So poll sites won't let me have more than 50 options so instead of a link go down below and upvote the comment with your favorite legendary lord in Mortal Empires.
Been saving for 2 years for a PC and hopefully next month I'll be able to play Warhammer 2! 😄🥳 Edit : I built it ! Runs total war really well, now I have to get good at multiplayer 😂😅
GZ! Got to that point last year. My goal was also to play TW Warhammer 2 1080p@60fps@maxDetails. But to be honest, there are still big fights when the fps drop to ~30-40 :D
props on the comment poll, that must have been tedious to write. great content as always! been a sub for a while, thanks for all the entertainment heir
I would have to say my favorite is Ikit. I always go back to him first when I want to play Skaven. The workshop, nukes, and his amazing almost OP power when leveled to heal while casting on a doom wheel is so fun. Even before that his warpthrower does tons of damage before he goes into melee or supporting a unit from the flanks. The lower cost of the weapons teams combined with Skaven artillery make it a blast when they all open up on advancing armies. The pure chaos of summoning rats only to warp bomb them while the insane barrage hits the enemy followed by a nuke for fun makes being surrounded by enemies in the best Skaven city always a good time.
Vlad von Carstein is my favourite lord and campaign. You get to take Drakenhof super early on, then battle your way to Altdorf with Isabella, become the Emperor, then unite the Empire before the coming of Chaos. With his faction you also get the bloodline lords which gives massive diversity amongst your generic lords, and tonnes of heroes running around with endless skeleton stacks. Great fun!
That Morathi campaign sounds epic as hell, holy crap. I think my favourite campaign that I've actually finished would be the Eye of the Vortex campaign as Kroq-gar when the game first released. Was pretty hype. I like the lizardmen's strong infantry and their skinks and monsters... it's all good. I usually like factions with great ranged units but I did enjoy that campaign
Lizardmen have some pretty good ranged options tho. Chameleon skinks poison and kiting is pretty good. And the stegodons with artillery or bastillion thing with ranged thing on his back that can snipe.
@@HeirofCarthage creators should bring attention to game 3 by making videos its the only way CA will listen, one of the reasons we don't get updates anymore is trolls whining in the forums about how it was useless information but it really isn't. ITS TIME FOR GAME 3. (sorry heir ) xD
@@smilingbear7430 no they don't, they need to fix it, but making beastmen a priority is taking away from them working on revealing the 3rd game.. ideas like that are why we don't have it.
I think playing the vampirates challenges playing the vampire counts... For the same corruption mechanic and magic lore (+1), you get ranged units horde armie and TONS of cash where the counts really struggle with economy !
My personal Favourite Campaign was actually a Hellebron Campaign in which I modded out the Blood Voyage, then killed off the other Druchii factions and repaired relations with Ulthuan. Then I attacked Norsca, eventually helping the Empire defeat Archaon, saving the world and once again uniting the elves of the Warhammer world in friendship.
Yeah I can't say I'm a big fan of campaigns where one of the 'usual' factions gets to snowball outside of your area of operations and then becomes just an army generator to fuck with you. Always enjoyed the ME factions who start in that general central area, Empire, VC, Grimgor, Thogrim, Brettonia, etc.
In the Morathi campaign at turn 192, you have 170k gold - and an income of nearly 15k per turn. Thats 2 fully loaded armies bought and paid for -easily. Ive seen alot of youtubers clinging to their gold when spending it could boost their armies/cities so much. It seems to be a disease amongst your kin ;) I'd rather have another army and conquer twice as fast, but thats the beauty of the game, Play it as you want to play it =) - with just over 2k hours of TWWH2 75% of it spent as the Empire btw (For the Emperor!) I am just getting more and more addicted to the game, 47years of age and the game of my dreams come to life, whats not to like ;) - Thanks for all the videos, really enjoy some of them.
Great video Heir! A slight detail: shadowwalkers have armour-piercing missiles and poisoned blades in melee. Very fun unit, coming from a Nagarythe fan! ;)
Honestly, my favorite has to be Wulfriks campaign. Norsca as a whole is really interesting to me and the buffs wulfrik gives to early game marauders is essential to his campaign. Having to go fight and not rely on my lands to make me money is really unique and forces the player to seek out battles to earn money and built up a big bank. Then there is the Ordertide. After you have taken all of Norsca, you are the PRIMARY target of Bretonnia, the Empire, and Kislev. It is a constant turn for turn slog fest that never gets boring honestly. The unit variety of Norsca is some of the best and once you get late game mammoths and fimir oh boy can you lay the smack down on some pompous humies. Also all campaigns I play are either Legendary or Very hard so it isn't snowballing, it is to me the definition of Total war. P.S. No doomstacks either, not fun for me
Yeah Imrik was extremely satisfying. Start as haggart in darklands shithole, repel druchii invasions to ulthuan, stop the biggest waaagh of grimgors with one army. All while becoming a demigod with dragon doomstack
I've always enjoyed Dwarf campaigns simply because they have such a great mix of armor and firepower, which are my 2 favorite things in an army. Plus they are truly badass in terms of lore. I also enjoy purging Chaos and Dark Elves simply because I detest evil.
The most fun I've had is with the Exiles of Nehek. On VH/VH or legendary it's a lot like Morathi, except you don't have the raw power of the Dark Elf roster and economy. It really made me reexamine how to play Tomb Kings. The normal strategy is to get Ushabti asap, but for the Exiles I'd actually recommend getting lots of chariots and Screaming Skull catapults. Funnily enough, I never seem to count as an order faction after the Chaos invasion either...
Ikit Claw yes yes! Easy at the start but ramps up quickly as the Empire and Dwarves start to come your way. My favorite move is to try to make Tyrion my friend. It's very hard to do but possible (basically you have to declare war on every one of his enemies). . I also really like Tomb King campaigns. Their recruitment mecahnics lead to a lot more army variety and I really enjoy that. Every battle is different instead of settling on one samey tactic. Plus they have a really fun campaign on the WH2 map instead of the silly race for the vortex. Khatep is my favorite because of the challenge of working your way through the Dark Elves to get back to the desert.
If you play very hard battle difficulty, you need more missiles.. all you need are two infantry units.. no point trying to win the infantry fight.. 3 ways to win very hard difficulty, missiles, magic, and monsters
I’ve seen people successfully playing legendary difficulty with more balanced armies (and without lightning strike) and succeed. I personally can’t do it.
Hahaha I specifically said very hard battle difficulty.. some people like playing on very hard campaign and very hard battle difficulty, like this guy here.. I mean if you found legendary battle difficulty, please send me your version of the game
@@bluerationality I mean yeah, but the multipliers give you a massive disadvantage in the infantry fight.. you can still make up for it through the skill tree and cheesing the AI, and of course magic.. even rear charging won't do much because of the leadership buffs the AI gets.. but it is possible with balanced armies yeah, it's just better with more missiles
Rozan I don’t see the point in harder difficulties in battle if in order to win you need to resort to cheese or just monster spam. It’s not really tactically more challenging so what’s the point ?
The title should be renamed "Heir's Rants on His Morathi Campaign". ^.^ On topic, Imrik is soooo fun. His dragons are fun, the items are fun, and the Greater Rite of Vaul is so fun. His start position is great, and because the AI's braindead, Naggarond always gets out of control, and so I can have a massive battle against them that I can't ever have as Alarielle. It's great. I'm in the same position you are in your Morathi campaign, except against the DE. Yeah. The
I have nerve damage and it's been getting worse as I get older. In highschool I was one of the highest rated Canadians in Warcraft 3. Now, I have to play Total War on easy just so my hands can keep up with the clicking. Honestly, it's harder for me on easy than any other RTS I ever played when I had working hands and I'm really enjoying it (got Warhammer 1 and 2 a few weeks ago and have been binging everyday.)
Imrik Legendary/Very Hard is interesting. Going through it now, and I've had to leave a province in complete rebellion just so I can deal with Malus. Building up the provinces with administrators from both lords and heros
Lately I have realized that, one of the better strategies is to handicap at least one, if not more, of the "big players" early on if you're playing as a bad guy faction. If you can take out Karaz-a-Karak or Reikland early on you can save yourself a lot of grief later. None of the other Empire or Dwarf factions seem to confederate quite so wide as those do or get nearly as strong. With Dark Elves, it's kind of a double edged sword because, they're mostly isolated from the big big factions but you have to fight basically every High Elf faction to get a foothold while also dealing with other Dark Elves, Skaven and Tomb Kings who will usually end up fighting you as well. By the time you get a good foothold, it's way to late to try and sail across the sea and stop Reikland. Similarly Lustria and Southern Continent factions have a tough time. It's just seems like the old world order factions just grow in power exponentially because they have very few enemies to fight. Lustria is packed to the gills with opposing forces. The Southern Continent is a mish mash of people who are all semi isolated from one another. Rarely you will get QUeek emerging as a big deal but he rarely does much after a certain point. The Old World however, Empire and Bretonia have a very easy time growing and confederating with very few expansionist minded enemies to oppose them. Dwarves as of late are finally starting to have a hard time with orcs. All I can think is, maybe Norsca needs to be a bit more aggressive with Empire and Bretonia to help give it a bit of challenge.
I totally get your point, i LOVE my Dwarfs, no reason, i just love them. They are stoic to the point of being stubborn, but also patient and extremely loyal. Usually their kings are wise and strong, willing and able to endure the worst hardships life throws at them. And if someone tries to f*ck with them, a swift strike with a huge hammer solves it.
I m kind of sad none of the tomb king made up this list ^^ Also, luther arkhon is one crazy bastard to play with! Not to mention the godly lord Kroak Jeez, the more I think of it, the more I understand how though a top 3 restriction is...
my top 3: 3) the white dwarf: I love playing the Dawi and the withe dwarf is their best LL imho. He gives great buffs all around and his start gives lots of options for expension. 2) Imrik: Who doesn't love the smell of fire breath in the morning. his start is very difficult and the inability to trade for a while isn't helping, but his options of expansion are great and varied... plus dragons :P 1) Repanse do Lyonesse: I love to play the hammer and anvil gameplay and Bretonia was interesting to me straight from the start. Unfortunately, the "anvil" part of their army is horrible and the default Bretonian starts tend to run out of expansion options very quickly. Repanse solves both issues, her buffs to infantry and peasant units make the infantry actually competent, she herself is a beast in combat along with her companion (Henry le Massif), and unlike her mainland brethren, she actually got lots of room to expand as I wish, with a decent variety of enemy types early on too (vampire counts, tomb kings, beastmen, lizards, dawi, imperials. greenskins, skavens and vampire coasts a bit further down the campaign) Honorable mentions: Arielle, Ikit claw, Vlad, Kroc-gar
That poll idea is absolutely great. Sure ain't scientific, but a real nice touch. I voted for 4 LLs, because I'm always happy starting a campaign with them, was I suppose to vote only for one ?
I had a similar campaign with Malus on Hard Hard - was totally overwhelmed, and the factions I needed to beat to end the campaign *were my only allies* :|
Alarielle/ Avelorn is my absolute favorite. You can Spam sisters of avelorn, confederations are super easy, treemen are a nice Addition, defender of ulthuan nice as well. Ikit claw, any tomb kings eltharion, Siegfried (chaos) are also cool.
I'd like to see a more complex economy and building tech trees for humans at least, after the first few territories it's pretty much build the same setup everywhere aside from unique buildings in certain cities, I enjoy building the faction as much as fighting battles and when one side becomes streamlined and generic then it drags the other side down. I keep multiple types of armies with multiple types of heroes and leaders but most provinces are pretty much uniform and bland, I felt rome 2 was very compelling on that front. Each province had economical strengths and weaknesses, infrastructure, just so much more to sit and consider
When I play as Imrik, my first order of business to to sack Clan Eshin as early as turn 15. if he takes over Gnoblar Country and you have not killed Snikch, its pretty much game over. Once I secure the plane of bone, I build up as many archer units as possible and arrow spam Clan Eshin before they can even begin to look west. I have found Clan Helhein are rarely aggressive, and they almost never expand or take back their lost territory. Usually Hag Grief will just watch as you and Snikch kill each other.
I've played a ridiculous amount of this game. I've completed 1 campaign with every single lord except a couple of the newer lizard men. Favorites stack up as follows: 1. Clan Eshin (yes Ikit Claw's campaign is cool but the dark deeds and the armor piercing bonus to gutter runner ranged weapons make the difference here for me. That armor piercing bonus changed the entire play style of the skaven to be even more hit and run which I loved) 2. Tik Tak To (Of all of the lizard men he ranked the highest for me. Kroq Gar was too bog standard, Mazdamundi was too easy, I didn't play the other two in lustria and the horde campaign of the spirit of the jungle was more frustrating than fun. Tik Tak To though starts in a difficult position with few friends around and has an interesting army composition option with the bonus to the 'dactyls. Very fun.) 3. Norsca either one (The raiding and pillaging aspect is fantastic and their isolation and unique port settlements make for an interesting empire management aspect to the campaign.) 4. Special mention for Azhag's new start position. Having the green skins start with the empire factions as the main enemy was great and made for a very interesting campaign of allying with vamps only to stab them in the back and then allying with other green skins only to stab them in the back. Fun and thematic.
Still working on my first mortal empires, using vampire counts and I feel like it's gonna be a hell of a learning curve with no ranged units amd lots of meat shields. I'm surrounded but I'm gonna use a skeleton spam to bulk my army numbers while keeping my economy running.
oof i recently started too.And im telling you everyone hates my ass.surrounded and in war with dwarves, wood elves and the empire.all i can do is bide my time and defend
My favorite probably was Malus Darkblade. Won both ME long campaign and vortex. He's kinda meh character in game but i loved his character in books so its always immersive game with him
Do some SFO campaign series, one thing I hate about vanilla is AI can spam doom stacks and the only way to counter it is spam your own doom stacks, becomes pretty stale after turn 100. Wish there's an option in vanilla to have lords get gold caps like Multiplayer.
Mine has to go to queek simply because he is just such a literally insane character. Just sits there jibber jabbering to himself, early on he is like a demigod in combat but then the mounts come in and he just becomes straight garbo hiding behind cannons.
Idk about the empire They definitely don't confederate as quickly it seems. The vampire count are also actually a bit more aggressive. Hell, todbringer was revolting vs the empire the last time I played lol
I find empire and brets do ok, but dawi get massacred, both my imrik campaigns got very hard as the GS owned the entire mountain range and bombard with multiple armies against imriks 2-3 stacks (as he is one poor elf!)
Eltharion is my favorite. Able to get some really good mistwalker units only exclusive to him and catching pokemon with the prison system. But unending volley is just so awesome in siege cheese😈😈
Here are mine: 1. Teclis High Elves: He is probably the most powerful spellcaster in the game so endless nuclear destruction of foes. 2. Durthu Wood Elves: He tanks archers rain down death. 3. Lord Mazdamundi: Great caster and dinosaurs!!!
cheese for the cheese god. Ikit #1, also if you do a full ranged army with the mortar, sniper and gatling gun regiment or renown. with the green and the purple projectiles and explosions it just looks like your in 40k. also probably the most op army you can build that's not your most expensive unit as a whole army
This game is a lot of fun but I just figured out that I suck at strategy games. I cannot for the life of me get past 80 turns and I’ve tried with high elves wood elves and now the Britonia faction
So my list would be ; Alith Anar. Would have been Tyrion but I played him in Vortex and Alith Anar being my fav high elf lord is a no brainer. Snikch with his sneaky sneaky tactics had to be in it. Finially Malekith being the Boss that he is, being the true Pheonix king taking over Lothern n claim the Eternity King title by owning the wood elves too was my goal.
Damn I hope they fix that. On a clan Angrund campaign I could not trade with the dwarfs despite us both having a vast amount of regions but we somehow lacked a direct link to each other's capital. Such a stupid mechanic. M2TW did it so much better.
I find great weapon shades with a couple bolt throwers and a pair of hydras works nicely, but I do need to waste the ammo on organ guns and hellfire artillery. If you aren't willing to use that particular cheese, then it might struggle.
I voted all on High Elves, my favorite race in TW and on tabletop and one of the best all around armies and race with no glaring weakness. I have liked all other campaign except for Chaos, Wood elves and Beastmens, but HE have my votes.
Ikit is Specter and Chaos evil genius super Villans -the lex luthor of ratties -Hag ranches up some Grom grubs.. like a bowl full of jelly happy gobo collector goes thru chefs like some b0balelrs go thru t shoes
Top 3 3: any orks but grimgor is a favorite 2: Archeon 1:and with mods Kislev is the most fun and most difficult campaign you have to be crazy to play it above hard
Hellebron Hellebron>Repanse. They are the 3 campaigns I have had the most fun with. I have tried so very hard on more then one occasion to like High Elves but honestly they feel like the most tediously boring faction. I know a lot of people are gonna argue Dark Elves and High Elves are kind of the same but they arent not even close. Also I realise Repanse is just a free DLC but she has one of the most engaging campaigns there is starting in Araby really helps make an otherwise boring faction amazing fun.
Silly man-thing Ikit Claw has the greatest-bestest campaign. Now all your warpstone is MINE-MINE-MINE! Being silly aside, my top 5 picks for ME are: 1. Ikit Claw (obviously). 2. Grom the Paunch. 3. Eltharion (I really enjoy his prison mechanic). 4. Tyrion. 5. Tehenhauin (challenging start but becomes ridiculous with 0 upkeep late game).
I came back after years of being away from total war.. Yet The most thing that I was interested in was to hear “what the crap is going on” Where the crap did it go!! Plz Don’t tell me you stopped it heir
Decided to do a Morathi campaign thanks to this list since it's been a while since I did one. Went in thinking "There is no way the start is as hard as Heir makes it out to be". Boy was I wrong. First try: This dark elf faction is getting rolled pretty easily and Nagarythe hasn't declared war yet, this is ez.....wait is that a full high elf stack that I'm at war with? WHY THE FUCK AM I AT WAR WITH TIRANOC?!??! *Tiranoc proceeds to call Nagarythe into the war and they proceed to roll me over* Second try: Alright, I'll just sit at the start city until I level it up and just farm rebellions for cash and xp. *Nagarythe declares war and teleports 3 armies on top of the city when I was out raiding for a bit of cash* ...maybe this is a bit difficult after all.
The elector count update was in my opinion very poorly made. At turn 200 making 20k per turn and almost having 140 provinces I still wasn't able to confederate because the AI has a totally random chance to ask you (you cannot ask them to confederate) even if you have 10 fealty with that empire faction. The units were cool but that system is incredibly dumb.
I've been jonesing to play this game for a while now but first I need a good PC. Of course I also want to make sure it will be able to play the 3rd one when it comes out.
I have found that i feel that Teclis on Very hard very hard is the hardest one, soooo much public order problmes and all that corruption, and so hard to get any cash and settelments
The only thing and only fact that i am agree with you over it is the fact that those shity high elves are disgustingly OP and annoying as hell and the worst thing that no body complaining about it no one gonna nerf them No body cares about the fact that they are broken OP And still CA just handing over more and more dangerous toys to them This game is not balanced at all
The hardest campaign for me is Alith Anar on the Vortex there is no old world to save you ie Dwarfs Brettonia & Empire plus your are surrounded by Druchii which hate you & your economy only allows for one stack
This video is just an excuse to brag about that Morathi campaign, isn't it? It does sound insanely epic though. Just before the Grom patch, I did a vh Greenskins campaign to get an achievement and going against only the strength 1 Empire is weary enough. I don't find late-game slogfests, where you have to fight an epic battle twice every turn very enjoyable, it's just too much, even if I'm winning. My favourite faction is Gelt. Empire, +10 faction armour and mountain climate habitability add up to it.
I know you're an expert in Warhammer 2 and you've played far more than I ever will but I have to disagree - the Morathi campaign doesn't feel fun to me AT ALL. It feels like playing against annoying computer bullshit . Between the unrest mechanic, the disloyalty for underlings and that both the elves and Twin Sisters can just steamroll you if the AI decides to go that way it's a terrible campaign to play unless you know all of the ways to exploit the mechanics of the game. Try to play it as a newer player and even on Normal/Normal there's a good chance you just get face-rolled, either by the opposing factions or just your own cities and troops when they become disloyal. The game isn't good about teaching a new player how to counter those mechanics, so unless they want to go watch hours of videos they're just going to get fucking destroyed. So while I get you loved the challenge, this video really does a disservice to anyone who doesn't have 1,000+ hours in the game by recommending Morathi.
So poll sites won't let me have more than 50 options so instead of a link go down below and upvote the comment with your favorite legendary lord in Mortal Empires.
Archaon
Kholek
Sigvald
Khazrak
Malagor
Been saving for 2 years for a PC and hopefully next month I'll be able to play Warhammer 2! 😄🥳
Edit : I built it ! Runs total war really well, now I have to get good at multiplayer 😂😅
Nice
Thats what i did on the Black Friday sales!
ENJOY. congrats !!
Been there, finally bought a decent gaming pc. Totally worth it. Also, play witcher 3 as well :)
GZ! Got to that point last year.
My goal was also to play TW Warhammer 2 1080p@60fps@maxDetails.
But to be honest, there are still big fights when the fps drop to ~30-40 :D
In case anyone is wondering the votes are:
3. Imrik 188 votes
2. Karl franz 322 votes
1. Ikit claw 395 votes
I spend too much time clicking on each lord in the selection screen to hear their little dialogues.
Every. Single. Time!
Except for Cylostra. I can’t stand that HOOOOOOOOOOOO
I fight for the greater good
“Ahhh, to die in battle”
“SHUT UP, DEMON!”
props on the comment poll, that must have been tedious to write. great content as always! been a sub for a while, thanks for all the entertainment heir
I wholeheartedly agree that the eastern ports should be able to trade with the west. The oceans do connect, and there's no reason that shouldn't work.
We should be able to change capitals too.
I would have to say my favorite is Ikit. I always go back to him first when I want to play Skaven. The workshop, nukes, and his amazing almost OP power when leveled to heal while casting on a doom wheel is so fun. Even before that his warpthrower does tons of damage before he goes into melee or supporting a unit from the flanks. The lower cost of the weapons teams combined with Skaven artillery make it a blast when they all open up on advancing armies. The pure chaos of summoning rats only to warp bomb them while the insane barrage hits the enemy followed by a nuke for fun makes being surrounded by enemies in the best Skaven city always a good time.
Vlad von Carstein is my favourite lord and campaign. You get to take Drakenhof super early on, then battle your way to Altdorf with Isabella, become the Emperor, then unite the Empire before the coming of Chaos. With his faction you also get the bloodline lords which gives massive diversity amongst your generic lords, and tonnes of heroes running around with endless skeleton stacks. Great fun!
That Morathi campaign sounds epic as hell, holy crap. I think my favourite campaign that I've actually finished would be the Eye of the Vortex campaign as Kroq-gar when the game first released. Was pretty hype. I like the lizardmen's strong infantry and their skinks and monsters... it's all good. I usually like factions with great ranged units but I did enjoy that campaign
Lizardmen have some pretty good ranged options tho. Chameleon skinks poison and kiting is pretty good. And the stegodons with artillery or bastillion thing with ranged thing on his back that can snipe.
Nothing’s better than giving morathi the sword of khaine and the watching her solo full stacks with 90% ward save and regen
This is one of my favorite videos on your channel Heir! You explained your selections very well and the video is thoroughly entertaining.
I'm very ready for game 3 by this point. But apparently we've still got at least one more DLC to go...
Game 3 will be so much hype. I am ready. CA PLZZZZ!
@@HeirofCarthage creators should bring attention to game 3 by making videos its the only way CA will listen, one of the reasons we don't get updates anymore is trolls whining in the forums about how it was useless information but it really isn't. ITS TIME FOR GAME 3. (sorry heir ) xD
at most one dlc to go. ( i hope) its well over due for game 3.
they really need to fix beastmen before the third game.
@@smilingbear7430 no they don't, they need to fix it, but making beastmen a priority is taking away from them working on revealing the 3rd game..
ideas like that are why we don't have it.
My favorite is a Vlad Von Carstein campaign. Just something conquering the world as Vlad makes me happy.
I think playing the vampirates challenges playing the vampire counts... For the same corruption mechanic and magic lore (+1), you get ranged units horde armie and TONS of cash where the counts really struggle with economy !
Pierre-Marie Caulliez skeleton spam
I've just started Isabella
The vampire doomstack with isabella + skeleton spam works very well also for your economy
How do you do it mate? The empire tears me a new one when i play as vlad
My personal Favourite Campaign was actually a Hellebron Campaign in which I modded out the Blood Voyage, then killed off the other Druchii factions and repaired relations with Ulthuan. Then I attacked Norsca, eventually helping the Empire defeat Archaon, saving the world and once again uniting the elves of the Warhammer world in friendship.
This is going in the book.
Khaine would be displeased >_>
HERESY
@@RafaelElectronic Eh, I still sacrificed thousands upon thousands Druchii, Norscans and Skaven to him, so I think he's cool with it.
Yeah I can't say I'm a big fan of campaigns where one of the 'usual' factions gets to snowball outside of your area of operations and then becomes just an army generator to fuck with you. Always enjoyed the ME factions who start in that general central area, Empire, VC, Grimgor, Thogrim, Brettonia, etc.
In the Morathi campaign at turn 192, you have 170k gold - and an income of nearly 15k per turn. Thats 2 fully loaded armies bought and paid for -easily. Ive seen alot of youtubers clinging to their gold when spending it could boost their armies/cities so much. It seems to be a disease amongst your kin ;) I'd rather have another army and conquer twice as fast, but thats the beauty of the game, Play it as you want to play it =) - with just over 2k hours of TWWH2 75% of it spent as the Empire btw (For the Emperor!) I am just getting more and more addicted to the game, 47years of age and the game of my dreams come to life, whats not to like ;) - Thanks for all the videos, really enjoy some of them.
In ten years I hope I have the same passion for geek age as you currently have
Great video Heir!
A slight detail: shadowwalkers have armour-piercing missiles and poisoned blades in melee. Very fun unit, coming from a Nagarythe fan! ;)
See Imrik's Traits
See Beard Collector
UNFATHOMABLE RAGE
This goes in the Book
18:53 I don't think you ever linked that video, you mind posting it?
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Honestly, my favorite has to be Wulfriks campaign. Norsca as a whole is really interesting to me and the buffs wulfrik gives to early game marauders is essential to his campaign. Having to go fight and not rely on my lands to make me money is really unique and forces the player to seek out battles to earn money and built up a big bank. Then there is the Ordertide. After you have taken all of Norsca, you are the PRIMARY target of Bretonnia, the Empire, and Kislev. It is a constant turn for turn slog fest that never gets boring honestly. The unit variety of Norsca is some of the best and once you get late game mammoths and fimir oh boy can you lay the smack down on some pompous humies. Also all campaigns I play are either Legendary or Very hard so it isn't snowballing, it is to me the definition of Total war. P.S. No doomstacks either, not fun for me
I prefer Throgg's campaign because you can hit Kislev before they snowball out of control.
@@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control Throgg for starting location and fun(I loved playing him), Wulfrik for meeting efficiency quota(Edit, And that boat ...)
I love the Imrik campaign myself. Has a great and challenging start position.
But broke as ballz
Yeah Imrik was extremely satisfying. Start as haggart in darklands shithole, repel druchii invasions to ulthuan, stop the biggest waaagh of grimgors with one army. All while becoming a demigod with dragon doomstack
move your icon for warhammer videos to top left, i hate not being able to see what turn it is.
I've always enjoyed Dwarf campaigns simply because they have such a great mix of armor and firepower, which are my 2 favorite things in an army. Plus they are truly badass in terms of lore.
I also enjoy purging Chaos and Dark Elves simply because I detest evil.
Chaos Dwarfs are going to be OP compared to their normal brethen
Seeing those pointy ears in Dawi territory was mildly triggering.
The most fun I've had is with the Exiles of Nehek. On VH/VH or legendary it's a lot like Morathi, except you don't have the raw power of the Dark Elf roster and economy. It really made me reexamine how to play Tomb Kings. The normal strategy is to get Ushabti asap, but for the Exiles I'd actually recommend getting lots of chariots and Screaming Skull catapults. Funnily enough, I never seem to count as an order faction after the Chaos invasion either...
Karl Franz is really fun. But mainly with a couple mods.
As far as stock campaigns I really enjoy the dread fleet.
Ikit Claw yes yes! Easy at the start but ramps up quickly as the Empire and Dwarves start to come your way. My favorite move is to try to make Tyrion my friend. It's very hard to do but possible (basically you have to declare war on every one of his enemies).
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I also really like Tomb King campaigns. Their recruitment mecahnics lead to a lot more army variety and I really enjoy that. Every battle is different instead of settling on one samey tactic. Plus they have a really fun campaign on the WH2 map instead of the silly race for the vortex. Khatep is my favorite because of the challenge of working your way through the Dark Elves to get back to the desert.
How do you have lvl 60 to your heroes and lords ? Mods ?
If you play very hard battle difficulty, you need more missiles.. all you need are two infantry units.. no point trying to win the infantry fight.. 3 ways to win very hard difficulty, missiles, magic, and monsters
exactly what a nooob this men saying he likes very hard cause it's difficult go and play on legendary difficulty if you want a hard challenge
I’ve seen people successfully playing legendary difficulty with more balanced armies (and without lightning strike) and succeed. I personally can’t do it.
Hahaha I specifically said very hard battle difficulty.. some people like playing on very hard campaign and very hard battle difficulty, like this guy here.. I mean if you found legendary battle difficulty, please send me your version of the game
@@bluerationality I mean yeah, but the multipliers give you a massive disadvantage in the infantry fight.. you can still make up for it through the skill tree and cheesing the AI, and of course magic.. even rear charging won't do much because of the leadership buffs the AI gets.. but it is possible with balanced armies yeah, it's just better with more missiles
Rozan I don’t see the point in harder difficulties in battle if in order to win you need to resort to cheese or just monster spam. It’s not really tactically more challenging so what’s the point ?
The title should be renamed "Heir's Rants on His Morathi Campaign". ^.^
On topic, Imrik is soooo fun. His dragons are fun, the items are fun, and the Greater Rite of Vaul is so fun. His start position is great, and because the AI's braindead, Naggarond always gets out of control, and so I can have a massive battle against them that I can't ever have as Alarielle. It's great. I'm in the same position you are in your Morathi campaign, except against the DE. Yeah. The
I have nerve damage and it's been getting worse as I get older. In highschool I was one of the highest rated Canadians in Warcraft 3. Now, I have to play Total War on easy just so my hands can keep up with the clicking. Honestly, it's harder for me on easy than any other RTS I ever played when I had working hands and I'm really enjoying it (got Warhammer 1 and 2 a few weeks ago and have been binging everyday.)
Vlad Von Carstein - Karl Franz and the more challange Belegar Ironhammer
Imrik Legendary/Very Hard is interesting. Going through it now, and I've had to leave a province in complete rebellion just so I can deal with Malus. Building up the provinces with administrators from both lords and heros
Lately I have realized that, one of the better strategies is to handicap at least one, if not more, of the "big players" early on if you're playing as a bad guy faction.
If you can take out Karaz-a-Karak or Reikland early on you can save yourself a lot of grief later. None of the other Empire or Dwarf factions seem to confederate quite so wide as those do or get nearly as strong.
With Dark Elves, it's kind of a double edged sword because, they're mostly isolated from the big big factions but you have to fight basically every High Elf faction to get a foothold while also dealing with other Dark Elves, Skaven and Tomb Kings who will usually end up fighting you as well. By the time you get a good foothold, it's way to late to try and sail across the sea and stop Reikland. Similarly Lustria and Southern Continent factions have a tough time.
It's just seems like the old world order factions just grow in power exponentially because they have very few enemies to fight. Lustria is packed to the gills with opposing forces. The Southern Continent is a mish mash of people who are all semi isolated from one another. Rarely you will get QUeek emerging as a big deal but he rarely does much after a certain point. The Old World however, Empire and Bretonia have a very easy time growing and confederating with very few expansionist minded enemies to oppose them. Dwarves as of late are finally starting to have a hard time with orcs. All I can think is, maybe Norsca needs to be a bit more aggressive with Empire and Bretonia to help give it a bit of challenge.
both norsca and chaos should be stronger
Just finished an Imrik vortex campaign, by far my favourite to date... DRAGON FIRE ALPHA STRIKE!
Heir didn't link the video with the insane 7000 vs 1000 battle and I can't find it :o
Is anyone nice enough to link me? :)
I think I've found it! czcams.com/video/pZl6wSGVr3Y/video.html
I totally get your point, i LOVE my Dwarfs, no reason, i just love them.
They are stoic to the point of being stubborn, but also patient and extremely loyal.
Usually their kings are wise and strong, willing and able to endure the worst hardships life throws at them.
And if someone tries to f*ck with them, a swift strike with a huge hammer solves it.
right there with you! Even their "short-comings" (pardon the pun) make me like them more! (I won that battle even though i don't have magic/cavalry)
Grombrindal (dwarfs) really love the dwarfs
Yea dwarfs are fun and hard as hell now
1) Luen leoncouer
2) Aranessa Saltspite
3) Thorgrim Grudgebearer
Honorable mention: my boss, cus' he'd krump me otherwise
I m kind of sad none of the tomb king made up this list ^^
Also, luther arkhon is one crazy bastard to play with!
Not to mention the godly lord Kroak
Jeez, the more I think of it, the more I understand how though a top 3 restriction is...
my top 3:
3) the white dwarf: I love playing the Dawi and the withe dwarf is their best LL imho. He gives great buffs all around and his start gives lots of options for expension.
2) Imrik: Who doesn't love the smell of fire breath in the morning. his start is very difficult and the inability to trade for a while isn't helping, but his options of expansion are great and varied... plus dragons :P
1) Repanse do Lyonesse: I love to play the hammer and anvil gameplay and Bretonia was interesting to me straight from the start. Unfortunately, the "anvil" part of their army is horrible and the default Bretonian starts tend to run out of expansion options very quickly. Repanse solves both issues, her buffs to infantry and peasant units make the infantry actually competent, she herself is a beast in combat along with her companion (Henry le Massif), and unlike her mainland brethren, she actually got lots of room to expand as I wish, with a decent variety of enemy types early on too (vampire counts, tomb kings, beastmen, lizards, dawi, imperials. greenskins, skavens and vampire coasts a bit further down the campaign)
Honorable mentions:
Arielle, Ikit claw, Vlad, Kroc-gar
I see your Elf Dragon Lord is level 60, have they maxed out the level cap, or is that the effects of a mod?
Yeah, it's a mod
I enjoyed Grom the Paunch, Thorim and Settra. My favorite campaing is Grom and My favorite race are Dwarfs. Settra is right in the middle.
That poll idea is absolutely great. Sure ain't scientific, but a real nice touch.
I voted for 4 LLs, because I'm always happy starting a campaign with them, was I suppose to vote only for one ?
I had a similar campaign with Malus on Hard Hard - was totally overwhelmed, and the factions I needed to beat to end the campaign *were my only allies* :|
Alarielle/ Avelorn is my absolute favorite. You can Spam sisters of avelorn, confederations are super easy, treemen are a nice Addition, defender of ulthuan nice as well. Ikit claw, any tomb kings eltharion, Siegfried (chaos) are also cool.
when you’re in the late game and the empire nearly takes half the world and then declares war on you
I'd like to see a more complex economy and building tech trees for humans at least, after the first few territories it's pretty much build the same setup everywhere aside from unique buildings in certain cities, I enjoy building the faction as much as fighting battles and when one side becomes streamlined and generic then it drags the other side down. I keep multiple types of armies with multiple types of heroes and leaders but most provinces are pretty much uniform and bland, I felt rome 2 was very compelling on that front. Each province had economical strengths and weaknesses, infrastructure, just so much more to sit and consider
It would be awesome if you would make your top 3 total war list!
Cheif Warlock Ikit Claw!
Yes yes!
*He seems to win the poll BTW...
The worst part about Imrik’s start is fighting those Skaven that constantly ambush your armies with 3 full stacks
When I play as Imrik, my first order of business to to sack Clan Eshin as early as turn 15. if he takes over Gnoblar Country and you have not killed Snikch, its pretty much game over. Once I secure the plane of bone, I build up as many archer units as possible and arrow spam Clan Eshin before they can even begin to look west.
I have found Clan Helhein are rarely aggressive, and they almost never expand or take back their lost territory. Usually Hag Grief will just watch as you and Snikch kill each other.
I've played a ridiculous amount of this game. I've completed 1 campaign with every single lord except a couple of the newer lizard men. Favorites stack up as follows:
1. Clan Eshin (yes Ikit Claw's campaign is cool but the dark deeds and the armor piercing bonus to gutter runner ranged weapons make the difference here for me. That armor piercing bonus changed the entire play style of the skaven to be even more hit and run which I loved)
2. Tik Tak To (Of all of the lizard men he ranked the highest for me. Kroq Gar was too bog standard, Mazdamundi was too easy, I didn't play the other two in lustria and the horde campaign of the spirit of the jungle was more frustrating than fun. Tik Tak To though starts in a difficult position with few friends around and has an interesting army composition option with the bonus to the 'dactyls. Very fun.)
3. Norsca either one (The raiding and pillaging aspect is fantastic and their isolation and unique port settlements make for an interesting empire management aspect to the campaign.)
4. Special mention for Azhag's new start position. Having the green skins start with the empire factions as the main enemy was great and made for a very interesting campaign of allying with vamps only to stab them in the back and then allying with other green skins only to stab them in the back. Fun and thematic.
Still working on my first mortal empires, using vampire counts and I feel like it's gonna be a hell of a learning curve with no ranged units amd lots of meat shields. I'm surrounded but I'm gonna use a skeleton spam to bulk my army numbers while keeping my economy running.
oof i recently started too.And im telling you everyone hates my ass.surrounded and in war with dwarves, wood elves and the empire.all i can do is bide my time and defend
Nakai is my favourite. Not having to worry about public order means you can get the sword of kaine with immunity
My favorite probably was Malus Darkblade. Won both ME long campaign and vortex. He's kinda meh character in game but i loved his character in books so its always immersive game with him
Id love to play Mortal empires one day but with my current rig it takes 10mins for a single turn to pass. Vortex is more manageable for me.
Have you tried since the potion of speed update? Mine used to be exactly the same I would never play mortal empires for that reason. Now it runs fine
Does Morathi still get nice diplomatic bonus options with Norscans? Wasn’t this helpful in late campaigns?
Do some SFO campaign series, one thing I hate about vanilla is AI can spam doom stacks and the only way to counter it is spam your own doom stacks, becomes pretty stale after turn 100. Wish there's an option in vanilla to have lords get gold caps like Multiplayer.
Mine has to go to queek simply because he is just such a literally insane character. Just sits there jibber jabbering to himself, early on he is like a demigod in combat but then the mounts come in and he just becomes straight garbo hiding behind cannons.
My favourite to view was your Archaon campacampaign it was brilliant. My fave to play has been Gor rok and Luthor Harken with doom stack 😁
That morathi campaign would be very different now, GS would have wiped out dwarfs and most of empire i imagine
Idk about the empire
They definitely don't confederate as quickly it seems. The vampire count are also actually a bit more aggressive. Hell, todbringer was revolting vs the empire the last time I played lol
I find empire and brets do ok, but dawi get massacred, both my imrik campaigns got very hard as the GS owned the entire mountain range and bombard with multiple armies against imriks 2-3 stacks (as he is one poor elf!)
Eltharion is my favorite. Able to get some really good mistwalker units only exclusive to him and catching pokemon with the prison system. But unending volley is just so awesome in siege cheese😈😈
Here are mine:
1. Teclis High Elves: He is probably the most powerful spellcaster in the game so endless nuclear destruction of foes.
2. Durthu Wood Elves: He tanks archers rain down death.
3. Lord Mazdamundi: Great caster and dinosaurs!!!
cheese for the cheese god. Ikit #1, also if you do a full ranged army with the mortar, sniper and gatling gun regiment or renown. with the green and the purple projectiles and explosions it just looks like your in 40k. also probably the most op army you can build that's not your most expensive unit as a whole army
At the moment its best men but I'm struggling with the learning curve of it and I love ikit but my pc cant handle the amount of units
This game is a lot of fun but I just figured out that I suck at strategy games. I cannot for the life of me get past 80 turns and I’ve tried with high elves wood elves and now the Britonia faction
it seems that the easiest way to win a campaign is to ally with dwarfs.
That is why it is easy playing most of the Lords of the Empire, Bretonnia, Lizardmen, Wood Elves and High Elves
So my list would be ;
Alith Anar. Would have been Tyrion but I played him in Vortex and Alith Anar being my fav high elf lord is a no brainer.
Snikch with his sneaky sneaky tactics had to be in it.
Finially Malekith being the Boss that he is, being the true Pheonix king taking over Lothern n claim the Eternity King title by owning the wood elves too was my goal.
What do you think of the new beast master lord better then morathi
I thought they removed the need to have a connection with other factions for trade... or was that just in the beta they did before Warden & Paunch?
Damn I hope they fix that. On a clan Angrund campaign I could not trade with the dwarfs despite us both having a vast amount of regions but we somehow lacked a direct link to each other's capital. Such a stupid mechanic. M2TW did it so much better.
Ikit is the best. 1. Ikit 2. Manfred 3. Luthor Harkon
What is your army composition for late game as dark Elves? I struggle to come up with an army that regularly beats dwarf and empire doomstacks.
I find great weapon shades with a couple bolt throwers and a pair of hydras works nicely, but I do need to waste the ammo on organ guns and hellfire artillery. If you aren't willing to use that particular cheese, then it might struggle.
I voted all on High Elves, my favorite race in TW and on tabletop and one of the best all around armies and race with no glaring weakness. I have liked all other campaign except for Chaos, Wood elves and Beastmens, but HE have my votes.
Ikkit, Isabella and the Fey Enchantress. Not sure about the order, varies with mood.
Ikit is Specter and Chaos evil genius super Villans -the lex luthor of ratties -Hag ranches up some Grom grubs.. like a bowl full of jelly happy gobo collector goes thru chefs like some b0balelrs go thru t shoes
Top 3 3: any orks but grimgor is a favorite 2: Archeon 1:and with mods Kislev is the most fun and most difficult campaign you have to be crazy to play it above hard
Hellebron Hellebron>Repanse. They are the 3 campaigns I have had the most fun with. I have tried so very hard on more then one occasion to like High Elves but honestly they feel like the most tediously boring faction. I know a lot of people are gonna argue Dark Elves and High Elves are kind of the same but they arent not even close.
Also I realise Repanse is just a free DLC but she has one of the most engaging campaigns there is starting in Araby really helps make an otherwise boring faction amazing fun.
Silly man-thing Ikit Claw has the greatest-bestest campaign. Now all your warpstone is MINE-MINE-MINE!
Being silly aside, my top 5 picks for ME are: 1. Ikit Claw (obviously). 2. Grom the Paunch. 3. Eltharion (I really enjoy his prison mechanic). 4. Tyrion. 5. Tehenhauin (challenging start but becomes ridiculous with 0 upkeep late game).
I always find Morathi campaigns very enjoyable.
I came back after years of being away from total war..
Yet The most thing that I was interested in was to hear “what the crap is going on”
Where the crap did it go!!
Plz Don’t tell me you stopped it heir
For me. Any faction with guns. So Dwarf, Skaven, Empire and Vampirates.
Decided to do a Morathi campaign thanks to this list since it's been a while since I did one. Went in thinking "There is no way the start is as hard as Heir makes it out to be". Boy was I wrong.
First try: This dark elf faction is getting rolled pretty easily and Nagarythe hasn't declared war yet, this is ez.....wait is that a full high elf stack that I'm at war with? WHY THE FUCK AM I AT WAR WITH TIRANOC?!??! *Tiranoc proceeds to call Nagarythe into the war and they proceed to roll me over*
Second try: Alright, I'll just sit at the start city until I level it up and just farm rebellions for cash and xp. *Nagarythe declares war and teleports 3 armies on top of the city when I was out raiding for a bit of cash*
...maybe this is a bit difficult after all.
The mods that buff chaos invasions are cool to slow down the order tide.
Which ones do you use?
The big question is how does the hag get so much custard out of such a small cat?
saute or fricassee?
The elector count update was in my opinion very poorly made. At turn 200 making 20k per turn and almost having 140 provinces I still wasn't able to confederate because the AI has a totally random chance to ask you (you cannot ask them to confederate) even if you have 10 fealty with that empire faction. The units were cool but that system is incredibly dumb.
I've been jonesing to play this game for a while now but first I need a good PC. Of course I also want to make sure it will be able to play the 3rd one when it comes out.
Dude, I would easily would of watched every turn of your Morathi Campaign
I enjoy the white dwarf, the grand heriophant and black orc
Grombrindal, Kroq-Gar, Malekith. I think its very hard to decide.
Ikkit Claw
I have found that i feel that Teclis on Very hard very hard is the hardest one, soooo much public order problmes and all that corruption, and so hard to get any cash and settelments
The only thing and only fact that i am agree with you over it is the fact that those shity high elves are disgustingly OP and annoying as hell and the worst thing that no body complaining about it no one gonna nerf them
No body cares about the fact that they are broken OP
And still CA just handing over more and more dangerous toys to them
This game is not balanced at all
The hardest campaign for me is Alith Anar on the Vortex there is no old world to save you ie Dwarfs Brettonia & Empire plus your are surrounded by Druchii which hate you & your economy only allows for one stack
I think.. Only Grombindal, Helman Ghorst and Volkmar do not have a unique starting province.
id have to say for me is tyrion but i have slowly been liking the warden more and more now
This video is just an excuse to brag about that Morathi campaign, isn't it? It does sound insanely epic though. Just before the Grom patch, I did a vh Greenskins campaign to get an achievement and going against only the strength 1 Empire is weary enough. I don't find late-game slogfests, where you have to fight an epic battle twice every turn very enjoyable, it's just too much, even if I'm winning.
My favourite faction is Gelt. Empire, +10 faction armour and mountain climate habitability add up to it.
I’m also a big fan of the Morathi campaign!
My personal top 3 would have to be, Balthasar, Gor Rok and Malekith
For a lot of people now I bet Ikit or Throt are just top tier, the Skaven just keep getting more love for no reason.
I know you're an expert in Warhammer 2 and you've played far more than I ever will but I have to disagree - the Morathi campaign doesn't feel fun to me AT ALL. It feels like playing against annoying computer bullshit . Between the unrest mechanic, the disloyalty for underlings and that both the elves and Twin Sisters can just steamroll you if the AI decides to go that way it's a terrible campaign to play unless you know all of the ways to exploit the mechanics of the game. Try to play it as a newer player and even on Normal/Normal there's a good chance you just get face-rolled, either by the opposing factions or just your own cities and troops when they become disloyal. The game isn't good about teaching a new player how to counter those mechanics, so unless they want to go watch hours of videos they're just going to get fucking destroyed.
So while I get you loved the challenge, this video really does a disservice to anyone who doesn't have 1,000+ hours in the game by recommending Morathi.