Why You SUCK with Snikch

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Blake's Takes presents the definitive guide To Deathmaster Snikch. This is the complete guide for Clan Eshin in Immortal empires, as well as a guide for the Skaven in warhammer total war 3. This guide includes Skaven money-making and gives an overview on how to make money as the Skaven. This will also contain a variety of tips and tricks to assist you as a Skaven faction. This Clan Eshin campaign guide will show you how to start your campaign, and give insight into the units you'll be fielding as the faction.
This Clan Eshin faction guide will also guide you on how to use Skaven heroes, and which ones are worthy of recruiting. Enjoy these Clan Eshin campaign strategies as we show the Stealth and ambush tactics for Snikch, and how to level up Deathmaster Snikch. Overall this guide will give you a view on how to dominate the map as Snikch. Enjoy these Skaven tips and tricks
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - RAID: Shadow Legends promotion
04:31 - Reason 1: You don’t know what to do in your first turns.
07:52 - Reason 2: You level up Snikch wrong.
10:30 - Reason 3: You don’t know how to use Gutter Runners.
14:50 - Reason 4: You don't get assassins early.
15:45 - Reason 5: You don’t know how to fight Cathay.
20:41 - Reason 6: You don’t know how to defend your settlements.
23:48 - Reason 7: You don’t know how to set up your provinces.
26:08 - Reason 8: You sleep on Under-cities
27:34 - Reason 9: You don’t know how to manage rebellions.
30:30 - Reason 10: You don't know the role of your heroes.
34:37 - Reason 11: You’re not always the attacker.
35:45 - Reason 12: You have no friends.
36:21 - Reason 13: You hang onto friends who are no longer useful to you.

[@BlakesTakes420]

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[@sup1602]

Oh no raidyshaddy got to you! Truely a skaven move.

[@fhemeiatha7814]

you mean hard to master the art of swiping your credit card ? kappa :)

[@Somedude317]

This is the first I heard of the connection between military buildings and stronger rebelions. I have over 2000 hours across warhammer 2 and 3 and I never heard this before now.

[@BlakesTakes420]

I am at your service sir. Stay tuned for more tips and clumsily put together memes.

[@phantomthunder203]

Yeah same, even as Skaven I avoid letting rebellions happen bc I usually max food out easily without them

[@dominicchammas549]

Just started a snikch campaign what perfect timeing

[@aminerkin9844]

Meta is You are not supposed to build military buildings ever except for one in ten provinces and when you need extra heroes hence why you never notice.

[@chrisbergonzi7977]

Same here....

[@zackgehm0602]

"Our enemies at home who have been "re-educated" ". Hearing the Helghast speech told me you deserve the sub, well done.

[@zackgehm0602]

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[@BlakesTakes420]

They have been given new "insight" into our cause. Appreciate the sub sir!

[@Frederatorr]

obligatory "yes-yes" when doing any Skaven impression earned you a like 😂

[@BlakesTakes420]

yes-yes gooood like-token stash

[@pb3662]

I think its your best "Why you SUCK" video yet. Lots of practical, helpful suggestions. Minor point is that you need to end up embracing "Skaven corruption" as you cant fight it and any rebellions provide additional food ;-)

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir. I love those rebellions 🍽️

[@Nicolas-sj9dk]

My favorite part was the end where you talked about the natural ways of skaven betrayal to ensure their own survival

[@BlakesTakes420]

It is the natural order of things.

[@kapitankapital6580]

Man CA really did Snikch dirty with the new bloom in game 3. Man is supposed to be an assassin but is running around with a whole RGB gaming set up in his pockets

[@BlakesTakes420]

Agreed, it was really annoying me when I was getting that footage at the beginning of the video.

[@visari4461]

Voicing Visari’s speech from killzone 2 to encapsulate the Skaven players struggle, was ingenious and I see a fellow man of good taste when I see one 😂😂 Good video with great humour with well done pacing, informative and straight to the point, well done sir, well done 👏👍.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad you liked the Visari. I truly loved paying homage to Brian Cox's fantastic performance.

[@visari4461]

@@BlakesTakes420 Glad to see more people loved his performance, the man absolutely killed it and brought so much life into the games story, to one of my all time favourite games from my childhood. #thehelghastdidnothingwrong and they looked cool while doing it.

[@redtsun67]

A general tip with Skaven is to never upgrade minor settlements with food. Getting from tier 1 to tier 3 does not take very long at all, but getting from tier 3 to tier 4 takes exponentially longer, and getting from tier 4 to tier 5 takes even longer than that. If you can, avoid capturing large settlements until you can upgrade them to level 5 immediately. Occasionally you might need to capture the settlement even if you can't upgrade it yet. That's fine. Just keep in mind that it's better to level them straight to 5 whenever possible.

[@ilari90]

One thing that came to mind when you said about building the walls is that it's quite nice that you built them in 3rd slot so if enemy gets the town, and the town level goes down, those walls are deleted also so you don't need to fight against them, at least that's what I'd think would happen. Nice pointer though, wouldn't have thought of that and it makes me want to play it now, as that's quite nice new tactic for me. Of course there's a lot of other good new stuff here, at least it straightforwards the tactics in concise way. EDIT: WOW, didn't know that rebellion strenght thingy!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad to be of service sir. ;-)

[@ilari90]

@@BlakesTakes420 Campaign report, first 25 turns: early game started pretty well, filled army with nightrunners. Noticed that if i have 3 assassins with Snikch, I can sneak the cathay city capture point with them and defend it enough, if I send my troops through the gate. Didn't manage to get non-aggression with Lokhir, so after taking out Celestial-something faction in the north and Po Mei and Terracotta Graveyard from Mao Ying, Lokhir declared war. Lokhir attacked a settlement with first tier of wall building, had a throwaway grey seer defending it with regiments of renown (rattling guns mvp) and defeated his 2 stacks in that fight, made him completely neutered. Now, turn 25 wiped Lokhir out completely, turning to west now. Feels easy with the walls. Night Runners are good enough early game, Gutter Runners cost double upkeep.

[@BlakesTakes420]

@@ilari90 love it. Yeah night runners slap in the early game and mass night runner is actually very strong.

[@sev1120]

A note on Chieftains is that they can mount up on Bonebreakers, making them very goof at dealing with enemy chaff while your gutter runners deal with the enemy monsters and priority units, thanks to their charge animation working a lot like a Chariot's. They are also able to give a ward save to your lord, provide training to the entire army, and Snikch's bonus melee attack for embedded heroes, whilst it's not an insane boost, is very good for what Chieftains do.

[@BlakesTakes420]

yeah, but skaven have so many tools to deal with infantry - globadiers, mortars, plague claw catapults, Plague magic. I'd personally just take one of them. I love moulder monsters, the aesthetic of them are excellent, but I find they just don't perform anywhere near as well as some good old fashioned artillery and weapons teams. The chieftain as a hero choice isn't a bad pick, I just think there's way better picks.

[@Frederatorr]

@@BlakesTakes420 ah yes, "good *old fashioned* artillery and weapons teams" 😂

[@BlakesTakes420]

@@Frederatorr 😉

[@kentrellbaket2559]

First time watching your channel I thought you had millions of subscribers, but was shoked when I found out you only had 8 thousand subs. Your channel has really nice production, better than some other youtubers with millions of subs. Really nice video

[@BlakesTakes420]

You're very kind for saying so. I've only been moonlighting as a content creator since April, so I still have a lot to learn! Appreciate your comment ❤

[@tonynussbaum]

He deserves to have millions. The why you suck videos are the best TW strategy videos out there.

[@Khorothis]

It is true that in the early game, Assassins can help a lot with their melee prowess and extra replenishment. However, later on they are better used as scouts on the campaign map, killing heroes, and assaulting armies and garrisons. Eventually you can have armies escorted by 2-3 Assassins each, who can do a lot of damage before the battle even begins.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Agreed.

[@oryxtheram]

Smart, incredibly based. Replacing their slot in your army with a packmaster gives you a solid, extremely fast monstrous fighter to support your flankers with 4 summons of wolf rats, and keeping a bonus to army replenishment with the right skill investments. Great accessory to your plague priests' expendable frontline, giving it some killing power.

[@BlakesTakes420]

@@oryxtheram unfathomably based and wolf-rat-pilled.

[@ZeriocTheTank]

​@@oryxtheramI'm taking somany notes here not only from the video, but the comment section as well. Never been the biggest fan of the Skaven, but there's something about Snikch that I really like. Right now I'm struggling with skirmishing properly, but once I get over that hurdle I hope I'll manage to do fine.

[@p.mustelidae6014]

That Darkest Dungeon joke made me wish for a "Why you suck with X" series about playing well with various classes in that game.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Patent pending.

[@p.mustelidae6014]

@@BlakesTakes420 You suck with the Occultist. Admit it, go on, admit it. So, you tried to play the Occultist and you feel disappointed? Do the tentacles sprout from where you didn't want them? Is the burden of being confronted with eldritch knowledge proving too much for your feeble human mind? Are you losing your sanity faster than a new Darkest Dungeon player trying the game on Bloodmoon? Well, don't worry, in this guide, I'll show you exactly how to assert your authority over the powers of eons past. Also, this guide refers only to the single-player, not The Butcher's Circus. I'd take more than the forbidden knowledge of ten Necronomicons to explain why are you so bad at that.

[@BlakesTakes420]

@@p.mustelidae6014 this is brilliant 😂

[@DarthLeon2]

5 seconds in and already earned a like.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Yes-yes, like-token stash

[@alonsogutierrez9500]

18:17 Using summoned units to draw friendly fire into your enemy while killing all the units. Such a Skaven tactic.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Other rats are just enemy-foes yes-yes?

[@JinxBfjv]

Snicktch was my first skaven campaign back in warhammer 2 and in warhammer 3 he was my first IE campaign, because he is really one of my favourite legendary lord. I learn that military buildings buff rebellion I didn't know any of that, thank you. I want to make a Tretch campaign in 4.0 to have a bit of challenge in legendary. Your advices will be really helpful.

[@BlakesTakes420]

You're most welcome! Thank you for your lovely comment.

[@phantomthunder203]

whats funny is how bad the AI is with Eshin, even though they do get ambushes off on you when youre out on the open all of the dragon lords can solo an Eshin army when controlled by the player

[@BlakesTakes420]

tbf the cathay dragon lords are filthy powerful. shame about the rest of their lords haha

[@SaltyRocksPew]

I take lightning strike with snikch because I tend to run into the AI in encamp stance next to their settlement building which also has an army inside fairly often. Sometimes you can ambush people in encamp but I don't rely on it.

[@BlakesTakes420]

I found I never used lightning strike due to your insane ambush success chance, so I couldn't, in good conscience, recommend it.

[@JN-xt9wo]

this man doesn't even know who I am and still every single video is correct about why I suck at that specific faction.

[@BlakesTakes420]

You and I have a long and glorious future together.

[@Decon7]

4:49 Really appreciated that Darkest Dungeon Stress icon and sound xD

[@Temporal94]

Woah, wasn't expecting a reference to Killzone 2 in a Warhammer vid of all places lol

[@BlakesTakes420]

that game desperately needs a remaster.

[@Lock_Knight]

Scolar Visari cast a long, wide shadow.

[@Dullspoon_]

Really enjoying these videos! A lot of pieces of advice and info that I missed even with a couple hundred of hours already put into WH3. I especially appreciate the repetition of important information to help drive home the most valuable takeaways as I find sometimes the main point sometimes gets forgotten in the explanations that follow. Keep it up, looking forward to more!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you for your kind words. As they say, if you want someone to remember something, repetition is your best tool. 😉

[@LoneWolff47]

love .... Visari's Speach ( from Killzone ) at the beginning hahaha

[@moteleyman]

I keep listening to it lol - gives me goosebumps

[@BlakesTakes420]

you're most kind thank you both.

[@degitoblue6783]

That opening is nightmare fuel

[@BlakesTakes420]

Based and Horned rat pilled.

[@davids.8909]

A pleasant and enjoyable video as always! A great all-around advisor for all the Skaven factions really. I liked watching it even though I don't struggle with the Skaven. First time I've heard about a rebellion quality being related to military buildings though!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad to have spilled the tea on that warhammer secret for you sir. Thank you for your lovely comment.

[@Deriuse]

Best guides ever keep em coming, i have thousands of hours into this game yet your guides always teach me something new i didnt know

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you for saying so, glad you enjoyed them!

[@NotWalter18]

It still blows my mind at your video quality despite your low sub count. You definitely deserve more my friend, keep it up!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you pal, glad you enjoyed it. More on its way.

[@40kVallin]

Thank you so much for these videos. I tried the legendary lords you have done so far and now I have much more fun with them!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad to hear it!

[@quinzlinz5445]

I just recently came across this series on my recommended and I really like them! They are engaging and insightful, I particularly like the manual battle pointers as that is my worst skill in this game. Keep up the awesome videos! 😁 I would love to see a Count Noctilus or any of the tomb kings. They are some of my favorite looking factions, but I suck at them lol

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you for your kind words my friend, glad you enjoyed it!

[@simpleman3898]

Your videos are wonderful! Easy to understand with a hint of humor. And much of it is useful for any skaven faction. Thank you

[@BlakesTakes420]

You're most welcome, thank you for your kind words!

[@MegaPagliacci]

Perfect timing, I was just thinking I wanted to learn to play as the Skaven. Kairos is still tough, I need a break. I am very glad I found your channel.

[@BlakesTakes420]

I have a Kairos guide if you need a hand: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmGck2xtgJyAopo

[@relleos16]

Mate, what a fantastic guide - you have earned a sub for this. I look forward to watching more of your videos!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Welcome aboard sir!

[@Tom-wo8um]

This is one of an increasing number of excellent guides from Blake's Takes. I have thousands of hours in the totalwarhammer series on L/VH difficulty and these guides are the best. I've seen them all. Yes, Elven Plot Armour will eventually come out with a min/maxed guide of 20 turn perfection but as soon as a patch comes out, the guide needs reworking lol. Blake's guides are perfect for players struggling with a new campaign. My only note is that in my personal experience, I've never had the ai discover an undercity at 40% visibility or lower. I've also had occasions where the AI discovers undercities (ones with +40% Vis 😝) and leaves it there. So I recommend leaving out the building that costs money per turn and just have the one which causes you to lose sight over the region. Then you fully upgrade your food and money buildings to get +1 food and 400 gold per turn from each undercity. Spreader cities are the same except the fully upgraded spreader building replaces the money building. Once spread, replace spreader with money building and build a spreader city in the new one. Rinse, repeat.

[@BlakesTakes420]

What a lovely comment thank you. Good strats with the undercity.

[@davidjankraayveld7784]

Your guides helped me so much! I can t wait to try out Snitch again.

[@BlakesTakes420]

I love to hear it. Thank you sir 🫶

[@cipsahoy9639]

Another good one as always, thanks! If you’re continuing this series, would you be willing to do the ogre campaigns? They seem to be difficult in the beginning as you’re surrounded by enemies and meat is limiting if you expand early

[@BlakesTakes420]

The requests for ogres are piling in. They are in the priority queue.

[@zarrstrudeltributemaker314]

Ogre is easy just take you're time first :)

[@infectedanimal9830]

Man this video was just what I needed, hope you do more vids like this on the old world factions

[@BlakesTakes420]

More on it's way sir

[@willallen9419]

"We will Choke the streets with our dead before we surrender."

[@snakeballs8965]

So good guide just a couple things. Gutter runners have the snare net ability that can make even fast cavalry struggle to catch them. It stacks with poison. Skavenslaves are a waste in any main army. Feel free to have a couple stacks to tie up enemies and tire them out before your big army cleans up, but you dont need to. Chieftains are amazing on broodhorrors to cycle charge with because they regenerate and are tough as nails. (Edit: got my heroes mixed up. Chieftains only get access to the bone breaker. Not as useful, but they can still cycle charge very well. Their animation on the charge carries them through most infantry and they have huge mass. They are projectile magnets however and require tons of micromanaging.) Eishin sorcerers actually do have a really important use for skaven. Their first spell is a single target extremely high damage cheap as dirt armor piercing spell that skaven dont have anywhere else. Excellent for getting that last hit on a fleeing lord. And lastly, make friends with the dark elves early and fight a bit for them. You can just give them land and spread undercities all over their empire. Because dark elves are rich, you can get ridiculous amounts of money just feeding off of their empire.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you. Slaves are solid in the early game before your economy is the powerhouse it becomes.

[@octogen1282]

Your guides keep getting better-superior! Want more of these, yes-yes

[@BlakesTakes420]

more on it's way sir. thank you for your lovely comment-post, yes-yes.

[@JaySwag77]

I've been binging all your guides lately, they're great. Can't wait to see who you break down next!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Well thank you so much for your viewership sir, and your lovely comment, it's much appreciated. Hopefully have another in the series out for December- after I've done a few sponsorship vids. keeping the lights on and all that.

[@JaySwag77]

@@BlakesTakes420 I'm glad you're getting sponsored, that's great news! Good for you. I'll eagerly, but patiently, await it then.

[@Maximus-ke5wm]

Great video, a lot of work went into this.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir! It sure did!

[@basicmitch9189]

I love your videos! The moment I see one of your videos I go and play that lord and have a blast! Thank you

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad you enjoyed them sir! 🫶

[@kianqalashahar]

Wish I had found this video (and this channel) months ago. Great stuff.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thanks for watching!

[@DidgeOfLife]

I love your explanations of factions! Keep going mate they are very informative! I hope you get more subs!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@moteleyman]

Amazing - keep up the good work Blake!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you!

[@crong00]

"Depreshin" is now a word in my vocabulary that I didn't know I needed

[@BlakesTakes420]

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

[@gzusfishlives8897]

Personally ive been waiting on a ratt review and i loved this one. And for the factions i dont play its taught me alot about them. Will be sticking around to watch the rest fingers crossed for a Whyyousuckwith Ikit next time the ratts get the spotlight. Keep up the great content

[@BlakesTakes420]

I love me some Ikit. Thanks for your lovely comment friend 🫶

[@jukesduck9363]

This has become one of my favorite series' on KZbin fr

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you for your kinds words sir. Fr, fr. 🔥

[@maikati3683]

amazing intro dude good job love the skave voice xD

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you friend!

[@alexanderjohnson3419]

Great video. One thing: you can get the “man thing slave” ancillary, which boosts your capacity for plague priests by 1. In my previous campaign (which crashes on load now after doing the eshin action which deletes an entire faction- be careful with this) I had 10 plague priest capacity on turn 100 with only 1 or 2 of my pox cauldrons being max level. My suggestion is to get one of them in an early settlement and then just use the man thing slaves. The extra build slot can be used on a hidden lair

[@alexanderjohnson3419]

Edit: the ancillary is not called man thing slave. It’s another one. I haven’t gotten any yet I’m my eshin campaign but I know there is an ancillary that grants you +1 plague priest and eshin sorcerer capacity. Also: eshin sorcerers can be kinda op if you give them good armor and some defensive talisman, and just get them in the middle of blobs and BLACK WHIRWIND. My eshin sorcerer got 700 kills last fight against cathay

[@Donnerbalken28]

A word about Chieftains: I've found they're very useful on the campaign map because they can block enemy armies, a skill they share with Warlock Engineers, but Engineers are high in demand in your armies and to build Under-Cities, so they're an effective supplement to force the AI into engagements. Since chieftains can be spawned from the basic barracks you can also build in minor settlements, you have basically an unlimited supply. Clan Barracks are also significantly cheaper than Workshops and provide Untainted corruption, which makes controlling Public Order easier.

[@BlakesTakes420]

I never really use block army, so hadn't thought to use them in that capacity. As Skaven I lay in wait in the ambush stance most of the time so, I don't think I'd get too much utility from block army.

[@Donnerbalken28]

@@BlakesTakes420 Yeah but sometimes you just wanna be a bit more proactive and Block Army is excellent for that. That's why i mentioned it. It also prevents the AI from running away all the time, which is very handy.

[@Daktangle]

I'm bad with Skaven in general (too much focus on infantry), and Eshin seem a lot squishier than everyone else, so this was really helpful. Thank you!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you friend, glad you found it helpful

[@nicbuzas7783]

the Helgen speech was absolutely phenomenal.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you my friend, glad you enjoyed it.

[@NellyTheWicked]

I never thought I would see a killzone reference inside a total war warhammer game video and I love it

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad to be of service sir

[@WillyShankspeare]

I did the Visari speech from KZ1 in drama class one year. The only marks I lost were for it being "too short" but I didn't care. I still remember it perfectly all these years.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Unfathomably based of you, sir.

[@WillyShankspeare]

@@BlakesTakes420 Brian Cox is GOAT

[@stevenessex1932]

I love these. I wait for them to come out

[@BlakesTakes420]

You're very kind for saying so!

[@chrisbergonzi7977]

Great stuff...thanks man...

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jeppa153]

nice intro, using killzone 2 speech, loved it!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir! 🫶

[@darkywarky]

I also highly recommend rushing to the "Monstrous Abominations" technology so you can start getting Hell Pit Attendant followers for 10% research rate each.

[@BlakesTakes420]

This is good advice.

[@stalovsky]

Am so fired up to start a new Snickchhch (sp) campaign and make a better mess than before :D

[@DrakeTheThird]

i still cannot belive that you are not bigger than this your videos are actually so helpful

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you for your comment. Im delighted that you find them valuable.

[@AThousandLives-]

I don't subscribe easy, but i've watched 2 videos of you and they're very well put together mate. I hope you'll continue making these vids and wish you the best of luck in your KZbin Journey.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Lovely comment, thank you for it.

[@Slohcin31820]

Thank you for such an interesting and informative guide! Economy has always escaped my understanding but this is definitely going to help get me on the right track.

[@BlakesTakes420]

You're most welcome sir. Hope it helps your next campaign.

[@Slohcin31820]

@@BlakesTakes420 Most definitely!

[@Geesaroni]

Honestly, all of this is just generally good Skaven advice.

[@BlakesTakes420]

glad you thought it was good advice at least. Tbh Eshin is just more gutter runners less artillery.

[@Sonarchyy]

Good-good! another excellent video, devoted to the great horned rat no less! Keep them coming mate!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you for your kind words, more on its way!

[@zwegyi1000000]

Fantastic presentation. Loved it.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir, glad to be of service.

[@ulitharid8907]

I know it might be foolish to do 2 of these on skaven back-to-back, but I would LOVE a 'Why you SUCK with Ikit Claw' video! Ikit is easliy my favorite conceptual lord and campaign, but I just SUCK with him so bad, I can't seem to get weapons team armies to work, which is Ikit's whole schtick

[@BlakesTakes420]

We Will Be Best-greatest inventor

[@francesco.virzi4]

Excellent, this will help me a lot!

[@BlakesTakes420]

I love to hear it, glad you found it helpful!

[@leventetoth3714]

Great CGP Grey reference at the end.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir!

[@newoldfashionedwoodworks6584]

Really cool video! I hope you do every lord!

[@BlakesTakes420]

I hope so too! Thanks for your lovely comment!

[@Slapdab]

Thanks Blake!

[@BlakesTakes420]

You're most welcome.

[@classycthulhu8449]

Would love to see you do a vid on o'l Grimgor. His start is a good bit rougher now that the Chaos Dwarves are around

[@BlakesTakes420]

Grimgor is da best tho

[@malekiththewitchking2799]

Snikch has always been my favorite Skaven character even before Total War. I know the reason I suck with him. That being because I always try to make thematic armies whenever I play the game. These tips just make me suck even less.

[@BlakesTakes420]

It's sad because I tried a few more thematic armies, but tbh, eshin triads and death runners are just nowhere near as useful as gutter runners, whenever I took them I always just wanted more GRs (or weapons teams)

[@elusivefenrir147]

That was pretty quick, raid shadow legends scooped you up pretty quick. Good for you.

[@BlakesTakes420]

You're very kind for saying so. Thank you. 🙏

[@scottkerr5781]

Got to love that killzone speech

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you! Loved Brian Cox's performance in that game.

[@rockgodwannabe]

one little addition. i always send snikch on the small heist, food raids etc cause its instant and gives him xp without him being out of action at all. got him to lvl 4 in the first turn. one lvl for the food heist, one for the first battle then one for the settlement battle

[@BlakesTakes420]

Solid strategy

[@H4LOL]

Ogres next ? guess i start a snikch campaign

[@BlakesTakes420]

Cathay will break to your will. Ogres 🔜

[@havel4385]

I think it would be nice in future videos to mention a standard composition for armies.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Warlock engineer, plague priest, 2x mortars, 2x plague claw catapults, the rest gutter runners.

[@havel4385]

Thank you@@BlakesTakes420

[@R3GARnator]

Love these videos.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad you like them! Thanks for your kind words!

[@SanquineRite]

ok mate love love the intro beginning yes yes

[@BlakesTakes420]

Glad you like it!

[@botep5529]

Good lord poisoned wind mortors are just so cool and fun to use. The regiment of renown version does an epic air burst if i remember correct

[@BlakesTakes420]

You remember correctly. The avalanche mortars are unbelievably strong.

[@Frogjuice02]

Prime work as usual sir!

[@BlakesTakes420]

You're a gentleman for saying so sir, your words are much appreciated! 🫶

[@MrHellboy112]

Love that AVGN jump scare, hahaha

[@BlakesTakes420]

Gla you like it sir 🫶

[@alec_884]

As a resident Eshin main this video made my day

[@BlakesTakes420]

I am so happy to hear it. 🫶

[@partydean17]

Do you use the eshin sorcerer?

[@MrRolci]

Absolutely incredible video.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir! Your words are much appreciated! 🫶

[@seanmurphy8458]

Love the Helgan Speeche.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir!

[@andremartins7601]

I love that you talking so confidently and calmly only to say funny shit like that 17:46

[@BlakesTakes420]

I aim to please sir.

[@azeon562]

Absolutely prioritize the poison variant of gutter runners with throwing stars, it shores up their main weakness in cav. Base skaven speed is insanely high as is, and with a few techs/army skills you can get gutter runners up to around 60-70 movespeed, the same speed as heavy cav. From there they have a snare-net passive that automatically slows all units around them. Couple that with the slowing effect of poison and even fast flying units like pegasus knights can barely tickle their backsides as they scurry-flee away. You'll often find yourself running so much faster than enemy cavalry chasing you that you accidentally exit range radius. They effectively turn into skirmisher cav, only with twice the models and better melee stats.

[@BlakesTakes420]

I disagree, they're a nice to have not a *need* to have. Night runners en masse will work effectively, as will the unpoisoned gutter runners. If you have enough of them they should be able to focus fire down most cav units in my experience.

[@azeon562]

@@BlakesTakes420 Of course the regular variant will do you fine, but in my opinion the poison runners are the difference between a good army and a doomstack. Regular gutter runners will fold rather quickly to a very cav-heavy army. Even a conventional weapons team skaven army is notoriously vulnerable to flying/cavalry spam armies. The poison attacks shoring up your most glaring weakness is easily worth working towards alone, but with skaven reasonably able to colonize settlements at tier 5 in the mid game, and the natural usefulness of plague priests as your preferred wizards of choice anyway, it's always worth building a plague building to tier 5 as soon as you can regardless of gutter runners. Poison runners also alleviate a lot of the pressure you normally feel even with a small amount of enemy cav. With the normal variant you have to dedicate most, or all, of your gutter runners to focusing down the cav at the start of the engagement. Poison allows your gutter runners to 1v1 almost any cav or flying unit, freeing up the rest of your runners to inflict a larger amount of shock-damage at the onset of the fight against lords or monsters that would normally have to wait until after the cav has been dealt with. All said, you'll make excellent use of the regular gutter runners while you have them, but it's absolutely worth replacing them with the poison variant when you unlock them.

[@nocturnaljoe9543]

These voice edits are dope af. Yes, yes!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you kindly sir, your words are lovely to hear. 🫶

[@fishpickles1377]

Love your videos.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you!

[@DandyLionPack]

Quick question, the skaven undercity template you showed produces 3 food but also costs 3 food per turn ending net neutral. Am I missing something here? I don’t see the point in expanding under cities when it doesn’t gain you anything. I could just be missing the point though so feel free to point out my stupidity lol.

[@sbeve-]

Engineers also boost ranged units move speed, so you can get doom wheels that travel almost as fast as flying units

[@BlakesTakes420]

They sure do!

[@aaronwindham6065]

I almost always auto resolve for most fights, outside of something like the bigger ones or ones where I'm for sure going to win. So thank you for explaining that because I would have kept doing that

[@BlakesTakes420]

I love anyone with an Attack on titan profile picture.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Especially that one.

[@DutchMaster6]

This channel is great. Can you teach me why I suck with ogre kingdoms next

[@DutchMaster6]

Just wanted to say I appreciate very much that you speak in a calm and relaxed voice. I can put these videos on to fall asleep to which is a very good thing, dont change.

[@BlakesTakes420]

I can indeed tell you sir, I wish you the most pleasant of slumbers. 💤💤

[@tylerainsworth4542]

Playing with clan moulder i usually have Kislev wiped out in 3-4 turns and control all of the troll/norsca area to the north, and to the chaos dwarves to the east by turn 10-20, Usually never get a city taken back after i take it. I play on easy but still.. Sometimes Empire or Chaos factions can sneak their way in since the wrap around the south and north pretty far

[@sativa-sloth6099]

As someone playing through Darkest Dungeons RN for the first time, hearing the stress indicator gave me PTSD and a need to check Dismas.

[@BlakesTakes420]

hahaha, great to hear.

[@Scitscat111]

27:03 this caught me off guard and its the best thing I've ever seen. lmfao!

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir, it truly is free real estate. 🏡

[@youngthinker1]

Congrats on becoming an official Content Creator with that Raid Shadow Legends advertisement.

[@BlakesTakes420]

Thank you sir! really appreciate that!

[@michaelmcdowell7096]

Probably a waste but i usually put a point into lightening strike after the cheaper upkeep skill is maxed. In the few situations it gets used i either a a little more time to chase the first army down or my reinforcements come in just a little sooner. I usually play skaven or VC and most armys are quantity over quality with a few good armys made as i go for assault spearheads. Dont underestimate a warlord with life is cheap slave spam with a caster hero or 2, usually plague monk but dont underestimate the pricy warlock engineer hero with lots of skaven slave slingers.