Well, congrats, you did it. You've managed to turn Decissive Victory against clanrats into a Disaster Battle for cheese and profit. I bow before your power, mr. Legend
The script which calls to kill spawned armies is called on the spawned general, so when you win the battle but lose the general it tries to call kill on the general, but since that general is already dead it can’t kill him and throws nil on the script. I had the same thing happen in my great bastion mod spawned reinforcements during testing where my general died.
@ imo on the contrary it will be very hard to patch. The kill command is done via script, and to kill the general you need to have an internal reference called a “command queue index”. You can store this value when you spawn an army via script to call kill on after. However if you hire a new general after the battle it’s a new command queue index - the code would need to be updated to add a command to get the new dynamically created cqi, and it would need to be updated to trigger the kill after a general is hired, currently afaikt it triggers kill as soon as post battle screen is closed but before the new general is appointed. TDLR it’s probably not worth the effort for such a hard to trigger condition.
@@daveb7049 I mean the simplest fix would be to just remove the free upkeep and treat it like a normal army to begin with. At least in this specific example the upkeep reduction is completely redundant since it all happens during the player's turn so the income wouldn't even be affected. I guess if they wanted to keep the upkeep reduction they could also just make it a trait for the spawned general, not the whole army so if he dies it's no longer free.
Patch notes: Removed free armies from reikland Nerfed Vlad, Festus, Khazrak and anything even remotely challenging close to reikland to compensate one week after said patch post on reddit and or steam forums: EMPIRE IS TOO HARD NERF VLAD HE IS UNKILLABLE THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO AGAINST HIM
@@Dopetv-zd9ov Elspeth Engineer or any engineer? Cuz an Elspeth engineer with the epics and frostfire banner does crazy dmg, slows and applies healing reduc. Can make quite a difference.
@@Dopetv-zd9ov Any mounted ranged unit with reasonable attack actually since vlad doesn't get a mount as a lord or a hero and gets outsped by most things on a horse even with his speed skill maxed. You can do it with a steam tank or outriders as well, but it's easier to get him to chase a hero.
I sent in the email! I got a battle for the moot that was 100% not winnable and in a desperate attempt to try and weaken the beastmen army my lord died to their Minotaur lord and I ended up keeping the army! So glad he made a video about it so more can use this cool ass bug. Long time fan from Canada.
Easy way to get the lord killed that might work is if they're mounted, and IF the ai builds barricades (which I don't think I saw them do), then get your mounted lord on top of the barricade and wait on it for it to get destroyed. I've seen this insta-kill a mounted Ikit-claw before. Think it's something to do with mounted units not supposed to be allowed on walls and so the 'falling' that they do when the barricade goes down insta-kills them.
@@Garret007 Not trying to link or plug other creators or anything but if you want to see what I mean in action just look for MonstersAbound's Ikit campaign, part11 about 35 minutes in. Full health Ikit on a doomwheel just fucking rolls up onto a barricade and gets smoked.
SO THIS WAS THE THING I never actually got a free army this way, but a lot of the time I got stuck with survivors of the enemy army roaming around on the map, because i think the same principle applies to them, and i often focused on killing the enemy lord during these battles It also would mean it's been there for years, because it's tied to a mechanic that dates from... actually i'm not even sure when. Did it come from the Hunter and the Beast patch, or another one ?
Hi Legend! I love your content, I had an idea that I wanted to share with you for a series or a challenge you could do, which is "no deaths, first battle", essential you are trying to fight the first battle for every legendary lord without lossing a single entity (as in lord and single entities can take damage but you can't take any casualties), I know for a fact that if you manually fight the first battle with khatep, skrag and I think with Katarina and grom you can win the battle without taking any casualties, which would be interested to see which lord can do Thier first battle with no deaths and also it could be beneficial for newer players.
New idea for battles you want to loose: give yourself all cheats and all handycaps to the enemy, so it is even harder to lose the battle. Big fan of your videos
I guess this is not a thing in wh2, anyway, props to legend to receive a clue on potential cheese and he immediately can replicate it and use it for his own advantage
The last time it happened we got the hilarious beastmen rock machine gun turret. Based on what happened there it will get patched in a couple of weeks.
I believe its on wh2 as couple of years back something like this happened to me. My lord died but i won the battle and i had the army although i dont remember if it was free.
Other people: Wow, this battle is so hard. I'm going to have to turn the difficulty down, I just can't win with it this hard Ledeng of Total War: Wow this battle is so easy. I'm going to have to turn the difficulty down so that I can die when I lose
The events used to take unwounded lords you have recuirted. Unsure if they still do. So if you have a disbanded lord but not skill point reset you still have the points invested.
Just a thing that occured to me making it possibly easier - maybe use the archers you have to attack ground where the hero is at and do a friendly kill?
IMO Any exploit/cheese that is hard to execute (kinda) must not be patch. If the player exert all that effort just to execute the cheese then that means the player is having his/her own fun. It would be anti fun if they patch it out.
This is very difficult to patch out because the reason it works is the script that cleans up the army kills the spawned general who’s command queue index is saved after spawning him. It can’t get the replacement general cqi since that is dynamically created when you recruit them.
@@daveb7049 You might be right with that. I also think I had this with Oxyotl once, with the sanctum building that automatically ambushes enemies in the area. I played the battle, but didn't get my lord killed and then afterwards I kept the army(for some reason) and then had a lord without a trait basically. Was a weird situation. But maybe intended.
Does Legend have a video were he explains some best practices for Total War Warhammer 3? I have been playing since Total War Warhammer 1, (but really 2 as I got my first win in 2 and only have about 24 hours in 1), and I have NO IDEA how so many people get so much money, prestige, or whatever other faction recourses you need by turn 46. I saw his player trap videos and that helped, but i cant find anything else. I love the game but cannot figure a lot of it out even trying to do battles the same kinda way. I am obviously making campaign mistakes as well, but I cant figure out what they are
there is a strange swap between lord portraits: in the before of battle the imperial lord portrait have green thunders inside , this seems a skaven visual effect. why is on the empire lord?
1:30 Legend of Total war here, and today we’ve got a Saving Defeat from the Jaws of Victory…
They’re living off dreams and ambitions
Alongside Sigmar's blessing.
More like they cannibalise enemy armies
It was called "living off the land"
Cruel strategy...
They're getting paid in exposure.
Vive la France
Well, congrats, you did it. You've managed to turn Decissive Victory against clanrats into a Disaster Battle for cheese and profit. I bow before your power, mr. Legend
Legend of total failure.
legend of total profit
'if you strike me down, I shall become more self-sufficient than you can possibly imagine.”
The script which calls to kill spawned armies is called on the spawned general, so when you win the battle but lose the general it tries to call kill on the general, but since that general is already dead it can’t kill him and throws nil on the script.
I had the same thing happen in my great bastion mod spawned reinforcements during testing where my general died.
Interesting insight, sounds like it won’t be hard for CA to patch unfortunately :(
@ imo on the contrary it will be very hard to patch. The kill command is done via script, and to kill the general you need to have an internal reference called a “command queue index”. You can store this value when you spawn an army via script to call kill on after. However if you hire a new general after the battle it’s a new command queue index - the code would need to be updated to add a command to get the new dynamically created cqi, and it would need to be updated to trigger the kill after a general is hired, currently afaikt it triggers kill as soon as post battle screen is closed but before the new general is appointed.
TDLR it’s probably not worth the effort for such a hard to trigger condition.
I assume something similar happens when waagh army is destroyed if the general is killed.
@@daveb7049 Out of curiosity, does that mean this would work if the battle is won as long as the Lord dies?
@@daveb7049 I mean the simplest fix would be to just remove the free upkeep and treat it like a normal army to begin with. At least in this specific example the upkeep reduction is completely redundant since it all happens during the player's turn so the income wouldn't even be affected.
I guess if they wanted to keep the upkeep reduction they could also just make it a trait for the spawned general, not the whole army so if he dies it's no longer free.
"Losing is so haaaaaard" -Legend, 7:00
Legend tries to get a Lord killed challenge (impossible).
Patch notes:
Removed free armies from reikland
Nerfed Vlad, Festus, Khazrak and anything even remotely challenging close to reikland to compensate
one week after said patch post on reddit and or steam forums:
EMPIRE IS TOO HARD NERF VLAD HE IS UNKILLABLE THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO AGAINST HIM
I found out that you can easily snipe vlad with an engineer hero on horse. He died in 3 volleys when i faced him in my last campaign
@@Dopetv-zd9ov Elspeth Engineer or any engineer? Cuz an Elspeth engineer with the epics and frostfire banner does crazy dmg, slows and applies healing reduc. Can make quite a difference.
@@bacchus8081 Any they do insane damage.
@@Dopetv-zd9ov Any mounted ranged unit with reasonable attack actually since vlad doesn't get a mount as a lord or a hero and gets outsped by most things on a horse even with his speed skill maxed. You can do it with a steam tank or outriders as well, but it's easier to get him to chase a hero.
1 week after that post and the 2 vlad nerf
REIKLAND IS TOO EASY
I sent in the email! I got a battle for the moot that was 100% not winnable and in a desperate attempt to try and weaken the beastmen army my lord died to their Minotaur lord and I ended up keeping the army! So glad he made a video about it so more can use this cool ass bug. Long time fan from Canada.
Also to be called bad by legend is an honor xD
Useful to protect your province when Karl goes off conquering
OR, retrain Karl and rehire him as the leader of a free army! Been doing that with dwarfs and free endgame crisis armies and it's been a BLAST
@@ProduccionesPaquito Oh, that with dwarfs still works? Amazing! :D
Hope this doesn't get patched either.
somewhere at CA's headquarters:
"MOM, HE IS DOING IT AGAIN!11"
"But Legend, losing the battle is cheeeeeese!"
0:50 stirland dude going super saiyan level 2 with all the sparks around him
Legend now trying to lose battles !
Send him your battles with Decisive Victory AR now ^^
Real trick is losing a heroic victory.
Legend is out there forcing human commanders to take the slayer oath
quick take the video down before CA sees!
Few slaneeshi bots. The emperor does indeed protect.
Sadly I see 4 ... of them.
Report them to purgators brother. Sigmar Bless You.
CHEESE FOR THE CHEESE GOD
Now we can make a cost efficient Greatsword doomstack
Now do a "if the advisor was honest to Leggend of Total War" video.
When the master of cheese get a trailer full of Parmesano
Plot twist, Sigmar himself is guiding them
Ok AI
Easy way to get the lord killed that might work is if they're mounted, and IF the ai builds barricades (which I don't think I saw them do), then get your mounted lord on top of the barricade and wait on it for it to get destroyed. I've seen this insta-kill a mounted Ikit-claw before. Think it's something to do with mounted units not supposed to be allowed on walls and so the 'falling' that they do when the barricade goes down insta-kills them.
Gotta try this then, but they AI does build barricades, don't worry.
@@Garret007 Not trying to link or plug other creators or anything but if you want to see what I mean in action just look for MonstersAbound's Ikit campaign, part11 about 35 minutes in. Full health Ikit on a doomwheel just fucking rolls up onto a barricade and gets smoked.
@@thelegendarynarwhal2931 Ty, you should never apologise for stuff like that. If you know a video with proof of something, then all the better :)
SO THIS WAS THE THING
I never actually got a free army this way, but a lot of the time I got stuck with survivors of the enemy army roaming around on the map, because i think the same principle applies to them, and i often focused on killing the enemy lord during these battles
It also would mean it's been there for years, because it's tied to a mechanic that dates from... actually i'm not even sure when. Did it come from the Hunter and the Beast patch, or another one ?
Explains why it has never been patched: they only patch something if it benefits the player.
New class of videos where Legend has to lose battles against all the odds
Hi Legend! I love your content, I had an idea that I wanted to share with you for a series or a challenge you could do, which is "no deaths, first battle",
essential you are trying to fight the first battle for every legendary lord without lossing a single entity (as in lord and single entities can take damage but you can't take any casualties), I know for a fact that if you manually fight the first battle with khatep, skrag and I think with Katarina and grom you can win the battle without taking any casualties, which would be interested to see which lord can do Thier first battle with no deaths and also it could be beneficial for newer players.
An interesting idea.
CA taking notes while sweating.
1:10 my popcorn ready, this is def out of the usual
I love this type of stuff. Cheers Legend
New idea for battles you want to loose: give yourself all cheats and all handycaps to the enemy, so it is even harder to lose the battle. Big fan of your videos
I guess this is not a thing in wh2, anyway, props to legend to receive a clue on potential cheese and he immediately can replicate it and use it for his own advantage
The last time it happened we got the hilarious beastmen rock machine gun turret. Based on what happened there it will get patched in a couple of weeks.
They happened in wh2, but I don't think they're 100% no upkeep. I accidentally triggered it when I lost a defense battle in wh2 and got an extra army.
I believe its on wh2 as couple of years back something like this happened to me. My lord died but i won the battle and i had the army although i dont remember if it was free.
Other people: Wow, this battle is so hard. I'm going to have to turn the difficulty down, I just can't win with it this hard
Ledeng of Total War: Wow this battle is so easy. I'm going to have to turn the difficulty down so that I can die when I lose
"Their payment will be the honor they feel to serve!.. Wait a minute, who's paying me to yell at this guy? "
Hmmm finest Stirländer Cheese, delicious!
I see empire I click
Nobody can lose a battle like Legend.
I feel the call of the Elector Counts. I must join the campain
Legend, if you can take a decisive defeat and turn it into victory surely you can take a decisive victory and turn it into a defeat!
You've finally made me interested in playing the Empire. Let's abuse some bugs!
that engineer lord read too many novels about slayers
Me, in a Reikland campaign where the endgame crisis is starting in like 2 turns: well i should have known that 50 turns ago. Thanks anyway ^^
The events used to take unwounded lords you have recuirted. Unsure if they still do. So if you have a disbanded lord but not skill point reset you still have the points invested.
My luck is terrible, I got an empire knight lord and he’s on horseback in a main settlement
I can hear CA cooking a new hotfix right now.
End game crisis Empire version - takes a whole game to build up tho lol
Incoming CA hot fixing this within a week
Just a thing that occured to me making it possibly easier - maybe use the archers you have to attack ground where the hero is at and do a friendly kill?
We need the new DLC Livestream for skulltaker! The new skull mechanic is actually pretty fun! Blood beast of Korne are actual good monster units.
This is almost as tedious as the old free beastmen armies, amazing. If only this existed in wh2...
Guys at Reikland took Dr Goebbels TOTALER KRIEG to a different level 😂
The Order tide GROW ever stronger.
Long live the Empire!
Of course this happens in Stirland!
5.3.2 gonna be dropping tomorrow to hotfix this lol
Legend just calling the guy who sent the video in bad at Warhammer xD
I tried this about 10 times and I couldn't get my lord to die without routing.
this is awesome. I hope they won't fix it soon
IMO Any exploit/cheese that is hard to execute (kinda) must not be patch. If the player exert all that effort just to execute the cheese then that means the player is having his/her own fun. It would be anti fun if they patch it out.
This is very difficult to patch out because the reason it works is the script that cleans up the army kills the spawned general who’s command queue index is saved after spawning him. It can’t get the replacement general cqi since that is dynamically created when you recruit them.
@@daveb7049 You might be right with that.
I also think I had this with Oxyotl once, with the sanctum building that automatically ambushes enemies in the area. I played the battle, but didn't get my lord killed and then afterwards I kept the army(for some reason) and then had a lord without a trait basically.
Was a weird situation. But maybe intended.
Hımmmmm triple cheeseee, Horned One is pleased.
GG. The cheese is strong in this one.
I hope this never gets patched out, in fact I hope it becomes a mechanic, let Reikland AI abuse this X'3
Can other factions get this event? E.g. Elspeth? Or are you only able to do it with Reikland specifically?
Honestly, Franz can use this after the Omens dlc since it's already hectic as it is
Someone make a compilation of Lotw's evil laughter. As it eventually grows more skaven.
"We need to get in there, and die!" =P
Does Legend have a video were he explains some best practices for Total War Warhammer 3? I have been playing since Total War Warhammer 1, (but really 2 as I got my first win in 2 and only have about 24 hours in 1), and I have NO IDEA how so many people get so much money, prestige, or whatever other faction recourses you need by turn 46. I saw his player trap videos and that helped, but i cant find anything else. I love the game but cannot figure a lot of it out even trying to do battles the same kinda way. I am obviously making campaign mistakes as well, but I cant figure out what they are
The best of cheeses always pleases
Not as good as belegars free dwarven-crisis armies, if it still works, but pretty neat. This can be done over & over. Didnt know this was a thing
I think this is in the older games too. I swear I did this once in Warhammer 2.
Amazing, I'm sad that CA is going to hotfix this out immediately.
Mmm, is that Gouda? Mmm DELICIOUS CHEESE
Hmm, makes me wonder whether Oxyotl can do something similar with his ambush armies. Though his armies used to have supply lines. Will have to see
I remember in Game 2 these armies weren't free, as everytime i had them appear i had less income the next turn.
Off we go to X'th time Karl Franz campaign to check this exploit :)
there is a strange swap between lord portraits: in the before of battle the imperial lord portrait have green thunders inside , this seems a skaven visual effect. why is on the empire lord?
oh f mercy is gona love this
Incoming hot patch
Thank you Lord my lord for your amazing detestation too the game and showing us such nice exploits.
Just come back to war3 after long break. Is gate master boast on jade unit still stackable?
Legend laughed at the name of Empire lord, but what about the Skaven one?
What if you charged in solo and when the Lord dies, withdraw from the battlefield? It’s still a loss?
you can maybe time this so your LL will be available to recruit after killing the first G. Free Upkeep LL Doomstacks
Empire horde armies confirmed, shame on Warriors of Chaos.
I did have this in one of my campaigns. But i did only see a weak extra army so did get rid of it. 😂😂😂🙈
well this could be fun for 2 weeks lol
I've been messing around with this and one consequence of doing this is I no longer get prestige or gold after every battle.
Can you still get free upkeep for certain bretonnia cavalry armies?
Almost as funny as the instant vow for Bretonnia.
I would call this a shameful display on CAs part. But this is par for the course at this point.
I won't do it, but it's good fun. :-)
New reikland campaign soon? 😁
Whats the bets CA spoil this bit of fun in the next update?
I think these exploits could stay in the game, when you have to go out of your way to pull them off, it's not a temptation.
When you are too good in a game to discover an exploit XD
Not sure but I have done this on 2 different campaigns and both times it destroyed my ability to earn prestege.
LET THE CHEESE FLOW! :D
Free armies for my Reikland run, it’s needed due to the shitstorm The Old World has become.
They should never patch this, it needs to be like skyrim where the fun exploits always work
Beautiful
It works with Wh2 too. I think i had it once.
Who's ready for the patch tomorrow?
love the cheese
The weird things people do yet refuse to use a mod xD