Sisters of Twilight Legendary Difficulty First 20 Turn Guide

This guide will give you a rough idea of what to expect within the first 20 turns of a Sisters of Twilight Campaign on Legendary difficulty for Mortal Empires. There will always be some variations as no two campaigns ever play the same.
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[@imperialisticvonhabsburg3149]

I love how sisters say "Moving at once" simultaneously

[@bificommander]

"Nature calls!" "Oh, well, just go over the side of your bird then."

[@wertyswar]

I really enjoyed most of the simultaneous voice acting

[@ysf-psfx]

Their lines are super cringey

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

@@ysf-psfx They kinda reminds me the twins from Wolfstein youngblood

[@MelficeN7]

@@ysf-psfx "everything is cringe"

[@animengerbruh]

Mr. Krabs voice: "Ye HAD to kill him. The boy WIPES OUT a stack of beastmen for ye... and ye kill him."

[@chickentendies5215]

1:09:30 Skarsnik arrives in force march to laugh at the beastmen

[@FreedomFighterEx]

Look! *diabolical laughing

[@micgil4193]

Remember when Orion fled to Naggaroth, he was just trying to find the sisters of twilight but they hadn't been released yet.

[@shalax7881]

Amazing

[@scorbiot]

Now that's foresight!

[@arthanor9631]

🤣

[@felipevega484]

The best disaster campaing.

[@toobin8r]

I ‘member

[@Cjur]

"Hawkriders are actually really good" Almost fell down my chair.

[@skyeazura3593]

Ah yes can’t wait to see legend cheese the flying artillery unit

[@trungcaycanh5156]

really? why artillery can fly???

[@trungcaycanh5156]

you mean dragon + bow?

[@dmitriyk.2890]

@@trungcaycanh5156 Sisters of Twillight give bombandment spell to Hawk riders.

[@trungcaycanh5156]

@@dmitriyk.2890 hmm sound good

[@trungcaycanh5156]

@@dmitriyk.2890 i cant wait the dlc whwhw

[@LoremasterLiberaster]

The real question is will Legend disband Great Stag Knights on turn 1

[@DhonJoe]

They cost too much for what they are to be fair.

[@cathulionetharn5139]

@@DhonJoe at least they are cavalry and can ride down escapees. Sends a dissapointed look towards belegars 450-480 upkeep hammerers

[@tulkdog]

@@cathulionetharn5139 Dwarves suck so bad at finishing off armies

[@chickentendies5215]

turn 10

[@LoremasterLiberaster]

@@chickentendies5215 and how they got rekt by Rat Ogres 😅

[@sevenshadesofsmooth]

When the sisters speak together, I keep on hearing Bill and Ted saying WILD STALLIONS *cue guitar shred*

[@KingfisherMC]

someone make this a Mod please

[@Arkantos117]

Really disappointed that taking some of that nearby land doesn't replace the local trees with wood elf ones.

[@jacobp.4593]

Hopefully there will be a mod.

[@udozocklein6023]

why would it, though?

[@Arkantos117]

@@udozocklein6023 Because that's what wood elves do everywhere else.

[@udozocklein6023]

@@Arkantos117 but trees need rly long to grow. Sorry im not into the lore so much. Maybe i miss something

[@KarusMBII]

Really gets me that almost all building upgrades provide zero visual change to settlements. I remember upgrading the first Pyramid I grabbed as Tomb Kings with the settlements unique construction tree, thinking it'd make the place look cool. Made absolutely no difference. "Great pyramids are of great importance to the Tomb Kings" ... Obviously not Was also crushed to realise that settlements don't visually change to represent new owners (taking a High Elf settlement as Dark Elves for example, does nothing. The settlement is still blue and white and everything. I mean, I get it. It's a lot of work. But ://// Probably my ONLY gripe with the game from an immersion perspective (I mean, buildings changing within 1 second of being conquered isn't exactly immersive I get, but yeah)

[@dougdimmedome5552]

I just realized sisters of twilight is the most legendoftotalwar friendly LL, a flying unit with powerful area of attack damage that can dmg people while moving.

[@myhorseisamazing5883]

alith anar? he's fast enough to be comparable with flying units :D

[@dougdimmedome5552]

@@myhorseisamazing5883 alith anar has nowhere near 120 speed

[@snikeduden2850]

@@dougdimmedome5552 Yep, and you can't get multiple battles if you ambush someone! :P

[@runcmdexe7765]

"Did this stupid plan actually work??" *Laughs in Skaven*

[@soulseptem5281]

1:06:45 When i saw that sexy blob it reminded me of my vampire count days with wind of death.

[@mathdarven5634]

I always liked the voice lines in this game, but the sisters lines are awesome. Their constant bickering at each other like two... well... sisters, is too funny to not make me want to give another chance to the Wood Elves in Warhammer 2.

[@PanzerblitzRnR]

I find their VA to be quite grating. I feel like their bickering is going to get annoying real quick.

[@mathdarven5634]

@@PanzerblitzRnR I wasn't annoyed by Repanse screaming "DE LYONEEEEEEEEEESSE" every 10 seconds in battle so these ones won't annoy me. But yeah, I can understand your POV.

[@KarusMBII]

@@PanzerblitzRnR Archaon's lines are annoying sometimes. With battle chants mod it's pretty funny though. Selecting your whole army, Archaon screams "WHAT?" followed by a symphony of "DAAARK POOOOWERS" Arkhan is by far my favourite in terms of VA. The worst one has to be Queek Headtaker. Absolutely awful. Made me cringe when I first heard it. I don't think it's bad VA really, I just hate the character I guess. Hard to tell.

[@chubby0815]

You actually CAN order them to shoot at a specific target within a cluster. Just disable fire at will and then make an ordinary attack order. Once they shot at least one time you can move around. All you need to do now is to stay in firing range. When you accidently fly/move out of attack range just reassign the attack order and wait for one attack, then you are able to move again. Should be possible with every unit thats capable of firing while moving.

[@XarkoCZ]

.. but Legend, that's cheese!

[@bificommander]

Wood elves should fight properly with a staunch line of spears!

[@lucnederhof2107]

Did anyone else just hear that high-pitched annoying "chat voice"

[@steakdriven]

But cheese is the sweet nectar of the Gods

[@Wisconsonne]

"Wood elf economy is shit, i need all the money i can get".... as he pays 5k for another faction to destory one man lmao. ;) Love ya legend

[@hentaioverwhelming]

I see the Sisters of Twilight in the field and I can't stop hearing Guilty Gear music and expecting a dragon wearing sunglasses and dual-wielding Eagle bolt throwers

[@Pontifex777]

Who else forgot to watch this before it came out and is now trying to play and watch the video at the same time??

[@AAGREEDYFISH]

1:06:40 Somehow I thought awakening of the wood would do more damage. Well, you learn something new everyday. Thanks legend.

[@TheFo0l]

Hello-welcome to the magic forest, gentlerats, yes-yes!

[@joedatius]

Giving the Hawk riders those volley's are a cool way of basically having a air artillery unit

[@easytanksgaming3238]

SISTERS OF TWILIGHT! give me chills every time when they shout it))

[@anjairis]

So it might be more micro intense and lower dps but during the battle around 12:30 you could turn off the fire-at-will button and target what you want to shoot at that way. Requires you to learn the timing between their shots and when to stop and shoot but it saves ammo and gives you a more desirable outcome instead of whatever is closest to them.

[@chickentendies5215]

you have to stand still to shoot manually. Enemy archers will shoot her, staggering and preventing her from firing at all. You can see it happen in the video

[@anjairis]

@@chickentendies5215 Which is why learning the timing for when to stop and select target and let them shoot it before moving again is a requirement, IF you want to do it that way. With superior range as they have in this case it shouldn't be much of an issue unless there's a deficiency of patience. As I said it can be more micro intense etc. Either way they seem to be a flying bolt thrower of badassery so you will probably win however you choose to do it :)

[@chickentendies5215]

@@anjairis "Enemy archers will shoot her, staggering and preventing her from firing at all" You can know timing however good you want. The time it takes to shoot when attacking manually is too long

[@anjairis]

@@chickentendies5215 Superior range + patience and it's doable. I'm not demanding that every motherfucker who is playing this game needs to do it. If it doesn't work for you and it's not fun then fuck it and do it whatever way you want and like. I'm just sharing some tactics here. Use it or don't, it's up to you.

[@chickentendies5215]

@@anjairis I dont think its possible at any skill level. Ill test it out when it launches.

[@raifthemad]

Don't underestimate the Treeman. I once routed a stack of about 12 goblin units when they jumped on my solo lord, on normal difficulty.

[@kchgamer1788]

Sadly on legendary he would probably get wrecked

[@SolusLupi]

@@kchgamer1788 Yeah, nothing like legendary making gobbos as stronk as a staunch line of elven spears.

[@happypill6195]

@@SolusLupi dificulty in this game is dumb. it doesnt make the AI smarter it just gives him +stats

[@Regnier575]

Finally getting round to starting sisters campaign and this guide has been very useful. Cheers!

[@juggornaut777]

the ultimate cheese paying 5k for another faction to take out one simple beast lord! i chuckled a little with that diplomacy very entertaining.

[@Salderosan99]

SUPER IMPORTANT: if you want to cheese the sister of twilight (13:28), REMOVE "FIRE AT WILL"

[@SeisoYabai]

I know this is late, but if you repeatedly give the Sisters the order to shoot at a specific target inbetween each movement order, they will actually shoot them. That, or turn off fire-at-will and only fire manually. It's definitely more micro intensive and slower, but you get a lot more value out of your shots.

[@dunceme101]

Hey Legend and Mrs Legend thanks for all the hard work you've been putting in for this DLC. You guys rock. Great content, Legend! Keep it up 👍

[@LAZERAK47V2]

I love the escalation when he picked up the Ring of Dreaming. "That's not bad." "That's decent." "That's pretty good." "This is amazing! Way better than that other trash!"

[@eurydice0009]

It was hilarious

[@thomaslitwinski3903]

Sir, You represent WH2 very well. Thank you and keep up the fine work.

[@Gabriel902884]

Thanks for all the guides you do man i dont have a lot of time after work and this helps me save a lot of time and just play

[@marcomayerle9500]

yes-yes is coming

[@Lucratiel]

And just like that I'm even more hyped for the DLC!

[@JohnnyTightIips]

"I have no intention of killing her. I just want to threaten her." - Legend of Total War, 2020.

[@Compa_Doom]

dude I fucking love these "first 20 turn" guides. They are fucking rad

[@Cheese-qk1ft]

Finally he can show us the DLC without getting blacklisted

[@trungcaycanh5156]

=)) this is total war skanich =)) haha

[@trungcaycanh5156]

and he back to blacklist again

[@Cheese-qk1ft]

@@trungcaycanh5156 CA: Blacklisted for quoting embargoed dlc info: "Throt is a skaven"

[@trungcaycanh5156]

@@Cheese-qk1ft haha

[@dudeofstuff]

the performance of the great stag knights at 26:50 was some weak shit. Tier V monstrous cav that could barely rout an artillery unit before being gangbanged by rat ogres(?) taken down to half their models and terror routed. goblin wolf riders or any race's warhounds could give the same performance. I hope for game 3 CA gives premium cav units better staying power. Right now they don't do any damage and they die too easy.

[@FreedomFighterEx]

It is legendary difficulty. Most of melee units on your side are crap against AI since AI gets a huge stats buff.

[@cHaMp630]

@@FreedomFighterEx Even then cavalry require too much micromanagement outside of small scale multiplayer battles to get good value. Plus, sieges are so cramped that they can't even flank enemies at all. And sieges make up about half of your manual battles in this game.

[@dawifromanotherhold4120]

Legendary 'This Is Total War 20 (or probably more) turn guides' when? :(

[@Mahfireballs]

Lol I don't get it?

[@Mahfireballs]

@what's left of Stalin Lol I tottaly read over it. Yeah I know of this is total war been a long time viewer of Legend. But I just read over it and was like is he trolling and asking a 20 turn guide or is he asking in how many minutes it started. Got me confused. But yeah I should have actually reread it in stead of glancing over it. Thanks for the answer.

[@666Kaca]

@what's left of Stalin Its not just a legend challenge, i have the achievement in 3 kingdoms total war, not sure if it exists in warhammer

[@terriblegamers2213]

"I have no intention of killing her, I just want to threaten her." That's one for out of context

[@travisfrey5694]

Hmm, so I’m doing mortal empires but I was taught different. Round 1, create a mage(with knowledgeable for the bonus) and then send her to occupy ice rock gorge, then put hero in with sisters and attack temple, then attack Vaul’s anvil and then take hag hall, making glade guards in every turn. Then come back to tree and have 2 infantry, 4 hawk, 1 stag, hero, and 13 glade guards and then go take plain of spiders like turn 6. And turn 2 you can get nonaggression with nagarythe for 3100-3200 gold.

[@DamianoGheri]

Loving this Legend! Very very useful stuff!

[@AAGEnzee]

52:05 ohhhhhhhhhhh NOW I get why my traits just change sometimes when I haven't been recruiting/disbanding. I had no idea it was every 10 turns, FINALLY it makes sense and I had to find out in an 8month old Legend video, lul.

[@noone4592]

Thanks for these guides man! Subbed!

[@OtterSpace975]

If you send them into melle with ammo, they keep shooting while the bird hits people. Really useful while mobbed up with crowds of infantry.

[@tomasplanicka2539]

I found Great Stag Knights pretty badass, it is sad that CA hates cavarly in campaigns

[@mocod_2402]

It's sad because using cavalry is one of the things that got me into playing total war games, idk, the satisfaction of a successful charge winning a battle is just something nice. Real shame that in both warhammer games, the cavalry underperforms.

[@tomasplanicka2539]

@@mocod_2402 exactly, i think they need to think of way to make.cav interesting again, I know it is fine in MP but at least for campaign

[@thehistorians5231]

@@tomasplanicka2539 i dont see how they can buff cav in campaign without making them attila levels of overtuned in multiplayer though and besides they are good if you use em right only difference is since AI is so bad at dealing with mass ranged that ranged just tends to be easier

[@tomasplanicka2539]

Well it's easy, by research or any other external source, the same way waywatchers were nerfed, they are the same in MP, but in campaign they god nerfed a lot. If you have to use unit right to give you value, that usually means it is very occasional unit and there are better choices, that makes roster more boring than it could be, which is a problem to be addressed I believe.

[@Kuddochan]

More like battle difficulty scaling hates all your melee units in general. Try playing on Legendary/Normal sometime. It's a pretty nice blend of challenge and realism as far as viable unit compositions go

[@Innocence_]

the sisters attack has a really long windup during which no attack command will make it swap target if you issue an attack before the windup and move right after you can make her target quite well it takes some getting used to tho.

[@joethesheep4675]

you know what i want a guide for? Those riddles. Never understand them. XD

[@dickysatria7268]

Still new to the game , is there wiki for the symbol for 'treasure' puzzle ?

[@pnutimusthe1st]

4:50 part. I like to raze the settlement so exiles of nehek take it and lose a lot of units to build up the place. Edit: then obviously go attack them after they do that. Edit2: But I will occupy the hag hall and Vauls anvil.

[@Dan-vo7vc]

Please please explain the "Volley of Kurnous" ability they give to hawk riders!

[@tychoschenkels7841]

its pretty simple, its just a weaker arrow of kurnous but they shoot a whole bunch of them

[@Dan-vo7vc]

@@tychoschenkels7841 Nice! I'm okay with that lol.

[@chickentendies5215]

is it possible to reach the final skill in each line with the extra needed skill points?

[@jonathankearney2793]

i don't know how it happens that every time you get cuboids, you discern the mark using a different base symbol then the one i use

[@william9089]

At 52:05, you can see that they seem to have reverted the change on talon of Kurnous!

[@Helios_Titan]

On lords it affects whole army on the hero its just the hero

[@DaDude2011]

Anyone else getting a Gotenks vibe from this duo? I kinda like it.

[@Chapterhouse86]

Every time a new DLC drops I get sucked back into this game. I'm having a blast with the WE rework and all the new units. Loving this shit!

[@Prime-yashin]

10 minutes on the premiere feeling good

[@KroM234]

With the sisters, what I ended doing microing them, is putting them on no auto ranged attack mode, and count down a rough estimate of their reloading time while moving them around dodging missiles, then quickly tell them where to shoot. They shoot almost immediately with no latency, so you can still dodge an incoming volley thereafter.

[@PPKinguin]

For that second battle, to solve the problem of moving around and her not shooting the target you want, why not disable free fire, move around and make her shoot big blobs manually and then move again?

[@chickentendies5215]

because you have to stand still to shoot manually. Enemy archers will shoot her, staggering and preventing her from firing at all. You can see it happen in the video

[@Defomir]

Just turn off autoshooting and you will be fine with targeting and moving :)

[@HZAres]

oh wow we actually get a good ranged lord

[@tanktoptony78]

I actually recruit a treeman lord early game with the murder of spite and let him go and sack plain of spiders until I can do the ritual giving the sisters more freedom to either take out naggarond or cult of pleasure really early. Also if the random event with talsyn spawns with a decent item for completing it then it would actually be possible since I won't have to worry about witchwood being defenseless.

[@testd32187]

Does the new Transformation of Kadon eagle do a kind of breath attack when it appears? The units beneath him got damaged and there were no arrows flying at that point.

[@echoart9275]

"nature calls us! ... where's the nearest bush?"

[@BarokaiRein]

If there's one thing I've learned it's that balance of power means fucking nothing. I've had so many situations where balance of power is like 90% favoring enemy but the battle itself is just super fucking easy because of something as simple as having fast units that can shoot whilst moving that can just skirmish half of the enemy army to death before they even reach your main force.

[@Muck006]

IMO the faction benefits of "acquired" Legendary Lords should apply in addition to the stuff you start with ... up to a limit of 3 because most factions have 3+ LLs now, but allowing High Elves to keep all of them would be too much. It seems stupid to lose the "knowledge" of how to live in mountains, when Karl Franz is joined by Balthasar Gelt.

[@DiZtheJedi]

There was a mod in TWW1 that added a LL's faction benefits to their unique trait so that you could get all of the different bonuses and benefits. With the sheer volume of LL's that the game two factions, and Vampire Counts, have, they would be unbelievable, and god do I wish someone would make that mod again.

[@ajd805]

This method doesn’t work anymore, they always settle the ruins, get back to full next turn and camp in the settlement. 10 runs the same every time

[@zwestlich6587]

Tomb king: ah crap, more arrow. and for game design, CA is just making new world level lord and put them into old world faction, these lords are significantly stronger than their colleague but still suffer from the lack of the faction, clearly the new elf cavalry is a counterpart to empire's demi-griffin knights, though I highly doubt they can work as the same. I would say they did far better on greenskin rework than wood elfs one.

[@poochkane]

Long Awaited!

[@GeneralTheGuy]

"beastmen are good" had me rolling

[@Johnny-Thunder]

I think I'm gonna enjoy the Sisters of Twilight as an LL unit.

[@1893Mauser]

I just beat the vortex campaign. Spear wardancers are my favorite unit.

[@chrisb5005]

Now that Talon of Kurnos is nerfed, what traits would you recommend getting for the lords and heroes?

[@torlekjpec5708]

Knowledgeable

[@alex_zetsu]

Ledged might have to do this whole series again for every faction? I think the public order thing messes up his Bretonnia guide. I mean I know these guides are broad strokes because there will be variations of AI behavior in each campaign, but in that guide the revolt timing was important when playing as Couronne.

[@MrFallenone]

Dark Elves unreliable ? Well Well Well ... someone needs to be enslaved and shown the truth of submitting to the True Heir of Anaerion.

[@benjamindorough6129]

In my campaign as her I found her talon of dawn to be extremely good at lord sniping. I would kill their lord and most of their units before they saw my army, she's definitely pretty great. Stag knights not great though, for sure.

[@supersangu]

Great stags are excellent, you just can’t be letting them get charged and pinned amongst artillery pieces by rat ogres. Great guide can’t wait for this!!

[@dudeofstuff]

Pretty bold to call them excellent. I just watched em barely take an artillery unit to half health and then lose half their models to a beating by a tier 3 monstrous unit, and then terror rout. I mean goblin wolf riders could do that. direwolves could do that. horse marauders could do that. that sucked!

[@supersangu]

@@dudeofstuff they’re shock cav with a charge bonus of what, 70+? You watched them get charged in and because they’re huge models, all get stuck amongst 8 artillery models and then moments later before they had chance to do anything you watched them get charged by monsters and pinned against those artillery models making the task impossible. The tier of the charging unit and it being legendary difficulty are irrelevant.

[@dudeofstuff]

​@@supersangu Sure but I'm not hearing any arguments in their favor. Just seems like a lot of reasons why they're not worth recruiting

[@supersangu]

@@dudeofstuff I provided a valid explanation of why not to use them in this situation, you saw the results. They’re probably one of the fastest armoured shock cav in game rocking 100 melee attack and crazy weapon strength on the charge. Play around with them yourself but sure don’t get them wedged on artillery pieces and then charged by monsters or other cav. Have fun when the dlc hits and take care 👍🏼

[@PedroRodrigues-je6xp]

A guide on how to use wood

[@SirReginaldSloth]

Dude, you showed me just how bad I am at this game right now lol

[@wiaf8937]

fucking finally i can play the dlc i payd for. many thanks from germany, you dirty wallabe

[@wiryx1]

"First 20 turn guide" -> "did this stupid plan actually work? no way.. noo waaaay" ok, now just let me repeat that in my campaign

[@OtterSpace975]

Legend- Doesn't cycle charge shock cavalry, and sends them in alone Also Legend- They didn't do amazing. Let's get them out of there. Tier 5 unit. Yeah, like I said, just not the greatest unit ever.

[@fernandoarrue87]

"Welcome to Athel Loren"

[@Archon3960]

Damn you and your early access! xD

[@JateHews]

Dunno, having 15-17 hawk riders in every army right now and can't see any resistance from AI to this shit. Seems pretty balanced as I streamroll through every enemy

[@bawzzzz]

I'm curious about the late game. It looks like you are massing treemans army. Any tricks to it? Trait/tech/building that make them the best and cheaper or?

[@nealm6764]

Hmmmm, didn't get to see the settings screen. So is it Legendary campaign, and what is the battle setting? Hard or very hard?

[@rothgartheviking858]

Cheese for the Cheese God

[@ManuMum]

You could disable fire at will for the sisters if they keep targeting the wrong units and give them manual attack orders. You won‘t get the maximum firerate but targeting the right units would be worth it in the dark elves fight at around 12 min.

[@polymphus]

Clan Moulder first 20 turns: narrowly manag to eke out victory against vastly superior opponents using every trick in the book and more than a little luck Sisters of Twilight first 20 turns: bully khatep

[@aaron9777]

How would your recommend is the best way to make some money and also how would you deal with the fact that you can only recruit from your main settlement

[@maximum9977]

1:00 i think that mage is better. Becouse at lvl 4 you can use pengelum that punish blobs super good

[@MrJohnGierach]

Heeey, why I don't have even picture of glade captain on tree in my game???

[@ElBandito]

Wow, really an easy mode Lord. Sieging any settlement is gonna be even easier.

[@wageblackfur8400]

well thats good that their easy, everyone knows WE got shat on because skaven

[@ramos4461]

Is it possible to recruit Ariel in mortal empires?

[@thor_x9916]

"Welcome to Athel Loren you dumb ass Beastmen shit" XD

[@Kabrinsky1]

At 11:20 just use the attack move order...

[@Barleee]

Hmmm in 22 turn I got a Skavenblight idk why i went here .

[@heavyhoplitehero334]

Hawk Rider doomstack when?

[@alishams4496]

why do great stag knights keep saying wild riders -__-