Depending on who you play you need to rush. The Golden Order can rush down Sylvannia completely by turn 10, in turn giving you an Option to attack Drycha and Azhag early. After securing the east your economy is strong enough to challenge the nurglites with two stacks at least. All of this achieved with mostly huntsmarshal archer spam and Gelts starting roster. Sylvannia can also be a good late early game recruitment center. For money raid Caravans whenever possible and then... you will still be fucked in the late Game
That was obsolete even back during TWW1. The Empire was a very easy start.... Before wood elves, Beastmen and the upgraded Norscan faction came about. You rushed Marienburg, Bretonnia secured your flank or you could just take out the isolated orc settlements , take out the Vampires at your ease and then slowly fortify for Chaos. Or invade Kislev and fortify there(and also, the whole of Kislev was habitable. In return, the mountains were not able to be settled by you. ) When Beastmen and Wood Elves came, the Empire became hard. When Skarsnik and the reskinned Orcs, it became very hard. Add in Grom and well..... Thankfully wood elves stopped being so hardcore aggressive and remained in the woods unless they were dyrads. Not to mention, Norscan DLC meant Norscans were no longer pussies that you crushed with ease. A marauder based army with warhounds and chariots was just..... Absurdly outmatched.
@@wilhelmrk what is the point to spam archers. I want to role play. Using infantry which is supposed to be one of the strongest one , gunpowder and chivalry
Hard agree. I’ve done Gelt and Wulfhart campaigns so far and Gelt is my toughest campaign ever with Wulfhart being a pretty close second. Even Dwarfs aren’t all that bad compared to them despite so many people claiming they’re in desperate need of a rework.
@@C4NN4815 I think the idea with the blessed trebuchet was that there was no splash damage to friendlies, but if they were hit by the projectile itself then they still took damage
Summon the elector counts !! New or old all army’s will crumble before us sigmar is with us men charge !! Haha love the empire great video by the way loved it 👍
Note on the Tattersouls and Flagellants: Both have effectively 10 extra melee attack and 10% more damage and charge bonus compared to what the unit card shows. That's because they have Frenzy, and unbreakable means they will never lose the bonus from it.
Hey Colonel, thank you for making these guides it's much appreciated! I put total war down for about a decade and when I came back with Warhammer 3 I had no idea what was going on. These unit comp videos have helped immensely.
@@ether23-23 😁 itscall good though man. I didnt know total war existed til somone gifted me rome 2 aaboouuutt 3 ish years ago and now im 7 or 8 titles deep +dlc and all but 3 (twh) are fairly different from the rest. So if thats my take after 3 years. I couldnt imagine the learning curve youd have had after 10 or so years😅 in a game series where if you miss one or two its like shit how do i play again😅😅😁😁
They’re an interesting faction, but easily the weakest I’ve ever played so far. Being a jack of all trades makes them a master of none and I think their lack of any particular signature strength is a major liability for their functionality. That and the fact that their actually good mid to late game units take far too long to acquire imo meaning you’re stuck with their largely trash early game units far too long for my personal taste.
Great video! I am struggling with Gelt vs vamps. I'm trying to hold with a front line of spears/swords so my ranged can be effective but they swoop over with vargheists, vamp heroes and bats and before I know it my brave soldiers are broken and running and I just get swamped.
Two ways to deal with that: 1. Focus fire on the fliers first as they come in. Anything bigger than bats warrants having a great cannon pointed at it, too. 2. Keep a unit or two of Spearmen or Halbediers in reserve behind your missile line to intervene and free up your missile units. VC infantry are fairly trash, so your frontline can last for a while as long as you keep leadership up. Use that to kill the high-threat stuff - fliers, cavalry and monsters - first.
Even if they never make Toddy a full on LL it’d be great if they could at least give him some passive specifically targeting Empire Knights and Witch Hunters to further expand Middenland’s unique aspects.
I barely gotten into warhammer 3 and my main reason why i wanted to play empire is because of that STEAM TANK! i love the fact that it causes terror meaning most races can't comprehend the technology advances of mankind! ❤🤠
There is a mod for it mind you, a nice high tier Reiksguard collection of units. But I find it odd that there are no monstrous griffi based units or Pegasus cav in the base game. Like they exist in game but they did not do more with them.
They did some minor touch ups for the older factions, mostly due to the lighting system changes. But the models for all the TWW games have all been really top notch
I love the vanilla flavored factions. I don't like playing as monsters, I like slaying them. The Empire will always be my faction. These guys are the Space Marines of Sigmar.
C'mon this faction could have the gryphons with wings as the unique monsters unit. I don't know if has too much sense that Karl Franz is the only one that as one flying gryphon.
Yeah. Flagellants are there just to die so your ranged units can kill them. Since Greatswords cost too much to be spammed just as a tank. Although arguably state troops Sigmar sons can be a good enough replacement for flagellants.
Alternatively, you doomstack tanks, or you doomstack hellstorm batteries with either some demigriph knights or greatswords and huntsmen to defend them and call it a day.
Sadly, from my experience, Empire army is one of the weakest late game, in its full potential, compared to what other races can field late game. That's probably the only race with which I cannot create 'ultimate army' that steamrolls any AI stacks. Their roster needs serious rework, it's simply outdated, with all of new races that were added after game1.
Boris was basically the endboss of the Beastman DLC back in TW1, so they gave him a unique model and made him a diet legendary lord - he's an Empire General with slightly better stats and his Runefang, and starts immortal on the campaign map.
Late game army composition with no Warrior Priest - even only for the replenishment? And dude you need more gunpowder, definately too many Hunters/Infantry.
Empire footmen on this level would be highly proffesional career soldiers with many years of training and combat experience on their resumè. Hiring youngbloods to fight orcs would just be a waste of a good labour force.
I saw lots of Empire army guide, this one included. Everything they tell isn't right. Empire isn't have overall troops and lack some monsters and air. Empire have a shit infantry, a shit cavalry and no monsters. What they really have is really great artillery, access to gunpowder infantry (not great, but at least they have it) and gunpowder cavalry. They have a very decent spear line and infantry, that good against spear line or other units that are shit in melee... which can be killed by any missile or gunpowder units more effectively. And they have access to some of the strongest schools of magic. So generic spears, shit infantry, decent but slow cavalry, decent gunpowder infantry, great gunpowder cavalry, really great artillery and good magic.
CA say the Empire is a good starting campaign. I struggle the most with them. Not a single other campaign ive played was that hard.
Depending on who you play you need to rush. The Golden Order can rush down Sylvannia completely by turn 10, in turn giving you an Option to attack Drycha and Azhag early. After securing the east your economy is strong enough to challenge the nurglites with two stacks at least. All of this achieved with mostly huntsmarshal archer spam and Gelts starting roster. Sylvannia can also be a good late early game recruitment center. For money raid Caravans whenever possible and then... you will still be fucked in the late Game
That was obsolete even back during TWW1.
The Empire was a very easy start.... Before wood elves, Beastmen and the upgraded Norscan faction came about. You rushed Marienburg, Bretonnia secured your flank or you could just take out the isolated orc settlements , take out the Vampires at your ease and then slowly fortify for Chaos. Or invade Kislev and fortify there(and also, the whole of Kislev was habitable. In return, the mountains were not able to be settled by you. )
When Beastmen and Wood Elves came, the Empire became hard.
When Skarsnik and the reskinned Orcs, it became very hard. Add in Grom and well..... Thankfully wood elves stopped being so hardcore aggressive and remained in the woods unless they were dyrads.
Not to mention, Norscan DLC meant Norscans were no longer pussies that you crushed with ease. A marauder based army with warhounds and chariots was just..... Absurdly outmatched.
@@wilhelmrk that requires dlc to rush the archers too
@@wilhelmrk what is the point to spam archers. I want to role play. Using infantry which is supposed to be one of the strongest one , gunpowder and chivalry
Hard agree. I’ve done Gelt and Wulfhart campaigns so far and Gelt is my toughest campaign ever with Wulfhart being a pretty close second. Even Dwarfs aren’t all that bad compared to them despite so many people claiming they’re in desperate need of a rework.
The Sootson Mortars also don't cause any damage to friendly units. Basically you can pepper your entire frontline without losing any soldier :).
They're bugged. They only damage your units
@@Dethmajick Really? Didn’t notice anything. I even checked it in battle.
Is this definitely true? Both sootsons mortars and blessed trebuchets said this in tww2 and both did friendly fire
@@C4NN4815 I think the idea with the blessed trebuchet was that there was no splash damage to friendlies, but if they were hit by the projectile itself then they still took damage
They don't cause friendly EXPLOSION damage, direct hit still has FF.
Should also note the amber wizard(beast) has a gryphon mount.
Damn I didn’t know that
I'm pretty sure it's the two headed gryphon
28:00 "is super accurate"
*misses a shagoth two times*
I was looking for this. I'm surprised it missed twice In a row though
@@iamyourmom2 exactly
The Empire should get dismounted Reiksguard units. That's all.
Summon the elector counts !! New or old all army’s will crumble before us sigmar is with us men charge !! Haha love the empire great video by the way loved it 👍
I love huntsman generals for the extra campaign move range.
Note on the Tattersouls and Flagellants: Both have effectively 10 extra melee attack and 10% more damage and charge bonus compared to what the unit card shows. That's because they have Frenzy, and unbreakable means they will never lose the bonus from it.
Thanks for slowing down the narration a bit. Makes it much easier for us non-Anglos to follow.
Cheers!
Great army guide mate, very detailed ♥️
Loving this videos, especially as someone who isn't a pro in the factions. Thanks!
You failed , respectfully, to mention the terror of the Griffon mounts for our boys. It is quite handy quite often.
Hey Colonel, thank you for making these guides it's much appreciated! I put total war down for about a decade and when I came back with Warhammer 3 I had no idea what was going on. These unit comp videos have helped immensely.
Thats half your blame😂
This game evolves left right n center
@@MadLadMartyMcFly85 Ok??
@@ether23-23 😁 itscall good though man. I didnt know total war existed til somone gifted me rome 2 aaboouuutt 3 ish years ago and now im 7 or 8 titles deep +dlc and all but 3 (twh) are fairly different from the rest.
So if thats my take after 3 years. I couldnt imagine the learning curve youd have had after 10 or so years😅 in a game series where if you miss one or two its like shit how do i play again😅😅😁😁
I’ve always been a fan of the Empire. Human supremacy I guess? 🦐
Warhammer/40k is one of the ultimate settings for HFY
Not these days, they need a rework
They’re an interesting faction, but easily the weakest I’ve ever played so far. Being a jack of all trades makes them a master of none and I think their lack of any particular signature strength is a major liability for their functionality. That and the fact that their actually good mid to late game units take far too long to acquire imo meaning you’re stuck with their largely trash early game units far too long for my personal taste.
"Luminark is highly accurate" @28:00 ....
Great video! I am struggling with Gelt vs vamps. I'm trying to hold with a front line of spears/swords so my ranged can be effective but they swoop over with vargheists, vamp heroes and bats and before I know it my brave soldiers are broken and running and I just get swamped.
Two ways to deal with that:
1. Focus fire on the fliers first as they come in. Anything bigger than bats warrants having a great cannon pointed at it, too.
2. Keep a unit or two of Spearmen or Halbediers in reserve behind your missile line to intervene and free up your missile units.
VC infantry are fairly trash, so your frontline can last for a while as long as you keep leadership up. Use that to kill the high-threat stuff - fliers, cavalry and monsters - first.
Use fire damage
Light wizards make everyone around them by 150m immune to psychology
Even if they never make Toddy a full on LL it’d be great if they could at least give him some passive specifically targeting Empire Knights and Witch Hunters to further expand Middenland’s unique aspects.
I barely gotten into warhammer 3 and my main reason why i wanted to play empire is because of that STEAM TANK! i love the fact that it causes terror meaning most races can't comprehend the technology advances of mankind! ❤🤠
Let’s go was waiting for this
There is a mod for it mind you, a nice high tier Reiksguard collection of units. But I find it odd that there are no monstrous griffi based units or Pegasus cav in the base game. Like they exist in game but they did not do more with them.
Nice, i love the guide.
The music from Wildermyth was a good choice.
Why doesn't the Army Composition section feature the LL? Because most of the time you'll be using the LL lord and their starting army.
Cries in Gotrek and Felix
28:00 "it fires HIGHLY ACCURATE beams"
*misses f*cking Kholek
Twice lol
Great video
I'm surprised at how good the Empire units look, even compared to game 2 and 3 factions. Did they get a recent touch up?
They did some minor touch ups for the older factions, mostly due to the lighting system changes. But the models for all the TWW games have all been really top notch
I love the vanilla flavored factions. I don't like playing as monsters, I like slaying them. The Empire will always be my faction. These guys are the Space Marines of Sigmar.
C'mon this faction could have the gryphons with wings as the unique monsters unit. I don't know if has too much sense that Karl Franz is the only one that as one flying gryphon.
I miss 5 more rocket launchers in that army ;)
When you said deathclaw my mind just clicked to fallout
Are you using a reskin or why is your Empire Lord looking so damn neat ?
Do Embassies allow you to hire generals, heroes, or Regiments of Renown from friendly/allied factions or only regular units.
The halbadier unit @28:29, sadge
You could have shown the 2nd volley at 27:37 :D
Do Volkmars Buffs to Free Company Militia make them a good lategame pick?
How do you get your game looking so good? Are you capturing at 4k?
But colonel, you should know what flaggelants are used for. Send em in, clump up enemy forces. Then die alongside everyone in missile volleys.
Yeah. Flagellants are there just to die so your ranged units can kill them. Since Greatswords cost too much to be spammed just as a tank.
Although arguably state troops Sigmar sons can be a good enough replacement for flagellants.
Alternatively, you doomstack tanks, or you doomstack hellstorm batteries with either some demigriph knights or greatswords and huntsmen to defend them and call it a day.
5:51 Toddy, are you ok?
He's just a bit nervous
Sadly, from my experience, Empire army is one of the weakest late game, in its full potential, compared to what other races can field late game. That's probably the only race with which I cannot create 'ultimate army' that steamrolls any AI stacks. Their roster needs serious rework, it's simply outdated, with all of new races that were added after game1.
How can I get Boris todbringer?
is 'crossbows have more range than bow archers' historically accurate? I have heard the opposite
Depends on the bow I think
Those dwarf/ elf hero are from mods or what? I dont recall empire having Access to them.
Markus Wulfhart has special heroes which include a dwarf and an elf. They are from a DLC.
Markus Wulfhart gets special heroes that include a dwarf and wood elf since they’re supposed to be a reference to the Vermintide games.
Why do you not describe active abilities? :(
short and simple overview
Not sure why they still dont have the knights of the white wolves in this game
Next High elves or Lizardmen?
😎
28:01
>Highly Accurate
>Misses a Giant
roflmao, the timing could not have been better
Wait Boris is a legendary lord? Am I missing a dlc or is it something in game? Never played empire.
Boris is a regular lord+ that just happens to be immortal .
Boris was basically the endboss of the Beastman DLC back in TW1, so they gave him a unique model and made him a diet legendary lord - he's an Empire General with slightly better stats and his Runefang, and starts immortal on the campaign map.
0:14 ye literally, huh?
Late game army composition with no Warrior Priest - even only for the replenishment? And dude you need more gunpowder, definately too many Hunters/Infantry.
I've been through 4 other youtuber, all saying greatswords are garbage 😕
What happened to the Empire recruting age that all soldiers have grey hair and beards?
Empire footmen on this level would be highly proffesional career soldiers with many years of training and combat experience on their resumè. Hiring youngbloods to fight orcs would just be a waste of a good labour force.
@@lennyztrobos8678 Are you sure that isnt just a bug in Warhammer 3?
Poor accuracy on the Hellstorm is a fucking lie!
Wtf dude, the normal mortars have MUCH more range than the war wagon version, that's the whole point in their differences wtf???
Look at the range stats on the unit cards. They are the same
@@ColonelDamneders???
@@VKS551 ???????
I saw lots of Empire army guide, this one included. Everything they tell isn't right. Empire isn't have overall troops and lack some monsters and air. Empire have a shit infantry, a shit cavalry and no monsters. What they really have is really great artillery, access to gunpowder infantry (not great, but at least they have it) and gunpowder cavalry. They have a very decent spear line and infantry, that good against spear line or other units that are shit in melee... which can be killed by any missile or gunpowder units more effectively. And they have access to some of the strongest schools of magic. So generic spears, shit infantry, decent but slow cavalry, decent gunpowder infantry, great gunpowder cavalry, really great artillery and good magic.
That's a long winded way of saying you don't know how to play Empire well.
every guide is just formatting faction army composition almost the same... its so bland sorry
One of the boooring factions 😂