Undefeatable

[@Maxidemt]

- Sir, they brought just one guy! - Nice! - Sir, but it's Arbaal!! - run

[@Jefrejtor]

"Should we run-flee?" YES YOU SHOULD

[@Aphoti_K]

Lore accurate Arbaal just dropped.

[@rosalina2938]

but why isn't he with valkia and Woc?

[@timjohnson8362]

​@@rosalina2938because khorne needed a 3rd lord more than WOC needed a 9th

[@timjohnson8362]

​@rosalina2938 i think they want each monogod to have a greater demon, a lesser demon, and a mortal lord. I'd have swapped valkia and arbaal, but also aarbal was a bit too generic to have as a paid dlc lord

[@rosalina2938]

@@timjohnson8362 ah I see so it has nothing to do with lore, just so it fits and looks better in the UI. That also means tamurcan is mortal? And just ugly.

[@timjohnson8362]

@rosalina2938 yeah tamurkhan isn't a demon he's a mutant. And it's not so much a ui thing it's that khorne and woc play really differently. There's already a khorne woc lord but there was no mortal khorne lord

[@WinXitheP00h]

“When you got a big ass it’s easy to slap it.”- Legend 2024

[@dean_l33]

lol he should become a philosopher

[@quint3ssent1a]

☝️Wisdom👆

[@Solmyr77]

Empire people: Skaven don't exist. Arbaal: You are correct.

[@brettbaker8497]

"Not anymore"

[@armett96yt70]

Hey Legend. I'm the guy that sent this in, I'm glad you liked it. Arbaal is so busted that you can just tp DIRECTLY to the LL's and smash them up to get their traits. I only took like a 3 turn detour to get Wurzzags trait in this campaign.

[@jamescooke7243]

No, I'm spartacus

[@ShadowWalker-ng1it]

not anymore it seems started an arbaal campaign yesterday and only get generic factions as targets

[@MoaRider]

That's pretty much how I've been playing him. Teleporting him around to throw hands with the lords with the best defeat traits has been a blast. Having an enthusiastic walk through Cathay leaves Arbaal's army so scuffed, its beautiful.

[@armett96yt70]

@@ShadowWalker-ng1it im currently doing a second Arbaal campaign (the first was that fun) and have already had 5 LL targets so seems to be totally random. Just chop through some generic lords and you'll get LL's

[@ShadowWalker-ng1it]

@@armett96yt70 I dunno I didn't even get the dawi zharr lord at the start and that one was seemingly garantied because it's the stongest t1 army

[@DG9-q6f]

TW:Warhammer finally having a completely lore-accurate "All I am surrounded by is fear and dead (rat)men" moment.

[@CupcakeConjuror]

3200 kills, 4600 losses, those Skaven did a lot of friendly fire.

[@dogborf7909]

1400 heart attacks

[@Canadish]

On brand.

[@vahlok2568]

Thats normal for them especially with 4 thousand rats lmao

[@makvelo1001]

It's not friendly fire-fire if your rat-friend can stab-stab you in a back any moment yes-yes

[@justbaguette7746]

It's not friendly fire if you werent friends

[@tattastrophe]

He didn’t mention it but wanted to point out that Blessing of the Lady trait from loitering in the region with the unique Grail Knight Grave unusual location gives 15% ward save while leadership is above broken.

[@jmicjr304]

I got something else wth

[@taylank6418]

and where is that?

[@kamehameharem]

Thats only available for order factions though

[@Tuboshi0815]

@@taylank6418 "Unusual locations" are random.

[@GardEngebretsen]

Is there any place you can see which traits you can gain from unusual locations?

[@nroke1684]

Now this, this is the way of KHORNE! **BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!**

[@michaelfetter4541]

I like how they tried to hold you down then send in their "champions". Brood Horrors first, then the mutant rat ogres, then finally the abomination.

[@xathlak]

One change i don't see anyone talking about is the fact that all the bloodthirsters can now take an ability that disable magic attacks. Huge improvement for them in terms of abilities.

[@ryanb7701]

''they're killing their own units! thats lore-friendly'' fuck man that got a good chuckle outta me

[@quint3ssent1a]

14:00 - my goodness, straight up BROKE enemy lord! Lvl 3 skaven lord: *muffled screeching from below Arbaal's boot* Lvl 50 unstoppable force that is Arbaal: oh, sorry, little one, almost killed you by accident. You can go now. I need you to encourage more of your rats to come to me.

[@loowick4074]

I wonder if it's possible for the game to have a mechanic to increase attack speed. It would be much more enjoyable to watch arbaal go to town swinging his Axe near constantly instead of the 3-4 second pauses we get currently between attacks.

[@Synergy4375]

I think there’s mods for this, not used them myself but seen a few that alter attack speeds and stuff

[@pepper7880]

There are already units that have higher attack speed iirc

[@easytanksgaming3238]

Yeah i remeber mod that set that cd from ~4 seconds to almost 0. Watching swordmasters just delete dreadspears in nearly 10-15 seconds is... Beautiful %)

[@wormsblink2887]

I remember there was an old legend video where dwarfs could boost reload speed to the point the quarrelers were shooting faster than rattling guns. CA patched that so each unit now has a minimum reload time, so it’s not possible to stack buffs until you empty all your ammunition in seconds anymore.

[@hereisjohnny1875]

Planning on doing updated unit tier lists for the three dlc races?

[@zox3497]

I love legends tier list videos

[@jasonsearle7832]

I feel all Legendary characters for Khorne should have an ability to make the enemy unbreakable for a short time

[@Cynndora]

so what we need is a unholy manifestation for khorne to make target allied army get a map-wide effect that makes all enemies unbreakable.

[@darkrite9000]

While that would be funny and thematic, Arbaal doesn't use unholy Manifestations, only demon LL factions get those. So he wouldn't be able to use it, Skulltaker and Skarbrand would though.

[@saltedllama2759]

Arbaal is a very stat-loaded legendary lord. His own Physical Resistance upgrade is bugged and doesn't apply though. He can get it from items and defeat traits, but one of his skill spots that is supposed to give Weapon Strength and 10% Physical Resistance won't actually give him any Physical Resistance.

[@zefyrisd69]

no it does apply, you just have a high tendency with him to end in recruit stance since he jumps all around the world and has 1 turn recruit global recruitment, which causes him to have extremely low wind of magic reserves (encamp stance for Khorne has a -5 wind debuff). And very low wind of magic reserves cause a -10% phys resistance on the army for chaos god armies.

[@Hadjk]

holy shit lore accurate chainsword

[@mikecondo]

Arbaal = Undefeated ✅

[@elogic7368]

When the enemy army is outnumbered it is good When the enemy army is very outnumbered and still wants to fight it is a bad sign

[@Averageromanian123]

I got the helm of dreska trait on my vlad than on my isabel in only 20 turns it was a 2 men doomstack army...or a doomstack couple for the rest of the campaign . One the most epic and easiest campaigns I had.

[@tomas.zentrich]

I actually find it really annoying how so many units can't just charge out of masses like this and the AI just basically swarms all around you and even one stupid soldier being in the way can prevent a unit from getting away. Spamming "move" doesn't seem to help much. Meanwhile, the AI doesn't seem to suffer from this issue and regularly forces it's infantry through your front line to get to your ranged units and can easily get their single entities through as well without ever getting bogged down. There's always that one AI lord/hero that squeezes through in order to start attacking your spellcaster or disrupt missile units. I understand that that is the right strategy to aim for, but it's something that should either either apply to both the player and the AI or neither. In the battle here there is absolutely no reason that Arbaal shouldn't be able to just charge through those rats. I get the feeling that the AI just spams the attack command for all of its units in order to get them to encircle the single entities.

[@cjs4363]

In my experience, spamming attack does help and yeah I think the AI does issue orders like that, so that's why they can have more success I feel like the stopping power of infantry blobs is consistent though. Try making deeper formations. If you stretch every unit as wide as it goes, you are leaving fewer models to support each other from a charge breaking through. I support my lines with 2 anti large infantry units and deploy them in a thinner box formation to support units that are being charged by monsters/cavalry

[@tomas.zentrich]

@@cjs4363, I mean, I'm still winning every battle, it's just annoying to witness 😄Especially when the AI suicides its troops through my frontline because they simply MUST get to those ranged units of mine that aren't even shooting because of a line-of-sight "problem" 😄

[@GafferPerkele]

The AI essentially still spams orders for every individual unit non stop. Luckily, it doesn't glitch the game like back in Med2, but you can on weaker computers still experience the lag spikes. It is a damn annoying "cheat" they have, with their SE:s actually homing in on their targets, their cavalry disengaging proper, their flyers becoming helicopters and performing vertical take offs and so on. Not especially a TW unique thing for the AI to do, but it is always a quite annoying trait to have. Would rather the "AI" do smart commands then just be no-brain Serral on crack when playing against them.

[@isaacgorski6054]

The best part is he has awesome attack animations too

[@ondrejbeck3097]

Nice to see the lore accurate DLC release for once.

[@Asasz6]

For bonus ward save shenanigans, keep that dwarven lord in a region with minor cult grail knight's grave. This gives blessing of the lady as a trait, which is even _more_ ward save. You can easily get to 90% ward save on dwarven generic lords nowadays.

[@what3verfloatsurgoat391]

Arbaal campaign is the most fun I’ve had with total war in ages

[@Dracowinges]

Every Skaven and Ork in a 10km radius 'sounds like a bet to me-me!'...after the video, the orks would probably still try though.

[@Scynn]

love the one-man doomstacks. Also, something I found out way too late, while you are in cinematic mode with... k? I think is the key bind, you can hold space and see the units hp bars and portraits but nothing else shows up. allows for some nice shots while being able to micro a bit still.

[@FireTalon24]

It is 'k' and that is a very helpful tip, thank you.

[@randomhunter5549]

now getting +2k weapon strength can kill 20 shaven per swing, yipeee

[@tzeentch7118]

I thought the splash attacks are fixed depending on the base weapon strength of the unit. Its not a modifier, just an equation they used to set the number of targets hit.

[@Gigaknight1]

Taurox, defeat the twins, and every immediate surrounding faction. Grab the Sword of Khaine, and just spam abilities.

[@ebonargamer1829]

Arbaal: "Pathetic rats, Bring me Dwarves!"

[@balonkita185]

Finally. Now we need his campaign Legend

[@craigpoltenovage9148]

I know the sword of Khain is overused but with it Arbaal really is unbeatable. I have the maximum resistance of every type of damage in the game besides ward save which I’m at 60 percent with before turn 50, all I’m waiting on now is Bloodfeasters banner so I can have pure regeneration as well. He has perfect vigor, is unbreakable, expert charge defense, everything you could want is on this guy. The Blade of Khorne faction ability is just the icing on the cake. I just killed 4 full stacks of endgame crisis Chaos Dwarfs with just Arbaal and he was still full hp by the end, it’s absurd.

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

I really liken my Arbaal campaign. Without cheesing too hard, he feels appropriately strong but not crazy OP. He can hang with Archaon, but not generally win outright without being maxed. I had a good time fighting Archie around lvl 20 with decent stacks, it felt like a but satisfying loreful challenge.

[@Blacksheep-uy3qv]

Can't wait to see the Maneater doomstack. Dude with the crown at final stage is ridiculous.

[@lennygoldstein2109]

Tamurkhan will always be my favorite campaign but Arbaal’s is a close second.

[@feeniks100]

Pictured: Arbaal desperately trying to compete against the skaven for kills against their own units.

[@goldenskulll]

Khorne: Wtf are these Arbaal?! Arbaal: Rat skulls

[@lorenzmanalastas4839]

Anyone else bothered that in the intro idle animation, Arbaal looks like a glued on static mini on top of a Chaos Hound?

[@bosunbill9059]

when your RTS became a MOBA

[@Kabal1606]

I wish someone make a ARPG like this where you are solo Champion, against endless armies on a big battlefield !

[@oberonmeister]

Is he like a chaos spacemarine that somehow ended up in WHF? I mean... given that chainsword and armor looking a lot like older 40k power armor patterns from before the heresy. I'm not huge on WHF lore, so just wondering.

[@cutlervanalstine2984]

Short answer: no. However, Skarbrand is literally a 40k demon that tried to attack Khorne, so Khorne personally threw him like a meteor through the warp and into WHF (that's why he is called "the Exiled". The chainsword in the video is a special reward that Skarbrand can get, so in this save file they must have confederated Skarbrand and acquired it. The armor styles on WHF chaos units are similar to 40k because the Chaos Gods are actually the same between 40k and Fantasy, and they can access both settings through the warp/chaos wastes

[@Murasame13]

14:40 I would imagine a black ark would be pretty tough. Dark Elves have a lot of good anti-large units + magic attacks from black ark lord

[@dragontamer2474]

Legend I know it may be accessable and I don't know but where do you go to look up items? I have no idea how to get things like the helm of Draesca. Please and thank you!

[@JeffCaplan313]

It's one of the newly added drops and it's totally random, though I got mine from sacking Zharr-Naggrund

[@prax456]

Google "Total War Warhammer 3 Unique Items" first two results should be what youre looking for.

[@AlcaturMaethor]

What happens if Arbaal dies from the Helm of Draesca? Do you get Arbaal the Defeated, or is he just wounded?

[@J_Hodders]

The dialogue kept getting more and more Khorne-core. Legend getting chaos corrupted lol

[@baelinpeltier1130]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

[@fly_pie_1172]

why is he so static while mounted?? its like hes frozen

[@JeffCaplan313]

His turning speed is slow AF. Needs a banner of swiftness to shine.

[@fly_pie_1172]

@JeffCaplan313 i dont mean that i mean the riders animations

[@6xXx_Jack_xXx9]

​@@JeffCaplan313 he looks like a mannequin on his mount.

[@sermer6659]

I'M HANGING ON TO THE OTHER SIDE

[@anamericangrizzlybear8315]

I WON'T GIVE UP TIL THE END OF ME

[@12SickOne34]

There's a chainsword in Total Warhammer now? Funny

[@sonsy8762]

Chainsword has always been in TTW3, it's the short campaign victory reward for Skarbrand (Well, Khorne lord overall now), you can also get it as a reward with Valkia and in a quest with the changeling.

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

Waaayyyy back in Liber Chaotica, GW "subtlely" brought in chaos marines and specifically mentioned chainswords. I think its inclusion in this game was a direct nod to that. Much like bringing in Arbaal himself, or Harry Hammerstorm.

[@theburningcloud1214]

Let's not forget, anyone could get the Chainsword in Realms of Chaos if you went to Khorne's realm and got it as reward.

[@oflaM]

Just a question. How come arbaal isnt using the nemesis crown? Its aoe is pretty nice along with its ability.

[@maxgriffin7870]

love a good one man doom stack. One of the things I've been trying to accomplish with minimum success is a one man "doomstack" in Bannerlord with the Old World mod........ very hard

[@vvbr2372]

Arbaal might be my fav faction to play as

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

I like him more than Skarbrand, and after seeing the cheese of Skulltaker's mechanics, Arbaal is definitely my favorite of them.

[@hubertkafel640]

Hey when khorne, greenskin and ogre tier list?

[@The_Real_Iggy]

Wait how do you get the chainsword in IE?

[@TheRealSlobo]

Man i am kind of turned off i just downloaded the game is this really how you can cheese the game? Or this is outlier and hard to pull off?

[@jaycehickling9928]

Does he get a lot of splash damage when he’s at 3.2k damage or is there a set amount of entities a model hits?

[@The77Voice]

I wonder if you lost more enemies to the instant route for fighting at the edge of the map than you would have just fighting in the mid and using the aoe to disengage and go after the globadiers. Also though they have low moral they come back a lot so the edge of the map removing them altogether was tough. Hard to say though with the terror wrecking their moral...

[@toxicmongerofthehatefulbro5745]

ARBAAL ARBAAL ARBAAL! YEAH!

[@csours]

They put Rich Evans in Warhammer?

[@shinzed2500]

Can you do this with many of the OG Lords? I know the vampire counts can be badasses but I think Arbaal would kick Grimgor's ass all day and he's supposed to be the orciest of orcs to ever orc.

[@Sulejmis]

what about a talisman of trickster instead? he has enough healing. i don't know each hp/ per model. and arbaals explosion will besure magical. another +20?% would be nice. he did most of killing with explosion anyway. + which one apply explosion radius bonus and damage? is it Elspeth or Zhatan?

[@alexblaze7677]

Did Legend rate him?

[@dommather573]

How do you get the chainsword? Looks dope

[@jfgresham]

short victory

[@hoomanlel5149]

One-man doomstack tier list when?

[@TheSpartan451]

Killing a bunch of rats in your basement does not qualify you to call yourself "the Undefeated", Arbaal

[@voltaire9176]

Killing a bunch of rats with swords, magic and guns might

[@leonidas231]

Arbaal shouldve been put more near Cathay

[@ryanerickson8138]

But Legend how do we defeat Arbaal?!

[@Sylvanyr]

i died yesterday because of the helmet. Got the 1% on turn 78 :D

[@aaron9777]

Rngesus blessed me with power of draesca on 2 characters like 2 turns after the other.

[@wesleygevaert7959]

@legendoftotalwar I started an Arbaal campaign after the hotfix, there seems to be something wrong with aquiring legendary traits, I killed kostaltyn, thrott and wurrzag early in the campaign. I got the trait that says I defeated them, but only the kostaltyn trait was applying. No 10% physical resistance from wurrzag or 10% hit points from thrott. Anyone else experience this? (I also noticed long ago that saved lord characters with legendary defeat traits don't apply said traits). Let me know if you want a save file. (no mods active atm)

[@wesleygevaert7959]

I did some testing, thinking it was because I was loading saved characters. But now I think that when Arbaal gains his mount, he loses all trait effects he gained before that (while still keeping the defeat lord X trait, it's just not applying anymore)

[@tibche3891]

So we can all agree that all 3 LL campaigns are turbo easy ? Super fun tho

[@Dimitriterrorman]

even if you dont build for him to be a doomstack he is still very op, if he had a bit higher mass he would be more fun aswell

[@austinape9466]

4600 kills on 1 man khorne favor - 1 Khorne - "eh, not bad i guess"

[@SylvisNuvara]

"it was just rats, go fight something tougher next time."

[@TheStrudelJonny]

Tbf i’m gonna have to wait a few weeks to play again, i was running 300+ mods and i know for a fact most are broken

[@zemperish]

that strategy tag doesn't seem very fitting anymore

[@Rageaholic2213]

ARBALLIN

[@bar_jumper1312]

current patch makes charging through anything quite the challange... today my stonehorne got stuck on basic marauders.... normaly it punches a nice whole through eny formation

[@liamevers115]

when a historical tw vid😢

[@RubberPaws]

Just don't let a blood host get lightning strike next to him otherwise if they lose he becomes defeated. Some bullshit!

[@AntwKats]

stay till the end, cheesie tip at the end.... :D

[@eldeebcampeador]

My favorite characters in the game by far 1) Settra 2) Arbaal 3) Grimgor 4) Malekith 5) Wulfrik Arbaal is so damn good, he finally made me wanna play a chaos lord!

[@sergiovihe7669]

Pls more one men army good video.

[@vargknight]

I don't really get the helm of draesca. It's never really worth it, the bonuses you get are not worth the chance that your lord can be out for 10 turns at all. Even the trait you can potentially get is still not worth that chance. The new items in general are kind of shit, apart from a couple that are good for ranged lords. If you are a faction without ranged lords why would you ever use them?

[@АнтонЗайцев-ш5д]

They didn't have a Dwarven bomber. There 500+ dmg

[@eduardoribeiroucv9630]

Is he the strongest now?

[@Damesanglante]

Josef Bugman is the strongest. He have the beer.

[@hooktraining3966]

Cousin Okri is actually stronger

[@lewishorsman2219]

I actually want to know which legendary lords are the best OMDS but are the best WITHOUT the sword of khaine or the nemesis crown. Who is the baddest motherfucker without equippable buffs? Who needs nothing but traits & standard items to be a monster?

[@nathanspreitzer6738]

Malus starts with 40% ward save base so he’s def the best without any items

[@Hadi-ek1ot]

talisman of preservation would be better than collar of khorne, also there is a tech to get 5 more ward save that he didn't take yet. Anyway Skulltaker fully maxed out is still stronger than Arbaal as an one man doomstack.

[@JohnJohn-r4l]

Arbaal got nothing on my boy Bloodthirsty Barry I say this because Bloodthirsty Barry solo killed Aekold Helbrass, Harold Hammerstorm, a generic Tzeentch lord who killed my bloodthirster in just a few hits and a generic chaos hero all in once battle He had full health at the end due to regen. I’m not kidding.

[@BlacK40k]

Who is Bloodthirsty Barry

[@ZeroFormLak]

Barry solos Archaon but he doesnt because he gets paid

[@JohnJohn-r4l]

@@BlacK40k he was Valkia’s starting hero and at the time was around lvl 30, and isn’t even a legendary hero. Just some dude.

[@JohnJohn-r4l]

@@ZeroFormLak funnily enough I’ve spent the entire playthrough trying to balance my delicate jenga tower of an economy

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

​@@JohnJohn-r4lit has always been a lot of fun running a full hero stack like some adventure party. They can get pretty nasty. I just had a Khorne Champion survive his Herald Lord and bloodletter hero in a battle against Archaon. He was higher level than all of them and the only thing that kept my meager forces from chain routing. He killed off some spawn and the Severed Claw aspiring champions who would have otherwise killed off my marauders and won the battle. Very satisfying!

[@humantwist-offcap9514]

I AM AN ARMY.

[@harrower3365]

Undefeatable, so far.

[@Ragatokk]

On foot he could get knocked around tough, that is very annoying.

[@Panchito2696]

Wait... but aren't chainswords supposed to be a 40k thing? We're sure Arbaal isn't a World Eater berserker that got yeeted to Fantasy after Tzeentch or something realized it was easier getting rid of him that way?

[@fernandojohnsen7639]

You play a Lvl50 against Lvl3 its irellevant how Many Skeeven you fight you WONT DIE

[@bitboy9982]

this arbaal.. isnt as strong as mine I have him with the sword of khane (Max) and the nemesis crown max (very hard very hard btw :D)

[@KrytoRift]

What is the power of drasca and how to you get it?

[@nathanspreitzer6738]

Just a rare item, all rng, I got it in 1 of my last 3 campaigns all 100+ turns if that helps show how rare it is to see

[@KrytoRift]

@nathanspreitzer6738 it has to be super rare. I'm today years old when I heard of it lol Playing arbaal rn and I'd love to get that trait for him

[@trifide8007]

alexa, play undefeatable from sonic frontiers

[@Metallica8589]

Khorne favor: 1 Toxic af.

[@Donthegod420]

damn this woulda been an awesome video if you wouldnt have fought them right next to the edge of the map kinda ruined it u made the fight easier by cheese routing them

[@voltaire9176]

BUt legeNd ChEeSe iS crINGE, seriously though you do realise, at the start of the fight, he said why he was fighting there right? So that he could get to the artillery before they had a chance to attack their own troops and thus denying him the kills