'Kholek demands single combat' Enemies: "No." Kholek: "No, no, you don't seem to quite understand. It's single me against your single nation. See? Fair fight!" *Bodyrams through castle walls
Someone made a mod where Kholek basically vassalized every faction at once to see how high his stats would get, and he ended up with 24k weapon strength. Meaning he would one hit every lord and hero, ever (most likely) but seeing as he had vassalized every faction on turn one, it was pointless 😂
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Kholeks Army: Loses 23 units. Tomb Kings: Loses 3k. A close victory indeed, had the bone brothers not thrown themselves at the army in an attempt to escape Kholek, they'd have to call it a massacre.
That battle report takes into account how much damage heroes and lords have taken, not just single models lost (in addition ot other factors like missile reserves) and that hero was almost dead: that counts for something. I am pretty sure damage regenerated back is still taken into account as being damage that you suffered as swell. So even if Kolek survives at 99% health at the end he might still have suffered the amount of damage that would have wiped out two elite heavy infantry units.
I'm nerdy and scripted a function to calculate the number of times more powerful Kholek would be for a given number of vassals. Taking for your "few thousand" as a conservative figure of 2000 vassals, Kholek would be 2.391102e+42 times more powerful than at the start of the campaign...
I love how, despite the insanity of a unit being so overpowered, the thing that got me was during the Ursus fight, where I sat there for a moment, paused the video, and then muttered to myself: "...Is that fucking 'It Has to Be This Way' playing in the background?"
Same, I kept hearing the songs, but they were too shy for me to identify them. I did manage to hear The Only Thing I Know For Real correctly though (and I had a feeling about Rules of Nature, but I couldn't tell as for It Has To Be This Way)
Especially good because on Kholek's weekend vacation to subjugate Ulthuan he can pick up the Sword of Khaine and instantly triple his weapon damage and combat prowess.
Keep also in mind that vassals can vanish. Somewhat. I played a game with a friend where one of my vassals got "unvassalized" and I could no longer vassalize him or declare war against him. But that's not even the worst: One of my vassals just vanished from every interaction possible. He still exists, he owns cities. But he has no army, and no interaction is possible. I can't attack him, I can't even do any political interactions. And he is no longer listed as my vassal. Oh and he doesn't even show up in the list of factions! My friend also can't interact with him, and I'm pretty sure other NPC's alos can't... Basically he's dead and still has cities that no one can get because you would have to declare war which you can't because he doesn't exist! Perfectly not broken...
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During my Belakor campaign, Belakor just about solo'd Vlad and another army of undead. What amazed me the most was that, despite being surrounded by crypt horrors and zombies and skeletons, he just beat Vlad around like a paper doll. The chaos lords really do be strong in this game. I just send Belakor in to get surrounded, pop some damage resist items and abilities, then drop spells on top of him and it just works.
I believe that Belakor is one of the strongest lords in the entire game. Extremely capable fighter, plenty of ward save, and very powerful damage spells. He might even be the strongest but I suppose that could come down to personal preference
@@rafael_pinto Grand Cathay is the Warhammer equivalent of China. Kholek is a centuarish creature, and centaurs are usually part man part horse, and he's vassalizing everything north of Grand Cathay. Ghengis Khan was the leader of the Mongols whose entire society centered around horses, and they subjugated everybody north of China before going after the kingdom itself.
Percentages are so incredibly fun to play with. By collecting just a few of the right ones you can make a character nigh unstoppable and with a lot of them you become...well, a sun eater.
@@fast1nakus Sadly in this game they all just add. Spiffing choose the wrong thing to focus on. Kholek even with every faction as his vassal isn't even the strongest possible character in the game.
@@EvilDoresh Yeah Skyrim is balanced so weirdly I don't know what stuff they were on. Doesn't take advanced level programming knowledge to realize that adding negative multipliers and multiplying positive ones is a recipe for disaster. Armour is a good example. You basically get no benefit from like the first 300 and then the armour benefit exponentially grows until they had to hard cap it.
Ya, that’s really the lynch pin in the entire build. Without that, he’s as easy to take down early as any other lord. Without that regen, I’ve taken kholek down on legendary with base Orc boys units swarming him.
I wonder if Spiff will do a video on the Gimgor exploit: 1. Play Grimgor Ironhide 2. Get unbreakable attribute (either through defeating Gotrek Gurnisson or through items such as Sword of Khaine) 3. Give him "Da Immortulz" banner, which means he cannot die as long as his leadership is above 50% Since he is unbreakable, Gimgor will never suffer any form of leadership loss. This means his leadership will never drop below 50%, and therefore he will stand there attacking at 1hp until everything else is routed or dead. While Kholek is theoretically unkillable, Grimgor is actually unkillable.
@@DIEGhostfish yeah you're right, just went and had a look and Grimgor CANNOT become immortal unfortunately. However, as demonstrated Kholek absolutely can
@@MrFartquad The technical cut off is 50%=< casualties. You can get that without triggering a pyrrhic victory since the victory calculation works on balance of power while the Wades in Gore trait only cares about the casualty number.
@@ruukinen It is definitely more than that, I think I have read that >90% of the models must die, but even if not, it is definitely >75%. Using AoE magic or artillery on manual fire to nuke your own units is almost a must, since it is really hard to reliably win battles while losing that many entities, unless your lord is an absolute beast, and the entire rest of the army is garbage chaff.
@@Riwillion It's 50%. Just try it out with a decent strength lord against a small garrison and one unit of literally whatever. Kill off half the units of that whatever and you'll get the trait when you mop up the garrison with your lord. It's also fairly easy to get with auto resolve on harder difficulties so it isn't necessary to nuke your own troops like you claimed.
*takes a sip of Yorkshire tea* My new personal headcanon is that Kholek just really likes having an audience to watch him do cool stuff, because what’s the point of being awesome if there aren’t people to appreciate it?
Dude an hour ago I said wouldn't it be good if this handsome British dude uploads a video about Warhammer 3 and here we go Love you so much so the UA-cam algorithm only recommends your videos I'm not even kidding
I love the results at the last battle. Kholek's Army: 28 losses. Tomb King Army: 2800 losses. The game: "It was a Close Victory, you just barely won." Gotta love that Red Army logic.
Hey Spif, there is a new exploit in the new bannerlord update 1.8 where lords would buy out 300k-1million worth of grain in order not to starve. After i defeat their armies, i sold their grain of 400k in a nerby town and buy myself and companions armor and weapons.
just a tip, when you attack someone, remove the defensive mode (the shield icon) so the character will keep attacking and following the target , if not it will stop after the first few attacks and will stay on defensive
I unknowingly did the same exploits, I was wondering why suddenly Suneater felt so strong compared to the other updated/even the new chaos lords now I know why. I have 12 vassals, couple skaven, orge, one ork, and then mostly choas and norsca lol
Another sweet thing for Chaos is iron mines add +10 armour for your Chaos warriors, which stacks... then there is the lord trait that buffs infantry armour and defense.. you could hit 200 armour, which for relatively basic infantry is insane
"It features the chaos wastes of swindon" absolutely killed me since I used to live there for a bit, and I can assure you that it is truly something worth this expression indeed
I was in the middle of a Valkia campaign, ended up getting the Chainsword from Khorne very early into the campaign, made it all the way to Tilea with Midnight Aristocracy Crisis active. It was fun seeing Helman Ghorst go out of control but couldn't kill him because of the update 2.1.1. Now the game crashes every other turn, I may have to start all over again but at least I paid back the Dark Elves for interrupting my Von Carstein campaign from TWW2.
@@Riftweaver1981 I was able to get from filling the Eye at the top of the screen. When you fill it up and get Khorne's attention, each time an event triggers and I got really lucky early on in the game. At the cost of injury my starting Hero, Chainsword was one of the 4 options available.
I like how the song that played on the last few parts was The Only Thing I Know For Real. Like we didn't understand there was going to be bloodshed already already.
The video was entertaining, I give you that. Kolek had over 200 armor, allowing him to stop all non armor piercing damage. The weapon strenght is lost, as there is a limited number of entities he can hit at once. The mass is the best, as it allows him not to get stuck. No Talisman of Preservation? No Armour of Destiniy? Kolek had not reached its maximum potential! Overall good video, yet it is also click-bait, since it does not seems to be overpowered at all!
@@Nerazmus Not for armour. In this case you are wrong. Armour will block 100%-1 non- armour piercing damage at 200 armour. It also stacks with the other resistances that are capped at 90%.
In hell where she belongs. People are really forgetting about the whole head of state of the British empire. More recently she actively protected Prince Andrew…
One time when I was soloing with Kholek, I got a message at the top of the screen... "Your troops are routing!" So I scroll over to where I sat my troops and they're running from Deathmaster Sniktch... the entire time I was wondering where he was, too. "Oh shit, there he is!" As Kholek immediately turns away and charges at Sniktch. Moral of the story: Never leave your units undefended when Sniktch is around.
Computer: "wow, such a close battle" Spiff: "I disagree" He lost 20 people whilst the enemy lost 1000s, it wasn't even on the same planet, let alone same ball park, so either the AI is trying to downplay its loss, or it's just that stupid.
It's an annoying thing with these titles, if the AI expects you to get completely beaten in the auto-resolve, it will only ever give you a "close victory" result. You can literally not have a single casualty and it will still give you a "close victory"
It has to do with how balance of power is calculated. Basically, it doesn't matter how many losses the enemy suffered, it only comes down to how your own army ends up. And for that, it also uses ammo reserves and unit models that were damaged but not killed (which automatically get fully healed after a battle unless it was a single entity monster, which is why units that were beaten up in the battle can sometimes be full health in the post battle screen if the damage was spread out enough to not kill any models).
The AI favors and gives greater weight to ranged units over melee units in auto resolve. Melee oriented factions tend to get lower outcomes compaired to ranged factions. Nurgle, Beastmen, Khorn, and Vampires tend to have much better armies loosing to much weaker armies in auto resolve. Nurgle and Vampires get the shortest end of the stick because they can go into a fight with a dangerous enemy army and walk out of it if the player controls the army with minimal to no model losses, but auto resolve the same battle and loose half their army or lose outright.
So what would happen if Kholek got so many vassals that he integer-overflowed into the weakest being in the Universe? It would need to be a 2-byte for that though.
I always played Kholek with a whole army of Shaggoths, and it was like a steamroller. In Tabletop Warhammer back in the early days I did a similar thing. A massive unit of dragon ogres with a stacked champ/general
It should be noted that armour is hard-capped at 200. Armour reduces the portion of incoming damage that is not marked as armour-piercing by a percentage equal to a random point between 50-100% of the armour value. So, 100 armour means that incoming non-ap damage is reduced by a random value between 50 and 100% for every hit. 200 Armour now means that your damage reduction ranges between 100 and 200%, or in other words: The unit is immune to any damage that does not bypass armour. It is of course a bit more complicated than that, as there are effects that can reduce the effectiveness of your armour and there's also an actual cap of 90% on how far damage can even be reduced through any single method.
True spirit of the crown, "these lovely Ogres have 'joined' us" marvelous content as always. Might actually have to order some Yorkshire Tea to Louisiana if I keep binging all of these videos
So NGL this felt a little underwhelming? I was able to top those stats with a Khorne Daemon Prince. Got him close to max physical resist too combined with ward save.
Exploit: if you get a military ally, you can recruit an ally army, but if said army dies with some hero’s, you somehow recruit a different races heros….even after you betray your ally
I mean this would have been an actual exploit that he could have showcased. In this video he just played Kholek pretty much exactly how the developers intended Kholek to be played, and ended up with a character that is weaker than Skarbrand.
Spiff: "The auto resolve would have you believe this was a close victory....IT WOULD BE WRONG!" Literally no one: Me: *gigging and laughing uncontrollably when he zooms in on the numbers for at least 5 minutes straight*
This made me curious how armor worked in the game. It's a random reduction of non-ap damage starting from 0% negated but up to 100%. Each point up to 100 it reduces damage by a minimum half a percent. Up to 200 it reduces by a quarter of a percent. Anything over 200 does nothing. So you get a minimum 75% reduction to non-ap damage at 200 armor. Damage reduction from armor cannot eliminate all damage but will reduce it to the minimum level of one point of damage. Weird.
if I recall it is more simple armor = 50% to 100% DR per 1 point in armor (so 100 is 50% to 100% Damage reduction against base weapon damage (Aka non AP) and unless you have perfect vigor 200+ does have some value
@@honorguard7616 You can only get 90% of any DR effect, so armor only scales up to 180, at which point it's guaranteed to reduce any instance of non-AP damage by 90%. However, it does stack with Physical Resistance and Ward Save, so with the right items and characters, it's entirely possibly to reach 90% AP and 99% non-AP resistance. Not only that, these are entirely viable, with multiple videos of one-man-doomstacks floating around on UA-cam.
Small correction on my end: I asked on Reddit and a few other places to make sure, and apparently armor *does* scale up to 100%... with a caveat. In short, due to how the damage-formula works, even at 200 armor, one point of non-AP damage goes through, so long as the model makes the MA roll against the opponent's MD. It's why big monsters tend to get savaged if they get caught in a tar-pit, because every stab a gobbo makes at the back of their ankle is more-or-less a guaranteed hit. With hundreds of the buggers, it adds up quickly. However, where this small distinction becomes really important is with ranged units, especially against large enemies. It's the reason why giants were and are still mostly useless, because they are big, slow targets, and when they get focus-fired by three peasant archer units, each arrow has guaranteed plinking damage, no matter how little AP damage they have, usually melting them before they could even get into melee range.
This game has some pretty wild oversights, like Oxyotl just teleporting around the map, walking into every single major settlement, basically invisible, and capturing it without firing a single shot. Still a lot of fun though.
Couple things there at the start I learnt in my own kholek glow up campaign: 1. You're better off going south right away to grab Grimgor as a vassal before he gets his second settlement. You can choose to kill his army on the way, this will stop him from being able to wipe out the other orcs there and net you another early vassal. Then you move east. 2. Only fortresses with the large spike top left let you vassalise Norscans. That one you were sieging was in control of a minor warriors of chaos faction. You could have vassalised them instead of occupying the fortress. 3. When you vassalise a warriors of chaos faction you also get their vassals. It seems you wiped out vilitch's vassal before him, so you lost out on a vassal. . So at the point where you say you have three vassals you should have 7! :o
I actually had this autoplay after I'd watched a history documentary whilst playing Immortal Empires AS Archaon and uhhh yeah it made me decide to march half way across the world to beat up creepy centaur man
In game 2 Bretonnian factions could build the Armory building, which gives all armies +2 armor. I personally found this mechanic to be pretty broken as you can increase the armor of everyone in your army to insane levels just by conquering the map and building this building in every one of your main settlements. I can't fathom how much more armor you can now give to your forces in Immortal Empires when playing as Bretonnia.
With Exploits like these it'd be fun to have a series of counter atempts, where Spiff tries to beat his own exploits^^ although he would probably need assistance for most of them
Gotta love infinite scaling strats, regardless of the game. I do love the story you presented us with, though. Made for a fun way to watch a playthrough.
Kholek is definitely a hilariously broken campaign, since you can basically play an easier Vilitch campaign, while having a stronger late game, due to the dozens of vassals you get
This is not even remotely true. Vilitch faction while only middle of the pack is still stronger than Kholeks factions which is pretty much the weakest WoC faction currently. This video is a bit misleading. This isn't an exploit, heck it isn't even that powerful.
@@ruukinen >isn't that powefull > solo's the game with one unit. Even if it isn't an exploit it's pretty busted. The actual exploits must be truely disgusting.
@@rubz1390 You can literally do that with almost any leader type character in this game. How much effort you need to put in depends on how strong they start off as.
@@rubz1390 Yeah, Skarbrand starts of like that at level 1. The problem is that with a surface level understanding of how the game works having 2k weapon strength sounds amazing but Kholek has a max splash attack of like 8. That means he can at most kill 8 models in one hit. Since he can't cast any spells his capability to clear chaff is garbage. Also this at most makes one army strong. The truly broken stuff makes your entire faction strong. Having one overpowered army is something almost all factions have access to.
You should definitely try out Clan Eshin at some point. Would make absolutely great video content, just setting the crisis difficulty to max, starting it as soon as possible, and specifically the tomb kings crisis (only one faction), only to wipe them out with a click of a button whenever they reach your borders. you could also go for getting 4 tier 3 assassin's hideouts in one providence in order to stack the +4 hero recruit rank they give. Combine that with technologies and Snikch's skill tree and you can get level 22 assassin heroes on recruit. Then what you can do is put 18 assassins and one warlock engineer in Snikch's army, which can make any walled siege an instant win basically. Just set the warlock engineer on one side of the settlement, and everyone else on the other. The AI will send all of its forces to the engineer, leaving you free to ladder in, take the 2 victory points and wait as the AI loses before it can even fight you. Alternatively, you can stack the +5% damage resistance the skaven chieftan's give to the lord of the army, and just make Deathmaster Snikch nearly invincible. tldr: Try Clan Eshin.
Now imagine if Spiff got control of an Ork WAAAAAGH! The thing he could accomplish by making DA BOYS believe it Ork Nob #1: Wez About ta siege Holy Terra! Ork Nob #2: Roit but first, tea time. It'z gonna make us invincible to hummie gunz just like Spiff said it would. Ork Non #3: Oi'l get the krumpets!
Funny enough, Legend did review a one man doomstack Kholek, like 4 days ago, with 353 armor and 2.2k weapon strenght, with what looks like 75% of the map as his vassals
I think Spiff's videos are shot a while in advance, and editing takes time - I bet this one was done weeks ago and was quickly edited recently to remove any Queen references.
*Each like on the video increases my MASS by 5% if you know what I mean* 🧐🧐
Fat?
Spiffing Like-Eater - it is you all along?
Then have some mass
What's Warhammer, never heard of it????
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casually claims to have vassalized me without my consent, this truly is the most British experience you can find on the internet.
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I mean, I gave my consent as he said it
Claiming things without consent is an incredibly British thing to do
Well... do you have a flag?
@@Wish-and-Hope Eddie Izzard, great stand up special
Kholek demands single combat
Enemies: “No.”
Kholek: “Fine you can use your army, I still solo.”
'Kholek demands single combat'
Enemies: "No."
Kholek: "No, no, you don't seem to quite understand. It's single me against your single nation. See? Fair fight!"
*Bodyrams through castle walls
@@swordzanderson5352 lol
*Kholek demands single combat*
Enemies: No.
Kholek: *sees their army* Ah, we understand each other.
Enemies: "confused strangled noises"
Kholek demands single combat.
Enemies: You're not gonna fight us with that army behind you?
Kholek: No, those are just my friends.
Someone made a mod where Kholek basically vassalized every faction at once to see how high his stats would get, and he ended up with 24k weapon strength. Meaning he would one hit every lord and hero, ever (most likely) but seeing as he had vassalized every faction on turn one, it was pointless 😂
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@@speedyknight5536 what the fuck
Everyone except Kugath who can get over 25k hp, resistance values, armor, and healing.
Kholeks Army: Loses 23 units.
Tomb Kings: Loses 3k.
A close victory indeed, had the bone brothers not thrown themselves at the army in an attempt to escape Kholek, they'd have to call it a massacre.
If given the choice to either fight Kholek's army or Kholek himself, I'm sure the army would be the choice haha.
Those 23 cost more money than the entirety of the tomb kings stack he wiped out, so it is kinda close, from a certain point of view
That battle report takes into account how much damage heroes and lords have taken, not just single models lost (in addition ot other factors like missile reserves) and that hero was almost dead: that counts for something. I am pretty sure damage regenerated back is still taken into account as being damage that you suffered as swell. So even if Kolek survives at 99% health at the end he might still have suffered the amount of damage that would have wiped out two elite heavy infantry units.
Spiff training a demon that also has the destructive capabilities of a nuclear bomb? Ah yes, perfectly balanced.
Yes all while sipping the truly amazing power of Yorkshire Tea Gold. Now that's perfectly balanced.
Truly perfectly balanced
I mean in lore kolek is as tall as a 40 story building
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Kholek is not a demon.
Kholek literally is gaining strength through the power of friendship.
My Big Suneater - Friendship is (Chaos) Magic.
He's a JRPG protag!
Must protect my Frienddsssss!!!
@The angel born in hell..Gogeta i love the idea of kholek being just an anime protagonist
*through the power of conquest and colonisation. truly british
The Suneater name is very literal, just took a few thousand vassals and he was big enough to one bite it
Resulting in awful heartburn
Of course you'd be here
I'm nerdy and scripted a function to calculate the number of times more powerful Kholek would be for a given number of vassals. Taking for your "few thousand" as a conservative figure of 2000 vassals, Kholek would be 2.391102e+42 times more powerful than at the start of the campaign...
I love how, despite the insanity of a unit being so overpowered, the thing that got me was during the Ursus fight, where I sat there for a moment, paused the video, and then muttered to myself:
"...Is that fucking 'It Has to Be This Way' playing in the background?"
And what about the instrumental version of "The only thing I know for real" in the following fight?
i had the exact same reaction, and based on the fact Spiff hearted the comment, im going to assume the answer is yes, yes it is
And a sneaky Rules of Nature during the Cathay siege
@@totallynotavoyeur6977 Followed by the vocal version behind it
Same, I kept hearing the songs, but they were too shy for me to identify them. I did manage to hear The Only Thing I Know For Real correctly though (and I had a feeling about Rules of Nature, but I couldn't tell as for It Has To Be This Way)
Keep in mind that in the 2.1 Update of TW: Warhammer III Kholek can now also vassalize any and all Human and Elven Nations.
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Crickey.
Perfectly balanced
Especially good because on Kholek's weekend vacation to subjugate Ulthuan he can pick up the Sword of Khaine and instantly triple his weapon damage and combat prowess.
Keep also in mind that vassals can vanish. Somewhat.
I played a game with a friend where one of my vassals got "unvassalized" and I could no longer vassalize him or declare war against him.
But that's not even the worst:
One of my vassals just vanished from every interaction possible. He still exists, he owns cities.
But he has no army, and no interaction is possible. I can't attack him, I can't even do any political interactions. And he is no longer listed as my vassal. Oh and he doesn't even show up in the list of factions! My friend also can't interact with him, and I'm pretty sure other NPC's alos can't... Basically he's dead and still has cities that no one can get because you would have to declare war which you can't because he doesn't exist!
Perfectly not broken...
"Making vassals out of all factions. " - Coming from a Britt sound kinda scary tough.
"You think you can kill a god? How can you kill a god?" Dagoth Ur Moment
Waking Dreams of A Starless Sky
by Bilius Felcrex
A fragmented tome mentioning the mantling of a godhead
The eyes, once bleached by falling stars of utmost revelation, will forever see the faint insight drawn by the overwhelming question, as only the True Enquiry shapes the edge of thought. The rest is vulgar fiction, attempts to impose order on the consensus mantlings of an uncaring godhead. First,
What a fool you are. I'm a god, how can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape.
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what a grand and intoxicating innocence
Shame on you sweet Nerevar.
One chaos dude destroying a fortress and a defending army, perfectly balanced. Perfectly warhammer.
We all joke, but like ya lol basically what killed of old game once let woc take daemons, end times or not game was already dead af competitively lol
During my Belakor campaign, Belakor just about solo'd Vlad and another army of undead. What amazed me the most was that, despite being surrounded by crypt horrors and zombies and skeletons, he just beat Vlad around like a paper doll. The chaos lords really do be strong in this game. I just send Belakor in to get surrounded, pop some damage resist items and abilities, then drop spells on top of him and it just works.
I believe that Belakor is one of the strongest lords in the entire game. Extremely capable fighter, plenty of ward save, and very powerful damage spells. He might even be the strongest but I suppose that could come down to personal preference
@@scarletcroc3821 he is one of the stronger fighters, but he is a bad commander.
Cathey having to deal with a powerful horse guy vassalizing everyone above them... hey I've seen this one before!
KHAAAAAAN!!!
Anything: has horse
Me: is this a really weird MLP joke
@@Т1000-м1и Fortunately for you, this joke is not about MLP.
Can you explain please?
@@rafael_pinto Grand Cathay is the Warhammer equivalent of China. Kholek is a centuarish creature, and centaurs are usually part man part horse, and he's vassalizing everything north of Grand Cathay. Ghengis Khan was the leader of the Mongols whose entire society centered around horses, and they subjugated everybody north of China before going after the kingdom itself.
Loving the revengeance status soundtrack together with warcrimes. Truly awesome indeed.
Percentages are so incredibly fun to play with. By collecting just a few of the right ones you can make a character nigh unstoppable and with a lot of them you become...well, a sun eater.
Do they increase or add more multiplier?
(+ or ×)%
@@fast1nakus Sadly in this game they all just add. Spiffing choose the wrong thing to focus on. Kholek even with every faction as his vassal isn't even the strongest possible character in the game.
The only thing more dangerous to game balance is exponential increases. It only takes a few chained multipliers to reach preposterous numbers.
@@ruukinen Of course they just add. This isn't _Skyrim_ XD
@@EvilDoresh Yeah Skyrim is balanced so weirdly I don't know what stuff they were on. Doesn't take advanced level programming knowledge to realize that adding negative multipliers and multiplying positive ones is a recipe for disaster. Armour is a good example. You basically get no benefit from like the first 300 and then the armour benefit exponentially grows until they had to hard cap it.
Kholek vs Boris:
"his hp is down to dead"
"he's bearly scraping by"
Did you know his character grows 1% larger for each vassal he has? It can be ridiculous
Only on the campaign map, unless you mod
@@j.jbinks9669 no no it's the peepee size. Kholek has what we call Big PeePee Energy, And that is what grows 1%....
So lucky you got regeneration on him so absurdly early, that's an enormous buff to how fast you can storm the map with him
Ya, that’s really the lynch pin in the entire build. Without that, he’s as easy to take down early as any other lord. Without that regen, I’ve taken kholek down on legendary with base Orc boys units swarming him.
Turn 77 never found crown of the everlasting conquest 😢
This feels like playing as the overpowered boss monster that you are supposed to lose to.
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@Adolfizzz0 👾
Yeah... It's a scripted tutorial defeat scene. Except you're playing as the wrong side.
exactly my thought. he is the player for the dungeon boss and fights the players for the heroes
Pmoon in a nutshell
Total War Warhammer World : Why won't you die !?
Kholek : You can't hurt me World, Vassalisation, Son.
Can't wait for a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.
Where there's a game, there will be exploits. Where's there's exploits, Spiff with a cup of fresh Yorkshire tea will be there.
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Chess
@@Colleywoodstudios ...... beat me. 😞
@@Colleywoodstudios correct!
I wonder if Spiff will do a video on the Gimgor exploit:
1. Play Grimgor Ironhide
2. Get unbreakable attribute (either through defeating Gotrek Gurnisson or through items such as Sword of Khaine)
3. Give him "Da Immortulz" banner, which means he cannot die as long as his leadership is above 50%
Since he is unbreakable, Gimgor will never suffer any form of leadership loss. This means his leadership will never drop below 50%, and therefore he will stand there attacking at 1hp until everything else is routed or dead. While Kholek is theoretically unkillable, Grimgor is actually unkillable.
...Grimgor can't give himself that banner it has to be a Black Orc infantry company. You CAN buff them up to near unbreakable or could in 2.
@@DIEGhostfish yeah you're right, just went and had a look and Grimgor CANNOT become immortal unfortunately. However, as demonstrated Kholek absolutely can
btw when you loose alot of units in auto resolve a bunch of times you can get a "bloody" trait which further increases your max HP
It's in fights in general, far easier to manual and run them into the enemy one at a time as a blood sacrifice.
It's for Phyrric victories, up to +20%
@@MrFartquad The technical cut off is 50%=< casualties. You can get that without triggering a pyrrhic victory since the victory calculation works on balance of power while the Wades in Gore trait only cares about the casualty number.
@@ruukinen It is definitely more than that, I think I have read that >90% of the models must die, but even if not, it is definitely >75%. Using AoE magic or artillery on manual fire to nuke your own units is almost a must, since it is really hard to reliably win battles while losing that many entities, unless your lord is an absolute beast, and the entire rest of the army is garbage chaff.
@@Riwillion It's 50%. Just try it out with a decent strength lord against a small garrison and one unit of literally whatever. Kill off half the units of that whatever and you'll get the trait when you mop up the garrison with your lord.
It's also fairly easy to get with auto resolve on harder difficulties so it isn't necessary to nuke your own troops like you claimed.
*takes a sip of Yorkshire tea*
My new personal headcanon is that Kholek just really likes having an audience to watch him do cool stuff, because what’s the point of being awesome if there aren’t people to appreciate it?
Dude an hour ago I said wouldn't it be good if this handsome British dude uploads a video about Warhammer 3
and here we go
Love you so much so the UA-cam algorithm only recommends your videos
I'm not even kidding
Okay.
I love the results at the last battle.
Kholek's Army: 28 losses.
Tomb King Army: 2800 losses.
The game: "It was a Close Victory, you just barely won."
Gotta love that Red Army logic.
Hey Spif, there is a new exploit in the new bannerlord update 1.8 where lords would buy out 300k-1million worth of grain in order not to starve. After i defeat their armies, i sold their grain of 400k in a nerby town and buy myself and companions armor and weapons.
"How can you kill a god?"
F*cking excellent Morrowind reference, if you were in fact making a Morrowind reference
It's always wierd watching Spiff play stuff and I actually know what's going on without him explaining it lol
8:30 f*kin Rules Of Nature lyrics fit PERFECTLY! he do be a starving beast.
Alright, gotta get Spiff to 10 million subscribers for the 'real life is perfectly balanced' video as he collapses reality with his mass.
just a tip, when you attack someone, remove the defensive mode (the shield icon) so the character will keep attacking and following the target , if not it will stop after the first few attacks and will stay on defensive
I unknowingly did the same exploits, I was wondering why suddenly Suneater felt so strong compared to the other updated/even the new chaos lords now I know why. I have 12 vassals, couple skaven, orge, one ork, and then mostly choas and norsca lol
Well it's not an exploit. It's literally how he's designed. It's very fun though :)
As someone who currently lives in Swindon,I confirm I have to fight off hordes of Chaos Demons as I try to get the bus to College.
I love how Chaos went from one of the worst factions to play in the game to the strongest and most fun
Was chaos ever weak? Yes it was increadibly boring in warhammer 1 and 2, but in my opinion the easyest campaign by far.
@@nocbvideos6458 It was the worst before in terms of gameplay and fun level. They were the least fun to play before the rework fixed them
@@s7robin105 yea thats true
I can confirm that Swindon is home to Chaos spawn. My driving instructor took me 1.5 hours down the motorway to the magic roundabout (look it up).
Another sweet thing for Chaos is iron mines add +10 armour for your Chaos warriors, which stacks... then there is the lord trait that buffs infantry armour and defense.. you could hit 200 armour, which for relatively basic infantry is insane
Nothing gets a Brit more excited than an opportunity to "vassal-ize" all the land they can see.
"It features the chaos wastes of swindon" absolutely killed me since I used to live there for a bit, and I can assure you that it is truly something worth this expression indeed
I was in the middle of a Valkia campaign, ended up getting the Chainsword from Khorne very early into the campaign, made it all the way to Tilea with Midnight Aristocracy Crisis active. It was fun seeing Helman Ghorst go out of control but couldn't kill him because of the update 2.1.1. Now the game crashes every other turn, I may have to start all over again but at least I paid back the Dark Elves for interrupting my Von Carstein campaign from TWW2.
i thought you could only get the chainsword from the khorne rifts, and valkia doesnt have access to those
@@Riftweaver1981 I was able to get from filling the Eye at the top of the screen. When you fill it up and get Khorne's attention, each time an event triggers and I got really lucky early on in the game. At the cost of injury my starting Hero, Chainsword was one of the 4 options available.
12:05 I like how the man said that Kholek is dead even though he meant Archaon.
Kholek died, but then changed his mind, dying is gay
@@kheasboroki3928 Yes father
I like how the song that played on the last few parts was The Only Thing I Know For Real. Like we didn't understand there was going to be bloodshed already already.
The video was entertaining, I give you that. Kolek had over 200 armor, allowing him to stop all non armor piercing damage. The weapon strenght is lost, as there is a limited number of entities he can hit at once. The mass is the best, as it allows him not to get stuck.
No Talisman of Preservation? No Armour of Destiniy? Kolek had not reached its maximum potential!
Overall good video, yet it is also click-bait, since it does not seems to be overpowered at all!
Not all damage. Damage reduction is capped at 90%
@@Nerazmus Armor does block up to all non-armour piercing damage. And yes this video wasn't really an exploit and isn't even that strong.
@@ruukinen No, it doesn't. The damage reduction is capped at 90%.
@@Nerazmus Not for armour. In this case you are wrong. Armour will block 100%-1 non- armour piercing damage at 200 armour. It also stacks with the other resistances that are capped at 90%.
The fact that he probably mentioned "vassal/vassalize" more than kholek's buff is legendary.
Rest in peace queen! Hopefully she's surrounded by tea
In hell where she belongs. People are really forgetting about the whole head of state of the British empire. More recently she actively protected Prince Andrew…
@@blainebossie9519 Even if She was a Terrible person you still have to respect the dead
@@Loser_Lord nobody *has* to do anything dont push your own agenda on other people
Sir, This is a wendys
@@blainebossie9519 Andrew is her son wth would you expect
Boris : Why won’t you die ?!
Kholek : Vassals, son.
One time when I was soloing with Kholek, I got a message at the top of the screen... "Your troops are routing!"
So I scroll over to where I sat my troops and they're running from Deathmaster Sniktch... the entire time I was wondering where he was, too.
"Oh shit, there he is!" As Kholek immediately turns away and charges at Sniktch.
Moral of the story: Never leave your units undefended when Sniktch is around.
Computer: "wow, such a close battle"
Spiff: "I disagree"
He lost 20 people whilst the enemy lost 1000s, it wasn't even on the same planet, let alone same ball park, so either the AI is trying to downplay its loss, or it's just that stupid.
It's an annoying thing with these titles, if the AI expects you to get completely beaten in the auto-resolve, it will only ever give you a "close victory" result. You can literally not have a single casualty and it will still give you a "close victory"
It has to do with how balance of power is calculated. Basically, it doesn't matter how many losses the enemy suffered, it only comes down to how your own army ends up. And for that, it also uses ammo reserves and unit models that were damaged but not killed (which automatically get fully healed after a battle unless it was a single entity monster, which is why units that were beaten up in the battle can sometimes be full health in the post battle screen if the damage was spread out enough to not kill any models).
The AI favors and gives greater weight to ranged units over melee units in auto resolve. Melee oriented factions tend to get lower outcomes compaired to ranged factions. Nurgle, Beastmen, Khorn, and Vampires tend to have much better armies loosing to much weaker armies in auto resolve. Nurgle and Vampires get the shortest end of the stick because they can go into a fight with a dangerous enemy army and walk out of it if the player controls the army with minimal to no model losses, but auto resolve the same battle and loose half their army or lose outright.
Good replies :) but essentially, the AI is stupid.
@@SWISS-1337 The AI =/= the algorithm for deciding whether the battle was a pyrrhic/close/decisive/heroic victory. The AI is what controls the enemy.
So what would happen if Kholek got so many vassals that he integer-overflowed into the weakest being in the Universe? It would need to be a 2-byte for that though.
Now Spiff get sword of Khaine and this behemoth is unstoppable! Because who doesn't want an extra 1500% weapon strength?
I always played Kholek with a whole army of Shaggoths, and it was like a steamroller. In Tabletop Warhammer back in the early days I did a similar thing. A massive unit of dragon ogres with a stacked champ/general
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It should be noted that armour is hard-capped at 200. Armour reduces the portion of incoming damage that is not marked as armour-piercing by a percentage equal to a random point between 50-100% of the armour value. So, 100 armour means that incoming non-ap damage is reduced by a random value between 50 and 100% for every hit.
200 Armour now means that your damage reduction ranges between 100 and 200%, or in other words: The unit is immune to any damage that does not bypass armour.
It is of course a bit more complicated than that, as there are effects that can reduce the effectiveness of your armour and there's also an actual cap of 90% on how far damage can even be reduced through any single method.
Perfection…
Just like your beard
True spirit of the crown, "these lovely Ogres have 'joined' us" marvelous content as always. Might actually have to order some Yorkshire Tea to Louisiana if I keep binging all of these videos
"Oh this is the mighty army you brought to defeat me?!" -To be fair, they didnt bring anything...you attacked their home 🤣
15:30 What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
So NGL this felt a little underwhelming? I was able to top those stats with a Khorne Daemon Prince. Got him close to max physical resist too combined with ward save.
This is dave, dave is from the STATES, Dave makes a fresh pot of coffee before watching your brillence. It's the best part of waking up for me.
"Pours a cup of Yorkshire Tea"
For the Queen.
This must be what it felt like watching Sauron trample through Middle Earth before he lost the ring.
* PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT*
"Remember to be drinking your warm cups of tea ladies and gentlemen! 🍵 🇬🇧"
On the next episode of the Spiffing Brit "Cheesing my way into the Monarchy"
A fitting final fight as Settra and the Suneater have a rather legendary final duel in the end times
15:30 What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
When the world needed him most, he returns to Warhammer, bless.
15:31 What a grand and intoxicating innocence
loving the revengeance track throughout the video definitely fits the tone
Exploit: if you get a military ally, you can recruit an ally army, but if said army dies with some hero’s, you somehow recruit a different races heros….even after you betray your ally
I mean this would have been an actual exploit that he could have showcased. In this video he just played Kholek pretty much exactly how the developers intended Kholek to be played, and ended up with a character that is weaker than Skarbrand.
Spiff: "The auto resolve would have you believe this was a close victory....IT WOULD BE WRONG!"
Literally no one:
Me: *gigging and laughing uncontrollably when he zooms in on the numbers for at least 5 minutes straight*
how aren't the vassals betraying you? They always leave me in every total war game lmao
They can't, Kholek forces them into submission, thay cannot escape or betray.
If they do, Kholek comes back and eats them.
@@DFloyd84 Flattens the entire town with Starcrusher
@@MrFartquad ???
You couldn't slip away with Collective Consciousness in the intro, oh boy you couldn't
This made me curious how armor worked in the game. It's a random reduction of non-ap damage starting from 0% negated but up to 100%. Each point up to 100 it reduces damage by a minimum half a percent. Up to 200 it reduces by a quarter of a percent. Anything over 200 does nothing. So you get a minimum 75% reduction to non-ap damage at 200 armor. Damage reduction from armor cannot eliminate all damage but will reduce it to the minimum level of one point of damage. Weird.
if I recall it is more simple
armor = 50% to 100% DR per 1 point in armor (so 100 is 50% to 100% Damage reduction against base weapon damage (Aka non AP) and unless you have perfect vigor 200+ does have some value
@@honorguard7616 You can only get 90% of any DR effect, so armor only scales up to 180, at which point it's guaranteed to reduce any instance of non-AP damage by 90%. However, it does stack with Physical Resistance and Ward Save, so with the right items and characters, it's entirely possibly to reach 90% AP and 99% non-AP resistance.
Not only that, these are entirely viable, with multiple videos of one-man-doomstacks floating around on UA-cam.
going over 200 has a purpose because of armor debuff spells and attacks like weeping blades from skaven or plague of rust
@@Nightmare_52 and fatigue reduces armor as well (by 50% if I recall) so without perfect vigor you'll need 400 to keep max reduction
Small correction on my end: I asked on Reddit and a few other places to make sure, and apparently armor *does* scale up to 100%... with a caveat.
In short, due to how the damage-formula works, even at 200 armor, one point of non-AP damage goes through, so long as the model makes the MA roll against the opponent's MD. It's why big monsters tend to get savaged if they get caught in a tar-pit, because every stab a gobbo makes at the back of their ankle is more-or-less a guaranteed hit. With hundreds of the buggers, it adds up quickly.
However, where this small distinction becomes really important is with ranged units, especially against large enemies. It's the reason why giants were and are still mostly useless, because they are big, slow targets, and when they get focus-fired by three peasant archer units, each arrow has guaranteed plinking damage, no matter how little AP damage they have, usually melting them before they could even get into melee range.
a happy soldier said : i just sitting in the shade drinking tea and i get paid for watching the end game movie
I would've loved to see a stream of him playing this
You think you could kill a god?
How could you kill a god?
What an intoxicating innocence.
"Ah yes, yes, yes, yes, yes."
Spiff sounding a little Skaven right there.
"chaos wastes of Swindon... and the Lizard-men of London."???
yep true 🤣
This game has some pretty wild oversights, like Oxyotl just teleporting around the map, walking into every single major settlement, basically invisible, and capturing it without firing a single shot. Still a lot of fun though.
This video coming out after I just started a campaign as Grimgor and took Kholek out first makes me very happy I did.
Perfect balance, as it should always be. Thanks for the wonderful content, and a cuppa for you and Mango for my birthday Spiff ☕
Thanks for putting the red arrow on the thumbnail. i wouldn’t have known where to look otherwise
i love how Collective Consciousness plays when Kholek Suneater goes into battle
He’s reached 3.74 million subs. He’s become too powerful. Everyone run for your lives
Couple things there at the start I learnt in my own kholek glow up campaign:
1. You're better off going south right away to grab Grimgor as a vassal before he gets his second settlement. You can choose to kill his army on the way, this will stop him from being able to wipe out the other orcs there and net you another early vassal. Then you move east.
2. Only fortresses with the large spike top left let you vassalise Norscans. That one you were sieging was in control of a minor warriors of chaos faction. You could have vassalised them instead of occupying the fortress.
3. When you vassalise a warriors of chaos faction you also get their vassals. It seems you wiped out vilitch's vassal before him, so you lost out on a vassal. .
So at the point where you say you have three vassals you should have 7! :o
I actually had this autoplay after I'd watched a history documentary whilst playing Immortal Empires AS Archaon and uhhh yeah it made me decide to march half way across the world to beat up creepy centaur man
In game 2 Bretonnian factions could build the Armory building, which gives all armies +2 armor. I personally found this mechanic to be pretty broken as you can increase the armor of everyone in your army to insane levels just by conquering the map and building this building in every one of your main settlements. I can't fathom how much more armor you can now give to your forces in Immortal Empires when playing as Bretonnia.
Can't trick my ears, I hear the Metal Gear Rising OST for the BGM
it fits with Kholek destroying everything
With Exploits like these it'd be fun to have a series of counter atempts, where Spiff tries to beat his own exploits^^ although he would probably need assistance for most of them
Gotta love infinite scaling strats, regardless of the game.
I do love the story you presented us with, though. Made for a fun way to watch a playthrough.
Kholek is definitely a hilariously broken campaign, since you can basically play an easier Vilitch campaign, while having a stronger late game, due to the dozens of vassals you get
This is not even remotely true. Vilitch faction while only middle of the pack is still stronger than Kholeks factions which is pretty much the weakest WoC faction currently. This video is a bit misleading. This isn't an exploit, heck it isn't even that powerful.
@@ruukinen >isn't that powefull
> solo's the game with one unit.
Even if it isn't an exploit it's pretty busted. The actual exploits must be truely disgusting.
@@rubz1390 You can literally do that with almost any leader type character in this game. How much effort you need to put in depends on how strong they start off as.
@@ruukinen Brit did this by literally turn 5. Don't see how that required any effort from his part.
@@rubz1390 Yeah, Skarbrand starts of like that at level 1. The problem is that with a surface level understanding of how the game works having 2k weapon strength sounds amazing but Kholek has a max splash attack of like 8. That means he can at most kill 8 models in one hit. Since he can't cast any spells his capability to clear chaff is garbage. Also this at most makes one army strong. The truly broken stuff makes your entire faction strong. Having one overpowered army is something almost all factions have access to.
You should definitely try out Clan Eshin at some point. Would make absolutely great video content, just setting the crisis difficulty to max, starting it as soon as possible, and specifically the tomb kings crisis (only one faction), only to wipe them out with a click of a button whenever they reach your borders. you could also go for getting 4 tier 3 assassin's hideouts in one providence in order to stack the +4 hero recruit rank they give. Combine that with technologies and Snikch's skill tree and you can get level 22 assassin heroes on recruit. Then what you can do is put 18 assassins and one warlock engineer in Snikch's army, which can make any walled siege an instant win basically. Just set the warlock engineer on one side of the settlement, and everyone else on the other. The AI will send all of its forces to the engineer, leaving you free to ladder in, take the 2 victory points and wait as the AI loses before it can even fight you. Alternatively, you can stack the +5% damage resistance the skaven chieftan's give to the lord of the army, and just make Deathmaster Snikch nearly invincible.
tldr: Try Clan Eshin.
With a name like Sun-eater, I can imagine him farting out supernovas and killing everyone
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY WARP STORMS!?
Quentin Tarantino knows that every human is a blood fountain and made Kill Bill to prove it.
Now imagine if Spiff got control of an Ork WAAAAAGH! The thing he could accomplish by making DA BOYS believe it
Ork Nob #1: Wez About ta siege Holy Terra!
Ork Nob #2: Roit but first, tea time. It'z gonna make us invincible to hummie gunz just like Spiff said it would.
Ork Non #3: Oi'l get the krumpets!
Want to know the truly terrifying thing. Even at his most powerful, Kholek still isn't a match to cousin Okri.
Funny enough, Legend did review a one man doomstack Kholek, like 4 days ago, with 353 armor and 2.2k weapon strenght, with what looks like 75% of the map as his vassals
"Don't put your eggs all in one basket"
But what if the eggs had a giant hammer and the power of a god?
What a trooper, not even taking a break for the queens death
It's what Her Majesty would want.
She would not want him to stop anyway. 👍
there was a stream for 2 hours titled "Queen Elizabeth II has passed - Time For A Cup Of Tea." on sep 8th
I think Spiff's videos are shot a while in advance, and editing takes time - I bet this one was done weeks ago and was quickly edited recently to remove any Queen references.