It is better then mediocre probably, because the ai will probably still rate them at a level below clanrats. Thus you will mostly meet forces you can annihilate. Also the upkeep is pretty decent.
@@SleepyFen nah, zombies are a unit you might wanna actually purchase at some point. Beefier than skeletons, still free, great at protecting your lords as they spam wind of death. Skavenslaves should never be actively purchased, just use menace and plauge priests to make temporary ones for you to bomb into oblivion.
@@SleepyFen a zombie doomstack is alot easier to pull off via ghorst + magic + the RoR dogs and a couple heroes to deal with artillery and lords. its essentially a better skele-spam
This slight will not be forgiven. You better watch your back okoii. If you ever play tarkov beware of this fellow follower of the rat lord, you hear me!?!? YOU HEAR ME!?!?
"I died under the weight of their corpses, the blood I spilled that day formed a new aquifer and will alter the landscape for a thousand leagues till the end of time."
On the plus side of losing a million rats in the enemy's territory, the bodies will decay and breed more diseases which will eventually screw over the other guy. So its still a Skaven Victory
@@mercwiththemouthsnewphone6798 yea, but they also don’t have the magical warping field 40k Orks got, as a result, a bunch of them can’t summon a foot of Gork, meaning they take fighting a bit more seriously, since by all means they are outmatched, a human with a long pointy stick can easily kill some git with a club charging at him
I mean seriously, just visually, forgetting about stats and stuff like that. The sheer *numbers* of soldiers would be enough to scare nearly any army. Add on the fact that, apparently, all the rats scream the whole time. If I saw that army approaching, I wouldn’t even think to desert, there’d be nowhere to run against such a horde.
Let's consider what Okoii made of them : - Probably lowest upkeep army (except for vampire counts) - Kinda decent melee stats - Greatest number of models per unit (if I'm not mistaken) - Unbreakable - Very fast for a melee infantry Considering that it would be very convenient to stack multiples armies of this kind pretty early in the campaign, I'm starting to think this would be a way to crush the AI very easily.
@@Casimir2811 ya you only need a couple for them to be efficient it then is just do you want to devote the resources on slaves instead of something more stout so you get more bang for your buck.
It saddened me to realize we would never get Space Skaven in 40K. But I took solace in the knowledge that it's only because the Imperium of Man is already functionally indistinguishable from the Skaventide. This even goes for its various constituent parts as well. The Imperial Guard? Clan Verminous. Sisters of Battle and the Ecclesiarchy? Clan Pestilens. The Officio Assassinorum? Clan Eshin. The Adeptus Mechanicus? Clan Skrye. The Space Marines? Glorified rat-ogres straight from the pits of Clan Moulder. It's a massive empire built on the ruthless exploitation of masses of people, crowded into massive hives. Sent forth by the power-mad council of leaders to destroy everything not like them, all for the glory of a distant, cruel deity.
@@Bluecho4 to be fair ppl live pretty OK in some parts of the imperium Also they have technology not just rusted swords and planks for shields. Also eating the dead is frowned upon in the empirium
100 leadership on a expendable meat shield is pretty nuts. Not sure how fast theyd route but i assume with a lord nearby you'd probably have to break leadership in order to get rid of them.
@@paullangford348 Cost efficiency alone isn't everything, though. Neither in strategy games and neither in real life. Of course, it _is_ a considerable part of it. But not everything.
"Watch as i turn the shittiest infantry into mediocre-at-best infantry after hours of work!"
Only a true madman.
it's better than mediocre-at-best with those necroparasites tho
I think there's a discussion to be had about whether, zombies are worse lmao
It is better then mediocre probably, because the ai will probably still rate them at a level below clanrats. Thus you will mostly meet forces you can annihilate. Also the upkeep is pretty decent.
@@SleepyFen nah, zombies are a unit you might wanna actually purchase at some point. Beefier than skeletons, still free, great at protecting your lords as they spam wind of death.
Skavenslaves should never be actively purchased, just use menace and plauge priests to make temporary ones for you to bomb into oblivion.
@@SleepyFen a zombie doomstack is alot easier to pull off via ghorst + magic + the RoR dogs and a couple heroes to deal with artillery and lords. its essentially a better skele-spam
I now need a mod where skaven units just say in a tts voice "rats" "cheese" "murder" "squeak"
Or quotes from legend using his skaven voice. Lol
They just figured out how to change voice lines so it can happen!
@@Daniel_deez_nutz That’s fantastic! I shall await the flood of memes
In text to speech would be an absolute must-include, just for the slaves and clan rats, though.
Also have Chucky Cheese saying "PoGErs" when they're winning in melee combat. (yes i know he's technically a mouse)
I can already hear Legend scream
Especially at the fact that they are not slingers
No spellcaster
“Trash tier”
I bet he feels the disturbance as this vid is uploaded, he just doesn't know what it is yet
....with pleasure
"The unit is named 'The Ratical Left', yet is the unit placed furthest on the right. Curious." -Ikit Kirk
If you go far enough left; you end up right. World is round after all.
He should have done the one on the left as ratical left, and the one on the right as ratical right
fuck. i just said that.
Turning point Skavenblight
Press X to doubt
F
"General Sam's fanbase"
You call our tactics cowardly, we call it efficient.
The unit renames are my favorite part of your videos.
This slight will not be forgiven. You better watch your back okoii. If you ever play tarkov beware of this fellow follower of the rat lord, you hear me!?!? YOU HEAR ME!?!?
Skaven have a unique curvature of the spine for an improved looting experience.
Do you guys hear something? It's like a tiny squeaking sound coming from the corner of the room...
Those Slayers are going to have a hard time explaining to their ancestors how they died to Skavenslaves.
"I died under the weight of their corpses, the blood I spilled that day formed a new aquifer and will alter the landscape for a thousand leagues till the end of time."
@@KynMites “cope seethe and male, you are going down in history as Raki droppings.”
Finally, a true Vermintide.
It's like a dream come true.
Basically, Vermintide that runs at Legend or Cataclysm difficulty.
Get swept aside by the vermin tide
*Archeon:* "I'm the chosen of Chaos Undivided"
*Random rat boy:* "But can you breathe under a vermintide?"
Ratman: We are the True Everchosen!!!
[After the Rats kill everyone in the Endtime]
Archaon: Foolish mortals! I don't need to breathe!
Somewhere Legend is waking up in a cold sweat.
"What a horrible dream, Skaven Slaves actually not dying to keep the ranged units alive... "
Legend of Total War here and today we're playing as Clan Skyre going up against Brettonia, testing out their most powerful doomstack.
clan moulder ;)
oh god I can hear him in my head!
I definitely posted this before watching the actual video 😂
@@Mefungpoo for shame
@@weaponizedlizardmen360 in my defense, I commented 11 minutes before the video was released
On the plus side of losing a million rats in the enemy's territory, the bodies will decay and breed more diseases which will eventually screw over the other guy. So its still a Skaven Victory
I think we can all agree that there is no such thing as Skaven defeat
@@BoomPunchPear
There's no such thing as a greenskin defeat either
@@mercwiththemouthsnewphone6798 I mean, for 40k Orks yes, fantasy Orks are a bit more serious, and see fighting as more ritualistic than just good fun
@@Smelly556
That bit isn't very big though
@@mercwiththemouthsnewphone6798 yea, but they also don’t have the magical warping field 40k Orks got, as a result, a bunch of them can’t summon a foot of Gork, meaning they take fighting a bit more seriously, since by all means they are outmatched, a human with a long pointy stick can easily kill some git with a club charging at him
A masterpiece that finally happened
Imagine training for hundreds of years to be a lore master of Hoeth, just to die to some rats
I mean seriously, just visually, forgetting about stats and stuff like that.
The sheer *numbers* of soldiers would be enough to scare nearly any army. Add on the fact that, apparently, all the rats scream the whole time.
If I saw that army approaching, I wouldn’t even think to desert, there’d be nowhere to run against such a horde.
Skaven slaves don't scare people, skaven slaves who don't go down do
And after a battle skaven often eat the wounded alive
Let's consider what Okoii made of them :
- Probably lowest upkeep army (except for vampire counts)
- Kinda decent melee stats
- Greatest number of models per unit (if I'm not mistaken)
- Unbreakable
- Very fast for a melee infantry
Considering that it would be very convenient to stack multiples armies of this kind pretty early in the campaign, I'm starting to think this would be a way to crush the AI very easily.
the problem is the time and expense of 6 mutations on each unit...it takes a ton of save scuming to get 6 per unit and not have them be near useless.
@@bodhisfattva7462 I think that you can have them to be rather efficient without needing all the 6 mutations though
@@Casimir2811 ya you only need a couple for them to be efficient it then is just do you want to devote the resources on slaves instead of something more stout so you get more bang for your buck.
"The Ratical Left" had me fucking dying lol
Missed the chance for "The Far Rat" on the other side of the stack.
@@tubebubereboot6873 So true!!!
"The ratical left" is located on the far right. Amazing
Why?
@@corpsefoot758 This one went over your head didnt it?
watch the video again...
horseshoe theory is apparently when skaven eat all the horses
@@lucky-lu6tc
No, I think you just mistake irony for humor lol
It’s a really common mistake though, so no worries
The irony of the One True Rat General Sam was not lost on me...
He would be proud
No Chad will thrive whilst a rat lives
Good lord, I can only imagine how long it took to get all those Slaves augmented perfectly like that.
Save scumming exists
not too long, just save and reload if it turns out bad. the real issue is getting constant warp juice for it
@@funzywunzy Or just use mods to do it.
"ratical left" was when I couldn't hold it in, bravo friend
As a radical leftist of the anarchist variant: Same. Same so much XD
@@TheLostArchangel666 bruh, an anarchist?
@@TheLostArchangel666 LOL
I have never seen such a beautiful thing before, pure art. All fallen Skaven slaves will be remembered and never forgotten.
Okoii is a General Sam fan aswell, I am so happy
Ah I see they've finally added the skavenslaves I have to deal with in vermintide 2's cataclysm mode to total war.
I refuse to believe theirs only 1 man behind these genius videos. It has to be 135 skittering and leaping mutated 🐀 's
I come for the memes, I stay for the hilarious, original unit names.
"The Ratical Left" killed me.
@@SplendidFactor He always saves the best until last.
@@SplendidFactor he should have made the rightist unit “the far Right” and the left one “the far left” that would have been funny
@@wojtek9675 make no sense thematically but ok....
Someone recommended this in my last stream! I'm really grateful Okoii beat me to it 😂😅
Imperial guard: "For everyone of us who fall, ten more will take his place!"
Skaven slave: "and i-me took that-that personally."
It saddened me to realize we would never get Space Skaven in 40K. But I took solace in the knowledge that it's only because the Imperium of Man is already functionally indistinguishable from the Skaventide.
This even goes for its various constituent parts as well. The Imperial Guard? Clan Verminous. Sisters of Battle and the Ecclesiarchy? Clan Pestilens. The Officio Assassinorum? Clan Eshin. The Adeptus Mechanicus? Clan Skrye. The Space Marines? Glorified rat-ogres straight from the pits of Clan Moulder.
It's a massive empire built on the ruthless exploitation of masses of people, crowded into massive hives. Sent forth by the power-mad council of leaders to destroy everything not like them, all for the glory of a distant, cruel deity.
For every-one-one of us that fall-die; a hundred will rise-murder!
@Bluecho4
We have the nids in 40k. They're pretty much the Skaven equivalent what with being a massive horde and everybody's enemy.
@@Bluecho4 to be fair ppl live pretty OK in some parts of the imperium
Also they have technology not just rusted swords and planks for shields. Also eating the dead is frowned upon in the empirium
@@philiproe1661 i thought ogres filled that or at least their ideology of consume everythng is identical
This is more terrifying than the peasants, but also somehow less hungry and dirty.
100 leadership on a expendable meat shield is pretty nuts. Not sure how fast theyd route but i assume with a lord nearby you'd probably have to break leadership in order to get rid of them.
Seeing those huge piles of rats is prepping my brain to hit me with the vortex spell dopamine hit.
"Our bodies will blot out the sun!"
2:01 I never knew the Slayers' had a unique death animation.
It even does damage
As someone put it a long time ago: "Slayer, slain, slays."
Isn't that part of their Deathblow mechanic?
With a model count that high, I can see this performing pretty damn well
You may not like it, but this is what peak physical performance looks like.
*squeak physical performance
This is truly the most "God has left the server," doomstack, that you have ever made, and I can't wait to see this on Legend's channel tomorrow.
@@DevixianTheOriginal the peasant mob doomstack is actually viable tho lmao
@@DevixianTheOriginal and instead of explaining, you chose to be a bitch and pettily insult them.
Let the legendoftotalwar jokes begin, yes-yes
As general sam once said "Crouching chad, hidden rat", we should all live and die by these words.
General Sam's fan base made me smile
The Radical Left and General Sam's fanbase are the two best names for rats I've ever seen. Congrats
raTical left*
I love the custom names.
Imagine beining a slayer, and then dying to some rodent
We need a new type of elite slayers called something like verminslayers who have 30+ bonus vs infantry.
@@icaindianen Awesome idea for a mod but bad for vanilla ballance though
@@icaindianen ya know oddly enough fluff wise that is the Ironbreakers job.
@@Hellscream900 I know, I was mostly joking. Could have been an amusing RoR tho.
This is a correct way to play skaven.
I'm the giant rat that makes all of the rules! Lets see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into!
man these are just getting better and better and the best thing is: enough supply for endless of those videos with enough funny units
I am totally new to Warhammer series, but man, I fell in love with Skavens.
Enemy that has a fire wizard:
"It's free real estate."
Legend: Skavenslaves; Tier0 trash unit
Okoii: Challenge accepted!
Slapping them skaven slaves all the way, reminds me of the Australian pokies, u never know.
There so many, even I cannot prevail.
I was hoping for a Stormvermin deathstack JUST to spite Legend
Haha that also came to my mind
Stormvermin really are ass for their cost though
@@paullangford348 in strategy games, cost efficiency is only one measure for power
@@paullangford348 Cost efficiency alone isn't everything, though. Neither in strategy games and neither in real life. Of course, it _is_ a considerable part of it. But not everything.
@@kamikeserpentail3778 Same goes for real life, to be honest. Though it is A LOT more tricky and complex than in a videogame, I would say.
The true vermintide experience
glad i could finally have a unit named after me in an okoii video, but i was hoping for something more specific than "general sams fanbase"
I was about to say there better be a rat attack meme in here. And oh you whipped out the general Sam meme as well. Rat pog indeed
"One Rat Moving Very Fast" is the best one, hands down.
Now this is the coolest doomstack ever!
This is Skaven in its purest form. I tip my hat to you, sir!
"And Thus, the skaven revolution shall begin, no longer the slaves will be misstreated" Ratpoleon Cheesapart
Actually, there's a character like this in official Warhammer lore: Skabbicus.
the "one rat moving very fast" got me good
Over here, my friend and I were arguing whether an army of skaven slaves could be good, then Okoii proves him right. +1 grudge for the book
Aha! After endless hours of experimentation and research I have turned my tier 0 skaven slaves into tier 2 can maybe beat dwarf warriors slaves!
Then the dwarves hit the pack, with artillery left the pack as dead. But then ! They just revived.
That last name, my man is swinging wild here.
Skaven slaves: *”Our job-job sucks! We die-die on front line!!”*
Damn, Clan Moulder out here turning Skavenslaves into Stormvermin rejects
I definitely want to see legend use this stack in battle
It's only fitting we get a rats doomstack after getting the chad doomstack so long ago
*guardsmen planet intensifies*
I respect this mans patience and he earned my subscription
'the very expendables' are awsome!
I never thought I would see the day...
Incredible work, per usual, well done!
Perfect ending
I would include Legend's "why defend when you can ATTACK!?" excited noises, but that's me.
I think the worst part is that the regiment named “the RATical left” was the rightmost one.
From slaves to kings...
Throt having some father-son time
Look at all those happy little amazon employees
'Ello mates, Legend of to'al wa' ea'
And today, we'a going ta be testing out the nointeen skavenslaves doomstack. Let's get started
LMAO GENERAL SAM'S FANBASE!!! Too good bro too good.
**Poor Leadership**
100
...Okay, okay.
That "F*cking slaves" slave part reminds me of a good ole Stimpee vid, Keep up the epic content Okoii!
Now this is epic my gamers
That leadership, makes me want to cry out happiness
The enemy can’t win if you kill their computer with a sh*t ton of units
Please keep doing this videos, every, and i mean every video like this has made laugh till I could no more
You are an absolute madman.
I thought Legend was getting thrown into the freezer 🤣
Legend needs to remake his skaven tier list!
The visual when the siege starts and all 10 million rats are running screaming at the walls is pretty sick though.
This is a certified rat moment
I never really considered this honestly, it's fantastic
That General Sam reference 👌🏼
And we all LIFT
Ensure this reaches the desk of our Skaven Lord in Chief Legend Total War. CHEESE FOR THE CHEESE GOD
Ahhh truly the embodiment of General Sam. Loved the reference
Perfect vigor is such an underestimated trait.
"What did it cost ?"
"Way to much time, mutagen and instability but, ho man-things, it was worth it"
Skavenslaves to 100 Leadership... THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!
“General Sam’s Fanbase” I died