at least, according to the subtitles.)

[@bjack1547]

"I'm a man-child of the arcane"

[@00yiggdrasill00]

yet another great guide. i do feel the lizardmen infantry moves slower than others, but im not looking at stats right now. .... dont feel ashamed of it, you weren't the only one to have nightmares of giant carnivorous lizards.

[@chriswarburtonbrown1566]

I played The Magnificent Sven in 1988, the first appearance of lizardmen in Warhammer. They've come a long way since with dinosaurs, artillery and 'cavalry', but remain one of my favourites.

[@GlamdringandOrcrist]

Calls Grymloq “a Carnosaur”. Bish, he’s THE Carnosaur

[@egemenozcelik7494]

Bish Grymloq is a carnosaur croq adopted when he was young carnosaur is a species name lmao trying to sound smart

[@gooeygo2515]

Egemen Özçelik No they are just stating that Grym loq isn’t just any Carnosaur he’s is *the* Carnosaur

[@sneakysquid8541]

To shield or not to shield, that is the question.

[@Alexander59059]

In campaign I love using Kroq gar and having an army of nothing but Sarus with zero upkeep

[@omegasupreme4266]

Yesss!!!! I've been waiting for this. Love you Zerkovich you da man

[@adamwhite8069]

Finally! The one I've been waiting for all this time

[@thetrustysidekick3013]

Etta James's "At Last" played in my mind when I saw this upload.

[@galacta7300]

Thankfful as always for the guides. Thanks!

[@bennylowson]

I love you Zerk, you're guides are always ✓

[@uncledoctor6920]

Rampage really isn't too big a problem, as all lords and heroes have the cold blooded ability to stop it, which also recharges fairly quickly. Just put saurus units at the front, shields preferred, support with kroxigors, put salamander hunting packs behind them to deal with enemy ranged or do massive damage to melee blobs as your infantry holds them, then either flank with dinos or send them in before your line's meet the enemy's. The key is to make the fight short and bloody, maximum damage in the shortest timespan possible, Lizardmen can do sustained combat but it's not their strength and increases the likelihood they rampage the longer it goes on. Keep that in mind and you'll absolutely steam roll campaigns.

[@Haiphong778]

Been eagerly awaiting this guide from you. Great work, and thank you!

[@popanda383]

Zerk! Great to see a video from you again! Lizardmen are literal fricken beasts! One day I'll have enough extra income to move from warhammer to warhammer 2 haha love the vids man. Great work.

[@Anvilarm07]

Very helpful. I just started my Lizardman Vortex campaign.

[@Georgious]

Just checked out your channel today. Watched some army guide vids and thought damn no Lizardmen!? And BAMMM there it is! fresh of the presses nice man!

[@Zerkovich]

Good timing then my friend!

[@TheGreatJon]

Excellent. Was waiting for this.

[@khen83]

“Heavily armoured enemy armour piercing frontline” lol

[@timclark6439]

definitely subscribed! I dont own total war yet but I plan on getting it very soon. I've never owned a total war game or even anything related to warhammer. Your videos have been a great way to keep me excited for buying the game. Me and my friend plan on having lots of fun dino stomping people online sometime soon!

[@DonutDuffer]

Relatively new to the channel but have been waiting with so much hype for this guide!

[@Zerkovich]

Appreciate your fresh support my friend!

[@JaTonda]

Toad as a hat? I am sold!

[@fireworksfactoryshow]

"State your first name, last name and occupation." "Lizardman. Lizardman. And, uh, Lizardman."

[@Walshy1Jojo]

Brilliant video, Zerkovich. Love your candour and references to Dinosaurs and calling the Slann out as fat mages haha. Can't wait to test them out in Warhammer II!

[@YoungBADGER]

13:06 that kroxigar straight strached his butt then licked his hand

[@orthiaclamedesang1797]

19:18 "I believe I can fly, yes-yes I believe I can touch the sky, yes-yes" *Loud crash sound* "Well, that was fun, lets go for another one !"

[@mouse_burger8051]

,lol he wishes to fly so he can ascend to see the great horned rat!

[@Itz_Hyde]

I'm no schlonghead but I want a Norsca guide!!!

[@battlemode]

CA haven't finished porting Norsca over to Warhammer 2, that's probably why Zerk's not done it yet.

[@rasbaltic]

Didn't you hear what zerk just said at the end? Schlonghead...

[@Basillic]

shlong head

[@bruva207]

Am I the only one who finds Kroq Gar extremely cute?... Maybe it's that permanent lizard smile or the fact that he goes "Kroq Gar TOK TOK!" everytime he begins marching also he pets Grymloq and mainly goes GRAAA at everything... I fucking adore him!

[@NoirMorter]

Your army guides are funny and useful.

[@king9noah657]

18:15 until i watched this i had no idea people got absolutely decimated like this

[@mahi-fish]

I've watched hours and hours of your videos. One type of content that I've been looking for, but haven't found, is a sample army for each faction with a breakdown for how to play into its strengths, similar to the way you end your army breakdown videos now. I'd love to see a series of videos like that if you ever get around to it, maybe with an early/mid/late game campaign stack example.

[@Erik-cv4tm]

Thanks for these faction guides as well as the "why do I suck at warhammer" series! I still suck, but not as much!

[@QwH007]

Finally i was waiting for this

[@xCHEESEandHAMx]

That gore money shot with the Dino was fucking beautiful 18:20

[@pierre-mariecaulliez6285]

19:20 Lizardmen VS skaven in a nutshell

[@mouse_burger8051]

*skaven laugh as the slaves get torn apart and continue to load death machines*

[@tastefulavenger]

Ah how I have awaited this promised day! Insta favorite :)! May Sigmar bless you!

[@Zerkovich]

**fist bump**

[@gorg21.21]

I can't stop laughing when death master snitch gets slapped by a dino 19:20

[@LordGlavenus]

can we get an updated version of this for the new DLC content that is in the game?

[@shigerufan1]

+ Cold-blooded ability change and Croxigor Ancient Lords

[@statetroopfodder9268]

Best guides for total war warhammer 2 around.

[@patrik9328]

13:51 Ambulance dinosaur What is that Skink on left standing on?

[@alexanderheller2039]

Mate your guides are awesome. I wish there was a mod to swap out the vanilla help section to soundbites of your voice detailing a chosen unit.

[@kalebarnold5173]

*Ohmagoshitsfinallyhere!* About time too! This guide is almost as late as Norsca... ... Just kidding, the video was fantastic (though the thing about Norsca is technically true). I just wish I had that one for the insult contest. One of my favorite things about the Lizardmen is that they are like the Empire, but better; they have an answer to everything and can be used in a variety of different play styles with success. This should be made even better once they recieve their lord pack. They're also the Lizardmen, the oldest and most powerful race in Warhammer, the ultimate epitome of order in the world, dedicated to exterminating the lesser races not part of the Great Plan and the ultimate destruction of Chaos itself. So yeah, what's not to love? Oh, and I found your guitar channel a couple weeks back, and I must say it was a pleasant surprise! Nice job on that as well, excellent videos. (Not that I would expect anything less!)

[@molspagetti]

Zerk, is it just me, or do you not seem to like the Lizardmen that much?

[@solarboy48]

He hates them.

[@drakeclaw8872]

Why Though

[@JordanI135]

Broken, imba, op, easy mode. They are brainlessly strong. A dummy can play them.

[@drakeclaw8872]

I Disagree a good ap missle unit will shred most infantry and if they have ap anti large you basically already lost And their cavalier game is kinda weak

[@JordanI135]

Except how many factions have good ap missile, its like the only good one is the other semi broken faction. *Thinking*

[@TaRAAASHBAGS]

Can you do a more refined video like these for some of the older factiom videos sometime? Like an Empire 2.0

[@Tucher97]

Carnosaurs are not only great at distracting large monster units, they are good at disrupting formations and disrupting range units as well as destroying artillary engines, no I do not mean the arty team I mean the weapon itself because how the carno fights, the arty will get demolished in the process, and do not feel bad bad to send a carno straight at an archery line, that dino is fast enough to nullify the arrows and able to keep up to the point the archerers are better off leaving the battle, just make sure to keep the dino away from halibards

[@bigpapapamnamor2545]

I had to laugh just of the way ur explaining things. Great video my first video and I guess I'll watch some more.

[@tacolord2485]

The "rampage" reminds me of the intelligent quintaglio dinos from a book trilogy where they enter the state of "dagamant" which makes them go berserk and they can only calm down when they kill prey or each other

[@John777tino]

magical floating skink, the Lizardmen magic truly bizzare.

[@MarcusModulus]

Disagree on the low damage output of Saurus. Having 4 less melee attack isn't nearly as significant as their massive 52 weapon damage. It more than makes up for it. Your hit chance is a percentage chance equal to 40 - the difference between your melee attack and their melee defense. In the case of Swordsmen vs Saurus, that's a 36% hit chance against the Swordsmen's 44% hit chance. 52*.36 = 18.72 damage for the Saurus. The Swordsmen meanwhile has 28*.44 for 12.32 damage. That is 150% of the Swordsmen's damage output. It's true that against enemies with very high melee defense or armor, the Saurus will falter a bit, but I don't think low damage output is a weakness of the Lizardmen infantry. Their biggest weakness in the infantry department is a lack of a solid armor piercing option to use against other elite armored infantry. Some weaknesses that I might have included in the weaknesses category instead of low damage are a lackluster ranged contingent and a narrow selection of viable cavalry and mobile threats (pretty much limited to the Carnosaurs in terms of viable mobile threats that can keep up with cavalry as the cold ones are largely lackluster).

[@Ghost1170]

Lack of anti armor, what? Bro, half of the heavens skink priest reduces that and youre alligator warriors are all anti armor. I have more issues dealing with walls with lots of hp than anything with high armor as a lizardman player. Like the fucking high elves. They dont have lots of armor but their fuckin arrows and high leadership make it a pain in the ass when you use a large number of infantry or calvary in a siege

[@Talon323]

I like how you didnt even mention that skinks have aquatic. It can be a big deal in the offchange youre fighting in a swamp!

[@AxenfonKlatismrek]

Its because you will be mostly fighting on dry land. Even if you will be fighting in the water, still doesnt make them any stronger. Aquatic means that water has no effet on the speed

[@yochitoranaga]

I think this vid will need an update. with the last two dlcs, this faction got a bit more variety to offer... air power is quite impressive with the ripper dactyls and the dread saurus puts the other tanks to shame :P

[@akak325]

FINALLY! THANK YOU :D

[@huitz1348]

My favorite faction to play in mortal empires. Can't wait to get more dlc content for them.

[@Krechas]

Really cool, solid video man :)

[@gfbhvvgfff7465]

Wooooooo chuft!! I love your vids ! , nightmare army to play against . Beat them anyways ...

[@svyalinirnhut890]

Thank you so much for this guide. I was using huge crowd strategy with lizardmen in Campaign, to swarm my enemies... It didn't go very well.

[@Zerkovich]

You crazy man!

[@bundleofhumble3119]

Good video as allways, I would have like to see the mounts included on lords and legendary lords to see the difference.

[@Scorpion122178]

I hate to ask but after Norsca would you be willing to redo some of the older guides like Vampire Counts? Don't get me wrong they're good but the quality of these guides really just shot up compared to the older ones.

[@matics453]

Yay lizardmen guide by Zerkovich.

[@paultubbs3510]

Looking at other stuff and LIZARDMAIDEN hit the corner of my eye! Iron Maiden lizardmen shit sounded epic

[@UncleBurbon]

19:19 That rat needs to call 1-800GOTREKTBOIII

[@victornorman3671]

Love your videos! Very well done! :)

[@perer005]

Dinos charging into Elf-Archers brought tears to mu eyes ;)

[@fumarc4501]

Lustria Lizardmen are under direct rule of the remaining Slann. Southlands Lizardmen have no Slann leadership, but are still active if not more independent. Finally the Hinterlands of Khuresh is said to have “Snakemen” and a “Blood Naga Queen”... with this info I theorizer that those remaining Lizardmen of the far east have mutated and devolved into corrupted version of themselves by the powers of Chaos.

[@45bullshark]

Watching half a dozen dinos smash entire flanks is fun.