One of the strongest AI Bretonnian Armies

[@Dougs_Unemployment_Check]

Its really nice to see you defend someone new or someone not as good at the game. I work 50 hours a week and I just don't have time to get good at the game.

[@aminerkin9844]

Play chill high elves faction over and over again. First on normal difficulty, then very hard, then straight to legendary. If you play 2-3 hours a day and watch legends previous streams of elves for 20 minutes, you'll be great in 2 months. Then do other factions on legendary. High elves are great starting race.

[@JeffCaplan313]

Getting good at campaign strategy just entails repeatedly playing the game to understand how the faction relationships play out, so you know what to expect re: friends and enemies and where to build up. Getting good at the battles mostly entails planning out how the battle is going to go before it even starts. Using heroes to scout and prepare is important. So is being aggressive. If you play too defensively, the AI will usually end up winning.

[@bethbearmacethatguy]

How can you stand wasting so much of your one and only life working so much?

[@JeffCaplan313]

@@bethbearmacethatguy The same could be asked of gaming. Maybe he supports others with his work?

[@Dougs_Unemployment_Check]

@@bethbearmacethatguy 1. I make a shit ton of money. 2. Its just a temporary thing because of covid. I normally work 4 10's and get 3 days off. 3. I have a family and all the extra money I'm getting right now is nice. The 10 extra hours in working are all overtime.

[@クズはやし]

I met one with 13 hippogryph knights before, tbh Brettonian ai are one of the few ai that loves to recruit some very strong late game armies

[@ryujie01]

They're very hard to deal with on late game ..

[@Milosz0pl]

yea, but till very late game they are too busy recruiting YEOMEN DOOMSTACK and some peasants boiz

[@acealinka489]

@@Milosz0pl Still better than those Dark Elves who attack your coastal settlement with a stack of 19 Dreadspears which is followed one turn later by a Black Arc with 19 Black Dragons. Same with the mid/late game von Carsteins who just recruit zombies because they're not in that settlement where they could recruit Grave Guards etc. Access to global recruitment can make a big difference, mostly for the better of the AI armies.

[@arkovi3643]

Yeah that's why I always try to take them out of the game first if I can. Most of the other factions and kingdoms just kind of spam shit units that look good on the auto resolves screen, but geeeeeeez Brettonia is rough if you let them grow

[@skupipup]

Alberic like "rate my doomstack"

[@Iceman-135]

How on earth did clan eshin get all the way to winter pyre on the other side of the map?! With the dwarves still alive too. That's most unusual in any campaign for me.

[@S0bek]

Confederated Throt or moved up behind the northern world edge mountains, its just around the corner from Snikitch and he's an enterprising little shit.

[@DacoterKhan]

confederation of clan moulder ? thats what i would bet on

[@Iceman-135]

@@S0bek ye I've done the same way to visit the edge of the chaos wastes in preparation for chaos arrival.

[@ciaochrystusa4778]

I once played heimrich kemmler, and when I reached Kislev, i found out that all of that territory was owned by eshin (who were top1 strongest faction with a lot of settlements)

[@BigMeechEJ25]

You're totally right about it being hard to judge based on time alone. I'm just over 800 hours now and I am still discovering new ways to do things and more details that I never noticed before.

[@danfish300]

This is about as hectic as I have ever seen Legend have to be. Those Bretonnian dive bombers are crazy!

[@endgenesis]

Vampirate : We have walking battlehip. Bretonian royal airforce: Age of battleship is over

[@TheVarstJasol]

Cavalry is the only thing that causes me to suffer in battles. I do good with positioning against everything else then large amounts of cav and all my prep work goes to shit. Doesn't help that most army comps in high diffculty is spamming ranged.

[@azeon562]

Some of his older saving your disaster battles were terribly disorganized. Every so often somebody would send in a very mixed army with several different unit types and regiment of renown. I believe one such battle was an ambush defense vs either Skaven or Alith Anar, I can't recall. Having to scramble to set up his army against a high-mobility faction, with a "dogs breakfast" army, was an absolute nightmare to micro.

[@danfish300]

@@azeon562 bloody hell, I can only imagine. I am one of those players that likes to zoom in and see the action, so i would probably get smooshed lol

[@alemorikec]

Very entertaining to see Legend panic a moment. 11/10 would watch again.

[@futonrevolution7671]

What Legend Says: "Especially, if we can get them into a bit of a blob. I don't want to go chasing them down constantly." What Legend's Dog Hears: "He's special. We can get him a ball. Want to go chasing around the tree?"

[@Joeyjoejoe1708]

I can't comprehend why CA hasn't fixed the perma-debuff bug already. It seems to be such an easy fix to check all units for the debuff and deactivate it when the causing unit gets killed or flees the battlefield.

[@Elandrianthetrue]

Yeah it almost seems harder to have the Debuff persist, when it's source is gone. like just have these buffs/debuffs be conditional to the unit existing on the battlefield, and continuously check for the unit.

[@jakubklis6797]

Wrong! You need to fix the existing code, not staple additional logic on top of that which already exists.

[@Grima-From-Putinistan]

What are you talking about, what is that sperma-debuff please explain to non english speaker

[@jmicjm]

@@Grima-From-Putinistan permanently lowering stats with spells instead of lowering them on a timer

[@Your_Paramour]

Oathgold cheese, fixed in a week, 1st/2nd most annoying bug in the game that only really affects the player? suck it bitches.

[@jrazclan2330]

Aranessa must of been pretty salty because of the situation she got herself into

[@Meatball996]

might also be a bit spiteful

[@jrazclan2330]

@@Meatball996both my friend

[@True_Comrade]

Aranessa SaltShite

[@sabertoothedmonk9830]

18:45 I don’t want to go chasing them down constantly 18:50 happy dog barks

[@MrNyerk]

This battle was epic, I really enjoyed it! The struggle to keep the lords alive created a long suspense.

[@romanemperor3160]

They really do try to snipe your Lords.

[@jimmiesox6402]

It fits their glory hunting character quite well. 😂😂

[@niekriemens1316]

wow, this one was way more fun then yesterday. Great work man!

[@MrRawrCEO]

Aranessa will ideally get transferred to Southern Realms faction in WH3. But we'll see what they do.

[@swootymedia6398]

Question is, if Aranessa gets reassigned to the Southern Realms, who takes her place in the Vampire Coast? I vote for a walking octopus-man with a silly hat.

[@Ray-bk1np]

just a normal shrimp

[@AshenVictor]

Grail Knights are hell for large monsters that usually get benefit from disruptive animations. Because they've got enough mass to just stand can keep stabbing with a big anti-large bonus.

[@darkrite9000]

In regards to the income going from 7k to 700, it actually was over 7k at the video start, dropped to -7k when you recruited the lord there. Then after the end turn was over, it was a bit over -2k, presumably losing a majority of the army that got the shanty probably is why it dropped from -7k to -2k. Then you disbanded the emergency lord, and it went up to about 700. But yes it does seem like he might have changed the campaign difficulty and then sent it in.

[@sim.frischh9781]

Knights generally have issues with Slayers, i like to throw a bunch of them at any Knight unit unfortunate enough to come across my Dwarfs. Especially when there is a unit or two of Thunderers giving fire support as well. Saw a units of Big ´Uns Boar Boys getting SLAUGHTERED by a unit of Giant Slayers and two units of Thunderers, it almost made me sorry for them, but they were trying to wreck my Miners, so they deserved it. The Goblin archers attempted to support but my Grudge Thrower convinced them otherwise. And then there were those Blood Knights... afterwards they were bloddless.

[@theasiancow1860]

You went on a whole narration

[@iamyourmom2]

@@theasiancow1860 That was a whole turn from a battle report

[@DartAleks]

But Legend, why aren't you using two army abilities to get rid of archers?

[@Thenoob579]

I think he has a tendency to save stuff, if it's not really good or necessary. iirc he always use the dark ark abilities.

[@QuestionableObject]

@@Thenoob579 Maybe he just forgets

[@Yo-zd7cj]

HE FORGOR 💀

[@micahreid5553]

It only applies once. If you hit the same units twice it only affects range the second time

[@Kitek94]

Aranessa wouldn't make sense as Norscan Lord for one reason only - she absolutely hates Norsca in the Lore.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

I like her even more now.

[@markymark7247]

Lords who hate their faction isn't that far fetched: Arkhan is basically a Tomb King that hates the Tomb Kings and Drycha hates elves which is half the Wood Elves.

[@QuestionableObject]

She loathes Norscans so yeah she should not be a Norscan Lord under any circumstances it makes about as much sense as Ungrim being a Greenskin Lord. Her being in the Vampire Coast is a stretch still though, it'd be nice if there was a living pirate faction made up of various mercenary units, ogre pirates, free companies, Empire & Southern Realms units and somesuch. Just need Southern Realms factions/mercenary units to be added first... As is her one human unit option stinks and has no synergy with the VC at large.

[@Kitek94]

@@markymark7247 Drycha doesn't belong to Wood Elves tho, she is a Forest Spirit and hates Elves, who millennia ago joined the forest. The spirits were there, always. In the video game sense, the Forest Realm used to be called Wood Elves, but that had been fixed. Arkhan hates Tombs Kings because he is a follower of Nagash who created vampirism, which Tombs Kings hate.

[@Kitek94]

@@markymark7247 I get your point tho. Just with Aranessa, it would make no sense to have any Norscans in her army. Arkhan is an undead so might as well use other undead for his goals, Drycha is just fucked up from all the evil and chaos.

[@TheRavenofSin]

Fun fact: In lore Arenessa hates undead. Her being in vampire coast makes very little sense.

[@damo9961]

Al Bundy hates his wife. Your point? I see no better reason to hate them than them being your army you are stuck with. Maybe she's cursed? Doesn't make it not fit at all.

[@TheRavenofSin]

@@damo9961 Okay, in lore it also explicitly says she uses a human crew. Better?

[@saphirone8030]

@@TheRavenofSin Apparently the way it was supposed to be handled was that at the beginning she use the dead reluctantly to keep up with the other pirates while still using a human crew (Sartosa free companies). As the campaign goes on and she get better and better unit, with her questline showing that she is slowly starting to get on board with Stromfels rather than following Maanan, she is slowly going off the deep end into full villainy and start using the armies of the dead to ensure her domination of the sea in the name of her new patron god. Don't have to like it or accept it, it's apparently what they tried to go for her apparently.

[@torbk]

There is a nice little mod that gives her access to Human halberdiers and handgunners at tier 3, Dwarf cannon at tier 4, and Ogre pirates and Slayer pirates at tier 5. Enables her to run with a mostly mortal crew if one is interested, though its not optimal power. Sartosa something. Will link the mod when I get home from work. I do wish she could get a mortal captain hero as well though.

[@DesevPostMortem]

Poor Aranessa... Living so no healing Blessed by Mathlann in the lore but can't cast any spell, not even Depth lore (!), she is the only VC LL without spells btw. Luthor have a terrorgheist, Noctilus a necrofex, Cylostra a rottin leviathan and Aranessa ? A silly crab like every other generics & admirals. Aranessa is rather squishy as well, her few plus are her throwing net which is a lower version of the light lore web, and living crews with better stats than zombies for the starts / mid campaign. She's so wasted :(

[@InvinciblKillerQueen]

I believe there's a Sartossa overhaul mod that makes her faction much more interesting, might wanna look into it.

[@SWtaervdesn]

If she's weak it's becasue you've skilled her wrong.

[@dustysdisciple]

He’s a genius at this game honestly

[@spacemarine633]

Legend: says that you shouldn't mock people who aren't good or don't know that much about the game Also Legend: mocks people who don't know that Aranessa doesn't count as undead and can't be healed with Nehek

[@iamyourmom2]

Theres a difference between being not good at the game and being an idiot

[@biowiener7825]

people are actually being mean to the guys sending in their campaigns, just calling out how shit they are and not really helping them with any tips to prevent stuff like this while legend mocks them a bit with his voice while also preventing certain comments or questions that newer players might have (like aranessa not being undead). ofc you can interpret it badly towards legend but imo this way he helps people by explaining these things, also i love the "but legend".

[@spacemarine633]

@@iamyourmom2 So you're saying that not knowing that the LL for an undead faction, save for her two faction specific sartosa units, does not count as undead makes you an idiot? Even though this is a detail that can really only be learned by playing the game as that specific faction which isn't very good to begin with?

[@spacemarine633]

@@biowiener7825 I see your point, I usually think the "but legend" is funny as well I just thought in this case it's kind of an obscure thing to know. Obscure because most people probably don't play pirates of sartosa when starting a VC campaign.

[@iamyourmom2]

@@spacemarine633 I'm implying that the idiot is someone who's familiar enough with the faction and the game to know enough about what nehek does but doesn't realize that just because she leads an undead army, Aranessa herself isn't undead

[@Yo-zd7cj]

BUT LEGEND WHY U NOT USE ARMY ABILITES ON BOTTOM RIGHT *screech*

[@Legionthecomrade]

I have 2,142 hours in this game and by god I keep learning new ways to cheese. That lord recruit rank cheese is disgusting and I love it.

[@Nick-dy2uh]

Love how Legend said she belongs in norsca, apparently she was norscan but got kicked out lol

[@patrickpitz1879]

His income was in the negative 7k lol, most of that army in the sea battle and dispanding the vamp lord saved a ton, and maybe some constructions finished.

[@futonrevolution7671]

It was at positive 7k, before Legend recruited the extra army.

[@patrickpitz1879]

@@futonrevolution7671 ok even with that the campaign is within means. And doesn't necessarily have to be someone playing on a lower difficulty.

[@futonrevolution7671]

?

[@patrickpitz1879]

@@futonrevolution7671 people in other comments are assuming he swapped difficulties

[@futonrevolution7671]

@@patrickpitz1879 Oh, okay. So, Legend said that it was a possibility, and people can't accept that "maybe" exists with a crusty old game engine that's trying to deal with millions of variables.

[@MusicianLCS]

Yep bretonia ai makes strong ones amd vampire coast i encountered more than 3 necrofex or the giant crab spams

[@Chyrnobyl66]

i still dont understand how he turned +8 lord rank into +16

[@MurdocIsASaint]

He ‘recruited’ him twice. Once in fact and then replaced them in a different army

[@guillaume9102]

Not being very good at the game and playing in VH/VH deserves credit. He's doing alright all things considered.

[@Loj84]

He wasn't playing on VH/VH, though. He bumped the difficulty up before he sent it to legend.

[@bar_jumper1312]

4:53 ya just good old warhammer like in table top game when peolpe kind of remember a rule but not 100% :D good old warhammer

[@coolbeast2000]

Facts bro

[@sim.frischh9781]

Aranessa IS a former Norcan, but she was exiled and hates the Norscans now, wanting to take revenge on them. Or she escaped, somehow like that, anyways, she now hates them. She seems to have power or at least authority over the undead but the majority of her crew is alive.

[@bethbearmacethatguy]

She was born a mutant and was thrown off a cliff into the ocean by her tribe. As a baby she survived by living with a school of fish.

[@sim.frischh9781]

@@bethbearmacethatguy Ah, so i was close. Thanks for filling in the details i was missing.

[@judgedread9724]

At least when Legend roasts someone, he does it while offering solutions. It's not just a 'OMG HOW CAN you be so bad!'. Well, sometimes it is. But still, offers solutions.

[@elmanhux]

28:24 "Pyrrhic Victory?! But I did not lose anyone...actually did lose like 80% of my forces." -> 21 / 607 remaining, dat legendary math x3

[@Lo7q7le7guste7mrtf]

The secret lies in the Grail Reliquae

[@bradsimon2180]

Wow that battle and campaign was one roller coaster of emotions. It was one of my favorite disaster battles. Anyways wtf is cult of pleasure doing at grung Zint lol?

[@valeckserai987]

Morathi must have confederated Rakarth

[@Hookahitter]

1900 hrs in game and I just learned that there is a way to double the recruit rank of lords, WTH, I could have used this info, IDK, like 1500hrs ago?

[@Deerygccawwetthjbgde]

I would dread to fight this kind of army…

[@do0myk]

Will the 3rd game finally fix the bug with the permanent debuff after an enemy dies?

[@noellopez4341]

Ey Legend, couldn't you force march aranesa away, let them take the city and lightning strike them the next turn?

[@bobbo8u]

legend such a chad

[@greygoo4647]

Luthor Harkon would laugh at this with his 70% magic resistance Necrofex Colossus.

[@yourlocalswarmofmoths]

Algorithms

[@thomasfox2257]

Algorithmsis

[@PedroRodrigues-je6xp]

Thank you for your service, temple guard of hexoalt

[@Juanchodh]

Thank you for your sacrifice, daemon slayer from Karak Kadrin.

[@changliu7346]

I mean you can save the game manually and with save scam every body is immortal effectively so.... Might as well save one point. Although not having enough points for all the goodies isn't really a problem on gunnery.

[@coryaw95]

Why didn't he use the bombs from the gunnery wights or the cannon support abilities?

[@DartAleks]

15:18 "No more fire-at-will" - turns fire-at-will on.

[@quwarq]

Legend: "Don't kill the Fay Enchantress" *Necroflex goes STOMP*

[@Mikesman1000]

The fay enchantress was there like Piper Perri on the sofa...

[@Redneckkratos]

Legend’s dog at 18:49 “I call laziness!!!!”

[@fartz3808]

12:05 Warhammer equivalent of Rohirrim vs Mumakil

[@Canadianmist7]

The necroflex walk like toddlers...so cute.

[@Cougarz57]

We need a Necrofex baby mod 😂😂

[@DesevPostMortem]

@@Cougarz57 Please no, Okoii may read that...

[@NagshforPrimeMinister]

love these videos, keep it up

[@senshibat8920]

The special Air Service is a brilliant force multiplier

[@KroocsMD]

Just wanted to ask, was it not possible to do the cheese where you leave the battle before Arenessa’s forces make it onto the field, and then lightning strike fight the armies next turn? What specifically is the situation that makes that possible?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

yes i could have done that. but i decided it was worth it to stand and fight

[@EdelgardvonHresvelg8663]

so question wouldnt pox arrows be unaffective against undead because pox arrow is poison i mean the undead are already dead so nothing should happen?

[@jerondiovis6128]

That trick with doubling lord levels o_O Is it another bug, or it's working as intended?

[@defrte]

100% bug

[@Pebble_Collector]

I still don't understand that swapping out the lord thing to gain even more recruit rank.

[@vitorsatay]

Neither I figured it out first. It was a damn sweet surprise, I thought it was a glitch, but no, I tried it again and it worked. Just enjoy that it there and you can use it to your benefit, cheers.

[@jam109]

Hate dealing with Ai Bretonian armies

[@Garret007]

Yea, the easiest way to deal with them is still attacking them while they are in a castle, which makes their cav useless

[@toggle3927]

I haven't watched the whole video yet but Aranessa is one of the worst LLs in the game at supporting an army or facilitating a doomstack. Please put Fleet Captains in her army, she literally struggles to function on higher difficulties without one. She should start with one but that would require CA to notice Vampire Coast outside multiplayer nerfs.

[@Debilinside]

Agree. Like her design, but she is really shitty. Even her mount is shit. A vampire lore captain is just better in every sense, especially for necrofex spam....

[@perrymeril]

I had tofight one of these armies in one of my campaigns. Brettonia had 50 provinces. Nuff said

[@Sebastian-fl1ir]

It was - 7000 not + :D

[@jamesmayes4351]

That was a nasty AI army.

[@Mikesman1000]

"when 10,000 hours you reach..."

[@azaz3933]

This was a beautiful battle 10/10

[@WhiteBuffaloWakanGli]

You made a good point about insulting people for how they play.

[@docmercy3660]

"But I didn't lose anyone!" \*sad chaff noises*

[@aaronperry5948]

So,I have a question. I don't play but I enjoy watching this game. So go easy on me. Is that debuff the fey casts, permanent for the battle, or permanent for the campaign?

[@pieterstaal1199]

It’s only for the battle

[@GeraltofRivia22]

I'm not sure I understand the lord recruit rank thing. Can someone explain how to do it as the Empire? If that's possible

[@MalacayHooves]

Second this.

[@emperorkarlfranzprinceofal1465]

Any technology that does "Lord Recruit Rank +X" will count ONCE (as it's supposed to) when you first recruit a lord at a settlement and then will count TWICE/DOUBLE when you recruit another lord to replace the first one (meaning you have to go into the lord's character tab and use the replace button in the lower right corner and select a new lord to replace him, like Legend did in the video) . And you also need to do it in the same turn I believe.

[@MalacayHooves]

@@emperorkarlfranzprinceofal1465 Thank you!

[@NotTheAbhi]

@@emperorkarlfranzprinceofal1465 say the line

[@emperorkarlfranzprinceofal1465]

@@NotTheAbhi SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS

[@ehk5948]

Wow I got in here at five views. I think that's the earliest I've ever seen. I also didn't know about the lord replacement cheese. More cheese for Jeff I guess.

[@quwarq]

Glory to the 'Rythm. At 37.

[@redhairdavid]

does the necrofex colossus use ammo in mele? it has a shooting animation in mele, im wondering if that uses ammo, or if it only uses ammo when not in mele

[@deadbeats5640]

It’s just a melee animation so it doesn’t use ammo. U can make them shoot 2 feet in front of them but they actually take aoe damage from their own cannon shots. Not much but a nice attention to detail

[@wertyswar]

You'd imagine someone who calls himself LEGEND of total war should be able to withdraw units from a battle ;)

[@aryabakhti6967]

the god jeff has sent us more cheese

[@DerRusher]

clan eshin in norsc wtf

[@12SickOne34]

MERMAID!

[@larrymad2244]

alberic the generic no longer.

[@JonasHDK]

and here i am playing on easy/easy LOL i do play it very casually tho

[@Voytaz1985]

I've got over 1600 hours logged in and am still rather poor player... Right now I'm struggling with VC against late game lizardmen. I thought dwarfs are hard to deal with as vampires but those fucking lizards... Man! They wreck me

[@emperorkarlfranzprinceofal1465]

Dwarfs are the easiest race to kill as VC since they're all infantry and you've got Wind of Death Lizardmen however... They're like a direct counter to VC lol cuz your strengths are magic and monsters, while your magic is useless against them and their monsters are stronger than yours

[@Voytaz1985]

@@emperorkarlfranzprinceofal1465 you don't say... 😂 Late game dwarfs are tanks and have a ton of ranged. If I make mistakes they just shred my units. It feels balanced somehow as I have the advantages that you have mentioned. With lizardmen I feel like the game is broken. My full stack of late game units is getting ass banged by mediocre lizard army. How do I deal with that?

[@rockagamez7704]

it's always better to take lizardmen out early when they got stacks of saurus warriors still. Otherwise yeah you will have a problem. Lustria in general sucks.. i hate playing down there anymore

[@Voytaz1985]

@@rockagamez7704 I am dealing with order tide. I have wiped empire, bretonnia etc but the rest of "good" factions have teamed up to fight me. The late game is actually enjoyable for once. I can deal with almost any elite army. Chaos, dwarfs, elfs... But the lizardmen are Vampire Counts kryptonite.

[@JoseCastro-fn9xs]

He was trying to not look like a noob by bumping up difficulty And still got caught 😂

[@patrickpitz1879]

Don't think thats what happened, the income was super negative at the start of the turn already, and legend says it takes a turn to update that, he just misremembered the income at the beginning of the video, hes negative 7k not positive 7k, and losing most of that army at sea and disbanding the vamp lord gave him a ton of expenses back.

[@seneca4134]

Bretoooomia

[@FordyA29]

-Comment for algorithm-

[@oivametsola7624]

Algo

[@MsPysoul]

imagine losing to bretonians

[@zecameleka]

first?

[@vl672]

oh... what i see... is this map of stinky cheater? i`m okay about being bad and deal with situation poorly, but c`mon... this dude didn`t even tryed

[@Loj84]

What?

[@vl672]

​teleportation circles on global map

[@patrickpitz1879]

Pretty sure its from being allied with Clan Eshin.

[@bethbearmacethatguy]

@@patrickpitz1879 It is.