Top 10 Warhammer 3 Noob Mistakes | Total War Warhammer 3

[@steffent.6477]

I like autoresolve because it usually wipes out the entire enemy army while half of them manage to run away from the fight when I lead the battle.

[@zacharyfreeman8579]

Honestly the only battles I auto resolve are simple garrison only battles where there is no threat or the stupid siege battles. I hate the newer siege system just simply because I'm bad at them

[@XxTheMedicxX99]

My biggest struggle is losing territory as my main lord is way across the map in the early game..

[@BearPawSwipe]

You have to create a new army in the very beginning so that you have someone at home when things go sideways which always happens.

[@XxTheMedicxX99]

@BearPawSwipe Yea. Right now, I struggle a lot with Dwarfs. I'm attacked on all fronts and early game, I can't field strong enough armies due to cost usually

[@ColonelDamneders]

early game fielding multiple dirt cheap armies is the way to go. Hop onto my discord if you need some campaign advice and we can help you out!

[@arathain2]

You can over-extend by taking more than you can hold. It's sometimes a good call to just go sacking and razing rather than occupying. Use the gold to fund economy expansion and then a defensive army. Then you can expand more safely.

[@Mincecroft]

My opinion is to try and fully eliminate your enemies. Maybe you are already doing this but for instance if Wurzag declares way on me then I am going to eliminate all of his settlements. Do not let your enemies recuperate.

[@Orisha1990]

Knowing when NOT to auto resolve is an important skill in this game.

[@gpddak8667]

Or you're to lazy to fight and get to a level of winning legendary difficulty without manual battles at all

[@MrBlueSleeves]

Especialy when you have artilery and they dont :) There's a lot of value to be had that isn,t calculated.

[@hotelhopper681]

​@@gpddak8667yeah I do have a problem where I know it's a hard fight one way, but with a little backup suddenly there shouldn't be much risk of losing. But at that point, auto resolve vs 10-15 mins for one battle in one turn looks pretty good

[@ChallengeCommander]

It's suggests I will lose a unit, my elite unit no less? You bloody fool auto resolve why you do dis. The amount of valiant and close defeats I've reverted to a pyrrhic or close victory on the manual is undeniably useful but that's from decades of regularly manually controlling battles throughout the series, as far back as Medieval 1 and OG Rome TW

[@djoctavio1234]

​@@hotelhopper681because the auto reaolve thinks like this like it doesnt think about positioning think you have 20 units 5 frontline 5 archers 3 cavalry 1 hero 1 lord and 5 artillery the game puts all the units in like a boxing arena stat check

[@exodius9054]

I think the auto resolve system basically always underestimating your army is actually fine because after all this is a total war game so I think its fine that it sometimes forces you to play out a cool battle.

[@permanent8387]

yesturday auto resolve said it could 1v3 the empire army as skaven so i tested the theory and went to manual battle. long story short the enemy bent me over and clapped me... like it was unfair

[@TheRewasder97]

Bear in mind that easy battle difficulty gives you a 3 or 4 times multiplier to auto resolve, meaning that whenever you need to fight a battle there, you are going into an impossible situation. Setting battle difficulty to hard or very hard and then reduce the in battle AI cheats with the slider is the best thing you can do. Otherwise the game lies to so so badly that you feel bad when you lose every battle.

[@zombieminecraft4213]

​@@permanent8387 overall if you have to fight against solid units and are outnumbered you should not try to fight the battle because you can't hold all their units, which, for a lot of races, means getting clobbered.

[@reverendparadox7316]

CA absolutley trolling new players by having skirmish on by default start as an active setting

[@connorchristensen335]

Micro? Nope never heard of it

[@pyotrbagration2438]

Has been that way since time immemorial

[@TheRxNick]

The assassinate or wound function for heroes is so underrated

[@PacmanPac-m8y]

how does wounding a hero help?? that mage is never going to leave the backline and it's not like artillery can push up

[@dilza1231]

@@PacmanPac-m8yit takes out a significant threat in their army especially if you’re just about to attack a large force. Sniping a wizard or damage dealing/ damage soaking sponge can be huge to turning the tide of a battle in your favour

[@PacmanPac-m8y]

@@dilza1231 that comment was made back when i was pretty dumb

[@babafrog1877]

My first campaign outside of the tutorial was grimgor. I found myself playing and replaying every battle to build my realtime management skills. Finally winning battles that I tried 2 or 3 times that seemed impossible before was both amazing gameplay wise but also eye opening. After that I find that trying more factions / subfactions out is more important than just trying to master one

[@MrBlk4]

Yup. If you want to master a faction, play all the other factions so you learn what your chosen faction is good/bad against. Learning the game is how to learn to play a faction.

[@hotelhopper681]

​@@MrBlk4currently making my way through a long victory on every faction. Except wood elves turned into domination before long victory because honestly 64 turns of world roots healing early-mid game while being at war with every reach of the map is not very appealing

[@robertorton7004]

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[@GearShotgun]

Playing new factions can be really eye opening. I suck at micro and typically prefer tankier factions. So playing wood elves was a huge game changer. Between their squishy units and reliance on ranged I had to micro my ass off, but it was fun.

[@gpddak8667]

There are a few things that need to be put into context: Spending all gold: The main question here is how your ecomomy is doing. A faction like the dwarves almost always want to do this because they have strong basic income. But when you are playing the vampire coast your settlement income is shit, your money comes from raiding so you're basically living from the gold you have until the next conquest. You might need it for raising the dead and if you wait for two turns you might be able to get an upgrade for your legendary lord. Of course they should spend gold, but it's not always the best choice. Building your settlements: Especially the "garrison everywhere" strategy is not consistent. Again: The Dwarves/ elves and other "civilized" factions almost always want to do this because they have amazing garrisons and amazing garrison buildings. Also each settlement is very valuable to them so they want to defend it. It makes sense. If you're playing the greenskins however it's almost never a good idea unless you have no other idea for the building slot and to much money. The reason is that their income building is simply amazing on the cost/income scale so you almost always want to prioritise that. Also they have really shitty garrison so when a full stack is coming the chance of defending is pretty slim. Additionally there is amost no value put into those settlements. You can rebuild it fast and there is little gold invested. This is why greenskins usually almost exclusively build this when defending a warfront or in a valuable capital that they cannot afford to loose. Basically: Think about what situation you are in and especially what your factions strategy is. Do you build settlements and economy or do you pillage and raid, building little villages you don't care about with a few important bastions and stategical points every now and then.

[@icollectbadgers]

Spending your gold on upgrading money buildings is one of the fastest ways to wreck a Dwarf economy. You dump 4k into the settlement upgrade so that you can dump another 2k into upgrading the Toolmaker, and then to make matters worse maybe you decide to protect your investment by constructing a garrison building. All for an extra hundred gold per turn, meaning it'll take 100 turns before you make a return on your investment. I agree with your overall point though: There are lots of cases where you are better off saving some gold for when you need it rather than dumping into whatever buildings you happen to have available at the time.

[@stukaseptember]

I disagree with your settlement building. In the early game the growth buildings are the most important, followed by income buildings with military buildings only being built once your economy is on an even keel :)

[@TheRewasder97]

I agree, growth is the most important thing to build first in a province, followed by money. In the early game you can be fine with one or two stacks of basic troops.

[@prestongarvey4080]

playing as the wood elves taught me one thing No one is immune to arrows (and Micro is hard)

[@Вейн-э5б]

Playing as the wood elves taught me that things will die if you bonk them hard enough with your stick.

[@eatsnowanddie]

once you know most of the units youll then look at each battle to see if you can win or not, i got sandwhiched once by the empire while playing as gor rok and i had a slane mage leading an almost full stack, i used the forest to shield from the hail of bullets and used the bastiladons to shred through their lines, it was a close victory but the auto res gave me a defeat. Auto resolve wisely, there may be a battle you can win when it says defeat.

[@terlondre]

i would also add few thing s about diplomacy: 1st, don't just declare wars, first check if your target is already in a war with someone and ask them to pay you for declaring war on your target. especially in early game, this money can amount to 1-2 turn worth of gold which will boost you further. In addition, once you familiarize yourself with what factions are "starter fodder" and will die in first 10 turns anyway, just ask AI that is fighting them to pay you for joining war that is gonna end soon anyway. It's free money. example: playing as Kislev, Western Province caravan comes around and thus makes this faction aproachcablle by diplomacy. They are by default fighting Dissenter Lords of Jinshen and will inevitably beat them. So offer to join war for gold or use it as bargaining chip to get trade deal 2nd, if you really want to be friends with some faction, or get trading deal with them and they are playing too hard to get, attack occupy some settlements of their enemies and trade them fro aliance or what ever you want. or even just gold. Also its worth noting that AI values military buildings in settlements over others when setting the diplomatic value 3rd, once you have an aliance, actively assign targets for your allies trough diplomacy window. AI is messy on its own but 9/10, they will actually follow your orders

[@madhatten5123]

I really dislike auto-resolving but the load screens in this game are so freaking long even on my SSD. Drives me nuts and keeps me from fighting a lot of battles

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

That is a new complaint I haven't heard yet. I play 1 and 2 though. 3 waits for another sale.

[@madhatten5123]

@ I believe it’s a problem with 3 only. I have an insanely good PC as well.

[@voidghost84]

Hi. Not bad advice, but the bit at the end of section 9 ( 2:40 ) about building defense buildings everywhere.. I've been playing Total War games from the beginning and I've seen the devs trying different things when it comes to defending settlements. Like in Medieval 2 you could house a specific number of specific units for free in a city. Since Rome 2 we have a very limited amount of space in any city. So in a big province, you can have 8,4,4,4 spaces and as the main building takes one, we get 7,3,3,3 so 16 in total. If you play on very hard as I do, you get -4 control and you have to counter that - that's at least one slot. Then we have things a faction might want and need. The Chaos Dwarves can make minor settlements camps or factories. In the first case, you want those 3 slots (mining, scavenging and control). If you have a resource building, that also takes a slot. So if you start building buildings that enlarge your garrison, you will be limiting yourself extremely. In some cases (other races) you can squeeze a military building in most cities, but in other ones you need the space for other things. And if you have a minor settlement at level 1 and a military building at that same level you will get about 2 basic units. Now if your attacked by a very small army, this may matter, but it usually won't. Also, if you're rapidly expanding, and do the sensible thing and build economy buildings first, by the time you get to the military ones, the front line would have moved anyway. Back in Warhammer TW 1 I tried to reinforce every city in my first campaign. Now, if I do build those buildings, I do it just in one or two key locations. It's much better to recruit an army to stop an attack. If your empire has buildings that give you lords on a decent level, say 15, you will usually get a mount and can use his points to make him a great fighter or/and mage of the bat. You should save a few renown units for such a situation as you can recruit them instantly. Now you have a good lord and a few elite units on the way of the enemy. If you have time, recruit another army and fill it with something good in defense (archers, crossbowmen). That's the best strategy.

[@MrBacon4321]

As for not spending gold, I would not buy anything as soon as you have it, sometimes it's good to save up a few turns to get certain upgrades, especially with some of these lords

[@TheRewasder97]

There's something very, very important to newer players, something that Legend mentioned in one of his videos. It's related to battle difficulty and auto resolve. If you select the easy battle difficulty, it gives 3 or 4 times power multiplayer for your troops in auto resolve. This makes it so you don't have to play any battle, and when you can't win in auto resolve, and you try the battle manually, it's absolutely impossible. This makes many newer players feel terrible and think they're very bad at the game, while in reality, the game is lying to them. The best thing you can do when starting the game, is put battle difficulty in hard or very hard and then change the battle bonuses to the easy stats. This will give you reasons to play the battles and learn them in situations where you can more substantially do better than the auto resolve. As you then improve, you can rise the in battle AI bonuses to a place you feel confortable. I personally play with no bonuses for me or the AI, but that's entirely my own personal preference.

[@christhovhannisyan2074]

Another mistake i could name is spreading too much. When you find a chain of poorly defended settlements and you capture them too fast, you might have everything unser control until a random faction nearby decides to declare war on you. More provinces does not always mean better

[@alex25425]

I just tell myself that save scumming with Tzeentch is basically just roleplaying

[@xaldrortenderofthevats8948]

is skirmish the reason why my blunderbuses kept running away instead of standing their ground and turning the goblins into swiss cheese?

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

Yes. Skirmish makes them move if they are anywhere close

[@blurgalsklech2929]

With Point 4 I don’t agree with leaving my assassin’s out of the army. Even when they take out another hero it’s still a low chance die roll if they actually kill VS wound their target. For some factions, Bretonnia for example, the Assassin hero is the Paladin, which is also my extremely strong melee hero. There’s no way I’m leaving my paladins out of the army. In my experience the best heroes to leave out of the armies are the ones with Block Army. The ability to pin an enemy army in place for a turn me is far more impactful than simply having an assassin roam around. And as a bonus typically the heroes that block armies are also the assassin’s (but not always).

[@tomh2572]

For number 5, knowing when to tell your units to walk instead of run is very important. If you're out of range of the enemy's ranged units and you're just moving towards them, there's no reason to charge. Your units will be tired going into melee while the enemy troops were sitting pretty and relaxing. Leave the charge until the last moment.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

The fatigue penalties for movement are near non-existent in Warhammer TW units can pretty much run all day experiencing little to no penalty meanwhile combat will chew through fatigue in a matter of minutes. It's why things like Fatigue reductions are pretty much pointless for infantry and why fatigue spells are so devastating on SE dualists. TBF I kind of miss movement fatigue it was one of those things that made TW: empire/Shogun 2 maps feel so much bigger. Then again sieges would suck even more than they do already.

[@el8779]

Or trigger the enemy army by attacking you by using range attacks or abilities on them. Usually few spells do the trick

[@FidgetTheMidget8P]

On settlements: I've found that going HARD on growth buildings and buffs until my starting province has at least a t4 building leaves me with a better start than me expanding and immediately trying to boost economy and low tier recruits

[@curtisbrown547]

The biggest thing that makes save scumming so necessary is that a settlement almost always drops a level whenever it is conquered. So if the AI conquers a settlement and then you reconquer it, it will be almost always worthless. A tier 4 settlement will be set back to a nearly useless tier 2 settlement which is a absolutely devastating loss. Compound this over, lets say an entire region, and your empire will have likely regressed almost to a point of no return. Its why finding natural barriers and stopping points for your conquests is sooooo important. Using mountains and allies as walls is a massive benefit to you as you will be able to push in different places otherwise. You want your empire to expand in a single direction, not inflate like a balloon, trying to expand in all directions at once because inevitably you will find that your empire is stretched out thin, and there are armies attacking from all sides.

[@PaleImperator]

For me, the point about using saves is that it gives me options. Unfortunately or not, a 'smooth, safe sailing' gameplay style is almost always successful, but there are a lot of opportunities for crazy hijinks, like a faction-wide blitz or daring enemy territory raid. I don't want to give up on zany schemes entirely, but I also don't want to hang my entire campaign on my latest brainstorm succeeding. Now, there are gamers who do like that - who like to risk everything and play with no net - and that's fine. It's just not me. At the end of the day, as far as I'm concerned, it's a game, and if you're playing in a way that makes you happy, that's kind of the point. If you're doing things that make the game either boring or frustrating, because you're convinced it's the 'right' way to play, my advice is: stop doing that. There are plenty of things in life that are boring or frustrating - you don't have to make more of them for yourself. It's your game. Figure out which way to play makes you happiest, and play that way. - - A big aspect of autoresolve is learning which factions (and in some cases army builds) are darlings of the autoresolve feature. Empire can get away with a lot more auto than say, Skaven. An Ikit Claw-led army fully capable of pulverizing an enemy fortress while losing only a few skavenslaves might very well be autoresolving as a crushing defeat. Autoresolve is deeply wonky - sometimes wonky in your favor, sometimes not. Learn the difference.

[@gutfriedvonguttenberg5614]

well...I love the game so far, and it´s running jsut fine besides the 5min loading times for every reload or battle

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Something else I feel people (myself included) tend to do too much is taking ever settlement in front of you. Sure this is usually the best option however it also ends that army’s turn. Instead hold right click to see the movement of your army and try to see if it’s quicker to move around that minor settlement to get to the AI’s major recruitment settlements and take or raze them. Life is MUCH easier when you remove the enemies ability to recruit elite units and leave them stuck with t1 infantry. Obviously if you can, take or raze any settlements on the way but if at all possible take region capitals first before cleaning up the region.

[@yaboityler2617]

Yeah clearing the province capital is always the priority if you can make it there. The gold reward is higher, it cuts off their best recruitment, and you can start working on your own higher tier buildings eariler. It also means that you defend from a walled position if they try to retake it on their turn.

[@novaeclipse139]

I mean. Save scumming is a viable tactic sure... But i wouldn't consider not save scumming a "Noob mistake" some people just don't like to cheat 😂 (not saying ppl who do save scum are necessarily cheating)

[@Prawnsacrifice]

This exactly 😊

[@djosjowa8433]

I strongly disagree with the alliance point. I really like to have at least one or two defensive/military allies. It can keep one of your flanks secure from enemies, or at least create a buffer between you and enemies. If they are neighbours you often end up fighting factions close to you that you want to be at war with anyways. And if it's factions far away you get dragged into a war with it doesn't matter either since they'll not come to your land. Besides that you can recruit their troops which I find really fun and it's also a usefull addition to your recruiting roster and recruiting capabilities. Especially if you are in provinces where you cannot recruit your own elite troops: your allies troops are always available. I also really enjoy the mechanic that you can loan complete armies from your allies. You can get a pretty good army for free for 10 turns and you can do it on a place on the map where it suits you, plus it doesn't matter that much if the army dies.

[@djosjowa8433]

another thing I like about allies: you can conquer lands in a climate that is unsuitable for you and then sell it to an ally for pretty good money. It's a win win: the territory is still held by a friendly faction, you don't have to spend the effort and money to maintain public order and defend a bad climate settlement and you probably sell it for more money than the settlement would ever give you in profits.

[@Kil23Joy]

I’m a noob but I try to keep my army small as possible and save $ early game so I can quickly upgrade buildings and growth. I find doing that I’m able to pump out higher tier units faster

[@danielgloyd4529]

Depending on the faction, that is the most optimal way to do it, IMO. Take your starting province and a 2nd neighboring province and defend them until tier 4 when you can start increasing your hero capacities and getting elite units. Once you have that core setup, pushing out and recruiting other armies is much easier. The next important step is to make sure you finish off your enemies before getting distracted by other objectives. Especially before declaring another war. Sometimes, the AI makes this hard and will gang up on you. This is where garison buildings on your frontline settlements come into play. They can always be sold later, and an economic or military building can be built when the threat is gone. Even a tier 3 minor settlement with the garison building and a newly recruited general can easily defend against most early non legendary lord attacks. Once you get to the point you are capturing large sections of the map. The last important thing to do is. Whatever recruitment building you are using the most is to make sure you build 10 of them to get your global recruitment time decreased. It is incredibly powerful to be across the map fight a tough battle and then be able to recruit fully healthy units in 1 turn from the global recruitment pool. Even in uninhabitable territory, like the chaos wastes where you may get no replenishment. You can combine damaged units and recruit back to a full stack in 1 turn.

[@Legion12Centurion]

In regards to special buildings, read what they do. You wont always need the bonus and some cost 10-15k to build. Money that could give you a new high tier unit or more troops in an area. For some factions resources are a waste to build since they dont trade or have to little trade it doesnt make enough difference. Know your faction, otherwise the right special building at the right time can be extremely powerfull :) In terms of the AI and was I have found much use of all the new command features, building recruitment stuff inside there towns... It sometimes let me bridge weakness by combining another races unit with my own. I had this amazingly unholy mix of undead stuff and greenskins as Azhag. I agree with avoiding military agreements they are not great. :)

[@Tamipriest]

i remember when i started playing different factions, that i could turle up with everyone, did not work of course, so got to learn how to play different factions and how to use units better

[@dieminestinkt]

I think one of the worst mistakes is not learning general army formation for your faction( not to confuse with composition). Vampire coast is an extreme example. But is very frustrating, when your deck gunners didn't fire a single shot.

[@NoirMorter]

I agree with 8 and 7 completely from a new player's perspective! Don't give up and load a previous if you think you can do better or want to try a different approach. Doing that when you're just beginning is nothing to be ashamed of.

[@4Pickledonions]

My biggest struggle is using pike and shot tactics with the empire

[@loganwallace101]

Watch some videos by Malleus Gaming he has a whole series on it

[@KazeKoichi]

My biggest struggle is using short tactics with the dwarfs.

[@evanmurphy118]

My philosophy is to always manually play a predicted loss. Sure, you might lose, but you'll almost certainly inflict more casualties than if you auto resolved, and auto resolve is really bad at factoring magic and ranged, so you might have a necrofex doomstack that it claims is a decisive defeat when it most certainly isnt. Also, auto resolving can lead to more casualties on your side then necessary, so certain character like skarbrand and the beastmen need to manually fight so that they get worn down slower.

[@TheGreatNorthNB]

I save scummed so much as i was starting to learn the game, learning how to recover from mistakes is important but i found going back and seeing what i could do to avoid the situation or have it end better for me made me much better at the game. I rarely if at all save scum now but i highly recommend for new players.

[@tylerbreau4544]

@4 Being okay with save-scumming as a newer player is important IMO. I've been there. It can take time to learn how to play out battles and stuff. When a newer player seems close defeat auto resolve and is like "i should be able to pull off a victory" and then pulls of a valiant defeat because 15 different avoidable things went wrong in the battle, or the player just used a terrible formation or whatever. And then the player repeats that 10 times, slowly learning. If they don't save scum, that lost means they are out the game for the next 3 to 8 turns. And they have to repeat that 10 times? All the while, some of their campaigns just fail because of anti-snowball decisions. These are multi-turn mistakes, things like not building towards the right units for their faction - And ending up stuck with ineffective meat shields. Or not building enough economy and being restricted to 1 army when the enemy have 4 full stacks on your border and more on the other side of their empire, or too many wars and not enough diplomacy, or letting Grimgor snowball and then focus you down, and you don't have lightning strike. etc, etc, etc. New players don't know what they are doing. There are many ways for their campaigns to get screwed and for things to slow down to a slog. Save scumming lets the new players just retry some of these things and keeps their campaign going.

[@tylerbreau4544]

#2 In TWWH2, it's not just non aggression pacts or alliances. It's treaties. Have a trade route? Can't declare war without taking a reliability hit. Military access? Reliability hit. I presume it's the same in TWWH3

[@tylerbreau4544]

#6 In TWWH2 Nearly my entire campaign as Clan Skryre was auto resolve valiant defeat, manual decisive or close victory. My army was clanrats with shields, ratling guns, and jezzails. Clanrats suck at everything except their purpose in life - Meatshields. Ratling guns and jezzails are great damage. This was especially true with settlement battles. It's like the game expected me to actually climb the walls and get inside the settlement. Which I never did. The victory condition was never to take the settlement. It was just to kill everyone from outside the settlement. I only enter the settlement if the enemies are too far away to kill. I also had a similar experience with Oxoatl. My army was chameleon skinks. Literally. I had my legendary lord, which was a chameleon skink, and a skink hero, and 18 chameleon skinks. It's like game expected the range units that can fire while moving and had decent movement speed to enter melee combat with the enemy. In manual battle, that was never the strategy. The strategy was kite. It wasn't even cheesy. Chamaleon skinks can shoot in all directions (they have a circle range instead of a cone range), have decent speed, and can shoot while moving. They are a kiting unit. I'm just using what they have. A lot of my victories was valiant defeat auto resolve against norsca factions, which are melee heavy with few range units. Against my 20 kiting range units. Auto resolve is pretty anti-ranged.

[@SH-mw1qs]

I love the attitude towards save&load, and the analogy is perfect. It's a single player GAME, play however you want and whatever makes you happy. Don't hurt yourself by insisting on weird standards

[@BlackHawk21ification]

3:10 i personnaly use the save to test thing out, you're not sure if the enemy army will attack you ? save and find out. recently as an example i started an imrik legendary campaign and needed to wipe out nurgle before ghorst or drazoath declared war on me and since imrik have a rough economy start i only had 1 army, saved at a "checkpoint" and continued on, and you know what 2 turns later drazoath was sieging my capital while imrik was sieging ku gath.

[@atomicLord97]

my dumb ass read the video title as "Top 3 warhammer 10 noob mistakes" and for a brief moment I was wondering what happened to the seven I aint played yet... I don't know who needed to read this for a laugh but there you go.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

They were overpriced DLCs, so you didn't miss much.

[@InternetMameluq]

>garrisons in every settlement Uh. That's a noob mistake. Garrison settlements that must be attacked by the enemy, are vulnerable to attack, or on the border with an enemy. That's it. If you need to defend your hinterland periodically against hordes or something build an extra army for defense.

[@Henskelion]

Armies cost upkeep though, unlike garrisons. Not that you should build garrisons everywhere, but they're definitely useful at border settlements that are going to be potential chokepoints. Capital settlement garrisons are also super useful if you have any of the endgame crises turned on.

[@InternetMameluq]

@@Henskelion Garrisons almost always do cost money, though. Most factions, especially with ones with settlements worth defending have buildings that will be valuable. Conversely a settlement that is undeveloped isn't a big problem if it's sacked, so a garrison is unneeded. But I agree with everything else you said, I literally thought it was my own post at first.

[@AdamJones-tu9lx]

very helpful as someone starting their first campaign in the game, hopefully i remember this stuff

[@PacmanPac-m8y]

number 3, just don't make alliances with weak millitary factions and nothing said here is true

[@grantd165]

I'm such a noob I was playing as Nakai and I lost all my krokigors

[@astari24]

Once you become more advanced at income management, you can spend many turns in deficit by sacking You will quickly learn this skill by playing Chaos or even Wood Elves

[@kaboom3922]

So I always have trouble when should you start or end wars like when is it a good idea to get a sack city or make a full province and when’s a good spot to start making a second army or focus on making your lords army better?

[@RosDalton]

Letting a vampire know you’re a weak in the knees for her is definitely a costly mistake.

[@ColonelDamneders]

Whatever the cost I’ll pay it for Isabella 🥵

[@olekjaer86]

The isabella line needs to go in a total war warhammer museum.

[@PaulOB89]

As a new player, this was gold. Thanks!

[@BobFudgee]

Keep in mind, the game actively suggests the Grand Cathay as your first campaign. I played Warhammer 2 extenstively and still was not expecting how hard that campaign start.

[@bibby659]

I dont typically suffer from too many of these problems, however my one friend that likes and enjoys the game does... in fact, I feel like he suffers from at least 9 out of the 10 total issues. The bad thing is, he is not new by very many means. It might just be because we like to play multiplayer with one another but he tends to have issues deciding what to do and where to go. In this case, he plays Tomb Kings, which he sees as a generally easy to play as faction who specializes in generally throwing loads of armies against a brick wall... the problem rises I believe when he auto resolves too many fights, and even sacrifices his high tier starting troops. The reason he says he does this, is cause he doesn't want us to need to wait the whole time (regardless of us telling him contrary to such that we would understand and not care (when we dont want to kind of faf about by controlling the AI army)) though, I feel like such a recap on what you may be doing wrong in multipler against/with friends would need another video in itself to explain that whole mess.

[@primal4840]

I feel called out with that first paycheck statement

[@CG-eh6oe]

Big like on the save-advice. Id argue that its the best way to learn the game. If you replay the same battle three times to get the best outcome, you have learned how to manage your army and you got immediate feedback about which tactics work and which dont. If you play the same battle just once, you may learn nothing; you won, but was that because your army was just better? Or because you actually played well?

[@andreassukarditeja7419]

Despite being a new player (less than 40 hours), glad to see I'm doing very few beginner mistakes. The only thing I really need to fix is garrisons. I tend to focus a lot more on economy or unlocking units with defense being an afterthought. (I overly rely on armies to do this) Auto-resolve I think I'm fine, I only use it if it's low casualties with no units lost. Otherwise I manual battle everything cuz I know I'd do a lot better than auto-resolve.

[@GreenBaji]

5:51 artist or source of that Isabella please , looks pretty good !

[@trizick5379]

Noob misteak building a garrison in every settlement

[@chumaktv5386]

I would add not using ambush/raid/encampment enough and overusing force marches. Also starting multiple wars because taking that one unprotected settlement seemed convenient and easy at the time but usually ends up dragging for way longer than planned and eventually drains the economy

[@Trazynprints]

gonna say i use save scumming to redo wars and learn from my mistakes and see if there was something i missed that i can use later

[@Kyla-Stormhazard]

Saving games is helpful and all... but sometimes the most fun comes from taking heavy losses and then trying to recover.

[@Tucher97]

So here is a thing when it comes to whethering to auto result or manually right, take this question into consideration if you have units that regenerate and/or able to recover during battle lets say Norsca skin wolves and Lizardman rejuvenation crystal, yes, you maybe losing a few in that regiment but it does not mean said regiment will enter the battle at full health. Another, pay attention to your unit card, what do I mean by that? Simple, sometimes your Ork ard boiz who are bigga and arda may seem like solid high end infantry, they also antilarge. Another example, just because your Norsca hunters armed with javelins maybe Anti-large, it does not mean your skinks with javelins are anti large. Now you may say "well all range units are anti large" and yes that is true, but are those gunners anti large when they are out of ammo, in melee? No.

[@GamingForImmersion]

Really good video for the most part. However, Not Save Scumming is not a noob mistake. It's a personal preference. If anything, the more experienced a player is, the less likely they would be to use save scumming as they shouldn't be making the kinds of mistakes they need to recover from and don't need the benefit of learning from trial and error like noobs do.

[@anonym1135]

'Save your Game' *Always plays on legendary* "I have no such weakness..." Still nice video ;)

[@yaboityler2617]

ALWAYS move the first 50% of your movement in encamp stance. That way, you will never get ambushed (at lesdt kot for the first half of your movement. Ive lost enitre missile based armies half a dozen times because i just walked right into an ambush i had NO idea was there. This is more for lwgendary though, because you can just save scum on lower difficulties if yoy know theres an ambush.

[@permanent8387]

i did the tutorial then played daemon lord for 50 turns but didnt like the flow then hopped into the campaing as china or something got to around turn 50 (also the flow wasnt feeling good) and every turn my desire to play scaven grew stronger because i liked the ratlinguns and how they are technologically farther than some archers. im now over turn 100 as ikit and will after getting a victory start a new campaing as the rat who does questionable experiment on his army or meaby chaos dwarwes since they also have cool technology sure as hell was kinda hard to manual battle and the fact that the rats run away after getting a scratch but im slowly learning and improving

[@sot1224]

Yes but what if im saving it to build a building

[@eugenmalatov5470]

But great tips. Only objection: Having allies is awesome with the new outpost mechanic.

[@PacmanPac-m8y]

Most of the time defensive and millitary alliances are a good thing because it allows outpost building withing allied cities and war co-ordination which can be useful if you don't have any armies in that area. Also unless you make a millitary alliance with a weaker faction (which admittedly is a really bad idea) the ai absolutely WILL do a lot in the war. So new players, ignore 3, it isn't true.

[@minecraft991115]

Always start with chaos dwarves, best faction for noobs. Greenskin labourers are the only troops you need and there are no supplylines

[@MakanFarlander]

I also love to auto resolve my battles. Any faction that is really good at auto resolve? Isn't Alith Anars Shadow Warrior Army kinda good at it?

[@Brianlp32]

Noctilus is the easiest evilcampaign? Starts laughing in Changeling/Belakor

[@kayleemichelson4019]

About 8, I never do it it any game, exit save only. I consider load/save cheating since you can just bash your head against any wall until it breaks.

[@LeVeLs404]

What is point 8? Saving? Never heard that in this game

[@victorcharles27]

Spreading corruption/destroying corruption can be added to the list

[@pierre-mariecaulliez6285]

Standardize your turns : you have limited ressources, be it gold or movement range, and you NEED to optimize it ! Nobody wants to find out they can't upgrade their settlement because they tried (and failed) an assassination just before that... That boils down to basic concepts, no need to overthink it. Move you heroes before your armies, wait to have finished this turn's battles before building stuff, make sure the gold you spend hiring and recuiting doesn't lock you out of building, and vice versa,... You don't have to lock yourself into such scheme either, maybe you REEAALLLLY want to make this landmark, even if this means no hero action this turn ;7

[@choleraphd7702]

You don’t have to play every manual battle that you think you could win. I was playing as Grom and I was fighting the dwarfs, and I would auto resolve every single fight even if I thought I could manually win because fuck fighting dwarfs. I played one manual battle where the dwarf warriors got knocked down to 1 single dwarf and 4 health but they still fought. Dwarfs have to be completely decimated to the last unit standing and I refuse to do that, especially when the last man standing could be a single irondrake who just refuses to give up.

[@KamikazeCommie501]

Reasons I'd reload a save: because the campaign map lied to me about my movement range

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

I hate that. "The Yellow clearly covers their entire settlement, but why does it stop me two pixels away from Attack Range and still show movement space?!?!"

[@jasondoherty7497]

Is there a stellaris version of this video?

[@ColonelDamneders]

*writes that down*

[@polyflo2010]

i'm just watching to see that I don't do any of these mistakes therefor I can feed myself with selfcongratuling.

[@DaveFrags]

Save scumming is loreful if you role as tzeentch! Especially kairos …

[@rogermusson4110]

I find that I always do worse when not autoresolving combat ...

[@svartrbrisingr6141]

i have to autoresolve everything because despite having an amazing computer warhammer 3 crashes every time i try to open a battle.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

I had the problem with it from Xbox Game Pass on my laptop. It was just a mid line Acer from 2017 so I wasn't too surprised but it has made me a bit hesitant to pull the trigger on buying 3 even with a much better desktop.

[@datswassup9902]

Playing norsca in wh2

[@s4pphi]

Another note on save scumming, it always morally correct (imo) to save scum against skaven or other ambush attacking factions. Because that crap is bullshit.

[@dickwraith8974]

The massive nerf your units get in an ambush is absolutely awful. Although with Skaven it's pretty much that CA has pretty explicit favoritism with them.

[@KazeKoichi]

1. Karl Franz, difficulty: easy. Looks like a best start for a noob player! 👍

[@jensmarkgraf]

"why have all that time invested..." Because your gain is strongly connected to the efforts you spend. That´s why savescumming ruins every... story arc ;)

[@Frostile]

That drawing analogy deleted your credibility for making the point of save scumming. Its a solo PvE game do whatever you want to have fun, just tell people that. Do not try to invalidate the players who enjoy perma-death. I don't alt-f4 out of the long dark when a bear attacks me because I will lose 200 hours on a save, the point is that it is an achievement and by design alot of difficulty is lost when save scumming. Living with your decisions is what makes games like Rimworld an amazing game for creating stories of triumph over difficult odds.

[@KazeKoichi]

People that play on Legendary are noobs because they don't save scum.

[@hern7213]

Manual battles are the main and biggest appeal of this game. Why would you consciously avoid them?

[@zeloraz8101]

6:24 At that point just play Civ 5 or CK2 lol

[@guilliman1990]

This Isabella one made me laugh 11/10

[@thecursed01]

do you play as ikit claw? no? that's noob mistake-error number one. yes-yes.

[@TomPanter]

Some people have voices made for top 10 lists.

[@ryjeczeq]

1:11 im 33 and still do that 😂

[@yorkshire_tea_innit8097]

Disagree about save scumming. You don't need a perfect campaign with no losses. Often when you save scum you spend ages on a battle that didn't matter as much as you thought it did. Personally I give myself 1 redo for any battle. The objective isn't to win games, it's to have a story arc. And save scumming wrecks a story.

[@eugenmalatov5470]

Why is the guy hectically moving around the screen for no reason?

[@morganmurphy4491]

I don't understand how people are able to enjoy TW while save scumming or auto resolving everything. For me if there's no real chance for failure the game quickly grows stale, not just TW but any game, I never save scum and play nearly every battle

[@TheRewasder97]

Some people are more into the empire building part, and playing every battle takes a lot of time. I have a friend that's more like you, where the campaign is just the excuse to get to the next battle. I guess it's just preference. Although it is true that total war leaves a lot to be desired in the empire building part, specially if you compare it with any paradox game. Then again, Total War isn't a grand strategy title, so it's understandable.

[@james-zz8ri]

Until someone buys me all the games and the dlcs, they can shut their mouth when I save my game lol

[@MrBlk4]

Haven't watched the whole video yet, but number 10 has alot of caveats..... Depending on your faction and what you want to buy soon or eventually, saving the right amount of money can be huge. I try to keep at least 500-800 in bank early game and 300 upkeep unless there's an emergency. Also, save scummming is the dumbest term I've heard, along with the calling everyone a s.j.w. era. Games glitch and f--- up sometimes. The game gets weird cheats sometimes. Our only weapon against this is saving and reloading saves. Lol.

[@UWfalcin]

If I liked autoresolving battles Id just play civ 6

[@chumaktv5386]

So yes garrison in each settlement SEEMS like a waste of money but I agree, especially considering that the free garrison troops aren’t gonna eat thru your budget unlike an army you keep in each province “just in case”