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I'm not an expert at the game but don't assassination attempts change success rate every turn? Otherwise you did like 4 turns this episode and that's almost half way to having Malekith back if you just disband him.

could you make a list that i can track on ?

The Dark Conduit army ability is targeted on an allied unit You use it if a unit is engaged in melee with an enemy It'll severely damage the enemy and knock them back Your unit is undamaged but is badly fatigued I like using it on frontline infantry or lords and heroes with perfect vigour when they're surrounded

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What is WH without the the mechanic and unit variaty? Take the greatest game you've had, strip away the this strength, and what remains? WH players rely on it, depend on it, more than they know. Watch as one tries to play a subsequent TW game with regular infantry, as they try to play WH, and you will see nothing more than apathy. When one comes to rely on mechanics and unit variety so entirely and it is ripped away then they may find adjusting to a life without it difficult -- Pharao.

good !! i love immersive comapaign !

I hope his squig eats him

How are you getting the Vlan Angrund's ancestral heroes? I don't have the option to recruit them.

It was a second time it let you do a sneak attack like that: too far but hiding in shadows while target is threatened by a mage hand. Seems like game engine treats the sources of advantage and disadvantage like they're cancelling each other. I noticed it in my games too, now that I'm thinking about it, but I never truly paid much attention because I never relied on sneak attack damage, it was just there as a nice bonus from 3 levels of rogue.

Yeah, you're sadly not a very good thief 😁 Not sure you ever stole anything yet... Should have been an assassin, but of course two bonus actions are great for a double crossbow build 👍 Edit: I take it back, you stole an idol, didn't you? So you're a decent thief after all 😂

I love the concept of slowing the game for immersion, but I was thinking wouldn't that also mean that hero's start at higher ranks? Seems strange that they would go into battle not knowing any skills especially wizards. Karl Franz is I think 40 years and you start the campaign with no skills unlocked, that makes no sense immersion wise speaking. Other then that I wish the base game would give you the options SFO gives you to customize your experience. Good luck in trying to save this campaign.

The replenishment thing at 49:00 ish is actually because skaven always loot when they occupy You took so little damage on your troops during the siege and captured a lot of enemies Thusly your troops replenished to full from looting You can see when you occupy a settlement as skaven, just above the occupy button is a tooltip giving replenishment Not a bug, vanilla feature

You have started well with Green skins. Though i don't agree with your rule set of picking. Chariots or monsters or cavalry, as long as they are not really impactfull range skirmishers ( e.g. Kislev chariots ) , they fall into meele category. So... GS have some artilery and can improve gobos into solid rangers, but only against poorly armoured units without shields, which quite disqualifies them in a late game. But their meele infantry and monsters , boosted by waagh ability + big waagh magic buffs, that is the way which turns quite a cheap, weak stat wise units into killing machines which took out a confidence of previously charging, confident units into routing cowards in few seconds. So i still think, because of design GS are done, are still best meele faction nonetheless there are even better options. Simply because not only they can use these buffs to top your enemy, but they RELLY on it. + hordes of chaff ofc. The only one who can do serious bussiness with damage spells is Wurzagg with Gorks foot spell because it is hell cheap for him, but thats it. my honourable mention would be Ogres : They are currntly out of balance, poorly designed and suffer by a nature of clunkiness of massed monstrous units IMO , but ... They seem to me a sort of monstrous variants of GS, with similar narative and if CA manage to get leadbelchers back to some reasonable state, they will have quite a hurricane feel of quick damage, quick charge and roll over faction it had at start of WH3.

Ogre Kingdoms should be the best melee campaign. I hate how underwhelming the Ogre units feel

I feel like that into wasspecficly calling out legend of total war

Wouldn't it be nice if you had say hand crossbow that does for example force damage and is really really good? :-))

My wife and I have been playing since the beginning, and stopped about two years ago. We just tried again this weekend and cant get into it anymore….. it just looks and feels too dated and not inspiring us anymore.

I am almost sure, that SFO rebalance a lot of (unit)stats, also like replenishment. Some of them are good, some are too heavy to handle for me. They have a googel doc whith all the themes and changes for a faction. I really love the armycomps and the limitations of eliteunits. I dont play Skaven a lot, but I am pretty sure that you problem whith replenishment is special for Snikch and his campaign. I dont know why. Also every faction has his own mechanics, which I really like. But tbh I cant see any special thing for Snikch. They launched an update couple of weeks ago, in this they gave every faction, lord etc own traits. In my Dwarven campaign I am having a hillarious time, for the first time since WH 1 I do have the classic feeling to fight a defensive war, but now the Highking releases the power of the dawi. I really hope you give that mod another chance, maybe after the next dlc/update. They did so much good stuff for all factions. I really think you have a bad luck whith this one. Keep on going. Sry not native english here ;)

I feel like you can't discount Grimgor for having good non infantry units and then praise the Warriors of Chaos, who have some of the best cavalry is the game. The most egregious part is when you pretty much give the answer, Khorne, with a good explanation and then say "but but but, what about Khorne with magic?" The Valkia guide is great but the first half of the video is incredibly biased and it's obvious that you had your conclusion before you even starting thinking about any other options.

Ghorst is good with zombies. The zombies have ravenous dead top it with poison weapons and %500 regeneration. Chefs kiss. I just love my horde tactics.

Like and good video.👍👍 Elspeht is trying her best for Karl.

Espeth's dragon breath attack is meant for single entities

Drycha is a beast with her trees.

Taurox is in the running. Magic is not what I go to beastmen for. Starting the Bovine Boys on top of the enemy is a very good day.

>wood elves are out Drycha: Am I a joke to you? Her walking trees and forest beasts armies are super fun to play. She makes them insanely strong.

Skarbrand is the only acceptable answer for this question. Edit. After finishing the video i approve of the final answer.

In my view, best melee is a long grind where your line of melee feels like a bulwark where tides of enemies break against it. With that in mind I feel best melee is either Nurgle or Vampire Counts. It's so enjoyable to just grind it out with Chosen and Chaos Warriors and just heal them out while the enemy is more and more desperate as the fight goes on. :)

If your answer to "best melee" is anything other than "SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!! MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES!!!!", with sufficient volume to justify the all caps and exclamation points, then I would humbly suggest that you're probably an uncultured heretic. Or possibly a Slaanesh worshipper. Joking aside, the best melee campaign is actually kind of hard, assuming we mean "mostly melee infantry", particularly if we also take points away if the faction has "other options". And we dock points for single entities and, I assume, monstrous infantry. I do think we have to allow for melee cavalry but this opens the door for whether cycle charge micro is really the same as "melee" and whether chariots are the same as cavalry. Anyway, I'd be inclined to say WoC, Norsca, Greenies, and then some monogod chaos factions and Beastmen. Warriors of Chaos is just where it's at in the intersection between punching stuff in the face and having a good campaign. They've got all the flavors of face-punchers that one could wish for, they've got plenty of support options, and if what you want is a horde of grunts then they surely deliver. Even more so in a Valkia campaign with her waves of mostly dual wielding infantry and really angry monstrous cav. Norsca is often overlooked but they're almost exclusively melee. Marauders that want to punch enemies in the face, mammoths that want to chest bump, doggo-people looking for a treat, trolls that want to impress with their lack of hygiene and disrespect of personal space, and even the odd chaos dragon that wants someone to scratch it behind the necks. They're a "full speed ahead" kind of faction that win if they can close ground and engage, and lose if they cannot. Greenskin are, canonically, all about boyz running at you in unfathomable numbers while screaming "WAAAAAAAAAAGH!". Some of them might ride on boars. A few might have bows, even. But mostly they want to charge and engage and get into choppa range. That's the canon. In the campaign it pays to play them slightly differently, and they do benefit a lot from various monsters (be it trolls or giants or arachnaroks) and heroes and magic. And squigs. But fundamentally Greenies are a textbook melee faction. Just don't rely exclusively on waves and waves and waves of boyz and big 'unz and blorcs without any support. They're slow, they're vulnerable, and they will blob at the worst possible time and get AOE nuked. The monogod chaos factions, then. Khorne is obviously pretty good at melee but the problem is how Skarbrand's campaign mechanics work. It so easily devolves into a Skarbrand single character campaign with some throw-away AR fodder armies, and it feels like the whole point is to overrun everyone with Skarbrand before they can build up anything. It's a form of melee but it feels a bit limited. Slaanesh, then. Very melee but also very frail. It's not really about "melee", it's about setting up engagements to be over as fast as possible while needling the enemy endlessly with fast movers. Nurgle, then. Very melee, for sure, but it feels to me like the damage is usually done by something other than the melee grunts. And finally Beastmen. So much that fights in melee range. But they're not really a "forward and charge" faction unless you hero spam or monster mash. The gors themselves are kind of mediocre and the lower ranks are really just skavenslaves without a tail. Centigors are fun to play with but then we're sort of getting into cavalry faction territory. Beastmen are a melee faction and their campaigns are pretty good, but "melee" done Beastmen style is more of a tavern brawl than kung fu. Honorable mentions... Ogres, my lord. Very melee, for sure. But it is hard to have a good melee campaign if you're not having a good campaign to begin with. Fix that and they'd shoot right up this list. Lizardmen. Saurus spam is viable. Skink spam is viable. Until it isn't. It's pretty hard, IMO, to not eventually end up with a lot of bigger dinos and magic support and hero support instead of relying on mass infantry. Vampire Counts. The most melee faction in the game, originally. Literally didn't have anything with a ranged attack at release. But the thing that docks points here is, how do you play VCount? With never-ending hordes of zombies and skellies? Or using blobs of those things as tarpits while dealing the real damage with vampire heroes, with mortis engines, with black coaches, with crypt horrors, varghulfs, and so on? And of course magic. Ghorst could do a fine melee campaign a few patches back but his zombies have been nerfed a lot and the AI has picked up on how to cast spells in the middle of that blob. Dwarfs. Specifically slayers with Ungrim. I mean, you can. You probably shouldn't, though. Well, maybe you should with Ungrim's army but my goodness, let the rest do their own thing. And let that thing involve gyrocopters. Lots and lots of gyrocopters. And organ guns. Or at least a thunderbarge.

While I understand your reasoning behind these restrictions, I still prefer Undivided Chaos Warriors. I just tend to theme my armies as I go. Archaon with a full Aspiring Champion doomstack doesn't get old.

I think Gor-Rok is my #1 melee campaign

I played a Taurox campaign recently that was actually a ton of fun. I think their only ranged is ungor archers and cygors?

Despite the availability of strong missile units/artillery in their roster, I think Dwarfs have the best melee campaign if you focus on it, particularly Ancestral Throng (20% weapon strength vs Elves, +10 MD MA +35% speed in Grombrindal's army, +10 defence when defending) and Karak Kadrin (10% more speed). I think Dwarfs are generally overlooked for this purpose but they have generally high armour and rune magic provides excellent buffs for melee, particularly the Rune of Speed, especially when overcast and combined with the regular cast. Access to the forge provides superb buffs in melee and their lords and heroes when fully equipped are very difficult to best in melee. There's this perception that Dwarfs are slow and that is mostly true but it's possible to make them faster than Skaven and there's various tactics you can use to mitigate low proximity and low speed anyway. Give Dwarf melee focus a try. I've actually got a pre-5.0 video on my channel that goes into Ancestral Throng for this purpose that remains true if you want to give it a shot. It's also a good candidate to test the theory because you have to constantly deal with Darkshards and Shades at the start. You will be surprised to find that you will perform better without any missile units against them.

ive had this happen to me i think i just went through all the notifacations like this factions died or things like ambush discovered and made sure to click the check mark on all of them and was able to move (i was on Ikit Claw

Vampire counts of

Low ground doesn't prevent sneak attacks, it only lowers hit chance

In places near glowy things and such there's no deep darkness, so it's not too dark

To exploit shadow creature's weaknesses you need sunlight, not just any light. Any light helps of course, but there's a spell Sunlight that makes them REALLY uncomfortable :-)

53:00 On the contrary sir, listening to you slowly lose your sh*t because of the allied AI is what everyone wants to hear.

I would love to enjoy Vampire Coast as a ranged faction, but their campaigns taught me hate for gunpowder units. Finding enough even terrain to utilize them is oftentimes too feasible.

I'm not sure getting the dual wielding feat is really the best move. When you attack with your off-hand, your main ability modifier doesn't apply. If you want it to, you generally need the two weapon fighting style that you can get from Fighter 1, Ranger 2 or Swords Bard 3. There's also a pair of gloves that gives the same effect, but they were on quartermaster Tally and with her dead they're no longer accessible. A few weapons will allow you to add your modifier when used off-hand, it will be written on the tooltip. What the dual wielding feat allows you to do is use 2 non light weapons at the same time, as long as they're not two-handed - so a spear and a mace, or a longsword and a rapier. However, as a Rogue, you want to use finesse weapons all the time, and most finesse weapons are already light. You'd be able to use Phalar aluve and a rapier, but I'm not sure going from 1d6 to 1d8 weapon damage is worth a feat, especially since you'd loose your medium amour proficiency. If you want to improve damage output, sharpshooter is far better, and crossbow expert might be a strong option for you - you would be able to use your crossbows in melee without suffering disadvantage, allowing you to keep your shield. Another thing to consider - when you enter initiative separately, the person entering after combat has started will always go after the person who initiated combat. This is why you both lost initiative against the meazels. So taking Alert on the person who's going to be initiating fights might be a good idea.

yea I had this happen in one of my campaigns. It can happen with any 2 entities that somehow get placed on eachother. Mine was when I tried to have 2 armies go through a port city and both their movement ranges ended right ontop of eachother and they got stuck like that. You cant move them at all and reloading to that turn doesnt help. You could see if sacrificing his army you get him back? or you have to completely reload to before he moved there (making you have to fight that battle again) and retake the whole turn. If you are ok with him dying just get another lord to transfer out his units and then just have him die for a little. I know you take alot of debuffs if he dies but theres really no other way that I can think of. I Also run mods so idk if its vanilla or not.

The most important thing you can get by respec is Sharpshooter :-)) If you don't mind breaking your own rules of course :-)

Shadowland is considered dark area, you need darkvision. Environmental light is there for your benefit as a player so you can see things, but your character is not supposed to. Actual light sources are torches, braziers, magic lights and so on.

In my first playthrough I ran the whole party right into the meazle ambush, desperately in need of long rest too 😅 It was a very nasty fight, but I had Lae'zel with me :-))

I'm not sure solo blind is even possible. To finish solo run you need to know mechanics and plan for some things, foreknowledge of fights helps too of course, but it's less important than knowledge of game mechanics. And without playing the game you can't know mechanics :-)

Is it possible that agent next to Malakith 'blocked' your army?

The house at Last Light has a nice bit of environmental storytelling, but not much more

I've had a similar bug happen in a beastmen campaign to me I had killed off Wisenland and just before I did the ritual to block resettlement of ruins, bloody EKF walks in and revives them Normally not an issue but all their immortal heroes, 3 or 4 of them, revived in the middle of the city I couldn't attack it and they couldn't move or recruit lords Long campaign victory hardlocked, campaign scrapped

Like and good video.👍👍 The indomitable human spirit guides the emperor.🤙 "We will bring back what was sacred to man!!" (also my only idea is an aliance with Cathay to get some of their units)

I would rather play a faction that has less egregious buffs alot of camp players seem to think the more OP the better I couldnt disagree more