CROUCHING COATL, HIDDEN DREAD SAURIAN - Lizardmen vs. Tomb Kings - Total War Warhammer 2

[@jn7s1121]

that stalking dread saurian is how Chaos imagined Oxyotl when he was in the Chaos realms

[@rinserofwinds]

"i swear, boss, that lizard was huge!"

[@mcstotti8691]

My head cannon about coatls is that they cause en intense fog below them. A fog so thick that it muffles sound and you cant see your own hands before you. Imagine beeing a ground soldier and that wall of fog is rolling towards you the ground is also shaking you think its probably just the ancient toad wizard causing an earthquake with his powers. Now the wall of fog rolls over you and into your line chomps the giant jaw of dread saurian am moments later you feel the warm embrace of its mouth before its jaw clenches down and instantly rips you apart.

[@SoulNommer]

Interesting, my headcanon for it was that it controls all the air beneath it and so can bend all the light that would pass through that area to make anything invisible at a distance. Fun hearing other interpretations of the Master of the Skies ability.

[@iamdanyboy1]

The Mist, by Stephen King.

[@lucentgriffin1194]

Urannon's thunderbolt is good against artillery because it can destroy the models of the actual artillery pieces. The casket of souls is an exception, it's unique in that it's model can't be destroyed without completely killing the unit because it doesn't have a crew (unlike any other artillery unit) so it seems to be just counted as a normal single entity, which thunderbolt is bad against.

[@chrisb5005]

I feel like the eyes of the desert could've gotten so much more value off if they'd been targeting that dread saurian with their shots. They still had half their ammo left when they died

[@JM.....]

This

[@Sir_Bucket]

the dread would have been the best target indeed. But I think they just didn't have the occasion to do so. If they didn't shoot the saurus warrios attacking the artillery, the tomb kings would have lost their best way to deal with infantry, which there is a lot of in this battle.

[@Keln02]

"what's the huge lizard vulnerable to?" "Arrows" "What if you can't see it" "Oh..."

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

BIG mistake charging the Eyes of the Desert in - they do significantly more damage at ranged, and the Dread Saurian is extremely easy to hit. Had they used alll their ammo they'd have it much weaker without losing any models, even if it meant throwign a sacrificial unit in the way to get the Greatbows loose.

[@ZeDawgear]

FINALLY! I've been waiting for someone to stick a dread saurian under the noodlebird ever since we learned they could stalk targets. That strategy certainly was tested verses the best of the Tomb King's ranged roster today; if a stalked dread saurian can work against a build that otherwise naturally counters them, how devastating could it be to opponents less prepared for Steve Irwin's pride and joy? (sequel, please)

[@dahkla9602]

Finally, the combo I was wanting to see as soon as I heard Coatl could cloak things

[@amphitheremajesticon4928]

This was a good battle! I've been wanting to try this myself but just hadn't gotten to it yet. I think the TK player definitely could've won this if they had played a bit better. I think netting the coatl was a great idea but rather than firing at it when the shield went on it, all range go to the dread which doesn't have that 20% ward save. People seriously underestimate how strong the range is of Sepulchral Stalkers against big beasties too.

[@bufan7177]

Why does it takes so long for dread saurian to kill anything? I thought it should be more accurately due to how big his mouth is?

[@SpookSkellington]

Can you imagine being a skink ontop of the Saurian when it's doing those attack animations? You'd probably get spinal whiplash or severe brain damage from getting yeeted around like that.

[@pdc4930]

This was nice to see, if I did this I would use a feral Dread Surian or the Carnosur to fill up the rest of the army.

[@wile123456]

So many replays I've seen now with the coatl. Yet only ONCE have I seen the ROR coatl be used. It's so pretty and colorful I want to see it more often!

[@CursedDepartmentEastOffice]

Videos with unconventional Warhammer 2 tactics like this are always nice

[@Inquisitor_Redacted]

I honestly don't know why they didn't just make the coatal a flying snake. The goofy chicken head is so bad.

[@mickethegoblin7167]

Agreed

[@lukalovric2463]

I find a lot of similarities between Coatl and the Mothership from Starcraft 2

[@emprahsfinest7092]

btw thanks for giving a 1440p option. 1080p is pretty lackluster in 2021.

[@changelingman9687]

Surprised you got the more expensive Dread Saurian. And it comes to mind that this strat would be fun in a free for all.

[@sofusrudaa7502]

I feel like something that would make a Dread Saurian way more of a appealing pick is if they increased the speed. I feel like it would solve a lot of problems, as it would mean it could close distances and rack up value much more quickly than at the moment. Maybe also regen, so a life slann isn't an auto include, along with maybe a higher charge bonus, although the latter would risk it becoming too powerful. But yea, if you make it a giant-ass brood horror it would be way more viable imo

[@QuestionableObject]

"Good against artillery" 80-100 damage to single entities Yeah okay game.

[@shadowsivice1]

To be fair the vast majority of artillery in the game is crewed by units with lots of models, so that 80-100 damage would be stacked across several models, making it actually deal damage. Casket is fairly unique for being a single-entity arty. Other than missile-giants and lizard arty-dinos, I think it's probably the only like that

[@jedimasterdraco6950]

They’ll become more prevalent in Game 3. Kislev has Little Grom, Khorne has the Skull Cannon, there are variants of Soulgrinder with ranged attacks, Ogre Kingdoms have Ironblasters, and I’m sure the Chaos Dwarfs will bring something (or several somethings) in that category.

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

The sneaky dread saurion better know as the skaven lizard-man 🦎

[@daxtorsstuff7678]

I wish crumbling effected the units stats as well. Always annoyed me that a unit can perform at 100% efficiency while crumbling (like the bone giant launching a tree trunk while crumbling)..I know game 3 will bring in some stuff with SMU's, hopefully the crumbling mechanic is tweaked too

[@almostontimehero5415]

I haven't played WarHam 2 in 6months, trying to save my energy and enthusiasm for Game 3 pre-order DLC, but DAMN do you make me want to start up a quick campaign.

[@thehutch4823]

I'm in the same boat

[@oldomen3788]

I personally think this tomb king player would have had an easier time without the casket. Buff up the support to defend the heavy ranged. For a more traditional play in this matchup, the lizardmen player would go wider with troops. And that would likely cause the TK player alot of trouble. Maybe replace the casket with another stalker

[@milkandcookiesTW]

yeah Casket was prolly worth dropping

[@JeanLucCaptain]

Hey GW, Total War is still alive and kicking!

[@GwyndOwO]

After that poison nerf khalida the already sucky kinda garbage lord became even worse. Still waiting for that high queen buff CA.

[@yellowoctopus4729]

Milk I know you got that Cathay content slipped to you under the digital table. Would it be so hard to give me a lil sneak peak? Monkey King? Dragon Emperor? Hmmmmm?

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

Yeah, especially JUST him, not the general audience. ONLY Yellow Octopus specifically, now that's a winning move.

[@milkandcookiesTW]

[@tobiasroitsch5310]

The command and conquer generals music... Fucking perfection!

[@Guaguadeath]

Yeah this title was absolutely perfect 😂🤣😂

[@legane4267]

9:10 "oh? you're approaching me?"

[@mattxly14]

Very rare you see 0 units remaining! Wiped out!

[@Serzha]

I have to admit calling the Bone Giant a Necrofex Collosi through the entire battle had me laugh all the way through.

[@milkandcookiesTW]

I dont think I did though lol. Called it a *Necrolith* Colossi, which is the real name for Bone Giant ;P

[@frikky99]

ok that title is pretty sick

[@huitz1348]

Yes finally a lizardmen win.

[@captc0ck5lap60]

I love these and play a lot of Lizardmen, am I just a noob for really liking the standard stegadon? Not ancient, EotG or feral. I almost never see them used in these match ups.

[@BTL_LTW]

FOR THE OLD ONES

[@acmaiden5236]

6:06 You can cast thunderbolt on casket to get it to 55%hp

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

That was a close game, love invisible dinos

[@TheAlejitoman]

This gets a fav just for the bloody title.

[@juanpablo4831]

Hey so sorry for never falling up with the community battle but i just moved to college and I just got Covid-19 so once am better i will send it

[@c.m.hahnebaum753]

Hope you recover man.

[@milkandcookiesTW]

feel better mate!

[@benjaminwitzel8311]

I swear I've seen videos where overcast thunderbolt deleted casket. I guess it doesn't work nearly as well with regular cast?

[@tincano-beans2114]

The dread saurians always seem like they're soooo bad. Melee gets to hit him with the whole unit and ranged almost never miss.

[@klavicus2276]

will never recruit coatl till they fix the beak (dreadsaurian should have more killing animations too and should be a bit tougher)

[@honventureschannel]

Do you guys have any link on all details of lizardmen units??? Can't find anything except on the other races. Specially lizardmen.

[@rickardberglund1564]

Better luck next time with that HIDDEN DREAD SAURIAN

[@Hargrovius]

I've seen a casket get oneshot by an overcast Thunderbolt. IDK what happened here.

[@wile123456]

90% of coatl replays, the player doesn't use a locked control group and the coatl always moves to fast making the stalk useless since the units below get out of the AOE

[@milkandcookiesTW]

it was in a locked control group here, but the skirmish cav was getting so close it was seeing through the cloak. so Coatl zoned out the cav and the caster then got netted. if i played this again i would put the infantry further in front. regardless, Coatl took so much fire and survived that it essentially did its job for the Dread Saurian anyway

[@wile123456]

@@milkandcookiesTW yea I understand that for this game. But many other games it always irks me haha

[@kroxigordundee7767]

Uranon does do a decent damage to SE it must've missed most of its damage here

[@henrikebird1874]

Is it just me or does the coatl seem like a waste of money it just doesnt have the patented lizardman power their teeth provide. Also how did you get the chaqua color scheme. Agreed it looks great.

[@jl6320]

That thumbnail

[@seraphimihpares]

Noob question, but how do you get the drawing tools for replays?

[@milkandcookiesTW]

go into your preferences script and enable UI telestration by changing a 0 to a 1. just Google "UI telestration total war", very simple change in notepad

[@Zmuda91]

I feel click bait with chainese marks pointing for cathay :P But if something work, that mean it's good :D

[@captainmcnugget606]

Warhammer 2 combat is always just pure chaos. Dunno, I miss proper battle lines.

[@659009stan]

Love it!

[@gavinadams4572]

Should have kept his slann back.

[@CoolSmoovie]

I never have much luck with this strat lol

[@ggleplussuxx4787]

CREEEEEEEEED

[@beeboochorzo2600]

You called the Tomb Kings' Bone Giant a Necrofex Colossus for half of the match. I thought the Tomb Kings picked up one helluva tech piece.

[@milkandcookiesTW]

Didnt I call it a Necrolith Colossi? thats the other name for Bone Giant lol

[@paulkersey3042]

@@milkandcookiesTW I looked through the tombkings army book, saw the Necrolith Colossus and didn't have a clue what the hell it was. When I found out that it was just a bone giant I was so disappointed, They could have called it a Necrolith Colossus and they instead chose to give it the dinky name of bone giant? Chroist

[@defrte]

Necrofex collosi? Heh

[@josedasilva6885]

gg

[@specialheadofficial]

1st ez