@@lunarlegion7157 Well in skaven society "friends" are not really considered "friends" they are either subject to experiment on, someone to take advantage of and that you will backstab one day, your enemy or simply put some stupid cannonfolder/meatshield. So yes this is very skaven like behaviour.
@@deezboyeed6764 Clan Skryre (including ikit) use skavenslave and clanrat to test their new weapon that most of the time explode killing them in the process. Clan Mors (especially Queek) kill those that want to take their place as leader (chieftain, warlord...) and doesn't matter if an army of clanrat dies in a battle. Clan pestilens send their plague monk to die in a frenzy because what biggest honor to die in battle spreading the great love of the the great horned rat's plague? Clan Riktus backstab anyone because they feel like it (especially if it is from clan Mors) Clan Moulder experiment on its own subject just like clan Skryre doesn't matter if they die. Clan Eshin doesn't backstab each other because they have absolute loyalty to the council of thirteen, listen to orders and they are the ones who backstab. They learned this in Cathay because they were not like that before. Should i continue? All of them are like that.
I love skaven so much. "Come Man-thing; kill, fight! Kill as many of us as you can! 10? 100? 1000? 100,000? Bah, it matters not! Each rat you slay is simply food for 10 more rats preparing to join the horde. Each pack of rats you slaughter an opening for a new legion of cackling vermin an opertunity to clamor for status. So I say again, man-thing, fight! Fight till your glory becomes legend. Fight till the fields turn soggy with blood. Fight till our bodies cover the ground. Fight till your weapon dulls. Fight till your armor cracks. Fight till your fists break. Fight till your legs collapse. Fight till the hope dies in your eyes. Fight till your walls crumble. Fight till your city burns. Fight till the chitter of rats drowns out the screams. Hah! It matters not if you fight or not, it all ends the same. The end times are here, man-thing- and it comes in the skittering of Rats."
If skaven ever made it to 40k, they would use the same tactic as the russians (allegedly) in WW1. Send in the first wave armed, the rest gets only ammo (if they´re lucky) - you can always count on the first wave dying anyway, so why bother with supplying the rest if there are more than enough weapos for the taking. heck, for thematic purpose, you could say only one in every thirteen troops is (hard airquotes) "properly" equiped
God I imagine thanquol saying this to some helpless hero as you get screen shots of tides of skaven overwhelming the world. Order and chaos alike falling to the endless piles of skaven
Personally I think a warlock engineer would be great if you used Death Frenzy on those skavenslaves. An AOE buff when you pile so many skavenslaves should complement it well. As well as having a plague priest who can further buff them with the poison AOE buff too.
Folkmar are "near" - +2/2 stats would be great too. But most effective would be moulder buff that give to unit "rampage". Great attack and morale buff for them
"I retired early, being very sleepy, but I was harassed by dreams of the most horrible sort... as the swineherd paused and nodded over his task, a mighty swarm of rats rained down on the stinking abyss and fell to devouring beasts and man alike." Very good video.
I will be amazed if you are ever allowed to auto-resolve a single genuine battle this campaign. Skaven auto-resolve probability is fucked. Other than that, let's friggin go with this campaign! Super stoked to see it. Super stoked to see you getting sponsorship deals too, that's awesome!
The auto-resolve isn't the worst so far. Definitely not favorable, but it's quite a lot better than it was with the Gun Campaign. Thanks for the support on the sponsorship(s)! I'm hoping to only take them when I feel like they are 1. a good, ethical company. and 2. Less annoying/intrusive than the normal midroll ads would be. I've been watching a lot of Coffezilla recently and goddamn do some UA-camrs (who rhyme with Bogan Baul) do unethical shit lol. Not planning on any Crypto pump and dumps or anything like that - although I certainly hope that no one would fall for it if I did after dozens of UA-camrs have.
Amazing video! It seems though that its impossible to ACTUALLY only use skavenslaves since you need heroes, summons like clanrats etc. I think your run is the closest we will ever get, keep up the good work
Tbh I ended up getting Total War Warhammer 2 not long ago (I'm usually way behind on getting all the good stuff these days) and I played and finished Clan Moulder, and I remember my friends telling me to use Clan Rats, but I had like 4 armies filled with skavenslaves and that's really I needed. The bonuses and expandability of them was great! The Moulder mechanics basically made them even better as long as you are careful. God..it's such a grind though. Auto resolve is off the table. And you will need to prioritize food and growth and uner cities because you will need that Menace From Below.
Really appreciate these videos. I have been having lots of trouble learning the skaven and I feel like we're getting step by step guides on how to manage a wacky army of fun.
Fun campaign, you're missing out on a ton of money tho. Whenever you have spare movement with skaven, you should sack THEN occupy, as skaven reduces it to tier 1 anyways (without food boosting). So it's really just free money.
But if sacking gives u less than about 1200-1600 gold then repairing main building is actually have higher price. And of cos PO penalties strong, but... Province would rebel anyway, and cities would be auto repaired anyway too, and... u really have to build only 2 economic building, so))))
Algorithms for the algorithm gods! UA-cam has led me to stumble upon this video, and by extension your channel, and I love what I see. As someone who makes copius use of the AI general mod (I can only play a little over a half dozen battles before I get exhausted from micromanaging everything) it's a delight to see what someone who's CRACKED at this game can accomplish.
Skaven before the Dwarves…. This man is just asking for a Grugin. PUT EM IN THE BOOK P.S my man got a sponsor now! My man is growing as fast as them monsters in the growth batch 🤧🤧 Proud of ya!
Managing a victory while only outnumbering your foes 4 to 1? a sign of a truly skilled skaven mind and intellect, enough to match any grey seer! in all seriousness, i've been looking forward to this, as skaven are by far my favourite faction in TW:WH, and moulder my personal go to clan
Plague Priests might be the best Skavenslave hero since they can spawn clan rats (not quite skaven slaves, but close) Also the mounts, magic, and other benefits would compliment the horde style of play quite well.
At this rate, I'll probably have more armies than I can recruit heroes for a bit. Might end up getting every type of hero. I think it will be cool to see which performs the best in this challenge.
This looks great so far, honestly surprised they're trading as well as they have been. The auto resolve is never gonna be your friend though, unfortunately. I am curious if you'll be leaning on heroes carrying the battles since you called out the warpstone engineers. Given that the AI is super prone to bunching up in Warhammer 3, you probably can get some amazing spell casts.
warlock engineers are a good choice for the mobility and the doom rocket they get can deal with crowds, they also have lore of ruin which is handy, i dont play TWH3 since i dont have it but in 2, they dont have arcane conduit so magic gain will be slow, if you're gonna have only one hero in each army and reinforce each army with another, i suggest having one with a plague priest in it for plagues and arcane conduit, maybe have a pack master or assassin in the third army just for diversity or lord fighting but all your choice in the end! Also, if you get enough multigene, i suggest just hammering down on one unit to unlock all the ones you need, blend it and then you have all the mutations you want without having to slowly climb up and risk. So you can have slaves with regen and necroparasites without having to risk mutations over time. Hope that was easy to understand
This is basically how I played Queek in WH2 before skaven got DLCs, just replace the slaves with clanrats. The auto resolve results were so bad I had to fight 90% of the battles. I pretty much steamrolled everything though with 4 stacks.
"I picked thrott so I can use the lab to buff my slaves" Me an intellectual I'm playing queek and I have 8 armies of free skavenslaves I'm about to send in waves against you. If I don't drown you in rats I'll crash your pc
this is like that time when a roman general was asked how he will defeat hannibal and he said "I have 77000 roman sodliers and jupiter on my side, I dont need no damn strategy"
I never, EVER, have played this game online because I said "I bet people playing it is people who beats the game with the worst unit ever, also with a piano set on fire and with tied hands", apparently I'm not that wrong
Wait, isn't that how you're supposed to play skaven? (On a serious note, i have at least an army of only skavenslaves to support each of my main armies in a normal playthrough by midgame. it's just great that they're almost free to upkeep and their sheer mass of units helps a _lot_ in all battles. Put a unit of skavenslaves to occupy any unit and put a unit ratling gun behind them? Easy victory)
This is an excellent idea my friend il be more than happy to tune in for the rest of this campaign , the poor skaven slave , he has not much life to give but what he has he gives , it will be very interesting to see if you can drown the world in skaven slaves , assuming that is your plan , also what upgrades are we looking to give our boys ?
Without spoiling too much of the next episode, I got his trait on 3 of my lords. Also, that first battle was only possible because of Throts regen. He's an absolutely tank.
"For every armored Kossar, there are 5-10 dead Skavenslaves"
Ikit Claw- "Hmm, yes-yes"
In lore that is the skaven policy friendly fire not including enemy damage. A true skaven will kill more of their own (friends) than the enemy.
@@lunarlegion7157 Well in skaven society "friends" are not really considered "friends" they are either subject to experiment on, someone to take advantage of and that you will backstab one day, your enemy or simply put some stupid cannonfolder/meatshield. So yes this is very skaven like behaviour.
@@ejire4407 only ikit claw and clan mors have a weird sense of loyalty.... still lots of back stabbing though
@@deezboyeed6764 clan eshin as well, though thats mostly cause they're the ones doing the backstabbing
@@deezboyeed6764 Clan Skryre (including ikit) use skavenslave and clanrat to test their new weapon that most of the time explode killing them in the process.
Clan Mors (especially Queek) kill those that want to take their place as leader (chieftain, warlord...) and doesn't matter if an army of clanrat dies in a battle.
Clan pestilens send their plague monk to die in a frenzy because what biggest honor to die in battle spreading the great love of the the great horned rat's plague?
Clan Riktus backstab anyone because they feel like it (especially if it is from clan Mors)
Clan Moulder experiment on its own subject just like clan Skryre doesn't matter if they die.
Clan Eshin doesn't backstab each other because they have absolute loyalty to the council of thirteen, listen to orders and they are the ones who backstab. They learned this in Cathay because they were not like that before.
Should i continue? All of them are like that.
"For every armored Kossar, there are 5-10 dead Skavenslaves"
Honestly, pretty good numbers for skaven
That's actually surprisingly not that bad for skaven
Skaven have defeated the enemy in the battle, and lossed 10,000 skaven in the process.
This was considered, "minor casualties"
I tought 10 millions was considered minor casualties, 10k it's more like an irrelevant skirmish
Wow, considering how many enemies both Kostaltyn and Tsarina have, you should be honored they're trying to skavenpile you early game.
I love skaven so much.
"Come Man-thing; kill, fight! Kill as many of us as you can! 10? 100? 1000? 100,000? Bah, it matters not! Each rat you slay is simply food for 10 more rats preparing to join the horde. Each pack of rats you slaughter an opening for a new legion of cackling vermin an opertunity to clamor for status.
So I say again, man-thing, fight! Fight till your glory becomes legend. Fight till the fields turn soggy with blood. Fight till our bodies cover the ground.
Fight till your weapon dulls. Fight till your armor cracks. Fight till your fists break. Fight till your legs collapse. Fight till the hope dies in your eyes.
Fight till your walls crumble. Fight till your city burns. Fight till the chitter of rats drowns out the screams.
Hah! It matters not if you fight or not, it all ends the same. The end times are here, man-thing- and it comes in the skittering of Rats."
Which Skaven said that?
@@BirchMonkey857 none, I came up with it myself.
@@D34DHUNT3R1 Then I think GW needs to hire you as a writer.
If skaven ever made it to 40k, they would use the same tactic as the russians (allegedly) in WW1. Send in the first wave armed, the rest gets only ammo (if they´re lucky) - you can always count on the first wave dying anyway, so why bother with supplying the rest if there are more than enough weapos for the taking. heck, for thematic purpose, you could say only one in every thirteen troops is (hard airquotes) "properly" equiped
God I imagine thanquol saying this to some helpless hero as you get screen shots of tides of skaven overwhelming the world. Order and chaos alike falling to the endless piles of skaven
If it dose not work work, then your not using enough skavens!
The most sane motto to come from this game
I know it’s not the same game, but “work work. Zug zug. Dabu.”
WE NEED MORE MORE RAT-SKAVINS
"Okay, we got a valiant defeat, that's not too bad."
Ah yes, Skaven
"We're using Skaven tide tactics here."
Got me with that one.
Personally I think a warlock engineer would be great if you used Death Frenzy on those skavenslaves. An AOE buff when you pile so many skavenslaves should complement it well. As well as having a plague priest who can further buff them with the poison AOE buff too.
Damn man that's good. I'm going ro try that
That sounds terrifying
Folkmar are "near" - +2/2 stats would be great too.
But most effective would be moulder buff that give to unit "rampage". Great attack and morale buff for them
"I retired early, being very sleepy, but I was harassed by dreams of the most horrible sort... as the swineherd paused and nodded over his task, a mighty swarm of rats rained down on the stinking abyss and fell to devouring beasts and man alike."
Very good video.
I will be amazed if you are ever allowed to auto-resolve a single genuine battle this campaign. Skaven auto-resolve probability is fucked.
Other than that, let's friggin go with this campaign! Super stoked to see it. Super stoked to see you getting sponsorship deals too, that's awesome!
The auto-resolve isn't the worst so far. Definitely not favorable, but it's quite a lot better than it was with the Gun Campaign.
Thanks for the support on the sponsorship(s)! I'm hoping to only take them when I feel like they are
1. a good, ethical company.
and 2. Less annoying/intrusive than the normal midroll ads would be.
I've been watching a lot of Coffezilla recently and goddamn do some UA-camrs (who rhyme with Bogan Baul) do unethical shit lol. Not planning on any Crypto pump and dumps or anything like that - although I certainly hope that no one would fall for it if I did after dozens of UA-camrs have.
@@BrilliantStupidity Love that. Unrelated note, you remind me of CaptainSparklez from like 2012 in his survival minecraft videos.
That's probably because I watched all of his videos as a kid haha.
I love how you're fighting fantasy Russia, but you're the one with the soviet tactics
😄
In soviet Russia, quality is a quantity of its own.
It's actuall fantasy Kievan Rus, with minor Polish and Czech elements
@@Szybwtyk so Russians but with fewer steps
@@loosinit_mc this is not a sentence you want to say during those times my guy
It would be pretty funny if CA added Skabbicus into the game just for a playstyle like this.
Thank You for this comment, I wanted to essentially say the same but I just didn't have the Name in my head.
Amazing video! It seems though that its impossible to ACTUALLY only use skavenslaves since you need heroes, summons like clanrats etc. I think your run is the closest we will ever get, keep up the good work
Hell yea another series begins, can't wait and see how this unfolds
"For every dead Armored Kossar there's 5-10 dead Skavenslves"
Acceptable-good losses, yes-yes. Now bring more slaves!
Tbh I ended up getting Total War Warhammer 2 not long ago (I'm usually way behind on getting all the good stuff these days) and I played and finished Clan Moulder, and I remember my friends telling me to use Clan Rats, but I had like 4 armies filled with skavenslaves and that's really I needed.
The bonuses and expandability of them was great! The Moulder mechanics basically made them even better as long as you are careful.
God..it's such a grind though. Auto resolve is off the table. And you will need to prioritize food and growth and uner cities because you will need that Menace From Below.
Ya ur friends probably play multiplayer lol
Dude out of all the armies the skaven would by far be the most terrifying.
Really appreciate these videos. I have been having lots of trouble learning the skaven and I feel like we're getting step by step guides on how to manage a wacky army of fun.
Fun campaign, you're missing out on a ton of money tho. Whenever you have spare movement with skaven, you should sack THEN occupy, as skaven reduces it to tier 1 anyways (without food boosting). So it's really just free money.
But if sacking gives u less than about 1200-1600 gold then repairing main building is actually have higher price. And of cos PO penalties strong, but...
Province would rebel anyway, and cities would be auto repaired anyway too, and... u really have to build only 2 economic building, so))))
Algorithms for the algorithm gods! UA-cam has led me to stumble upon this video, and by extension your channel, and I love what I see. As someone who makes copius use of the AI general mod (I can only play a little over a half dozen battles before I get exhausted from micromanaging everything) it's a delight to see what someone who's CRACKED at this game can accomplish.
"Some of you may-might die-die, but that is a sacrifice-trade I am willing to make-make"
i was so looking forward to the piles of rat things covering the fields of battle, i was not disappointed.
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If you activate AI control, I think you can skip reinforcement timers, and it becomes easier to micro
Lore casualties, but much more chaos to interrupt enemy lines and even more fun on a battlefield xD
Skaven before the Dwarves…. This man is just asking for a Grugin.
PUT EM IN THE BOOK
P.S my man got a sponsor now! My man is growing as fast as them monsters in the growth batch 🤧🤧 Proud of ya!
"like hammer and anvil but just anvil and anvil... it's still gonna f'ing hurt"
Managing a victory while only outnumbering your foes 4 to 1? a sign of a truly skilled skaven mind and intellect, enough to match any grey seer!
in all seriousness, i've been looking forward to this, as skaven are by far my favourite faction in TW:WH, and moulder my personal go to clan
Would be cool to see a video where the goal is to survive for like 1000 turns while staying defensive but staying in war
Plague Priests might be the best Skavenslave hero since they can spawn clan rats (not quite skaven slaves, but close) Also the mounts, magic, and other benefits would compliment the horde style of play quite well.
At this rate, I'll probably have more armies than I can recruit heroes for a bit. Might end up getting every type of hero. I think it will be cool to see which performs the best in this challenge.
Very excited for this series
What a lovely holiday special this is.
YESSSSSSSS A WARHAMMER VIDEO ABOUT MY RAT FOLK-KIN
Great content mate, love these summarised campaigns and the way you showcase them
I really love the music playing in the background!
Got to love the anvil and anvil strategy
More like two suffocating weighted blankets honestly... Still works though lol
Been hyped for this one yes-yes
This looks great so far, honestly surprised they're trading as well as they have been. The auto resolve is never gonna be your friend though, unfortunately.
I am curious if you'll be leaning on heroes carrying the battles since you called out the warpstone engineers. Given that the AI is super prone to bunching up in Warhammer 3, you probably can get some amazing spell casts.
warlock engineers are a good choice for the mobility and the doom rocket they get can deal with crowds, they also have lore of ruin which is handy, i dont play TWH3 since i dont have it but in 2, they dont have arcane conduit so magic gain will be slow, if you're gonna have only one hero in each army and reinforce each army with another, i suggest having one with a plague priest in it for plagues and arcane conduit, maybe have a pack master or assassin in the third army just for diversity or lord fighting but all your choice in the end! Also, if you get enough multigene, i suggest just hammering down on one unit to unlock all the ones you need, blend it and then you have all the mutations you want without having to slowly climb up and risk. So you can have slaves with regen and necroparasites without having to risk mutations over time. Hope that was easy to understand
Not in the slightest......haha
@@Graceclaw long story short, use one unit to get to what you want, then profit cause now other units won't be risked
Omg you actually made it... What a beast thanks man hahah
Am I the only one that hear French can can in the background at 12:50? This music make skavenslaves genocide oddly comedic.
Very based 10/10 yes yes
5:50 I should of been paying attention to the battle but vivaldi four seasons winter got me thinking back to John wick chapter 3
Already loving this series
Glad to see you already got a sponsor congrats! 👍
Thanks!
you are obsoletely nutty with these challenges
This video made me realize that banners need to be actually dragged onto units. Wonderful
Canon skaven tactics right there.
Finally, i can see rat action and tactics!
This is basically how I played Queek in WH2 before skaven got DLCs, just replace the slaves with clanrats. The auto resolve results were so bad I had to fight 90% of the battles. I pretty much steamrolled everything though with 4 stacks.
Skaven slaves: We get our freedom now yes yes?
"i hope i won't do any friendly fire" while playing as scavens lmao
The algorithm blessed me this day with your channel.
"If the enemy can take 20 Skaven, I will send 21."
Id go with plague priests instead of engineers. The plague spell is amazing.
Hell yeah, brother.
In case it wasn't said skavenslaves don't have much value in the the auto resolve. Love your vids btw keep up the good work.
This is utter madness, good luck luck to you yes yes
Every time we killed a thousand rats at a cost of one man, it was a net victory for the rats.
Well, appearing inside the settlement as the battle starts is very Skaven, yes-yes
"I picked thrott so I can use the lab to buff my slaves"
Me an intellectual
I'm playing queek and I have 8 armies of free skavenslaves I'm about to send in waves against you. If I don't drown you in rats I'll crash your pc
No spoilers, but it's theoretically possible for Throt the Unclean to get 175% upkeep reduction for skavenslaves.
@@BrilliantStupidity yeah but where's the fun in the slaves actually being good
aaah so this is what vermintide looks like from the skavens perspective
this is like that time when a roman general was asked how he will defeat hannibal and he said "I have 77000 roman sodliers and jupiter on my side, I dont need no damn strategy"
5-10 dead Skavens for one Cossar man-thing... Another victory-triumph in the name of Skavendom! Light-insignificant losses!
I’ve been waiting for this, for quite awhile now lol.
I love these runs
I never, EVER, have played this game online because I said "I bet people playing it is people who beats the game with the worst unit ever, also with a piano set on fire and with tied hands", apparently I'm not that wrong
Skaven Slave Mantra: "They can't kill all of us." LOL
I thoght Trench Craventail had pretty good skavenslaves bonuses. But then I played Grimhammer on TW2 last time.
all rat-kin praise you-you for the video!
Babe wake up new brilliant stupidity video just dropped
Basically, Roleplaying skavens for a whole campaign x)
Wait, isn't that how you're supposed to play skaven?
(On a serious note, i have at least an army of only skavenslaves to support each of my main armies in a normal playthrough by midgame. it's just great that they're almost free to upkeep and their sheer mass of units helps a _lot_ in all battles. Put a unit of skavenslaves to occupy any unit and put a unit ratling gun behind them? Easy victory)
So true. I did the same with Brettonia and peasants. I had one really high tier army to march in behind a stack of peasants and peasant archers.
ending on turn 13, I see you
i’m going to play a drinking game. one drink each time he says skavenslaves. wish me luck!
Ending the vid on turn 13 is pretty funny.
Quantity has a quality all it's own.
Y-Yes! Yes!
Me Love This Video!!!
Very very Good!!!!
This is an excellent idea my friend il be more than happy to tune in for the rest of this campaign , the poor skaven slave , he has not much life to give but what he has he gives , it will be very interesting to see if you can drown the world in skaven slaves , assuming that is your plan , also what upgrades are we looking to give our boys ?
Noticed it ended on that 13th turn there
What's the significance of this? Lots of people commenting about it but I am largely lore-ignorant
@@Graceclaw 13 is a holy number for Skaven, it's why it's in a bunch of Skaven stuff in Total Warhammer.
A tactic where the limits are early game economy, food and your gpu
Love this series and love this challenge!
The best!
Pls, keep doing it ❤
Lol just straight out lol no other way to describe the feeling I had watching your vid keep it up man 🔥🔥🔥
Imma need a miners only playthrough
title: Skavenslaves only. first battle: Clanrats and Rat Ogres
13:14 Vermintide perhaps?
Vermintide 3 lookin' good
If feels like skeleton vampire build but worse, much worse and you dont have winds of death :D good vido, made me laugh
i think you should make one exception, is using Ghoritch.
Oh god, it's him. John Vermintide.
I've actually noticed there are no midroll adds due to my adblocker, thank you adblocker very cool
Great content, loved the video and your commentary, +1 sub !
i love this idea great video
when he lost the challenge in the first battle by summoning clanrats, but i guess its fair since they are summons
Done this with zombies, the game does not like it when you have tens of thousands of zombies on screen at once.
Cant believe they released vermintide 3 already
your videos are so good to just turn my brain off and enjoy, it serves a niche but important purpose, thanks :)
Honestly this feels more like how the shaven would actually go in universe anyway.
Pretty much.
Lord, hero or two, 15 Skavenslaves, maybe a unit of Clanrats, and one "trick", or dedicated Skryre, Eshin, or Moulder unit.
great job here, really interesting you were able to beat that first battle. Do you think you can farm konsantin for his trait on your leaders?
Without spoiling too much of the next episode, I got his trait on 3 of my lords. Also, that first battle was only possible because of Throts regen. He's an absolutely tank.