Saving Karl Franz's Disaster Campaign
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Dwarf army razes The Pillars of Grungni.
"Ah, another entry in the Book of Grudges satisfied."
Raptor Jesus 😂😂💀
One entry struck, another two placed. One for the dwarves that did the razing, and the other for the idiot that made them do it.
Saving an Empire on the verge of defeat is way more interesting and intense than a curb-stomp from day one, you really feel like humanity's fate is in the balance.
That's why I've always liked Attila, though if you play your cards right the WRE can usually stabilize without too much strife.
@@danemillerhass831 how do you manage climate? In my first playthrough with Attila i thought it was a one time thing, like -1 for climate just forever or for a period of time. Boy I was wrong, every province turned into ash and all my farmlands inproductive
@@TileBitan goat herds, everywhere. Granaries too. NO farmlands, except if you know what you're doing (i.e if you're timing perfectly the moment you switch over to goat herds)
but every campaign i have played in TWW, the empire always lies in ruin, and the dwarf always become the most powerful for god sake
@@lotrlmao1648 that was happening in TWW 1 a lot, but so far in TWW 2 in my games Empire usually manages to unify and tries to hold back the chaos, but can use some help if you play the good guys. Dwarfs usually hold only Kazak-a-Karak or what is their main city's name and maybe couple more regions and greenskins dominate :D In my current Bretonnia campaign I had to send Louen to push back the green tide, they took Averland and Stirland and were sending endless stacks led by all three leveled up greenskin LL's. it was insane :D Got a badass fight in blackfire pass where Louen and the Green knight won a heroic victory against Azhag the Slaughterer and three stacks of elite greenskins :D Epic :)) For the Lady!
When the elector counts don't show up
Summon the elector cunts
Different Counts came instead
Nah that’s what happens WHEN THE elector counts show up
When your diplomacy is so bad you botch the roll and summon the *Vampire* Counts instead.
legend comes!
BRING ME TO MY MEN
The celestial college implores that i hear you, I REMAIN UNCONVINCED.
Your focus and mentality while playing is how everyone should focus on life. It is a pleasure to watch you play.
As messy as that battle was, Bretonnia/Empire team-ups just make me smile.
Get zose commoners shooting zeir filthy bows!
“The beacons are lit, the Empire calls for aid”
.....
“And Bretonnia will answer, muster the Rohir......ummm, the knights of Bretonnia......”
Back in TW:W1 Bretonnia helped me defeat Archaon by shooting him in the head with a trebuchet, it was pretty funny.
Hey everyone. This is my save file. First, I want to thank Legend for checking out my save file. and I want to give a background to the situation I left for Legend. I started well, I concentrated on securing the province to gain the bonus of having a full province. I concentrated on Economy, and creating trade networks to increase income. One of the Human eastern regions got into a war with the Vampyres, and after about a dozen turns they asked me to join, which I did for a hefty price. I had my army with KF go there to help. I knocked out a couple of armies, but was slowly being attritioned, so i decided to pull back. during this, one of the Orc Hordes came thru and razed one of my towns, can't remember which one. My secondary stack(full) did not make it in time to stop it. as KF was coming back, the vampyres ravaged the eastern regions and took them. at the same time, another orc horde came thru, and I think i did a confederation, which pissed off the northern regions and eventually they declared war on me. so all this happened in a relatively small amount of turns, and that is how I found myself in so many wars at once, and I was winning the battles but losing the war. I also realized in this playthrough that cavalry sucks.
Haha~ Awesome.
Honor the call to arms but don't bother helping unless you can gain something useful.
Sending a stack to an area which cannot give you land that you can protect/keep is a waste of time and makes you open to be attacked.
That time should be used consolidating your borders not defending someone'else borders.
Though ideally don't make allies is best since in this game diplomacy is fucked.
Cavalry is good if you know how to use it. Just 1-2 units are good
Ahhhh, well that explains that. Also, why does Cavalry suck? The intense micro or the relative vulnerability to ranged weapons and high energy magic?
@@AlphaNumericKey
Cavalry are a shock unit, it is all about flanking and giving moral shock to the enemy to create confusion and panic. That is their role in warfare.
Cav charges give as much damage as they receive when disengaging, thus they are best used for moral shock.
Early game is where cav should me more relevant since late game cav charges has less impact and high tier units are more or less too strong for it.
So unless your enemy has moral issues cav are useless(like greenskins)
This is especially true if you are playing on VH or Legendary difficulty.
Late flying cav are better but by that point cav lost their best time to shine.
This happens in all TW titles, cav late game are not so impactful and where there was an exception, they got nerfed soon after to make sure there was no exception.
Also having access early on to so many fast units makes cav lose their monopoly on running down routing units, as they have in other TW titles.
In conclusion, cavalry do not have a role they shine in anymore on VH and legendary difficulty at any given time during your game.
Losing Altdorf as Empire? This guy must have put his army in Marienburg and pressed end turn for like 50 turns.
jake yong right?
He's not even at war with VC - means someone else took it from him and then the VC took it from them...
@@DzinkyDzinkCould just have been a peace deal
When I need to get work done but am thinking about playing total war.. I stand up and shout "I WILL NOT STAND IDLE!" And then play for 4 hours lmao.
:'D
OK, this is epic. 😎
@@patsy02 Sometimes when my ex used to put on real housewives of Atlanta or some bullshit on TV I would yell, "THAT ACTION DOES NOT HAVE MY CONSENT!"
@@jagerhunter7717 Since she is your ex now, I assume you have done the right thing by burning her to prevent the spread of Chaos.
41:30
LoTW: 'Ah, that's too low chance to success...'
Spooky Skelly: 'IMPOSSIBLE!'
SUMMON THE VAMPIRE COUNTS ... wait, what?
Just a tip with handguns. Set up your infantry line with gaps big enough for you hand gunners to retreat through, then when your gunners retreat through the gap have one of your infantry units charge any units that are trying to chase them through. With that Ideally your gunners will still be able to fire at the unit that tried to follow them from the flank.
I remember a similar strategy being used by party elite in one of his guides , it's extremely effective and out of the box .
At 15:06, I realised I was looking at the entirety of the imperial army. Feels sad.
Think about it this way, "just we few were left of the once glories imperial army, outnumbred, outmatched by fearless and monstrues orcs" "and what did you do Grandpa?" "we stood and fought, till the dawn brought silence to the battlefield, and when the light of the sun disappeared, we were victorious, and this was the day, when the fate shifted and our Empire rised once again." "Wooooaaahh youre such a Hero Grandpa..." "Silence, my child. There will be the day coming, when you must take up, my sword, in the service of our Emperor and our Nation, like as your father, my son, did. To Defend our legacy and to build further our future, to march out to the enemys and tell them, this is were we fight, this is were you Die!, This is our Empire!"
Weird the worst that normally happens to me as Karl ‘my rule is absolute’ Franz is when the beastmen rock up to be an ambushing nuisance.
Yeah... that movement range is always so annoying. You need so much time to consolidate the Reikland, simply because of the odd movement areas.
What? It takes 3-4 turns max.
@@MrThefoxyone Yeah, you first go east: takes 2 turns to get there, then you go south from there, another 2 turns, then you go north... this takes 1 turn. That's 5 turns, quite a lot... now the next goal would be marienburg, but by this time there are probably greenskins in your territory and an upcoming rebellion. It's a really annoying start if you ask me.
It isn't surprising me, that the vampire counts can snowball... if playing the empire and getting marienburg you're pretty much fine. But without Marienburg you'll have severe economical struggles... and this is the most iconical warhammer faction.
@@svenbrede6151 5 turns is completely fine. You don't have to rush Marienburg absolutely asap, you can wait a bit.
@@jurgisneverdauskis536 Maybe.^^ i mostly played dwarfs and sucked at empire, though... so maybe i'm not the best guide on that anyway. But i did have the impression that you generally had to be careful about the order of your expansions... which might explain why the ai sucks so much as empire^^
@@svenbrede6151 Grunberg turn 1. Helmgart turn 3, Eilhart turn 4.
Even if some doubted that Karl Franz is Sigmar incarnate that battle in Altdorf probably proved it.
I remember him from when I just told Kholek to deal with him and went to do something else. At some point I just got the notification that he died with Kholek standing somewhere at the edge of the map.
Legend did you know that if you put gunner units in guard mode and they get into a melee fight then the front line will pull out swords but the backline can still shoot.
@@bogdanleshenko7149 Still it's useful for when you don't have much time to micro them
Better idea. Put them behind your line. Leave gaps of about 3 quarters of unit lebgth betwee your front line units. Watch as the AI stupidly blobs multiple units on one of yours and shoot into their flanks through the gaps.
@@michael6109 I prefer to field the handgunners out front and just run them behind, then around the side for a flank.
@@bogdanleshenko7149 and u had to criticize someone giving advice FFS ? What if he forgot or the unit glitched or whatever .
I guess this being CZcams u can speak ur mind but I think what u said is un-needed
@@ahmadtarek7763 aren't you a sensitive boy
It's great to see and so far you are the only I know that does this.... Help his subs with saving them like this it's awesome and CZcams need to support this sort of behaviour well played... Well played
I'm really enjoying this series. Thanks for putting it together, LoTW. I'm learning a lot from you!
takes the enemy general from 100% to 10% and broken. "ya, hes doing no damage" ......
charge bonus or what?
Hey,I didn’t watched the video yet but i want to tell you i love youre videos and i watched every one of them,been here for past 7-8 months and never missed a video,i always watch youre videos in night and i fall asleep beacuse youre videos are so calming.
When my favorite youtuber heart my comment i feel like i am happiest person on the world
Try falling asleep to the peasants only campaign!
22:57 You replenish a bit more each round in encampment stance. Some factions get bonus stats as well. I'm pretty sure you had enough movement points for Karl here ;)
Really enjoyed this, glad you did an Empire comeback! Good even battles at a difficulty that isn't "we're never running", one reason I don't play Legendary. I wonder how it came about, but probably too many declarations of war or the vampires coming out of nowhere taking everything, has happened to me before...now though I want to do another Empire run, even if the end game is a slog!
Finally, it's been ages I've waited for you to play as The Empire
Man these videos are enjoyable to watch
I love all of your videos man, please keep making them!
Really enjoy your videos Legend. And love your attitude focusing on conquering everything :P I always have this turtle up strategy. XD I take way less risks then you do. I am learning a lot from your playstyle. Keep up the good work!
Keep them coming! Another great episode!
28 minutes in. You sound like you have fun. I really like this one. Save file was worth being unburied from November.. And really creating challenge by selecting interesting save is much better than CA unfair and unorganic legendary difficulty.
I bought this game a few months ago out of curiosity and because I've always loved 40k but the only fantasy experience I've had is with the dead MMO. You find a way to make very long plays entertaining, you are really good and make wonderful content. I aspire to have a channel like yours one day!
"The beacons are lit! Marienburg calls for aid!"
"And Bretonnia shall answer!"
Great content :) Had the feeling of a desperate fight for survival.. also great close call battles, the first one vs Skullsmasherz, the first one against Carsteins... And when King Louen and his knights relieved Marienburg, that was a nice touch :) But I have this feeling the dude will loose again :D
On a side note King Louen is MUCH better than the Emperor... hope Karl gets some love in the update.
Hearts and minds are fickle, but walls are eternal (until skaven earthquake you).
1:40:50 never laughed so much at the zombies banner yeeting and instantly crumbling. Lmfao!
Man we really need Kislev on the map. Will help out with the situation with the vampires.
Be nice of dlc when u can play as the kislevites
@@lordkabal2010 I suspect they will come in game 3 as a main faction or atleast a dlc one. It also fits a bit more since that one will be very chaos themed with 2 of the playable main factions directly linked to Chaos and near kieslev.
btw a tactic you should try in a situation the first battle was, or when the enemy outnumbers you greatly. Go to the corner of the map, place archers behind (not gunners). Put infantry in front, make flanks corner the border of the map. Let cav hide in a forest. What will happen is the entire enemy army will merge together and attack you head on, since they cant outflank you. Your archers will only suffer casulties if the enemy breaks your line, that way you utalize them better than u did in this battle, since moving them around takes time, creates casulties and they get less shots off. If you make 2 lines of even badly damage infantry, your infantry will hold the line long enough for your archers to seriously damage the enemy army. Another advantage is, you have more time make hit and runs with outriders and pistoleers, since you dont have to worry about moving your army that much. Every battle I fight, my outriders get around 200 kills, they are op if you use them correctly. When the time is right, you can get your cav out of hiding, run down the enemy archers, then hit the enemy infantry in the back together with pistoleers. Spells and mortars is op too in this situation, since the enemy army is merged together. My battle stats is usually pr. unit, mortars 180-250 kills. Archers 120-150 kills, outriders/pistoleers 180-200 kills. The rest is the infantry and the lords/heroes. This is against armoies of around 1200.
Absolutely love these TWW SYDC!
I somehow sense the spirit of Sigmar upon this video is it possible that he took a mortal form?
how... how do you mess up playing as karl franz..
might be new?
could be their first ever total war if theyre a warhammer fan with no previous interest in total war
@@eatenbyghouls1849 And they played on hard?
empire has never been an easy campaign
@@LaPunaisedu31 Are you okay? Empire is probably the second/third easiest. You're surrounded by people who'll never declare on you and can pick your targets opportunistically. Only High Elves are easier.
@@MrThefoxyone hey empire are hard if you are on legendary and only click end turn until turn 20
Nice comeback. What i recommend if you're in the constant siege situation, is to pull your general out of the castle and park him right beside it, in camp stance. Your army and garrison would still be able to reinforce reach other and your general would not miss another reinforcement.
Nice always love these
this reminds me of my very first Total War Warhammer campaign where I struggled as the Empire to get rid of the Secessionist because I played defensively, focusing on trying to get Handgunners and Crossbows early game before attacking (they ended up making armies big enough to match me). By the time I defeated the Secessionists, I tried to get Steam Tanks with a low-economy which took until around turn 100. By turn 120, I declared war on Marienburg due to its geographical position of being unable to get support from other factions (I was thinking in a WWI sort of approach) Marienburg's armies were equally matched against mine and my experience with battles wasn't very good, so i retreated and played defensively at Altdorf, not caring that i could hold them at Eilhart. I managed to defeat Marienburg with three steam tanks i managed to mobilize within Karl Franz' army. By the time of Marienburg's defeat, Norsca declared war on me although not much happened in that time frame when i realized about Archaon the Everchosen's army lurking in the Drakwald Forest, Carroburg was destroyed indicating Middenland is probably not in the game anymore (I also noticed Ostermark, Ostland, Nordland and Hochland were all defeated by an unknown enemy.) at that point i gave up and started a new campaign
Reikland and Eastern Sylvania are among the highest yield provinces in the game so going for the Vampires and secure their lands is highly recommended.
Also you gotta get that gold!
That's because the capitals of those two provinces (Altdorf and Drakenhof ) main city building has a nice percentage increase to All income in the province and a smaller increase to all neighboring provinces with the percentage increasing as u develop the city .
He got Marienburg, it can't be a disaster
This is why reinforcing undead armies are so much trouble. They don't break and let you defeat the opponent in detail, they just hold you in place and open you for the rear-charge.
Didn't they overhaul all the old world factions in TW:WH 1? The Festag update? Is that why Franz had different skills?
The amazing thumbnail artwork is from Sandra Duchiewicz.
Louen is a total bro. When you need someone to save your arse, you just give him a pointer and he'll drop by and help you out. Kinda like in the lore of the endtimes.
How to tell if fantasy: If wooden shields can block bullets, it is fantasy.
Thank you brettonia
@legendoftotalwar I know you aren't a fan, but you can use the Luminark and a Light wizard and one shot enemy lords.
More empire if you get em, great to see!
It's fun to watch this video compared to new saving the disaster battle/campaign. You seem to click and micro much faster now, and always going for lightning strike which you don't even mention here. Not seeing you couldn't reach Altdorf (a completely understandable mistake) is something I just don't see you do in any of the many recent videos.
I was under the impression that an army was auto-wiped if they were defeated while unable to retreat? Example: you attack once and win, they retreat. You attack again, they are destroyed.
I've never needed to keep the general alive to achieve this.
Edit: Only exception is one of the roving pirate factions I encountered while playing vampire coast that just wouldn't die despite losing at sea twice in a turn.
that blob at 58 minutes is just asking for deliverance of itza 3
How nice not to have Vampirates wrecking everything.
If you have a good relationship with a faction you can ask 300 gold every 8 or 10 turn .
2000 gold if they are really rich and like you a lot.
@@nqh4393 true
by the way, on turn 1 when you had Karl Franz outside the settlement, I'm pretty sure if you put him in encamp mode he'll get more replenishment even though he's in your own region.
This guy basically created moneyball for total warhammer
43:50 Everytime I play a total war game. It just isn't total war without it XD
fuck, came back to watch this again, just because, and the end turn OMG it was sooooooo long, i forgot how much better it got now!
Just a thought, a book I read, from like 20 odd years ago, "a boy and his tank" where he goes into training for all battle situations, with a computer thats trying to get into his pants :). (frank leokowski or leo frankowski,,, been ages :).
Dude, you coulda made much butter use of the net of Amonteksksksekjabob in that first battle. When a healthy unit runs, netting it and then sicking the boys on it would have let you wipe at least a couple of units over the course of the battle.
"SIGMAR CALLS"
Well then pick it up will ya?
Curious why you never seem to gamble on winds of magic, even when it’s a very low initial number.
you actually are a very good player !
Elector Counts: S U M M O N E D
WE ARE SIGMARS HEIRS!!!
Dope job
36:45 I'm pretty sure you aren't meant to take the saying "Hearts and minds of your people" literally.
I have never had succes with the Bretonnia, Empire and Dwarfs campaign. I feel surrounded eveytime as the Empire, I struggle with the economy as Bretonnia and as the dwarfs I have a hard time with the orc stacks that just keep coming at me. Had some succes with the Slayer lord farther north.
I have a curse. This happens almost every time. I control almost the whole province and one of my allies shows up out of nowhere and bloody snipes me the last town. Almost every frikkin time...
In the last battle the vampires should have holed up in the woods where the missile weapons legend depends on would be ineffective and massed up around the corpse cart. At that point I suspect things would have gotten painful for legend as the attacker. If I understand correctly all the vampires would need to do to win is survive.
Bretonia enters the fray and saving the day)
I hope one day we get a tretch craventail disaster
question? would you do one of these campagins that is modded? or just vanilla? cause you doing a campaign modded is for a interesting challenge for you.
So why didnt you attack Isabellas stack that was standing outside of Altdorf? You could have drawn out both Vlads and the garrison armies and you would have negated the advantage of them having walls.
Hi I have recently found your channel and I was watching quite a bit of your old content, needless to say I enjoy it very much (why else I would be watching otherwise, right? )I don't know if that is useful feedback to you, but I like how your use of profanities changed since older content. I use them as often as you did, but now they do seem to be used as emphasis, while in older videos, they were quite.... random I guess. You sound much more confident and coherent now :).
I feel like most empire campaigns become a disaster campaign. You are completely surrounded by enemies and the other human factions just serve to give them territory.
HOLY SHIT VLAD IS ALIVE AND DOING WELL IN THIS CAMPAIGN WTF?!?! also the dworfs are on there last city :O
At 1:21:15 what causes the AI to stand and take fire vs them sallying out of the gate?
That big fight with Vlad and Isabella could have been executed so much better, holy shit :D
My main "disaster" in capmaigns (especially since I play rome2 and DEI a lot) is the inevitable every province is fucking unhappy and than having to chance buildings to keep m happy but than you get food problem etc. such a pain, I just get tired of trying to calculate/plan ahead what buildings I'm going to build in a province to eventually ending up with the same fucking problem xD
Please try to zoom on the units more it would make the let's play cooler and more enjoyable
Saving Karl Franz sounds like a indie-rock band lmao
what does the white bar on the unit health bar indicate?
tis a hard micro to net and firing squad over lapping bounding overwatch.
Could you start a Empire play through?
Do you have a video of actually sending your game files to play? no idea how to do it
Do a kwarezmian campaign in medieval 2 total vanilla beyond please, again.
This is maybe a dumb question Legend, but how come you prefer the Empire swordsmen over the spearmen yet the Tomb Kings spearmen over their swordsmen? Aren't the differences pretty much the same?
Have you come across any totally dud campaigns that were just impossible to save ??
Uhh, so...is this before the Imperial Authority crap was added? Because if there's a way to disable that, I'd LOVE to hear it, I hate it so much, I just want to play the Empire like I did in the first game just with more units, factions and a bigger map.
Any chance for a lizardmen campaign as kroq-gar?
The beacons are lit ! The beacons are lit! Marienburg calls for aid! And Bretonnia will answer...
Army is pretty low-tech for turn 72 is it not?
When in a disaster campeign doesn't everyone wish they had a better army?
I WILL NOT STAND IDLE!
Getting into military alliance is bad, your ally will put your into war that you don't want. Better just keep every alliance as defensive only. That way you can choose and pick who you want to fight and who to avoid in strategy term. Playing as the The Empire faction is hard because they are surrounded by all side in the campaign map. Need to find a corner of the map to establish your base then expand slowly. As The Empire, it is hard to do that.
How do people get themselves in this situations
Thats great content