Units You Should Always Recruit For Every Race - Warhammer 2

[@LegendofTotalWar]

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[@alessandrobeschi6230]

Legend can you guarantee that are legit keys?

[@nighthowk117]

@@alessandrobeschi6230 they are i use the website for like 4 years

[@randomchap7952]

ah g2a 2.0

[@nighthowk117]

@@randomchap7952 its older then g2a and unlike g2a they aint shady

[@alessandrobeschi6230]

@@nighthowk117 This does not guarantee anything

[@Skanic]

For anyone who needs it 2:43 Tomb Kings 3:24 Skaven 4:28 Dark Elves 6:00 Dwarfs 7:19 Vampire Counts 9:55 Greenskins 11:17 Wood elves 12:36 Empire 14:13 Beastmen 15:05 Bretonnia 16:32 Vampire Coast 17:45 Lizardmen 21:22 Chaos Warriors 23:35 High Elves 27:15 Norsca

[@TRasul]

Thank you king

[@nicholasgauvin2390]

Thx bro

[@akselshehaj647]

Your the man ☝️☝️

[@mythicallegendary3992]

ahh, a hero arrives to our town, welcome.

[@spig3547]

MVP.

[@X4V3RY]

You don’t have to pay skeletons? You’ll hear from the skeleton union soon.

[@skipper4126]

Will it be led by Evil Ash?

[@levinb1]

"Sir, I have a call coming into the office. It's from the Skeleton Union; it's the union rep... Skeletor."

[@崔莱]

@Office Of Wishful Thinking Elect If the commies are brain dead what does that say about the US who fought a cold war with the USSR, didn't win against north korea, and fucking lost to vietnam?

[@beastwarsFTW]

I pay my skeletons with milk.

[@hovisuk4578]

" I have a bone to pick with you..."

[@notoriousgoblin83]

Legend on cygors: they just can't hit small units. *proceeds to bombard a single man on horseback with death by pebble.*

[@EpicRenegade777]

horseback units are large units.

[@notoriousgoblin83]

@@EpicRenegade777 well, single entity units

[@poyloos4834]

@@notoriousgoblin83 you have a point

[@mandowarrior123]

CA put in special code so Legend eats his words minutes later.

[@helikos1]

I'm sure in my WE story campaign that the cygors projectiles homed in on my troops. Must have been removed mortal empires.

[@crazycakemanflies]

28:03 watching that Luminark miss 19 mammoths was actually incredibly painful...

[@chronodono215]

@@diegowushu just delete your comment.

[@Persona6Blue]

@@chronodono215 This does not have my consent

[@chronodono215]

@@Persona6Blue "you try hitting something with 19 mammoths coming for you" pretty sure he misinterpreted what crazycake said

[@ElCalvazo]

The AI probably thought "Hey, it's that wasting ammo cheese guy, let's not aim at the unit so we'll hit him when he dodges the shoot".

[@asyraafazman]

@@chronodono215 you don't read a lot do you.

[@calvinlemieux5841]

3:30 Legend really giving the people what they want by showing 60 uninterrupted seconds of ratling gun sweetness

[@bingobongo1615]

Calvin Lemieux It traumatized me. Who thought that the Skaven need another OP ranged unit?

[@Supadrumma441]

@@bingobongo1615 Member the days when High Elves had the best ranged units, I member!

[@ChadtronicFan]

More than 30 seconds of Ratling Gun footage may as well be hardcore porn to a Skaven player.

[@Nesharil]

Timestamps for each unit: 2:45 - Necrosphinx (Tomb Kings) 3:25 - Ratling Guns (Skaven) 4:28 - Shades (Dark Elves) 5:59 - Organ Gun (Dwarves) 7:18 - Skeleton Warriors and Spears (Vampire Counts) 9:55 - Doomdiver Catapult (Greenskins) 11:15 - Waywatchers (Wood Elves) 12:34 - Hellstorm Rocket Battery (Empire) 14:11 - Cygor (Beastmen) 15:03 - Hippogryph Knight (Bretonnia) 16:31 - Necrofex Colossus (Vampire Coast) 17:43 - Stegadon (Lizardmen) 21:20 - Dragon Ogre Shaggoth (Warrios of Chaos) 23:32 - Sisters of Avelorn (High Elves) 27:13 - War Mammoth (Norsca)

[@KurustheGreat]

Kinda hurts the content creator when you do something like this, dude. If you want to be more helpful than hurtful, take out the actual units and just timestamp the race. Otherwise, why even timestamp it?

[@uhhhyeag20]

@@KurustheGreat... How does it hurt him? It just helps people who want to get info about a specific faction.

[@lizgayle14]

@Moritz P. Anyone who has played this game could tell you the list. The point of the video is seeing what Legend has to say about them.

[@willc1294]

@@lizgayle14 nothing for dwarves that's a must recruit unit?

[@onetwothreefourfive12345]

Swordman939 it doesn’t hurt him at all you moron it just helps people who are interested in specific factions. Its a long vid. Grow up

[@uhhhyeag20]

I love how each of the factions is in the most cursed place on the map possible.

[@respomanify]

And despite being established factions in the lore they are puny one province minors at start.

[@pain002]

@Jesus McBeth nah. Tehenhauin starts with one capital even if he is Ai. Same for Gor Rok same for Mazda mundi. They all start out with 1 settlement

[@TheOriginalPoon]

Pain Nightmare I think that only one that does start with a ton of territory is Mannfred lol

[@21specter]

@@TheOriginalPoon Nah, still only Castle Drakenhof, you have to take eschen and waldenhof from the Templehof faction

[@COBfreak1]

@@21specter AI doesn't, AI starts with the entirety of Eastern Sylvania and Western Sylvania except for Schwartzhafen

[@handleonafridge6828]

There’s 4 ways to identify which army you’re facing: If they instantly retreat during engagement, they’re Skaven. If you are met with a suicidal charge into a superior force, they’re Skaven If you are met with a giant monster capable of taking on armies, they’re Skaven. If you’re met with a barrage of inescapable doom from all directions, they’re Skaven.

[@samueldisturbing761]

My life as Thorgrim.. oof

[@x0lopossum]

12:23 RIP Sigvald, he was a real G.

[@andregon4366]

I cri evrytiem

[@Pedro-zu3uq]

oof

[@systemshocker7634]

Insert Monty Python ... Run Away!!!

[@JackPhoenixCz]

You'd think he'd be fine with a shaft stuck up his ass.... weird.

[@Vince120D]

maybe it just me or it really seem he took an arrow to his @$$

[@holdinmcgroin8639]

Wow, didnt expect White Lions to be in there, but you really sold me on them!

[@Nozdormu1982]

Exactly. Arguably the best unit in the high elves roster. The only unit in the game that has the anti-legendoftotalwar bonus.

[@HeavyMetalGamingHD]

"Bloated corpse doomstack" *noted

[@Prushinthespirit]

War Wagons were a really nice addition to this top as well

[@ascendedbro1828]

"Always go full gobbo" is the best advice I heard from this video. I wreck everyone with greenskins now!

[@ascendedbro1828]

And I really did not know carrion spam is unbeatable!

[@HanzGrozny]

What I got from this video is: Artillery, Artillery ,Artillery and some missiles unites “Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets.”

[@brohvakiindova4452]

don't forget the skeleton spam, which would be toast within seconds against any kind of artillery

[@Glaskruset]

I started playing high elf because its so easy to kill anything with their archers in the beginning

[@brohvakiindova4452]

@@Glaskruset until the enemy brings war wagons

[@lucasbeck1391]

@@brohvakiindova4452 lol war wagons

[@brohvakiindova4452]

@@lucasbeck1391 sorry chariots*

[@tor9719]

Giant in an army: exists LegendofTotalWar: I recommend you to disband him immediatley

[@Xaphnir]

I've got a Chaos campaign where I'm building a giant doomstack right now.

[@tor9719]

@@Xaphnir i would love to see his reaction to that 😂

[@KazeKoichi]

Actually, having a giant in army is not that bad if you have no alternative, like Malagor starting with one, and it's tier 5 unit in tier 1 army. He could be effective for some time before you get to better units. It's recruiting giants what's a heresy, because you can recruit better units instead.

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@KazeKoichi Which is why I like the expanded roster mod for Beastmen. Sure the "Ghorgon" is just a dual weilding minotaur scaled up to giant height. But it's got like 71 speed. (And the minotaur rolling and shoulder slam animations are terrifying when a 40 foot giant slams down on like a third of an infantry formation at once.)

[@DIEGhostfish]

It gives a great alternative to the Cygor and an equivalent to a Mammoth or Shaggoth.

[@LorePlayingGames]

Skeleton spam is super lore friendly. In the books "Vampire Wars", "Vampireslayer" and Nagash trilogy it was all about large armies of skelly bois and zombos.

[@goransekulic3671]

I prefer Grave Guard and Ghosts myself. But yeah, for support armies, you can't go wrong with Skelly Bones spam.

[@DIEGhostfish]

I did not like the Vampire Wars trilogy, it made Isabella Von Carstein into a full Bathory, but Warhammer already HAD a Bathory in the form if the Tsarina Vampire, hell, even the OG Lahmian sorta fit too. It felt unnecessary and made her and Vlad less distinct from Mannlet and the other guy.

[@helikos1]

It's brilliant. I bet there have been GW fans in creative assembly since it's inception. They've done a fantastic job on creating Warhammer for total war.

[@Luke-tt3dt]

"zombos" Australia detected.

[@NightdrifterDK]

"How many mammoths do you need?" "Yes."

[@mathdarven5634]

"For how many armies?" " *YES* "

[@mgkim0518]

"Congratulations! You became BANKRUPT!" "FXCK"

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

"The war mammoth is the only unit that can kill this many in one hit" Bloated corpse would like to have a chat with you....

[@christopherjones5700]

Bloated corpses should be thought of as vortex spells at 300g a pop if you have to raise dead right before a battle.

[@ahmadtarek7763]

@@christopherjones5700 this is literally the best description I've ever seen of the big boom bois , noice.

[@OtterSpace975]

The bloated corpse is garbage. Takes up one of your valuable unit slots that could hold a Necrofex Colossus, or at least SOMETHING that won't have to be replaced right after. It slows you down if you don't have the ability to raise another, it charges you per use, and if the enemy has any ranged at all, they'll easily take it out 9 times out of ten. Mammoth on the other hand, doesn't require replacement every time, and can charge through the enemy lines to pester the missiles. Apples to oranges, friend.

[@ahmadtarek7763]

@@OtterSpace975 every one knows that by the time you you can recruit necrofix , you are not going to have a lot of bloated corpses ,they are EARLY GAME units , plus they are a meme unit which makes them a must have . I'm guessing your a multi-player person as they are absolutely shit in multi , but I have literally never lost a single bloated corpse to the AI without killing a bunch of them with it , not a single one .

[@KamikazKid]

Yeah gotta love Aloha Snackbar Squad.

[@AJCherenkov]

Man, it still blows me away how much the explosion rework shook up the meta. I remember when the rocket batteries were considered a joke unit.

[@victuz]

The joke unit today is the White Lions.

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

You say skelespam plus strong lord is cheesy, but it's also lore-accurate.

[@MrArrow54]

not really fun tho. i enjoy them as sacrificial pawns not cheap spams

[@whiskizyo2067]

gameplay > lore in a game

[@SemanticaPalpites]

Mosley is great. Greetings from Brazil to all BUF comrades.

[@TempestWolf1]

"it doesn't have as much armor"... the bastilladon actually has the most armor (not that it matters, just saying)... that's why in lore it's the only one you can mount a solar canon on... because the heat can't penetrate its back plates :))

[@pain002]

Yeah but this ankylosaurus mixed with an armadillo on steroids has less armor than chaos warriors or dark elf elites... I am a salty lizardmen main that hates that they don't have the most armor

[@Prushinthespirit]

@@pain002 too bad I'm a salty lizardmen main as well and I hate that they were given a useless rampage passive "just because dinosaurs", while crazy plague monks, rat ogres, flagellants, chaos spawns etc remain perfectly obedient as if they were circus doggies. Not even mentioning temple guards, fleeing from the battlefield while RoR unit of filthy stormvermin is unbreakable...

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@Prushinthespirit My tabletop rulebook explains only cold one riders suffer from the stupidity treat, and only the mounts. the riders can try to damage anything they get close enough to. So yeah, this part is blasphemy to me as well. Temple guards are unbreakable as long as the lord is with them, so when mine broke once I was shocked. Like: guys, all you had to do was delay the entire enemy army. What part didn't you get? Chaos spawns controllable? dafuq? didn't even think of this yet, but indeed: a spawn pulling back is like burning water: you can write it down, but it aint gonna happen... oh, and OP, maybe he was only being cynical about the armour.

[@codrincx]

@@bogdanleshenko7149 And yet, the rampage passive exists. Why on earth isn't it slapped on the Chaos Spawn, which is lore-wise the single closest unit to needing such a thing?

[@R17inator]

"Only the Bastiladon can withstand the heat of the solar engine" is a pretty dumb lore reason because the Skink crew operating in close proximity to the solar crystal should get cooked alive if that was the case.

[@TheWildmanden]

23:47 When you unexpectedly spot a pretty girl

[@magicturtleult1481]

I would actually really like to see faction guides from Legend. Like what the cheese is, how to use their agents (specifically their traits), and potentially technologies. I just think his gameplay is so outstanding that I want to imitate it and use it to grow my proficiency in the game. In case Legend reads this: thank you for the content! You produce amazing videos and watching you play has easily elevated my play from barely passable at Very Hard to Legendary.

[@lorcanman]

"The great thing about skeletons is that you don't have to pay them" Try explaining this to anybody who doesn't play Warhammer 😅

[@gabbo7101]

you mean people who do play warhammer? Skeletons, even in age of sigmar, are very expensive as they are best played in mass. you idealy want skeleton units in 30 or 40s, and its about 35 bucks for a box of 10 skellies. If your running a skeleton focused army, its gonna cost you. True to most horde armies where you can only get units in boxes of 10. If your gonna run something like goblins or skink-focused beastmen, it would cost less then a skelly focused legions/vampire counts.

[@helikos1]

@@gabbo7101 It's a wonder why GW has become a shadow. Far too expensive and it's a shame they killed their LOTR game. I played 40k over fantasy. Preferred Dawn of War over that. Pay 40 quid for a game I have for life over 40 quid for two packs of fire warriors that I have to build and paint, and pay of paint.

[@petermuller3995]

@@helikos1 GW is very succesfull right now.

[@helikos1]

@@petermuller3995 Yeah ok pete 🙄

[@kieranpearson5096]

@@helikos1 It is lol. It's still one of the biggest names and most successful lol. Most people still buy from it because it's better than most places. I can buy a box of figures for about 25-30 and another place will sell for 40

[@ShionWinkler]

"Not that High Elves have a problom with economy," Best understatement of the day. lol 🤣😂😃

[@honestindomitus1342]

“So greenskins suck except for the doomdiver” Me: *looks at campaign where entire army got routed by three empire stacks, only for Grimgor to get 500 kills and win the battle* Okay, but have you considered that I’m the one true git.

[@mythical2551]

this was before the Warden and the Paunch update, so they're much better now

[@honnorgaurd]

You made my heart sing when you got to the bretonians and showed an entire stack of hippogryphs. Hands down one of my favorite units in the game. you have not truly played this game until youve swarmed an enemy army or capital with an entire army of these

[@andrewdeanna]

12:40 that shot with Karl franz is really dope

[@EridianX]

I really like the dragon stack for highelves too. Might not be as versatile as the sisters, but very few ai armies are going to have the amount of ranged units needed to kill a full army of dragons. Your dragon breath attacks are going to wipe out pretty much everything. One dragon breath will pretty much kill or at least take out a giant chunk of any group of units, so that when you do land they are already pretty decimated. Plus each dragon has more than one charge on their breath, so you can just hang out in the air waiting for it to cooldown and use it again. Every fight i had with them was basically this. 1: use all first breath attacks on their ranged units. 2: with ranged units dead or running i wait for cooldown. 3: now i use breath on anything else. 4: rinse and repeat until breath attacks are done. Very few armies are going to be alive still after using all your breath charges. And any that are, will not survive the dragon slamming down from the sky into melee.

[@CocoBuckets879]

This kind of video is how i learnt to play - so helpful as it explains why and how the troops should be used - i couldn't finish Norsca until proving grounds tbh. Empire always had a few semi doomstacks but no real one i found?

[@alfonsocyrusjoshua9551]

thats essentially it demi halbers spam on bretonia is a fun doom stack though with a war priest

[@poyloos4834]

yeah, learning total war via legend is definitely the fastest way to just get better at the campaign, if you don't care about cheesing. He is probably the best campaign player in the game.

[@CocoBuckets879]

@@poyloos4834 I used to try and play this game like HOMM and was failing non stop until i found his channel - now i rate this as the best game of all time

[@Mylander69]

Yeah, that's the Empire essentially, a bunch of versatile, pretty good units but nothing standout. Except for War Wagons. Those are uniquely awful.

[@leadpaintchips9461]

@@poyloos4834 and even if you care about cheesing, he explains why it's cheese. So we can improve without using cheese, because he explains the underlining systems that allows him to cheese.

[@wowddo]

The skeleton spam was incredibly powerful in the Proving Grounds as well since new lords didn't increase each others upkeep, resulting in way more spam

[@petershanks3049]

Absolutely jaw dropping cinematic shots there m8 , really great way to advertise the game , CA should take some notes :-)

[@nwahnerevar9398]

CA's marketing for Warhammer has been pretty great though?

[@matthewscott5634]

Last time I was this early we had to auto resolve sea battles

[@ciaochrystusa4778]

Before watching - I only hope there is a mention of hellstorm rocket battery spam in the Empire part.

[@grindelz]

U guessed it

[@nickbearly4941]

Aggressive Tubesock comment fits the name

[@grindelz]

@Aggressive Tubesock lol I've seen you already in other comments

[@hannibal9532]

Shades can have up to 214 range, so Shades are great, FOR THE DRUCHII!

[@pocketshit]

barbstorm is that name of power trait right?

[@hannibal9532]

@@pocketshit Shadowdart +35% range, Barbstorm gives you mostly ammo and only +5% range, it is still good pick but if you want to outrange HE for example you need shadowdart

[@bepper66]

@@pocketshit What are Name of Power traits?

[@pocketshit]

@@bepper66 when your dark elves Lord reaches a certain level you get to choose 3 name options and then pick one out of two, they can give you certain traits like giving your lords 10% ward save, giving your witch elves less upkeep and recruit rank or give you more relations with dark elves faction and less building cost

[@bepper66]

@@pocketshit Ah nice to know, thank you!

[@lucasbogea]

Yeess, the guides are back, thanks a lot for the great content!!

[@XoriniteWisp]

Since Legend doesn't mention it himself, Instant Gaming is what's called a gray market key reseller - they're not an authorized seller of game keys. Rather, they buy them in bulk in regions where they're cheap and resell them in regions of the world where they cost more. Sometimes this works without a hitch, other times you'll find that the game you've been playing suddenly for a while suddenly disappeared from your Steam account, or that the key simply doesn't work (usually it says that it has already been used). Gray market key resellers can save you a lot of money, but it's always a gamble and it's important that people know that.

[@simonsalgueiro6217]

You are making it sound like if that's common. It isn't really. I've got several keys from sites like g2a and for years got literally 0 problems apart from one I got and didn't work. The seller just gave me a new one in 10 minutes and works untill now perfectly.

[@valky5318]

So a person could just create a Steam Account with a VPN and pretend they live in India to then gift games cheaply to themselves?

[@Botsmannen]

So in short, don'r risk it. Use Isthereanydeal instead.

[@allgoodnamestaken123]

If I remember Instant Gaming buys keys in bulk from devs and shops, obviously with discount, slap a bit of a margin on top and sell them. (and yes buying keys elsewhere and activating them in Steam is legitimate and supported thing) Didnt hear any shenanigans about cheap russian keys being sold into different region - thats more of a G2A thing.

[@XoriniteWisp]

@@simonsalgueiro6217 I didn't mean to imply that it's really common, I honestly don't know how common it is. I think some gray market resellers are more reliable than others, and I don't know enough about IG to say either way. I just think people should know that the risk exists, and that if it happens you're out of luck.

[@Rafalskimi]

1:26 Oh, Legend, you rascal.

[@MegaFarinato]

That new hat he got really does well on him!

[@minhqun]

When was this taken? Is that him back in the trampolines selling days?

[@saltefan5925]

I'd like to make an argument for the Poison Wind Mortars instead of the Ratling Gunners. Yes, the Ratling guns make most field battles into a one-sided slaughter. They are incredibly strong. However, three poison-wind mortars are almost able to auto-win any siege battle by themselves if you are patient enough. Especially with the support of a warlock engineer.

[@OnlyOnePieniek]

6 ratling guns shooting looks sooo much cooler.

[@shorewall]

Well, Legend did say not to full spam with Skaven, but to mix it up.

[@pantswilder]

Hell, I think Jezzails are the most required unit in the skaven doomstack. It is basically Plague Priests, Ratling Guns, Catapults, Mortars, and Jezzails. Well, the catapults can kinda do the mortar's job and vice versa. The Ratling Guns are unnecessary half the time because nothing but shattered remnants make it past the longer-range stuff. But you need something to kill enemy artillery, steam tanks, flying lords, wizards, etc. And the jezzail are the ones to get that done. Best to have all of the different Dakka, but the Jezzails are the least optional in my book. And unlike ratling guns, they can help in a siege (albeit with some luck about map layout, you need ideally a hill overlooking the walls, or a side angle on the battlements or most of their shots are wasted).

[@Aredel]

Mortars are good, but the sheer damage output of ratling guns makes them way better, not to mention they have a slowing effect on anything caught in their barrage.

[@remito7839]

@@Aredel And not to mention that any unit the Ratlings touch will have its leadership dropping faster then a bullet ridden dragon.

[@stephenmeade8501]

Possibly a video series idea... How to optimize levelling wizards of the different magic lores? Could possibly do this for legendary lords too...

[@GoobertownHobbies]

very useful, thanks!

[@arielrodriguez1352]

love u, king.

[@Rybonator]

Good to know the Goober and I are both deciding on some unites in our Warhammer 2 virtual armies at the same time :)

[@GoobertownHobbies]

@@Rybonator hehehehe. I've been dive-bombing with terradons all week!

[@kapitan19969838]

Underrated comment

[@SilentMorbus2]

thanks for that legend,i owe you all my campaigns. you teach me how to play,can't thank you enough for that

[@Ben-jy1bj]

That massive blood explosion of the shaven during the skeleton unit breakdown 😳

[@Throckfest]

17:22 rest of his cannon crew gets absolutely obliterated and hes just like "i'm out"

[@himeagain1490]

That shot of stormvermin being hit by wind of death was simply beautiful.

[@GallorKaal]

"The thing is with the Empire is that your primary enemy is going to be Greenskins, Norsca and Chaos." *laughs in getting steamrolled in Reikland by the Dark Elves while my main army is fighting the Chaos armies in Kislev*

[@rickyroughton8098]

24:00: "The AI is not necessarily going to recruit armies to take out your doomstacks" Tell that to the Empire in my Kholek campaign. I was spamming Draggon Ogre Shaggoths, I actually had seven doomstacks of the things rampaging around the map by this point, and then they started hunting my lords (which can't stay grouped up because horde infighting) down with large groups of full armies consisting of about 75% pikes, halberds, and huntsmen. The few units that WEREN'T anti-large were anti-armor...

[@hugh3532]

I'm pretty sure when you get the top tier units for chaos they dont take the horde attrition. i had my archaon with full stack of chosen and kholek with full stack of shaggoths and was fine. maybe its a technology or on the skill tree idk.

[@hugh3532]

Yeah just read now its just marauders that take attrition from horde infighting.

[@TwingeckoPPTP]

"Tomb kings have trouble with large units and cavalry" Sepulchral stalkers would like to know your location.

[@Milenos]

Sister of Averlorn: *Exist* White lion of Trash: Are you me but be... Sister: Stop, no, im just better. don't put me in the lots with you looser.

[@sillyboy9314]

White Lions campaign is doable

[@tyhy1]

It's a real nice challange 👍 regular archers and white lions. It's hard. But a challange nonetheless 😁😁

[@deni140492deni]

@@sillyboy9314 nope, boosted white Lions lose agains raw stormvermin with Shields,they're Just trash

[@andregon4366]

@@deni140492deni found that the hard way. RIP me.

[@Milenos]

@Jordan Winders Well if you check the stat, their not supposed to be that bad, but they dont perform for a tier 3 unit. No missile resist and low armor piercing value, can't hold the line at all and well High Elve are a ranged focus faction, having really good range unit.

[@AFranco527]

One thing I noticed about bloated corpses is that they have a ridiculously high auto resolve value. Not to mention if you play Vampire Coast in a blob liek you do with the counts you can use bloated corpses hiding in nearby forests as a pseudo wind of death and eliminate 3 units with one.

[@wildweebear2684]

Started playing Total War: Warhammer 2 sheerly based off of your content. The footage of the game that you record is bloody brilliant and you can see the effort you put into the gameplay. Thank you, loving the game.

[@hughcopson1799]

A Chaos Chosen,a hulking warrior who's spent their entire life training and killing, clad in the finest armour chaos smiths can make and blessed by the dark gods. Empire artilleryman: "haha, helstorm rocket go weeee".

[@bificommander]

6:44 I like how the flames keep hovering on the outline of where the Giant was. Kind of a Loony Toons vibe.

[@chrisg4305]

Watching an old LoTW video when this pops up? Not the only thing that popped up, that's for sure

[@valentinbalbinot5054]

"Not that giants were ever a threat" xDD Hahaha I see what you did there :)

[@이가람-s3w]

4:58 while Legd is explaining shades, all I see is that poor guy getting kicked around like a football...

[@Vasiliy9hells]

Very nice job with editing! Much better than just static campaign screen. Glad to see quality progression in your videos!

[@helikos1]

It's very interesting how all your advice is an exact parallel of the tabletop game. VC armies are HQ based, Orks are suppose to be cheap, trash numerous units. Dwarf strengths are their arty and leadership. Skaven make use of their inventiveness.

[@christianpuga9424]

Idk why I love that *_OOF_* part so much.

[@hagalathekido]

10:55 can we all just recognize this beautifull stuka divebomb?

[@ferofax]

I LOVE those yolo goblins with wings. And I especially love those gopro viewpoints lmao. I don't even play this game, but seeing those makes me want to XD

[@samblanton9010]

“Dragon armies aren’t worth the cost” Me with my free star dragon stack: are you sure about that

[@hmitchell9759]

How did you get them to be free?

[@samblanton9010]

@@hmitchell9759 Takes a lot of upkeep perks to add up to at least 100%: (20%) Dragon Willed (60 Influence trait on the lord) -20% upkeep for dragon units (15%) Max Quartermaster (Lord skill available (maxed) at Level 10 at earliest) -15% upkeep for all units (5%) Dedicated to Addaioth (Meaning the recruited lord will have to be at least level 11 to get this immediately) -5% upkeep for dragon units (15%) Frugal Hero (40 Influence trait for Nobles, not sure if mages, Loremasters or Handmaidens can get it as well) -15% upkeep for all units in hero's army (25%) Hall of Dragons Building (Tier 5 landmark building at Vaul's Anvil, Caledor) -25% upkeep for dragon units (10%) Temple of Vaul Building (Tier 3 Landmark Building in Vaul's Anvil, Doom Glades, same province as Hag's Hall) -10% upkeep for all units (all armies) (3%x4) Exotic Animal Bazaar (each gives -3% upkeep to great eagle, phoenix, and dragon units. You only need four of these since there's just 10% remaining. The locations I have mine are: Tor Sethai, Caledor; Cragroth Deep, The Black Flood; Fuming Serpent, Volcanic Islands; Gaean Vale, Avelorn; and Oxyl, Headhunter's Jungle. Any 4 of these 5 will do, obviously you'll need different locations if you don't plan on conquering DE or Lizardmen, and you'll also need Teclis' and Alarielle's lands.) Since it is percentage based, it doesn't matter which dragon you go with. If anyone's curious, the army is not completely free, 700 upkeep for two life mages, frugal noble, and dragon willed lord. I might add that by the time I was able to get free dragons, I am making over 100,000 per turn anyways, so it's mostly for the memes. However, it is a fun late game goal for high elves if you get bored with them. I'm considering conquering the rest of the world with only dragons, only after I use all my influence to make people hate Reikland (#2 in my game) and have everyone declare war on the biggest guys until Brettonia, Reikland and Dwarves are gone. Maybe its about time for a new campaign...

[@hmitchell9759]

@@samblanton9010 thanks for the detailed response some good info here

[@cHaMp630]

@@samblanton9010 They're not actually free. Even if you have 100% upkeep reduction every additional lord will eventually make them cost upkeep starting at like 30 gold, 300 and so on. Only valid on low difficulties.

[@samblanton9010]

@@cHaMp630 Yeah, I wasn't really trying to make something viable, just seeing if I can do it.

[@lewishorsman2219]

The amount of videos you’ll need to remake for game 3 is mind boggling

[@WilliamnotW]

Always recruit: Staunch Line of Spears. Never recruit: everything else.

[@faraamwyrmsbane8934]

Thanks for the instant gaming link, got myself Total War Warhammer for dirt cheap

[@patrickbidwell6799]

Plays a doomstack of hippogryph knights. "FLY MY PRETTIES!"

[@SebHaarfagre]

I just wrote here now because I wanted to give props to the intro. This is how you properly present own research/opinion/"facts". I guess you can add in more perspective of subjectivity, but I personally think it's fine. It's well presented. Thank you

[@dr.zombine3719]

I put my faith in you Legend, and I was not disappointed. Now is my time to play the Warriors of Chaos and be very disappointed

[@remito7839]

Sometimes I feel like I wanna play Warriors of Chaos because they have very fun to play armies and can destroy easily in early-mid game. But then I remember the horrible campaign and the struggle of trying to kill your enemies before they can reclaim all the settlements you razed before being chased down by 5 Empire stacks and I just think... Maybe I won't play Chaos.

[@minos69666]

i started playing TTW2 after i started watching your videos, bought the game and almost all the dlc and my first try was Nakai. My second campaing was skelleton doomstack and since then, VC are my favourite race to play with

[@zzzenglert]

Carrion, Fell Bats, dire wolves.... Man that's crazy coming from you Legend!

[@sergiomorozov]

Dire Wolves are surprisingly good at running down routed single-entity units.

[@ruggedanddumb1234]

Your like one of the only youtubers I’ve seen promoting instant gaming. It really is a great site

[@halomont]

We changed his mind on bloateds? I gotta see where this occurred

[@dennispashin4393]

I was thinking the same thing... I just hope some kind sir scrolling in the comments can explain it to us 🤣

[@timothykurdt7645]

I expect this was sarcasm. That said. . . his tone of voice didn't change at all.

[@halomont]

@@timothykurdt7645 I can see this being possible but the entire stoneface does make it hard to detect

[@Vherstinae]

I'm sure somebody showed him one of the quad-bloat tournament matches. Carnage that glorious can change any man's mind.

[@yurykomarinskiy9497]

Brilliant footage. You found a footage for each unit to look overpower. Very juicy!

[@shimmereyes8984]

That sponsor Legend.. YOU'RE A MASTER OF MARKETING

[@howardlam6181]

Yea but the link gives 404

[@SebHaarfagre]

Lizardmen is my most played faction, and I've completed all their campaigns (long) except with Itza. I agree on the Stegadon. It's hard to pick one unit out, but this is the most easily available and versatile unit, and 1-2 of them in a siege (along with a spellcaster) and you can destroy any army almost regardless of what other units you have. (Since it can break gates you can immediately start battle without building equipment). Other units I always include in my main armies: - Bastiladon (Revivification Crystal) x 1 or x 2 (it can't heal itself) for those "never-return-to-recruit" armies. - Bastiladon (Solar Engine) x 1 just because it's so damn powerful against infantry (ranged or not). - Ancient Stegadon (Engine of the Gods). It's not as cruicial, but it absolutely devastates infantry like nothing else. Dread Saurus' are virtually unbeatable, but they take so long to recruit (which I never like) and they're a limited amount, and they're not as versatile. Nothing beats them in a "fire and forget" head charge/battle, though. The rest are units that depend more on what lord you play or what you like / meme / spec. For a campaign with Tiktaq'to a single unit of chameleon skinks (blessed or not) is your most important unit 😂 Edit: Just put in 1 or 2 solar engines 😆 The point with a doomstack like that is to destroy as much as possible of the enemy before they get in close either way is it not. Can't argue that the solar engine isn't better at dealing with infantry (at range at least), no way. Also they couple well with a fire slann or even a couple of salamanders early/mid game. Fire slann > Life slann easily, mid-late game, just put in a revivification bastiladon or just have good casualty replenishment rate, even the largest armies will flee before even a minute of close combat. Also, they're better to have VS ranged armies by far, better to put in at least 2 of them in a full Stegadon stack rather than none at all. Oh yeah and fire is great VS regenerating units or treefolk. And Burning Head is great once close combat starts, gives -8 leadership too. Ancient Salamander can stack the bonus damage (weakness) to -47%.

[@whothoughtthiswasagoodidea]

"you can see its melee defence is 69" *nice*

[@JulixLabs]

That wind of death during the skelly blob..... it was beautiful....

[@reyxus9454]

i've been using instant gaming for years, never let me down. Once my key didn't work, but the customer help solved the problem in less than an hour.

[@hurotiz]

I love bloated corpses for the start of my vampire coast campaigns, I usually stack 2-3 deck hands together to bait the enemy army into blobbing up and then send in my corpses to blow them to smithereens. I've had corpses do 250-300 kills before, their aoe is HUGE. They fall off badly after the beginning though when the ai has had time to build more range based armies but by then my rampage across the coasts has already been enough to pay for my death stacks of giant boom booms.

[@RingtoneBasterds]

Damn you, Legend! Now everybody knows about Instant Gaming and prices will go up! :D

[@Aethgeir]

Nice! Every other "best unit for every faction" list I've been able to find is based on multiplayer.

[@toothsilver101015]

Shout out to the luminark missing his shot at 28:05

[@Haggysack2k8]

"And that's the big thing with Skeletons. You don't have to pay them." -LegendofTotalWar and basically every Necromancer ever.

[@Enkabard]

me watching every TW Warhammer video ever *"i wish i had this DLC!"*

[@SOLDIERRFK]

Get that shit, it's great

[@alwaysthakid]

This actually really helps with realising how mediocre some of my tactics are. I do use Sisters of Avelorn but didn't realise they could get so powerful. No wonder I can't get past hard difficulty.

[@stormyprawn]

I like how the greenskins invented homing missles before any other race even though they're the most underdeveloped and most warlike faction... Madlads...

[@stormyprawn]

@@bogdanleshenko7149 still a homing missile! 😂

[@callaway86]

@@bogdanleshenko7149 Gotrek was launched by a catapult in one of the books, but yeah he's nuts.

[@MidnightDream034]

I'm surprised you didn't mention anything for Tomb Kings, hope to hear more about them in the future.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

But I did mention the tomb kings. They're at the start.

[@leonst.7471]

Hey Hey hey hey Legend remake this video

[@theredten3946]

I was never a big Bretonnia fan, but god dayum when i got my hands on Hippogryph Knights and Grail Guardians.

[@nocookies2014]

Funny thing: I just recently watched an old MP video of Legend, where he was going on about how SHIT Hellstorm rocket batteries are... Oh how times have changed XDD

[@mr.paperbag771]

Multiplayer and campaign are two different modes and will thus always have seperate tier lists. What is good in the other might be meh on the other. Also legend hasn't played any MP in ages so that probably happened before the Empire rework. Before it Hellstorm Rocket Batteries were, in fact, shit. The faction as a whole was a big meh actually.

[@deni140492deni]

Those ironbreakers setting the giant alight was wonderfull hahajhajaha

[@Charlys787]

As a follower of the cheese, I already know these things. But I enjoy the nice cinematics you have created for us.

[@123HunterHead]

beastmen throwing giant boulders was legendary. gave me fantasy feel.

[@lightcro]

@Legend - I do think that Sepulchral stalkers will come much earlier and will help much more than when Necrosphinxes kick in. Not that I don't agree that Necro shouldn't be the first T5 unit, but Sepulchrals will be so much better.

[@ggleplussuxx4787]

By the time you get a t5 city you've typically already won. Tomb kings (except old man khatep) have a chill mid-game in a remote map region after they've survived the early game. Their victory conditions are basically free campaign win, compared to grinding out the ordertide. So in the meantime when it matters most stalkers are your main answer against pesky crusading knights.

[@CStone-xn4oy]

When you brought up hellstorm rocket batteries...*Has traumatic flashbacks to the battle with the College of Pyrotechnics.*

[@Natedawg1998]

“Don’t Spam Hellstorms”-Legend “Recruit four or five per army”-Also, Legend

[@fourcgames7568]

How is getting 4 or 5 of them a "spam"? That's a perfectly reasonbable amount. Spam is getting like 10+ of the same unit.

[@Raider0075]

Can't wait to see a video like this for WH III.

[@AzoiatheCobra]

shades make sieges so fucking easy... i like to use both greatsword and dual wield shades for diferent targets but the main strat is: put your lord, heroes and siege atacker on one side of the map and shades on the other. thanks to stalk the eney doesnt see them so they put all of their troops on the side with your lord. rush the undefended walls and start shooting the enemy and charging them. its beautifull

[@jasonc3522]

I do the same thing with shadow warriors.

[@sirgaz8699]

I generally find Sepulchral Stalkers out preform the Necrosphinx at everything; and since I last played tomb kings their last change was a huge buff apparently. On top of that in campaigh the Necrosphinx building gives 1 Necrosphinx where as the Cavalry building gives 2 Necropolis Knights, Necropolis Knights (Halberds), 2 Nehekhara Horsemen, 2 Skeleton Horsemen, 2 Skeleton Horsemen Archers and 2 Sepulchral Stalkers. You get 1 stalker at T2 and 2 stalkers at T3 so you could even put it in a minor settlement.

[@Madlock_]

Oh ok Legend of Total War, I'm boutta Doomwheel out

[@zorroknowsbetter]

Goddamn it Legend, it’s fucking 3 AM over here. Oh well, time to watch.

[@Eltalstro]

Massive thanks for the heads up on Instant Gaming!