What it's like battling Skarbrand

[@davecolwell725]

Woohoo this is my disaster!! Haven't watched yet. I'm so thrilled! Edit: Post Watch I'm glad I removed the mods it will all worth it to get a video. I hope I can keep submitting as I think it's really just cool as F to interact Legend like this. I had tried again a couple times and the closest I got to winning was actually hiding my forces until the summons were expired but still ended up getting bogged down with chariot / hero / settra against Skarbrand. Didn't think to lure him with the archer chariots which was brilliant. I feel like I'm not bad at the game and this was one of the harder battles I've come across and to see legend smash this (especially from the cut to see my army in almost full health) was amazing. Definitely going to keep using that trick from not on in this campaign. Thanks legend!!

[@splattbinat1542]

out of curiosity what kind of mods were you using?

[@sabru72]

Truly a legend!

[@davecolwell725]

@@splattbinat1542 previously I think the mod that caused the crash was mixu's legendary lords and various extras that go with that. Now I'm just running minor graphic, camera and UI mods. I think 6 in total.

[@MrSuperflowus]

Legendary miniature painter interacting with a legendary Total War creator was not on my 2024 bingo card...

[@zaqqseth3984]

Honestly I think your primary mistake was just not exterminating khorne early

[@AlexandrZaytsevet]

Successfully ambushing Skarbrand with Tomb King chaff is like successfully besieging a blender with iceberg salad heads.

[@halwakka504]

SALAD FOR THE SALAD GOD!

[@cinnamonflavord]

Ranch for the dressing throne

[@AngeloEngilis]

Interesting analogy yet it made absolute sense 🤣

[@braize6279]

Makes no sense. Skarbrand sucks and got his ass destroyed

[@Psychoangel-d23]

@@braize6279 I mean if the player knows how to trick the AI into doing what he wants it to do and has halfway decent forces at his disposal then yeah, Skarbrand loses. If a player isnt that well versed in how the AI behaves, then skarbrand is likely to win the fight even if the player has the ambush advantage.

[@Sham_Seer]

Wild that the skulls deliver themselves to the throne now. The future is wild.

[@ChibiNyan]

But no blood. We can't have everything, I guess.

[@DYNB]

😂😂

[@saberhap2639]

not that wild

[@darthplagueis13]

Settra is always involved into frontal collisions because no matter if there's oncoming traffic in his lane, Settra does not swerve.

[@wiaf8937]

one could say: he's quite set(tra) in his path. that sounded better in my head, sorry dude :D

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

Settra will not be served inditements either

[@Meuduso1]

Settra drives on the wrong side of the road with utter conviction and purpose. His titles are as countless as his traffic tickets

[@Gabronthe]

SKARBRAND HATES JAYWALKERS

[@vereornox-xem41c]

Ambush, so you can deploy closer... to Skarbrand... and his moshpit of vaguely humanoid lawnmowers

[@BruderSenf]

well, i have to say i kinda like his optimism xD and i bet skarbrand likes the forward deployment he got

[@JayDon-u9o]

This situation feels lore accurate tbf so I can't knock the sender too much "All I'm surrounded by is fear and dead men" - Skarbrand probably

[@lonelystrategos]

Definitely dead men, considering it's Tomb Kings...

[@dmitriygryaznov9210]

*double dead men

[@SlothSkeleton]

Darth Vader said that

[@12SickOne34]

@@SlothSkeleton Nah, must have been Chad-General Constantin Valdor

[@JohnSmith-NZ]

Nuh-uh, skellies are immune to fear. They are dead thou, I'll give you that

[@pR1sooeem]

"caught him in ambush" no lol, you just gave HIM vanguard deployment bro

[@Manslayer-eo1nh]

That is so fitting for skarbrand, he just gets a railroad line to your frontline

[@european-one]

I'm not stuck in here with you. You're stuck in here with me!

[@josephjohnson5415]

"AMBUSH!" "Thank khorne, I don't have to walk too far.... Hey, why are you running, why are you running!"

[@sinforoso1972]

Healing all his army for the guy you don't even know, shows the big love to his fans. A really Legend.

[@huszkusz1779]

He is in fact the real legend :D

[@neruz1984]

He thought it was him ambushing Skarbrand, but in actuality it was Skarbrand who was doing the ambush.

[@braize6279]

Yet Skarbrand lost. So yeah.

[@2Lt_Rs_Alfred6]

Have you even played haha 😆 look at the start of the battle he was the one ambushing 😂

[@rath3074]

@@2Lt_Rs_Alfred6I see you missed the joke

[@billylee7398]

​@@braize6279 dink op meant dude who saved the game

[@PunchySOB]

@@braize6279so yeah, what’re you a 5 year old girl?

[@maggaming7969]

Trying to surprise Skarbrand with combat is like trying to surprise Slanesh with sex...

[@charlesg5085]

Lol, this had me rolling.

[@seanelbert8576]

Even after all these years I still imagine him saying “see you next time, fuckers” at the end

[@lukewithann7256]

Kinda miss it ngl

[@dark_side_cookies]

I'm just glad to see he still has the "Legend Klaw" profile pic, because he truly is the greatest-best saver of battles-campaigns.

[@EagleScoutmano]

It's only been a relatively short time since he stopped saying that- maybe a year, maybe two? Definitely not yet into "all these years" territory, he was saying it for TWW2 disaster battles.

[@lucasmeijers212]

​@@EagleScoutmano you're fun at parties aren't ya?

[@bahamut256]

I can’t help but think that this is the fantasy equivalent of doordash for Skarbrand.

[@inductivegrunt94]

Caught Skarbrand in an ambush and still can't win? Well, it is Skarbrand so this is pretty fair and understandable.

[@blugger]

I can scarcly imagine another faction that would be less impressed by an ambush than khorne

[@ExceedProduction]

@@blugger Surprise bloodbath? Aw thank you!

[@blugger]

@@ExceedProduction Surprise Bloodbath!? That makes me *angrrryyy*!!!! Screams skarbrand as he leaps towards his favorite thing

[@Canadian_Zac]

When your units are all melee, ambush doesn't matter. Khorne and Vamps do not care about being ambushed

[@Hurricayne92]

@@Canadian_Zac With enough high tier ranged units it can, but the Tomb Kings really dont have those tools.

[@snejjames6499]

"Come on Skarbrand, fuck off and die." - The entire Old World, including Skarbrand.

[@iforgotmyname1669]

Player ambush: strategic positioning, advantageous charges, nullify long ranged abilities, one-sided chaos in favor of your army. Skarbrand getting ambushed: Enemy start closer to me. Khorne has blessed this day!

[@BruderSenf]

"you successfully ambushed skarbrand" me: whoo hoo, i always wanted to start as close as possible to the big red man with axes and severe anger issues

[@gigahertz5528]

This was fun to watch after trying skarbrand's immortal empires campaign and seeing myself for the first time just how ridiculously fun his campaign is once you realize, literally never stop attacking with skarbrand, and a lucky early banner of swiftness from the drawfs behind wurzag, by turn 64 skarbrand had made a one man warpath from his capital all the way to valkias front door screaming for her to show up for a duel

[@Ragatokk]

This went very well, you are pretty good so its kind of insane to see how much its possible to improve for you as well. The skill ceiling in this game is actually insane.

[@Вейн-э5б]

You: Settra, the Great King of Nekhekara, King of Kings *2000 hours of titles later*... The guy she tells you not to worry about: Some big red boy

[@KipperStudios]

The best way to fight Skarbrand as Settra is to rush him as your first opponent. Take Numas turn 1, recruit, move north and recruit, get the casket of souls and catch him in the first settlement he takes on turn 3. By turn 5, you can be rid of him. A challenge to pull off, sure, but I've done it multiple times prior to 5.2 Should still work

[@ZeroFormLak]

Now thats some power move

[@drofhanglersnfent]

''Im not locked in here with you, You are locked in here with me''

[@8heimdall8]

Perfect plan and perfect execution ! Classic Legend !

[@Glorfindeld2]

I'd love to send save files but I've learned so much from you that I can overcome them all myself in Warhammer 3. Patch 5.2 is proving to be a fun challenge however.

[@brandonhedges719]

Imagine fighting Skarbrand and taking virtually no casualties. This is an insane skillset

[@FrankHarrison12]

Its less skillset and more abusing the AI, so knowledge of how the AI works. Knowing that they will split their forces stupidly if you attack from 2 sides, knowing the distance you have to be ahead of your archers for Skarbrand to not just dive them and instead just sit there face-tanking arrows, and effectively corner camping with the main force. This wouldn't have been a win against another player, even an average player. I love the total war games, and the Warhammer setting.. but the AI really does seem to have gotten worse over time, to the point that myself and many others actively avoid doing what Legend does in these videos because it makes it too easy.

[@bunnieskitties293]

@@FrankHarrison12 You have the most BIZARE hardon Ive ever seen for hating a player beating an AI opponent. Yeah.. you abuse the AI. Because the AI is omniscient and can issue individual unit commands to every single unit at once at infinity speed and gets maphacks to see where your army is. "Abusing" the AI is literally just.. normal gameplay for any PvE game. They make the AI have some predictability to it so the player has a chance. Obviously if you wanted to you could make an unbeatable AI in strategy games. One that just "abuses" the fact it can micro better than a human. Thats not the point in a video game sir.

[@FrankHarrison12]

@@bunnieskitties293 Spoken like a true corner-camper. Could've probably fit more hyperbole in there though. If you think devs make game AI predictable to give players a chance you're too naïve for a grown-up conversation lol.. its about money and time. The goal is to give the largest amount of players the illusion that they're facing another intelligence. When you learn how an AI is coded and use that knowledge to force them into actions with 100% predictability, you're abusing the AI. What you said doesn't even make sense in game logic. You don't pit a player against another player that's playing an entirely different game. Both should be playing the same rules and logic. ..and nothing I've said is even controversial. Those of us who understand how AI works spot these cheese strats and call them out all of the time. It is known. LegendofTotalWar is memed for corner camping and cheesing all the time.

[@Hurricayne92]

@@FrankHarrison12 what pvp match would have armies that unbalanced? I'm really not that good and i think i could beat Legend if i had control of Skarbrand. You're acting as if control grouping the entire army and right clicking is some 200iq skill.

[@bonbui2404]

@@FrankHarrison12 Maybe you can ask for a file save and show ppl how you deal with that situation, it'll give us viewers another good video to learn from. I'll wait for your vid.

[@Vakaria-plays]

''We are the tomb kings of Nehekhara! you are surrounded tainted abomination of flesh!'' Skarbrand: ''All im surrounded by is weak moving bones waiting to be crushed, MORE SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!''

[@cristodemonte1690]

well, too bad for the tombs kings, he was not made of flesh.

[@Macfierce1]

Legend, you always impress me, but THIS video is incredible. As was your last one where the empire kept coming after the army of grave guard. I didn't think it was possible to win either of those two scenarios. I stand corrected! As someone who very recently faced this exact same disaster battle (different map, same Skarbrand problem), I was very interested to see this one. I'm a huge fan of the Tomb Kings and wanted to go through a Legendary/VH Settra campaign recently. I found Skarbrand to be punitive. I would take my normal path with Settra first securing Khemri and all of its sub-provinces. Then i'd go south and take out Manfred. At that point it depends. Arkhan may be a problem. Or maybe Volkmar. Maybe I farm Repanse for the trait. I'm sure you are well aware, but I personally haven't really played Settra since TWWIII came out. So i wasn't expecting that right around the time that i've taken out two of the other three that i mentioned Skarbrand comes calling. I played three campaigns recently and he single handedly owned my trash tier army all but one time. I think the one time i beat him was an auto resolve because i had a second army. Rampage is a TERROR of an ability. Bottom line, i'm incredibly impressed that you were able to pull what you did off in this video. I always learn something from your videos. You are, in a word, a... Legend! Bravo sir!

[@CommanderBohn]

Fighting Skarbrand is like fighting a meat grinder on legs and anger management issues. And since he's a greater daemon, one needs overwhelming power to have him take a dent.

[@Shane2020xxx]

It was interesting watching the really lowly skeletal archers pincushion him into submission- which Khorne considers especially cowardly and dishonorable.

[@Hurricayne92]

4 units of skelly bois with small sharp stick throwers later...

[@mr.linguineman785]

Love seeing the ways Legend is able to just take a army and turn it into pieces

[@richarddilkes328]

I would like to see maybe a compilation of the unwinnable disaster battles with explanations on why they're unwinnable. Watching your videos makes it feel like everything is winnable, I'd like to see the exceptions

[@bunnieskitties293]

I assume its this battle, but without settra's army, just the garrison. Someone emails in settlement battles where legendary lords are sacking them and says 'CAN U WIN DISSS???'

[@darkduds38]

This was such a good strategy. I would have caved in this scenario so quickly

[@fuchsmichael93]

Hundreds of Kill but at the End only 15 Casultys on the Tomb Kings Side. Remember, taking Skulls is good but you have to bring them to the Throne as well

[@squashiejoshie200000]

Anyone who complains about cheesing the AI should know that Sun Tsu would be proud of Legend for doing it. He is all about understanding the enemy and exploiting the enemy's weaknesses. Cheese is doing that, just to an AI.

[@FrankHarrison12]

Very fun and engaging gameplay.

[@kianlakchi7182]

I never thought you would've won that! Well done!

[@TheRoflcer]

Araby provides many skulls. And Skarbrand died and lost his army to them. I think this would make Khornes blood boil way worse then when Skarbrand struck him personally.

[@abumy4]

Watching you Legend, all the while playing tww with bunch of mods and getting into disaster situations, made me get good on my own because I knew I couldn't send you any saves. Sorry for depriving you of potential content.

[@CyphersBasement]

I don't really understand what's happening in this video, but it was super tense to watch. I used to play games like this when I was younger, so I grasp a decent amount of it, but I had no idea how this could have gone. The music and sound design does a good job of heightening the experience, and Legend was clicking around, almost frantically. Great watch, at the very least.

[@Clowyd]

Same, as a RTW boomer

[@dmitriyk.2890]

This is me playing Thorek recently. And he also had Karanak. Used your advice and got trollhammer gyro for one of the next battles.

[@famedgaming1865]

I asked Setra one time for a glass of water, and he just shouted at me, "SETRA DOES NOT SERVE!"

[@liquidator2246]

What they need is a combat insertion of Grey Knights surrounding Skarbrand's position.

[@KiuhKobold]

Ambushing Skarbrand is like ambushing two armies: skarbrand, AND the army following him. Plus dude, two stacks of tier 1-2 bone boys and a casket isn't nearly enough, they crumble like dust!

[@cody1570]

the reason being that ambush works so well. pinning any unit between 2 units on either side will decimate all but the most tough units i.e Iron breakers and the like that excels at attrition warfare capable of stopping a skaven doom roller in its tracks. anything less then a unit like this will suffer severely because they are simply outmanned and cant manuver to get more strikes in while you have a broader front which allows for more attacks. skarbrand on the other hand, he just kills everything so send in necrosphinx and giants and hope for the best

[@Ghouleh3133]

I'm still very surprised at how quickly Skarbrand folded to what amounts to basic archers.

[@MidnightBlackandVictoria]

In this one I was rooting for my boy Skarbrand. Because Khorne! Come on, Arbaal, Scylla, and Skarr....You three have made me wait too long as it is! 6.0 can't come soon enough!

[@tylerpearson9754]

Legend proving once again why hes called Legend. Took chaff and reaped a mountain

[@357Magzz]

Tomb king chaff, turned murderers, turned but wait were back. Well fin played!

[@redsol3629]

Skarbrand wants to be ambushed.

[@ImpatientBen]

Christ... you might be the best TW player on Earth

[@Edgelord-rn9he]

LegendsofTotalWar: "Let's go, in and out, 20 minute Skarbrand adventure!". LegendsofTotalWar 17 and a half minutes in: *Screams in pure P A I N*.

[@Ragatokk]

Just let him walk past :)

[@splattbinat1542]

I remember doing that regeneration trick with Tomb kings. Even had a mortis engine to help. Managed to pretty much keep most of my armies with 0 casualties this way.

[@darkduds38]

Legend of total micro

[@Fang.1]

Sir we're surrounded! Skarbrand: Excellent! Now we can charge in any direction!

[@DissocialPersonality]

im convinced you could cheese your way through any battle xD none the less was very nice battle

[@gorzonthechampion6784]

Well fought battle Legend I tip my hat to you sir.

[@Doku71]

Ah. Reminds me of a recent game as Skarbrand, my Bloodletter Hero, Champion of Khorne, Karanak, 8 Skullcrushers, and 8 Exalted Bloodletters. Got ambushed by a combined force of Dwarfs, Kislev and Empire, I was declaring war on everyone, then had another 3 battles afterwards. Total of 5 armies in the first fight all of their most valuable units, then individual ones, gave the AI cheats to boost their units to maximum rank, lower costs and upkeep. The results were simply; BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

[@flamehad3630]

This was a great battle and video. Sometimes, I forget how good you are at this game. 😮 This battle really showed off your skill and knowledge. P.s. I don't consider that healing cheese that bad in terms of cheese. Just felt like when you use healing magic at the end of the battle.

[@bluntlyhonest6803]

ambushing khorne is like this. Khornite: "My lord! we are sorrounded by the enemy!" Skarbrand: "Perfect! that means we can attack them at all sides!"

[@darkduds38]

This was like watching a Starcraft 2 match lmao

[@nathanmassaro4422]

id honestly love to see some of the battles that look winnable that even you can't beat and explain why its unbeatable or something or see how far you can gt before the loss

[@HenkjanDeKaasboer]

If there's one thing this channel needs, it's more [unmodded] safe files being sent in. And so the great cleansing had started

[@Shangster949]

That's one happy-looking Skarbrand in the thumbnail lmao

[@Lones555]

Tomb Kings can bring 4 full stacks of their best units vs a peasant archer and still get "valiant defeat" in auto resolve. Dwarfs can turn up with a half health catapult and auto resolve vs the entirety of chaos.

[@chrismeyers-x7y]

Ive never played this one but if the ai is anything like the ai in RTW all you need is fast moving calvary that can out maneuver the enemy army. you split your calvary into two groups and use them to force the enemys armys to give chase in all directions dividing the light troops medium troops and heavy troops from each other since each troop moves at a different speed they naturally seperate themselves into their own groups. once the enemy army has been divided and seperated on the battlefield you regoup your calvary before the enemy can regroup and smash into the light infantry or archers first or whichever target that is weak enough for you to attack with minimal losses, once youve picked off enough of the enemys army you can try to take out the enemy commander to break morale at this point the enemy army usually flees allowing you to chase down the rest who are fleeing. since your troops move faster your able to divide the enemy army up and pick your battles. divide et impera. the only time this strat dosent work is if your facing an enemy army made up entirely of calvary or horse archers cough cough that pesky ghenghis khan, and sometimes you need to keep arty in reserve incase the enemy tries to setup in a defensive position you hold uour advantage bring in the arty and pick them off from afar until they try to engage you in the open field then you repeat the horse tactic. the way to defeat the khan horde is to lure them into a defendable mountain pass where the horses have no room to maneuver and crush their main armys there or force him into a seige battle where they have to fight hand to hand. last but not least you can always just make the enemy chase you around the battlefield till they get tired their morale drops then they flee.

[@wildwanderer6025]

"... just another nail in our proverbial coffin". I don't think it's just a proverbial coffin when playing Tomb Kings ;)

[@awesomehpt8938]

Why can’t the angry mummy and the angry daemon get along with eachother instead?

[@donovanrose9870]

I killed him on Hard/Hard mode with Slaanesh by jumping in when he attacked an ally. It wasn’t even my main army that jumped in, either. My ally was nurgle’s main army. Pyrrhic victory auto resolve. After he respawned, I sent two one-town vassals to attack him at the same time, then his kingdom was wiped out 5 turns later.

[@jakeeb2441]

Considering that variety of save files is an issue, I think a sub turn 25 battles series would be interesting. (Katarin fending off Throt after taking out Azhag comes to mind.)

[@DirtyBonj]

this is like bob ross painting... i try and replicate but its never quite as perfect as the legendoftotalwar

[@12SickOne34]

I have successfully ambushed Skarbrand *"NICE!"* - Skarbrand

[@markf9138]

Plan did indeed go well

[@shushishalmon5479]

Nice, early to a legend video

[@simeontodorov8657]

Man its beautifull how you play! I really want to start WH3 but everytime I start it seem so complex to me haha. Can you do beginner series on basic mechanics of the game etc.?

[@buffayboy3340]

6:54 that little laugh had me dead

[@armed_but_blind2768]

I love this type of content

[@TulkasTrepidatious]

Ambush? Oh, you mean you come to my axes more quickly!

[@freaki0734]

hmmm bit sad I had what I considered to be a somewhat interesting savefile recently. I had a stegadon doomstack attacked by 2 empire armies one of which had like 8 steamtanks couple of luminarks and in total there were like 8 demigryph knights hellbards with suprisingly good other troops. I failed the battle twice allthough I got close in the end I had considered sending it in but retreating from the initial attack actually was able to solve this one as I was able to face the two armies each on their own

[@jason_eh]

Why is Settra sexier when played by an Aussie? PS. Exactly how you fight Vlad. Works well!

[@iknowyourname36]

This man is a Legend

[@TheMagicalPinata]

*THE Legend

[@RicardoAlmeidatm]

Skar "you are locked in here with me" Brand.

[@felixlintner8177]

I really think theres something about the Legendoftotalwar effect where when he controls the units they just unlock latent powers and when I use them they just die

[@tyezvex1608]

Pure strategic genius.

[@RobMoore01]

my game must be bugged for ambush battles each time I fight an ambush the enemy just continue to march on to exit the map, unless I shoot the general.

[@ho8ojoe8]

I ambushed valkia earlier with alith anar. Could not even come close to winning it, flesh hounds just instantly close the distance and shadow warriors go down so damn fast

[@michasokoowski6651]

Yea... i had scenario like this in warhammer 2 with tomb kings against full cav brettonia stack, the way i won was by cheesing ai, i would move my lord close enough to trigger 1 or 2 units to chase him then baiting them into archer volleys... i dont know why it didnt trigger the ai to advance, but heck... i ended up winning without ammo and having archers in melee in the end

[@coffeeandcereals]

> win batttle on impossible odds > "well, we took a bit of damage"

[@sim.frischh9781]

Mods are a double-edged blade, i like some, but with every update, the risk of them not working means i currently only use the Unofficial Bugfix which i do not consider to be a "mod". Shame the Unique Faction UI is broken since 5.2, i like that mod a lot.

[@SheryarKahout]

Wtf!!! Wow dude. Never seen Skarbrand disrespected like that

[@alirezarezaei2976]

Does Settra have the trait Demon slayer in his long train of names? If not now we can officially add that

[@chaoticmat1739]

Random recommendation but a pretty fun watch!

[@mrtony1181]

HOW DO YOU GET THAT STAT SCREEN ON THE LEFT? I’m new to total war and warhammer pls help, these vids are great for learning

[@goombatroopa3966]

always good watching someone on cocaine and speed playing total war

[@GuyTheSheep]

Ambushing Khorne is like trying to ambush a jaguar in the middle of the savannah.

[@darthplagueis13]

I mean, jaguars are South American jungle creatures, so if you put one in the middle of the savannah it would probably be so confused that you wouldn't even need to ambush them to get the drop on them.

[@davecolwell725]

My disaster situation and the ambush was only because I was hoping to be able to auto resolve this battle out (if he came at me) alas no luck so had to fight it anyway. Legend did this so impressively well it's astonishing my forces are virtually undamaged.

[@IFearNoManButIFearGod]

I’ve seen my friend struggle to beat Skarbrand with range, I don’t know how an ambush, which puts you closer to him, would make a difference.

[@jensboettiger5286]

Trying to emulate this degree of micro fails so hard for me every time

[@mikesocarras8827]

Someone needs to call Robute Gulliman.

[@prudentparatrooper385]

That went insanely well.

[@Dimitriterrorman]

yeah i usually play with like 60-70 mods that bring in new factions characters and units and another 30-40 reskins and lore mods

[@CthonicSoulChicken]

That was awesome. Stud.

[@Avenged7xJunkie]

just had a similar battle with arkhan against him, he had 4 skullcannons and 10 units of the khorne mortal cavalry... the only thing that carried the fight was them bunching up for my two caskets of souls to obliterate them