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When will we see Bad Ass mode?

Hello everyone and welcome back to Knock on the Coffin Lid! In the Vanadis rework inspection, we have arrived on my formerly favorite variant, and I'm happy to report that the Raven's Sister has reclaimed her crown in my heart. Previously, she was quite convoluted, survival came down to proper Dome management, and it was a stretch even for her to really pop off with a DoT build, but all of that is no more IF you can get Connection rolling. I felt pretty good in all stages of the game, and you can find the boss fights at 23:09, 49:42, and 1:16:16. Only one variant remains in the investigation, and I hope to see you there -- thanks for watching!

"Oh, it is Thorgrim Grudgebearer. I wonder what would happen if I went and got his face." It'd be a grudgin', of course.

I have to say, I actually preferred Devil Survivor 1 to Devil Survivor 2. Of course, I feel like turning back time is a cop-out.

Don’t know about you, but since I still have no way out of manually doing combat, the novelty of the Empire fort sieges still is exciting for me every time. There is always at least one notable thing that happens during these (in this case, Bilious taking no damage despite being in the thick of things the whole time). Besides, it’s always a learning lesson for me to watch how different races handle breaking the forts down UBERSREIK FIGHT…ahem, thank you

The Changeling's bottom-most arm ends in a mouth, not a hand. Why did I have to notice that?

Hello everyone and welcome back to Total War: Warhammer 3! Today, Epidemius has taken one step closer to Long Victory by buckling the bulwark of the North in an unexpected temporary alliance at 46:55 and personally guiding Kislev to Grandfather Nurgle's embrace at 1:31:30. Meanwhile, Aenar is continuing to troll the Empire by seizing one of their strategic Forts at 11:00 and claiming Ubersreik at 59:04. Aenar doesn't have a monopoly on trolling this episode, and a nameless Cultist faced down the Green Knight in a miraculous defense of Marienburg at 1:17:45. With Victory swiftly approaching, the Tallyman of Nurgle must brace himself for the perils that await him at the finish line -- thanks for watching!

The mutual exclusivity makes sense to me. The Keepers of Knowledge are ment to be good boys. It was the developer's answer to the Shadow Affinity always ending up as bad boys.

11:00 I vagiely remember that you could have dragon lord heroes in your armies so that must for ES as well

My Smith's Guild!? My Fabled Hunters!? What do they have against low-tier Units being given more Ranks as the game proceeds? That kept low-tier Units more relevant instead of just falling off as higher tiers are unlocked. I know this isn't the case, but it feels like a direct nerf targeted at me; I hear my Sunderers weeping already. I don't suppose it's possible to just... stop my game from updating?

Great video! Just a note, Frostling Transformation is a Minor Transformation, so it does indeed stack with Gloom Strider Transformation! :)

I'd like it if range penalties were scaled a bit more generously on the units' actual relative maximum range. It feels like everyone is working on the same model, which I get for gameplay and balance reasons, but it's starting to feel like archer enchantments are losing value. I actually think that lots of units that have a very short range should be able to push it a bit too, just with a really harsh falloff. I'd like to be able to make risky 5% attacks with my Primal Darters at 4/5 tiles away, it would still feel fair IMO. Ideally enchantments would adjust range AND relative accuracy. Perhaps some lean into one more than the other; Seeker Arrows feel like a heavy accuracy enchantment in this case, changing direction using magic, but running out of momentum at the same rate. Then there's the 'realism' argument about IRL archers being able to shoot further if they're strong. It would be interesting, albeit cheesy, if strength buffs increased archers range instead of damage (archers specifically, not marksmen or crossbow users) but I think that would be broken, even if it has the more punishing accuracy falloff.

With the Ascended warriors spell you can get adult dragons quick

Bone Dragons and Reapers are Magic Origin, so Mystic Summoner now can be great Necromancers. GOOD😈

I had Pantheon Ruler joining at the end of the run, when I was neat enemy Capital getting research, to add transformations and to get Ascension Trait that I wanted. Was happy to see a familiar face, but, sadly she didn't reach to the battle, my Big Dwarven Lady with a Heavy Charge Hammer bonked the Enemy.

You took down exactly half of Alarielle's forces.

Ok, enough is enough. AoW4 devs are like bloody seagulls, but instead of *sqwk* they just come to meetings and go Nerf Nerf Nerf Nerf Nerf until everyone ears bleed! And then they listen to some whiny tryhards and go Nerf ritual all over again. It's only thing you ever see in patch notes - unless it's some annoying shit like lightfish, so it can be more annoying. Seriously, fun police is crazy in this industry, but Triumph is just taking "can't have good toys" to another level. Screw them and this game (

8:40 It is one of my suggestion, currently you can cast spells limitless like lighting torrent to wipe any stack with enough mana and astral echoes as Attunement Mystic, so my suggestion was to limit that per spell and per turn, to be able hurry spell once per turn, so you can hurry another spell, but not the same like spamming lightning torrent to wipe whole stacks

Tbh Scions of Evil are nerfed too harshly, they should work similar like Devotees of Good: No longer grants +1 Rank to racial Shock and Shield units. Now grants +1 Rank to all units while at max evil alignment. Furthermore Pyreshrine is too OP now, it bypasses Angelize and all mechanics around Rally of Lieges and gaining faithful units, it should be removed, Faithful to everything produces is too OP.

"The two major subjects we’re looking at are the recent Rank Updates and the Eldritch Sovereigns. The update today includes several changes to City Structures & Society Traits to address the speed at which High Rank Units can be obtained. For Eldritch Sovereigns we have identified some areas where things should be tweaked, but we welcome you to let us know what your pain points are." => it says at the top of the patch's page that sovereign will get in beta later +2 ranks for constructs combined with other ranks buff = does it affect bronze golem to level them faster ? or even iron golem ? perfectionnist artisan is my main trait, i put it in all my civs, so im fairly happy ^^

I'm guessing the Pyreshrine change is for empires coming into the Tome of the Cleansing Flame from the chaos side and don't have zeal or faithful to protect them from the cleansing flame hazards that the tome revolves around. The "balance" being that it'll only give faithful to units produced in the city with the shrine while everything else will still be affected... Also mid-late game chaos is pretty summon heavy and city structures don't affect summoned units unless specified.

8:45 Mystic-Attunement could just cast a strategic damage spell over and over again using astral echoes to kill entire armies without much trouble. Now, its a little less absurd.

Most of these changes seem good! I'm a bit iffy on the locking out of having certain traits together. The Scions of Good trait giving GOLD now feels a bit weird too.

Hello everyone, welcome to a patch notes video! The upcoming 1.3 Mystic patch is largely related to feedback, so I thought I'd go ahead and cover it. The biggest changes are around bonuses to recruitment rank, which begin at the Highlights at 1:30. The following bits are a lot of miscellaneous (and incredibly specific) changes to a wide range of categories at 8:33 and then fixes starting at 12:44. All-in-all, I think this is a good patch, and you can find my final thoughts starting at 17:23 after some brief confusion. I think the biggest change and thing I'll be keeping my eye on in the next Shek'zeer episode is the change to the Pyreshrine, but feel free to let me know what you think -- thanks for watching!

Glad this series is still Going strong

Wouldn’t linked minds make sense for the mantid in tome of the construct that and I am really starting to like the mage lock changes

The new Magelock mechanics really are very fun. I need to do a Reaver run at some point.

The insectophobia heightens

1:16:30 You don't get any imperium from vassal if they have ancient wonders in their domain, it is so annoying, you have to build an oupost, transfer the wodner to it to benefit from it, absolute nonsense. Also the fact they vassals are unable to annex wonders suck, sometimes they are blocked by it so hard that they cannot expand. Also you don't benefit from bonuses from such ancient wonder in vassal's domain even if you have superior vassalage you don't get for example tower bombardment siege project, it is really weak game design at this point.

Feels a little weird how you can increase your range for archer type units so much but then you can't increase their accuracy hardly at all. Idk maybe I'm missing something, but it feels off. The battlemage stuff generally feels better?

36:00 For the morale damage bit (In case nobody mentions it) Fumbling actually reduces morale, and low morale increases fumble chance. So, the same virtuous circle of critting -> get morale -> high morale increases crit chance -> crit more -> get even more morale also applies to fumble in the opposite way. This is one of the dimensions that make fumble builds so interesting and/or synergistic with morale builds. Additionally, you can build into it through high crit chance, as being critted reduces morale, and some of the sources like Tome of Devastation for Flameburst already play onto affinities you might want (Chaos) in Revelry and Mayhem

Why do I have a feeling the next one you do is either going to be an eldrich gul’dan or one of the eldrich chaos gods Tzeentch or who knows what you’ll surprise everyone with

Hello everyone and welcome back to Age of Wonders 4! Today, the Grand Empress chills out in a seemingly never-ending siege, but her Archer B-Team gets *very* busy standing off against the Undead Legions of fellow Eldritch Sovereign and Sha incarnate Daniel Prideborne starting at 14:56. 52:48 was a rude reminder of how swiftly the Undead can recuperate their army losses; after another fight at 1:23:01 and Daniel's return at 1:47:55, I really began to question my decisions and envision a true Skeleton legion with the new experience changes. Nevertheless, the walls Daniel's juicy city finally fell at 2:07:28, and its Halfling population will be put to use in Amber collection until the Imperium situation improves. Thanks for watching!

It would be kinda cool if you "recruited" one of the heroes in your prison, just to then turn them into the Pumpkin Spice Deer later on, very on-brand role-playing wise too haha

34:12 do you know about breath of the wild’s weapon durability because you watched a let’s play and about 60% of the runtime was spent in the weapons menu? Because I haven’t played it either but that’s what I learned!

Is your thumbnail drawing from the same artist that does Lady Lucerne? The style looks similar, and I know they had a Landsknecht character, but her codpiece was more…prominent.

An inglorious end for an accursed day.

Hello everyone and welcome back to Knock on the Coffin Lid! Today, the Fox's Apprentice is up to bat for rework investigation, and the formerly strongest variant of Vanadis may just retain her crown. In my opinion, her rework is almost perfect and amplifies the Fox's previous playstyle, and she performed smoothly even in a disadvantageous boss fight against the Archdruid at 30:23. Her strength really shown through when facing my archnemesis Anthony at 46:09 and by denying the Keeper's Phase 2 at 57:40. Unfortunately, a Merchant-less map roll and my failure to read saw her meet an inglorious end at 1:14:51; nevertheless, she wagged her way in to my heart in this showcase. Next up, can my former favorite reclaim her throne? Thanks for watching!

Magnificent

I know it would be hard to pull off from a coding perspective, but could you imagine if using someone's face affected their reputation? Like, take the form of Grimgor, attack the Empire, and they get pissed at Grimgor instead of you. Peak Tzeentch.

I've decided to start watching the other Total War playthroughs, because the game looks genuinely interesting. My potato PC can't run it, but an eldritch horror can dream.

Do you plan to finish the true ending or done with the game?

Hello everyone and welcome back to Acolyte of the Altar! With the smol July patch fresh off the press, I thought I'd take the opportunity to make good on my promise to play a Mono deck (same Greater and Lesser Patron) and give the Sylvans their chance at redemption. Little did I know, their redemption arc would end in supremacy because this Infest deck went insanely hard. The Infest really started coming together at 27:26 to save a lost doggo, but I learned the true power of Infest against the Shambling City at 43:10. With newfound knowledge in hand, Haru's Acolyte absolutely demolished the Empyrean god at 46:57. This was a fun refresher, and I'm now satisfied to return when the meta-progression is finally added -- thanks for watching!

This game is really cool nice to see you play it again.

Nice games, good story lines. I just wander if you gonna make a dark culture only shadow tomes build, it's so cool with some bone dragons. ❤❤

"Sigismund, could you not do so much damage?" he asks while wearing the Provoker's Mask.

Yes.

If you're interested in new story ideas, I'd highly recommend looking into the Golarion (Pathfinder) pantheon and history. Lots of their deities ascended to their deific status through great acts, like in AoW and their Wizard Kings, and it's got lots of God-like opponents to pull from as well! Off the top of my head the war between Tar-Baphon and Iomedae before her ascension, the resurrection of the dragon lord Kazavon, and the awakening of various Runelords could make for amazing stories! Great content as always, Fabe!

Wow order is really piping off lately in AOW4 man I gotta get in on this when I get the chance

Hey, If anyone knows, is there a particular reason fabe doesn't sell remains?