1:31 : relaese/cinematic trailer 4:30 : Karl franz and the Empire (based of the holy roman empire of german nation) 7:26 : Thorgim Grugdebearer and dwarfs 10:37 : Chaos Warriors dlc 11:56 : grimgor ironhide and greenskins 14:25 : Manfred von carstein and the Vampire counts 17:38 : a World trailer (btw that guy by 19:44 is Archaon the everchosen, Supreme Champion of the Chaos-gods) 19:50 : a whatever trailer... 21:11 the greenskin ingame intro 23:24 Blood for the blood god dlc (exatly, a dlc for blood and gore...) 24:33 Beastmen and Khazrak the One-Eye (dlc) 27:47 the Grim and the grave (units dlc) 29:46 the King and the Warlord (likewise) 31:54 Wood elves and Orion (dlc) 33:44 Bretonnia and king Louen Leoncoeur (a combi about france knight, englands and King arthur...) (dlc, but free cost) 35:32 Norsca and wulfric the wanderer (dlc) 36:47 Norsca ingame intro
@@vake1234 actualy i do like it i just don't like Shitmar if it wasent for Corvid i whas probly now plying a 2500 to 4000 table top game for shits and giggles
19:44 That's Archaon, the Everchosen. He's the guy the 4 chaos gods trust to bring the End of the world. And that's his helmet, not his face. I don't think we know what's underneath it, but we know he was once a priest in the empire.
Imagine being a regular soldier, and willingly charge toward deamons, vampires, fire tornadoes, 20 meters abominations, orks, dragons and Sigmar-knows what other horrors with a little sword in your hand, protecting your lands. I always thought that humans in Fantasy Battles are more badass than in 40k
@@ayami123 yes, but still. You'll never see an Imperial Guardsmen charging to some chaos dreadnaught. FB spearmen? "Sure, just point the direction and I'll kill this Warlord titan with my stick"
7:08 Out of curiosity, did you notice that when Karl Franz landed among the troops, they immediately stopped backing off, rallied, and started advancing back into the fray? Personally, I find that one of the better parts of that particular trailer.
Oh also, a game called Vermintide (1 & 2), also takes place in the Warhammer fantasy universe, and has several short cinematics. Might be worth checking out while doing Warhammer fantasy content :)
@@spe3tre458 Technically it takes place in the Warhammer Endtimes universe, but it's basically an extension of the fantasy universe and includes the same races and art style, but more grim and dark (since it's the end of days). The End Times is what happens to the Fantasy Universe when the bad guys finally bring their full wrath to the planet.
@@Cifer77 But now it's more likely to be in the Total War variant with the existence of the option to build the Red Moon Inn (the original Ubersreik 5's base) to get these heroes for a while.
I’m excited to see how y’all react to the second game in the series with its trailers. They are really well made. I do wonder why the call of the beastmen trailer did not have subtitles for the guys when they spoke. I thought it did so you could understand what he’s saying. But anyway this is exciting seeing people react or check these trailers out.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Well if you ever feel curious he said “Pitiful Worm, Trespasser…, (next scene) Gather warhards, hunt man filth! KILL MAN!” It’s not much but i just thought it would be nice to let ya know.
The second and third game’s trailers are amazing if you guys are interested and are able. Promise you won’t be disappointed with those, it only gets even more epic from here. 😅
19:44 That is Archaon, Lord of the End Times, one of the bigger villains in the setting introduced during the "Storm of Chaos" storyline on the tabletop. He is the latest of a series of "Everchosen", supremely powerful Chaos warlords who unite the disparate forces of Chaos into a massive host bent on destroying the world. In the Total War games, he basically serves the same role, leading a great Chaos invasion during the late-game that will completely steamroll you if you're not prepared. This adds another layer to your strategic decisions, as now you're not conquering territories and defeating rivals merely to fulfill the campaign victory conditions, but also to become powerful enough to defeat this invasion when it comes. And no, that's not tattoos he's wearing, but the Crown of Domination, one of several powerful Chaos artefacts he had to recover in order to claim the mantle of Everchosen. 36:35 That Viking-looking guy is Wulfrik the Wanderer, another big-name Chaos character. His deal is that after endlessly running his mouth about how he's the greatest warrior who ever lived, the Chaos Gods cursed him to forever venture around the world trying to live up to that boast. They also gave him "the Gift of Tongues"; he magically knows every language in existence, and uses it to insult potential opponents so they accept his challenges of single combat.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Probably the coolest thing about Archaeon is his title, "Exalted Grand Marshall of the Apocalypse" The Dark Gods have literally charged him to end the world. Best Part? He canonically succeeds, and that's why Warhammer Fantasy was cancelled, and why we now have Age of Sigmar, which is a few Surviving Human, Elven, and Dwarven gods evacuating the souls of their followers to a series of new realms. Plus other stuff happened like a guy ascending to become the God of Death, and orks are still around too, because of course they survived the end of the world.
As soon as you said "He's been through some shit!", I knew I had to comment 😁 Generally speaking, the ork warboss Grimgor Ironhide is better described as 'shit' just waiting for someone to happen too! He was something of a legend. Also, some of the more interesting critters in these trailers: the vulture-dragon in the first trailer is a Changer of Ways, a greater daemon of the Chaos god, Tzeentch. The cavalry charge of gryphon-like creatures is made up of demigryphs, which I believe are unique to Warhammer. And lastly, the minotaur/centaur thing is a dragon ogre, like a giant ogre/dragon hybrid that normally serves Chaos. I miss this version of Warhammer Fantasy... it's nice to see Total War carrying its memory along 😊
@@runehood6682 Cathay is definitely announced for Total War Warhammer 3. As for a tabletop return to the Old World, there has been talk, but so far nothing is concrete. GW has been far too erratic of late to put much stock in anything they say until it happens; so, while I would love them to relaunch the Old World as fantasy's answer to the Horus Heresy, I'll believe it when I see it 🙃
The best part is that Storm of Chaos, the first series of campaigns GW ran to simulate Archaeon's apocalypse march against the world, ended in an Ork victory so the first great chaos incursion was literally defeated by Grimgor blundering into the middle of it, and beating up everyone.
the second game has some of the best trailers, and added WAYYYY more factions for players to play and armies to control. Basic gameplay is managing an army, and takes place on a MASSIVE over-world map, in-between battles you basically look at what is a google maps version of this fantasy world, being able to zoom in and out and tell your armies where to move and what cities to attack or defend , and managing your cities and economy (gotta pay your troops right 😉) Then when battle starts you get a much more close in look at the fight and can direct troops in a much more strategic fashion. In battle you never control a single unit directly, more like you tell groups of troops where to go and then watch and see how they perform with the directions you have given them. Play smart and flank your enemies etc etc and your guys have a good chance to come out on top, play bad and your guys might just lose. Its a fun game, the massive single player campaigns can take a long time to finish. Im talking months of play to fully control the world and win. But yea, the Total war series of games is published by SEGA, and they teamed up with the guys who own Warhammer to create Total war Warhammer. Traditionally the Total war games used to be about real world wars and events that actually happened in REAL history and was very historical fiction based. But with this they ventured into fantasy and it went gangbusters popular, the 3rd game in the Total War Warhammer series is about to release and the 2nd game had SOOOOOO many expansions and factions updates.
Congratulations on the 100k 💥 to 100 more I remember first recommending this as well 😂😂 Happy New Year to you both and BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR SKULL THRONE
Basically Bretonnia is a Fantasy version of the Angevin Empire, when it was ruled by Richard the Lionheart. That empire was covering the western part of France, England, and some bits here and there and was ruled by the House of Anjou, a French nobility house that had their capital in Angers (hence the Angevin name) and Chinon, in western France, a bit south East of Brittany. That period is characterised by the Third crusades, and so like you spotted, the Knights of Bretonnia are heavily inspired by the legends of the Quest for the Graal, the Lady of the Lake, and so on. In Warhammer, Bretonnia is located in a zone that had a lot of Elven colonies thousand of years ago, and so that's why some of their cities go so high in the sky with refined look. Their current king, Louen Leoncoeur, is basically Richard the Lionheart himself (coeur = heart in French, where Richard is called "Coeur de Lion") fantasy version. They've got pretty low technology (since they're inspired by a 11-12th century empire), but lots of knights, including Graal knights, superhumans empowered by the Lady.
Norsca and Wulfrik the Wanderer were THE reason I got into the Total War: Warhammer series. Chaos-worshipping Vikings. If I may suggest, sometime, check out the lore on Wulfrik the Wanderer. Guy has a VERY awesome backstory.
Sounds like a badass just like he looks so we will check out some of his lore. Since we can play this single player it might be a game we try actually 😀
Wulfrik the Wanderer. Boasted that he could beat everything in a duel, and the Chaos Gods basically said "okay" and cursed him to forever wander the world but not without blessing him so that he would be favoured if he proves that boast. He's also gifted to be omnibilingual, just so he can trash-talk his opponents in their language perfectly. So far, he's been successful.
The Beastmen were the apex predators while the humans still lived in barbaric tribes. When humans became civilised and nations grew the beastmen were pushed back. But they still lurk in every of the many forests of the Old World and hunt trespassers. In mighty warherds, accompanied by monsters and mutants, they strike against civilization to reclaim their hunting grounds.
The twin snakes on his back might be reminding you of the symbol of the Snake Cult from Conan the Barbarian. Also in the first cinematic he was being corrupted by Tzeentch. The creature at the end was one of his Demon Princes. The 4th trailer is the Chaos Warriors. Humans who pledged to the Chaos Gods. They also show up in the 5th video when the Orcs are discussing who to invade. The 6th trailer "The Vampire Counts" are also my favorite, glad you like them. Also love the Beastmen. They were nerfed all to Hell but the last DLC The Silent & the Fury from Warhammer 2 fixed that. Norsca are also Chaos Worshippers. Also a favorite as they have Werewolves.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I need to correct a bit: The creature at the end of the Announcement CG trailer was NOT a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. It was a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, a Lord of Change. Daemon Princes are mortals that have been granted Daemonhood.
4:20 that is a greater daemon of Tzeench 11:55 that is Kolek Suneater. He is a (in)famous Dragonogre Shaggoth. Creations of the chaos gods intended to destroy the mortal realms. 19:51 that is Archaon the Everchosen the supreme commander and champion of Chaos Undivided. He is a former Bretonian knight that has been “blessed” by the powers of chaos and is now immortal and wages an eternal war against the realms of Order. He can be killed be he is always reconstituted by Chaos.
Cool that you are finally reacting to the warhammer fantasy world, there are a lot more factions than in 40K. After watching the trailers for the second and now coming out third game you could maybe watch also some lore videos. To answer some of your questions the big guy with the hammer who you thought was a centaur is a dragon-ogre or saggoth and he is a beast of chaos so yeah in warhammer fantasy there are a few chaos aligned factions like warriors of chaos, deamons of chaos, norsca, skaven and the beastmen. I think there will be some more factions that you could like for example the undead which you saw are called vampire counts basically undead empire but there are also other undead factions, undead vampire pirates vampire coast they are called and undead egyptians called tomb kings (somewhat like the necrons in 40K). As to the lady of the lake thing they are more french than english but the warhammer fantasy world looks smilar to our world, continent wise so there is a britain where the highelves live, there are also so to say the americas with differnt civilizations, if i remember correctly you are from canada so USA and Candada in warhammer fantsay would be dark elves very similar to the drukari from 40K the torture slavers you will not like them i think.
i dont agree, in 40k there are maybe less big factions, but all of them are basically divided into a ton of subfactions which all contain so much lore. So i think that 40k is much more comprehensive than WF. just my opinion
@@malekiththewitchking8095 sure if you look for example at all the different imperial guard armies and space marine legions/chapters but i actually do not think of them as different factions as they are all imperial and human. Look i like both warhammer adaptations but i prefer fantasy over 40K as i enjoy the medival time period more and find in my opinion the factional diversity as in different races more intriguing. I wouldn't expect someone whos youtube name is Konrad Curze to agree with me, by the way i love 30K and lore surrounding the primarchs.
@@walhallberserker610 yeah, i understand your point of view, just to be clear fantasy Warhammer is amazing, i have hundreds of hours on TWW I and II and i know so much about its lore, i just prefer the scifi setting a little bit more. Anyway, we can both agree that Warhammer is amazing in all of its forms
The reason why some of the trailers showed name tags of characters is because they are trailers for DLCs, that added new heroes/commanders, along with some new units (also shown with tags like the "squig hoppers") to already existing factions so the trailer pointed them out.
Lovely reaction as always. I've been looking forward to this soooo much. Total War WH is actually a strategy game. You have multiplayer in it as well but the main part of it is singleplayer. Pity there is no trailer for Vlad and Isabella...King and Queen of the Vampire Counts you would love them. For the lore reaction, there is no better channel than The Book of Choyer which makes videos about important events, characters, factions, and whole races but they are 20-30 minutes long, although very high-quality narration combined with in-game footage and quotes.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Vlad and Isabella are two of most extra and dramatic characters in Warhammer, both in good and bad senses. It says something about world when one of most genuinely happy couples are two undead bloodcraving monsters (though monsters part is debatable). Also, to hell with Manfred, all my pals hate Manfred. On additional notes, Tariff has channel with most nuclear Warhamner Total War memes on youtube.
If you're fans of the undead, the story of Isabelle and her husband Vlad von Carstein might interest you. (Two undead generals whom in game receive major bonuses if they both attack the same target).
Finally, i so glad to see your reaction to thees cool trailers! I cant wait to see your reaction for the Total War Warhammer 2,3 trailers! I hope you had a beautiful christmas, and wish you happy new year! Keep up the good work, love your vids! :) btw congrats for 100k! :)
OH SNAP! Please please please take on allllll the Total War Warhammer cinematics, including the 2nd game, and soon to be released 3rd game! lol Lots of content to devour. Oh, and BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I was so excited I jumped the gun and asked before I even watched you say it lol, apologies. Thanks for taking the time to answer a question you already answered in the video!
I waited for this for so long, thanks for your fascinating reaction!! Please do more reactions for Total War: Warhammer II's and Total: Warhammer III's trailers, can't wait for it :D
The guy here 19:40 is Archaon The Everchosen. Like who you could call the main big bad in the story as he will bring the end of the world. He is called the everchosen as he is the one who leads the forces of chaos chosen by all 4 chaos gods to destroy the world, a intresting thing to think about is that he is also a human who was ones a priest to the empire of man but lost his belief when their god called Sigmar did not answer him or his prayers, but the chaos gods did.
Warhammer kinda represents our world, that means if you think about he warhammer map, bretonnia in the west represents france just with british culture, more central is the Empire represents the rest of europe but mostly german, well their emperor is called Karl Franz and that Volkmars name is von Hindenstein, orcs are mostly british hooligans meaning they have a specific accent, the dwarfs are just dwarfs with a lil viking taste and love vengeance and their ancestors and technology and the Vampire counts are like romanian Dracula vampires, they do not have actual technology but are very fancy. The whole total war warhammer story is a bit extremely weird but looks awesome :D I hope I got everything right but of course there is much more to explore. Perhaps a lil lets play from ya :P
cant wait to see your opinion on the lizardmen, my personal favorite faction. its dinosaurs riding bigger dinosaurs! and closely followed second favorite faction; the skaven... if you thought dark elves were bad wait until you see giant rat people driven by an endless hunger, inventing the most cruel engines of war.
Warhammer fantasy has so many cool races; the whole setting is really well-realized in terms of atmosphere for the different factions. I'm with you on Norsca - they're my personal favorite from game 1 just in terms of sheer cool factor between the viking raider aesthetic, the frost wyrms (the two headed ice dragon) and what are essentially super metal werewolves and full-on war mammoths that you can field in your armies. If you're interested in getting some insight on a few of the named characters - and a bit of comedy besides - I'd recommend the Noob's Guide series by Cody Bonds. Granted, most of the characters he goes over are from game 2 factions (in other words, better to watch after you've acquainted yourself with the Total War Warhammer 2 trailers), but they manage to both be quite informative and hilarious to go through. It's even gotten to the point that fan creators like him end up making what many fans consider to be just flat-out bad writing from Games Workshop's side of things still feel cool by giving you the highlight reel to a lot of it. Looking forward to what's to come, whatever you decide!
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Sadly, part of that was because the main Norsca trailer (with the awesome shot of the mammoth behind the raider, whose name is Wulfrik the Wanderer) was a cinematic trailer; a lot of the others were shot using in-game graphics, hence the difference in quality. But, as I'm sure many others have already stated, the devs really stepped up their game for the trailers for WHII. I hope you guys enjoy when the time comes!
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeah, Wood Elves are all about ranged combat and archers. Their melee infantry are generally either bad/expensive for what they can do/outclassed by those of other factions, but their archers and other missile troops are superb. Not only do they do a lot of damage, but most of them have special abilities like armour-piercing damage, or a 360 attack radius (so they can fire on any enemies in range without having to reposition), or being able to fire while moving. As such, they're very good at kiting, picking off enemies from great distances, and generally being very hard to pin down. If you're able to close the distance and fight them hand-to-hand, they'll almost always lose, but if they can stay out of your reach, they'll tear you to shreds. This also makes them very difficult for novices to play as, as they require a lot of micro to use effectively.
The thing about Chaos is that it spans more than one universe, so just as the Dark Gods have their followers in the 40k universe, they also have followers in the Fantasy universe. And there'll always be one of their champions who marshals these followers for a coming apocalypse, such as Archaon the Everchosen at 19:45, who is the 13th to bear that title
Anything with Deathclaw is worthy of song. The mightiest Griffon to have ever lived. And personal mount of Karl Franz. ( he does have an imperial dragon as a choice....but rarely does...AND WHY SHOULD HE!!!! HES GOT A MURDER KITTEN-EAGLE!) Would be lying if I said I did not spend a lot of time in the gamer looking at Deathclaws little murder paws
I remember my reaction to the first cinematic. I was beyond excited for this game despite not really knowing anything about the Fantasy side of Warhammer. The scene where the advisor starts to get possessed by the book, followed by the blue fog and the writing "Our rules have changed" gave me such goosebumps. Just that line alone made me ecstatic, because I knew whoever wrote that knew what they were doing. And I'm glad that the Warhammer Total War series has done so well.
Awesome vid! I definitely recommend checking out the fan-made video 'Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder' and 'For the Lady'. The entire videos are incredible, but these two are my absolute favorite.
A Warhammer video? You know what that means! Time for some notes. The vulture you saw was a Lord of Change (Sarthorael the Everwatcher), a greater daemon of Tzeentch. (They exist in wh40k too) Thorgrim Grudgebearer (the dwarf king talking in the trailer) has an on kill animation in the game where he strikes a grudge from the book (yes he carries that book into battle). The Centaur you see in the Warriors of Chaos trailer is Kholek Suneater, a Dragon Ogre Shaggoth. In lore he's a lot bigger than in the game (his dad was once mistaken for a mountain) If you like the Undead you will love Total War Warhammer 2 (vampire pirates and skeleton egyptians). Manfred (the main vampire) has a legitimate claim to the empire throne (as he is technically an elector count who can be voted for to become emperor). The 3 eyed guy is Archaeon the Everchosen, Lord of the End Times (some connection to the everwatcher) the 3rd “eye” is a sign that he is favored by Chaos undivided (something extremely hard to be since the 4 gods has a wee tendency to fight amongst themselves). Do not underestimate Skarnsnik the warlord of eight peaks, when a goblin can boss orks around it should be feared. Squigs comes in many many form, and in wh40k they have even bomb squigs (no points for guessing what they do). (End Times spoilers) The Green knight from Bretonnia is best described as a fusion between King Arthur and the Green Knight from The King Arthur mythos. Wulfrik the wanderer (Norsca leader) is blessed by Khorne to be able to insult anyone in their own language in such a way that they will attack him in frothing rage) Final note, I have recommended this before, but once you are done with Total War Warhammer 1-3 trailers you should watch A noobs guide to total war warhammer, by Cody Bonds. It’s similar humor to that of Brickys videos but about these games and the fantasy universe.
Love the name Grudgebearer 😁 We didn’t realize squigs were in 40k too! Bricky should’ve told us 😝 And thanks for the lore vid rec. we are sure it is on our list for Warhammer somewhere 😅
That big vulture boi summoned by the corrupted priest of Sigmar is a Lord of Change, one of the Greater Daemons of Tzeentch, the Changer of the Ways. The Dwarf one is my favorite, because Dwarves are the best, and any time there is large scale underground cavern city stuff, I love it. One of the Grudges mentioned by High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer (wicked name) is that of Josef Bugman. This man was the most renowned Master Brewer in the entire world, whose beers were served to The Emperor of Man and the High King himself. But after returning from a delivery one day, he returned to find his brewery destroyed, a burning wreck, ruined by goblin raiders. Josef and his companions swore a mighty vengeance upon the goblins after that day. The Dwarves have never forgotten this, and will never, ever forgive. The Dwarves take their ale VERY seriously. Those big spiky bois are the warriors of Chaos, mutated and corrupted into daemonic destroyers. I think those uniforms look more chartreuse, at least to me :P Those undead bois are the forces of the Vampire Counts, lots of zombies and skeletons, along with Blood Knights and Terrorgheists (the big bat thing). The Arch Lector guy basically IS in 40K: we call them Space Marine Chaplains :D That horned Elf guy is very much like the Celtic god Cernunnos, Master of the Wild Hunt. Also, the failed Warhammer MMO, Age of Reckoning, had some great cinematics too.
Yes, original Warhammer by way of Total War! It is about time you two did this, so sweet. Just to clarify, Total War is a completely different franchise that normally has nothing whatsoever to do with Warhammer or even fantasy, all other games in the series are set in different real world historical periods. This, 2 and the upcoming 3 are just Warhammer based installments of the Total War series. Totally worth digging deeper into the Warhammer world and lore. While it is separate from 40k, a single fantasy world as opposed to a sci Fi universe, as you start digging you will find certain similarities and parallels. For example, the Orcs are much the same, and daemons, Chaos, and the four Chaos gods exist and are much the same in the Warhammer world as they are in the 40k universe. Gameplay is a combination of turn based management of cities, resources, and army movements and real time tactical battles, and there are single player options available, including a story campaign. Cheers!
Love that there is a single player option, but also sad that this is going to confuse us for sure with 40k 😂🤣 Can Games Wokshop just make them related already 😝
Archaeon the Everchosen was the weird glowing dude up north on the altar with three eyes. He's uh... like a Chosen One archetype, but he's going to bring the end of the world instead of save it. He's totally immortal as far as I know, since he's blessed by ALL four chaos gods.
total war is basically a strategy map game with big army fights, where you control the armys on the map, and then control the units of the army when in the battle,.
Norsca was the very last DLC to be added to Total Warhammer, and it was actually announced *after* the sequel game was announced, which is why the trailer looked so much better. If you liked these, I can't wait for you to do Total Warhammer 2 and 3.
Oh yeah also in fantasy or 40K you can play a link campaigns to tell a story, battles can also have RPG, in the sixth edition they had a set of rules to play skirmish battles which can be a small amount of modals. They also had a book about skirmish battles. In 2003 another book came out it had how to do sea battles, creating your own maps and having battles, etc.
Glad you're enjoying it the trailers! These are strategy games, part of the Total War series. Lore... there is a LOT. Kinda hard to know where to start. Warning, essay incoming! Warhammer Fantasy is inspired by Elric, Lord of the Rings, Conan, and wears its' influences on it's sleeve a little more than Warhammer 40k. It's a world in Endtimes, where the various big bads compete to see who can snuff out everyone else first, and the Elves, Dwarves and Humans huddle together to try and earn a little longer. There have been several editions of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, pen and paper adventure books, as well as novel series and obviously the Wargame itself, and you could write whole essays on, say, just the Magic Colleges of wizards in the Empire. -- The Empire, founded by the legendary hero Sigmar, who is basically Conan, are heavily modelled on the Holy Roman Empire (Renaissance Germany. Historians always joke that the HRE was not Holy, Roman or an Empire!). Given the secrets of Iron, beer and Black Powder by the dwarves, and Magic by the Elves, they have flexibility the Dwarves lack and urgency the Elves do not know. Emperor Karl-Franz does his best to unite the elector-Counts and their scheming nobility into the force needed to survive the coming apocalypse. -- The Brettonians, another human civilization are based on early mediaeval France, and the legends of Charlemagne that the King Arthur stories got mixed up with. They choose not to use guns, or the advanced industry of the Empire, instead their Knightly ways are rewarded by a strange magic granted by The Lady of the Lake. Their common people are also incredibly downtrodden and poor as a result. -- The Vampire counts come from Sylvania, the easternmost province of the Empire. Vampires hail from Khemri, Warhammer's Egypt analogue (you'll see them in TW:WH2 as the Tomb Kings) after the Great Necromancer, Nagash, created the dark arts of Necromancy and rose up all the dead in the world before being assassinated at the heihgt of his power. Some time after, the mysterious count Vlad von Carstein came to power as Count of Sylvania and tried to overthrow the Empire with vast armies of the Undead, it has been impossible to eradicate Vampires from the nobility of the Empire, and such a violent world is never lacking for corpses. No matter how many necromancers are burned at the stake by Witch Hunters, there are always those willing to try and cheat death through magic or alchemy, and they make willing accomplices to the Vampire Counts, and the ancient burial mounds and cairns dotted throughout the Empire provide ancient kings and chieftans whose souls still burn to to fight as Wights and Wight Kings. -- The Chaos Gods from Warhammer 40k are very present here, seen more as an apocalyptic christian style "Endtimes" doom than their more Cthulu-y corrupting style in 40k. They have corrupted the lands of Norsca, creating the Marauder armies, heavy metal style Vikings such as Wulfric the Wanderer who you've seen in the trailers. The early days of the world left much of the world with pockets of corruption, mostly in the deep forests, and the mutant Beastmen, the Children of Chaos, wander these woods, hating anything pure or organised. The men of the Empire and Brettonia are not immune to such corruption either, and the greatest of all who fight in the name of Chaos are drawn far to the North, where the Daemon armies clash eternally in a truly bizarre nightmare land called the Chaos Wastes, from where they return changed into the Warriors of Chaos, empowered by the dark gods and armed and armoured with baroque but heavy weapons and armour of dark iron, and accompanied by Chaotic monsters such as Kholek Suneater, a Dragon Ogre, featured in the "Ascended" trailer. The man with the horns and red eyes and facial tattoos you commented on is Archaon, Lord of the End Times, The Everchosen. Blessed by all the Chaos Gods, it is said he is destined to bring the apocalypse and destroy the world. -- The Dwarves and Elves once ruled the world, a sea empire and and an mountain empire. With both so powerful it was probably inevitable that the two would come to blows, with the arrogance of the Elves and the stubbornness of the dwarves meaning that both empires were broken. The Dwarves found themselves unable to hold onto their vast kingdom as Orks, Goblins, Skaven (Ratmen, you'll see them in TW:WH2) and other creatures flooded into the now poorly defended lands, and the Dwarves, a people of (metaphorical) Iron and Stone are unable to accept that their time is done, filled with spite and bitterness they are fonder of old hatred and grudges than they are of their children. A backwards-looking people, they cannot accept that anything today is not worse than it was a hundred years ago. Still, even the remnants of their old power is pretty potent. Dwarves are tough and skilled, their metalwork beyond compare and their painstaking nature makes them incredible engineers and smiths. The Elves quit their war with the Dwarves when their civil war broke out. Total War 2 will deal with the main two parties - those who would become the High Elves and the Dark Elves - but there were those who refused to leave the new lands they had colonized, who felt betrayed and abandoned by their haughty kin. Instead, alone and suffering they found their way to the forests of Athel Loren, where they discovered the forests alive with magic, and angry at the predations of the dwarves and beastmen. They made their pacts with the forest and formed a new civilisation, the Wood Elves or Asrai in their own tongue. The Wood Elves must defend the forest and placate the angry, bloody spirits that dwell within. -- The Orks, Goblins and Snotlings (collectively referred to as the Greenskins) are much as they are in 40k. The Orks as the largest and most violent of those peoples are obsessed with war, taking a savage joy in fighting. It is said if you lock an Ork in a room with a big stick, sooner or later it will beat itself to death out of love of violence. Simple and uncomplicated, the Ork tribes fight anyone they can find, even if that means each other, and it takes a Warboss of rare skill, determination and scariness to unite the Greenskins long enough to prosecute a successful war. The Goblins are smaller, smarter and much more spiteful than their larger brethren. They can and do form their own armies, especially the light-fearing Night Goblins who infest the ruins of the Dwarven realm, but more often they can be found following Orks around, finding their bigger, dumber kin useful to hide behind. Goblins do all the dirty work in Greenskin armies - scouting, sneaking and thinking - which suits them fine, as the Orks tend to be too direct and impatient to do it. Orcs and Goblins also make use of many of the wandering monsters of the world, such as Giant Spiders who are often worshipped by goblin tribes, Trolls who seem to get on well with Orks, and Giants, sad lumbering hulks who will fight in exchange for the strong drink the Goblin Shamans brew.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames only too happy to help! I've tried to keep it as brief (lol) and friendly as possible, but man, there is a LOT. There's several races I've not even mentioned as they will feature in later games. Hopefully there's enough context there for the trailers without drowning you in details! Warhammer is also based around a lot of British jokes and stereotypes. The Dwarves mostly speak with broad Yorkshire accents (made famous by game of thrones and the Starks) because the stereotype of Yorkshire men is gruff, hardy grumbles who insist nothing is as good as it in Yorkshire, and that everything is worse now. If you have a moment, check out the 'three Yorkshire men' sketch on UA-cam, it's short and very funny.
My fav factions within these trailers are definitely Vampire Counts (undead), Bretonnia, & Norsca so good picks lol. I'm excited for you two to see the cinematics for WHII & WHIII. Below, I'll address a few if your questions that weren't answered by others: @4:01 The snakes on the ornamentation he is wearing probably remind you of the staff of Hermes @4:15 That's a Lord of Change (greater daemon of Tzeentch aka the chaos god of evolution, magic, & knowledge) @11:22 These guys are Warriors of Chaos Undivided (meaning they worship all four Chaos gods equally rather than pledging themselves to just one). The guy at the end is a dragon ogre called Kholek & he said "we are not fallen, we are ascended" @39:30 The games are a combination of turn-based strategy on the campaign map and real-time strategy in battles. @39:42 Yeah, Warhammer Fantasy definitely has a lot of lore as well. A channel called Book of Choyer does a pretty good job breaking down the lore for the various races in the setting. Their video on the Doom of Kavzar (origin of the Skaven) is pretty good.
A very interesting and fun set of reactions! I must admit i was actually surprised by how much you two liked the Vampire Counts; it only gets more ridiculous from here! very much looking forward to your thoughts on the Lizardmen when they come round! Also, if you loved the vampire counts, you are probably gonna LOVE the Vampire Coast!
Aight, you asked for it, sorry for the wall of text below. There is a lot of lore for Warhammer Fantasy as well, but Games Workshop basically shut down the setting in 2014-15 ostensibly due to low sales of figures (40k was selling a lot better), and then they rebooted fantasy into what is known as Age of Sigmar, a setting that is loosely a "sequel" but a lot more exaggerated. However, since several video games with Warhammer Fantasy has gotten very popular, Games Workshop has been working to revive the setting as a tabletop game in some capacity, although we don't quite know how. Anyway, the old Fantasy setting is heavily based on the real world, with the world map resembling Earth for the most part, but with various changes. Warhammer Total War 1 focused on a region of the world that's called The Old World, which was basically Warhammer Europe. A lot of the factions in Fantasy are also based on historical civilizations. While the Fantasy world is pretty dark and gruesome, it was never quite as "grimdark" as 40k. For example, the "good" races (humans, elves, dwarfs) mostly get along fairly well, as opposed to the rampant xenophobia in 40k. I say "mostly" though, because things get heated, and Dwarfs and Elves have a long-standing enmity that they like keeping alive. - The Empire is the main "protagonist" of the Fantasy universe (a bit like the Imperium in 40k). It is located in the middle of the Old World, and is heavily inspired by 15-16th century Germany, called the Holy Roman Empire. It has a lot of loosely-bound principalities, counties and baronies that all in principle bow to the Emperor, but in reality they fight each other often as well, and scheme and connive. The Emperor is elected from among eligible noble families, and the current one is Karl Franz, who is by all considerations a badass and a good dude. The Empire is polytheistic, with many gods for different aspects of life, but their main god is the deified founder of the Empire, Sigmar. He is their patron deity, and the "warhammer" in Warhammer is named after his, well, warhammer. - Bretonnia lies to the west of the Empire, and is basically a mix of British Arthur legends and French Charlemagne legends, with a good dash of Monty Python Holy Grail jokes thrown in. It's basically magical medieval France. The nobility is tied by strict laws of chivalry and the peasantry is deeply exploited and downtrodden, but ostensibly protected from outside forces. They look more medieval than the Empire, with no gunpowder or crossbows or steampower, mainly for religious reasons. The nobles get blessings from their patron goddess, the Lady of the Lake, who empowers their knights with varying degrees of magic protection and powers as long as they keep their vows and such. Allegedly. - Between the Empire and Bretonnia lies Athel Loren, the magical forest of the Wood Elves. It's basically Mirkwood or Lothlorien from Lord of the Rings, but with a good bit of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and Celtic (welsh) myths thrown in. Athel Loren is a magical forest, that is bigger on the inside, keeps shifting shape, and time does now flow evenly there. People can disappear in there and come out years later with no memory, or they can come out immediately, feeling like they've been wandering for days or weeks. Often they do not return at all. The Wood Elves live in symbiosis with the forest, and get a lot of magic powers for it, but it's a careful balance, as much about protecting the forest from outsiders as it is protecting outsiders from the forest. The Elves are the least sinister thing that lives in there. Some of the spirits there want to basically kill all other beings. The forest, and the beings within, are both light and dark. - The Vampire Counts is a collective term for vampires who take up leadership and claim power, usually over lesser types of undead (ghosts, skellies, ghouls, etc.) and sometimes living people. The most significant of these vampire "counties" is Sylvania (Because Transylvania obviously, lol), which is technically a part of the Empire, but basically governs itself and is considered a wasteland by the Imperials. The clan of vampires who governs Sylvania are called the Von Carsteins, and they believe that through their ancestry, they are the rightful heirs to the Imperial crown. They have tried taking it several times, but have failed so far. There are other clans around who have other goals. - The Dwarfs (they don't use the plural of Dwarves in Warhammer, it's a whole thing) live in a giant mountain chain that separates the Old World from the lands further east. Imagine if someone dropped the Andes mountains between Poland and Russia, so it went from the Arctic Sea down to Iraq. That's basically the World's Edge Mountains. Or just think of the Misty Mountains from Lord of the Rings. Dwarfs are... well, they're dwarfs. Bearded Scottish/Northern English short people who love building and digging and doing steampunk technology. Infamously conservative and slow to change, they're ostensibly dying out, and have been so for the last two-thousand years, at least. Yet they're still around, so you know, will probably be around for a while still. They also keep grudges, and never forget them. They basically live in city-state like groups called "karaks" (holds), each with their own king, but they all officially answer to the High King of Karaz-a-Karak, the biggest and oldest karak. He's the dude writing in the book in the trailer. - You know how Orks in 40k work, and Orks in Fantasy are basically the same, except with more boars and beasties and no crazy technology (at least a lot less). They love to fight, and will go anywhere, anytime to get a good scrap. In Fantasy, Goblins have a much bigger personality of their own, and some tribes are basically all Goblins, such as the Night Goblins who live underground and love pestering the Dwarfs. - Chaos Warriors are pretty similar to Chaos in 40k, but in fantasy they had one army type of demons and one army type of mortal humans. It's the human army that you see in Warhammer Total War 1. (Incidentally, the Demons were divided into four factions for the upcoming Warhammer 3., one for each Chaos God.). Chaos Warriors in Fantasy are basically "evil Conan the Barbarian" but with lots of weird monsters. They loosely occupy areas that correspond to Scandinavia (Norsca) and the Eurasian Steppe (Chaos Wastes) in the real world, and are sorta-kinda inspired by such groups as Vikings, Huns, Mongols, etc. (but they're really more like generic fantasy barbarians). Additionally, some Chaos Warriors are "blessed" with special suits of armor lock them inside, effectively turning them into fantasy terminators. They all mainly come from the areas around the north pole or the far north, because in the Warhammer Fantasy universe, that's where there is a polar gateway to the realms of Chaos. It's a whole thing. Basically Chaos energies surge from the pole southwards, feeding into the lands and people, creating monsters, driving people insane, and also actually making magic possible (even good magic, supposedly). These are called the Winds of Magic. Chaos worshippers prefer to channel them raw and unfiltered, which makes them complete lunatics. - Norsca is, as mentioned, one of the Chaos-worshipping human cultures, based on a peninsula just north of the Empire that is the equivalent of Scandinavia. They're actually the least Chaos-corrupted group, but they're the ones the Empire tends to fight most regularly. In the lore, Norscans also frequently trade with the Empire and work for them as mercenaries, or sail the ocean to trade or raid, but they kinda cut this element out for the Total War games, instead focusing on them as monster hunters. - Beastmen are another Chaos worshipping faction, residing in the various forests of the world. They're a metric shit-tonne of them in the Empire, only slightly less in Bretonnia, and some basically anywhere. They used to be the favorites of the Chaos Gods a long time ago, supposedly, but they got tossed aside once the Chaos Gods discovered humans. This makes them deeply bitter, and they hate all sorts of civilization, wanting to raze down all cities, towns and settled life, and hunt and kill freely. They also hope to reclaim the favor of the Chaos Gods. There's a bit of a moral thing going on, where they probably once started worshipping the Chaos Gods to save their untainted woodlands, but now the very presence of them corrupts and twists forests and breaks the land, so they fucked themselves. Some of them are also just mutated humans that get put out to die, and it's possible that this is how they originated, but it's hard to tell. I've only mentioned the ones in Warhammer Total War 1, there are loads more factions or cultures in Warhammer 2, and as-yet-unreleased for Warhammer 3, plus a bunch that never got an actual army officially (like the Halflings or the Amazons), but are in the lore.
The is so much for all the info on this 😅 Even if they don’t bring back the table top hopefully they still invest in fantasy side of things with videogames and even books on it to keep expanding 🙂
Glad to see you guys finally checking out Total War Warhammer stuff Now you gotta see Total War Warhammer II & III stuff next. It's even cooler than from the first game.
I cannot wait to see Total war warhammer 2 reaction. Also, since there are many trailers for game 2 and some of the best have only been released in 2021 I suggest just using the official Total War youtube site for their own total war warhammer 2 trailers playlist. Or there is a guy who made a playlist with nearly all the trailers but he has placed all game 1-3. Link: ua-cam.com/video/IhVxWhr58cA/v-deo.html
Whoo! Warhammer reactions! I've played these games, they're among my favourite Total War games of all time. Tangent: Total War is a game series that's been going on for decades now. They are Grand Strategy games where the goal is to dominate the known world. Primarily they do historical games set in iconic time periods, like the Napoleonic Wars or Sengoku Jidai, but with Warhammer Fantasy, they're set in the iconic world it belongs to (sometimes called The Fated Place). Essentially, this world is very similar to Earth, if you look at the continents and such, with the greatest differences being the terrain of the landmasses, some additional landmasses added in and magic being a highly volatile and integral part of the world. This first game, Warhammer 1, is set in a variation of Europe, known as The Old World. The two other main regions are The New World (The Americas and Africa) and Cathay (East Asia). If you'd like, I'll break down the different factions you encounter in this reaction, giving a brief overview of each. As with all my breakdowns it's probably gonna be a bit of "light reading" again, sorry about that :D Starting off with the first faction of Humans, known as The Empire. It's important to note that there are MANY different Human factions in this world, including several who do not show up in the first game. That said, The Empire is among the most important human factions. As with everything Warhammer, there are no "good" guys, but The Empire can be seen as the "most good" you'll get. If you consider conscripting kids age 10 and up into the military "good". This is done because the Empire is always at war with something, be that the Greenskins, The Beastmen, The Forces of Chaos, Vampires or other things, and usually many of these at the same time. In short, they desperately cling to civilization by doing EVERYTHING they can while vehemently resisting Chaos, an insidious force that corrupts everything. Tangent 2: Chaos and Magic are intrinsically linked, so this world which is so full of magic and would not survive without it is thus always teethering on the edge of being swallowed up by the forces of Chaos, and cutting off magic is nigh impossible (people have tried, it did not end well. Ulthuan exists as a safeguard, but that's for Warhammer 2.) Next faction we see here is the Dwarves, or "Dawii" as they call themselves. Stunted ones, if the Greenskins are to be believed. The Dwarves of the Warhammer universe are creatures of sheer willpower and desire for revenge against ALL who have wronged them. And this is not just personal revenge, no their entire society is based around Grudges, and repaying those. Repaying a grudge can lead to another sin being committed that'll have to be repaid, so its an endless cycle. One half of the Greenskins, the Goblins, are constantly at war with the Dwarves and thus the list of grudges is long. Humans, particularly The Empire, have somehow managed to hold relatively friendly relations with the Dwarves, mostly because they have the same enemies. Vampires, Greenskins, Chaos forces etc. Our third group would be the Forces of Chaos, or Chaos Warriors. These are essentially people who have fallen to the corruptive influence of Chaos and are now more or less a warrior host under the command of Archaon the Everchosen, a name that fits well. This creature just doesn't die, even in the game you have to kill him 3 times before he is finally defeated. "Forever Chosen" indeed. The Forces of Chaos have a lot of monsters under their command, gifted to them by the Chaos Gods who reside in the Chaos Realm, where all magic stems from. So to augment their fallen human meatshields, they have massive beasts of war like the "centaur" creature you saw. I dont know what they are exactly but I remember that they can grow infinitely and are ageless, so the largest of their kin are the size of mountains. Fourth group we see in these cinematics would be the Greenskins, a collective term for Orcs, Goblins and their various warbeasts and hired mercenaries, including Ogres (a faction we'll see in Warhammer 3, but long story short they will fight for ANYONE if the price is right, so both Chaos and Orcs have Ogres as part of their armies.) Very briefly, the Greenskins LOVE fighting, and thus they will always be battling someone. If they dont fight others, they will fight each other instead. Loyalty is not a concept they know, only fear and strength. Might makes right. Goblins are literally used as ammunition by the Greenskin siege vehicles, because they're weak so they are fated to die. Fifth faction would be The Vampires, lead by our boy Mannfred von Carstein. This guy stole the secrets of immortality from the Tomb Lords in Africa and came back to conquer The Empire, though throughout his ventures he taught many the dark secrets of vampirism. The von Carsteins claim rulership of the Empire and their claim is not baseless, but given their dark nature and the Empire's "righteousness" streak, such claims fall on deaf ears. Despite that, in the game it IS possible to ally with the Empire as Vampires which is ridiculously hilarious :D The sixth faction are known as The Beastmen, obviously. The Beastmen are a force of nature, quite literally so, but corrupted by Chaos' insidious influence. They abhor civilization and seek to destroy it wherever they go, travelling in large warbands known as Brayherds. The Beastmen will fight ALL forces, be they "good" like The Empire of "bad" like the Greenskins. If they hold cities, they are targets. The seventh faction is the Wood Elves who live in their ancient forests. Theirs is a repeating cycle of life and death, bound to the magical forest realm they call home. The Wyld Hunt, one of their ritualistic events, is essentially their all-out assault on those who would threaten their sacred home. Primarily this is the Bretonnia faction. Speaking of; Eight faction: Bretonnia. Whereas The Empire is based off of medieval europe to a large degree, Bretonnia is based off Arthurian legend as you noticed. Knights and Chivalry and all that stuff. What they dont speak of is how poorly treated the peasantry is in Bretonnia, because of course there can be no forces of good without despair in a Warhammer game. Bretonnia is even more "good" than The Empire, as long as you're noble-born or get adopted into the ranks of their military and achieve Knighthood. Otherwise, your life is going to be miserable, but such is your lot in life. Bretonnias two main rivals would be a faction of Vampires along their coastline and the Wood Elves whose sacred realm borders Bretonnia's own. Beyond that, Norsca assault their northern shores and Greenskins live in the eastern mountains. As well, Beastmen trample their lands from the south. In short Bretonnia has their fair share of enemies, many of them mutual with enemies of The Empire and thus they find easy allies among one another. Ninth and final faction of Warhammer 1 is The Norsca. In short, they are viking-inspired raiders who attack the southern nations to rob them of wealth. Land expansion isn't their priority or playstyle. Interestingly, they are forces of Chaos and thus can ally with Archaon when he appears in the world, but you can also choose to oppose him, in which case you do so with very few allies as you've probably been raiding and pillaging half the Old World by that point, so everyone basically hates you. Thank you so much for reacting to one of my favourite franchises of all time! Keep an eye out for that "advisor" guy who was trying to talk over the shouting Greenskin horde and then travelling to the Norsca, he shows up plenty throughout the games and the trailers. Essentially, he functions as the in-game tutorial advisor, regardless of which faction you play as. (Well for the most part, some factions have their own advisors.) Basically he teaches you how to play the game, which in some ways makes him the most interesting character of all since he seems to have connections with everyone from vampires to greenskins to Norsca and The Empire and many more.
Thanks so much for the comprehensive breakdown of the factions. 😀 Also why is it that Goblins are always so greedy and money hungry in every fantasy setting 😂🤑
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I'd like to know that too 😂Goblins are a weird fantasy creature. But I know at least one setting where they are not greedy or money hungry, it is an anime called "Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken", or in English "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime". If you ever consider doing full anime reactions on your second channel, I can highly recommend this one. Just watch out for copyright issues I guess, the world of anime is pretty predatory on that front.
FYI you mentioned at the end of the video that you were wondering about the lore for this Warhammer, it comes from books and a table top game from a long time ago. As for the gameplay it is mainly singleplayer with a story focus, its also a grand strategy game with the option of playing alongside or against someone else.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Storywise, the focus surely is on single player, but I had the most fun in multiplayer. If you own both TW:W 1 and TW:W 2, you can play a massive campaign on a huge map, where all factions are playable (well as long as you own the DLCs for many of them ;)). The cool thing in multiplayer is, that players can participate, even if it's not their turn. When player A fights a battle, they can choose to share control of their army with player B. What's more: they can also allow Player B to take control of an AI army to make battles against AI controlled oponents more interesting. It makes for a super fun experience, just hanging out (in a room or on discord), chatting while the active player does all the kingdom management parts of the game, and then playing the battles together, either as co-op commanders or adversaries. If you are playing opposing factions that are located closely enough on the map, you might of course also meet in glorious battle :D I don't know if you two are into grand strategy games, but once TW:W 3 comes out - well, let's just say this series has already proven to be one of the best there is.
Awesome to see you get into the Total War Warhammer franchise. Love this game series. And even though the first game had some of the weakest factions in my opinion so did it kick of an awesome series of games. Wanted to add some cool lore also, the green knight who appeared in the Britonnia trailer is called well The Green Knight, he is a spiritual force that comes to Britonnias help when they need it the most. Kind of like a holy angel in your darkest hour. And one really cool feature these games have is the mode called Mortal Empires in the second game. As the 1st, 2nd and 3rd games all take part in different areas of the Warhammer world so do you not have access to the other factions in the base campaigns, but Mortal Empires combines the map of Warhammer 1 & 2 and gives you access to all the factions you own. From both games. And they will do the same with the third one that comes out early next year.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames It's super fun to play the huge maps. But the game can take so long between turns when 100+ individual factions need to play out their turns. Can take a couple of minutes. Can't wait to see you two react to the second or third game which have some of the more out there factions.
All Total War games are strategy games but the reason people love it so much is becuase they changed the ususal strategy formula and basically made a hybrid between, Real Time Strategy and Turn Based Strategy. What I mean by that is you as the player get to pick a faction and manage it like your own kingdom from a top down view of a 3d map. You can upgrade your cities, construct many different types of building to manage your economy, public order, most Total War games also have a political side to it in which you basically try to manage your political party and keep everyone happy and try to avoid a Civil War or rebellion. Also you can manage your armies and choose which units to recruit whilst also keeping an eye on their upkeep cost because you don't want to go bankrupt. And the top down map view of the game works like a turn based strategy game, every turn you can do a limited amount of things like upgrading buildings or moving your army around to a certain extent. (all armies have limited movement withing a single turn, but you can upgrade your generals or heroes to get more movement points.) And meanwhile when you attack an enemy army or besiege a city that's where the game turns into Real Time Strategy. You load into a specific battle map reflecting the terrain or city you chose to fight on the campaign map. It basically turns into a battle sim where you control each individual unit real time. You can use different formations, abilities or if you play a Total War game with a fantasy setting you can use magic spells and such. So that's just kinda the gist of it. It's kinda hard to explain but yea these are the basics. Also I think Bethany would really enjoy the historical Total War games since they made a ton of them and in many different eras of history. You can play TW Rome 1 or 2 and play through the rise of the Roman Republic and make it into an empire, or play as Hannibal and try to change history by defeating Rome. You can also play a ton of Gallic, Britannic and Germanic tribes. Of course you can choose Sparta or Greece or any of of the successor kingdoms of Alexanders disolving empire, or try TW Troy where you can play in the Bronze age and play through the Trojan war and pick iconic characters like Achilles or Hector. There is also TW Empire and Napoleon where you can go colonize the new world or play as the Iroquois Confederacy and fight back the colonies. (Also I don't think I have to explain TW Napoleon. :D) You can play TW Attila and witness the fall of the Roman Empire or play as them and try to save it. Further down the list you can play TW Medieval 2 to get a great Medieval experience. TW Three Kingdoms is about one of the most interesting periods in Chinese history where hundreds of Warlords were fighting to unite China. TW Shogun 2 is the place where you want to get some top tier Samurai action. There are also ton of DLC to these games where you can play many great historical events like the Crusades, American Revolution, Rise of Charlemagne. Plus the modding communtity is absolutely incredible, from Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings and Warcraft mods where they basically made a brand new game with them that's how detailed they are. The Total War series is so great if you are a history nerd plus of course the fantasy side of it is great as well with Warhammer and mods. Really looking forward to the other two parts guys! Great video as always! :) (Pls sorry if this was a lot I just got carried away :D)
We are glad you got carried away 😀 So is it a game you play against computer or other people. Because if it is against the computer then that is pretty cool but if it is just against other people sometimes those games you get bullied hard if you don’t have the right alliance or don’t spend $ 🤔
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames The campaign is single player but you can play with or against other people in co-op. But most people play single player. And when I play with other people it's ususally with friends just fooling around. Also there are Multiplayer battles where it is a lot more competitive where you don't play a campaign and manage cities it's just real time battles against other players. Before the match you pick which faction you want to play and which units you want to choose kind of like choosing a deck in a card game. Then you just battle a another players army and then that's it. They ususally last for 15-20 minutes and this is where most of the competitions happen for pro players. But I always enjoyed the singleplayer campaign side a lot more.
11:46 That thing is a Shaggoth, a big fat Dragon Ogre (they are like centaurs but in ogre/dragon form). If I remember correctly it used to be a Beastmen Lord (7th Ed. at least) though it was included with Chaos Warriors in TW. PD: This one is a bit different though, they didn't use to have Beastmen faces
This was a pretty eclectic series of trailers. There are a few that would make for more digestible lore dumps - but most of these were definitely meant for those who already knew the factions.
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Now we just need warhammer 2 and 3 reactions!
Yes! I can't wait to see them react to all the ridiculous skaven inventions
@@TyrantsRemedy I really think he will love the lizardmen
YES
@@justkevinorsomethin or a certain vampire pirate 😃😃
Well, see ya in the end of 2022, guys.
Seeing the original trailers again after seeing the new ones is such a MASSIVE difference, you guys are in for an amazing showing with the later ones
We heard they only get more impressive 🤩
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeah, CA really stepped up the quality over the years. Just wait till you get to Cathay and Nurgle/Slaanesh.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames WHO DOESN'T LOVE SQUIGS???
1:31 : relaese/cinematic trailer
4:30 : Karl franz and the Empire (based of the holy roman empire of german nation)
7:26 : Thorgim Grugdebearer and dwarfs
10:37 : Chaos Warriors dlc
11:56 : grimgor ironhide and greenskins
14:25 : Manfred von carstein and the Vampire counts
17:38 : a World trailer (btw that guy by 19:44 is Archaon the everchosen, Supreme Champion of the Chaos-gods)
19:50 : a whatever trailer...
21:11 the greenskin ingame intro
23:24 Blood for the blood god dlc (exatly, a dlc for blood and gore...)
24:33 Beastmen and Khazrak the One-Eye (dlc)
27:47 the Grim and the grave (units dlc)
29:46 the King and the Warlord (likewise)
31:54 Wood elves and Orion (dlc)
33:44 Bretonnia and king Louen Leoncoeur (a combi about france knight, englands and King arthur...) (dlc, but free cost)
35:32 Norsca and wulfric the wanderer (dlc)
36:47 Norsca ingame intro
Thank you very much
Former Supreme Champion of the Chaos-gods actualy then again i supose it matters if u take Age of Shitmar into the accaunt or not
@@urielthelightbringer4023 aos is better than you think, but each one his
@@vake1234 actualy i do like it i just don't like Shitmar if it wasent for Corvid i whas probly now plying a 2500 to 4000 table top game for shits and giggles
@@vake1234 Yeah it is better, if you play the armies that GW supports and didn't squat or stop caring about.
19:44 That's Archaon, the Everchosen. He's the guy the 4 chaos gods trust to bring the End of the world. And that's his helmet, not his face. I don't think we know what's underneath it, but we know he was once a priest in the empire.
might be the guy from the first trailer, chaos might have invited that priest into the gym to make him buff
@@realkorti the guy from the 1st trailer is the advicer
😯 destroyer of worlds 😨
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames in the lore the game is based on he succeeded
@@archmageeldran2567 We don’t talk about the End Times
cool fact: in the dwarf language there is no word for forgiveness
That reminds us of Dothraki and how there is no word for Thank You ☺️😁
Imagine being a regular soldier, and willingly charge toward deamons, vampires, fire tornadoes, 20 meters abominations, orks, dragons and Sigmar-knows what other horrors with a little sword in your hand, protecting your lands.
I always thought that humans in Fantasy Battles are more badass than in 40k
the scale of war is quite small though
@@ayami123 yes, but still. You'll never see an Imperial Guardsmen charging to some chaos dreadnaught. FB spearmen? "Sure, just point the direction and I'll kill this Warlord titan with my stick"
@@vldvvalentin true hahaha
In both settings they are way braver than us 😂🤗
7:08 Out of curiosity, did you notice that when Karl Franz landed among the troops, they immediately stopped backing off, rallied, and started advancing back into the fray? Personally, I find that one of the better parts of that particular trailer.
Hadn’t noticed that. Nice spot! 🙂
Oh also, a game called Vermintide (1 & 2), also takes place in the Warhammer fantasy universe, and has several short cinematics. Might be worth checking out while doing Warhammer fantasy content :)
Oh so Warhammer and Vermintide are in the same universe, guess that explains why it’s call Warhammer Vermintide 😂
@@spe3tre458 Technically it takes place in the Warhammer Endtimes universe, but it's basically an extension of the fantasy universe and includes the same races and art style, but more grim and dark (since it's the end of days). The End Times is what happens to the Fantasy Universe when the bad guys finally bring their full wrath to the planet.
We will check those out down the road as well 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames react to origin of skaven by book of choyer, it will tell you about vermintide.
@@Cifer77 But now it's more likely to be in the Total War variant with the existence of the option to build the Red Moon Inn (the original Ubersreik 5's base) to get these heroes for a while.
Hell yeah reacting to my favourite Total War. This game is just so good it's like the perfect game for fantasy fans 😻
We really liked the first taste of it we got 😀🥳
I’m excited to see how y’all react to the second game in the series with its trailers. They are really well made. I do wonder why the call of the beastmen trailer did not have subtitles for the guys when they spoke. I thought it did so you could understand what he’s saying.
But anyway this is exciting seeing people react or check these trailers out.
Or and one extra thing. Ya got it on the mark with Brettonia. It’s basically the legend of King Arthur but it’s French.
@@oomsou5018 mix between england and french legends after all
Subtitles would’ve been nice but we were still able to enjoy it 😁
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Well if you ever feel curious he said
“Pitiful Worm, Trespasser…, (next scene)
Gather warhards, hunt man filth! KILL MAN!”
It’s not much but i just thought it would be nice to let ya know.
@@nagashtheundyingking4404 excpet the lady of the lake is and Elf XD
The second and third game’s trailers are amazing if you guys are interested and are able. Promise you won’t be disappointed with those, it only gets even more epic from here. 😅
We will see 2 and 3 before the release of 3 😁
Dear God , why so few people reaction to this... The trailers by himself have complete value to enjoy
It’s why we listen to community. We get to experience so much because of it 🤩
19:44 That is Archaon, Lord of the End Times, one of the bigger villains in the setting introduced during the "Storm of Chaos" storyline on the tabletop. He is the latest of a series of "Everchosen", supremely powerful Chaos warlords who unite the disparate forces of Chaos into a massive host bent on destroying the world. In the Total War games, he basically serves the same role, leading a great Chaos invasion during the late-game that will completely steamroll you if you're not prepared. This adds another layer to your strategic decisions, as now you're not conquering territories and defeating rivals merely to fulfill the campaign victory conditions, but also to become powerful enough to defeat this invasion when it comes. And no, that's not tattoos he's wearing, but the Crown of Domination, one of several powerful Chaos artefacts he had to recover in order to claim the mantle of Everchosen.
36:35 That Viking-looking guy is Wulfrik the Wanderer, another big-name Chaos character. His deal is that after endlessly running his mouth about how he's the greatest warrior who ever lived, the Chaos Gods cursed him to forever venture around the world trying to live up to that boast. They also gave him "the Gift of Tongues"; he magically knows every language in existence, and uses it to insult potential opponents so they accept his challenges of single combat.
Love that Wulfrik learned languages just to challenge people to fights 😂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Probably the coolest thing about Archaeon is his title, "Exalted Grand Marshall of the Apocalypse"
The Dark Gods have literally charged him to end the world. Best Part? He canonically succeeds, and that's why Warhammer Fantasy was cancelled, and why we now have Age of Sigmar, which is a few Surviving Human, Elven, and Dwarven gods evacuating the souls of their followers to a series of new realms.
Plus other stuff happened like a guy ascending to become the God of Death, and orks are still around too, because of course they survived the end of the world.
@@aregulargamer1 He "succeded" because of Manfred killing Balthasar while he was channeling a spell with Nagash and Teclis.
@@aregulargamer1 it's helbrass not archon
@@aregulargamer1 you also got his title wrong, he is the everchosen of chaos, lord of the end times
that vulture looking bird is a greater demon of tzeentch, chaos god of change. hes called Sarthorel the Everwatcher!
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@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames lol yes warhammer is a high tier fantasy universe
As soon as you said "He's been through some shit!", I knew I had to comment 😁 Generally speaking, the ork warboss Grimgor Ironhide is better described as 'shit' just waiting for someone to happen too! He was something of a legend.
Also, some of the more interesting critters in these trailers: the vulture-dragon in the first trailer is a Changer of Ways, a greater daemon of the Chaos god, Tzeentch. The cavalry charge of gryphon-like creatures is made up of demigryphs, which I believe are unique to Warhammer. And lastly, the minotaur/centaur thing is a dragon ogre, like a giant ogre/dragon hybrid that normally serves Chaos.
I miss this version of Warhammer Fantasy... it's nice to see Total War carrying its memory along 😊
Aren't they rebooting it though? Like warhammer old war was going to be a thing which is why cathay is a faction.
@@runehood6682 Cathay is definitely announced for Total War Warhammer 3. As for a tabletop return to the Old World, there has been talk, but so far nothing is concrete. GW has been far too erratic of late to put much stock in anything they say until it happens; so, while I would love them to relaunch the Old World as fantasy's answer to the Horus Heresy, I'll believe it when I see it 🙃
Thanks so much for all the info on this. Loved your explanation of Grimgor 🤣
The best part is that Storm of Chaos, the first series of campaigns GW ran to simulate Archaeon's apocalypse march against the world, ended in an Ork victory so the first great chaos incursion was literally defeated by Grimgor blundering into the middle of it, and beating up everyone.
@@aregulargamer1 and Kick Archaon in da nutz?
the second game has some of the best trailers, and added WAYYYY more factions for players to play and armies to control.
Basic gameplay is managing an army, and takes place on a MASSIVE over-world map, in-between battles you basically look at what is a google maps version of this fantasy world, being able to zoom in and out and tell your armies where to move and what cities to attack or defend , and managing your cities and economy (gotta pay your troops right 😉)
Then when battle starts you get a much more close in look at the fight and can direct troops in a much more strategic fashion.
In battle you never control a single unit directly, more like you tell groups of troops where to go and then watch and see how they perform with the directions you have given them. Play smart and flank your enemies etc etc and your guys have a good chance to come out on top, play bad and your guys might just lose.
Its a fun game, the massive single player campaigns can take a long time to finish. Im talking months of play to fully control the world and win.
But yea, the Total war series of games is published by SEGA, and they teamed up with the guys who own Warhammer to create Total war Warhammer. Traditionally the Total war games used to be about real world wars and events that actually happened in REAL history and was very historical fiction based. But with this they ventured into fantasy and it went gangbusters popular, the 3rd game in the Total War Warhammer series is about to release and the 2nd game had SOOOOOO many expansions and factions updates.
Thanks so much for explaining how the games works to us. 😀 Sounds fun and time consuming 😁
It's grand strategy.
Congratulations on the 100k 💥 to 100 more I remember first recommending this as well 😂😂 Happy New Year to you both and BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR SKULL THRONE
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Their marketing budget gets an overdrive for Warhammer 2 and 3 cinematics so you totally got to react to them :D
We will for sure be checking those out 😀🤩
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames The next 2 games introduce a whole host of new factions, you're going to love them!
Basically Bretonnia is a Fantasy version of the Angevin Empire, when it was ruled by Richard the Lionheart. That empire was covering the western part of France, England, and some bits here and there and was ruled by the House of Anjou, a French nobility house that had their capital in Angers (hence the Angevin name) and Chinon, in western France, a bit south East of Brittany.
That period is characterised by the Third crusades, and so like you spotted, the Knights of Bretonnia are heavily inspired by the legends of the Quest for the Graal, the Lady of the Lake, and so on.
In Warhammer, Bretonnia is located in a zone that had a lot of Elven colonies thousand of years ago, and so that's why some of their cities go so high in the sky with refined look.
Their current king, Louen Leoncoeur, is basically Richard the Lionheart himself (coeur = heart in French, where Richard is called "Coeur de Lion") fantasy version.
They've got pretty low technology (since they're inspired by a 11-12th century empire), but lots of knights, including Graal knights, superhumans empowered by the Lady.
Thanks so much for going over more of Bretonnia for us 😀
Norsca and Wulfrik the Wanderer were THE reason I got into the Total War: Warhammer series. Chaos-worshipping Vikings. If I may suggest, sometime, check out the lore on Wulfrik the Wanderer. Guy has a VERY awesome backstory.
Sounds like a badass just like he looks so we will check out some of his lore. Since we can play this single player it might be a game we try actually 😀
Same here man, Norsca was the reason I got into Total War: Warhammer. Even now, in WH3, I'm a dedicated Wulfrik player.
Wulfrik the Wanderer. Boasted that he could beat everything in a duel, and the Chaos Gods basically said "okay" and cursed him to forever wander the world but not without blessing him so that he would be favoured if he proves that boast. He's also gifted to be omnibilingual, just so he can trash-talk his opponents in their language perfectly.
So far, he's been successful.
I'm smiling like heck like now! Thank you for reacting to this!
Our pleasure 🥳🥳
The Beastmen were the apex predators while the humans still lived in barbaric tribes. When humans became civilised and nations grew the beastmen were pushed back. But they still lurk in every of the many forests of the Old World and hunt trespassers. In mighty warherds, accompanied by monsters and mutants, they strike against civilization to reclaim their hunting grounds.
The twin snakes on his back might be reminding you of the symbol of the Snake Cult from Conan the Barbarian.
Also in the first cinematic he was being corrupted by Tzeentch. The creature at the end was one of his Demon Princes.
The 4th trailer is the Chaos Warriors. Humans who pledged to the Chaos Gods. They also show up in the 5th video when the Orcs are discussing who to invade.
The 6th trailer "The Vampire Counts" are also my favorite, glad you like them.
Also love the Beastmen. They were nerfed all to Hell but the last DLC The Silent & the Fury from Warhammer 2 fixed that.
Norsca are also Chaos Worshippers. Also a favorite as they have Werewolves.
Conan was definitely what I was thinking of 😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I need to correct a bit: The creature at the end of the Announcement CG trailer was NOT a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. It was a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, a Lord of Change.
Daemon Princes are mortals that have been granted Daemonhood.
4:20 that is a greater daemon of Tzeench
11:55 that is Kolek Suneater. He is a (in)famous Dragonogre Shaggoth. Creations of the chaos gods intended to destroy the mortal realms.
19:51 that is Archaon the Everchosen the supreme commander and champion of Chaos Undivided. He is a former Bretonian knight that has been “blessed” by the powers of chaos and is now immortal and wages an eternal war against the realms of Order. He can be killed be he is always reconstituted by Chaos.
Thanks for the time stamps and answering our questions 😀
Norsca and chaos warriors in trailers: *Radiates danger*
Norsca and chaos warriors in games (before TWWH3):
Monke
Twin snakes looking at each other is the visual hook that first Conan movie had.
Yes! That’s the one 🤩😀
Cool that you are finally reacting to the warhammer fantasy world, there are a lot more factions than in 40K. After watching the trailers for the second and now coming out third game you could maybe watch also some lore videos. To answer some of your questions the big guy with the hammer who you thought was a centaur is a dragon-ogre or saggoth and he is a beast of chaos so yeah in warhammer fantasy there are a few chaos aligned factions like warriors of chaos, deamons of chaos, norsca, skaven and the beastmen. I think there will be some more factions that you could like for example the undead which you saw are called vampire counts basically undead empire but there are also other undead factions, undead vampire pirates vampire coast they are called and undead egyptians called tomb kings (somewhat like the necrons in 40K). As to the lady of the lake thing they are more french than english but the warhammer fantasy world looks smilar to our world, continent wise so there is a britain where the highelves live, there are also so to say the americas with differnt civilizations, if i remember correctly you are from canada so USA and Candada in warhammer fantsay would be dark elves very similar to the drukari from 40K the torture slavers you will not like them i think.
Definitely don’t like the dark elves. Scary ass faction in 40k 😱 Looking forward to seeing the other factions 😀
i dont agree, in 40k there are maybe less big factions, but all of them are basically divided into a ton of subfactions which all contain so much lore. So i think that 40k is much more comprehensive than WF. just my opinion
@@malekiththewitchking8095 sure if you look for example at all the different imperial guard armies and space marine legions/chapters but i actually do not think of them as different factions as they are all imperial and human. Look i like both warhammer adaptations but i prefer fantasy over 40K as i enjoy the medival time period more and find in my opinion the factional diversity as in different races more intriguing. I wouldn't expect someone whos youtube name is Konrad Curze to agree with me, by the way i love 30K and lore surrounding the primarchs.
@@malekiththewitchking8095 i guess the question is just if you like sience fiction or fantasy more in general
@@walhallberserker610 yeah, i understand your point of view, just to be clear fantasy Warhammer is amazing, i have hundreds of hours on TWW I and II and i know so much about its lore, i just prefer the scifi setting a little bit more. Anyway, we can both agree that Warhammer is amazing in all of its forms
you guys should definitely watch total war warhammer 2 trailers
We will 😁
Everybody i showed this trailers agreed with something: Archaon design is SO FUCKING COOL
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The reason why some of the trailers showed name tags of characters is because they are trailers for DLCs, that added new heroes/commanders, along with some new units (also shown with tags like the "squig hoppers") to already existing factions so the trailer pointed them out.
We’re glad they did that 🙂
And now all that remains is to wait for me to once again hear that phrase.
"Brothers and sisters rejoice. PLEASURE BEYOND IMAGINING AWAITS YOU!!!"
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Lovely reaction as always. I've been looking forward to this soooo much. Total War WH is actually a strategy game. You have multiplayer in it as well but the main part of it is singleplayer. Pity there is no trailer for Vlad and Isabella...King and Queen of the Vampire Counts you would love them. For the lore reaction, there is no better channel than The Book of Choyer which makes videos about important events, characters, factions, and whole races but they are 20-30 minutes long, although very high-quality narration combined with in-game footage and quotes.
King and Queen 😀 We would love to know more about them for sure 😈🧛♂️
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Vlad and Isabella are two of most extra and dramatic characters in Warhammer, both in good and bad senses. It says something about world when one of most genuinely happy couples are two undead bloodcraving monsters (though monsters part is debatable).
Also, to hell with Manfred, all my pals hate Manfred.
On additional notes, Tariff has channel with most nuclear Warhamner Total War memes on youtube.
Tarriff has super big brain mega memes. One may need some gameplay experience to understand all the layers. XD
Maaan i cant wait for TW WH 2 trailers, all their videos are fantastic especially the Skaven ones
"Draw them! The Sotek scum!"
No-no, stupid man-thing, Skaven to not exist, it's a lie-deception
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If you're fans of the undead, the story of Isabelle and her husband Vlad von Carstein might interest you. (Two undead generals whom in game receive major bonuses if they both attack the same target).
Definitely interested 😀😍
Finally, i so glad to see your reaction to thees cool trailers! I cant wait to see your reaction for the Total War Warhammer 2,3 trailers! I hope you had a beautiful christmas, and wish you happy new year! Keep up the good work, love your vids! :) btw congrats for 100k! :)
Thanks so much! 🥳🥳🍾🥂 Happy New Year to you as well 🙂
OH SNAP! Please please please take on allllll the Total War Warhammer cinematics, including the 2nd game, and soon to be released 3rd game! lol Lots of content to devour.
Oh, and BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
Part 2 is January and 3 February 🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I was so excited I jumped the gun and asked before I even watched you say it lol, apologies. Thanks for taking the time to answer a question you already answered in the video!
I waited for this for so long, thanks for your fascinating reaction!! Please do more reactions for Total War: Warhammer II's and Total: Warhammer III's trailers, can't wait for it :D
We will be covering both 2 and 3 🥳🥳
The guy here 19:40 is Archaon The Everchosen.
Like who you could call the main big bad in the story as he will bring the end of the world. He is called the everchosen as he is the one who leads the forces of chaos chosen by all 4 chaos gods to destroy the world, a intresting thing to think about is that he is also a human who was ones a priest to the empire of man but lost his belief when their god called Sigmar did not answer him or his prayers, but the chaos gods did.
Archaon is even more evil than he first looked 😯
Chaos Warriors title comes on screen.
"What are they?"
Funniest spot check fail ever..
😂 But they are dragon ogres right? Which are part of the chaos warriors faction 🤔🤗
Warhammer kinda represents our world, that means if you think about he warhammer map, bretonnia in the west represents france just with british culture, more central is the Empire represents the rest of europe but mostly german, well their emperor is called Karl Franz and that Volkmars name is von Hindenstein, orcs are mostly british hooligans meaning they have a specific accent, the dwarfs are just dwarfs with a lil viking taste and love vengeance and their ancestors and technology and the Vampire counts are like romanian Dracula vampires, they do not have actual technology but are very fancy. The whole total war warhammer story is a bit extremely weird but looks awesome :D I hope I got everything right but of course there is much more to explore. Perhaps a lil lets play from ya :P
“A bit extremely weird…” sounds like us alright 😁
cant wait to see your opinion on the lizardmen, my personal favorite faction. its dinosaurs riding bigger dinosaurs! and closely followed second favorite faction; the skaven... if you thought dark elves were bad wait until you see giant rat people driven by an endless hunger, inventing the most cruel engines of war.
Whoa damn 😳 Gonna get crazy 😝
Everyone has an Inner Mall Goth, and the Vampire Counts are really good at appealing to them.
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I knew you two would enjoy these. I can’t wait till you see the 360 degree video for the second game
Wait, what 😯 Sounds intense 😀
Warhammer fantasy has so many cool races; the whole setting is really well-realized in terms of atmosphere for the different factions. I'm with you on Norsca - they're my personal favorite from game 1 just in terms of sheer cool factor between the viking raider aesthetic, the frost wyrms (the two headed ice dragon) and what are essentially super metal werewolves and full-on war mammoths that you can field in your armies.
If you're interested in getting some insight on a few of the named characters - and a bit of comedy besides - I'd recommend the Noob's Guide series by Cody Bonds. Granted, most of the characters he goes over are from game 2 factions (in other words, better to watch after you've acquainted yourself with the Total War Warhammer 2 trailers), but they manage to both be quite informative and hilarious to go through. It's even gotten to the point that fan creators like him end up making what many fans consider to be just flat-out bad writing from Games Workshop's side of things still feel cool by giving you the highlight reel to a lot of it. Looking forward to what's to come, whatever you decide!
It also helped that the Norsca trailer seemed to have the best graphics in it. A nice little taste of what to expect for TWWII 🥳🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Sadly, part of that was because the main Norsca trailer (with the awesome shot of the mammoth behind the raider, whose name is Wulfrik the Wanderer) was a cinematic trailer; a lot of the others were shot using in-game graphics, hence the difference in quality. But, as I'm sure many others have already stated, the devs really stepped up their game for the trailers for WHII. I hope you guys enjoy when the time comes!
The Wood Elves are absolutely terrifying to fight in the game too 😆
Really?! 😯😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeah, Wood Elves are all about ranged combat and archers. Their melee infantry are generally either bad/expensive for what they can do/outclassed by those of other factions, but their archers and other missile troops are superb. Not only do they do a lot of damage, but most of them have special abilities like armour-piercing damage, or a 360 attack radius (so they can fire on any enemies in range without having to reposition), or being able to fire while moving. As such, they're very good at kiting, picking off enemies from great distances, and generally being very hard to pin down. If you're able to close the distance and fight them hand-to-hand, they'll almost always lose, but if they can stay out of your reach, they'll tear you to shreds. This also makes them very difficult for novices to play as, as they require a lot of micro to use effectively.
Watching since you had 70k subs , Congo for 100k subs 🎊
Thanks so much! 😀🍾🥳🥂
The thing about Chaos is that it spans more than one universe, so just as the Dark Gods have their followers in the 40k universe, they also have followers in the Fantasy universe. And there'll always be one of their champions who marshals these followers for a coming apocalypse, such as Archaon the Everchosen at 19:45, who is the 13th to bear that title
Chaos gods just gotta have their hands one everything 😏
Anything with Deathclaw is worthy of song. The mightiest Griffon to have ever lived. And personal mount of Karl Franz. ( he does have an imperial dragon as a choice....but rarely does...AND WHY SHOULD HE!!!! HES GOT A MURDER KITTEN-EAGLE!)
Would be lying if I said I did not spend a lot of time in the gamer looking at Deathclaws little murder paws
Murder kitten eagle 😂🤣☺️
OMG 100k !! Congratulations! 🥳🥳🥳
Thank you! 🥳🥳🍾🥂
I remember my reaction to the first cinematic. I was beyond excited for this game despite not really knowing anything about the Fantasy side of Warhammer. The scene where the advisor starts to get possessed by the book, followed by the blue fog and the writing "Our rules have changed" gave me such goosebumps. Just that line alone made me ecstatic, because I knew whoever wrote that knew what they were doing. And I'm glad that the Warhammer Total War series has done so well.
It’s a fun series and the cinematics/trailers are great 😀
Cool stuff! Warhammer 3 cinematics are on next level though and i strongly recommend watching some of those as well!
We will see 2 and 3 before the release of 3 😁
Awesome vid! I definitely recommend checking out the fan-made video 'Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder' and 'For the Lady'. The entire videos are incredible, but these two are my absolute favorite.
Will add those to our list! 🥳🥳
I just realized, you two would be Vlad and Isabella Von Carnstein, that's the couple of the Vampire Counts faction.
Hell yeah! 😀
A Warhammer video? You know what that means! Time for some notes.
The vulture you saw was a Lord of Change (Sarthorael the Everwatcher), a greater daemon of Tzeentch. (They exist in wh40k too)
Thorgrim Grudgebearer (the dwarf king talking in the trailer) has an on kill animation in the game where he strikes a grudge from the book (yes he carries that book into battle).
The Centaur you see in the Warriors of Chaos trailer is Kholek Suneater, a Dragon Ogre Shaggoth. In lore he's a lot bigger than in the game (his dad was once mistaken for a mountain)
If you like the Undead you will love Total War Warhammer 2 (vampire pirates and skeleton egyptians).
Manfred (the main vampire) has a legitimate claim to the empire throne (as he is technically an elector count who can be voted for to become emperor).
The 3 eyed guy is Archaeon the Everchosen, Lord of the End Times (some connection to the everwatcher) the 3rd “eye” is a sign that he is favored by Chaos undivided (something extremely hard to be since the 4 gods has a wee tendency to fight amongst themselves).
Do not underestimate Skarnsnik the warlord of eight peaks, when a goblin can boss orks around it should be feared.
Squigs comes in many many form, and in wh40k they have even bomb squigs (no points for guessing what they do).
(End Times spoilers) The Green knight from Bretonnia is best described as a fusion between King Arthur and the Green Knight from The King Arthur mythos.
Wulfrik the wanderer (Norsca leader) is blessed by Khorne to be able to insult anyone in their own language in such a way that they will attack him in frothing rage)
Final note, I have recommended this before, but once you are done with Total War Warhammer 1-3 trailers you should watch A noobs guide to total war warhammer, by Cody Bonds.
It’s similar humor to that of Brickys videos but about these games and the fantasy universe.
Love the name Grudgebearer 😁 We didn’t realize squigs were in 40k too! Bricky should’ve told us 😝 And thanks for the lore vid rec. we are sure it is on our list for Warhammer somewhere 😅
That big vulture boi summoned by the corrupted priest of Sigmar is a Lord of Change, one of the Greater Daemons of Tzeentch, the Changer of the Ways.
The Dwarf one is my favorite, because Dwarves are the best, and any time there is large scale underground cavern city stuff, I love it. One of the Grudges mentioned by High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer (wicked name) is that of Josef Bugman. This man was the most renowned Master Brewer in the entire world, whose beers were served to The Emperor of Man and the High King himself.
But after returning from a delivery one day, he returned to find his brewery destroyed, a burning wreck, ruined by goblin raiders. Josef and his companions swore a mighty vengeance upon the goblins after that day. The Dwarves have never forgotten this, and will never, ever forgive. The Dwarves take their ale VERY seriously.
Those big spiky bois are the warriors of Chaos, mutated and corrupted into daemonic destroyers.
I think those uniforms look more chartreuse, at least to me :P Those undead bois are the forces of the Vampire Counts, lots of zombies and skeletons, along with Blood Knights and Terrorgheists (the big bat thing).
The Arch Lector guy basically IS in 40K: we call them Space Marine Chaplains :D
That horned Elf guy is very much like the Celtic god Cernunnos, Master of the Wild Hunt.
Also, the failed Warhammer MMO, Age of Reckoning, had some great cinematics too.
Thanks so much for giving us more info on who is who in these trailers 😀🤩
Yes, original Warhammer by way of Total War! It is about time you two did this, so sweet. Just to clarify, Total War is a completely different franchise that normally has nothing whatsoever to do with Warhammer or even fantasy, all other games in the series are set in different real world historical periods. This, 2 and the upcoming 3 are just Warhammer based installments of the Total War series. Totally worth digging deeper into the Warhammer world and lore. While it is separate from 40k, a single fantasy world as opposed to a sci Fi universe, as you start digging you will find certain similarities and parallels. For example, the Orcs are much the same, and daemons, Chaos, and the four Chaos gods exist and are much the same in the Warhammer world as they are in the 40k universe. Gameplay is a combination of turn based management of cities, resources, and army movements and real time tactical battles, and there are single player options available, including a story campaign. Cheers!
Love that there is a single player option, but also sad that this is going to confuse us for sure with 40k 😂🤣 Can Games Wokshop just make them related already 😝
Archaeon the Everchosen was the weird glowing dude up north on the altar with three eyes. He's uh... like a Chosen One archetype, but he's going to bring the end of the world instead of save it. He's totally immortal as far as I know, since he's blessed by ALL four chaos gods.
Damn! All four chaos gods finally agreeing on something 😱
Thank you, I was looking forward to this video, you are the best
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Can’t wait to see reactions on my beloved skavens and dark elves now
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12:40 ahhhh good old grimgor. The ork, that prevented the end times once with a kcik to the groin :D
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Squigs eat everything, and they're practically always hungry
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"They are like Minotaur-Centaur's"
Close, "Dragon-Ogres"
I mean if you want to get technician 😜 haha, thanks for letting us know what they actually are. We were kinda close, but not really 🙃
You guys have 100k ! Congratulations ! Keep up the good work : )♥☺
Thanks, Roosevelt! 🥳🥳🍾🥂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames U welcome😉😉
The first trailer you guys watched , that big bird was a greater daemon of tzeentch, his name is The lord of Change
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total war is basically a strategy map game with big army fights, where you control the armys on the map, and then control the units of the army when in the battle,.
Hmm. Have played those games before and quite enjoyed them 🙂😀
great reaction you two, I hope to see more reactions of the warhammer stuff
More will come. We have to do Total War Warhammer II and then III 🥳
Norsca was the very last DLC to be added to Total Warhammer, and it was actually announced *after* the sequel game was announced, which is why the trailer looked so much better. If you liked these, I can't wait for you to do Total Warhammer 2 and 3.
We look forward to them 😀🥳
My god am i so hapoy too see this channel grow congrats too the most fantabulous couple on youtube keep up the good work from south africa.
Thank you, Aidan! Appreciate the support and well wishes 😊🥰🤗🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames im so happy that you guys responded too my comment you have made my year guys thank you so much❤️
Oh yeah also in fantasy or 40K you can play a link campaigns to tell a story, battles can also have RPG, in the sixth edition they had a set of rules to play skirmish battles which can be a small amount of modals. They also had a book about skirmish battles. In 2003 another book came out it had how to do sea battles, creating your own maps and having battles, etc.
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YOU GUYS DID IT YOUR AT 100k you guys deserve it
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Grimgor - a leader one could gladly follow for it is perilous to be in front of him.
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Glad you're enjoying it the trailers! These are strategy games, part of the Total War series.
Lore... there is a LOT. Kinda hard to know where to start. Warning, essay incoming!
Warhammer Fantasy is inspired by Elric, Lord of the Rings, Conan, and wears its' influences on it's sleeve a little more than Warhammer 40k. It's a world in Endtimes, where the various big bads compete to see who can snuff out everyone else first, and the Elves, Dwarves and Humans huddle together to try and earn a little longer. There have been several editions of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, pen and paper adventure books, as well as novel series and obviously the Wargame itself, and you could write whole essays on, say, just the Magic Colleges of wizards in the Empire.
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The Empire, founded by the legendary hero Sigmar, who is basically Conan, are heavily modelled on the Holy Roman Empire (Renaissance Germany. Historians always joke that the HRE was not Holy, Roman or an Empire!). Given the secrets of Iron, beer and Black Powder by the dwarves, and Magic by the Elves, they have flexibility the Dwarves lack and urgency the Elves do not know. Emperor Karl-Franz does his best to unite the elector-Counts and their scheming nobility into the force needed to survive the coming apocalypse.
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The Brettonians, another human civilization are based on early mediaeval France, and the legends of Charlemagne that the King Arthur stories got mixed up with. They choose not to use guns, or the advanced industry of the Empire, instead their Knightly ways are rewarded by a strange magic granted by The Lady of the Lake. Their common people are also incredibly downtrodden and poor as a result.
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The Vampire counts come from Sylvania, the easternmost province of the Empire. Vampires hail from Khemri, Warhammer's Egypt analogue (you'll see them in TW:WH2 as the Tomb Kings) after the Great Necromancer, Nagash, created the dark arts of Necromancy and rose up all the dead in the world before being assassinated at the heihgt of his power. Some time after, the mysterious count Vlad von Carstein came to power as Count of Sylvania and tried to overthrow the Empire with vast armies of the Undead, it has been impossible to eradicate Vampires from the nobility of the Empire, and such a violent world is never lacking for corpses. No matter how many necromancers are burned at the stake by Witch Hunters, there are always those willing to try and cheat death through magic or alchemy, and they make willing accomplices to the Vampire Counts, and the ancient burial mounds and cairns dotted throughout the Empire provide ancient kings and chieftans whose souls still burn to to fight as Wights and Wight Kings.
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The Chaos Gods from Warhammer 40k are very present here, seen more as an apocalyptic christian style "Endtimes" doom than their more Cthulu-y corrupting style in 40k.
They have corrupted the lands of Norsca, creating the Marauder armies, heavy metal style Vikings such as Wulfric the Wanderer who you've seen in the trailers. The early days of the world left much of the world with pockets of corruption, mostly in the deep forests, and the mutant Beastmen, the Children of Chaos, wander these woods, hating anything pure or organised. The men of the Empire and Brettonia are not immune to such corruption either, and the greatest of all who fight in the name of Chaos are drawn far to the North, where the Daemon armies clash eternally in a truly bizarre nightmare land called the Chaos Wastes, from where they return changed into the Warriors of Chaos, empowered by the dark gods and armed and armoured with baroque but heavy weapons and armour of dark iron, and accompanied by Chaotic monsters such as Kholek Suneater, a Dragon Ogre, featured in the "Ascended" trailer. The man with the horns and red eyes and facial tattoos you commented on is Archaon, Lord of the End Times, The Everchosen. Blessed by all the Chaos Gods, it is said he is destined to bring the apocalypse and destroy the world.
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The Dwarves and Elves once ruled the world, a sea empire and and an mountain empire. With both so powerful it was probably inevitable that the two would come to blows, with the arrogance of the Elves and the stubbornness of the dwarves meaning that both empires were broken. The Dwarves found themselves unable to hold onto their vast kingdom as Orks, Goblins, Skaven (Ratmen, you'll see them in TW:WH2) and other creatures flooded into the now poorly defended lands, and the Dwarves, a people of (metaphorical) Iron and Stone are unable to accept that their time is done, filled with spite and bitterness they are fonder of old hatred and grudges than they are of their children. A backwards-looking people, they cannot accept that anything today is not worse than it was a hundred years ago. Still, even the remnants of their old power is pretty potent. Dwarves are tough and skilled, their metalwork beyond compare and their painstaking nature makes them incredible engineers and smiths.
The Elves quit their war with the Dwarves when their civil war broke out. Total War 2 will deal with the main two parties - those who would become the High Elves and the Dark Elves - but there were those who refused to leave the new lands they had colonized, who felt betrayed and abandoned by their haughty kin. Instead, alone and suffering they found their way to the forests of Athel Loren, where they discovered the forests alive with magic, and angry at the predations of the dwarves and beastmen. They made their pacts with the forest and formed a new civilisation, the Wood Elves or Asrai in their own tongue. The Wood Elves must defend the forest and placate the angry, bloody spirits that dwell within.
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The Orks, Goblins and Snotlings (collectively referred to as the Greenskins) are much as they are in 40k. The Orks as the largest and most violent of those peoples are obsessed with war, taking a savage joy in fighting. It is said if you lock an Ork in a room with a big stick, sooner or later it will beat itself to death out of love of violence. Simple and uncomplicated, the Ork tribes fight anyone they can find, even if that means each other, and it takes a Warboss of rare skill, determination and scariness to unite the Greenskins long enough to prosecute a successful war. The Goblins are smaller, smarter and much more spiteful than their larger brethren. They can and do form their own armies, especially the light-fearing Night Goblins who infest the ruins of the Dwarven realm, but more often they can be found following Orks around, finding their bigger, dumber kin useful to hide behind. Goblins do all the dirty work in Greenskin armies - scouting, sneaking and thinking - which suits them fine, as the Orks tend to be too direct and impatient to do it. Orcs and Goblins also make use of many of the wandering monsters of the world, such as Giant Spiders who are often worshipped by goblin tribes, Trolls who seem to get on well with Orks, and Giants, sad lumbering hulks who will fight in exchange for the strong drink the Goblin Shamans brew.
Whoa damn! We asked for lore and background and you definitely delivered! Thanks so much for the comprehensive breakdown 🤩
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames only too happy to help! I've tried to keep it as brief (lol) and friendly as possible, but man, there is a LOT. There's several races I've not even mentioned as they will feature in later games.
Hopefully there's enough context there for the trailers without drowning you in details!
Warhammer is also based around a lot of British jokes and stereotypes. The Dwarves mostly speak with broad Yorkshire accents (made famous by game of thrones and the Starks) because the stereotype of Yorkshire men is gruff, hardy grumbles who insist nothing is as good as it in Yorkshire, and that everything is worse now. If you have a moment, check out the 'three Yorkshire men' sketch on UA-cam, it's short and very funny.
Wohoo. There it is! I really hope you fellas are going to like the Warhammer fantasy universe! :D
So far so good! 😀 Team Undead 😈
Thank you for this reaction! Now you have to watch all Total war warhammer 2 cinematics and trailers.
That’s up next in January 😀🥳
Thank you, love warhammer total war and you guys too!
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the total war warhammer 2 trailers are even better, can't wait to see you guys react to those!
Look forward to seeing them 😀
My fav factions within these trailers are definitely Vampire Counts (undead), Bretonnia, & Norsca so good picks lol. I'm excited for you two to see the cinematics for WHII & WHIII. Below, I'll address a few if your questions that weren't answered by others:
@4:01 The snakes on the ornamentation he is wearing probably remind you of the staff of Hermes
@4:15 That's a Lord of Change (greater daemon of Tzeentch aka the chaos god of evolution, magic, & knowledge)
@11:22 These guys are Warriors of Chaos Undivided (meaning they worship all four Chaos gods equally rather than pledging themselves to just one). The guy at the end is a dragon ogre called Kholek & he said "we are not fallen, we are ascended"
@39:30 The games are a combination of turn-based strategy on the campaign map and real-time strategy in battles.
@39:42 Yeah, Warhammer Fantasy definitely has a lot of lore as well. A channel called Book of Choyer does a pretty good job breaking down the lore for the various races in the setting. Their video on the Doom of Kavzar (origin of the Skaven) is pretty good.
Thanks for the extra info and the time stamps for ease of reference 😊🥳
Damn, love how wholesome y’all content is, especially as a couple. Love seeing this Kim dog content in the current YT culture. Keep it up!!
Thanks so much! 🥰😊🤗
oh my god finally! we are waiting for the second and third games trailer reactions as well
We look forward to posting those for everyone 😀🥳
A very interesting and fun set of reactions! I must admit i was actually surprised by how much you two liked the Vampire Counts; it only gets more ridiculous from here!
very much looking forward to your thoughts on the Lizardmen when they come round! Also, if you loved the vampire counts, you are probably gonna LOVE the Vampire Coast!
Vampire Coast?! 😀🤩 More surprised Bethany loved the vampire counts 😯😀
Aight, you asked for it, sorry for the wall of text below.
There is a lot of lore for Warhammer Fantasy as well, but Games Workshop basically shut down the setting in 2014-15 ostensibly due to low sales of figures (40k was selling a lot better), and then they rebooted fantasy into what is known as Age of Sigmar, a setting that is loosely a "sequel" but a lot more exaggerated. However, since several video games with Warhammer Fantasy has gotten very popular, Games Workshop has been working to revive the setting as a tabletop game in some capacity, although we don't quite know how.
Anyway, the old Fantasy setting is heavily based on the real world, with the world map resembling Earth for the most part, but with various changes. Warhammer Total War 1 focused on a region of the world that's called The Old World, which was basically Warhammer Europe. A lot of the factions in Fantasy are also based on historical civilizations. While the Fantasy world is pretty dark and gruesome, it was never quite as "grimdark" as 40k. For example, the "good" races (humans, elves, dwarfs) mostly get along fairly well, as opposed to the rampant xenophobia in 40k. I say "mostly" though, because things get heated, and Dwarfs and Elves have a long-standing enmity that they like keeping alive.
- The Empire is the main "protagonist" of the Fantasy universe (a bit like the Imperium in 40k). It is located in the middle of the Old World, and is heavily inspired by 15-16th century Germany, called the Holy Roman Empire. It has a lot of loosely-bound principalities, counties and baronies that all in principle bow to the Emperor, but in reality they fight each other often as well, and scheme and connive. The Emperor is elected from among eligible noble families, and the current one is Karl Franz, who is by all considerations a badass and a good dude. The Empire is polytheistic, with many gods for different aspects of life, but their main god is the deified founder of the Empire, Sigmar. He is their patron deity, and the "warhammer" in Warhammer is named after his, well, warhammer.
- Bretonnia lies to the west of the Empire, and is basically a mix of British Arthur legends and French Charlemagne legends, with a good dash of Monty Python Holy Grail jokes thrown in. It's basically magical medieval France. The nobility is tied by strict laws of chivalry and the peasantry is deeply exploited and downtrodden, but ostensibly protected from outside forces. They look more medieval than the Empire, with no gunpowder or crossbows or steampower, mainly for religious reasons. The nobles get blessings from their patron goddess, the Lady of the Lake, who empowers their knights with varying degrees of magic protection and powers as long as they keep their vows and such. Allegedly.
- Between the Empire and Bretonnia lies Athel Loren, the magical forest of the Wood Elves. It's basically Mirkwood or Lothlorien from Lord of the Rings, but with a good bit of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and Celtic (welsh) myths thrown in. Athel Loren is a magical forest, that is bigger on the inside, keeps shifting shape, and time does now flow evenly there. People can disappear in there and come out years later with no memory, or they can come out immediately, feeling like they've been wandering for days or weeks. Often they do not return at all. The Wood Elves live in symbiosis with the forest, and get a lot of magic powers for it, but it's a careful balance, as much about protecting the forest from outsiders as it is protecting outsiders from the forest. The Elves are the least sinister thing that lives in there. Some of the spirits there want to basically kill all other beings. The forest, and the beings within, are both light and dark.
- The Vampire Counts is a collective term for vampires who take up leadership and claim power, usually over lesser types of undead (ghosts, skellies, ghouls, etc.) and sometimes living people. The most significant of these vampire "counties" is Sylvania (Because Transylvania obviously, lol), which is technically a part of the Empire, but basically governs itself and is considered a wasteland by the Imperials. The clan of vampires who governs Sylvania are called the Von Carsteins, and they believe that through their ancestry, they are the rightful heirs to the Imperial crown. They have tried taking it several times, but have failed so far. There are other clans around who have other goals.
- The Dwarfs (they don't use the plural of Dwarves in Warhammer, it's a whole thing) live in a giant mountain chain that separates the Old World from the lands further east. Imagine if someone dropped the Andes mountains between Poland and Russia, so it went from the Arctic Sea down to Iraq. That's basically the World's Edge Mountains. Or just think of the Misty Mountains from Lord of the Rings. Dwarfs are... well, they're dwarfs. Bearded Scottish/Northern English short people who love building and digging and doing steampunk technology. Infamously conservative and slow to change, they're ostensibly dying out, and have been so for the last two-thousand years, at least. Yet they're still around, so you know, will probably be around for a while still. They also keep grudges, and never forget them. They basically live in city-state like groups called "karaks" (holds), each with their own king, but they all officially answer to the High King of Karaz-a-Karak, the biggest and oldest karak. He's the dude writing in the book in the trailer.
- You know how Orks in 40k work, and Orks in Fantasy are basically the same, except with more boars and beasties and no crazy technology (at least a lot less). They love to fight, and will go anywhere, anytime to get a good scrap. In Fantasy, Goblins have a much bigger personality of their own, and some tribes are basically all Goblins, such as the Night Goblins who live underground and love pestering the Dwarfs.
- Chaos Warriors are pretty similar to Chaos in 40k, but in fantasy they had one army type of demons and one army type of mortal humans. It's the human army that you see in Warhammer Total War 1. (Incidentally, the Demons were divided into four factions for the upcoming Warhammer 3., one for each Chaos God.). Chaos Warriors in Fantasy are basically "evil Conan the Barbarian" but with lots of weird monsters. They loosely occupy areas that correspond to Scandinavia (Norsca) and the Eurasian Steppe (Chaos Wastes) in the real world, and are sorta-kinda inspired by such groups as Vikings, Huns, Mongols, etc. (but they're really more like generic fantasy barbarians). Additionally, some Chaos Warriors are "blessed" with special suits of armor lock them inside, effectively turning them into fantasy terminators. They all mainly come from the areas around the north pole or the far north, because in the Warhammer Fantasy universe, that's where there is a polar gateway to the realms of Chaos. It's a whole thing. Basically Chaos energies surge from the pole southwards, feeding into the lands and people, creating monsters, driving people insane, and also actually making magic possible (even good magic, supposedly). These are called the Winds of Magic. Chaos worshippers prefer to channel them raw and unfiltered, which makes them complete lunatics.
- Norsca is, as mentioned, one of the Chaos-worshipping human cultures, based on a peninsula just north of the Empire that is the equivalent of Scandinavia. They're actually the least Chaos-corrupted group, but they're the ones the Empire tends to fight most regularly. In the lore, Norscans also frequently trade with the Empire and work for them as mercenaries, or sail the ocean to trade or raid, but they kinda cut this element out for the Total War games, instead focusing on them as monster hunters.
- Beastmen are another Chaos worshipping faction, residing in the various forests of the world. They're a metric shit-tonne of them in the Empire, only slightly less in Bretonnia, and some basically anywhere. They used to be the favorites of the Chaos Gods a long time ago, supposedly, but they got tossed aside once the Chaos Gods discovered humans. This makes them deeply bitter, and they hate all sorts of civilization, wanting to raze down all cities, towns and settled life, and hunt and kill freely. They also hope to reclaim the favor of the Chaos Gods. There's a bit of a moral thing going on, where they probably once started worshipping the Chaos Gods to save their untainted woodlands, but now the very presence of them corrupts and twists forests and breaks the land, so they fucked themselves. Some of them are also just mutated humans that get put out to die, and it's possible that this is how they originated, but it's hard to tell.
I've only mentioned the ones in Warhammer Total War 1, there are loads more factions or cultures in Warhammer 2, and as-yet-unreleased for Warhammer 3, plus a bunch that never got an actual army officially (like the Halflings or the Amazons), but are in the lore.
The is so much for all the info on this 😅 Even if they don’t bring back the table top hopefully they still invest in fantasy side of things with videogames and even books on it to keep expanding 🙂
Orcs don' run on loyalty. They run n WAAAGH!
'Umies wouldn' unastan'
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The trailers for Total War Warhammer II are even better and have even more races. Can't wait to watch that one 😎
We look forward to checking those out 😀
you guys definetly need to react to the second and 3rd warhammer total war trailers, their are tonnes of races
We will for sure be checking those out 😇
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames their are two more undead factions too
I swear these two lovely people have reacted to every god damn thing I watch 😂 I love it
Those snakes facing each other... that's Thulsa Dooms sigil in Conan the Barbarian 🙂
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Glad to see you guys finally checking out Total War Warhammer stuff
Now you gotta see Total War Warhammer II & III stuff next. It's even cooler than from the first game.
Looking forward to it 😎🤟
I cannot wait to see Total war warhammer 2 reaction.
Also, since there are many trailers for game 2 and some of the best have only been released in 2021 I suggest just using the official Total War youtube site for their own total war warhammer 2 trailers playlist.
Or there is a guy who made a playlist with nearly all the trailers but he has placed all game 1-3. Link:
ua-cam.com/video/IhVxWhr58cA/v-deo.html
^this, the other one is missing some of the trailers
That was indeed the Lady of the Lake
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Whoo! Warhammer reactions! I've played these games, they're among my favourite Total War games of all time. Tangent: Total War is a game series that's been going on for decades now. They are Grand Strategy games where the goal is to dominate the known world. Primarily they do historical games set in iconic time periods, like the Napoleonic Wars or Sengoku Jidai, but with Warhammer Fantasy, they're set in the iconic world it belongs to (sometimes called The Fated Place). Essentially, this world is very similar to Earth, if you look at the continents and such, with the greatest differences being the terrain of the landmasses, some additional landmasses added in and magic being a highly volatile and integral part of the world. This first game, Warhammer 1, is set in a variation of Europe, known as The Old World. The two other main regions are The New World (The Americas and Africa) and Cathay (East Asia).
If you'd like, I'll break down the different factions you encounter in this reaction, giving a brief overview of each. As with all my breakdowns it's probably gonna be a bit of "light reading" again, sorry about that :D
Starting off with the first faction of Humans, known as The Empire. It's important to note that there are MANY different Human factions in this world, including several who do not show up in the first game. That said, The Empire is among the most important human factions. As with everything Warhammer, there are no "good" guys, but The Empire can be seen as the "most good" you'll get. If you consider conscripting kids age 10 and up into the military "good". This is done because the Empire is always at war with something, be that the Greenskins, The Beastmen, The Forces of Chaos, Vampires or other things, and usually many of these at the same time. In short, they desperately cling to civilization by doing EVERYTHING they can while vehemently resisting Chaos, an insidious force that corrupts everything.
Tangent 2: Chaos and Magic are intrinsically linked, so this world which is so full of magic and would not survive without it is thus always teethering on the edge of being swallowed up by the forces of Chaos, and cutting off magic is nigh impossible (people have tried, it did not end well. Ulthuan exists as a safeguard, but that's for Warhammer 2.)
Next faction we see here is the Dwarves, or "Dawii" as they call themselves. Stunted ones, if the Greenskins are to be believed. The Dwarves of the Warhammer universe are creatures of sheer willpower and desire for revenge against ALL who have wronged them. And this is not just personal revenge, no their entire society is based around Grudges, and repaying those. Repaying a grudge can lead to another sin being committed that'll have to be repaid, so its an endless cycle. One half of the Greenskins, the Goblins, are constantly at war with the Dwarves and thus the list of grudges is long. Humans, particularly The Empire, have somehow managed to hold relatively friendly relations with the Dwarves, mostly because they have the same enemies. Vampires, Greenskins, Chaos forces etc.
Our third group would be the Forces of Chaos, or Chaos Warriors. These are essentially people who have fallen to the corruptive influence of Chaos and are now more or less a warrior host under the command of Archaon the Everchosen, a name that fits well. This creature just doesn't die, even in the game you have to kill him 3 times before he is finally defeated. "Forever Chosen" indeed. The Forces of Chaos have a lot of monsters under their command, gifted to them by the Chaos Gods who reside in the Chaos Realm, where all magic stems from. So to augment their fallen human meatshields, they have massive beasts of war like the "centaur" creature you saw. I dont know what they are exactly but I remember that they can grow infinitely and are ageless, so the largest of their kin are the size of mountains.
Fourth group we see in these cinematics would be the Greenskins, a collective term for Orcs, Goblins and their various warbeasts and hired mercenaries, including Ogres (a faction we'll see in Warhammer 3, but long story short they will fight for ANYONE if the price is right, so both Chaos and Orcs have Ogres as part of their armies.) Very briefly, the Greenskins LOVE fighting, and thus they will always be battling someone. If they dont fight others, they will fight each other instead. Loyalty is not a concept they know, only fear and strength. Might makes right. Goblins are literally used as ammunition by the Greenskin siege vehicles, because they're weak so they are fated to die.
Fifth faction would be The Vampires, lead by our boy Mannfred von Carstein. This guy stole the secrets of immortality from the Tomb Lords in Africa and came back to conquer The Empire, though throughout his ventures he taught many the dark secrets of vampirism. The von Carsteins claim rulership of the Empire and their claim is not baseless, but given their dark nature and the Empire's "righteousness" streak, such claims fall on deaf ears. Despite that, in the game it IS possible to ally with the Empire as Vampires which is ridiculously hilarious :D
The sixth faction are known as The Beastmen, obviously. The Beastmen are a force of nature, quite literally so, but corrupted by Chaos' insidious influence. They abhor civilization and seek to destroy it wherever they go, travelling in large warbands known as Brayherds. The Beastmen will fight ALL forces, be they "good" like The Empire of "bad" like the Greenskins. If they hold cities, they are targets.
The seventh faction is the Wood Elves who live in their ancient forests. Theirs is a repeating cycle of life and death, bound to the magical forest realm they call home. The Wyld Hunt, one of their ritualistic events, is essentially their all-out assault on those who would threaten their sacred home. Primarily this is the Bretonnia faction. Speaking of;
Eight faction: Bretonnia. Whereas The Empire is based off of medieval europe to a large degree, Bretonnia is based off Arthurian legend as you noticed. Knights and Chivalry and all that stuff. What they dont speak of is how poorly treated the peasantry is in Bretonnia, because of course there can be no forces of good without despair in a Warhammer game. Bretonnia is even more "good" than The Empire, as long as you're noble-born or get adopted into the ranks of their military and achieve Knighthood. Otherwise, your life is going to be miserable, but such is your lot in life. Bretonnias two main rivals would be a faction of Vampires along their coastline and the Wood Elves whose sacred realm borders Bretonnia's own. Beyond that, Norsca assault their northern shores and Greenskins live in the eastern mountains. As well, Beastmen trample their lands from the south. In short Bretonnia has their fair share of enemies, many of them mutual with enemies of The Empire and thus they find easy allies among one another.
Ninth and final faction of Warhammer 1 is The Norsca. In short, they are viking-inspired raiders who attack the southern nations to rob them of wealth. Land expansion isn't their priority or playstyle. Interestingly, they are forces of Chaos and thus can ally with Archaon when he appears in the world, but you can also choose to oppose him, in which case you do so with very few allies as you've probably been raiding and pillaging half the Old World by that point, so everyone basically hates you.
Thank you so much for reacting to one of my favourite franchises of all time! Keep an eye out for that "advisor" guy who was trying to talk over the shouting Greenskin horde and then travelling to the Norsca, he shows up plenty throughout the games and the trailers. Essentially, he functions as the in-game tutorial advisor, regardless of which faction you play as. (Well for the most part, some factions have their own advisors.) Basically he teaches you how to play the game, which in some ways makes him the most interesting character of all since he seems to have connections with everyone from vampires to greenskins to Norsca and The Empire and many more.
Thanks so much for the comprehensive breakdown of the factions. 😀 Also why is it that Goblins are always so greedy and money hungry in every fantasy setting 😂🤑
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I'd like to know that too 😂Goblins are a weird fantasy creature. But I know at least one setting where they are not greedy or money hungry, it is an anime called "Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken", or in English "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime". If you ever consider doing full anime reactions on your second channel, I can highly recommend this one. Just watch out for copyright issues I guess, the world of anime is pretty predatory on that front.
me: are they going to recognize the Lord of Change
her: is that a vulture?
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FYI you mentioned at the end of the video that you were wondering about the lore for this Warhammer, it comes from books and a table top game from a long time ago.
As for the gameplay it is mainly singleplayer with a story focus, its also a grand strategy game with the option of playing alongside or against someone else.
Oh cool! We figured it was multiplayer but if it is story based and we can play coop together than even better 😀🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames multiplayer is the minority it’s a sandbox rts with single player ultimately being the core experience
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Storywise, the focus surely is on single player, but I had the most fun in multiplayer. If you own both TW:W 1 and TW:W 2, you can play a massive campaign on a huge map, where all factions are playable (well as long as you own the DLCs for many of them ;)).
The cool thing in multiplayer is, that players can participate, even if it's not their turn. When player A fights a battle, they can choose to share control of their army with player B. What's more: they can also allow Player B to take control of an AI army to make battles against AI controlled oponents more interesting.
It makes for a super fun experience, just hanging out (in a room or on discord), chatting while the active player does all the kingdom management parts of the game, and then playing the battles together, either as co-op commanders or adversaries.
If you are playing opposing factions that are located closely enough on the map, you might of course also meet in glorious battle :D
I don't know if you two are into grand strategy games, but once TW:W 3 comes out - well, let's just say this series has already proven to be one of the best there is.
Awesome to see you get into the Total War Warhammer franchise. Love this game series. And even though the first game had some of the weakest factions in my opinion so did it kick of an awesome series of games.
Wanted to add some cool lore also, the green knight who appeared in the Britonnia trailer is called well The Green Knight, he is a spiritual force that comes to Britonnias help when they need it the most. Kind of like a holy angel in your darkest hour.
And one really cool feature these games have is the mode called Mortal Empires in the second game. As the 1st, 2nd and 3rd games all take part in different areas of the Warhammer world so do you not have access to the other factions in the base campaigns, but Mortal Empires combines the map of Warhammer 1 & 2 and gives you access to all the factions you own. From both games. And they will do the same with the third one that comes out early next year.
That’s cool that they eventually came out with a way for you to combine your factions from both games 😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames It's super fun to play the huge maps. But the game can take so long between turns when 100+ individual factions need to play out their turns. Can take a couple of minutes.
Can't wait to see you two react to the second or third game which have some of the more out there factions.
All Total War games are strategy games but the reason people love it so much is becuase they changed the ususal strategy formula and basically made a hybrid between, Real Time Strategy and Turn Based Strategy. What I mean by that is you as the player get to pick a faction and manage it like your own kingdom from a top down view of a 3d map. You can upgrade your cities, construct many different types of building to manage your economy, public order, most Total War games also have a political side to it in which you basically try to manage your political party and keep everyone happy and try to avoid a Civil War or rebellion. Also you can manage your armies and choose which units to recruit whilst also keeping an eye on their upkeep cost because you don't want to go bankrupt. And the top down map view of the game works like a turn based strategy game, every turn you can do a limited amount of things like upgrading buildings or moving your army around to a certain extent. (all armies have limited movement withing a single turn, but you can upgrade your generals or heroes to get more movement points.)
And meanwhile when you attack an enemy army or besiege a city that's where the game turns into Real Time Strategy. You load into a specific battle map reflecting the terrain or city you chose to fight on the campaign map. It basically turns into a battle sim where you control each individual unit real time. You can use different formations, abilities or if you play a Total War game with a fantasy setting you can use magic spells and such. So that's just kinda the gist of it. It's kinda hard to explain but yea these are the basics.
Also I think Bethany would really enjoy the historical Total War games since they made a ton of them and in many different eras of history.
You can play TW Rome 1 or 2 and play through the rise of the Roman Republic and make it into an empire, or play as Hannibal and try to change history by defeating Rome. You can also play a ton of Gallic, Britannic and Germanic tribes. Of course you can choose Sparta or Greece or any of of the successor kingdoms of Alexanders disolving empire, or try TW Troy where you can play in the Bronze age and play through the Trojan war and pick iconic characters like Achilles or Hector. There is also TW Empire and Napoleon where you can go colonize the new world or play as the Iroquois Confederacy and fight back the colonies. (Also I don't think I have to explain TW Napoleon. :D)
You can play TW Attila and witness the fall of the Roman Empire or play as them and try to save it. Further down the list you can play TW Medieval 2 to get a great Medieval experience. TW Three Kingdoms is about one of the most interesting periods in Chinese history where hundreds of Warlords were fighting to unite China. TW Shogun 2 is the place where you want to get some top tier Samurai action. There are also ton of DLC to these games where you can play many great historical events like the Crusades, American Revolution, Rise of Charlemagne. Plus the modding communtity is absolutely incredible, from Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings and Warcraft mods where they basically made a brand new game with them that's how detailed they are.
The Total War series is so great if you are a history nerd plus of course the fantasy side of it is great as well with Warhammer and mods.
Really looking forward to the other two parts guys! Great video as always! :) (Pls sorry if this was a lot I just got carried away :D)
We are glad you got carried away 😀 So is it a game you play against computer or other people. Because if it is against the computer then that is pretty cool but if it is just against other people sometimes those games you get bullied hard if you don’t have the right alliance or don’t spend $ 🤔
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames The campaign is single player but you can play with or against other people in co-op. But most people play single player. And when I play with other people it's ususally with friends just fooling around. Also there are Multiplayer battles where it is a lot more competitive where you don't play a campaign and manage cities it's just real time battles against other players. Before the match you pick which faction you want to play and which units you want to choose kind of like choosing a deck in a card game. Then you just battle a another players army and then that's it. They ususally last for 15-20 minutes and this is where most of the competitions happen for pro players. But I always enjoyed the singleplayer campaign side a lot more.
11:46 That thing is a Shaggoth, a big fat Dragon Ogre (they are like centaurs but in ogre/dragon form). If I remember correctly it used to be a Beastmen Lord (7th Ed. at least) though it was included with Chaos Warriors in TW.
PD: This one is a bit different though, they didn't use to have Beastmen faces
😎👍😀 Thanks for giving us the official name. Shaggoth!
Finally. I've been wondering when you'd get to this one.
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congrats on 100k! you guys should definitely look at both of the mother russia bleeds trailer, fun little game that you might draw some parallels to!
Will add the game to our request list. 😇
Definitely do Total war warhammer 2 reactions!
We definitely will 😁
This was a pretty eclectic series of trailers. There are a few that would make for more digestible lore dumps - but most of these were definitely meant for those who already knew the factions.
Still got us pumped up about certain factions even if we didn’t understand the story going on in these 🤗
Oh I've been excited for this one.
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