Ska’s death in Headtaker goes in top 10 saddest anime deaths when Queek looses his favorite battle buddy. Surprised that he wasn’t made into a gay joke.
I love how Clan Mors manages to instill the most basic levels of loyalty in their rats and get a reaction "What is this sorcery?" from rest of Skavendom.
Funny enough, it's just because they care about those in their clan. In a way, empathy is just naturally occuring in Skavens. Next thing you know they are going to have nicely lined queues for the broodmothers with signs that say, 'One at a time'. Alliances with the Empire. Separation of church and state. Laws on magic. So on so forth.
This is Remy from Ratatoulie after the government shuts down his new restaurant due to health concerns and now he is high on steroids and trying to open a meth lab in Karak Eight Peaks
“No concept of honour No shred of empathy No idea of courage No ability for self reflection, shame or responsibility And anything that goes wrong is always someone else’s fault” Oh, by the gods. I’ve figured it out. My boss at work is a skaven! It all makes sense now.
Karak Eightpeeks, a place that’s in perpetual siege by a tiny green man and his pet omnivore, a bunch of midgets that don’t know forgiveness and omnicidial rodents with schizophrenia. Sigmar help us...
Khaine Worshippers: "Eugh, worthless sacrifice. A bunch of useless meat bags that do not know when to surrender. Let us separate them from their mortal body!"
I’d like to point out too that the Captain that took the Dagger for Queek did so after Queek had been pinned under a mountain of rubble. Seeing his Captain, who’d Queek considered one of his only trusted friends take a weeping blade to the chest, scrabble out from under the rubble by sheer force of anger and while the Assassin gloats over his work, he spots Queek; A towering monstrosity shuddering with such barely controlled anger and hatred his teeth could be heard grinding over the battle. The assassin promptly runs off, but Queek catches him some time later and is discovered dragging the assassins mangled body around and venting his frustrations out on it after he’s beaten the assassin so badly it could barely be recognized as Skaven. His Hate for Gray Seers is also warranted. Thanquol, THE Gray Seer, dumped Skarbrand, the Warhammer equivalent of a Zombie Rage Virus attached to the body of a towering demon with shredded wings and axes the size of SUVs who drive all those around him mad with blood list simply by existing, on him after failing to summon a Verminlord by accident. In true Skaven fashion, Thanquol pulls a Trench and literally shoves Queek at the towering demon telling him to “Stay here and hold it off while I get help.”
@@thronezwei4412 Imagine being such a fuckup, that your enemies consider you more valuable ALIVE then dead as you cause far more damage to your own forces then they do.
Honestly, Clan Mors sounds like the closest thing to a reasonable faction the Skaven could ever hope for. -Genuine loyalty. -Actually bothers to feed, train and arm their warriors. -Are practical and seize any victory to its full advantage instead of mindlessly pillage.
@@directrulefromgamerchair3947 I beat Mors down to their starting settlement as Kroq'Gar and watched as Grimgor's earlygame Waaagh Snowball plowed through their capital. Somehow, those furry bastards managed to capture a bunch of the Mountain settlements to the North and confederate Eshin while I was busy dealing with the Malus and Grimgor manwich. Needless to say, I'm concerned.
I was initially surprised at the idea that Queek isn't at least of interest to Khorne in the same way Lord Skrulk is to Nurgle. I mean, his fighting style is very gory and straightforward, parades around with the skulls of his enemies on his back, and to top it off dons heavy red armor. But then this video illuminated to me his regular practice of spouting sacrilege because it amuses him and his sponsor guarantees he'll always get away with it, and it all made much more sense.
“Queek will show the whole world that Queek is the mightiest-best, most-strong, and feared of all Warlords yes-YES. We will see what Gnawdwell has to say about orders then.”-Queek Headtaker.
Anyone notice the similarities between Queek’s origin and Gor Rok’s? • Both were born among many brethren. Queek in a litter and Gor Rok in a spawning pool. • Both consumed their siblings before a certain development stage. Queek before he opened his eyes and Gor Rok before he exited the spawning pools. • Both have trophies. Queek with his heads and Gor Rok with his scars.
I love how they gave Queek so much character, so much story and it all just ends in the most anti-climactic battle Warhammer stories have ever told in the most pathetic display of a character who's supposed to be one of the strongest Skaven in lore. He deserved so much more.
technically by the time he died , he was extremely old for a skaven and wasnt even in top condition anymore, still the fight should've lasted longer than being choked to death by thorgrim. even then i'd argue if they were goign to kill him off have skarsnik belegar and queek all die at eight peaks the world is ending after all so go nuts with a final epic battle for eight peaks
Honestly I was hoping they’d take each other out. Would have been a good send off to both of them. But noooooo. The rat weeb gets all the glory because the dwarf king took a victory sip of dumbass juice and left his bloody back door open.
funny thing, my first thought when you said "close your eyes" was "nuhu im not closing shit after you said bukkake " One description that makes me love Queek is this: "Queek considers himself the greatest warlord to have ever lived, as any self-respecting Skaven should. However, unlike many other Skaven warlords before him, Queek has been known to back-up these claims as willingly as he is to boast them...." thats what makes me love Skaven LL, how they defie or exalt what you come to expect from Skaven.
@@nickgennadythat’s why fighting Mors is so difficult because un like the other skaven and chaos they are not constantly vying for power and fighting each other. Their unified in purpose which is why they are would even probably be able to the other skaven Clans except maybe Skype because nukes.
I'd mention the scene in End Times where Queek got too cocky and got his neck snapped by a Chamon juiced up Thorgrim, but considering the powerup lasted like 5 seconds and Thorgrim immediately died because he forgot to lock the door it'd really just remind everyone how much plot armor the skaven have. Though I guess it would make sense for the giant rats to have all the cheese. XD
@@Milenos is Snitktch the best assassin though? (I know I mispelled that name.) I've heard stories of a Chameleon Skink that got trapped in the realm of chaos and raised so much hell that the chaos gods literally had to throw him out. XD
@@yamahadrag69 Oxyotl is more of a Chameleon skink commander and chameleon being able to blend in make the job very easy indeed. But even in the real of chaos, he was sometime found by daemon, but successfully suvive by instinc and cunning, the greatest skink of all time perharp, but also Lizardmen not being able to die of old-age, making them stronger by the year kinda help that. While Deathmaster Snikch was never found while infiltrating or killing, also Skaven doesnt live very long, even if they can get a little boost from Skryre at that (costing a tons of slave and warpstone)
@@yamahadrag69 But technically there is a better assassin, a Verminlord that talked to Thanquol before Verminking and said that in his time, he was the most feared assassin that ever was and that even Deathmaster was just a weakling in his prime.
yamahadrag69 Snikch is certainly the most stealthy however there have been other Skaven assassins who I would argue were just as skilled in other areas. Take Warhammer Fantasy’s very own version of the Terminator, High Executioner Veskit, from Mordheim lore whose body had been augmented with Skryre technology to make him unkillable. Here’s an in-universe description of Veskit uttered by Fritz Huber at the Red Moon Inn moments before being shot in the head. “It killed us all! We couldn’t stop it, our weapons broke against its body... It was black, like a shadow, and it was moving so fast, cutting men to shreds left and right. We fought, yes we fought hard, and old Marcus even tried his trick with the oil flask. It was engulfed by flames and for a moment we thought we’d stopped it. No way, it came out of the fire, still ablaze. It was as if it didn’t care! That was too much and those left of us ran for it. Still it followed us, on and on, relentless and merciless. There was no escaping, no hiding, its red eye could always spot you. Oh that eye... that eye...”
as the starting "beginner" Skaven melee lord, I am surprised they haven't made that Loyalty you mentioned into a mechanic like having just the generic Skaven Lord have 100% loyalty so no betrayal mechanic to make the faction more 'new player' friendly.
Finally a hero for the only faction suitable for civilized and educated people! Wait, there's a whole book about him? Haven't read warhammer in ages, time to catch up :D
Queek: You took a dagger for me?? You will be rewarded with all the Broodmothers you want!" Crimson Guard: *Flashback to his time in the Breeding Chambers* OH GOD! No no that's fine Queek.
Ya i wish he had some mechanic similar to Groms but with heads instead of food. Like he has 5 head slots, with minor lords giving small buffs and legendary lords giving good buffs. It would be cool to have a set bonus as well with all dwarf or greenskin LL heads to give a massive bonus for queek.
@@lunchboxlansing317 id also like to see a bit of a rework to his skill tree, especially the stormvermin stuff. He's meant to be built around them, but gives them no unique buffs, just cost and recruit rank. Also, MAKE THE CRIMSON GUARD A CAMPAIGN SPECIAL UNIT. or a ror for regular stormvermin
So about the whole Queek not having a unique mechanic thing. Sadly this is mainly because Queek was a starter lord but like many problems with TW:W2 there's a mod for that. Its called Queek's Burrow - Team Grim and it uses Grom the Paunchs caldron mechanic except its Queeks head pole instead. Its a little underdeveloped but their updating it pretty frequently. I'd also recommend the Ska Bloodtail mod that adds Queeks loyal bodyguard to the game as well as the Red Guard as a unit but they can only be recruited at Eight Peaks so try not to get them killed. Finally I'd also recommend the Unique Skaven Warlord Traits for Each Clan! mod so the Warlords actually have a use for all Skaven campaigns. The Mors ones get upkeep reduction for clanrats and slaves as well as more loyality if they have a lower lvl to the leader as well as other possible options. It also works for the AI so its not cheating if you care about that sort of thing.
Mors = khorne cause honor war and stuff. Pestilence = nurgle self explanatory. Skryre = tzeench forbiden magic and tech and schemes. Moulder = slannesh Body horror excessive warpstone usage etc Conclusion Great horned rat = chaos undivided
With SFO:Grimhammer you can recruit Queek's proper Red Guard unit, and pick up unlockable buffs from each of the skulls on his trophy rack. It's a nice adjustment towards the lore.
The other Skaven Clans: "Why are Clan Mors Skaven so loyal to their clan? it makes no sense?" Clan Mors: "Make sure everyone has proper food and training (for a Skaven) so they are actually useful in a fight"
"Trillions upon trillions..." thats the actual quote about skaven numbers. Want to see Zhukov figuring that one out. Cuz he didnt had what skaven have - nukes.
Ye, maybe a mechanics where he collects heads, and gets different bonuses, or something similar to the norsca monster hunts, since the heads talk back to him they could direct him to fight someone. Same for skrolk, he could get something similar to grom's cauldron, where he mixes up different ingredients to create new diseases
That description was edited down from this amazing post by ElGrudgerino, so I want to give credit where it's due. www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/bgufiq/why_do_people_like_the_skaven/
A cool idea I have for the skull rack thing is that every unique legendary lord he kills, he gain a permanent leadership buff aura AND a permanent leadership debuff aura. These stack with each LL he killed (only one stack per lord so you can't murder Arkhan like 12 times to get 12 stacks) so the more LL he kills, the more head he puts on the rack, and the more fearsome he becomes, being able to not only be an infantry murder machine but a walking fear dispenser
I was very sleepy after the work listening to this video and closed my eyes. Then you said that line and that freaked me out lol. Had to backwards the video to make sure I wasn't tripping
Just found ur channel immediate sub. Since Covid got really hooked on Warhammer II but i don't really know anything about the lore but these videos have been helping me understand and want to play certain heroes because of ur videos keep up the work brotha. I'm going to raise a loyal army of clan rats with Queek now
I was just asking myself how their wasn't a Queek guide last night after watching the other two videos. Thanks man! He was the first lord I used in Warhammer.
Queek rework: - give him a unique ability for killing LLs(maybe remove it as a global trait of the base game? im not sure how you could implement it and have it still be unique unless he just gets TWO bonuses instead) - Give him Orc/Norsca confed mechanics. As the video says, he'll incorperate enemy skaven into his army.
rather than the Orc/Norsca confederation I think a more fitting thing for Queek would be that if you kill the enemy lord and then route the army you would get any non RoR Skaven in the army after the battle
Perhaps just give him an additional small stacking buff on top of the normal trait gains. +1 to Leadership/MD/MA. Inflict fear once he gets a certain number of heads.
In honesty, I'd probably just do something like the Norsca hunting mechanics: Get access to certain contracts to openly battle elite lords, and their deaths not only buff Queek but give a faction-wide bonus.
I was thinking that giving all the LL buffs queeks has to all of the Lords he has in his armies(except Grey Seers) would be an alright idea then I thought "No wait that would be too busted". So I was thinking of giving him a gauge that the more unique LL's he kills the higher: - loyalty from lords - ranks for lords - psychology debuffs for queek himself - leadership for his army
of all the skaven in warhammer it seems queek headtaker (and clan mors a bit) are a bit more practical about their species enough to get their crap together and do something instead of the usual skaven thing, they really know how to get "a-head" of the curve cause queek sure gets head enough that he impales them on his hard iron spike rods on his back.
A few days before this got released i made a very unupeacing statement pressuring and arguing with you Cody about him not making any skaven videoes. You Prbly can't remember it but i just wanna say sorry. Your videoes keep me entertained on a daily basis and your comedy is (unlike most stuff these days) actually funny. So i just wanna say thank you for taking the time into these noobs guide and i'm sure i ain't alone in this appreciation.
thank you i recently got myself into total war warhammer 2 and those noob guide are really funny and i was so sad to see that i watch all of them in a day so thank you for giving me the pleasure of new content ;)
No, I did read The End Times and it's really shit. But I did read "The Headtaker" novel and it was great. I saw "Warlords of Eight Peaks" on BL and wanted to ask about this book.
Awesome work! As always. Now back to my usual thing. What was it again? Oh yeah. Would like to see the video about the other skull-wearing psychopath now, Wulfrik the Wanderer.
Queek is so cool, I basically has a army specialising in assisting him, full of Stormvermins with sword and shields, and also a abomination that will be his cute and best pet, I got him two afterwards, also 3 Warp lighting cannons to shoot the ever living hell of frogs in big thrones
Praise the Great one yes-yes! Finally a video of of my favorite Skaven lord Queek. But why you not tell more about Ska? You should read the book Headtaker. It tells how Queek does not know how to raise an army but Ska does it for him. Ska does everything and is like Pepper Pots for Tony Stark. :) I love Ska. He is such a good boy. Also I love how Ska and Queek try to protect one an other.
If my boy ever gets a rework, he should have “head whispers” which is just him randomly getting vision over enemy settlements to demonstrate how the heads advise him, buffed traits from killing lords, and head quests, which are just normal random quests with better rewards
I wish they would add a mechanic where you can take heads of lords and legendary lords and actually get buffs off them. Kind of like how the Orcs get trophy’s I think that would make Queek a lot more interesting and powerful.
I was kinda surprised to hear that Queek is actually a good boss (In comparison to other skaven lords), like he seemed like such a prick it was hard to think that he is actually one of the few lords you'd probably want to work for if you were a skaven.
I have this hilarious mental image of Queek pissing on Skarsnik or some other gobbo's corpse, turning around to see a bunch of distraught goblins watching, and promptly T-posing. "Hmmmf, it's starting to burn-sting when I piss-pee, maybe have lab-rat from clan Moulder look-see at it."
Fun fact before getting the nane headtaker Queen was now as the ketamine addic of clan moors due the fact almost everyone knows that ketamine is the natural product of warpstone He still consumes ketamine
Queek's lack of good faction effects or mechanics makes him ideal to confederate. Honestly, as far as i'm concerned, Ikit Claw is the Great Horned Rat and all those others are just confederation fodder. There is something satisfying about confederating all the other Skaven lords into service of Clan Skyre.
Yes the soundtrack is all Ska music.
Queek is a Skaven, who are far less cool then the Ska-ven, who listen to weird music, wear matching suits, and come with free fedoras.
Speaking of Ska, were you aware that someone made a mod which includes Ska Bloodtail as a legendary hero?
@@deanprowell7947 Yes! I was using it to film his section. It also includes the Crimson Guard as a RoR
Not gonna lie, I thought the video was called Queen Headtaker
Ska’s death in Headtaker goes in top 10 saddest anime deaths when Queek looses his favorite battle buddy. Surprised that he wasn’t made into a gay joke.
Queek is so powerful because he has what no other Skaven has. A loving father.
lmao
Family was the truest power after all.
I never thought a skaven could be that
the skaven would take over the world if that was put into the rest of their kind.
Quote unquote.
I love how Clan Mors manages to instill the most basic levels of loyalty in their rats and get a reaction "What is this sorcery?" from rest of Skavendom.
Actually this is 100% lore friendly. A lot of other clans think Clan Mors uses SOME kind of magic to control their troops. Its hilarious.
Funny enough, it's just because they care about those in their clan. In a way, empathy is just naturally occuring in Skavens. Next thing you know they are going to have nicely lined queues for the broodmothers with signs that say, 'One at a time'. Alliances with the Empire. Separation of church and state. Laws on magic. So on so forth.
@@griffingamer8624 Its not naturally occuring i think is the point. But its started to manifest in clan moores. a kind fo evolution almost.
I wonder if the rest of skaven views clan Mors as some sort of Orwellian nightmare.
@@griffingamer8624 And finally, at the end of it all...
...Clan Mors joins Ordertide
This is Remy from Ratatoulie after the government shuts down his new restaurant due to health concerns and now he is high on steroids and trying to open a meth lab in Karak Eight Peaks
Yes yes Skaven need more videos for great horned rat 🐀
He ate all the hair off of linguini so he can have a Walter White to his Jessie Owens
Jeez
Breaking mors
Queek: You know, I dont want to kill my father
The entire Skaven race: *WHAT*
I get the feeling that even the Great Horned Rat was also like “THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY-SAY!?!?”
“No concept of honour
No shred of empathy
No idea of courage
No ability for self reflection, shame or responsibility
And anything that goes wrong is always someone else’s fault”
Oh, by the gods. I’ve figured it out. My boss at work is a skaven! It all makes sense now.
more like BLM rioter if you want my opinion
Dos g no need to bring politics and bullshit like that into this
Report him to a witch hunter then
If you want to go there, so’s our president and his inner circle. We may be ruled by the Council of Thirteen 🤣
@@veermudambi5795 That would explain A LOT!
Karak Eightpeeks, a place that’s in perpetual siege by a tiny green man and his pet omnivore, a bunch of midgets that don’t know forgiveness and omnicidial rodents with schizophrenia. Sigmar help us...
Khorne worshipers: Why have we not heard of this wonderful place until now!?!?
*Karak Eight Queeks
Khaine Worshippers: "Eugh, worthless sacrifice. A bunch of useless meat bags that do not know when to surrender. Let us separate them from their mortal body!"
Does queek also get something from capturing it? i haven’t played his yet.
nevermind just got to that part in the video lmao
I’d like to point out too that the Captain that took the Dagger for Queek did so after Queek had been pinned under a mountain of rubble. Seeing his Captain, who’d Queek considered one of his only trusted friends take a weeping blade to the chest, scrabble out from under the rubble by sheer force of anger and while the Assassin gloats over his work, he spots Queek; A towering monstrosity shuddering with such barely controlled anger and hatred his teeth could be heard grinding over the battle. The assassin promptly runs off, but Queek catches him some time later and is discovered dragging the assassins mangled body around and venting his frustrations out on it after he’s beaten the assassin so badly it could barely be recognized as Skaven.
His Hate for Gray Seers is also warranted. Thanquol, THE Gray Seer, dumped Skarbrand, the Warhammer equivalent of a Zombie Rage Virus attached to the body of a towering demon with shredded wings and axes the size of SUVs who drive all those around him mad with blood list simply by existing, on him after failing to summon a Verminlord by accident. In true Skaven fashion, Thanquol pulls a Trench and literally shoves Queek at the towering demon telling him to “Stay here and hold it off while I get help.”
All my homies hate Grey Seers.
It wouldn't be Thanquol without him fucking something up.
@@thronezwei4412 Imagine being such a fuckup, that your enemies consider you more valuable ALIVE then dead as you cause far more damage to your own forces then they do.
@@mrbigglezworth42 I think my favorite thing is Thanquol finding out that Gotrek and Felix had no idea who he was for a very long time.
@@thronezwei4412 Thanquol is best-best worst rat
Honestly, Clan Mors sounds like the closest thing to a reasonable faction the Skaven could ever hope for.
-Genuine loyalty.
-Actually bothers to feed, train and arm their warriors.
-Are practical and seize any victory to its full advantage instead of mindlessly pillage.
*By Skaven Standards
I always thought Eishen was the most reasonable since in order to function as assassins and spies, they need to be able to *sort* of trust each other.
@@veermudambi5795 they just fear snitch enough to not do anything
If eshin and mors joined up then the world is fucked lol
@@directrulefromgamerchair3947 I beat Mors down to their starting settlement as Kroq'Gar and watched as Grimgor's earlygame Waaagh Snowball plowed through their capital. Somehow, those furry bastards managed to capture a bunch of the Mountain settlements to the North and confederate Eshin while I was busy dealing with the Malus and Grimgor manwich. Needless to say, I'm concerned.
"Who will outkill me-me, will pay!"
Best queek line and the reason i love him
I was initially surprised at the idea that Queek isn't at least of interest to Khorne in the same way Lord Skrulk is to Nurgle. I mean, his fighting style is very gory and straightforward, parades around with the skulls of his enemies on his back, and to top it off dons heavy red armor. But then this video illuminated to me his regular practice of spouting sacrilege because it amuses him and his sponsor guarantees he'll always get away with it, and it all made much more sense.
Well the skulls do occasionally speak back to Queek. Queek hates sorcerer's. Khorne isn't just interested, he's made a minor investment.
Queek will always be my favorite person to give the Sword of Khaine to. Watching my little floof of death tear through Elves is therapeutic
This sword-blade of great horned rat now, yes-yes
“Queek will show the whole world that Queek is the mightiest-best, most-strong, and feared of all Warlords yes-YES. We will see what Gnawdwell has to say about orders then.”-Queek Headtaker.
Anyone notice the similarities between Queek’s origin and Gor Rok’s?
• Both were born among many brethren. Queek in a litter and Gor Rok in a spawning pool.
• Both consumed their siblings before a certain development stage. Queek before he opened his eyes and Gor Rok before he exited the spawning pools.
• Both have trophies. Queek with his heads and Gor Rok with his scars.
*slann shenanigans
…hero’s and villains come for the same reasons they just make different choices.
"Concerningly Queek has been seen whispering to them which is made worst by reports that the heads seem to talk back." That cannot be good...
Soon enough, Queek is gonna become a chaos demon through sheer insanity
Queek Headtaker, he takes heads queekly.
Oh that pun is painful but fitting
Better than if Queek takes Karak-Eight-Peaks and renames it Karak-Eight-Queeks
Imperial Fist .... ok that pun I honestly wanna see.
Imperial Fist
Ima do it in my save.
I love how they gave Queek so much character, so much story and it all just ends in the most anti-climactic battle Warhammer stories have ever told in the most pathetic display of a character who's supposed to be one of the strongest Skaven in lore. He deserved so much more.
technically by the time he died , he was extremely old for a skaven and wasnt even in top condition anymore, still the fight should've lasted longer than being choked to death by thorgrim. even then i'd argue if they were goign to kill him off have skarsnik belegar and queek all die at eight peaks the world is ending after all so go nuts with a final epic battle for eight peaks
Honestly I was hoping they’d take each other out.
Would have been a good send off to both of them.
But noooooo.
The rat weeb gets all the glory because the dwarf king took a victory sip of dumbass juice and left his bloody back door open.
@@Rammkommando i mean he did kill belegar, and skarnsnik was basically forgotten by the writers
Man the endtimes suck ass lmao
funny thing, my first thought when you said "close your eyes" was "nuhu im not closing shit after you said bukkake "
One description that makes me love Queek is this:
"Queek considers himself the greatest warlord to have ever lived, as any self-respecting Skaven should. However, unlike many other Skaven warlords before him, Queek has been known to back-up these claims as willingly as he is to boast them...."
thats what makes me love Skaven LL, how they defie or exalt what you come to expect from Skaven.
Skaven: cowards, craven, backstabbing and mischievous
Skaven of clan mors: the opposite of skaven
well not the opposite of skaven exactly, but they are united by a twisted loyalty that makes them more efficient than the other clans.
@@taddad2641 how is loyalty like that twisted? It’s very similar to how humans were.
@@nickgennadythat’s why fighting Mors is so difficult because un like the other skaven and chaos they are not constantly vying for power and fighting each other. Their unified in purpose which is why they are would even probably be able to the other skaven Clans except maybe Skype because nukes.
Therapist: Standing Mazda does not exist. He cannot hurt you.
Standing Mazda: 0:35
that a new mod?
Tad Dad Sadly yes.
MUUUUUUUUUUUU
-mazda mundi
Um can I know what mod it is?
I'd mention the scene in End Times where Queek got too cocky and got his neck snapped by a Chamon juiced up Thorgrim, but considering the powerup lasted like 5 seconds and Thorgrim immediately died because he forgot to lock the door it'd really just remind everyone how much plot armor the skaven have. Though I guess it would make sense for the giant rats to have all the cheese. XD
To be fair, he got killed by the most terrifyingly efficient killer of all Fantasy. And Queek was very old when he fought Thorgrim.
@@Milenos is Snitktch the best assassin though? (I know I mispelled that name.) I've heard stories of a Chameleon Skink that got trapped in the realm of chaos and raised so much hell that the chaos gods literally had to throw him out. XD
@@yamahadrag69 Oxyotl is more of a Chameleon skink commander and chameleon being able to blend in make the job very easy indeed. But even in the real of chaos, he was sometime found by daemon, but successfully suvive by instinc and cunning, the greatest skink of all time perharp, but also Lizardmen not being able to die of old-age, making them stronger by the year kinda help that. While Deathmaster Snikch was never found while infiltrating or killing, also Skaven doesnt live very long, even if they can get a little boost from Skryre at that (costing a tons of slave and warpstone)
@@yamahadrag69 But technically there is a better assassin, a Verminlord that talked to Thanquol before Verminking and said that in his time, he was the most feared assassin that ever was and that even Deathmaster was just a weakling in his prime.
yamahadrag69 Snikch is certainly the most stealthy however there have been other Skaven assassins who I would argue were just as skilled in other areas.
Take Warhammer Fantasy’s very own version of the Terminator, High Executioner Veskit, from Mordheim lore whose body had been augmented with Skryre technology to make him unkillable.
Here’s an in-universe description of Veskit uttered by Fritz Huber at the Red Moon Inn moments before being shot in the head.
“It killed us all! We couldn’t stop it, our weapons broke against its body... It was black, like a shadow, and it was moving so fast, cutting men to shreds left and right. We fought, yes we fought hard, and old Marcus even tried his trick with the oil flask. It was engulfed by flames and for a moment we thought we’d stopped it. No way, it came out of the fire, still ablaze. It was as if it didn’t care! That was too much and those left of us ran for it. Still it followed us, on and on, relentless and merciless. There was no escaping, no hiding, its red eye could always spot you. Oh that eye... that eye...”
Queek is unironically one of the best champions of Khorne. Right up there with that swell Kharn. Great guy.
as the starting "beginner" Skaven melee lord, I am surprised they haven't made that Loyalty you mentioned into a mechanic like having just the generic Skaven Lord have 100% loyalty so no betrayal mechanic to make the faction more 'new player' friendly.
Finally a hero for the only faction suitable for civilized and educated people!
Wait, there's a whole book about him? Haven't read warhammer in ages, time to catch up :D
Theres 2 actually. Karak Eight Peak which follow the adventure of the 3 factions and Queek Headtaker, the biography of Queek.
Read it - it’s hilarious.
Queek: You took a dagger for me?? You will be rewarded with all the Broodmothers you want!"
Crimson Guard: *Flashback to his time in the Breeding Chambers* OH GOD! No no that's fine Queek.
The trilogy is complete! Thanks Cody!
I mean... Queek has my personal fav look of all the Skaven lords. I dig that armor. Just wish he was better lol
Ya i wish he had some mechanic similar to Groms but with heads instead of food. Like he has 5 head slots, with minor lords giving small buffs and legendary lords giving good buffs. It would be cool to have a set bonus as well with all dwarf or greenskin LL heads to give a massive bonus for queek.
@@lunchboxlansing317 id also like to see a bit of a rework to his skill tree, especially the stormvermin stuff. He's meant to be built around them, but gives them no unique buffs, just cost and recruit rank. Also, MAKE THE CRIMSON GUARD A CAMPAIGN SPECIAL UNIT. or a ror for regular stormvermin
@@colossusslayer1234 there is a mod that gives ska as a hero and the crimson guard as a ror, but you need karak to recruit them
So about the whole Queek not having a unique mechanic thing. Sadly this is mainly because Queek was a starter lord but like many problems with TW:W2 there's a mod for that. Its called Queek's Burrow - Team Grim and it uses Grom the Paunchs caldron mechanic except its Queeks head pole instead. Its a little underdeveloped but their updating it pretty frequently. I'd also recommend the Ska Bloodtail mod that adds Queeks loyal bodyguard to the game as well as the Red Guard as a unit but they can only be recruited at Eight Peaks so try not to get them killed. Finally I'd also recommend the Unique Skaven Warlord Traits for Each Clan! mod so the Warlords actually have a use for all Skaven campaigns. The Mors ones get upkeep reduction for clanrats and slaves as well as more loyality if they have a lower lvl to the leader as well as other possible options. It also works for the AI so its not cheating if you care about that sort of thing.
Queek Headtaker or how I like to call him - Ratman Lü Bü
8:37 ? Skaven broodmother's aren't End Times lore. They've been around since at least 4th edition.
This is your brain on 1d4chan
Reality is often too much to handle. They hated 1d4chan cuz he told them the Truth
Remember that time Queek tried to kill a cloud
I loved that scene in the book, Queek’s first step into the open air and seeing rain with the amazing line of ‘water can not fly’.
@@pyrrhusofepirus8491 wich book?
@@thaddeuspowell8438 Headtaker
@@pyrrhusofepirus8491queek was confused as fuck huh XD
I knew when Cody called Queek a "Red rocket" that this was gonna be good. I was not dissapointed.
A skaven that likes to collect skulls, Khorne wants to know his location
Mors = khorne cause honor war and stuff.
Pestilence = nurgle self explanatory.
Skryre = tzeench forbiden magic and tech and schemes.
Moulder = slannesh
Body horror excessive warpstone usage etc
Conclusion
Great horned rat = chaos undivided
Mind blown
@@Arkaeus04 aaaalllll acoooourding tooooooo plaaaaannn! (Tzeanchean cackling intensifies)
tamriels doom that might explain the Great Horned Rat in AoS
@@legiohysterius4624 ok but the big GHR is himself a chaos god separate from the big 4. If anything hes the 5th Chaos god
Ngl, when you asked me to close my eyes after mentioning a japanese bukkake festival, I got kinda worried of what was going to happen next
I like how queek looks at the assassin behind him
"Oh it's you guys again..."
@@alexthehopeless3778 "The f you doing back there?"
"Um, excuse me what the actual Fu#k are you doing in my house?"
With SFO:Grimhammer you can recruit Queek's proper Red Guard unit, and pick up unlockable buffs from each of the skulls on his trophy rack. It's a nice adjustment towards the lore.
That mod is really doing some heavy lifting. Every time I hear about their implementation I'm more and more impressed.
The other Skaven Clans: "Why are Clan Mors Skaven so loyal to their clan? it makes no sense?"
Clan Mors: "Make sure everyone has proper food and training (for a Skaven) so they are actually useful in a fight"
“So many bodies at the enemy that even make a Soviet general squeamish”
Zhukov: Am I a joke to you?
Hon zhukov is a joke to queek
Bruh SKAVEN has a wage war with billions in their disposal, that's why they could conquer all over the world with their underground city.
"Trillions upon trillions..."
thats the actual quote about skaven numbers. Want to see Zhukov figuring that one out. Cuz he didnt had what skaven have - nukes.
@@afterfall8133 yeah except if all the skaven we’re not fighting each other in the process.
Yes! Yes! This pleases Skaven-kind! Maybe not turn you into meal meat! Yes! Yes! (Whip crack) back to work!! Hehe
Man, I wish Queek gets an update in the new Skaven DLC.
Ye, maybe a mechanics where he collects heads, and gets different bonuses, or something similar to the norsca monster hunts, since the heads talk back to him they could direct him to fight someone. Same for skrolk, he could get something similar to grom's cauldron, where he mixes up different ingredients to create new diseases
So from Cody's description of the Skaven...they're basically modern day Highschool teenagers? Makes sense
That description was edited down from this amazing post by ElGrudgerino, so I want to give credit where it's due. www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/bgufiq/why_do_people_like_the_skaven/
Also sounds like a lot of woman nowadays.
A cool idea I have for the skull rack thing is that every unique legendary lord he kills, he gain a permanent leadership buff aura AND a permanent leadership debuff aura. These stack with each LL he killed (only one stack per lord so you can't murder Arkhan like 12 times to get 12 stacks) so the more LL he kills, the more head he puts on the rack, and the more fearsome he becomes, being able to not only be an infantry murder machine but a walking fear dispenser
Be better if it it gave massive buffs, but you had to wipe the faction, since the LL only get wounded in lost battles
I was very sleepy after the work listening to this video and closed my eyes. Then you said that line and that freaked me out lol. Had to backwards the video to make sure I wasn't tripping
Just found ur channel immediate sub. Since Covid got really hooked on Warhammer II but i don't really know anything about the lore but these videos have been helping me understand and want to play certain heroes because of ur videos keep up the work brotha. I'm going to raise a loyal army of clan rats with Queek now
If you've truly learned from these vids; you'll be making sex jokes as you play Warhammer from now on.
I was just asking myself how their wasn't a Queek guide last night after watching the other two videos. Thanks man! He was the first lord I used in Warhammer.
My first campaign, in my first warhammer game. And still in love with this ratboy
Queek rework:
- give him a unique ability for killing LLs(maybe remove it as a global trait of the base game? im not sure how you could implement it and have it still be unique unless he just gets TWO bonuses instead)
- Give him Orc/Norsca confed mechanics. As the video says, he'll incorperate enemy skaven into his army.
rather than the Orc/Norsca confederation I think a more fitting thing for Queek would be that if you kill the enemy lord and then route the army you would get any non RoR Skaven in the army after the battle
Perhaps just give him an additional small stacking buff on top of the normal trait gains. +1 to Leadership/MD/MA. Inflict fear once he gets a certain number of heads.
In honesty, I'd probably just do something like the Norsca hunting mechanics: Get access to certain contracts to openly battle elite lords, and their deaths not only buff Queek but give a faction-wide bonus.
I was thinking that giving all the LL buffs queeks has to all of the Lords he has in his armies(except Grey Seers) would be an alright idea then I thought "No wait that would be too busted".
So I was thinking of giving him a gauge that the more unique LL's he kills the higher:
- loyalty from lords
- ranks for lords
- psychology debuffs for queek himself
- leadership for his army
What about something like Eltharion's Interrogation mechanic? He'd get access to any specialized skill the enemy had for a few turns.
Finally Queek. Thank you for doing my favorite flea bitten ankle hacker justice.
Aight so if you are friends with Queek he’s actually pretty chill
Basically, I guess
I mean he still threatens Ska that he’ll cut him to pieces if he doesn’t find a way to follow Queek when he tunnels.
@@rustkarl I think that passes for friendly conversation among Skaven
I'm so glad youtube decided to show me your channel. Great stuff!
All praise the UA-cam RNG!
I went down the “Skaven reproduction” lore hole before. Never again
I'd love to see you make lore videos for all the factions not the gameplay from the game but just their lore.
Queek headtaker: Hey nodwell
Nodwell: yeah
Queek: I think I'm becoming loyal to u?
Nodwell: AYO WTF
The work that you put into these videos is amazing, keep it up, i probably already saw twice every noobs guide of your channel
PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE! THEY ARE SOO GOOD!
The wording and puns in these videos are so fucking clever it’s almost worrying
Yes yes
of all the skaven in warhammer it seems queek headtaker (and clan mors a bit) are a bit more practical about their species enough to get their crap together and do something instead of the usual skaven thing, they really know how to get "a-head" of the curve cause queek sure gets head enough that he impales them on his hard iron spike rods on his back.
Queek Headtaker has more backbone than the rest of the Skaven combined
Now the triumvirate is complete.
Congrats.
I hope you do more.
Queek is a semi-wholesome Skaven which makes nuttier than squirrels in a peanut factory
You think the Breeders of the Skaven are sick ?
Wait until you learn about the Daemonculaba in 40k.
A few days before this got released i made a very unupeacing statement pressuring and arguing with you Cody about him not making any skaven videoes. You Prbly can't remember it but i just wanna say sorry. Your videoes keep me entertained on a daily basis and your comedy is (unlike most stuff these days) actually funny. So i just wanna say thank you for taking the time into these noobs guide and i'm sure i ain't alone in this appreciation.
thank you i recently got myself into total war warhammer 2 and those noob guide are really funny and i was so sad to see that i watch all of them in a day so thank you for giving me the pleasure of new content ;)
@dio brandon from robertus maximus ? already seen it xD but thanks if you have anything else i'm taking it
No, I did read The End Times and it's really shit. But I did read "The Headtaker" novel and it was great. I saw "Warlords of Eight Peaks" on BL and wanted to ask about this book.
Balin Fundin it’s an omnibus of all the novels on the Eight Peak faction leaders - Headtaker, Skarsnik, Grudgebearer, plus a few short stories.
@@veermudambi5795 oh, thank you!
3:44 personalised contracts on his life is a real birthday gift!
Pretty sure it’s Ikit Scratch’s body on his rack, but I could be wrong
Awesome work! As always.
Now back to my usual thing. What was it again? Oh yeah.
Would like to see the video about the other skull-wearing psychopath now, Wulfrik the Wanderer.
If i remember queek is also deemed insane because he does what no other Skaven does, bathes and keeps his fur clean
Queek is so cool, I basically has a army specialising in assisting him, full of Stormvermins with sword and shields, and also a abomination that will be his cute and best pet, I got him two afterwards, also 3 Warp lighting cannons to shoot the ever living hell of frogs in big thrones
Queek doesn't T pose
He cross pose!
Praise the Great one yes-yes! Finally a video of of my favorite Skaven lord Queek. But why you not tell more about Ska? You should read the book Headtaker. It tells how Queek does not know how to raise an army but Ska does it for him. Ska does everything and is like Pepper Pots for Tony Stark. :) I love Ska. He is such a good boy. Also I love how Ska and Queek try to protect one an other.
If my boy ever gets a rework, he should have “head whispers” which is just him randomly getting vision over enemy settlements to demonstrate how the heads advise him, buffed traits from killing lords, and head quests, which are just normal random quests with better rewards
Imagine a mechanic similar to Malus and Zarkan voices and quests. Would be dope
also, maybe some bonuses related to Khorne as well
Clan Mors: a clan so honorable the other Skaven call hacks.
After watching the Isabella video I was thinking I wanted a Queek video so I double checked and refound this video. God I love these videos.
Looking forward to the cinematic video. Great video.
I wish they would add a mechanic where you can take heads of lords and legendary lords and actually get buffs off them. Kind of like how the Orcs get trophy’s I think that would make Queek a lot more interesting and powerful.
I had been waiting SO LONG for that one, thanks!!!
I was kinda surprised to hear that Queek is actually a good boss (In comparison to other skaven lords), like he seemed like such a prick it was hard to think that he is actually one of the few lords you'd probably want to work for if you were a skaven.
Oh he's still terrible. Just comparatively good.
"The Caitlyn Jenner Trifecta" omfg LOOOL
Ah, Queek Headtaker - Khorne's pet rat
THIS RULES CODY THIS IS SICK
Thank you Cody for keeping us sane in this dire time :)
Oh my god! I was playing Clan Mors last night wishing you would make a video for them in the near future!
I'd love to see more of these. Suggestions would be Siegvald or Throgg
Man he really needs a head taker function. Or, maybe make it so that any trait from beating a legendary Lord is applied to all of your leaders.
Nothing like a new Noob's Guide to make a day better : )
The one thing I needed to to complete my primal morning!
Lemme get that guide to THE SUPREME PATRIARCH
Khorn and queek would be great friends
I have this hilarious mental image of Queek pissing on Skarsnik or some other gobbo's corpse, turning around to see a bunch of distraught goblins watching, and promptly T-posing.
"Hmmmf, it's starting to burn-sting when I piss-pee, maybe have lab-rat from clan Moulder look-see at it."
Fun fact before getting the nane headtaker Queen was now as the
ketamine addic of clan moors due the fact almost everyone knows that ketamine is the natural product of warpstone
He still consumes ketamine
Your puns are out of this world!
Queek's lack of good faction effects or mechanics makes him ideal to confederate.
Honestly, as far as i'm concerned, Ikit Claw is the Great Horned Rat and all those others are just confederation fodder. There is something satisfying about confederating all the other Skaven lords into service of Clan Skyre.
"take their powers like a depraved megaman" was one of the best lines I've ever read
Queek is easily my favorite Skaven character.
Pure gold. Well done sir, well done.
I appreciate the effort Cody but I expect more from you.. try again when all 10 minutes are genitalia references..
*Apply yourself*
They’re like a species of just Starscream. Yikes.
The 'boop' in this video is what convinced me to subscribe.
Well we now know that blood bowl 3 will include slacken cheerleaders
Another great video, keep it up my dude!