Total War: Warhammer 2 (with SFO mod)
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2020
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You have a serious gift in storytelling. These videos are great I'm a little sad I'm running out of them.
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Truly. I want more Total Warhammer!
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The section about that Total War tv show reminded me that the UK had one too - it was called Time Commanders and was made by the BBC - they basically had random people play historical battles using the total war games with historical experts on hand talking about stuff and I think offering advice at times. Was crazy to have that on at prime time on what was in those days a main broadcast channel.
Loved that show.
Time Commanders was brilliant. They brought it back briefly a few years ago, using Rome II.
Don’t forget mf Richard Hammond was hosting!!
Time Commanders was fab. Not only because an episode featured a young Ruth Wilson as a player...
No words for dawi ? This is going straight into THE BOOK...
Make sure to write his name in BOLD and ITALIC letters, so everyone knows it's serious.
i had never seen the warhammer worldmap before. thought it was weird when you zoomed over to the "dinosaur continent" to the south, and legitimately broke out laughing when you zoomed out all the way and there was legitimately just "nippon" in the east
That's what got me. Bretonnia, The (Holy Roman) Empire... alright, sure, WH is heavily influenced by the real world... but Nippon? It's literally 'Japan' in Japanese! Sometimes feels like Games Workshop was so eager to invent the game that it forgot to edit the first draft of the lore.
Anyway, whatever. Fun universe, good times, Lizardmen are based, etc.
(Though the Middle East being called the Dark Lands is kinda funny... does Reddit/Twitter know? They might wanna cancel WH if they find out.)
What about araby fucking araby did they even try?
@@elitebrothers4256 im surprised noone mentioned cathay considering its just another english word for china, albeit real old
I live in South America and it’s really funny to think that we are Lizard People in the Warhammer World. The true Lizard People were the friends we made in South America all along.
@@WK-47 Scandinavia is presented as a demonic realm of evil, infested with demons and bloodthirsty barbarians and half beasts... But you complain that the middle east has a name like "the dark lands"? 🤣
In the end, the only Old World deity that cared enough about its followers to save them was the Rat.
Lol
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Dont worry his olympus video wouldn't get off my reccomended even after i told it not interested and i fell in love with his channel
I imagine it's gonna catch on a bit now cuz of Olympus
I liked this!
Kinda strange/funny how all my Warhammer lore is from Total War, so the last few minutes were completely new to me.
I've been wanting to get into fantasy warhammer ever since I tried Vermintide 2 but could never find an intersting synopsis to actually convince me to get into the lore, this video changed all that. I love your content, you have made many a homework assignment tolerable. Thanks for making videos.
"Have you noticed how the worst things in the Warhammer world are all located next to Kislev?" XD
This video is an experience
The warp (at least in 40k) is something that people seem to forget (including the gods themselves) is that they represent all thoughts and emotions, the good the bad, and the ugly. For example, Tzeentch may be a cruel and devious trickster, sure, but he's also a force of progress and a beacon of hope. Change after, change is neither innately benevolent nor malevolent. without Tzeench there would be no malicious schemes but there would also be no one clever enough to save people from those schemes. Nothing would ever get done and t the world would fall into a stasis of static karma.
This brings us over to Nurgle represents stagnancy. A lack of change, inevitable eternal cycles of decayed but he also represents the resilience resolve, and solidarity to face those same unsettling inevitabilities. Without Nurgle, there is no consistency, living and dying is just part of the eternal cycle… Nurgle is technically nature incarnate, and he loves ALL life, to him a human being has as much right to life as the lowest bacteria.
Then there is Khorne. He is on the one hand a force of merciless slaughter and hatred, but he represents justice vengeance, and honor. Unlike the other Chaos gods, Khorne would never try to trick you to stab you in the back. (he will just stab you in the face over and over again until your face stops resembling a face) and after all, everything in life will fight to survive which is another aspect Khrone represent, survival of the fittest. Without him, there would be no honesty, and no strength to fight against injustice
Speaking off injustice. Slaanesh may be a cruel, torturous fiend that breaks minds and inflicts untold amounts of suffering, but he/she/it also exudes just as much joy for freedom and expression and happiness (because hello, hello someone will be enjoying your pain and agony after all) Its ironic yet it makes sense. Slaanesh pulls from both extremes of emotional experience representing both the joyful freedom as well as crippling suffering without Slaneesh ash there would be no happiness and no grief to make those happy times mean anything
Captain general Kitten, is that you?
People had emotions before slaanesh. I generally don't agree with you.
Good description but one big problem chaos gods in fantasy or 40k are not avatars of things they represent, if they are removed from seting change, bloodshed, seeking of perfection/plesure, fear of death/entropy of evryting would still remain they are not esential to funcion of life.
@@davidburnett5049 but what about Malal?
@@PositivelyGhost Actually it was Magnus that said this in TTS.
Okay, I'm reinstalling Arcanum. That music is seared into my heart almost as much as Isolation or Deb of Night.
The single most convincing review of WH2 I've ever seen, love your style! Especially because of 6:40, Troika really was special.
If you wanna enjoy skaven gameplay i highly reccomend buying ikit it's the only dlc i think is essential to the game
Ratling guns and warplocks change the game
I enjoy skaven and roleplaying as skaven too
Sometimes i dont shower and take a load of adderall to get into the mindset of a skaven
Its all personal preference though
My favorites are bretonnia and they're arguably the least fantastical but they're really fun to role play with
I love crusading the evil races and greedy humans especially with OVN
You hearted my commen
history is nerd shit imo
@@crassiewassie8354 it's only a very annoying vocal minority, like one annoying scottish Total War fan who despises any Total War past Shogun 2. Most Total War fans love Warhammer TW and how it adds new mechanics and things to play with.
bretonnians are least fantastical! ahh, sacre bleu!
This is one of these channels that is gonna get picked up by the algorithm, gaining 100k+ subs at once.
You're doing great work! Wow. Thank you so much
I love Tomb Kings and Necrons.
The idea of these ancient races, who maintain honor and dignity above all else, even when their lives will continue without end, resonates with me. I see it as a hopeful race, who will do what is necessary to be moral.
As for their game play, Tomb King's mechanic of limit armies and unit roster makes them a total late game power house. Necro techs allow you to reduce the high costs of buildings to nearly nothing, if you have like 3 mid level ones. So, you end up with hoards of tomb guards with archers. You can use their cavalry units, but the charge mechanic is busted, so tends to hurt you more then help you. The late game monsters, like the scorpion or sphinx, eat through chaff quickly, but have trouble with other monster units.
By end game, you can have ten high power armies patrolling your ever expanding empire.
About the only things I dislike about them, is their diplomacy. You end up allied with rats or orcs, and the dwarves and lizards hate your guts. Ironic, as robotic flesh bots and robotic bone bots ought to get along in their pursuit of killing chaos.
6:40 You truly are a man of culture, good sir. Nerd-God bless you (+2 Intelligence, -4 Beauty)
28:33 ah yes the vampires of cissylvania
33:32 Markus landed on a continent and the Lizards decided to attack because humans to them, need to stay in their zoo. Despite the LIzardmen's vanished masters creating them with a yearning to explore. And given what the Lizardmen did to the Dwarfs and by extension their human friends I'd say they had this coming.
though it;s also worth noting they don't like that humans steal there gold plagues and decorations but hey maybe use your giant brain to ask them to leave since they didn't do that and just acted like animals who cares
It's funny how it's the Warhammer ones have changed your mind about the whole franchise, whereas by long-term fans, they are considered to be amongst the worst and shallowest gameplay-wise.
Only the first one afaik which is not wrong.
This is peak UA-cam and can't believe I'm getting it for free! Hope the add revenues are most generous to you brother! On another note, you sold me on to try the game. Will be looking very closely to you're new materials, they're just genius! Perfect story telling, dank memes integrated so subtle, legit critical review of the games.... PEAK youtube ma brothers, Rejoice! xD
Fun fact- outriders are not 'dragoons' in the conventional sense. Dragoons in their 'classic' form are quick response infantry that ride to the location on horses then dismount and fight. Later on they became mounted riflemen as the conditions of war changed, and since we have no easily identifiable term other than "Mounted rifleman" to describe a cavalryman of that type it makes sense to say dragoon as you have here. Military cross-cultural terminology is pretty obnoxious.
I love watching your videos and have so many things to say about them, especially after multiple rewatches(I fall asleep to youtube a lot, so it not being a 'new' video helps with that.)
We should be friends.
You’re one of my favorite youtubers. Your videos are high quality and indepth.
"He is like a rat adam jensen....but on tren" amazing.
6:45 OMG the temple of elemental evil ?!! that bring back Memories of Nightmare......
"Did you know there are Chaos gods of law and order?"
How in the name of fuck does that work?
...it's a mess: 1d4chan.org/wiki/Chaos_Gods_of_Law
Your ability to make the end times sound like a satisfying, coherent story is mind boggling
Calling Hashut "Not a Real God" Oooh you're goin on the altar for that.
While in 40k you'd have a point about chaos, in fantasy you cant be further from wrong. Your forgetting that Fantasy has Sigmar, Morr, etc, etc.
And not to get too caught up in this, it's note worthy to point out that Fantasy was made first, then Rogue Trader, then 40k, all of which used to tie in via Amazons and the like, but it was dropped before it was killed more or less. (Orcs also used to be more like Orcs then Orks, and half-orc and half-elfs used to exist)
Sigmar (Who also used to be rumored to be one of the 40k empires lost primarchs) is a force for good, and Ulric is a force for law and so on. Note Elf gods in fantasy are worthless and don't give their followers anything.
Well, the Elf Gods don’t give their followers anything for worshiping them because both the elves and their gods believe that they are sufficient enough on their own. It’s not really malicious, it’s more out of a strange sense of respect for their worshippers.
The Warriors of Chaos is not only badass mutant Viking warriors as in the Norse; they are also mutant Mongolians riding horses and alot of other tribes.
Its not maybe abnormous amounts of lore surrounding them but their are well mentioned.
I bet your friend that likes Beastmen is having a great time after their rework/buff and dlc. Taurox is especially strong, managed to finish his campaign in less than 80 turn.
45:52
I might have a problem.
I recognized all of these.
You make such great videos, man. Usually it takes me a long time to find myself getting on somebody's Patreon but you got me in 2-3 videos. Hope you continue to make more!
Nurgle is one people tend to not be tricked into following. He is called "papa" because he is paternal towards his followers.
Everyone is worthy of and welcome to worship in Grandpappy Nurgle’s watery, bloodshot, cataract-stricken eyes.
Won me over with Arcanum music. Subscribed immediately.
Love the editing.
I didn't know anything about Warhammer going into it, the lore is super cool. Your videos are always entertaining and informative!
WIC's cinematics were so intense and gripping I started learning Russian after playing the game.
This vid got me into Total War Warhammer. Literally one of the few old school fantasy settings nowadays not corrupted by Dota/Warcraft aesthetics. It gaves me strong Heroes 3 vibes but the way i imagined them in my head when I was a kid. Thank you, Nester!
Now silly thing about Bretonnia for me? It always had this huge disconnect between lore, tabletop, and people's perceptions of it. Were probably my second favorite faction, back in the day. Right after Lizardmen because who doesn't want a stegosaurus with magical artillery blasting fools? That's just fun.
Because lore with, Bretonnian Grail Knights are supposed to be Primarch level super badasses with a ton of magical powers. From "I can touch someone to instantly heal their wounds and cure diseases" to "I just took an Imperial Grand Cannon to the face and it didn't even scuff my paint" to being able to knock out war elephants with a punch, etc. However on the tabletop? They gave them horrendous stats that were more "Mere human" with like 3 Strength and 3 Toughness standard if I remember. The average Beastmen had tougher stats.
Now what's funny as well is the perception of most people was Bretonnia was always all about its cavalry charges and such. But as a Bretonnia player? No.... it really wasn't. At all. Calvary was like the Carnifex ended up for Tyranid players in 40k. A distraction that drew a lot of attention but didn't accomplish much unless your opponents just utterly ignored their presence.
The strength of the Bretonnian army was that their peasant levies were cheap as chips, and also highly effective in their roles and designated tasks. From their Longbowmen who were absolute memes with Fire Arrows that devastated monster heavy lists... to just how cheap their blocks were and how effective Men at Arms became when you had a Damsel cast a buff spell on them. It turned them from "Cheap fodder" into "elite infantry" levels. Something other nations could do... but a lot of them lacked the access to good magic lores to do it, or just the sheer mass of cheap fodder they could do it to.
Kind of the frustrating thing for me in Total Warhammer. Because the Bretonnian army really is based on their peasants and support... and due to the "Peasant Economy" system you can't really use them. Which leaves them the incredibly weak shock cavalry army that most people thought it was.
Strength 4, (Six on the charge with a lance) +5 ward save, 2+ armour save, and they were unbreakable I think. And those were just the rank and file grail knights. The Grail Knight heros were kick ass.
Great video! Although I'm a bit disappointed you didn't mention the Age of Empires series as part of the RTS genre spiel. Surely it's considered a cornerstone of the RTS genre as most of the games are still actively played today. Or was it just not as popular as I thought it was?
Age of Empires 1 was staggeringly good at the time of its release. Not all that innovative in mechanics, but streets ahead in presentation and historical feel. It still plays well today, including the Definitive edition, with its more aggressive AI.
I keep blinking when I see Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer 😂
I'm really happy to have found your channel ❤️
Your videos are so amazing man keep up the good work ❤️
6:25 Okay, the stylization of the troop cards is SUPER COOL.
Amazing video my friend! Thank you!
I love that one of the usernames in the MP lobby was "Laura Palmer". I just started watching Twin Peaks and love it.
Damn the clip with homeworld. Nostalgia hit right there.
I always felt a wasted part of Chaos vs Order, particularly in the 40k setting, was just the simple question of Mass vs Individual. In 40k in particular (though also applies to Fantasy and Age of Sigmar to slightly lesser extents) the Order is all about sort of destined roles. If you were a peasant on some backwater mining world that's what you were. And your descendants. For millennium. Everything is meant to be rendered into a variable to be plugged into a machine in its destined roles. The super soldiers. the demi-gods like Primarchs, the fodder of the Guard and Planetary Defense Forces, the laborers, the priests, etc. You are the cog in the machine and you must accept and bow to that status.
While Chaos is all about individuality and what you personally can achieve. The Chaos Gods don't care that you were born a peasant. In fact they're more likely to take notice of the peasant with barely a stick to his name managing to break into a local government office to club the local mayor to death, than they are to care about some Chaos Space Marine warlord who manages to take over an entire planet with his vast armies. It's egalitarian in that way. That they care about how far you came and how devoted you are rather than the role you were born to fill or achieving mere competence with your expected forces.
It made me wish that, after Gathering Storm when Celestine just cored Abaddon like an apple that they were going to shake things up. Really play up that difference in the conflict. They had Guilliman coming back, the genetically engineered primarch who serves as an unquestioned Demi-God of Order... and opposing him make something else entirely. A "mere mortal" human who through ambition and a good bit of luck has transcended to Warmaster of Chaos.
The engineered God vs the ambitious Everyman as it were.
Alas of course they didn't do that. And in fact seem oddly allergic to this plot dynamic that is gift wrapped in their lore in both Age of Sigmar or 40k.
Empire Earth was my go to RTS. Great video.
its scary how neatly you describe us underdwellers. also: thanks for making me aware theres a rift. im a maaaasive CA/TW fan. today ive played three kingdoms, rome2 and warhammer3, guess im also filth ;-D
Never was into warhammer and always thought that shit is too huge and nerdy(probably because of community), but oh man your presentation got me good
Hilarious, informative and dense
Love your work, please MOAR
This is literally the perfect channel.
I'm really glad I found this channel
Truly excellent video!
A video so good I had to watch it twice! And don't even get me started on Mandalore's videos on the Total War: Warhammer games...
Beautiful video. Absolutely masterful. Liked, hoping for a Warhammer 3 vid (or videosss?)
Your videos are masterpieces
Brother, you are amazing. The presentation on the value of Chaos was precisely the inherent mindset of all true Discordians. Hail Eris!
You so underrated/ Very good content! thank you for yourself!!!
"You can't get rid of Chaos"
*laughs in Necron
9:19 Hooray for Sienna Fuegonasus!
Great video!
I've now played Baldurs Gate 1 (and 2) and TWW2 for like 100 hours each because i was partially inspired by your videos, so cheers. I hated the rats so much I became the rats though.
The lack of base building is generally a big shift in gameplay, enough that people consider those games to be a separate genre of Real Time Tactics.
Wouldn't be surprised if history channel used this game for some "reconstructions" too.
Amazing video dude. So funny and informational. But took like 2 breakfasts to finish it lmao
I removed like 10 minutes of stuff from the video and it's still way too long.
Skaven is the only faction that matters
Nope i reject this notion that Mortal Empires is a special game mode, Mortal Empires is simply the grand campaign that every Total War game has had. The Vortex campaign in my opinion was more comparable to DLC like Hannibal at the gates or Wrath of Sparta, CA simply removed the grand campaign and told us that if we wanted the full game experience then we need to own both 1 and 2. It's a shit money grubbing tactic that i absolutely despise.
36:02 making Orcs just spore people like Orks was a fairly late retcon. I really don't like it as it's excessive 40kification of Fantasy.
Interesting to know it was a retcon
Chaos only exists when good and evil are out of order. As long as good and evil are in balance there is no chaos.
How did you miss the Call of Warhammer mod for Medieval II? the idea for warhammer total war was literally stolen for them, and the mod was almost totally complete before warhammer total war was even announced
48:50 honestly thanks for reminding me how much better SoC was. Even if imperfect.
Great video
Don't know why the algorithm popped this one up now, but there used to be some lore about the beastmen/women question and it got retconned out to be more family-friendly
26:05 I see a fellow gentleman. MuHut asrtstyle is nice.
You know Malekith is cool because like all cool guys he lives with his mom.
You would love chaos warriors in warhammer 3, hope you make a video about it one day.
how have you not blown up yet!
"A big disadvantage was that they were surrounded... and they were hot." *stab* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The gall to call beastmen rapists while playing as Sigvald, lmao
My Sig is INNOCENT
a fellow crusader kings 2 chad. I salute you
Oh jesus. That feeling, when you realize you've become an Ancient One and your ways are absurd. oh lawwwwwwwwd. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
1:12 Ahhhh Warcraft Adventures. Not getting Peter Cullen back for Doomhammer in the Warcraft Movie was a damn shame. ORCTIMUS PRIME was too amazing an idea to die in a cancelled game. Fun fact even into like 2009 or so I overheard 2 of the jocks at a high school talking about Warcraft 3. It was surreal.
"Hashut"
God bless you
hahahhhaah
Saddest part of endtimes is the death of poor innocent Gobbler, poor kawai Gobbla'
Markus ain’t bad cm’on.
I mean he’s technically a pseudo conquistador but the lizardmen and folks of lustria aren’t exactly good peoples either.
Chaos isn't good or bad, it's a force a nature and a reaction to living beings. You've said it yourself, Slaanesh is the god of pleasure, but he/she is also the god of pain, same shit with the other gods. Tzeentch is the god of schemes, but he is also a god of willpower and inteligence, even Khorne has a good side, being the god of courage and the honorable side of battle. At least, that's the lore in 40k, I don't know shit about Fantasy Warhammer.
They're probably one an the same. They were both created by the Old ones after all.
The sign for kohrne is considered a blessing in the dwarfholds, means that honorable battle will soon come.
Not really, your forgetting that Fantasy has Sigmar, Morr, etc, etc.
And not to get too caught up in this, it's note worthy to point out that Fantasy was made first, then Rogue Trader, then 40k, all of which used to tie in via Amazons and the like, but it was dropped before it was killed more or less. (Orcs also used to be more like Orcs then Orks, and half-orc and half-elfs used to exist)
Sigmar (Who also used to be rumored to be one of the 40k empires lost primarchs) is a force for good, and Ulric is a force for law and so on. Note Elf gods in fantasy are worthless and don't give their followers anything.
Uhhh I’m pretty sure Tzeentach is actually the god of autism
@@Bassist-Beneath Tzeentch is actually just next on the list for Great Horned Rat.
Interesting to see another guy that doesn’t like Skaven. I agree completely with your issues with them. Of all the races they definitely fit in the least with their almost WWI aesthetic and no culture to speak of. They come off as more of an rts faction than a society, while many of the other races like dwarves, empire, and orcs feel the opposite.
That's probably because they don't exist.
I hate the Skaven because they act nothing like rats actually do. You could chalk that up to Chaos corruption but I would say that Chaos does not fundamentally change your nature, just exposes the part of you that keep hidden away from everyone, even yourself.
"Please be gentle when you fuck us CA"
That didn't age so well.
Such a great video but what happened to pigbarter, what was their fate? How did you skip em at the end?!
Thanks
The way you deal with the DLC crappy business model is by using creamapi, that's it buy the base game get all dlcs for free. Or you know just pirate it if it's single player.
Another aspect of Bretonnia's ending that always got me (going by memory): The Lady is actually just a highly powerful Wood Elf witch, and has been gaslighting knights and collecting Grail Knights to serve as angels/gate guards in their new Utopia they constructed in a pocket dimension. The Lady has been a lie the whole time and somehow her "power level" is ... that low (all deity-like inspirations considered).
Grom and ikit claw are definitely a must buy dlc there the funniest characters in the game imo
That bigass mech Skaven dude is the Frank Horrigan of warhammer but I guess there is a lot of Horrigan-esqe characters in warhammer.
Hey will you make an update about warhammer 3? Seems like they're adding a ton new content and factions (At least chaos dwarves, Kislev, and Cathay, possibly Ind and Nippon, Ogres probably too, and Chaos Gods)
For sure. Looking forward to wh3.
Sure, Chaos won, but forgot that one part where the Archaon gets absolutely humiliated by Grimgore.
Great video but I think you're missing how the RTS genre just doesn't work on consoles as one of the reasons for it's downfall.
Also those Arcanum boomer feels hit me hard.
The soulstorm campaign, sets a total war esque precedent. I don't think would be an exact copy of the total war formula, but definitely share some roots, and ideas.
Yeah, but sadly that campaign is extremely bland and lore-wise it's a clusterfluck