This Campaign is a MESS

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Please only send campaigns on the verge of defeat or battles you can't win. Auto resolve wins won't be accepted. Modded campaigns are not currently accepted. Please only send campaigns/battles on large or ultra unit scale. Normal and small unit scale will not be accepted. Not currently accepting Realm of Chaos campaigns/battles.
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[@MetalDrummer141]

Roboute Guilliman wakes up and sees the state of the Imperium, M.41

[@GeneralKenobi669]

Rowboat Goofyman really putting in that overtime to save the Imperium.

[@usokitsuki]

Literally this

[@blakeoarmboy]

Roboute: WHY DID YOU BUILD A WARHOST JUST TO KILL THE CELESTIAL LIONS Inquisition: they were mean to us Roboute: YOU HAVE HOW MANY ARMIES COMMITTING HOW MANY CRUSADES Black Templars: I know it’s great

[@ExceedProduction]

This is so fucking accurate

[@aminerkin9844]

Legend of administration policies. CA needs to hire Legend to save its disaster campaign.

[@jubjub15]

Impossible no one can do it

[@messiha666]

Heh

[@ianover6838]

@@jubjub15 They just need to ask the dutch, french and swiss to send them cheese

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Besides some staged suicides I doubt even public apology a price drop and a wide spread half off sale would do much. Shadows of change at least broke even so best bet for PR is just to shut the hell up and fire the idiot who threatened the community with a good time.

[@Method522]

Got’em!

[@Dragoon-zs8vm]

Always a good day when legend does a disaster campaign.

[@nicklindberg90]

Love a good disaster campaign

[@blockbleak8040]

Love being a good disaster campaign, and seeing other people play disasters too.

[@mordor1779]

Yeah disaster campaigns are personnaly my favorite videos by far, not only in terms of pure content but I also often learn a lot from them

[@blodmourne]

bro, OP didnt confederate malekith into his army. Malekith confederated OPs into Malekith's campaign lol

[@pepperjack2410]

I find all of these disaster campaigns way more interesting than like 90% of the disaster battles. Its like Christmas when one actually pops up :D

[@katieheys3007]

Same. I enjoy the battles but it's always a one off battle that doesn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things. What legend saved here was game ending and it's fun to see all the mechanics behind it all.

[@sparedone]

it was great to see legend spending 22 minutes firing armys and giving away settlments just for that scary budget

[@tezla6332]

bot

[@dahakaprod6519]

Love how the campaign map is having an absolute seizure with frames and performance

[@chadroy16]

i found it funnier when the chugging was on the changeling video CA made. that being said, it doesn't stutter at all on my computer, which means CA have a potato

[@krzysztofkalinowski2998]

@@chadroy16 Recording Your screen to make video might have something to do with GPU performance :)

[@declansmyth1973]

This game runs like absolute shit from most people I've heard talk about it 💀 so weird bc I rarely had any problems with WH 2... or any other tw game for that matter.

[@krzysztofkalinowski2998]

@@declansmyth1973 Only people That have that problem talk about it tho. I never seen comments "Oh, this games runs normally on my computer" :D. I Agree with you tho. Game could run better, but Its playable. I just dont play on max graphic settings.

[@tylerberg4832]

@@declansmyth1973runs amazing for me

[@TotalWarFanboyCringe]

This feels like a Wester Roman Empire situation How the hell did Maliketh get 100 settlements?!

[@easytanksgaming3238]

Maybe player had conquered many settlement and sell it to malekith

[@olafthemoose9413]

By securing Malektihs Western Flank he could focus all his attention on expanding south. The players probably sold Hag Greaf to Malekith too via the dilemma giving him another boost in power.

[@CrimsonUltrafox]

It happens sometimes...especially if he gets rid of his early enemies before Ulthuan finds him. If he confederates Hellebron, it's usually a sign that he's rolling in the campaign. I find it kind of odd how he never gets out of the north when I play high elves, but I'll play like Kislev/warriors/daemons of chaos and he'll conquer the whole western side of the world.

[@business_max]

@@olafthemoose9413 Thats exactly what happend. Basicly he only expanded south in this campaign while I had his flanks covered

[@oscarchan244]

Indeed, this is what I instantly thought of when I saw "big empire but almost every city and settlement is of low value". Almost made me say: "The burden of military and civil maintenance" lol. The player who submitted the save file better be glad that there is no sanitation or food (except Skaven) in WH games. That being said, my happiest times with Total War is saving the Western Roman Empire from collapsing. Few joys rival the moment when you finally rebuild your first Latin Christian church after years of strife. ^^

[@nraah4707]

A whole lot of "you're fired, you're fired; YOU get off that horse, we can't pay for it!"

[@joeriandries]

this was not a disaster campaign, this was an administrative turn 😅 this guy was just like: jees, that looks like alot of work... let's see if i can have legend do it 🤣🤣🤣

[@ahriman935]

Ah yes, Legend yet again facing off against his eternal nemesis, the bane of his existence: the Sword of Khaine. Their battles are always *legendary*.

[@joshualegroulx9629]

I LOVE these videos, it's super interesting learning about economy and logistics in these types of videos.

[@johnstanton6509]

I think the reason the master left the army in Lustria around 20 mins in is because of the settlement. You can move to either side of a settlement for no movement and it applies to the heroes too even when embedded

[@007whiterussian2]

wtf i have never seen a non-crisis faction get that strong in wh3

[@cutezachie]

it wasn't

[@bs4v4ge50]

Yeah this happens to me all the time honestly, if you play on the right side of the map and never make it to rank 1 it’s usually malakith doing this. I call him the in game crisis.

[@goflux]

He not only tripled his territory overnight, he more than quadrupled it. It's actually more than halfway from quadrupled to quintupled. Good lord.

[@magni5648]

20:00: LMAO, Legend out-Skaven-ing the Skaven once again.

[@christophermcarthur6943]

This is my favourite type of legend content, taking a near bankrupt campaign and transforming it into one that can succeed. I know good disaster saves are rare but please keep these coming as much as possible

[@jimmywenger8979]

Not sure why The boss didn't mention that when raising lords loyalty by adding/removing items if you remove it from them by adding it to another lord without unequipping it then you get the +loyalty but not the -loyalty, that way you can use 1 single item and keep swapping it between all your lords to get them all up to 10. also that way you don't leave items equipped on an unrecruited lord.

[@warsmithgalvinc4151]

I know these campaigns come in once in a blue moon but I really like the thought process you went through, something everyone can learn rather than Legend is just that good at MIcro in battles

[@PeterButchens]

-80k income? Oh boy,, time to recruit some units 😂 I knew this desaster campaign was gonna be good to watch as soon as I saw that sword Khaine on Malus . Love the desaster campaign videos a lot, even if they are longer!

[@mattandrews2594]

You do realise he could've recruited the units *before* confederating? Surprised Legend didn't realise that himself.

[@dezmas9332]

@@mattandrews2594 depends on the units he had, he was recruiting both 1 turn and 2 turn units

[@mattandrews2594]

@@dezmas9332 ok, so?

[@mind-unmaker9727]

Chances are, that Malekith had the sword in his armies, given he held Ulthuan. So i think the player just didnt notice it, or didnt really do anything before sending you this campaign. Edit: Blade is on Malus, red effect is gone.

[@Keeki95]

Nope. It was equipped onto Malus. The player had the sword, and it was probably fine while he had few settlements to manage and no confederation penalty.

[@b2modby]

Doesnt the army that holds the sword has that red glow around it constantly? Wasnt such a thing around Malus...

[@mind-unmaker9727]

@@Keeki95 huh, true (10:28), didnt know they removed the red icon on the map

[@business_max]

Nah I got the Sword myself with Malus. I saw Legends 1 man doomstack video and thought that is what I need to pwn everyone. Didn't even notice that it had a negative effect on public order since I thought it always sucks for Dark Elves :D

[@Dopetv-zd9ov]

​@@b2modby it does but the animation is bugged in where it just stays on a spot randomly and doesn't follow it's wielder

[@Konstantinos_Mpas]

About the diktats, there is this bug since TW:WH II if I am not mistaken, where the icons are messed up, so when you choose 'fights to the death' for example, on the 'Province Effect' card, appears the icon of 'slave drive' diktat. So it's not that dark elf factions have deferent diktats effect, just CA once more, don't bother to fix even the most simple of bugs in their game.

[@dimensiongamer534]

I could never send a campaign to someone else halfway through a turn like this XD Lesson to learn here is just because you can Confed, doesn't mean you should without considering the effects it will have first.

[@mackenzieobrien7579]

Using the tunnels for public orders genius because it doesn't cost slaves I had never thought of that

[@adammclaughlin845]

Disaster battle: 40 minutes of cheesing an army with a flying wizard. Disaster campaign: an epic and engrossing adventure across the Old World with battles, diplomacy and sneaky tricks.

[@SaltyRocksPew]

Americans pull out of Lustria after failed invasions becomes too expensive to maintain. Where have I heard this one before?

[@sinh7765]

i really dont understand how the person playing this is so surprised to find their income drop whenever they confed a faction with over 100 settlements and first thing they do is not disband useless armies. they are playing on legendary, so in theory they should be good enough of a player to understand at least that fact.

[@sinh7765]

@awhellnah__ im implying that they know enough of the game at that point to understand what would happen if you were to confederate a big faction. no brand new player who just started playing the game will be playing legendary. also legendary is a campaign map difficulty, not battle difficulty. but im sure since you play on legendary you knew that ;)

[@Vaprous]

@@sinh7765 That's an incredible generalization to make.

[@AYYDIMITRI]

When it comes to getting the heroes out of an army, there is a sweet spot around settlements that does not seem to cost movement to move in and out of settlements. You can get a hero to move out of an army in this space for free.

[@torquevonthorne948]

It is a pleasure to see you still covering TW Attila, you really made the western roman emperor proud! Hail to Mallet Stark-Blade, protector of the North 31:00 player doesn't need the monster building in settlements as well

[@Wuschel1990]

While I love the Disaster Campaigns I think this wasn't one. The only thing that needed doing was actually adapting to the new situation. He isn't in any danger at all. 5 enemies and over a hundred settlements isn't a disaster at all. Maybe he was just too lazy to manage the armies himself and searched for someone who does it for him. the only thing that was a problem was the possible rebellions from heroes or settlements. This feels much more as a hit the panic button after seeing the f-up economy, loyalty and public order.

[@GeneralKenobi669]

Dude literally confederated then went to sleep, woke up the next morning and didn't even try to fix his economy.

[@kevinjackson7169]

Yeah, gotta agree. "I got a lot of stuff and can't afford it all! What do I do!?" Get rid of some of it obviously.

[@business_max]

I agree that the campaign wasn't really a disaster. But I thought it would still be interesting to see what Legend would do given the situation - so I sent it in :D

[@PProph]

An absolute master class in Dark Elf campaign sorting and dealing with a disaster situation. I will be referring back to it when I do my first Dark Elf campaign as a newer TWW player!

[@benjaminnewman3833]

look props to the guy for going this far. I really hate it when people start losing a campaign and immediately do a re-load or start again. A campaign shouldn't be completed in 50, 100, or 150 turns. It gets completed when it's completed. Losing like this makes you learn a lot and it also makes the journey on the campaign alot more real and fun. This was a good video

[@Eskeletor_210]

I only re roll when tretch gets lucky when I played draz

[@Grivehn]

He wasnt even losing or anything. This is just the tediousness of micromanagement of lategame confederations. Granted, this was on legendary, and dark elves put even more on it via their slave mechanics, but still. I usually take an hour too to sift through all the new armies, provinces, characters and items after one of these confederations. Whoever sent it just got scared or bored by what he gained all of a sudden.

[@business_max]

Thank you mate! I actually continued playing since I wasn't certain Legend would cover it. i'm now turn 140 and have almost defeated the endgame crisis. Basically also did a lot of stuff Legend did. Still need to delete a lot of military buildings as it seems. If Legends sends me the savegame back it might be fun to replay from that point

[@h0h0j0e5]

There's a reason there's a save and load button don't get pissy at people for playing their way

[@Zefar77]

That Skaven diplomacy. *Just Perfect*

[@daddypudding9074]

I never saw the need for an update in the slave mechanic. Or at least this update. Honestly, they made it FAR worse, especially how gave to look at EVERY building pretty much having a slave tax. Its not interactive like they wanted, it’s just another form of bookkeeping

[@παππαςγιαννης-τ6τ]

Legend: ''All we had to do was fire half the interns'' Every bad company ever: ''Hey, they WERE getting payed!'' Lmao

[@BlizzardAcolyte]

27:38 my day has been made, just with the tone of voice used to rail on Torture Posts. Poor guy sounded like he was told his child’s gonna need to repeat a school grade

[@VossMarionette]

Love it when you go full skaven with your evil cackling.

[@jymjym7995]

you sure malus was the one with the sword of khaine? because he didn't have the red aura around him. and his unique weapon is "the warpsword of khaine", could be easily confused. one of malekith's armies might have had it.

[@NandolfBlockbuster]

Nope, Malus did have it.

[@business_max]

Yea I capped the SOK with malus.

[@jymjym7995]

alright then there red aura wasn't around for some reason and it confused me. but i guess this game is known for bugs at this point

[@Keeki95]

@@jymjym7995 the red aura keeps getting stuck on the map and doesn't move with the army for some reason.

[@mr.gandersson2835]

Recently went back to TWWH2. Only thing i'm going to miss in the 3rd instalment is the automatic skill and settlement options.

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

Diplomacy? Better UI?

[@mr.gandersson2835]

@@shmekelfreckles8157 Ui has not changed enough and the diplomacy is basically worthless except the outpost units. Diplomacy is broken and always set against the player resulting in factions starting wars with the player simply because said faction was not at war with any other faction. The battle maps look horrible due to mist and fog effects and quite frankly they did the same thing blizzard did with diablo 3, making the game very colourful compared to the previous instalment.

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

@@mr.gandersson2835 already the fact that you can see what units are affected by tech/skill is a huge thing. Being able to trade settlements is BIG and yeah, allied recruitment is very good. Also if you don’t like player bias then you should check latest patchnotes.

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

@awhellnah__what are you talking about? AI in WH2 is much more aggressive.

[@TaengJr]

I believe the reason you got the hero out of the army in Lustria is because he got "free moment" from the city he was next to.

[@LordJoey999]

You can get heroes out when the lord has no movement range but only in cities. Cities have something weird going on about them, that allows for you reposition freely around the city (if you start with no movement).

[@Mr.Örtzknörtz]

yes thats what happend but the "weird" thing is actually normal you could always cross cities without using movement i remeber that i always got into the city and the other way out in shogun saved a bit of movement instead of going around

[@drmeth9060]

I haven’t seen legends review of SoC I was expecting one to pop up.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

I reviewed it during a livestream. the ostankya campaign.

[@niofo7713]

ngl, firing ai-recruited armies and destroying buildings after confederation is actually one of my favorite thing to do, it gives me so much satisfaction of cleaning up stuff in my empire. tho obv a little less satisfying with delfs or other races with loyalty systems, when you have to work around actually disbanding units bcos at every moment someone might decide to rebel. it wasn't as bad in this campaign tho, it's been a while since i last played delfs, did ai finally stopped running all of their armies on red loyalty?

[@TacticalProjectGaming]

How is this a disaster campaign? You have 113 settlements, you can't lose. Just disband some armies, wow I can't believe what legend did... saved the day

[@androniusmaximus3073]

I love disaster campaign days. I always learn something new from legend.

[@Vaprous]

29:29 - Incidentally for those watching in the future since this video dropped, one button respec is now a vanilla mechanic.

[@InternetMameluq]

Well done. Basically the same way I do it when I've somehow gotten in this mess.

[@sneakyJDG13]

Seems like a warhammer 2 video, Malekith really popped off. Good work on saving the campaign, you're the best.

[@---js9qz]

lords, heroes, and other characters in general get free movement within city tiles (tiles bordering the city and inside the city itself) which allows removing heroes and armies from the settlement even if the army has no movement. Heroes in armies may require the army to get out of the settlement before they get the costless movement out of the army though.

[@sarahhatesit]

Watching a battles: I sleep 57 minutes of administrative work and firing armies: Real shit

[@sarahhatesit]

love these videos

[@krispypriest5116]

This is why i basically quit playing JUST before the Chorfs DLC(which i bought too). The game has been buggy since release. I love the Warhammer world but will NOT pay for something broke. I'm out till the BASIC game works. Lots of other titles out there.....Peace.

[@sagamerdog6544]

Yes more disaster campaigns❤❤❤❤❤

[@Alpharius2479]

If i had a nickel for every time legend did a dark elves corporate liquidater campaign id have two nickels, which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice.

[@R3GARnator]

I feel the warp overtaking me... It is a good pain.

[@thanhdo1963]

20:00 we should not let Legend hold an official government job😂😂😂😂

[@casualplayeroftotalwar1344]

I missed longer videos like this! But its been a while since I last played this, so I got a couple of questions: I don’t understand why Legend didn’t just switch a set of items from each disbanded lord to the next to be disbanded instead of trying so hard to find new ones. Do they lose loyalty when disbanded? Also, did they fix the exploit where you can switch items between active lords without losing loyalty?

[@niofo7713]

i assume he didn't want to accidentally take an item from a lord that was still active in the campaign and have them rebel, easier to pick item that's not used than to look for who this item is used by.

[@grouchypotatowolfpack5580]

Just installed total warhammer. After 10 hours of tinkering, I finally got it running on my operating system... At 2FPS

[@MrBawBagz]

Thats was interesting not just a disaster battle but a disaster economy. What does our man Legend do? What he does best and saves the day. We'll played I liked that 1

[@marcgw496]

19:43 made me chuckle lol

[@beanhavok2287]

This campaign's economics is literally the Military Industrial Complex of the United States......

[@thegreywaren]

god, this looks allmost exactly like my first campaign

[@Nobdythere]

Lay offs make so much sense now!

[@mightypanda5768]

Yay, been waiting for today's video

[@siskamore11]

This was enjoyable video! Love from Canada 🇨🇦

[@keipfar]

Legend is 'unfattening' the mammouth; quoting an infamous french politician...

[@coolshop100]

so im curious in the part where @LegendofTotalWar your disbanding armies at like 16:49 why not just disband all units and than deal with the loyalty? just asking out of curiousity since i havent excactly played a lot of dark elf in game

[@GenerallyMorgan]

I mean this in the best way possible; This video is like watching someone fix their tax return, and I’m totally all about it.

[@MrJinglejanglejingle]

I think he got that hero out of the army down in Lustria because it was beside a settlement, and settlements, when you own them, don't cost movement... So, he was able to leave, because, technically, getting to that spot didn't cost movement.

[@Zergash]

Really well done. Confederations are always a pain for me as a player - I have no idea what I'll get...

[@michaelfetter4541]

I didn't realize the torch buildings did control. Always thought they were worthless. I've been avoiding them since WH2.

[@samkeizer2269]

this holy man has saved so much gamer sweat in his lifetime

[@nunuarthas8680]

If only CA has the same level of tenacity as Legend when it comes to firing their execs, we would have cheaper dlcs.

[@jonatangraversen7623]

Is there any point in holding wood elf forrests? isnt it better to just abandon the settlements? if you abandon it should just stay a ruin unless another wood elf goes there to colonize it, or am i wrong?

[@tyfloren6492]

“I’m Broke I’m gonna go on a shopping spree!”💀💀

[@lordpancakes7571]

Oh legend, what would we do without you.

[@Shrimpess]

This is what CA need to do aswell, send in their company to Legend so he can administer the economy, enemies and projects

[@ULAN916]

Truly great job! Amazing wideo

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

How come public order building sucks if it gives +6 control over +3 from the skaven building?

[@Crucial_End]

"Would you like some crap items?" Lol😂

[@ImAsTeGoSaUrUs16]

legend cosplaying as bob the builder

[@thaliatherasdotter9175]

They really won't ever revert this stupid new system for the Dark Elves? I used to love this race. Now it's so lame to play them :(

[@comediccomrade5716]

I’m prolly just bad, but I swear AI malekith conquers the entire continent but I never get past the early game issues with Valkia and Taurox and all of those crazy pyschos that surround you

[@therasco400]

Love it, your not using all these envoys. Army before lets take them off.

[@CrimsonUltrafox]

Malus found out that day why nobody really wants to kill or usurp Malekith. Because trying to rule dark elves is a logistical nightmare.

[@Sirith_Quende]

The reason he was able to move one of the heroes is that they dont use up movement in a small radius around a settlemenr

[@Sebatticus]

With the battle at the end, how did you not have the timer go off when they capped the main point? was a bit confused about that, i know you held 1 point but I thought it was just the centre point that started it?

[@nbDeal985]

Minor settlements don't have victory tickets. They used to be (maybe still are) more defensible than walled sieges. Blew my mind when I learned it from Legend too.

[@chadroy16]

Black roads are great though...

[@tictactic7909]

Lol put Legend in charge of the national debt 😂

[@chrotha6998]

Nice one, loved the vid Legend :)

[@SomeIdiotLUL]

Have you tried the karl franz campaign the starter campaign video i dont think works anymore the nearby factions aggressive unit recruiting reikland seems to be a hot spot for an invasion.

[@kapixniecapix3869]

Shame you didnt cover mods, because I would send you a disaster battle as a yin-yin sea dragon started army vs a three army of moded dinosaurs, with Carnosaurus Rex charging first. It was turn 2 or 3 so yin yin had only one spell. I manage after separating this jurasic park and it was just normal diff. I actually play on big mod pack that include: skaven 4.0, mixu legendary lords, norsca dwarfs, Yin-yin and jade vampires. That means this game is so unstable that the program stop working at least 3 times per loading but damn that amount of content is amazing.

[@Snowstrider0001]

Turns out cutting Dark Elf Infantry programs can go a long way to balancing the budget, who knew? ;-)

[@miniman7696]

love the vids keep it up

[@carter9386]

i love you LegendsofTotalWar

[@cygor4520]

Legend of Total Economy

[@SWtaervdesn]

19:43 Good LOTW noises🤩🥰

[@DzinkyDzink]

Legend for President 2024!

[@dunderjones]

I'm not sure why Maleketh would want to confederate in the first place. Unless they really made it that easy? Last time I played druchii he was so stubborn and we split the faction; he confederated Helebron and Malus, I got Rakarth and Morathi.

[@mattandrews2594]

Did you ever threaten him? That's what this player did.

[@dunderjones]

Oh yea must've been, I forgot about threatening. Threatening to confed has only worked once for me and it tanked my reliability so I just wrote that mechanic off

[@Hargrovius]

I think I'm having a deja vu seeing Legend fix admin in a late game dark elf campaign.

[@hulley5223]

This guy must of had John Bolton as his campaign advisor.