Thermopylae except it's Rats

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[@holdinmcgroin8639]

Welcome to Thermopylae, Spartans. I will not lie, your chance of survival is small.

[@woahistaken]

for you

[@AROSP]

Some may even turn against your friends as Ephialtes.

[@Dantaroen]

*Aggresively blasts Fortunate son*

[@dongameleone2489]

very s-small yes-yes!

[@realah3001]

Joined by their brothers

[@1orangutan656]

Thermopylae but the greeks have a tank

[@uchashvili4041]

And guns

[@sheepoblade8786]

And their enemy are a bunch of rats

[@bigsoda4276]

and they also have a guy casting spells

[@nocturnaljoe9543]

@@bigsoda4276 *LORE OF METAL!!!!*

[@czpetr1234]

@@uchashvili4041 And my axe!

[@StannistheMannis1]

0:48 “On ‘our’ way”? Legend not beating those Skaven allegations

[@Floris_VI]

Freudian slip

[@void-creature]

Look at the rest of the video, could anyone BUT a skaven kill that many skaven this effectively?

[@Zefar77]

Orks seeing the humans deal with the several skaven armies with one army and goes "THIS BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!"

[@Shogeton]

Every time the skaven go 'alright, we should stop throwing our troops in this grinder, retreat and fight on our terms' the gneeral goes 'Did you know that 90% of skaven warlords run JUST before the man-things run? Look, our swordsman fled the field' And the skaven go 'Bet! All in!'

[@chemicalbacon5210]

Ratopylae, if you will.

[@jerubaal101]

Vermopylae.

[@Khornecussion]

Ratopia.

[@SkullivanBones]

That empire general was a fucking MONSTER, all battle.

[@tanith117]

Make him an Elector Count for certain.

[@eudescardozo3395]

I think he already is one

[@AlexandrZaytsevet]

"Knowing the man-things had a limited-small supply of shotbullets, I feed-moved waves upon waves of Rats into their kill-death zones."

[@hjluke4807]

Tonight, we dine, in Skavenblight!

[@ilari90]

Nice dinner amidst the rat corpses... nah ah. Cleaning these will take days, sir.

[@hobowithashotgun48]

Surely in Hellpit!

[@angun703]

Lore accurate skaven invasion and lore accurate empire response

[@WK-gx2zs]

The not having restock on that 2nd engineer, and then not putting the skill point into it hurt lol

[@konsmiddel]

In his defense he probably forgot. I just did an Elsbeth campaign and I kept forgetting to specc restock cus I just tunnel visioned down the specc lines and forgot about the top row :

[@splattbinat1542]

Yea that was a bit of a braindead thing haha

[@ViolemAllum]

1:20 autoresolve in this game is just cooked. a "Pyrrhic Victory" from autoresolve giving me 85% casualties and losing multiple units is actually losing 200 and killing every single last enemy, lords included if i actually play the battle. But on the other hand battles where I cant win manually give me a Close Victory in auto resolve.

[@soldier22881]

the way auto resolve works at least from my experience in warhamer 2 is the game throws all your units forward and both armies clash into a blob thats how its calculated, one good way to see this is to reinforce an ai army they both charge at each other and duke it out, thats auto resolve basically

[@tonytruong8491]

"THIS IS WERE WE HOLD THEM!" "THIS IS WHERE WE FIGHT!" "THIS IS WERE THEY DIE!" "EARN THESE GUNS, BOYS!"

[@daswordofgork9823]

HOOOOOO!!!!

[@daswordofgork9823]

HOOO!!!

[@valentinbalbinot5054]

Inner conflict in Legend's behaviour during this battle the reports say... his troops were given contradictory orders... some say they saw Balthazar eating warpstones. We cannot be sure, but this calls for an inquisition, Legend is to return to the capital with his General, and the army, even though they earned an heroic victory, is to be decimated to ensure there is no mark of chaos corruption. Thank you for your service gentlemen, we hope you understand the situation !

[@sebasteanjanzen1210]

49:14 this man is so hungry for battle you can hear it! Lol

[@BoomDowg]

Every time I hear "Fire at will!" I can't help but go "Which one's Will, do you know these people?"

[@GloriousLastStand]

BY ALL THAT YOU HOLD DEAR ON THIS GOOD EARTH, I BID YOU STAND, MEN OF THE WEST!!!

[@zerk813]

For Frodo…

[@Liv4epicness11]

Balthazar Gelt be like Gandalf. “YOU…SHALL NOT…PASS!”

[@JohnJohn-r4l]

The hot gate. Why is it hot? Steam tanks cooling off after killing 4000+ skaven.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Thermopylae but the Greeks are facing rats while having guns, cannons, and a tank.

[@kharathos4121]

AND FAITH!

[@Ron_Jambo_]

Thermonucleae

[@SmedleyButlerianJihad]

1:31 3,000 hours in and I did not know you you equip banners for reinforcing armies like that

[@waters3700]

i thought the same thing lol

[@Martinov150]

As the person Who sent this i want to clarify some things. 1 I definetly sent the save with both enginers in a Horse 2 I dont know what DLC give acces to It but i dont have the option of regiments of renown just elector counts troops 3 there are two or three more ork armys in ambush stance but i think i can manage It after the help with that first Battle Also in all my tries i was never the attacker I sent this because after wathing this even i had the sensation that this was way to easy

[@thebaddestguy]

Most of the Empire's RoR is in Grim and the Grave, your Gelt's army has the Jaegerkorps which is a RoR from Elspeth

[@dark_side_cookies]

"This is madness!" "THIS. IS. REIKLAND!"

[@michal-ni]

Our arrows will blot-eclipse the sun! Yes-yes!

[@janiser4711]

Then we'll fight in the shade!

[@maxpower3990]

@@janiser4711it’s the underway, it’s all in the shade.

[@libaf5471]

"Kramer, what is going on here?" "It's ratmopylae, Jerry. It's thermopylae, but with rats."

[@potatowithbbq7373]

Prepare for Olympic Paris be like

[@ChopChopWorkshop]

🐀🐀🐀

[@Mathax92]

Me, I have a lot a data entry work to do. Legend: Here's a hour long disaster video. Me: GREAT.

[@auze222]

Legend I googled thermopylae and went on an hour and a half wikipedia binge before remembering this video was even where I started A1 Thanks my guy LMAO

[@Khornecussion]

We'll take them from the front, then we'll reach around and take them again from the back.

[@JeromeSkavenSlayer]

"What makes a good/strong soldier, Sharpe?" "The ability to fire 3 shots a minute in any condition, sir." "Damn/hate your eyes, manthing!"

[@soldier22881]

that was a very satisfying video to watch, well played legend!

[@mackenzieobrien7579]

Gelt with a golden handgun is absolutely supreme.

[@syrusalder7795]

Imagine if final transmutation kills got you bonus gold post battle

[@tzeentchnco.7441]

I once had to hold a whole Grand Cathay capital against 4 armies of rats I beat them, but took a lot of casualties... Then another 4 armies invaded...

[@ondrej_IV.]

They shall not pass!

[@jdw.karasu]

Super fun strategy on fighting the battle! Only bit of sadness is that it was the Skaven getting cheesed by the man-things!

[@chardvelasz1528]

Pain to see lord and hero abilities forgotten about in battle, and a banner left unassigned. I know there's a lot to pay attention to and micro, but that smarts to see.

[@pablonunalvares5391]

Just a tip (weird to be saying that HERE lol), when they pop the menance below, they won't cause damage until the animation is full, if you tell the artillery to drop the guns and run, pushing cavalry into them, you can go almost unscathed...

[@alexcyr4149]

Thermopyrat

[@JerreyRough]

I think I know why you had so many menace below's in the second battle: When the army teleported in underway stance, I think the game first moves the army to the new location and then triggers the interception battle. They were probably teleporting to a home province with lots of corruption, explaining why you had so many to deal with.

[@TimoMimo1994]

That's exactly what Legend has said in the video...

[@vizerakth7073]

Thousands of hours played in this game and I just learned today that you can click on the other armies attacking with you to reassign their banners...this is why he is the Legend and I am just a scrub lol

[@TheHelmsD]

best youtube video title for a total warhammer? Lol

[@ilikecake683]

"We'll lose, if we don't win..." - Sun Tzu

[@acefinelli5847]

Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law you saw us lie.

[@ikitclaw9878]

I have thousands of hours in this game and never realized you could control where the reinforcements came in.... Ha.

[@dudeimjames3638]

WELCOME TO THE UNDERWAY GENTLEMEN

[@cap258]

I think when u moved the general further forward to have a better position, u actually moved in the skaven´s territory because u actually took attrition there outside of encampment stance.

[@undead5756]

Wait what. You can access your reinforcement armies banners by clicking on them? Played warhammer forever and did not know that. Thought you could only equip banners on your main army

[@Shane2020xxx]

Legend showed how about 40 videos ago, it was some sneaky combination of clicking and scrolling downwards. I didn’t pay a ton of attention.

[@thefakerking51]

With the way Legend constantly abuses the AI I just thought of something that I think would make battles in Total war so much more fun. What if instead of every army of every race having the same AI what if they had multiple AI templates. Like random sliders for things like Aggression or multiple different pre programed formations for every faction. So high elves would stay in tight formations beastmen would rush much harder.I have no idea how hard that would be to code but lord would it freshen up campaign battles. Instead of knowing 100 every time what the AI will do.

[@Mile2357]

Skaven spamming menace below, 10% hp trash unit getting close to artillery. He charges both cavalry units at trash unit for no reason.

[@knarfxd4071]

Legend, quick correction, heroes don't come with their last mount, they come with their top mount (at least, that's what it looks like from what I've seen while stealing a lot of armies with Yuan Bo)

[@jacobenke7936]

28:00 ...That's a lot of dead rats.

[@senshibat8920]

Yes.yes.. Brood go take save cheeses. Then we will skitter leap sneakzy in the shade;3 "In the light of the Crooked Moon Spaghettes Tails will Soon but the great horned ones bells toon"

[@lukazivkovic4099]

It looks like mechanical horse has pretty much the same speed as regular one

[@loowick4074]

Hopefully they dont find the goat pass (underway)

[@soldier22881]

Thanks!

[@ahmeddia0174]

Why the lord at the beginning wasn't losing morale due to being a flying unit with no ground troops?

[@ikitclaw1913]

Because there were on foot reinforcements ready to come. Let's say you have a full army, lord included full of flying units, that army alone would start battles losing leadership, but if you bring a parent army to reinforce that has at least 1 ground unit, they would not lose it. I saw legend with 2 almost full army of bats, the land units were not able to field in because the units limit and the flying ones were still not losing leadership

[@robertschwazzy3481]

Battle of the Rat Gates more like

[@kelthamoniceheart6826]

49:13 to 49:16 is that a belly growling ooorrr???!! :P :P :P love all your videos Legend as always :D

[@fjordhusky9023]

Would you like 20 swodsmen show up as help? Nah i'll haz Cannons haha

[@antonm8719]

49:14 - did you just fart? lol

[@syrusalder7795]

Legend of Total Flatulance

[@Samiqmojo]

Great title

[@yankchef4067]

Why not get restock on that second engineer?

[@samueldisturbing761]

The Ward Roaden

[@CasualFriedEggEnjoyer]

I was really surprised you didn't use the steam tank like the overpowered cheese wagon that it is.

[@staticdrutis2566]

the legend needs no such cheese

[@syrusalder7795]

Are they really that good?

[@CasualFriedEggEnjoyer]

@@syrusalder7795 oh yeah. Just go into melee and get a long ways charge down any chaff infantry and you’ll rack up hundreds of kills.

[@maeror1022]

Lets goooooooooo

[@Bulletproof_Trump]

Am I the only one who absolutely hates fighting Skaven?

[@zerk813]

After fighting them for 5,000 hours in game 2 as a dwarf main. You get used to it lol.

[@ethanwilliams1880]

Fighting skaven is really fun. You get to kill so much stuff. They are really weak to cav, especially Winged Lancers or anything with high charge speed. Their monsters/mounted heroes can be extremely annoying, though.

[@Bulletproof_Trump]

@@ethanwilliams1880 yeah dude, those damn giant rat monstrosities just rip through my infantry. I finally understand how useful Huntsmen can be in those battles. I'll try and stack more cavalry against them, then

[@Tyrgalon]

Not really, just have to adapt your tactics and army setup, just like when fighting anything else.

[@Tyrgalon]

@@Bulletproof_Trump Halberds my dude, much better at holding the line especially against cav and monsters.

[@xristoskoumpourlis1614]

if you overcast searing doom the cant dodge it if they are in the middle cause its too big

[@sandorrololipop8503]

Sorry for the question but was the prestige interaction to fill the elector troops on cooldown? Why did you not use it?

[@aputin654]

22:00 I noticed the tanks like to wiggle a bit. Does anyone know if that affects the directional missile block?

[@salomaobulgaro]

Ratmopylae

[@platones9667]

46:20 legend :( why no take restock, legend pls...

[@Coerciveutopian]

1:31 WAIT, You can assign banners to reinforcing armies????

[@13g0man]

You can assign banners that the army comes with, you used to be able to assign banners from one army to another if they were in the same fight.

[@realah3001]

Lore accurate skaven

[@ckhawk00]

You are a legend but taking health over Stockpile on that engineer? 🤦

[@MikeGuarino69]

50:55 "How did the rats get the ability they literally always have???" - Dude that's played 5000 hours of this game

[@Kornilovungreat]

The battle the comments think they're having when they say:"first here before the bots!?!!!!!"

[@Tyrgalon]

No halberds in a gun and artillery army? Not sure about vanilla but at least in the Grimhammer mod halberds are far better at holding the line than greatswords.

[@alexanderc9462]

Who gave the Greeks a bunch of guns?

[@LachNetSoDumm]

molōn labe and all that

[@devilsmessanger]

is that timer player's setting or game enforced one ? my games usually don't have timers unless it is legendary item mission .

[@zerk813]

It’s a base setting that each match has a 1 hour timer. You can turn it off.

[@Quantorful]

I think that second battle is the biggest mistake I've ever seen legend make. Completely forgetting about skaven being able to use menace below? That's genuinely shocking. And I definitely learned a few things from this video. Even an expert like Legend can make brain-dead mistakes (other people pointed out not taking restock). Never take anything for granted, and always examine the pre-battle screen. Don't rush things when you have the time to look things over. My personal preference of maximizing enemy casualties instead of going for early army loss (so long as it doesn't risk casualties on my side) is in fact a good thing to do, and I am very good at it.

[@andrewlynch1754]

Spartan Skaven

[@siberarmi]

Inverted swarm battle video

[@Luizguilherme-iz9yl]

average empire campaign:

[@VanDerMuchbetter]

for the algorhythm

[@torquevonthorne948]

Recruit artillery RoR is a good way to force the skaven to use their menace beloWait you lose balance of power like that 😆

[@splattbinat1542]

which item gives Geld a shield? Thats super nice to have

[@zerk813]

Pretty sure that’s new since his big update could be wrong though.

[@4lukeification]

What does control large armies do that's different?

[@ethanwilliams1880]

It would've allowed the Skaven to have most of their armies on the field at the same time, so they would rush in all at once, instead of piecemeal like they did.

[@allex975gaming]

wait, this isnt the Thermopylae i know..

[@warp5p1d3r6]

rookie numbers

[@TheThedead09]

Wait, you can equip banners even for the reinforcing armies? I have over 2000 hours across all TWW games and didn't know...

[@nikolakostic5667]

Average TWW3 player submitting a disaster campaign: let me play on hardest battle difficulty, but not level lighting strike... 🤡 I don't think I've not had lightning strike since my second ever campaign

[@zerk813]

I never use lighting strike unless I’m playing a faction who gets use of it. Like Alith Anor, so I can ambush a whole army out.

[@ethanwilliams1880]

Lightning strike is a large point investment into mostly garbage skills. The blue line has good capstones, but the early skills are trash. If you play with a double skill points mod, it's super worth it, otherwise it's kinda not.

[@zerk813]

@@ethanwilliams1880 that’s situational and not good advice overall. Some blue lines are fantastic like Grombrindal or the plus sacking value for Chaos. It really just depends.

[@ethanwilliams1880]

@@zerk813 You're talking specifics, I was speaking in general. I would pretty much always recommend "Route Marcher" for instance, and I'm a big fan of the blue like upkeep reductions, but those are typically outweighed by the red line unit buffs or the lord's other skills.

[@nikolakostic5667]

@@ethanwilliams1880 almost all lords have plenty of skills to level everything useful and the blue line.. Unless you're completely chaotic in your red line and not optimizing skills only for high value units

[@LinusLinothorax]

*Insert obligatory comment about the bots*

[@eshaan570]

Please tell me this was at least partly a confederation army lmao

[@TheGingusa]

why no life wizard

[@Komka06]

@legend why didn't you use upgraded versions of spells on Balthasar?

[@zerk813]

He would be over killing clan rats… do you really need the extra damage or armor pen when they die already. Better to have more casts.

[@ripclcze8845]

Xddddd