MandaloreGaming : the guy somehow absolutely every other UA-camr seems to adore... I mean, really can’t blame them, but still, I’m pretty sure you are using some kind of diplomacy exploit
I have a sneaking suspicion that the conversation was more along the lines of "So what do you think?" "Well, I haven't found anything bad with the stuff you sent me the key for" "Phew!" "Yet! On another topic, the other stuff? Here's a few things you might want to look in to..." "What have we done?!" To be fair, from the support perspective (past job) I'd prefer people found this sort of thing before it goes out to the world. Someone like Spiff needs to be on retainer to any serious developer as they are *guaranteed* to do something that wasn't expected. Give him all the keys, pay him a bounty for every exploit found, especially for multiplayer titles. Win/win for everyone.
It's actually tactical genius! By advertising a free feature instead of a paid one, Spiff potentially sells the game itself to more people! Upselling the DLC would at best just sell a DLC to some scrubs. They'd be fools not to give Spiff a 50% commission on every sale of Total Warhammer Deuce from the moment this video uploaded onwards.
30:58 "Yes we could auto-resolve and instantly win, but I find it more fun when there's a bit of a challenge involved" - Spiff 2020, leading an army of dragons, with heroes having legendary artifacts equipped
I love how genuine Brit is. He dosnt trash on the game for having these kinda wack additions, but rather embraces it and encourages people to have fun with it. Love your channel man, keep up the good work!
He’s super wrong about so many things in this video. Not to be a war hammer gatekeeper but he’s playing on normal difficulty, which is a cakewalk with literally any lord or race. If he tried this on legendary he would do decent for the three breaths then land and get decimated. I would love to see him try to do this on legendary just to see what happens.
Imagine being a warrior who grew up in peasantry and trained their entire life to fight for their land, home, and family. ONLY TO GET THEIR SHEIT ROCKED BY AN ARMADA OF DRAGONS.
Alith Anar's realm is technically the NE of Ulthuan though. He only fights in Naggaronds lands to prevent them invading Naggaryth. Which fails obviously since the game starts with the Scourge of Khayne owning his lands
New exploit for you Spiff: Checking the new "AI Control" button on reinforcements and unchecking the "Control Large Army" box means that the enemy cannot reinforce (capped to 20 units) but you still get your entire reinforcement stack, just with the reinforcements under AI control (it counts the AI reinforcements as a different faction). Basically a free lightning strike.
This is not in any way an exploit and if you want to classify it was that people have been using this one since the game came out so NEW dosnt really track there
Eltharion's buffs apply to Mistwalker units of the proper types, along with the Tor Yvresse buffs for those units, so at higher levels you can have an army with 18 of them, a mage, and then Eltharion.... it becomes literally unbeatable. They become like Lothern Sea Guard with double the range and missile damage on the level of Sisters of Avellorn. It's pretty wild honestly. As for Grom, he suffers from the fact that the Greenskin roster is melee-based which suffers at higher difficulties. The AI gets too many bonuses in melee combat that they don't in ranged. But, his cooking mechanic has some wild options. Aside from campain bonuses which really do help, my favorite is actually... the one that makes EVERY goblin arrow explosive. EVERY SINGLE ONE. So your cheap unit of Gobbo archers can fire into a group of spearmen.... and every arrowhead explodes and deals splash damage. It's lovely. Imrik is pretty great though, I shan't lie.
And the spearmen bonus applies to their new unit whose name at the moment escapes me, the considerably better spearmen. I'm not sure if it might even apply to Lothern Sea Guard, haven't checked... I'm still of the opinion that Alith Anar is the most OP Elf though purely because of his blanket bonuses to all ranged infantry units, which are king in Warhammer campaign and especially for Elven factions.
@@Arbaaltheundefeated forest dragon blessing: - 2000 gold - 10 turns - +20apmelee damage - +60%ap ranged damage because apparently lothern sea guard shields and SISTERS OF AVELORN!!! spams aren't good enough From what I understand when you challenge and beat a dragon you remove it from the blessing roster so you can technically have only this guy left.
Elthorion is actually pretty great. He has his specific units which are a shoulder above everyone else, he can buff units with his capture ability and his faction is very well defended because of buffs and place in map.
@@Wargulf2838 more certainly. Dragon spam can be done with every high elf faction and confederated legendary lord but Elthorion is unique. Also dragon breath is nightmare to micromanage, especially the angle of attack could be different between 50% kill to 5% kill.
@MongrelMage He might use it more if he played a difficulty where you can pause the game to queue up these dragon breaths on different units nearly as much as this video displayed.
If I drank a cup of tea after every soldier has died in this game, I would attain the title of a true Brit and go to the rest room every three minutes.
Someone at Creative Assembly ;"Should we test this DL ? Some other bloke at CA ;"Nah , lets just give a key to the spliffing brit and fix whatever he finds."
@@Myerfire1 What this guy said. This video is actually a bit of a useless addition because everyone already knows that spamming big dick units in Warhammer 2 is OP. Dragon Ogre Shaggoths, War Mammoths, Steam Tanks, etc.
@@yevgenyiyeet8737 Perhaps I wasnt clear. Yes, Saurus are better than Spearmen. Spiff just incorrectly named them higher tier, while they are both tier 1 units. However, he does play the most famous strategy games so Im not expecting him to remember each and every unit correctly. Just joined the nitpicking team a bit here, but honestly its not a big mistake.
Just a heads up @The Spiffing Brit i noticed you didnt go down the bottom tree of level ups on Imrik and i think that's a mistake, because you know how you got the dragons upkeep down to -75%. Well the bottom tree by investing 10 points, you can add an extra -23% upkeep to your entire army not just dragons, so in theory you can have you upkeep on the dragons in Imriks army at only 2% upkeep XD so good
You should try this again on a higher difficulty setting. I want to hear about how you spent the first 40 turns avoiding having your dragons eaten by Eshin rats.
@@alexeben7776 only way to really get away in legendary is by taking Avelorn, to global recrute sisters of Avelorn and cheese the fck out of everyone. Or taking a doom stack of star dragons, but other dragons are just not worth
@@TheKINGJONSEY IIRC Dragon fights are currently every 15 turns and on hard the fights are complete pushovers after the first one assuming you stick all the dragons in Imrik's army. You can have all of them by turn 90. Plus Imrik gets a dragon mount at 14 and Fire Mages get a dragon mount at 22.
i play imrik on legendary. he's my favorite ! dragons are great even on higher difficulty. it's more tricky than sisters of avelon , but it still works great.
The Imrik Cheese here is honestly rather meh outside of easy. Yeah, dragon's are pretty solid, but by time you get them you can usually only afford a single stack, and the AI is throwing 4-5 full stacks at you a turn. far better using archer stacks for early game and shifting into Sister stack for the mid to late game - they are cheaper and just as effective allowing you to field more armies and better handle the multiple armies being thrown at you. Oh, and regarding your "I need the spearmen and archers to anchor my dragons" you don't. Dismiss them, and recruit a life mage on a horse. There you go, that is your ground based anchor so you don't auto lose which can also heal your dragons thereby reducing your downtime between fights. Had you done this video during the early access period, you could have broken the game in half with Grom and one of his food buffs that turned gobbo archers into 90 damage killing machines, but CA fixed that one prior to releasing the game. And Eltharion has an ability that gives every unit in his army infinite ammo, which we still can't believe they actually gave him.
tbf, its only to eltharion, right? so it doesnt affect too much outside early/mid-game. ikit have a way stronger infinite ammo with those ratling guns, that with some combos, you really only need them as anything else il be melted in 1 volley.
@@clairelili873 yeah, but Eltharion has access to one of the strongest missile infantry in the game with 200+ range and decent melee stats. As for Skavens, their military equipment had a chance of destroying itself during the process and killing its crew and I don't understand why CA hasn't implemented that mechanics since we had miscast chance.
What are you talking about? Elves can build up an insane economy with entrepreneur heroes and if you have dragon-willed lords and Hall of Dragons, dragons are basically free. You can easily field 10 armies of all dragons that only cost ~2000 gold each.
Ok this is kinda getting weird. I’m subbed with notifications on RTGames and The Spiffing Brit, but when a video gets released on RTGames I immediately get a video from The Spiffing Brit. This has happened to tons of times.
I really love Warhammer II, and i love watching spiff break games so these video’s are awesome. I especially enjoy your video on the vampire hero blob, a cheese that i now like to use myself :)
2:03 "Well, ladies and gentlemen, he's not overpowered, he's okay. Yeah he's just a pretty decent lord, nothing too special." I see that Spiff has not yet found out about the cheesy exploits that makes up Grom's cauldron.
To be honest I've been obsessed with the dwarven flame throwers... Literally being able to control the battle with 1 unit... Now since the invocation of Imrik... I feel like I've found a new favourite. Other than Deathmaster Snitch of Clan Eshin (who also starts next to this boy)... Sounds like alot of fun...
Spiff you kill me on this single point. Despite knowing exactly what is going on and what is gonna happen, you have such a tone of surprise and you make like there was no way you could have expected "that". Frikkin hilarious XD
See my Imrik campaign so far has me fighting Druchii who own the entire map... it's me in the corner battling 4 armies to every 1 of mine. Rough part of the elvish roster is that they are pricey and the main income of High Elves is trade.... and I have no friends to trade with. Imrik is a beast but he can't be everywhere, especially when Chaos invasions are a thing
Main high elves income is taxes. Recruit a lot of mages with entrepreneur trait. They increase local tax rate by 15% and global tax rate by 3%. And it STACKS. Put 10 of them in a province and it's tax rate will be around 280% (100 basic + 150 local bonus + 30 global bonus). The only problem with it is that you need a tier 4 city to increase your capacity for mages. The income boost isn't that significant at first, but gets more and more powerful the more mages you recruit. Max possible capacity for one hero type is 100. In theory, if you hire 100 mages with the entrepreneur trait and you put them all in one province the tax rate there will be 1900% and 300% in all your other provinces. What it means is that a single building that would normally make like 200 gold, can now make even 4000 gold. In my campaign where I conquered the entire map as Avelorn, my income was over 600k per turn.
I find it amusing how Spiff is so proud of himself that he cheesed the lizardmen to sally out from their walled city and corner camped, while in fact assaulting the city would be much easier and cheesier.
Hey Spiff, I've got a new glitch for you to do a "Perfectly balanced game" video on for "Pathfinder, Wrath of the righteous" Step 1: Play the game normally until you get Daeran the oracle in your party. Step 2: Level up until he can get the "Life Link" ability. Step 3: From that point on, he is immortal. Put a life link on every member of your party, and send Daeran in first in every fight to get the agro of all the enemies. No matter how much damage he takes, he never goes below zero hit points, and simply won't go down.There are some ambush situations where this won't work, but for the really tough battles, in most cases, you can pick a character to go in first to get all the enemies to attack, and if it's Daeran, you win.
Calador is actually the weakest high elf faction due to their start. Normal difficulty, all their campaigns are laughably easy but Imrik is the only one with gimped economy. By the time he gets all his dragons Alith Anar can own half the map
@@rockstar450 not weakest, but hardest to start. i played on very hard and there are the main imrik boi troubles: 1) rats at the beginning can send you back to campaign selector 2) some of your winning conditions provinces usually owned by grudgy santa and tyrion the unconfederable. that usually takes you to war w them and ORDERTIDE Apart from that, pretty good elf campaign. And yes, Alith Anar is a f-ing scaven
Alexander Lisin i agree after the first 30 turns you’re only an alliance away from the dwarves away from winning, but Calador still remains the weakest faction. He gets a doomstack but they all can get a doomstack and can easily run x2 mid-tier stacks to take the whole map. Imrik doesn’t have trade or the economy. He’s still excellent but even Teclis and Eltharion have way better economies and can raise far deadlier stacks sooner.
my only Rts game i palayed was Warcraft III but i cant stop watching this content despite not knowing anithing about the games he plays holy shit this guy is a god
I played his campaing. On turn ~15, four skaven lords, with 17-20 Units each, arrived at my capitol :) After the battle (i lost for some reason) it told me, that the skaven had 5100 units remaining. Even tho i got destoryed, it looked very cool!
Checked out Mandalore Gaming and dam boi did I had fun for an hour and a half. Now im back here to finish watching your video. You guys made me download the game again! Great stuff
In small unit scale Grom literally one shots dragons with his glare ability, and since it has no Cooldown it can one shot 3 dragons. I know small scale is broken, but all my laptop allows me
you are definitely a most excellent Brit. This video got me into playing this game. thank you for this, you glorious sausage. also you got me into OpenTTD as well.
I've just grabbed the first warhammer to complete my collection, literally last night, am looking forward to playing the huge campaign map! Anyway I've just watched the intro and am off to grab a cuppa before I continue this spiffingly good video o7
And then you have an other 23% in the ordinary elven lord-skill tree. Plus 5% in the techtree. So at the very least you're down to 47% upkeep for the dragons.
I like Spiff videos, but, honestly, he's not absolutely right, and this really looks like an exploit for those, who does not know the game. I had 120 turns as Imrik on very hard, yes Imrik's dragons are OP, but that's hard to survive at the beginning, and generally speaking having one beast army is not that important if you have to control large territory, there are also more details, but anyway video is nice
How the f has Spiffing Brit not got the Queen and crone DLC and still be successful with the High elves. Sisters of Avelorn is quite possibly the best doomstack ever PS Grom isn't an Orc, just a very fat Goblin
Calen Clay not really, they shred most doomstacks. The only doomstacks they’d have trouble against is the lizard men, and the AI normally doesn’t make doomstacks per say.
So your channel popped up the other day for me on my recommendations and I've been binge watching ever since 😂😂 I love your content it's brilliant also being from yorkshire I approve of yorkshire tea!!!
You're too kind.
MandaloreGaming : the guy somehow absolutely every other UA-camr seems to adore... I mean, really can’t blame them, but still, I’m pretty sure you are using some kind of diplomacy exploit
@@void-creature I emailed him once about doing Warhammer: Dark omen and he answered the email! What a lad.
Gross
hey hey people, mandalore here
@@thespiffingbrit you and me both I love mandalore he's a legenddddd
"Egyptian Necrons"
It's like you knew exactly the most inflaming phrase you could use to piss off a very specific group of people.
Though let's be honest here, every single faction in Warhammer and 40k has a single phrase that will absolutely, without fail, trigger it's fanboys.
Pazenator for tyranids it’s tau overwatch
Gabe Venderdahl or call the Tryanids Space Scaven.
@@gabevenderdahl1642 *High pitched Tyranic screeches*
*mechanicum noises*
Devs: "Look at our new DLC!"
Spiff: "Well,.. that's kinda garbage..
Also Spiff: *"But look at this **_free_** update!"*
Devs: "but, _nooo..."_
inb4 spiff is never given another press key from creative assembly :(
I have a sneaking suspicion that the conversation was more along the lines of "So what do you think?" "Well, I haven't found anything bad with the stuff you sent me the key for" "Phew!" "Yet! On another topic, the other stuff? Here's a few things you might want to look in to..." "What have we done?!"
To be fair, from the support perspective (past job) I'd prefer people found this sort of thing before it goes out to the world. Someone like Spiff needs to be on retainer to any serious developer as they are *guaranteed* to do something that wasn't expected. Give him all the keys, pay him a bounty for every exploit found, especially for multiplayer titles. Win/win for everyone.
This is the first time one of my comments has got a heart! Thanks!
ABSOLUTE CHAD MOVE.
It's actually tactical genius! By advertising a free feature instead of a paid one, Spiff potentially sells the game itself to more people! Upselling the DLC would at best just sell a DLC to some scrubs. They'd be fools not to give Spiff a 50% commission on every sale of Total Warhammer Deuce from the moment this video uploaded onwards.
Calling Grom, the greatest Goblin king of all time, an Orc, has got to be a cardinal sin.
Whatever the greenskin version of a Grudging is.
YES
@@DIEGhostfish
DER IZ NO NEED FOR SOME STOOPID BOOK, WHEN ALL YA NEED IZ A CHOPPA TO KRUMP DA GIT
excommunicatus ex cathedra
THANK YOU
1:12 "Egyptian Necrons"
I think we made full circle here.
I was Just thinking that!!
“What’re Tomb Kings?”
“Egyptian Necrons.”
“What’re Necrons?”
“Space Tomb Kings.”
@@megashark0305 "Tomb Kings of space"
lol yeah I had to pause and rewind that bit.
Tomb Kings were came out way before Necrons. So Necrons are space Tomb Kings.
30:58 "Yes we could auto-resolve and instantly win, but I find it more fun when there's a bit of a challenge involved" - Spiff 2020, leading an army of dragons, with heroes having legendary artifacts equipped
He meant a challenge for his enemies
69th 👍
"You, French, you fight for money. And we, English, we fight for honor". Surcouf replied while "Everyone fights for what they lack"
I fight for a huge meat
Well found there mate ! 😎😎💪
I love how genuine Brit is. He dosnt trash on the game for having these kinda wack additions, but rather embraces it and encourages people to have fun with it. Love your channel man, keep up the good work!
he is genuine but he is also very wrong a couple of times in the video
yevgenyi yeet yeah, but that’s to be expected tbh
He’s super wrong about so many things in this video. Not to be a war hammer gatekeeper but he’s playing on normal difficulty, which is a cakewalk with literally any lord or race. If he tried this on legendary he would do decent for the three breaths then land and get decimated. I would love to see him try to do this on legendary just to see what happens.
@@chriskowalski6087 I feel that every true exploit should be shown in legendary mode, no matter the game.
@@casvandijck9338 yeah but he does not have the skill to do so
Daenerys: I'm the mother of dragons
Imrik: That's cute
He is the romancer of dragons. Hide your daughters Daenerys. Sons too.
He' da dragon daddy
Stepmother actually.
More like
Dænarys: I’m the mother of dragons
Imrik: well, they all call me Daddy. ;)
Everyone else: o_o
shawneti oo on ono. Lno n y🤤🥔😜😭♋️♈️♈️🕎🕎🕎🕎🕎🇬🇧🇻🇮
Imagine being a warrior who grew up in peasantry and trained their entire life to fight for their land, home, and family. ONLY TO GET THEIR SHEIT ROCKED BY AN ARMADA OF DRAGONS.
Or one of Spiff's spearmen, just paid to stand around and look good while the dragons do all the work.
@@bensoncheung2801 Best job in the world.
B
fleet, not armada(armada is a naval army)
@@witherslayer8673 the word fleet also is for Naval army. the right word for a huge army is Legion :)
So. An Imrik campaign is essentially "Pokemon: Veitnam".
It is a bit more like a "Pokemon: Lance version"
spiff: if it can fly it can sizzle.
the plains in the sky: burns.
pretty much, except you're supposed to play as america and actually win
"Gotta FUBAR them all!"
@@DCdabest imrik has rubbish campaign benefits tho. Go Eltharion and confederate Imrik. much better
Spiffs:"All of the other elves live on this magic donut."
*Sad Alinth noises*
Also Teclis, as he starts in Lustria both in Vortex and ME.
True, forgot about him
@@scyantic4104 Even sadder Teclis noises
Alith Anar's realm is technically the NE of Ulthuan though. He only fights in Naggaronds lands to prevent them invading Naggaryth. Which fails obviously since the game starts with the Scourge of Khayne owning his lands
I just love the smell of dragon's fire in the morning.
Good morning Ulthuan
Said no one from dale or the lonely mountain or laketown
Smells like victory
They’re in the trees!
Get the dragons!
Some folks are born, made to wave the flag. "Ooh that red white and orange"
Alternate title: _How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended_
New exploit for you Spiff: Checking the new "AI Control" button on reinforcements and unchecking the "Control Large Army" box means that the enemy cannot reinforce (capped to 20 units) but you still get your entire reinforcement stack, just with the reinforcements under AI control (it counts the AI reinforcements as a different faction). Basically a free lightning strike.
2 bad the AI is so dumb
They do reinforce, but it's actually worse for the AI because they send the replacement units to fight alone as they reach the battlefield.
If you do this as greenskins your waagh ability doesn't affect the reinforcing units. Only your original 20.
This is not in any way an exploit and if you want to classify it was that people have been using this one since the game came out so NEW dosnt really track there
@@zachcreaghcoen2389 Welp since the AI control button was added with the latest patch, it's technically a new exploit.
"ROME: Total War: The best game of all time."
*You, Sir Spiff, are a true man of culture.*
Eltharion's buffs apply to Mistwalker units of the proper types, along with the Tor Yvresse buffs for those units, so at higher levels you can have an army with 18 of them, a mage, and then Eltharion.... it becomes literally unbeatable. They become like Lothern Sea Guard with double the range and missile damage on the level of Sisters of Avellorn. It's pretty wild honestly.
As for Grom, he suffers from the fact that the Greenskin roster is melee-based which suffers at higher difficulties. The AI gets too many bonuses in melee combat that they don't in ranged. But, his cooking mechanic has some wild options. Aside from campain bonuses which really do help, my favorite is actually... the one that makes EVERY goblin arrow explosive. EVERY SINGLE ONE. So your cheap unit of Gobbo archers can fire into a group of spearmen.... and every arrowhead explodes and deals splash damage. It's lovely.
Imrik is pretty great though, I shan't lie.
The real fun is when you give your Elves a Waugh.
And the spearmen bonus applies to their new unit whose name at the moment escapes me, the considerably better spearmen. I'm not sure if it might even apply to Lothern Sea Guard, haven't checked... I'm still of the opinion that Alith Anar is the most OP Elf though purely because of his blanket bonuses to all ranged infantry units, which are king in Warhammer campaign and especially for Elven factions.
@@Arbaaltheundefeated forest dragon blessing:
- 2000 gold
- 10 turns
- +20apmelee damage
- +60%ap ranged damage
because apparently lothern sea guard shields and SISTERS OF AVELORN!!! spams aren't good enough
From what I understand when you challenge and beat a dragon you remove it from the blessing roster so you can technically have only this guy left.
Grom has the advantage of being really funny though
Iron Gobbos
Elthorion is actually pretty great. He has his specific units which are a shoulder above everyone else, he can buff units with his capture ability and his faction is very well defended because of buffs and place in map.
is he better than dragon napalm though?
@@Wargulf2838 more certainly. Dragon spam can be done with every high elf faction and confederated legendary lord but Elthorion is unique. Also dragon breath is nightmare to micromanage, especially the angle of attack could be different between 50% kill to 5% kill.
This is gonna give Legendoftotalwar an aneurism
Well yeah, but this is normal difficulty so you can manage it way easier
@MongrelMage He might use it more if he played a difficulty where you can pause the game to queue up these dragon breaths on different units nearly as much as this video displayed.
Why? His current campaign has Imrik with all dragon army.
Dragons aren't great on Legendary Ultra size: they take a long damn time to chew through the enemy doomstacks.
Legend will have some words for this
Seeing all those dragons descend on that one Lord at the end made me smile. "Are you alright? Are you having fun in there? Oh he routed."
If I drank a cup of tea after every soldier has died in this game, I would attain the title of a true Brit and go to the rest room every three minutes.
Man how u everywhere
and we meet again. Until next video
no. You would drown yourself.
So, no worries about having to run to the restroom all the time. You should be fine. ;-)
And have heart attack
get a diaper so no disturbance while drinking tea
"Then you've got the lizard people for when you just want to be weird..." Look, some of us just like having armies of all dinosaurs.
Honestly dude same
Ikr Turning the World into Jurrasic Park is Normal 😂
Someone at Creative Assembly ;"Should we test this DL ?
Some other bloke at CA ;"Nah , lets just give a key to the spliffing brit and fix whatever he finds."
I mean spiff didn’t play it so... I guess it means it’s good to go lol
LegendOfTotalWar is the true game breaker ;)
@@Myerfire1 What this guy said. This video is actually a bit of a useless addition because everyone already knows that spamming big dick units in Warhammer 2 is OP. Dragon Ogre Shaggoths, War Mammoths, Steam Tanks, etc.
pee butt it looks impressive for noobs or people who aren’t playing the game, not the same effects for veterans though lol
unsurprisingly effective
Dovahkin: "I can kill dragons and consume their souls for power."
Imrik: "I'll do you one better."
Donkey from Shrek: "And I'll do _you_ one better."
Donkey should be named Donkey Kong with a Big Dong. He did that dragon after all.
This better be pinned.
@@blackmoon7668 poor bastard probably had to go spelunking
*spiff says Grom is an orc.*
Grom: Finally, someone to snack on
"Finally some good fucking food!"
Do Da Britz taste good Warboss?
Dr. Vikyll tastes like Tea.
"there is nothing that can one shot a dragon" : have you heard of the troll torpedo dwarfs doomstack ?
not a story the assur would tell
Aka, The Torpedo Stack, lol.
Its not a one shot if it takes a dozen units to do it.
One shot from 15 different units
"Longbeards - A very powerful lategame unit"
Yeah, sure Spiff^^
yeah some of the things he says just aren't really true, but it sure is entertaining.
Probably the best mid-tier line-holding infantry though
Also Saurian infantry being above spearmen. Saurus are best tier 1 infantry, but still tier 1. Regardless, entertaining video for sure :)
@@Grivehn saurus are better than spearmen. maybe not for High elves because of the playstyle but they are better.
@@yevgenyiyeet8737 Perhaps I wasnt clear. Yes, Saurus are better than Spearmen. Spiff just incorrectly named them higher tier, while they are both tier 1 units.
However, he does play the most famous strategy games so Im not expecting him to remember each and every unit correctly. Just joined the nitpicking team a bit here, but honestly its not a big mistake.
Imrik's army serves to stand there to be his live audience as he flexes on the dwarfs
Smaug: "I am fire. I am death."
Spiff: "Allow me to introduce myself."
We need a Spif/Gray duet of deathly gaming!!
thanks. now i need to get rid of a rule 34 version of spiff riding smaug..
Just a heads up @The Spiffing Brit i noticed you didnt go down the bottom tree of level ups on Imrik and i think that's a mistake, because you know how you got the dragons upkeep down to -75%. Well the bottom tree by investing 10 points, you can add an extra -23% upkeep to your entire army not just dragons, so in theory you can have you upkeep on the dragons in Imriks army at only 2% upkeep XD so good
Free dragon estate lol
just attach a noble with 15% upkeep trait to the army. Anyway it doesn't work on higher campaign difficult and there are better points to spend
I just finished making a cuppa tea when this uploaded. That timing was impeccable.
spiffing brit has like a separate harddrive just for all those stock photos
Oh beans, never been this early to a Spiffing video before. Gonna grab some tea and watch only the most balanced of gameplay.
Yes, most balanced indeed
He actually has no idea what is actually broken in the game. He has no idea
ADDITION - Those sword of Khaine wielding incendiary Archmages can ride Moon Dragons lol. So there's that too. Only 10 months late for saying this.
“Dragonsfire, nothing else in the world smells like that. Smells like victory.”
You should try this again on a higher difficulty setting. I want to hear about how you spent the first 40 turns avoiding having your dragons eaten by Eshin rats.
Yeah, this.
Very easy on legendary once you own the dragons.
@@alexeben7776 only way to really get away in legendary is by taking Avelorn, to global recrute sisters of Avelorn and cheese the fck out of everyone. Or taking a doom stack of star dragons, but other dragons are just not worth
New to the game here, how did he have 4 dragons so early? I get imrik gets one as a mount but could he have beaten the dragon battles so early?
@@TheKINGJONSEY IIRC Dragon fights are currently every 15 turns and on hard the fights are complete pushovers after the first one assuming you stick all the dragons in Imrik's army. You can have all of them by turn 90. Plus Imrik gets a dragon mount at 14 and Fire Mages get a dragon mount at 22.
Spiff: "Have I told you about the Hall of Dragons in Vaul's Anvil?"
i play imrik on legendary. he's my favorite ! dragons are great even on higher difficulty. it's more tricky than sisters of avelon , but it still works great.
I am struggling to defeat my first dragon even on normal. some assistance I will need
"That'll teach you for grouping up..." Never a truer or more timely phrase used ;)
Callin Grom and Orc? That's whatever the Greenskin version of a Grudging is.
meats back on the menu for grom’s gobbers
I love how Spiff does not know any of the lore. I genuinly love seeing someone fresh say wrong stuff and chuckeling to myself.
I just want to say that I noticed you used the cover of Warhammer: Battle March for the background on the thumbnail and I love it.
You should do an archery one with the wood elves. Seriously OP…
The Imrik Cheese here is honestly rather meh outside of easy. Yeah, dragon's are pretty solid, but by time you get them you can usually only afford a single stack, and the AI is throwing 4-5 full stacks at you a turn. far better using archer stacks for early game and shifting into Sister stack for the mid to late game - they are cheaper and just as effective allowing you to field more armies and better handle the multiple armies being thrown at you.
Oh, and regarding your "I need the spearmen and archers to anchor my dragons" you don't. Dismiss them, and recruit a life mage on a horse. There you go, that is your ground based anchor so you don't auto lose which can also heal your dragons thereby reducing your downtime between fights.
Had you done this video during the early access period, you could have broken the game in half with Grom and one of his food buffs that turned gobbo archers into 90 damage killing machines, but CA fixed that one prior to releasing the game.
And Eltharion has an ability that gives every unit in his army infinite ammo, which we still can't believe they actually gave him.
tbf, its only to eltharion, right? so it doesnt affect too much outside early/mid-game.
ikit have a way stronger infinite ammo with those ratling guns, that with some combos, you really only need them as anything else il be melted in 1 volley.
@@clairelili873 yeah, but Eltharion has access to one of the strongest missile infantry in the game with 200+ range and decent melee stats. As for Skavens, their military equipment had a chance of destroying itself during the process and killing its crew and I don't understand why CA hasn't implemented that mechanics since we had miscast chance.
What are you talking about? Elves can build up an insane economy with entrepreneur heroes and if you have dragon-willed lords and Hall of Dragons, dragons are basically free. You can easily field 10 armies of all dragons that only cost ~2000 gold each.
Ok this is kinda getting weird. I’m subbed with notifications on RTGames and The Spiffing Brit, but when a video gets released on RTGames I immediately get a video from The Spiffing Brit. This has happened to tons of times.
@@thespiffingbrit I think you have some explaining to do.
The Prophecy is Assembling
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31:02 Spiff: "I find it more fun when there's a bit of a challenge."
Me: So that was a lie.
Spiffing Brit: "Dragon breath is OP!"
Wind of Death: *exists*
Napalm Death is a legendary grind core band. They also have the record for the shortest song ever. It's called You Suffer.
5:22
Spiff: "It's warHammer Time"
Can't touch this
I really love Warhammer II, and i love watching spiff break games so these video’s are awesome. I especially enjoy your video on the vampire hero blob, a cheese that i now like to use myself :)
2:03 "Well, ladies and gentlemen, he's not overpowered, he's okay. Yeah he's just a pretty decent lord, nothing too special."
I see that Spiff has not yet found out about the cheesy exploits that makes up Grom's cauldron.
"some of the things which makes Imrik's campaign so *easy*"
I saw that normal difficulty you know!
yep, on legendary it's one of the top 2 hardest starts along with Malus Darkblade.
15:25
"We can fight whoever we want"
*Sees a settlement owned by Grimgor*
*Shooketh*
To be honest I've been obsessed with the dwarven flame throwers... Literally being able to control the battle with 1 unit... Now since the invocation of Imrik... I feel like I've found a new favourite.
Other than Deathmaster Snitch of Clan Eshin (who also starts next to this boy)... Sounds like alot of fun...
Spiff: Grom the paunch the greatest orc to ever live
Me looks at grimgor:
You best take that back friend
Grom isnt even an orc, he's a really fat goblin.
Thanks for shouting out our boy Mandalore. A most tea-tacular shout out indeed.
"The Napalm. It's too much!"
No, Spiff. There's *never* 'too much' Napalm.
Spiff you kill me on this single point.
Despite knowing exactly what is going on and what is gonna happen, you have such a tone of surprise and you make like there was no way you could have expected "that". Frikkin hilarious XD
See my Imrik campaign so far has me fighting Druchii who own the entire map... it's me in the corner battling 4 armies to every 1 of mine. Rough part of the elvish roster is that they are pricey and the main income of High Elves is trade.... and I have no friends to trade with. Imrik is a beast but he can't be everywhere, especially when Chaos invasions are a thing
Main high elves income is taxes. Recruit a lot of mages with entrepreneur trait. They increase local tax rate by 15% and global tax rate by 3%. And it STACKS. Put 10 of them in a province and it's tax rate will be around 280% (100 basic + 150 local bonus + 30 global bonus). The only problem with it is that you need a tier 4 city to increase your capacity for mages. The income boost isn't that significant at first, but gets more and more powerful the more mages you recruit.
Max possible capacity for one hero type is 100. In theory, if you hire 100 mages with the entrepreneur trait and you put them all in one province the tax rate there will be 1900% and 300% in all your other provinces. What it means is that a single building that would normally make like 200 gold, can now make even 4000 gold.
In my campaign where I conquered the entire map as Avelorn, my income was over 600k per turn.
I'm just glad someone finally showed me the correct way to play this game.
The devs forgot the most important question,
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“BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS?!”
I got that Shadiversity reference.
Damn, you and Mandalore really makes me want to play this game even though these kind of games are not really my cup of tea (pun intended).
Saw "Napalm Death" thumbnail, expected to hear some metal.
I find it amusing how Spiff is so proud of himself that he cheesed the lizardmen to sally out from their walled city and corner camped, while in fact assaulting the city would be much easier and cheesier.
For the love of everything tea. Can we please get a video from Spiff co on the perfect balance of sid meier's civilization beyond earth.
Hey Spiff, I've got a new glitch for you to do a "Perfectly balanced game" video on for "Pathfinder, Wrath of the righteous"
Step 1: Play the game normally until you get Daeran the oracle in your party.
Step 2: Level up until he can get the "Life Link" ability.
Step 3: From that point on, he is immortal. Put a life link on every member of your party, and send Daeran in first in every fight to get the agro of all the enemies.
No matter how much damage he takes, he never goes below zero hit points, and simply won't go down.There are some ambush situations where this won't work, but for the really tough battles, in most cases, you can pick a character to go in first to get all the enemies to attack, and if it's Daeran, you win.
LegendofTotalWar: Spiffing brit chose wrong faction to cheese with dragons!
He never said that.
Calador is actually the weakest high elf faction due to their start. Normal difficulty, all their campaigns are laughably easy but Imrik is the only one with gimped economy. By the time he gets all his dragons Alith Anar can own half the map
@@rockstar450 not weakest, but hardest to start. i played on very hard and there are the main imrik boi troubles:
1) rats at the beginning can send you back to campaign selector
2) some of your winning conditions provinces usually owned by grudgy santa and tyrion the unconfederable. that usually takes you to war w them and ORDERTIDE
Apart from that, pretty good elf campaign. And yes, Alith Anar is a f-ing scaven
Alexander Lisin i agree after the first 30 turns you’re only an alliance away from the dwarves away from winning, but Calador still remains the weakest faction. He gets a doomstack but they all can get a doomstack and can easily run x2 mid-tier stacks to take the whole map. Imrik doesn’t have trade or the economy. He’s still excellent but even Teclis and Eltharion have way better economies and can raise far deadlier stacks sooner.
my only Rts game i palayed was Warcraft III but i cant stop watching this content despite not knowing anithing about the games he plays holy shit this guy is a god
Just remember: Its not a Imrik campaign until you at full volume blast "Magic Dragon" by Gloryhammer throughout it.
Is that a Grindcore band reference i see in the Thumbnail? How GLORIUS!
"The thing about treeeees....very flammable....VERY FLAMMABLE" 🤣
I played his campaing. On turn ~15, four skaven lords, with 17-20 Units each, arrived at my capitol :) After the battle (i lost for some reason) it told me, that the skaven had 5100 units remaining. Even tho i got destoryed, it looked very cool!
Have to say, coming up with an exploit video in a game that has Legend of Total War is pretty hard.
And he didn't even come up with an exploit
@@Haarsgard thats the magic - the game exploits itself.
@@udozocklein6023 that kinda isn't how that works
@@Haarsgard lol
Checked out Mandalore Gaming and dam boi did I had fun for an hour and a half. Now im back here to finish watching your video. You guys made me download the game again! Great stuff
"Nothing can one-shot a dragon"
Irondrakes doomstack: k
My thoughts exactly.
Got 2 Trollhamner torpedo dooms tacks in my late fane Dwarf campaign. Although only 3 engineers with one of them.
In small unit scale Grom literally one shots dragons with his glare ability, and since it has no Cooldown it can one shot 3 dragons. I know small scale is broken, but all my laptop allows me
you are definitely a most excellent Brit. This video got me into playing this game. thank you for this, you glorious sausage. also you got me into OpenTTD as well.
When the mountains start speaking dragonic and elf
*panics in dwarf*
I've just grabbed the first warhammer to complete my collection, literally last night, am looking forward to playing the huge campaign map!
Anyway I've just watched the intro and am off to grab a cuppa before I continue this spiffingly good video o7
Spiff: go watch the mandalore video.
Me: I’m pretty sure he’s ssseth
I paused the video right after the intro to tinkle, but I came back with a cup of tea for some reason
"The dark elves for when you're feeling a little spicy" That's the politest way of saying "edgy" I've ever heard.
I loved how Spiff portraits the high elves, since i love them i basically only play them xD
"Thanks for the free key ... but I think you misunderstood my channel"
One problem Spiff, Dwarfs can get units that rip dragons out the air before they can get close.
everyone else: oh it's just another total war video.
me: it's spiffing brit!!!! *clicking sound intensify*
The thing about trees...very flammable... very very flammable 🤣🤣🤣 this video cracked me up 👍🏼
10:00 "-25% upkeep for dragons, -25% recruiting for dragons...what that means is 75%"?
Combined with his other bonuses probably
(Haven't played imrik so i dont know)
And then you have an other 23% in the ordinary elven lord-skill tree. Plus 5% in the techtree. So at the very least you're down to 47% upkeep for the dragons.
Yup -25 for two forms of dragon army building means a 75% overall cost
-25% recruitment can be forgotten about. Upkeep is really the main thing that matters, recruitment cost is a tease.
I just started an Imrik campaign so thank you for this
Exploits warhammer 2 by just playing Warhammer 2
You and Mandalore are the reason I got this game. I couldn't be happier.
If you want real Warhammer cheese, check out Legend of Total War, if you haven't already. Spiff is a noob in comparison :P (no offense)
Spearmen and archers: What do we even do then?
The Spiffing Brit: Stand there and look pretty.
They're elves, they're good at that.
love that you shouted out mandalore!
I like Spiff videos, but, honestly, he's not absolutely right, and this really looks like an exploit for those, who does not know the game. I had 120 turns as Imrik on very hard, yes Imrik's dragons are OP, but that's hard to survive at the beginning, and generally speaking having one beast army is not that important if you have to control large territory, there are also more details, but anyway video is nice
High elves in general are completely OP. Mist walker armies with eltharion are basically unbeatable.
It's not often that gaming videos remind me of my love of grind core.
How the f has Spiffing Brit not got the Queen and crone DLC and still be successful with the High elves. Sisters of Avelorn is quite possibly the best doomstack ever
PS Grom isn't an Orc, just a very fat Goblin
you do not need Sisters of Averlorn to win while yes they are powerul they are weak against monster doomstacks
Calen Clay not really, they shred most doomstacks. The only doomstacks they’d have trouble against is the lizard men, and the AI normally doesn’t make doomstacks per say.
0:55 As a high elf enjoyer, I’ve never felt more offended by something I 100% agree with
Grom is not an orc, He's a goblin. And Eltharion is actually one of the best commanders in the game.
I just want you to know that while shopping for essentials recently, I added a large box of Yorkshire Tea Gold to my cart because of you.
The start is not easy on Legendary, establishing good trade routes sucks and your allies to confederate get decimated quickly
So your channel popped up the other day for me on my recommendations and I've been binge watching ever since 😂😂 I love your content it's brilliant also being from yorkshire I approve of yorkshire tea!!!