Terminator Deep Guards - SOVL #1 Dwarf Foreman - Warhammer Tabletop Roguelike!

SOVL is a tabletop fantasy combat game with roguelike elements. You pick your faction and lord, select some early units and go on an adventure on a Slay the spireish map. So if you like warhammer tabletop games, this game is perfect for you. I've been having a great time with the game and it's FREE!
#Warhammer #tabletopgaming #gaming

[@maxmichalik4938]

Wow, this really is legally distinct Warhammer.

[@lazygrouse]

Yeah it's great!

[@Erligan]

Press X/C to see your, or enemies Charge Range, press Shift + X/C to see Range Attacks. Didn't know the buttons till Janet on Occasion said it in the video, so now I spread the information, for those that still may struggle.

[@travisphillips2733]

Was getting ready to say this lol

[@lazygrouse]

@@Erligan I didn't know you could see range attacks. That is awesome, thanks for the tip!

[@zeta490]

@@Erligan thanks 😊

[@ellesar500]

Oh, it's like an old White Dwarf battle report simulator :D the memories

[@momirbaborac5536]

Letter V used to double for letter U, as U was too curvy to be easily carved in stone. So this game is named SOUL.

[@anonemoose7777]

Seriously why does everybody who makes a video about it call it “SoVell” instead of just, Yknow, Soul. 😂

[@jasonmain6398]

It didn't double for it. There just wasn't the letter u

[@whatisbestinlife8112]

@@anonemoose7777 Because this ancient historical factoid is not common modern knowledge.

[@thedestroyerofhats]

​@whatisbestinlife8112 exactly, why would anyone expect the general public to know anything about stone carving

[@jasonmain6398]

@@thedestroyerofhats It has nothing to do with stone carving, there just wasn't a U

[@nivalisilva]

I like that I can tell exactly what role units are meant to fill by what they look like because of several thousand hours of playing TWW1-3. I'm literally sitting here saying "those are ironbreakers" "those are longbeards" etc

[@lazygrouse]

All that Total war Warhammer finally pays off! It's great!

[@rightfool6436]

Just to confirm its 2 ranks that fight, unless there is a special rule like with spears to allow them to fight from deeper. Also you can adjust the width of units on the army page by hovering and clicking the buttons, I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere found it by chance :)

[@lazygrouse]

@@rightfool6436 That's what I thought but I wasn't sure. I have found the size changer though, I was also just clicking around and just kinda found it.

[@gabbagundam]

Warhammer fantasy tabletop finnaly becomes accesible for a wider audience.

[@lazygrouse]

@@gabbagundam *Legally distinct fantasy wargame finally becomes accessible to a wider audience.

[@kylekonop4801]

​@@lazygrouseI mean, plenty of the stuff in Warhammer fantasy is kind of generic. But the Goatmen and the ratmen kind of give the game away.

[@thomasneal9291]

@@lazygrouse " Legally distinct" it's a very fine distinction indeed.

[@lionmaster5799]

I just wanted to recommend this game to you xD also THE CAT NEEDS ATTENTION AGAIN

[@lazygrouse]

Nice, Loving the game so far! Don't worry, my girlfriend was giving him plenty of attention, and he got food and belly rubs after I was done recording. :P

[@cutlass528]

lmao when I first heard it I thought it was my cat, and went to check on her. But that gave me an excuse to give her scritches haha

[@marcusabroad386]

had no idea this game existed, love it - got on steam, thanks for sharing :)

[@ernestjamesmusic995]

Not sure I'm enjoying this Warhammer mod but I have the week off, so I'll drink and watch anything...

[@lazygrouse]

That's too bad. Hope you enjoy the video anyways, and I hope you enjoy your week off and that you have something good to drink in that case. :P

[@thomasneal9291]

@@lazygrouse sarcasm buddy. learn you some.

[@chadparris8892]

very intriguing.... tempted to try this one.

[@HereticalGeek]

Loving SOVL, I was looking up gameplay vids when I ran across your channel

[@lazygrouse]

Welcome! Hope you enjoyed it! :)

[@BobMcBobJr]

Elite fights give +50% end of fight money but the same XP. Always worth taking provided you can win.

[@BobMcBobJr]

One change I would really like to this game is the ability to fire into melee. Give a high chance to hit allies if you are on the same side as combat and a very low chance if on the opposite side.

[@lazygrouse]

That could be a pretty interesting compromise to not being able to shoot at all when in melee. It is a bit annoying that ranged units can become a bit useless when fighting starts.

[@14Blackspirit]

Warhammer universe ... beastmen ... like slay the spire ... say no more

[@thomasneal9291]

Kitty adding extra commentary!

[@Gibson7Clans]

You have at least 2 videos for this game. but I can't find a playlist. would love to watch all your videos for this game. for each play through run and other game play for this. 😁

[@TheStormfury]

Deep Guard with Handguns, Veterans with crossbows and armour. Proceed to show easy Dwarven supremacy, add in a canon to kill monsters if your leader is not levelled up right (random chance after all). Love the foreman, but the Ranger can be equally silly, especially if you find the mount merchant to get rid of his ranged retinue that usually loses his combat. However that double movement is arguably more clutch than the re-rolled armour saves from the Foreman. Engineer is only great if you get an early piece of artillery, outside of that, very average, a weaker version of the Ranger.

[@lazygrouse]

@@TheStormfury Yeah, the deep guard with guns seem to be able to deal with most things, especially with rerolling defense. Haven't tried the other Lords, but cannons are pretty nuts, killed a dragon in one shot on my first run.

[@TheStormfury]

@@lazygrouse Bolt throwers have became my favourite piece of artillery after my latest run, if you get them as a starting unit you get two of them! Sure they are not as powerful as a cannon, still multi-wound to take care of monsters like trolls or cav, and they get multiple shots. This makes them awesome to snipe down big stuff, or destroy infantry blocks.

[@HjalleCalibursChannel]

Looks awesome! Och det låter som du har en kisse med mycket att säga i bakgrunden 😂

[@lazygrouse]

Han har många åsikter. Jobbigt att inte ha fått mat på över en timme. :)

[@vampuricknight1]

Also just a heads up you can adjust the rows/width of units in the army view tab on the main map, click on a unit then hover over the unit block in the row at the top and you'll see a + or - with an arrow. Some units are better with more rows like cheap undead units like zombies/skeletons which are more about clogging up enemy units than actually dealing damage. Other units like 2 handed/great weapon units with low defense basically need to be in wide rows in order to maximize their charge/attacks.

[@lazygrouse]

@@vampuricknight1 I did find that kind of by accident when just clicking around. But is there really a point to go narrow even for zombies except to save room on the frontline? Because even if you have narrow lines, can't you still lose units beyond the second line even though only 2 lines can attack?

[@vampuricknight1]

@@lazygrouse so in classic warhammer which this is based on you couldn't hit beyond the first 2 rows so sometimes you'd see a unit of zombies that was like 10 rows deep. I'm not certain if this carries over to sovl I'd assume it works that way otherwise every unit would be incentivized to just go as wide as possible. Its worth testing though.

[@hbsavage0387]

When you click army view it can allow you to spread out some units wider though there is a cap. This allows high troop count units to get more hits in when attacking from the front or same goes for Calvary. I’ve been grinding out the Undead and they are pretty brutal to play due to them not breaking but crumbling so you take a crap ton of casualties. I will say the Dread Knights are super strong though especially if you get a few random event boosts they can pretty much win battles by themselves

[@lazygrouse]

Yeah, it seems like the undead has great mobility with bats and Knights. I think that I'll play them next just because they are so different from the Dwarfs.

[@hbsavage0387]

@@lazygrouse it’s a good choice and the Bats are pretty good at pinning units from the side. They have some of the furthest charging ranges of any units. The necromancer definitely makes the undead a fair bit easier cause you can basically keep a unit alive long enough for everything else to be wiped out by the Cav. Also I do not recommend Dire Wolves they are just kinda bad. For infantry go Skeleton Spears if able and honestly their premium infantry isn’t worth it you need models not stats because of crumbling.

[@lazygrouse]

@@hbsavage0387 Cav does seem like their best stuff so I'll try to focus on that. Thanks for the tip. :)

[@hbsavage0387]

@@lazygrouse it’s no problem I learned all do this through some pretty rough trial and error also if you advance up the tiers of difficulty there hits a pretty rough spike in challenge.

[@vampuricknight1]

I've been playing this game for a while, i'll be honest currently i try to avoid Elite Battles if at all possible because the rewards often don't justify the units/wounds you will likely take defeating them, even if you take good engagements you can fairly easily end up in a spiral of whittled down units as you keep taking losses in the next battle because you roll fewer dice so killing armies takes longer... and so on and so forth. Just not enough there to be worth the risk unless you absolutely need to get past one. Battles are great because its +1 XP for your units + healing or Gold, so more battles is often more good and they are typically very easy once you get used to the maps and unit variety. Random Events are as the name suggests, random, so they can be good and can actually take an army from so so to broken VERY quickly... but its a rng risk and there are some events that aren't worth even doing for certain armies... which means a dead spot on the map which is AWFUL as that means no XP, no gold, no nothing. They are worth taking but i don't go out of my way for them. Armories are essentially why Battles are so good, you can beef up your existing units with cheap gear (which some units and heroes absolutely need as it makes them VERY OP) and you can recruit new units mounts, retinues etc. Its definitely something to consider when deciding which path to take as you always want to have some amount of gold ready to go when you hit an armory. Camp sites are imo the best spots in the game. You can heal or get free XP... if your units are fully healed already you essentially get a free "battle" with no units lost but also no gold which in the later stages of a map is completely fine as outside of armories and rare random events is completely irrelevant. If they aren't fully healed or you've yet to get additional healing perks (because maybe you got lucky with your perk options and got to choose better stuff like crucial stat buffs) then these are essentially when you get your full unit back. Also healing in the game is deceptively good... say you take a battle right after a camp site... well if you're fully healed you probably can deal with the battle very efficiently... and if you do, you won't need to heal after the battle and can collect a lot of extra gold instead of needing to heal... so camp sites can also be considered "future gold" investments... if that makes sense... of course assuming you take a good clean engagements following one.

[@lazygrouse]

@@vampuricknight1 That is a good point. I don't have numbers on it, but the amount of extra money from elites isn't that significant. A item for your Lord or extra xp would be a nice incentive for elites. But I'm not sure if I agree with camps being the best unless you're hurt. They are nice but it seems like the random spots is the most important ones because the good events are so damn powerful, better than what you can get from the shop. Like the Divine protection and I think there was one that gives power and extra attacks to a unit which is just gamechangeing, or just cheap strong units.

[@vampuricknight1]

@@lazygrouse Yeah exactly, I was thinking either an item/perk for your lord or maybe a full heal after to negate the negative effect and reward taking the additional risk/challenge. The random spots can be good but it does vary depending on when you get them and what army your playing. For instance Dwarves early on don't have a lot of models in their units... so if you get an event and lose several models or the entire unit is replaced (not got to spoil that one if you haven't gotten that particular event) it can basically kill the run depending on what's next. It does vary though.

[@jdim4628]

Where is his dwarf foreman grill

[@zeta490]

I like this game i spent hours on the dawrfs i also use artillery like cannon and captupalt btw how do you see the charge radius i also have a panick if i can shoot one more time

[@Erligan]

[X], [C] for Charge, [Shift] + [X], [C] for Range

[@lazygrouse]

@@zeta490 It is so addicting! Haven't tried the catapults yet, but cannons are amazing, oneshot a dragon in my first run. You can see charge ranges with x and c.

[@zeta490]

@@Erligan thanks 😊

[@zeta490]

@@lazygrouse oh yea with the rolled attack its good but act 2 the unholy alliance was too much for me and barley one with one unit left

[@lazygrouse]

@@zeta490 A win is a win, no matter how many units you got left. On my first run that made it to the end I fought Lizard and woodelfs and I only had deepguards left standing by the end.

[@ieasy12]

In older english, V and U were the same letter. It's actually Soul, not Sovl.

[@ernestjamesmusic995]

Latin dear...

[@lazygrouse]

Ah, that might explain it. But I think it would make more sense if the logo was written that way, but the game in the steam page was called SOUL in that case. But I guess that was a creative choice.

[@therexyogaming]

​@@ernestjamesmusic995 English is not a romance language it is a germanic language, so not applicable

[@HalIOfFamer]

​@@therexyogamingexcept every European language has Latinisms in it due to that small mostly homogeneous state called the roman empire.

[@Veryspecificassortmentofwords]

This game has… SOVL

[@Timlagor]

It's nice if you put a link in the video description

[@lazygrouse]

@@Timlagor You mean to the game? I mean the name is shown pretty clearly so you just have to write sovl in Steam and it's there. But I'll keep that in mind.

[@Timlagor]

@@lazygrouse Exactly

[@scelonferdi]

High think sovl is supposed to be fancy latin letters for soul.

[@lazygrouse]

@@scelonferdi Yeah it seems like it.

[@jackhell9263]

were can i find it?

[@MrFleem]

Maybe SOVL is spelled with a Latin "v", so that would make it Soul.

[@Janoxys]

16:30 SHORT????

[@warthoggoulags1679]

hey how did you unlock everything ??

[@lazygrouse]

@@warthoggoulags1679 I haven't really unlocked anything. I completed a dwarf and undead run but That's about it.

[@r-ex2945]

So only 2 acts?

[@thehellyousay]

it is pronounced SOUL.

[@WolfRaven-jm1cm]

Rougelite = The game rogue with less features. Rougelike = A game with similar features to the game Rouge.

[@thomasneal9291]

pro-tip: don't stream things you don't know how to play. wait until you feel you have a good handle on things first. you clearly do not. that first elite fight was ugly. very ugly. you made so many mistakes I was beginning to worry you would just lose the battle. You let your ranged units take on their exact nemesis without reinforcements, for example, and instead ganged up on the one unit type that is great against reinforcements. just... why?

[@lazygrouse]

Ok, that's a weird take. If you don't want to watch someone new at the game don't watch the video. I said early that I was new at the game, that should have been your first clue that I wouldn't be an expert. I think I did fine for someone who just started playing.