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[@jerondiovis6128]

This looks like something new to Legend - not just "do better than autoresolve", but "don't lose to autoresolve".

[@ShenSeiken]

And here I'm still not sure he didn't. While he did take less damage than auto-resolve, he also dealt significantly less damage than AR did with AR generally wiping out all units in all armies on the losing end. It's a completely impractical task for a player, but it's still a consideration.

[@movingtarget12321]

There are definitely times where I auto resolve stuff just to guarantee I kill stuff outright. Having an army flee just outside my range to finish off is a pain in some situations. If there’s no immediate danger and you don’t mind taking extra time to replenish, it’s worth just auto resolving.

[@synka5922]

@@movingtarget12321 yes especially when its small stacks, because they tend to fully survive even on defeat (garrison battles) and its just annoying to have them back to full next turn, attacking again

[@xiaoxiaoxiao4]

i just had this once against vlad. i would have won auto resolve but i played it and lost so bad because vlad just didnt died XD

[@dontgankmebruv7273]

@@xiaoxiaoxiao4 he tends to do that a lot

[@guillaume9102]

Well a dwarf engineer helping Cathay is more lorefriendly that a skaven one..

[@Garret007]

If you still want the range increase with a good faction, it is possible. You need to get the legendary one from Markus Wulfhart, that one still has the old skill tree.

[@quint3ssent1a]

Maybe he's an EXILED ENGINEER, lol.

[@virtualshark9203]

It's really not if you know youy Cathay/Skaven lore

[@quint3ssent1a]

@@virtualshark9203 yeah, clan Eshin and whatnot, but they are more stealthy ninja rats rather than shooty nerd-engineer rats.

[@guillaume9102]

@@virtualshark9203 Probably not in Miao Ying army. Maybe if they add the monkey king

[@matthewsarson6934]

Yeah as soon as you get a few Dragon Guard in a stack its insane how much it changes auto resolve odds. Which is probably fair because they kick some serious ass.

[@BM-wf9uf]

Yeah, same with Ice Guard for Kislev tbh. ROFL stomp time once you get those units.

[@ageofempireswololoposting1967]

Dragon Guard are sick!

[@bearistotle2820]

@@BM-wf9uf Agreed, Tzarina Katarin's ice guard stack is stupidly strong and dirt cheap.

[@GrasshopperKelly]

"Ease of use" has to be a massive bonus for me. I love manual battles anyway, but I know far too many friends in TW games who just want to auto resolve, or simply don't know how to game the system in battles for the best results. Easy strong armies allow them to play difficult battles, and still learn. Or auto resolve when they can't yet.

[@spudastic]

social gamers prefer to chat instead of play the game, aim to push them to play else the more they press teh button the less theyre conditioned to play the game

[@GrasshopperKelly]

@@spudastic I 100% push them to press the battle button. Even when the odds are in their favour. Because they're likely in a situation they'll need that army again in the next turn, and the less damaged it is the better. Across the TW franchise. There are some games like Rome 2 I showed them the auto resolve works on entity numbers above all other stats. I try to teach them everything about each game. The more they know, the more they can understand, and so the more they can use the games mechanics to their own advantage. But an army that's easy to use in both circumstances, can keep people with short attention spans interested in the game if they just want to hit the auto resolve button most battles.

[@Willdroyd]

@@GrasshopperKelly Still tho, the game is about fun. Difference between pressing the button a couple of times and having fun saving army and also fighting with the army, but also if you are playing in coop chatting building army building bases and stuff is fun too. If you arent playing on the highest difficulty you dont need to know all the ins and outs, usually you can just play with whatever is funnest to you and with some decent strategy live and win

[@SovereignTonic]

No one wants to talk about the true hero of this video: Leggendario

[@trico6885]

Legend usually in ratingyourdoomstack videos: Let's push this army to the limit to see how it does in not favourable position. Legend in this video: Have to turn tryhard mode on and pray to perform better than autoresolve. Holy crap, it is insane

[@InvinciblKillerQueen]

Very worth remembering that the dragon guard crossbowman are also pretty damn decent melee fighters, which you do see a bit here when that hero slips into the back lines and promptly melts.

[@lukemorgan158]

Miao Ying can one lord domstack to some degree herself as well, so going without the artillery and hero support and just hiding the rest of your army until you're satisfied they can handle the remainder is what got me through my initial Cathay campaign's tightest spots. Great video as always Legend

[@maddawg9636]

Yep, both Miao Ying and and Zhao Ming are absolute units. I prefer Zhao a bit more but they are both amazing

[@mrgermanvono35]

Well until she has leveled up a bit. And depends on who she's fighting. She doesn't fare very well against dark elves and their AP missiles, at least not when she is low level.

[@magni5648]

"To some degree" She's literally dethroned Malus Darkblade as the #1 One-Woman Doomstack.

[@TheCherinova]

You mentioned flying units could be a problem. Then I remembered Miao ying can just go dragon form and deal with them herself

[@shadowblade5656]

Well, she can only really feasibly deal with one at a time, so if the AI somehow gets really crafty bringing two or three fliers, they could use one to tie up the dragon, and the others to take out the artillery

[@jasonvorhes765]

Merry Christmas Legend and my total war family.

[@ZoMbi5lAy3r]

"Family"

[@Sercotani]

family family family...

[@ZoMbi5lAy3r]

@@Sercotani Didn't expect to run into a SBFP reference here

[@woodwalker7129]

"Let's jump to the ball here" - for me this is the part i was waiting for.

[@CapybaraConnoisseur89]

Covering Meowing

[@matithesnappy2787]

Merry Christmas Legend! Hope you got everything you asked for from Santa!

[@90snetworkproductions79]

Man Imagine if Legend renamed the video to, *"Miao Ying and her doomstack save Christmas,"* Now THAT would be a Christmas gift! Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎅🏾👍🏾

[@pizleg4203]

Merry Xmas Legend you legend!

[@TheSmrtAlec]

Almost the exact army that led to my only campaign victory in Total War, and it was Realms of Chaos of all things (luck with Tzeentch's realm helped too). Usually get bored like 20 turns before victory lol, this army just carried so hard and is so fun to use despite being so basic.

[@SereglothIV]

Steam achievements are what motivates me to play until campaign victory. Which is why I really hope they'll add achievements for WH1 and WH2 races when they drop the 'beta' tag of Immortal Empires.

[@ruukinen]

@@SereglothIV Mee too buddy, mee too. Although I have nearly all of them from the older games.

[@GabeOutOfOffice]

I don't think Legend noticed the stats on that Miao Ying, she was a bloody one-woman-doomstack all on her own. The celestial warriors were just icing on the cake.

[@JustSome462]

The best part is that she has basically no good defeat traits, i think the only notable one i got her is Vilitch's. I'm actually working on a one woman doomstack with her in a separate campaign, will send it to legend when it's done (waiting for the Bejeweled Dagger is a pain though)

[@zachmartin2957]

@@JustSome462 awesome army, how did you get the dwarf hero?

[@JustSome462]

@@zachmartin2957 It's an exploit, you request an army with a hero in it, then get it wounded, and then the game forgets its original faction and it becomes yours. It's super easy to do with the Angrund heroes, just send a caravan to Mirmydens to discover Belegar, ally him, then request an army with the heroes and suicide it against Ikit/Aranessa, in this campaign i actually have all the Angrund legendary heroes. For regular heroes it's a bit trickier, they need to either be lv 20 (so immortal) or they need to be wounded by an enemy agent (which is unreliable) but it's doable nonetheless.

[@666stonewall]

This was a pretty cool army! Great vid!

[@randomredshirt5274]

i think he chose the dwarf engineer, because he starts out with immortal(because he's legendary) and its easier to get good relations with angrund. So while warlock engineer is better, dwarf engi is way easier to get

[@Zoltri]

Something I find super handy with Cathay is just keeping a cheap infantry unit or cavalry in the backlines behind your artillery. Basically a final defense if anything gets into melee with them, and if nothing else they provide all your cannons with an easy Yin-Yang bonus without compromising your formation.

[@mirchiamemeina1524]

Do love so much to see a strong mixed army. Beautiful~

[@Crucial_End]

"Imagine stealing Ariel" would be easy for Vlad the chad!

[@Wolfspaule]

There went a lot of thought into it, very nice!

[@thegyloraptor]

Merry Christmas Legend!

[@PickleJello]

You know it's good when even Legend is surprised how good it is.

[@aceykerr8752]

How fucking terrifying is it gonna be when the Vampires figure out how to steal Kroak, and we end with skelly spam kroak doomstacks.

[@GasTheThirdWorld]

bro. imagine having both ariel and kroak in one army

[@Shane2020xxx]

Those first heroes got turned into Celestial Crossbow pincushions! Also if that dwarf ancestor had Ballistics Calibration, he probably also had Break Open the Casks for some ammunition reloads, for example on the Fire Rain Rockets. A strong cross faction synergy since low ammo is one of Fire Rain’s few weaknesses. Requisition is helping to keep the whole army with extra ammo too. (Probably why he’s there.) Edit- oh you look at him at the end, I was typing while you were killing.)

[@ReesHolt]

I’m new to warhammer 3. Playing Cathay at the moment i started using these crossbow men and now I can’t seem to lose.

[@devilsmessanger]

hahahaha ,hearing Legend so surprised is cool !

[@gregoryshinn9805]

Thanks for the video

[@ssrgioz]

The first time i beated a Legendary campaign on total war, was a mia ying on the realms of chaos, with a "similar" army, mio ying, one alchemist(for the campaign movement, 3 grand cannons, 1 sky junk, 4 infantry and 10 crossbowmen... That army was unstoppable.

[@spudastic]

the real question is if your inability to spell her name right is unstoppable

[@dogborf7909]

somehow, you managed to spell her name wrong TWICE in completely different ways.

[@ssrgioz]

@@dogborf7909 im from Argentina, the auto correction fights me everytime i try to write in English

[@mr.joesterr5359]

Literal space marines in fantasy

[@TheShizzo]

Well, I guess it's time for me to finally try this race lol.

[@TheMorninGlory23]

Merry Christmas!

[@TheWhiteDragon3]

One thing to note about Cathayan artillery: the models are physically taller than most other artillery models, enough so that when they fire, they fire _over_ the heads of the infantry in front of them, well enough that if you place Cathayan artillery _directly_ behind a unit of infantry, they'll have line of sight to fire at will at targets around two formations or so in front of the line for cannons and a few more for fire rain rockets, which is surprisingly good. I personally favor great cannons for their wickedly good accuracy at long range, even though fire rain rockets are cooler.

[@ruukinen]

Whaddaya mean are cooler? The sound the cannons make is out of this world. And yeah the cannons also deal a shitton more actual damage.

[@Khornecussion]

Any time I play Cathay: " XUE HUAAAA PIAO PIAO. BEI FENG XIAO XIAOOOOO. "

[@louisdecrombrugghe926]

i actually stole unintentionally ARIEL in an empire campaign I borrowed an wood elf army and it was destroyed before the 10 turn ended. Ariel was still wounded at the end of the ten turn and when she recovered she was still my hero to control

[@disasstah]

Our arrows will blot out the sun!

[@agps4418]

two things that really helped is 1. terrain and 2. the game's 40 unit limit on the field

[@xxapoloxx]

This perfectly illustrates my main complain about cathay, it makes the empire obsolete. I generally run empire like this as well, but i like to run 5 line holder blocks.

[@yabarber6902]

Well Empire has drip so honestly it doesn’t matter. Also Demigryph knights fuck and Balthasar Gelt is awesome

[@MaD_DoGXIII]

Drip is important after all.

[@xxapoloxx]

@@MaD_DoGXIII What is DRIP, dont get the acronym.

[@christopherjones7191]

@@xxapoloxx Drip is essentially fashionable clothing

[@Willdroyd]

@@xxapoloxx drip - looking good

[@Joshua-yf5mh]

Going through my first Cathay play through. Haven't gotten Dragon Guards, but i've been really impressed by how good the Jade Warriors are for only being tier 1 & 2 units. So far playing as Cathay is reminding me of Dwarfs, but actually having magic and cavalry options.

[@TheMissing8]

I played with armies of Jade warriors in the late game. I had Dragon Guards in my main hero army but all the others were Jade. Jades are so good you don't really need to upgrade to Dragon. They recruit really quickly, scale very well with late game tech and abilities and do really well in auto.

[@bobmishima3295]

Cathay are pretty much just better dwarves

[@pallandoromestamo8861]

I was always reluctant to upgrade to dragon guard because of the much lower entity count

[@JPShadow]

I didnt know you could steal heroes, but the Zhao Ming campaign i played was probably the most fun ive had in total war in a long time. His dragon bomb spell, i forget what its called lol that thing is so strong. Just send him alone at an army they jump his ass then you use the spell and just annihilate them. I was getting 1000+ kills per battle with him easy. Rarely had to use anything in my army other than him and the few artillery pieces to win most battles.

[@hammerdruid5836]

"I know its gonna put me in the book" hahahaha

[@Murasame13]

Merry Christmas everyone, if you celebrate it! :)

[@havyn88]

Now we just need a Cathayan Engineer Hero.

[@SourceBTS]

Great doomstack!

[@josstroeven2380]

always upvote one for the book

[@Kroq-gar]

Merry Christmas

[@alistairperry811]

Trying really hard to get to 455k mr Legend.

[@voodooozo3755]

Well, those guards do have almost 100 melee defence and 60 attack.

[@dostayer3369]

I wondered when you'll have a CDG doomstack, it was powerful even in the early days of WH3. Now I wait for a Longmas + Sky Junks doomstack, if at all possible.

[@thebrokenmask8304]

This is basicaly my go to IE cathay stack since release. It might seem pretty basic on paper but I think I never even came close to lose a battle with it.

[@vladdietheladdie7345]

MEN! LET'S GET TO THE 455K SUB MARK!

[@WAFFLEMAN38]

Cathay is so fun. Can't wait til they get DLC

[@Guillimann]

delicious stack

[@krystianlewicki8608]

Merry Christmas.

[@Nikolas5842]

Merry Xmas to all you Legends :D

[@synka5922]

cathay has massive doomstack potential, and miao ying could make just about anything work too

[@Faelivri]

This is my go-to army as Miao Ying, but I prefer Sky-junks over other artillery units. And maybe add Astromancer or Alchemist for spell intensity (and some other buffs. And yes, I'm using both of them). It's just a very strong and decently balanced army, nothing more to say about it.

[@Keeki95]

Alchemist for campaign movement, astromancer for his mount's bound spells, and both make Miao's talons spell delete bunched up infantry.

[@FollowMe1789]

Yep. Miao, Alchemist, Astromancer, 4 Dragon Guard, 8 Dragon Crossbows, double Longmas and triple Sky Junk is my go to.

[@travisspicer5514]

@@FollowMe1789 I don't bother with the longmas for the cathay LL lords. Went against high elves 2 armies with 1 lord on dragon, 4 dragons, 1 arcane phoenix, and 1 eagle and sent miao to kill all but 1 dragon which got shot to sh*t and the army took care of everything else. I definitely think sky junks are best choice. Dragon archers wipe out all other archers and lord and longmas wipe out the flying units and then position the sky junks and watch them wreck. Gotta love it

[@ruukinen]

I also like the janks for rockets but I just get one. The cannons are the real mvp.

[@Viryu9]

17:51 which graphical setting is responsible for quality of unit preview there?

[@myballsgetlikd2330]

3D portholes

[@travismitchell6447]

Anyone else notice the first shot from the cannon, knocked the giant on his ass?

[@hentaioverwhelming]

That this is moderately easy to recruit in the mid to late game (minus the stolen legendary dwarf hero) is just *Salt Bae sprinkles* I have to wonder what would happen if Miao Ying also stole a skaven engineer. Would the range buffs stack from both the skaven and dwarf engineers?

[@Loj84]

The dwarf engineer doesn’t provide a range buff.

[@hentaioverwhelming]

@@Loj84 Yeah, I posted my comment a few minutes into the video when Legend was previewing Miao Ying's army. It wasn't until after the battle that Legend mentioned that dwarf engineers no longer provide range buffs.

[@joshburns6101]

Imagine if the arrows that were shot stayed on the ground and piled up… literal tons of arrows lol

[@redluke8119]

Honestly the celestial dragon guard crossbowmen are in my opinion the greatest single unit in the game I have done some absolutely disturbing things to 3 or 4 stacks of chaos they are absolutely unreal when you give them the juice

[@elutheria.]

out of interest have you ever managed a no loss campaign with Cathay on legendary? I find the campaign is fine and dont struggle.. But I cannot avoid defeat in the early turns... one of the chaos or snitch ALWAYS get in and kills a settlement...ridiculously frustrating

[@chuatengsheng1193]

How do you drag units in group order rather than pressing the shift, ctrl or alt key?

[@redluke8119]

Also if you notice they almost always give heroic auto resolve for CDGC when you have the stack mostly made up of them look at the gates I get heroic auto resolves on the gates all the time with just garrison and its because I think the crossbows have biggest auto resolve weight in the game I've never seen anything else auto heroic so often

[@cheshire7994]

The dragon guard casually have 92 MD

[@hanspeter8982]

Cathay was always the first target I wanted to wipe out because of that. Even their jade warriors are giving me a hard time as WoC.

[@Gr_ywind]

How did he go about getting the doorf though? Or did I simply miss that in my post Christmas stupor.

[@JustSome462]

To steal a hero you have to request an army with a hero, then get it wounded. If the hero is immortal (the ancestor heroes are) you simply need to get them killed in battle, and bam, 5 turns later it's in your faction

[@dooomdesire]

You need to borrow a factions army that has the hero in it at lvl 20 and have it die before the army returns to the faction so it gets wound when you don't have there army it becomes yours, that is as far as I'm aware that is needed as I have yet to try this out

[@Gr_ywind]

Right, that sounds like quite the faff but I'm defo gonna try that next campaign. 😁

[@AutorPL]

Do the fire rain rockets get better auto-resolve value than the sky-junk?

[@Juria1987]

Damn good army to be sure, though when you talked about master engineers yeah they gutted them with the changes. I mean the warlock engineers are just...better, they give you magic which is always useful, they give you range which again always useful, they aren't a pain in the neck to get more of unlike master engineers, and they are okay enough in melee. They aren't suppose to be in there but they aren't squishy pure mage types so they can for a short time hold the line. More so if given good items... Frankly range heroes are always meh to me. Range is good but 1 guy shooting and over killing a soldier at the cost of being pretty bad in melee does not make up for a hero that can just get stuck in a blob and hold off a few units to get shot up by a proper group of gunners/archers/crossbowmen

[@matthewchadwick6043]

How do you get the engineer in your army?

[@masaheimoi]

With Yuan Bo you can fo this, but with stereoids. You want more and beater heroes? Yuan is THE best hero stealer. More ammo? You can get heaps by designating fortress cities. Want to spend less magic? Matters of state can reduce that by 20%. And more.

[@theosabouret2309]

I imagine it is a trivial question for many but how do you get an hero from an other faction ? you use the word stealing but how does it work ?

[@phantomthunder203]

I would have swapped one of these crossbows with a skyjunk, unless you go reall wide they are super useful for buffing range of other units

[@omgwhatisthiiiiiisss]

How exactly to steal a hero? is it still possible in the current chaos dwarf update?

[@cp1cupcake]

How do you get heroes from other factions?

[@CharliMorganMusic]

78 AP damage is just...that's absolutely wild.

[@zefrogi]

Merry Christmas all x

[@varanzmaj]

What the hell? How do I build up my army to be as powerful as that :)

[@user-nk4qd5ky5b]

How tf do you steal heros. I feel like I'm new to this

[@Achievementsish]

I'm a bit newish but how do you get a hero from another faction? I only thought you could recruit allied units and not heroes?

[@hubeargreat7212]

borrow an army from an ally with an immortal hero(legendary heros or heros that are at least level 20) and get the hero to be wounded. It will forget that it's supposed to be owned by the other faction and pop up in your hero list. It's more than likely unintended and will probably get patched when it gets more visibility.

[@1xoACEox1]

Those Chaos armies were kinda bad though... Masses of marauders, dogs and trolls. Id like to see the auto resolve against more challenging armies.

[@MrWildblast]

my thoughts exactly

[@JustSome462]

This army is better against single entities than against chaff. I fought a rite of primeval glory with Kroq-gar and it didn't do squat, the crossbows shredded the monsters. Chaff like marauders and such is actually the bigger treath to them since they don't kill them as efficiently. Just look at the keeper of secret, it's a SEM with physical resistance and a shield and it didn't even land an attack

[@p.p.wienersson]

How do you steal a hero?

[@Antonio.S]

I really hope you will someday try out medieval 1212 AD, ancient empires or fall of the eagle + europa perdita mods for attila, these 3 mods were some of the best experiences I had in any total war game and fixes most of the issues you had with attila's campaign I believe.

[@ntgrg08]

He tried ancient empires early on, not sure about the others. He’s usually not a fan of doing mods. But I agree they are very cool and don’t mind atilla much

[@TheRhysStreams]

Do skaven warlock engineers have ammo restore?

[@alexmason3472]

I think they should Nerf the amount of certain units you can have in each army like they did with Warriors of Chaos, where you have a limit of Daemonic units for each army. But not just for the player, but the AI too.

[@DecvsJapan]

"Later guys" :(

[@Praiokles]

Couldnt you have just both, a dwarven and a Skaven hero?

[@raymondfernholz367]

Does Cathay have a hero that restores ammo?

[@christhovhannisyan2074]

Chatay, funny coincidence in russian China sounds like Kithai

[@riosiscold9865]

I wish my load times were that fast sheesh

[@lukerevelt7265]

How much is the auto resolve due to miao Ying though? I would be interested in seeing the auto resolve with a generic lord as well. Personally doomstacks without legendary lords are more relevant anyway

[@Joshua-yf5mh]

True. Doomstacks that can be replicated are more interesting.

[@bobmishima3295]

Most of it is just from high armor spread across all the celestial dragon guard units which favors highly in auto resolve

[@JustSome462]

You can get this with a random Shugengan and it works fine, it won't be quite as good but the difference isn't huge

[@lukerevelt7265]

@@JustSome462 yeah you're right. The only downside is that cathay doesn't have a generic lord or hero that can tank blobs

[@JasonBlyde]

how do you 'steal' a lord from other factions? i keep seeing it happen in these vids but cant seem to find any guide on how... i so wanna try these kinda things

[@ruukinen]

Borrow ally army, dismiss hero, return army, wait until hero recovers from wounded state.

[@nikollasassumpcao8006]

Miao do be packing some insane dragon heat

[@olivierplamondon3974]

How do you get the dwarf hero ?

[@Ireyn100]

does terrain count in auto resolve?

[@oemchen77]

If terrain sucks I usually corner camp...

[@PaddyOFurniture]

How did Cathay end up with the Dwarf Ancestor? I am unaware of this mechanic.

[@Avengedtenfold]

Exploit cheese: Step One: Military Alliance with the desired faction for the hero stealing. Step Two: Get enough allegiance to temporarily control the army with the hero you want. Can't be attached to a legendary lord because of this. Step Three: The hero you want to steal must be immortal. Step Four: Get the hero killed. Once this happens, the game will respawn the hero outside of the allied army, meaning you don't have to give it back. You keep it even if that faction gets wiped out.

[@PaddyOFurniture]

@@Avengedtenfold Lol. Nice!

[@ruukinen]

@@Avengedtenfold Doesn't have to be immortal. Just have an AI agent wound it instead.