Total War: Warhammer 3 Immortal Empires - Oracles of Tzeentch, Kairos Fateweaver #1

[@Landmassorussia]

To explain the two heads being a downside, the closer to the present they try to look, the worse their vision is

[@TaskForce-ql3bx]

Excactly this.

[@isaiahdavis4996]

So they are near sighted ?

[@Skeys13]

I feel bad for their optometrist

[@Hydralisk777]

@@isaiahdavis4996 far sighted my guy..

[@MikePennington-k9e]

There blind like literally there blind but they also see all possible futures like every single one all of them

[@cameronmanchester7794]

I'm of two minds about this campaign, but one thinks only truth and the other only lies.

[@theunknownleaf409]

Hahahahah

[@adamsalt9423]

So answer as left and right head, are you enjoying the campaign

[@cameronmanchester7794]

@@adamsalt9423 Yes/No

[@adamsalt9423]

Will I find some gold?

[@cameronmanchester7794]

@@adamsalt9423 The real Gold is the friends you betray along the way/Under the Highway, but be quick others seek it

[@slackattacks2695]

You know you're watching MA when you get a random great rant to start LOL.

[@tunencio7288]

or at the middle or at the end...

[@kamataros5172]

honestly penguin-beastmen sound like a BANGER addition to the faction

[@MonstersAbound]

Noot noot!

[@samuelevans738]

@@MonstersAbound * Lacrimosa plays in the background... *

[@sin7933]

you have to love the tzeench aestethic its so colourfull and weird. the whole faction has a cosmic horror vibe mixed with the wet dream of a pyromaniac it just makes for such a unique faction

[@DaemonPrimarch]

I stepped away about 1:30 and left the video running, and returned to rambling about sock puppets. I have to admit, I have not been more confused than that in a while.

[@johnwillis4833]

Don't forget one of Kairos' faction abilities is you can manipulate the winds of magic strength in your provinces, and also just see a color coded winds of magic strength map. I believe it is the button above end turn that looks like a sun/flame.

[@RandomPassrby]

In regards to the whole 'can't see the present', to quote the wiki: "..for the future does not always reveal itself quickly enough to predict the frantic to and fro of melee." Keep in mind the future is in constant flux and may require time to interpret, and he see all potential futures and needs to figure out which series of events is actually going to occur.

[@Skeys13]

I’ll feel betrayed. I didn’t get to hear you say “ya creepy old bastard“

[@scormz624]

Even though I watch every campaign all the way through, I find myself always looking forward to the first episode of a new one. It's that new campaign smell... intoxicating

[@JarmamStuff]

Never forget that MA autoresolved the first fight of his Realms of Chaos-Kairos campaign. The Changer is stronk in these parts

[@AzrialCross]

" The title of my eventual court case." That one got me good 🤣

[@TheFuriousLeo]

Your rant about the past and future is the quality content i love you for hahhaha had me a proper chuckle

[@poodlenz]

Tzeentch is what happens when chaos meets the telletubbies. Hordes of "horrors (teletubbies)" firing tubby custard at the enemy.

[@IansMentalOmega]

Biggest Bird has come

[@brianbassett3896]

He's da biggest bird

[@MrOtakuPanda]

Chaos Faith Weaver Money Gang! We Love Casting Spells🧙‍♂️🔮✨🌪️

[@acceptablecarrot173]

I really wish CA would go back and simply change the Kairos mechanic so that the arcane item simply adds some bound spells and doesn't remove anything

[@aaronhenley4741]

Just started my own Kairos campaign. Have fun with Teclis! I do love Tzeentch corruption making everything sparkling and crystallized.

[@MonstersAbound]

Hah hah haaaaaa... Yeah he's a fun guy... Super fun...

[@Grifthin]

Kairos fragments are Hella good - especially fire & death. Local province is only the settlement I believe.

[@74arcath]

you just done and started my Fav Tzeentch, how dare you ;)

[@simona1001]

Imagine how bad Kairos bookclub must be: Everyone else has just started reading and Kairos immediately spoils the ending.

[@MonstersAbound]

At least you can then just twat him with a book that he'll never see coming

[@Zlazish]

@MonstersAbound But he has already seen that you will cause he saw that he would end up spoiling the ending of the book.... but the why not just not spoil? ... uuugh tzeentch is so confusing

[@Psycho3678]

JUST AS PLANNED!!!! Nyehehehehehehe!!!!! - tzeentch (probably)

[@dutchvanderlinde248]

​@@Zlazish Actually, the closer he looks to the present, the blinder he becomes. Additionally, the future is always in flux. Kairos sees all futures that are physically possible to occur. This, of course, constantly changes as people's actions make some futures possible and impossible. Therefore, it is entirely possible that he won't parse that you're going to throw the book at him before you've already done it.

[@duphasdan]

Kairos is my favorite character to play as in the game. Awesome looking birb.

[@DeathByRabbit]

I think the WoM scale is something like: Weak -> Calm -> Blowing -> Strong -> Tempestuous, but really once you get more than one province it doesn't matter since you can max out the WoM in areas yourself. If I'm not mistaken, also, once you capture a settlement that is part of a difference province I think you can start influencing the WoM in that area.

[@samuelevans738]

Xuq'ls, but his friends call him "Chuckles".

[@thedoctor2833]

I've been waiting for this

[@lawn-cat3436]

I've seen Kairos' sight described as one head seeing all yesterdays, and the other head seeing all tomorrows. Not sure if that's canon, but as a result, I've tended to assume that the blind spot is about a day long. Which, I mean, remembering the exact second of when to dodge a sword in the space of a day? I can imagine Kairos has a lot of practise, but that still has to be a nightmare. Especially with multiple possibilities in play!

[@piratczvojtapopovics]

Imagine having to remember when you¨re gonna get struck by a sword tommorow. Must be stressful as fuck.

[@stryke-jn3kv]

Going by his old table top rules if I remember right he was so awful in hand to hand that he could lose to a goblin so that very much supports that concept.

[@Skeys13]

@@stryke-jn3kvthat makes sense. He’s just a blind guy with a PHD in history and an oracle/seer ability.

[@eldunae922]

Yeah that's it. He doesn't have perfect memory, despite him seeing the pass and future crystal clear

[@dariusflynt436]

Hands down the best tw wh3 content oun there ong frfr

[@mitts7277]

That legendary characters mod is fantastic, the changeling is super fun

[@Zelnyair]

I watch a lot of these videos for the obvious reasons of: I think the gameplay and commentary and editing are excellent, and I stand by that opinion. But I wanted to say thank you, because a MonstersAbound video is a little something that usually helps me feel a little better whenever I'm feeling down. It's like "This is something that's right with the world".

[@foockback1]

Nice!!!! I was waiting to see a chaos campaing🎉 Love your content :D

[@priceyboy8369]

God that intro was haliours

[@code0714]

I think the future that he see’s are like a lot of possibilities but there can be an action in the present that will change the future that’s why he wants to know the present.I believe that’s the reason or something like that

[@willspohn1972]

Kairos means “the right time” in ancient greek, in contrast to time in the normal sense

[@Croltown]

looking forward seeing MonstersAbound doing shenanigans with the Way of the stuff this Faction does, it's a pain to Fight versus!

[@Peter-je6td]

The race for which faction to play was NECK AND NECK but Kairos won 😉get it get it get it 😰tell me you get it

[@mekudu-man3804]

more like neck and neck and NECK

[@Peter-je6td]

@@mekudu-man3804 true

[@SOOP_or_SWOOP]

Dear MonstersAbound, I actually believe that the nonsensical nature of fantasy Warhammer’s lore is intentional, since it makes it look more like a folk tale. Plus in Kairoses case it’s probably just a metaphor for being blind

[@MonstersAbound]

I mean it comes down to many parts of GW lore being rule of cool over anything else. If I had a pen y for every character who are inevitably getting closer to some mysterious goal but never do Id have about tree fiddy.

[@tzeentchz7576]

Big birb🎉

[@Willdaddy09]

Take the whole southern continent. Manifest destiny

[@devilstriangle1104]

kairos fateweaver aka big bird.

[@TheNzFox]

it took me a while to work out how kairos ability works, and then at the age of 36 I was diagnosed with ADHD, I had not noticed just how much it had effected my life. That is all that it is, Kairos has extreme adhd, he knows something is about to happen just forgets about it until afterwards and then its like 'oh yeah...I was meant to do that today'. We are just lucky the warhamer world never developed dexamphetamines

[@NaffyNJD]

5 Minutes in and hate for Manfred and the conundrum that is the Bing universe....ahhhhh Monsters i love you so.

[@MonstersAbound]

Bing is so fucking weird... Not to mention how whiny Bing is.

[@the36lessons11]

Ol' Big Bird himself, I see...

[@Doombot221]

One challenge to note about this new start position is that the south pole is a very LONG frontline so you can end up with people attacking you from Lustria and the southlands across a wide number of potential beachheads. Getting to a second army asap is likely going to be key. I often try to kill the slaanesh faction to the east before going west but it might be better to just betray and kill them afterwards. You can bring back your reliability later since you won't find good allies for awhile. Edit after finishing video: nvm basically everything I just said

[@C00kiesAplenty]

Every single time I make a non aggression pact with those purple bastards to attack Teclis they immediately betray me. So its always straight to extermination now.

[@C00kiesAplenty]

Every single time I make a non aggression pact with those purple bastards to attack Teclis they immediately betray me. So its always straight to extermination now.

[@Doombot221]

@Cookies Aplenty yeah it's definitely not a thing that lasts. In mine I've always gone straight to killing them too but I've wondered if it has been possible to hold them off temporarily while dealing with the order boys

[@phobia_master-lord_of_early]

YES , FINALLY MY PLAN HAS BEEN REVEALLED, THERE WAS NO CURSE THERE WAS NO MASTER-LORD AND THERE WAS NO SKAVEN LORD, IT WAS ALL A RUSE TO GET ALL THE SKAVEN CLANS TO FIGHT MONSTERSABOUND JUST AS ACORDING TO PLAN MWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHMWAAHAHAHAHAHZHZZHhahHhsha

[@thyrussendria8198]

I think the problem is that he sees the whole of the future, not just single moments. Either that or it is a variable amount of the future and possibly just one of many possibilities as is seen in his quest battle where he fights his future and past self.

[@wyattfrye8262]

What’s helped me in my campaign is killing the lizard boy to your left before heading north

[@bolikde9389]

You can hear the entire Sockpuppet rant on Patreon.

[@dawnsever7093]

Kairos can't see his present? He must really hate his Birthday.

[@mh852906]

I started a tzeench campaign too!

[@anthonybateman7527]

If he can see future then you'll never get ambushed? New game first battle smell 🥰 I'm only going to say this once 🤣

[@barker963]

I think his mechanic mean you have a -50% of getting ambushed

[@JarmamStuff]

@@barker963 Meaning that Alith Anar is so sneaksy he is able to ambush even Kairos. Alith confirmed peak Skaven, good-good

[@theoozemen3646]

I agree nurgle is a great faction

[@Doombot221]

Because you have that wide coastline dynamic disasters might be a bit rough for you if some of those fleets spawn nearby. Especially in the midgame once you've captured the south pole

[@Doombot221]

Side not for Nurgle furies. They do have an early tech that gives extra armour piercing and possibly something else too. So they end up being the best probably for rear-charging/murdering tankier units

[@JLHDUDE]

Remember you can change the wind of magic in your region.

[@JLHDUDE]

But I think you need a other whole region or one settlement from that region to transfer winds of Magic to one region to a other.

[@kilersaint1225]

If you unlock the items for Kairos for different magic he still keeps his tzeentch spells, it doesn’t replace them

[@coreyteague3577]

Beastmen penguin what do they waddle to battle

[@ML-zv6tr]

Fwiw, that special character daemon Xuq'ls, is pronounced 'chuckles'.

[@ThyDarkSider01]

Good fuckin luck. Kairos a pain in the ass to play 😅

[@HA1LILPALAZZO]

basically he can see when something is about to happen and when something has happened.....he just can't see when it is happening and the thing is if what is supposed to happen changes he will panic, in the 4th edition codex he had a rule where if he failed an armour save he would just go away as something he didn't see happened lol

[@piratczvojtapopovics]

hell yeah, more Tzeentch!

[@dougmorgan8778]

I like to think Kairos's heads can see the future and the past, but not all of it at once. You, Monstersabound, have a head that can see the present. Does that mean you can see /all/ the present? How many rocks are there in all of Wales?

[@franzferdinand2]

Three rocks.

[@TheM8]

At least.

[@alharron2145]

Only one man has the power to see all the presents, & he's in the other pole

[@fireydylan1043]

The description lists this as cylostra

[@chronorebel_greatgryffon1312]

My interpretation of Kairos’ limitation. When not looking into the far enough past or far enough future, he’s blind. Future is mutable, so he only sees possibilities, not what is guaranteed to happen.

[@drake565]

IIRC the WH40k version of Kairos was a bit different, One head would tell the truth and the other would tell an equally believable lie, which makes much more sense.

[@Harabeck]

Thinking that you'll get to kill the tzeentch faction to the west is adorably naive. Oxyatl says hi.

[@thegamer9263]

Same chaos god, but different two dudes in one than I expected

[@DeadMarine1980]

Technically we don't "see" the past in memory. In fact we can never see the past as if we see the present. Because our memories are flawed. With our Thanksgiving (sorry for being American, it's okay to be jealous) friend he sees the past as if he's living it. And of course he can see the future as if he's living it. As you mentioned this would be difficult for him to navigate the here and now. As it's difficult for us to see the future and remember the past. So for him his perception is reversed. He takes bits of the past and future and stitch it together to understand where he is currently....or get a "good guess" . I haven't played as the fate Weaver yet. But when the full SFO drops out of BETA I'm totally gonna give him a go. He sounds interesting.

[@Doombot221]

Local province is province wide. And those bonuses stack. For Kairos it gets kind of ridiculous how much each province can make for money

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

watching this at 480p(auto) makes Nurglings look like tumbling rocks. Very very threatening.

[@thegreatbookofgrudges6953]

7:59 omg after 11 months of waiting after the game releases, someone cast the glean magic omg!!!!!!!

[@MonstersAbound]

To be fair at release it was broken and had no effect apart from spending you wom :p

[@slitter101]

Nah Nah Nah even if he can see only a certain distance. Stay with me now. he pulls himself into the future and looks into the past with his other head Thus allowing him to see the present. Assuming the seeing the future thing is in a sense an astral presence.

[@finariumtv8740]

He knows the future, and the past. But he never is capable of judging where in the timeline he is. So he knows the present but he is not capable of knowing when the next event is happening. That's one of the reasons he is collecting the books, since they can tell him what already happend

[@MonstersAbound]

Like he knows Snape killed Dumbledor but has misplaced his bookmark

[@dwreanchinotan]

turn 0, defeated your first enemy? exactly as planned!

[@bigsarge2085]

bok bok baGAAAAK!

[@thedrunkzaku]

Wait a second. That third legendary hero....is that supposed to be a Cthulhu Easter egg? Since he's an eldritch monster barely anyone has seen, and his whole thing Is driving mortals insane. Plus his language is just as weird as what you just said

[@samuelevans738]

What are you talking about? It's only Chuckles. /j

[@williamking1081]

Kiaros is split in twine, one head see past the other see the future. But both are blind to the present, not literally mind you. Kiaros just don't know what going to happen in the present, will that sword swing left or right? Will that wizard unleash a powerfully spell or run? will this happen? or this happen? The future head see it all but has to look at it in all manner of ways, for seeing the future is an art not like the past which has completely and utterly unfolds to the past head without bias, generalisation, nationalism, or nostalgia. This is way when every Kiaros fights, he's spell and attacks are always big and splashy, why try to be precise when you can easily screw up. Better to just drown your foe in complete power then risk it.

[@272rc]

Some people including me and the creator of this video think that games workshop didn’t think when making the future-past thing, until I had an explanation, the argument mainly is as told in the video that he wasn’t blind to the present as he could see into the future or past for a second or a millisecond. But my theory is that kairos can know what events will happen but doesn’t know when that’s why he didn’t see the maelstrom cause he knew it would happen but not know when

[@dainge44]

I believe Kairos is bad at melee because, if you cant see the present, and you change how you would move to avoid a future you cant see real time adjustment from the other person reacting to you changing fate.

[@dainge44]

thats just my guess

[@MonstersAbound]

You'd think he'd just like stab the enemy general when he was a baby or something.

[@dainge44]

@@MonstersAbound fair but also I don’t think he physically can react fast enough since he’s not really a warrior he’s a mage

[@chaplainarkanus6410]

What about a campaign with that one guy who does not serve ?

[@dumbboi4283]

I love Chaos knights hope to see you use some

[@ulvishen5733]

what does the blue bar on the units mean, I've been trying to google but cant find answers

[@franksvendsen5000]

barrier bar for tzeench :) (you can mouse over health bar on the bigger unit card to see barrier numericals for units that have a barrier)

[@Dking3078]

You do know that Archaeon has 3 schools of magic, right? Fire, metal and death

[@tunencio7288]

nope...he has a spell line filled with spells of 3 different schools like many LL like Teclis or Morathi...

[@Dking3078]

@@tunencio7288 That’s what I tried to refer to.

[@tunencio7288]

@@Dking3078 Yeah but Mr MA was saying was Baldy von Carstein has 2 lines of spells, in other words: two full lores..obviusly he has no special LL line instead but he´s the only caster who has that...

[@Dking3078]

@@tunencio7288 I only said that Archaeon has 3 schools of magic, as in a single line. I apologise if it sounded different but that’s what I tried to refer to.

[@tunencio7288]

@@Dking3078 don't sweat about it...I was just rambling

[@walterverlaan1286]

A fun one.

[@sirrenface9755]

Did they change his starting position ? Or is this a mod

[@MonstersAbound]

They did indeed change his start position. They mixed that southern area up a bit on general

[@bloodhat3097]

Will you do Immortal Empires Nurgle campain?

[@MonstersAbound]

Oh yes, of course!

[@Nakai865]

5:25 zuck?

[@jorndallermeaddrinker6968]

Ik this is an older video but why being able to see the future and past but not the present is bad because Kairos can see all possible futures from miliseconds to centuries later his future sight is not set in stone its like as if you were hanging out with your friend and instead of just seeing him right there and now you see him doing 500 different things and going 500 different directions all at once but which one is the right path the only way to onow for sure is if you guide him down one or ge starta to go down one

[@Professor.Farnsworth]

#RipSarthorael The only semi-legendary Lord Chaos got.

[@goodhunter9791]

Fuckin' love ya Monsters! Kid's shows make no goddamn sense unless it's Avatar: The Last Airbender

[@chaos2542]

Let go

[@ragnarian]

I think people 'hate' nurgle because out of all the gods, he is the one who the vast majority wouldn't willingly serve if he was real, he's just too disgusting Khorne, you have strength, physical power and one hell of a physique! Tzeentch, knowledge and magic! Slaanesh, pleasure and enjoyment Nurgle....disease, pustules, coughs and other unappealing stuff....

[@MonstersAbound]

I mean ok, true... BUT! all the other gods you gotta strive for shit. Sure Khorne sounds good until you realise you gotta fight other mega buff boys and girls forever... Ugh, exhausting. Nurgle is the Hufflepuff of Chaos. Sure he's nothing special but you just gotta be.

[@DRFESTERPUS69]

he see's possible futures right?

[@Decon7]

Also I'm sure Xiththlthlhluuq'phankn'ndhppeommn'naehlaebh is pronounced Xiththlthlhluuq'phankn'ndhppeommn'naehleabh

[@MonstersAbound]

I think I almost had it there

[@kaiserjoe2316]

Does Games Workshop ever think anything through?😆 Don't get me wrong. I've love to see some 40k tv/movies being made but it'll be so full of holes it'll never make a return on the investment. Yeah. yeah I'm a heretic.

[@Decon7]

Sad Ungrim didn't win, but looking forward to this one!

[@pinkfloyd19831]

I challenge you MA to say the word Xiththlthlhluug'phakn'ndhppeommn'naehlaebh 10 times really fast!

[@MonstersAbound]

I think that would cause me to have a stroke

[@osidiusemphatic]

Keen to see how this campaign goes, because my attempt at the Kairos campaign has been the roughest of any I've tried in any TW game. The horizontal front, that cheating Slaneshi faction programmed to declare war without any diplomatic indication they're going to do it, and both Teclis and Oxyotl on the other sides of you. I got to turn 30 in my campaign and couldn't catch Oxyotl, because he keeps moving his army to different sides of the mountain to the west, refusing to engage. The AI being programmed to run away rather than just fall back to a defensive position is one of the stupidest elements of this game.

[@Greytusks]

I like your stuff. But by listening to you in the 1st few minutes of the video today i realised it must be hard for you to stay monetized though. Especially with daddy YT's new auto detect algorithms being so trigger happy these days. Nonetheless, I enjoy your videos.

[@arcamean785]

Nurgles real problem is his economy is pure shit and his tech tree is just BOOORING, without mods it feels like a truly incomplete faction. Tzeentch on the other hand is a powerful faction with (at least on lower diffs) a stupidly nice auto resolve... UNTIL you get to Teclis then it's like "lawl u die now demon".

[@CorvidaeCorvus1]

i never liked Kairos because his entire see past and future stick is just so badly done, the future has been said by Tzeench himself that its not set, literally everyone with magic and future sight is like "oh yeah this might happen, but 1000000 other things might happen". Also, the whole two heads and two personalities just does not work, would have been better to make one half "old" the other half of his body "young"

[@garrettbetts2409]

Never