@@strangerlucky5753 it looks like in the video they got in through a part of the wall that didnt have anyone to man the towers. when in the wall pretty much all the units look untouched except one, EDIT. forgot this was warhammer 3 for a minute, and didnt count inside base towers, so your point is still valid
16:05 Autoresolve loves ratling guns because of their extremely high missile strength. It loves hellblaster volley guns for the same reason. Both units aren't nearly as good in practice as their stats suggest, but autoresolve doesn't know that.
11:46 The Engineering Student ancillary with + 5 Armor x2 (Lord and Hero), on top of 70 normal armor probably also helps in the auto-resolve calculations.
got ambushed in tw:w2 years ago by a 30 stack against my single cold ones chariot unit with a lord and hit auto resolve because fuck that heroic victory it claimed over 3.5k rat souls
Warhammer 2 the Ratlings were EXTREMELY power, even better than their stats suggested, but yeah for 3 they kinda nerfed the hell out of all ranged units.
Seeing this made me think "Huh I wonder what Deathglobes, Wind Mortars, Warpfires or Jezzails only would look like?" Came to the mental consensus that it would be a lot harder, due to building tiers and unit tiers the only one that could possibly look similar to this Ratling Gun Only vid would be Warpfires, I know first-hand the auto resolve adores warpfire throwers for some reason even though they usually bathe your own rats in green fire before the enemy.
Warpfire throwers are meant to be your frontline. They directly counter melee infantry, they themselves have 70 armor base making them have something like 50% damage reduction as well as having that magic damage based flamethrower that completely bypasses armor and melee resistance. Its leadership debuff also makes them route, so if you combo warpfire throwers with ratling guns or warplock jezzails behind them they are a deadly combo.
Jezzails works even better, once they are Tier 9 and have full range you kill 3-4 Units at the start of the battle. Then its over in under 1 minute most of the time.
poison/Deathglobes are probably the most op unit skaven has imo. They can arc their shots over infantry and walls better than any other weapons team. they move faster than most weapons teams. They can actually scale walls, making them the best ranged unit during seiges. Just poison globes already have pretty similar dps to the warpfire thrower, with the deathglobes blowing everything out of the water with their dps outpput. Sheilds dont seem to be a big nuisance either, since the bombs explode and inflict a status regardless if they hit a shield or not. Same when they attack units on walls, their shots dont seem to be blocked as much as other ranged fire can be, AND since their status spreads to the entire squad if just one hits, its no question their value in seige battles. Theyre even upgraded to be anti-large, making them arguably one of skaven's best ranged unit against large opponents too. A full deathstack of deathglobes is one of the strongest armies in the game to have (i think) since they pretty much melt through everything that comes at them in virtually every situation you come across. I really have a hard time thinking how you could counter such a force without using a ridiculous amount of artillery or a dozen dragons. as for the other weapons teams, Warpfires are great because theyre cheap and expendable, but you cant seige for shit with them. They also are not going to stand up to shielded infantry mixed with monstrous infantry. And their range is quite miserable making armored piercing ranged units a pain to deal with. While Jezzails... Jezzails just kinda stink imo. Theyre great for their range, but not for much of anything else. Jezzails dont melt through infantry quite like the other weapons teams do. Theyre great for sniping ranged units and artillery, but a full stack of jezzails will quickly get trampled on by a simple horde of shielded infantry.
I have actually done some deathglobe deathstacks before. Using a few engineers to buff, they just need a couple plague priests to spam out summons if the enemy closes in with fast units. The summons also help when being outranged, which is the only weakness in my experience.
Oh, surely you would need to do it as Cylostra or with a mod if you want a full ethereal army (I think Kemmler used to be ethereal in earlier editions so there's probably a mod for it). Bonus points for pulling off a outpost to somehow get the Green Knight or the lost Stag Knights for more ghostly goodness. Your life instantly becomes pain the moment you go anywhere near a Tzeentch faction though.
the actual question is vampire coast or vampire counts. Because as the coast, your lord and hero's are literally ghosts, and you also have ghost units obviously.
11:32 Belegar Ironhammer: "Why'd you abandon Karak Izor?" The City's Army: "The Skaven took it." Belegar: "Then how are you alive?" CA: "What I mean is, their Commander took it." Belegar: "Wait. So he simply walked in, and declared the city as his?" CA: "Ay." Belegar: "Without his army?" CA: "Ay." Belegar: ". . ." CA: ". . ." Belegar: "I'm taking the city back."
Skaven and Chaos Dwarfs are all about living out the power fantasy of brute forcing your way through a medieval fantasy setting, which tends to heavily favor swords and sorcery, with military technology that's several centuries ahead of everyone else
Currently losing my shit on how the skaven run plays out like a literal shitpost lmao "Our lord just unicycled to the middle of the city, claimed it was his, and the dwarves just agreed and left"
Yeah, one of Morghur's abilities is that he never stays wounded for longer than 1 turn, regardless of the circumstances. Add that Clan Skrye's thing is weapons teams even when you aren't doing a challenge, and it makes him one of the biggest hurdles for Ikit Claw's early game.
Just wanted to compliment you on how much your scripts/delivery have improved over time. Was recently watching your older videos and the jump in quality here is awesome
Somewhere, a greenskin finds a discarded ratling gun, picks it up and likes how it sounds. Thus began the Orks' 40,000 year journey to find "enuff dakka".
"Today I am going to be playing the Skaven incorrectly" ... but you didn't. The only way to play Skaven incorrectly is by some of them working together peacefully. Genocide by nuclear bombardement, eating your own troops alive and friendly fire galore? That's just a random Tuesday for Skaven...
I would have loved we could have gotten the rattling guns from vermintide, the ones where its only one black rat with a minigun, that should have been the RoR.
6:08 Morghur has a special property where he is never wounded for longer than one turn. In lore he is blessed to regenerate from anything, even complete obliteration.
"And the Dwarves just agreed" They probably heard of some Dwarven Settlement offering free booze to the Dwarf with the Longest Beard, and everyone came rushing to partake, even those without beards, they just glued a Skaven to their face.
I don't know why but i got a moment of self reflection that just made my suffering through the last couple of years seem really stupid. Thanks mate. I don't know how or why a video about rats shooting at everything that moves helped me but yeah... Life is a big mystery
I didn't know CA recreated the predator jungle shooting scene almost shot for shot in the trailer for the prophet and warlock DLC until you used the clip from it in your video. My life is now better because of it. Thank you.
Dude, this video is full of brilliant writing 15:47 😂 what a treat. from start to finish, you can tell that this video is a product of passion and love!
Warhammer Fantasy is such a weird setting dude how are trillions of ratmen that have nukes, flamethrowers, and miniguns for literally no reason while the master engineer dwarves have just barely figured out cannons and muskets on the same playing field as 14th century French knights
As someone who's favorite lord is Ikit Claw I love this. Would be interesting to see if you could pull this off but with the Warpstone Grinders. I feel they're so underappreciated.
I love how every video on Skaven involves an astronomical number of friendly fire incidents. I guess it's inevitable when your brain is being turned to swiss cheese by Chernobyl-levels of radiation
I'm subbed to like four Warhammer 3 channels despite not playing the game and you're my favorite! No annoying edits or blinding white flashes as you show your 'avatar' on screen ~ keep it up! entertaining :))
rattling guns might be one of if not THE strongest all around unit in the game dude. theyre so crazy cost efficient and can kill pretty much everything. This is like asking if you can burn a tissue with a flame thrower. try a cavalry unit.
13:56 *Belegar Ironhammer appears mildly upset that we ganked 90% of his clan and turned his home into our traphouse, (Complete with Rattling Guns on the roof,)* 🤣🤣😂😂 💀💀
Been following your content since the Goblins Only campaign. Your writing, editing, and incredible comedic timing have become legendary over the last year, and I look forward to whatever comes next!
Your commentary is very, very entertaining. I don't play this game nor have much interest in warhammer fantasy, so that i sat through this entire video is very showing.
THAT ONE WHITE DOT ON THE BOTTOM LEFT. It shows up whenever the picture isn't zoomed in in post. It shouldn't annoy me but it does 😂 awesome video nevertheless ❤
the "80% was friendly fire" and then you backtracking and doing the math and realizing how right you were was hilarious.
it is not tho, the tower kill count is not included.
@@strangerlucky5753 it looks like in the video they got in through a part of the wall that didnt have anyone to man the towers. when in the wall pretty much all the units look untouched except one, EDIT. forgot this was warhammer 3 for a minute, and didnt count inside base towers, so your point is still valid
this is just skaven in a nutshell right here 😂
16:05 Autoresolve loves ratling guns because of their extremely high missile strength. It loves hellblaster volley guns for the same reason. Both units aren't nearly as good in practice as their stats suggest, but autoresolve doesn't know that.
11:46 The Engineering Student ancillary with + 5 Armor x2 (Lord and Hero), on top of 70 normal armor probably also helps in the auto-resolve calculations.
got ambushed in tw:w2 years ago by a 30 stack against my single cold ones chariot unit with a lord and hit auto resolve because fuck that
heroic victory it claimed over 3.5k rat souls
The presumption is that ranged units get to fire everything. The results are....
The devs didn't know that or didn't bother to balance it more like.
Warhammer 2 the Ratlings were EXTREMELY power, even better than their stats suggested, but yeah for 3 they kinda nerfed the hell out of all ranged units.
When you bring gun to the arrow and sword fight. An absolute victory.
Yea but when you bring non depleted uranium round chainguns to gun fight, an even more absolute victory
666th like baybee
How is this incorrect? This is my average Clan Skryre army 😂
Not enough friendly fire.
Naw, a Skryre army has more Ratling guns.
@@goblinrat6119true
@@BrilliantStupidity Not enough cheese either
They still Need 1/2 unit of skaven slaves for the friendly fire
“I will gather ever mentally unstable rat I can find.”
That’s basically my bat signal
Sorry *rat signal
@@SurfinBird313
Bats are just rats with wings :V
@@NcrXnbialso pigeons
I'm here. Where is is the enemy? Much blood to spill. Yes yes.
AKA how Yuumi was introduced to LOL
Seeing this made me think "Huh I wonder what Deathglobes, Wind Mortars, Warpfires or Jezzails only would look like?"
Came to the mental consensus that it would be a lot harder, due to building tiers and unit tiers the only one that could possibly look similar to this Ratling Gun Only vid would be Warpfires, I know first-hand the auto resolve adores warpfire throwers for some reason even though they usually bathe your own rats in green fire before the enemy.
Warpfire throwers are meant to be your frontline. They directly counter melee infantry, they themselves have 70 armor base making them have something like 50% damage reduction as well as having that magic damage based flamethrower that completely bypasses armor and melee resistance. Its leadership debuff also makes them route, so if you combo warpfire throwers with ratling guns or warplock jezzails behind them they are a deadly combo.
Jezzails works even better, once they are Tier 9 and have full range you kill 3-4 Units at the start of the battle.
Then its over in under 1 minute most of the time.
poison/Deathglobes are probably the most op unit skaven has imo.
They can arc their shots over infantry and walls better than any other weapons team. they move faster than most weapons teams. They can actually scale walls, making them the best ranged unit during seiges. Just poison globes already have pretty similar dps to the warpfire thrower, with the deathglobes blowing everything out of the water with their dps outpput. Sheilds dont seem to be a big nuisance either, since the bombs explode and inflict a status regardless if they hit a shield or not. Same when they attack units on walls, their shots dont seem to be blocked as much as other ranged fire can be, AND since their status spreads to the entire squad if just one hits, its no question their value in seige battles. Theyre even upgraded to be anti-large, making them arguably one of skaven's best ranged unit against large opponents too.
A full deathstack of deathglobes is one of the strongest armies in the game to have (i think) since they pretty much melt through everything that comes at them in virtually every situation you come across. I really have a hard time thinking how you could counter such a force without using a ridiculous amount of artillery or a dozen dragons.
as for the other weapons teams,
Warpfires are great because theyre cheap and expendable, but you cant seige for shit with them. They also are not going to stand up to shielded infantry mixed with monstrous infantry. And their range is quite miserable making armored piercing ranged units a pain to deal with.
While Jezzails...
Jezzails just kinda stink imo. Theyre great for their range, but not for much of anything else. Jezzails dont melt through infantry quite like the other weapons teams do. Theyre great for sniping ranged units and artillery, but a full stack of jezzails will quickly get trampled on by a simple horde of shielded infantry.
@@janp5063yeah Jezzails absolutely wreck everything if you've got map positioning on your side & they're fully buffed. It's not even close.
I have actually done some deathglobe deathstacks before. Using a few engineers to buff, they just need a couple plague priests to spam out summons if the enemy closes in with fast units. The summons also help when being outranged, which is the only weakness in my experience.
"We may not always outlive our enemies, but we can always outfuck them." Such a powerful quote, I want that on a T-shirt 😂
I was choking on my drink as soon as I heard him say that. Oh my fucking God, I was NOT expecting that!
the entire premise of prey vs predator
Rabbits:
@@countchompula1896 Ants, also.
Pro life argument
I really wanna see a ghost/spirit only run. I YEARN FOR THE SPOOKY.
I did that once as kemmler. It's a blast.
Oh, surely you would need to do it as Cylostra or with a mod if you want a full ethereal army (I think Kemmler used to be ethereal in earlier editions so there's probably a mod for it). Bonus points for pulling off a outpost to somehow get the Green Knight or the lost Stag Knights for more ghostly goodness. Your life instantly becomes pain the moment you go anywhere near a Tzeentch faction though.
the actual question is vampire coast or vampire counts. Because as the coast, your lord and hero's are literally ghosts, and you also have ghost units obviously.
Go ahead
Take a spooky dokie
11:32
Belegar Ironhammer: "Why'd you abandon Karak Izor?"
The City's Army: "The Skaven took it."
Belegar: "Then how are you alive?"
CA: "What I mean is, their Commander took it."
Belegar: "Wait. So he simply walked in, and declared the city as his?"
CA: "Ay."
Belegar: "Without his army?"
CA: "Ay."
Belegar: ". . ."
CA: ". . ."
Belegar: "I'm taking the city back."
Ratling Gunners: So anyway, We-we started blasting!! Yes-yes!!
you missed a mark by not writing "Shoot-blasting!!"
Thanquol: “GREAT HORNED RAT, Ikit Ikit, you just shot-killed all all our skaven slaves!”
Ikit: “Eh.”
Skaven and Chaos Dwarfs are all about living out the power fantasy of brute forcing your way through a medieval fantasy setting, which tends to heavily favor swords and sorcery, with military technology that's several centuries ahead of everyone else
“80% of our casualties were from friendly fire”
_Peak Skaven Gameplay_
Currently losing my shit on how the skaven run plays out like a literal shitpost lmao
"Our lord just unicycled to the middle of the city, claimed it was his, and the dwarves just agreed and left"
Yeah, one of Morghur's abilities is that he never stays wounded for longer than 1 turn, regardless of the circumstances.
Add that Clan Skrye's thing is weapons teams even when you aren't doing a challenge, and it makes him one of the biggest hurdles for Ikit Claw's early game.
The question is, not that if you can, but how many rats will die in the crossfire?
Not enough
Yes.
@@playerknownasmousecop yes-yes
@@johncostello6006
Skaven-skaven, yes-yes.
80% is Acceptable losses
The answer? Use a gun. And if that don't work?
*Use more gun*
Oh, hi there
Just wanted to compliment you on how much your scripts/delivery have improved over time. Was recently watching your older videos and the jump in quality here is awesome
Agreed, have noticed the same thing! And that "pet shop" story theme on that one video was such a great premise / structure for the video lol
Somewhere, a greenskin finds a discarded ratling gun, picks it up and likes how it sounds. Thus began the Orks' 40,000 year journey to find "enuff dakka".
"Today I am going to be playing the Skaven incorrectly" ... but you didn't. The only way to play Skaven incorrectly is by some of them working together peacefully. Genocide by nuclear bombardement, eating your own troops alive and friendly fire galore? That's just a random Tuesday for Skaven...
Siege battles as the Skaven without Poison Wind Mortars are just a massive ball ache.
Other than that though, I love playing with this army.
“To win win without fighting is what skaven slaves are for for.”
-Rattzoo, the art art of war.
The rat of war*
“To win-succeed without fighting-skirmishing is what brethren-skaven slaves are for-for!”
-Rattzoo, Art of war-battle
This is absolutely titillating.
Hey is that Another funny dude?
Thanks! I'm a big fan of your tits as well.
Oh wow hi there
Referring to the dwarfs as 5’11 is one of the funniest and most true things I’ve heard
as a skaven player in the tabletop warhammer you described our rat lore perfectly.i cant wait to see more rat content
I would have loved we could have gotten the rattling guns from vermintide, the ones where its only one black rat with a minigun, that should have been the RoR.
A 5'11" Dwarf would be staggeringly tall.
Also, LORD that slow movement speed for Dwarfs is crippling, especially in city battles.
The stature of a dwarf is measured from the sole of his boot to the head of his axe!
To be fair, there are dwarf units that are labeled as "Fast (for a dwarf)"
Their speed is 32. Not very fast at all
You know, this video should have been titled: "How to win at Warhammer 3 with only friendly fire."
I never get tired of Skaven videos pointing out their rates of friendly fire. I brings a tear to my eye.
I think it may cost a tiny bit more then two hundred thousand dollars to have your army be firing for twelve seconds
"whoever said 'the pen is mightier than the sword' clearly never saw a gatling gun"
Home defense with my uranium loaded 300rpm gattling gun as the founding ratlings intended.
Skaven have to be my favorite faction to watch. It is like watching a cartoon
6:08
Morghur has a special property where he is never wounded for longer than one turn. In lore he is blessed to regenerate from anything, even complete obliteration.
"And the Dwarves just agreed"
They probably heard of some Dwarven Settlement offering free booze to the Dwarf with the Longest Beard, and everyone came rushing to partake, even those without beards, they just glued a Skaven to their face.
I don't know why but i got a moment of self reflection that just made my suffering through the last couple of years seem really stupid. Thanks mate. I don't know how or why a video about rats shooting at everything that moves helped me but yeah... Life is a big mystery
The tenured joke killed me. I think this is one of your best videos.
It got me so good, and also felt like it's a frustration he must be experiencing IRL right now!
Its so awesome to see your growth and confidence build with your videos! My favourite one yet, yes yess
The commentary was honestly on point in this video.
14:35 - 14:40 This quote makes me want to see you play Dwarves.
I almost gave myself whiplash with speed at which I jerked my head towards the screen when I heard the three houses music
I didn't know CA recreated the predator jungle shooting scene almost shot for shot in the trailer for the prophet and warlock DLC until you used the clip from it in your video. My life is now better because of it. Thank you.
Dude, this video is full of brilliant writing
15:47 😂
what a treat. from start to finish, you can tell that this video is a product of passion and love!
Warhammer Fantasy is such a weird setting dude how are trillions of ratmen that have nukes, flamethrowers, and miniguns for literally no reason while the master engineer dwarves have just barely figured out cannons and muskets on the same playing field as 14th century French knights
I literally just don't understand how you manage to be this funny
As someone who's favorite lord is Ikit Claw I love this. Would be interesting to see if you could pull this off but with the Warpstone Grinders. I feel they're so underappreciated.
Outro should be just a montage of rats shooting whilst some crazy classic music is playing! Great video bte cheers.
Idk why i got so excited whenever the "Forbidden Workshop!" was pulled up....
These ambushes seem more like unlucky fellows who just got caught in the crossfire of 2 different gangs.
That 5'11" joke 😂😂 You got me. I came here to enjoy a video about rats and guns and instead im called a dwarf 🤣
Going to put that in the book?
If I don't even know my own genius plan, then they definitely dont -every skaven scheme.
I've never played this game and probably won't ever get to. But from this video I can say that the rat man thing is my favourite
5'11"? Those are some tall Dwarves.
The ironic tone throughout the entire video just gave me so much satisfaction !!
The way you describe events sounds like how a Skaven would describe events.
I can really tell how your narration has evolved and improved over the course of your videos. Keep up the excellent work!
didn't need to watch this, already know they can
still did
''today I'll be playing the skaven incorectly'' proceedes to play the skaven exactly how everyone else does
You got me cackle at every dwarf being exactly 5'11
If the majority of your kills aren't friendly fire, are you even really playing Skaven?
i love the panic at 11:35 when you spot your ratling guns firing into the back of another unit and just dropping their healthbar
The fact that he is playing Vivaldi in the background is mad funny
11:26 Could have made a joke about the bullets being so radioactive that their half life only enables them to exist for seconds
Found this at 3 am
This is like finding that crisp cold water in the middle of the night
Good stuff
Finishing off the next video at 5am and this comment was like that for me.
I appreciate it haha
I love how every video on Skaven involves an astronomical number of friendly fire incidents. I guess it's inevitable when your brain is being turned to swiss cheese by Chernobyl-levels of radiation
Been waiting for this one! I'd ask that you do death globes next, but I don't hate you that much. These are so fun... to watch...
Yes yes, genus-smart strategy to win win the war fight.
Oh boy, I love the Gatling Gun Monkey from my favourite strategy game, Bloons Tower Defense 5
I fail to see why this is a challenge, Your just being lore accurate with ikit claw
The challenge is not being able to shoot skavenslaves
I've been only watching your early videos, and this is a jarring jump in quality that I was not expecting
Damn hypergryph really had to punch us in the face with that
Weapon teams is the only way to play as Skaven.
'if I dont know my plan then the enemy never sees it coming' is the most skaven thing I ever heard! keep on ratling!
I literally finally bought this DLC last night. Thanks for dropping a guide for me
I'm subbed to like four Warhammer 3 channels despite not playing the game and you're my favorite! No annoying edits or blinding white flashes as you show your 'avatar' on screen ~ keep it up! entertaining :))
Ah "the great famine of turns 1 through 10". I remember it well.
the half-life of the bullets kick in mid-air thanks to meddling underlings sabotaging it
A New York sewer line appeared 😂 😂 so many quotable lines in one video
Remember there’s no such thing as “friendly fire” in Skavendum
Can you beat the game with ?
hmm
Is it doable ? Yes.
How many units will die of friendly fire ? Yes.
Are they acceptable casualties ? Yes.
rattling guns might be one of if not THE strongest all around unit in the game dude. theyre so crazy cost efficient and can kill pretty much everything. This is like asking if you can burn a tissue with a flame thrower. try a cavalry unit.
love the editing its very exciting but id love to see more battles
YES YES MANTHING REALIZE TRUE SKAVEN POWER OF RATLING BOOM BOOM EHREERRRR YESSSSSS
Dwarves are my favorite, but tortoises on ketamine still made me laugh out loud.
13:56 *Belegar Ironhammer appears mildly upset that we ganked 90% of his clan and turned his home into our traphouse, (Complete with Rattling Guns on the roof,)* 🤣🤣😂😂 💀💀
Turning skavenblight into a beautiful city is still easier than turning Baltimore into one honestly
"Flood the World in Flames!" Would love to see a flammenwerfer only run, if it's not too much of a pain.
Been following your content since the Goblins Only campaign. Your writing, editing, and incredible comedic timing have become legendary over the last year, and I look forward to whatever comes next!
The answer is not 'yes-yes' or 'no-no', it is 'more-more'
i feel like the alternate tile "i turned warhammer 3 into "merica simulater 3!"" would be more fitting.
The little college professor rant really hits home 8:14
The only thing better than killing Skaven are Skaven killing each other.
If you play skaven and the enemy has killed more of your units than your units did friendly fire, your playing wrong.
Your commentary is very, very entertaining. I don't play this game nor have much interest in warhammer fantasy, so that i sat through this entire video is very showing.
I don't understand anything yet I enjoy this video.
One never has enough dakka. Also, Skavenblight is Detroit, change my mind.
the commentary has improved so much! good job dude!
THAT ONE WHITE DOT ON THE BOTTOM LEFT. It shows up whenever the picture isn't zoomed in in post. It shouldn't annoy me but it does 😂 awesome video nevertheless ❤
Lol that army literally showed up to watch their leader die, said "who's gonna pay me now" and went home.
“If I don’t know my own plan they will never see it coming.”