The BEST Bretonnia Mod On The Workshop - Immortal Empires - Total War Warhammer 3 - Mod Review

Bretonnia has needed a bit of help for quite some time. Thankfully a VERY POPULAR mod from Warhammer 2 returns and brings in some fresh life to Warhammer 3's Bretonnia! Let's discuss!
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Lily's Bretonnia Overhaul: Definitive Edition - Immortal Empires
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Lily's Bretonnia Overhaul - Unit Pack Submod
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Lily's Bretonnia Overhaul - Repanse the Peasant Queen
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The BEST Bretonnia Mod On The Workshop - Immortal Empires - Total War Warhammer 3 - Mod Review
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[@TheGreatBookofGrudges]

Drink some of the Lady's finest bathwater and CRUSADE! Links above in description as always :)

[@LilyZayli]

Thank you so much for releasing your review of my mods for warhammer three, loving your content as always!

[@exador1337]

great work Lily, wouldn't play bretonnia without your mods.

[@LilyZayli]

@@exador1337 Thank you so much, I'm really glad that my work means so much to you

[@akaroth7542]

Thank you for making this. I wouldn't play them without it.

[@scottabc72]

Excellent work thank you

[@s7robin105]

Just want to say I love your mod and have used it for my first campaign in Bretonnia for WH3. It’s absolutely amazing and I hope CA takes notice of it if they ever do a expansion overhaul of their own

[@johanneshjortshj8646]

Couldn't the royal men at arms be called Segeants at arms? I kind of get the feeling that they are household troops that are given better equipment in exchange for more continuous military service.

[@LilyZayli]

They certainly could, I just wanted to continue the naming convention that CA used for their new units (Royal Pegausus Knights and Royal Hippogryph Knights) so as to make the units feel more like something CA would make for the vanilla version of the game.

[@johanneshjortshj8646]

@@LilyZayli Fair enough. I just feel like the "Royal" title would be something for the nobility in Bretonnia. Sergeant literally means Servant in old frankish. And was often used to denote armed followers of a nobles household. Given better equipment and training than your typical men-at-arms.

[@MN-vz8qm]

@@johanneshjortshj8646 I suddenly realize that the etymology of the word sergeant is indeed easy to track back (as a french). Ser - geant = sert gens = (in english) people who serve sert being serve and gens being people. Like in gendarme: known in the middle age as cavalry, and in modern days as police officers, meaning litteraly gens d'arme (men at arms).

[@LilyZayli]

@@johanneshjortshj8646 Ah that's really interesting, I never knew that! I believe the name for sergeants for the Bretonnia Men-at-arms unit is Wardens, which is the name of the technology acquired before the technology for the royal units, which is actually a nod towards that idea but I never thought to call them something like "Men-at-Arms Wardens" or "Wardens-at-Arms" so I appreciate the conversation on the matter! I think I'm too attached to the Royal Men-at-Arms name at this point as that's what I've been calling them for several years now.

[@johanneshjortshj8646]

@@LilyZayli I'm certainly not going to tell you your business. This is just a nitpick on my part. From what I can see, you've done a marvelous job here, and CA has a lot to live up to if they want to exceed your creation. :)

[@jeffreymilliman2306]

I really wish more vanilla factions had as many dramatic bonuses and penalties as Repanse's does in this submod. I really like the strong theming that powerfully incentivizes dramatically different play styles with different factions within a race.

[@shadowblade5656]

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that one. I kinda feel like it's "play Brettonia, but without the big thing that makes it Brettonia" but at the same time it's kinda neat to change up a roster's style so drastically like that.

[@mattgopack7395]

@@shadowblade5656 I don't mind it, but it needs to be a tad less restrictive. Taking the Tehenauin approach would work better I think - like +200% upkeep on the knight units instead of can't make them at all, up until you complete something.

[@gundamofspitara7583]

The cow launcher is a great throwback to Medieval 2

[@mrhelzbygrad7485]

I really hope they update Bretonnia with the Old World and give us some new units and Errantry/ Crusader orders. Mods like this show we need a bit of something

[@stormerjc9493]

Makes me hope we will get a update for bretonnia in the future, mabye one that add truffle hounds and some merey men themed units, some more characters to play as would also be nice

[@miloradlukic9277]

Also grail knight rework. They should be stronger per model, and give them something to get out from fight, some trample small units under the certain mass threshold for them to not get stuck. Something like swords of chaos in strength, and also buff up blood knights. I want strong cavalry and its really missing from the game.

[@thechazz3230]

A complete rework changing them back to their pre-6th edition retcons from grimderp back to NobleDark would be most preferable. I absolutely hate how stupidly over the top evil and cartoonish 6th-8th and TWW Bretonnia is.

[@giancarloribeirobrito659]

Lily's have the best bretonian mod easily, she is awesome creator.

[@mustacheBpf]

3:32 >Laughs in dawi

[@SlagLPs]

Love your mod reviews, keep it up :) Hbu doing a little weekly mod showcase, where you shortly talk about some of the best current/new mods?

[@shwasywasy]

This is cool and a great step in the right direction. I have always thought the different formation for cav should provide an amour piercing charge effect while lowering speed and overall manoeuvrability. Massive buff to grail reliquary so they make pilgrims frenzied unbreakable nutters and maybe some synergy when they are near actual grail knights. And lastly. Some really, really super good/cool as RoRs. Low model count high HP grail knights and hypo knight type deal. I also kind of want the longbowmen to have the stakes they had from the table top but idk how that would work... A guy can dream. Rant over.

[@simoncodrington]

Great mod showcase mate, keen to see more of these

[@jedikedi4820]

I don't want to see armoured foot knights for Brettonia on the open field. Partially because it's not very lore friendly but mostly because it would change their approach to battle too much, Brettonia is all about having shit infantry but excellent cavalry. However I really want Brettonian foot knights as a Garrison Exclusive unit only available in major settlement (minor settlements if you build a shrine building) similar to the High Elf gate guard. Am elite infantry unit would be incredibly useful in sieges.

[@TsunamiWombat]

Brettonians do not need footknights, and I barely tolerate squires because they needed something for assaulting walls. What they need is YEOMEN, which are lore friendly and are as close to professional troops as brettonia gets. Lightly armored, but armed with bows and spears and shields.

[@vgalis]

I already kind of achieved this effect in my recent playthrough thanks to all the allied dwarf warriors/longbeards/tzar guard. Using 4 less peasant capacity per army was pretty great, although late game the battle pilgrims kind of outshone some of those other units since they were getting actual bonuses from their lords and tech. On the other hand I get the feeling I never really play Brettonia right. I never had the time to recruit the better knights for most of my armies since I was constantly running around fighting off attacks all over my borders. I don't think any of my armies had more than 6 cavalry units.

[@imperatorandros9947]

Do you know some mods for making Bretonnia similar to the 3rd edition and the version of WHFRP 1st edition of 1986? For example adding retainers and brigands with Arquebus, arbalest and l'ordonnance du roi?

[@burntbread6575]

Honestly I can’t play bretonnia without this mod. It has become such a requirement.

[@syndicalistcat3138]

Thanks and I hope you will make a similar video about the Empire in the future if possible.

[@tonisauna-aho3899]

*Nathan talking about any unit*: "I should finish painting that unit"

[@samikoivisto7705]

Love how the cow flinging trebuchet is a Cowtapult not a catapult like all the other trebuchet's.

[@basinox]

Have you seen the greater choas spawn of Tzeentch mod? Its such an impressive model. Looks super weird and eldritch.

[@justin_isaac_rada44]

More range options for the Bretonnia. I though it is regular Bowmen-at-Arms but is it Peasant Bowmen but wearing Man-at-Arms Gambeson armor kit. Royal Man-at-Arms are like an infantry level between Man-at-Arms level and Foot Squire level. Is there a Peasant Slingers who are a cheaper range unit than their Bowman counterpart? I remember playing Stronghold Crusaders game that the Slinger is much cheaper than the Archer.

[@Tucher97]

I liked the idea of buildings that span over an entire providence is cool but at the time when I played bretonnia, I wonder if the economic and farming structures will be massive buffs. Final answer is sort of.

[@Delta040301]

With the cow trebuchet I can finally roleplay Monty Python The Holy Grail.

[@coltonmatthew6955]

I LOVE THE STRONGHOLD REFERENCE!

[@kamalishnin5645]

Ok I get it Trebuchets are part of the Medieval knight lore but isn't it time cannons get introduced to Bretonia? The new unit upgrades are great though.

[@LordGadwin]

The Dawi tech tree is huge..

[@bombyouup62]

Yep another mod that I've been using already.

[@Graciatus]

I also suggest Ascopa's Bretonnia unit pack if you're looking for fully blown childhood medieval fantasy full of knights and not wait for CA , say what you want relying solely on shock cav till late game is boring AF.

[@MT-jt5uo]

Ascopa is one of the Bretonnia mods I never play without, get bored of the faction only having good Cav. Plus always liked the look of foot knight units and heavy medieval infantry.

[@pimentinha1121]

Sad thing is that Mixus lords disappear when I install this

[@DeanMurray08]

Anyone found a mod to change the colours of the knights. Bretonnia isn’t right without all the knights in different bright colours

[@Nikolas5842]

Looks good

[@DaHALOSHOCK]

Surprised you haven't covered Radius now that its out.

[@tylermcneeley3136]

All I want is Foot Knights

[@nathangozzi2894]

Wanted to try this mod two days ago with Repanse, her quest battle for the sword of Lyonesse is broken T-T

[@horsenuggets1018]

Yeah her quest battle is just broken rn it’ll probably be fixed next patch

[@nathangozzi2894]

@@horsenuggets1018 hasn't been addressed last patch and on the bug report page there are no comment from the devs

[@titansquirrel4408]

I'm sure this is in the comments already, but cow trebuchets are a real historical thing lol

[@akaroth7542]

Tossing rotting bodies, animal and otherwise, is historically accurate.

[@keegobricks9734]

Really hope the DLC going forward is tailored to Immortal empires and not whatever the main game is called. The main game kinda sucks, but even if it was fine, we have so many factions and LL's to play as it's painful to narrow that field down so massively, especially if you don't particularly like chaos factions. This was already a big issue for Eye of the vortex campaign, but that was at least a _fun_ mode to play, and now it's even worse with literally dozens more WH2 factions on top of the WH1's factions.

[@titansquirrel4408]

FIRE power hardy har

[@ProduccionesPaquito]

Shame the colors of the knights aren't fixed yet, it puts me off of playing Bretonnia all together

[@TsunamiWombat]

Sword and Shield KOTR are not in game because KOTR explicitly use lances, the lance is a badge of office and rank. Questing Knights specifically set aside the lance as part of their questing vows. Ergo, there should be a sword and shield QUESTING KNIGHT variant, not a Knights of the Realm variant. I like Lilly's, but it err's too far on the side of overpowered, and change for the sake of change is not always a good thing. I do wish sometimes Modders weren't gonna mod, not that Brettonia isn't in dire need of overhauls to it's building tree's and other things

[@LilyZayli]

I like to look for critical feedback for my mods because I dont actually want them to be OP (thus nerfs like lower income to farms) I'd love to hear what you think I should do to improve my work!

[@twinsenstwinsens]

Great Book Of Flavor more like...

[@samhobbs9116]

The Fey should have been the one with all the peasant stuff not Repance

[@ericarngrimson9651]

Repanse does have alot of skills for peasants and men at arms already though

[@samhobbs9116]

@@ericarngrimson9651 which should be completely ignored in favour of free knights errant or whichever one it is she gets for free

[@stanboyd1]

Brettonia is garbage in campaign right since 80 percent of battles are in towns with tight corridors or sieges where knights are near useless.

[@peterhardie4151]

Turn minor siege off mod if you prefer field battles.

[@stanboyd1]

@@peterhardie4151 is that from a mod, if not where in the settings is it?

[@peterhardie4151]

@@stanboyd1 Yes, its a mod.

[@SuperRedarmy123]

simp of the lady

[@mike_ffs]

You should review radious, its the best mod rn

[@donright4492]

As the of Parravon knights charged at the beastmen they did not move But stood where they were The knight kept charging lowering their lances down then the 100 beast men all leaped in mid-air with an amazing agility at the knight As they cut in Clevel and ripped them apart with amazing strength the knights were horrified as heads and limbs flew off their bodies Horses would Buck and panic throwing the Knights off them Then the beastmen started drinking their blood was sharp fangs for this was something different to the knights of Parravon It horrified them as they were getting ripped apart with unatural strength and speed then mist appeared before them For it was Finley Von Carstein Adolphu's Krieger former second in command give these beastmen the Blood kiss as they took prisoners Finley stood there with a smug face grin as he each of them in a line waiting for him as Jacob Von Carstein would let the knights have back their swords to face Finley As one Knight walked up to him he pulled his sword upward with courage Finley smiled you've come all the way from your province to face me dear knight Now let's see how strong you really are the knight charge swinging his Sword but it didn't no good for he turned into mist taking over his body He made him walk up to the other knight then he turned the sword onto himself cutting his throat in front of them as blood gushed out onto the ground splattering in their faces As the Mist came out of the dead knight mouth and ears he reform back into a human and smiled so this is the power what Lance wields no wonder Vlad had him his watchdog oh what games I play today with you Knights For this kingdom will fall pretty soon with my new army of crossbreed beastmen who will stand against me with my new powers who is my equal nobody for I am Finley Von Carstein Last of the true bloodline Now bring me the other for I want to see how I kill him in a different method as Finley toy and killed each knight with methodical Ways

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

:D

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

Bretonia and dwarfs can wait for a DLC for vampire and especially norca need help lol 😅

[@solareclipse9379]

They are all ok, dwarfs need a huge help, update and rework. Especially since we are getting the Chaos Dwarves soon.

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

@@solareclipse9379 no nothing is worse than norca nothing like literally nothing is worse than monkey 🙉 people

[@solareclipse9379]

@@memesofwarhemmer7076 don't know what is hard there, one of the easiest factions right now, they have no real "natural" enemies now in Norska. Their tier 3 warriors shred to pieces most elite infantry, and just tank the rest, while mammoths can wreck havoc behind the enemy lines, killing archers and artillery. Not to mention endless hordes of potential allies on campaing map (including the beastman).

[@jarlwilliam9932]

@@memesofwarhemmer7076 I mean they have one of the top 3 roided economies in the game. A full tier three Norsca with all those juicy ports can easily get up 10-15k a turn add in the serpents -10% upkeep, the native blue line skill that’s gives -9% upkeep, the -15% upkeep from Miriagliano, the -15% marauder and mammoth upkeep faction wide that Wulfrik has, and the -10% upkeep on mammoths that Hexoatl provides and Norsca doesn’t even need walls to defend its settlements as it can just use bodies to do that. By turn 40-50 you could have 5-6 full stacks of marauder berserkers all holding the entrances to Norsca while having two full doomstacks normally Wulfrik and Throgg going out and murdering everyone.

[@Philipp1500]

Norsca is not ok, and they are most likely to recieve some massive attention next.

[@imperatorandros9947]

Ah, why a peasant girl wear a full plate armor, meanwhile the others nobles, incluse the Royarch, wear simple chainmail? 😑

[@uncabob214]

Because most of the legendary lords are based on a specific time period of french/european history, and pants is an expy of Joan of Arc who came much later. Also Warhammer is incredibly anachronistic, best get used to that.