Yeah I should make the pinned comment something original and clever, that way it’ll look like I’m an intelligent and funny content creator. SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS
Balthazar gelt literally has an item quest where he beats up a necromancer to get his cloak back and pretty much tells his men that life is temporary BUT THE DRIP IS ETERNAL.
Nicolas Appert was a French Inventor who lived during the French Revolution and Napoleonic War. An important fact about armies is that they need to be fed and with the Levee en Mass the Revolutionary and latter Napoleonic Army had more mouths to feed than ever. To that end, there was considerable investment in ways to keep Food Fresh. Appert worked out a method of preserving food for years by putting it into glass bottles, sealing them, submerging them in a vat of boiling water for a period and then extracting them. In 1806 he perfected the process and was awarded 12,000 Francs for the job and sold large volumes of preserved food and vegetable products to the Grand Armee. Shortly afterwards in 1810-12, English inventors Peter Dunard, Byran Donkin and John Hall developed a similar system. However instead of glass bottles (which while clean and effective were prone to shattering) they used tin-coated cast-iron canisters to storage their preserved food and sold them to the Royal Navy and British Army. Soon afterwards "Canisterized Food" would be contracted to "Canned Food".
The best part about that story is that can openers weren't invented until a good bit after. This lead to smashed and damaged cans being a mass find in 19th century military archaeology. Oh and lead poisoning
Man what a coincidence that not even a few days ago I was looking up these very same inventors for adding some industrial flavour to my renaissance/napoleonic-inspired D&D setting and now here I am reading about them again on a warhammer video.
Remember, CA recommends this faction for beginners. However, what most people don't realize is, they're not recommended because they're easy. They're recommended because new players need to understand this is a brutal world and that they need to git gud to survive.
speaking of tw gameplay, i really wanted to be able to play mortal empires but choose which regions i'll like to interact with, like, i want to play empire but i do not want to deal with whatever the hell is going on in lustria or cathay, both for the sake of not wanting to deal with either an massive lizard,elfs or skaven armies, but also because i don't want to spend many minutes just waiting for my turn to move 2 regiments to one point to another and repeat this process all over again
@@GeraltofRivia22 Can't say for WH1 but they were by no means easy in warhammer 2. If anything Karl's starting army is weaker in WH2 which makes that siege battle a lot harder at the start of the game.
"How your average Imperium and Empire citizen react to a daemon invasion" IOM citized : WHAT IS THAT UNHOLLY ABOMINATION! THE EMPEROR HAS FORSHAKEN US!!! "Planet turns into a daemon or gets exterminatus within months" Empire citized: Honey pass me my blade and musket, Imma kill the sh*t out of that red d**khead! "Chaos struggles to take over a single city IF they're lucky"
It illustrates how the God-Emperor was foolish for trying to keep his citizens ignorant of the Warp. All it did was leave them unable to see the threat of corruption for what it was. In the Empire, every citizen knows what a daemon is and why you don't mess with it. They're informed of the dangers of magic, and thus are immunized against it. (It's hardly perfect, of course. There's always going to be a fool who thinks they can handle Chaos. But at least Empire people are making informed choices).
I mean. One of the Elector Counts is Balthazar Gelt. That sounds like a pro at first, but then you realize nobody will ever play Karl Franz again, and Toddbringer unironically has more fans
@@Tomcat13436 Guillman to Sigmar: Are you my new dad? Sigmar: you see that elf woman who brought you back to life. Marry her to strengthen the bond between elf and man.
Bretonnia has super soldiers blessed by some elven god in a lake. Tomb Kings were alive and now are skeletons. Cathay is ruled by actual dragons and half dragon blooded lords. You know what the Empire has? FAITH! STEEL! GUNPOWDER!
Brettonia, sets up a political system that makes them(the kings and dukes) immune to chaos corruption because their leaders are background checked by an Elven goddess. Sadly she doesn’t check their academic records, so it’s a nation run by supersoldiers who peaked in high school.
"Um, Witch Hunter, you know the rumors about those large rat men? Skaven, I believe they are called?" >Quiet, apostle. There are no such ratmen. "Well... If that is the case, what did Emperor Mandred Skavenslayer slay?" >... >Prepare the pyre.
Gelt and Franz are wonderfully fun Legendary Lords. Not only do they pack a punch, they are just fun characters. If you get frustrated with a Gelt campaign just flip through a bunch of diplomacy dialogue from him or rewatch "Welcome to Estalia gentlemen" and feel your will to live return as his raw charisma refuels you
Balthasar Gelt is pretty damn cheesy 1 Winds of Magic bombardment spell? Fine..stay in your fortress, i can literally spam cast for the next 50 minutes straight
When I eventually free up space on my computer, I'll definitely do an Empire campaign with the sole purpose of bringing the forces of Order together and make Karl Franz proud. His speech for the Immortal Empires trailer is some of the finest I've ever heard, I think in part because he isn't just wanted the Empire to endure, but for everyone. He was born into this world, and now he's determined to save it.
He also took up the mantle of emperor of mankind. Has a lot to live up to. He could be corrupt and cowardly, but he truly tries to live up to that expectation. I think he’s a good man.
That's a fine aspiration, but you'll spend hours achieving that only for one faction to declare war on another and loads more take sides. It's really easy for that house of cards to collapse because while they'll be friendly and loyal with you, they won't be with others in the band. And that's why it's a nobel idea but one which rarely works
Personal opinion: while being awfully misused by GW writers, i personally love Volkmar the Grim a bit more than Karl. He is a old man with a determination of steel and such incredible faith that pushes him on even with a scarred and aging body. He knows that Chaos cannot be defeated only with repeatedly applying hammers over the problem until it stop being a problem and he searches for a more permanent solution. He is definitely a grey character because of all the evil shittery the cult of Sigmar does and did during history (and his army is usually made of crazy, self maimed maniacs), has the very badass title "The Grim" which says everything about him, has a literally weaponised pope car AND, most important of all, has the most powerful pair of mustaches that i ever saw. Those mustaches are some Bismarck level shit.
@Quotzalcoatl By Belakor even, during the absolutely blursed Winds of Magic campaign. This is the same one remembered in lore where basically a who's who of chaos got bogged down in Middenland for some reason until Grimgor came up and gave Archaeon a spanking, and is a reflection of an IRL campaign done by players at the time.
Karl Franz got done dirty by GW, he was THE guy who could've brought about a golden age for both the Empire and the forces of Order...then the world exploded. GW could've kept things grim and dark, but a man like Franz would've been one of the few beacons of hope and light to bring about something to make it more then just "40k but fantasy" which fantasy tragically became when AoS rolled around.
I prefer to act if AoS doesn't exist. Never clicked with me. And I have yet to find a license holder who is capable of forcing my brain to accept whatever is they canon of the month.
The way to make Imperial authority work is by always occupying empire settlements, then selling them to a bordering elector count and waiting for the event to return it to its previous owner next turn. With this, the whole Empire becomes an Imperial Authority farm, The Wasteland and Sylvania included.
Pancreas hates Bretonnians for worshipping an Elf deity and basing their warriors on them. However, Pancreas is an Elf simp and would do the same. Curious.
You forgot one upside: 40k's standard Bolter and an Empire Handgun both have the same range, have Strength 4 and ignore armor saves of 5+ or worse. Except one is a master-crafted piece of equipment with every shell being untold hours of an artisan's life to make the perfect whell, while the Handgun is just a metal tube on a stick filled with powder and a ball. Or how a 40k Lascannon, a powerful laser cannon meant to deal with tanks and monsters, has Strength 9 while a Fantasy cannon made with 1600s technology is Strength 10.
I tried to play them once in Total War Warhammer 2 I had absolutely no idea what the hell I was doing I managed to Confederate a single other area and then the rest of the empire declared war on me while nordland was busy getting invaded by norskans
Lol, exactly my experience. Played them twice, both times got ROFL stomped and dropped the entire TW Warhammer series. Back to Rome 2 where it all makes sense 😂
There’s a fantasy setting that’s near and dear to my heart called “Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends.” If you ever get a chance, the Renaissance human faction, the Vinci, reminds me of the Empire of Man from WHF. If you own a physical copy, congratulations. For those who don’t, good luck finding one.
I used to think that the fantasy warhammer was just another lost/forgotten planet of the warhammer 40k universe and that Sigmar was a lost son. Others used say the fantasy world was a dream reality setup by the Big E that's why you have all the monsters from 40k in the fantasy realm.
It used to waiver back and forth before they more or less completely disconnected the settings. I'm pretty sure one point it was like you said, Fantasy was a planet in the Eye, and then I believe at another point the entire 40k universe was in a globe on some dude's shelf in Altdorf which is really funny to me.
@@pancreasnowork9939 hahaha yeah I saw that on the men in black movie where an entire galaxy is in a cat collar trinket. It's a great theme, or when the entire Lovecraft reality is based on a ethereal beings nightmares, love it!
It's actually completely different, it's just that GW is mega lazy to come up with new names. New names that are worth a shit and not "aelfs" or "orruks". roflmao /facepalm.
@@pancreasnowork9939 I often wonder what would it be like to have a cross over between age of Sigmar and 40 k like imagine the maelstrom became a portal to the nine realms.
Wizards and Warriors did an excellent video series on SIgmar and his creation of the Empire and watching that has also gotten me to gain a great deal of respect for the intentions behind WHY it was created and the leader/god who made it happen.
"I am Sigmar. I am Golden. I am God. Harken for my name, for it will echo redoubled through the ages. It will strike down my enemies wherever they may hide. It will be heard when the need is greatest." -Deus Sigmar.
Fun fact, that glass tax riot you mentioned has historical basis. England had a "window tax" in the 1600s iirc, causing houses to be built with as few windows as possible, or windows to be boarded up, and in the early 1800s there was a glass tax, which raised prices on glass up to 300% before it was finally scrapped.
Something I really hope gets more fleshed out or brought to other factions is the "send a detachment of troops" events that pop up for Empire. I love being handed a small selection of troops and told "go have your Riders of Rohan moment", and wish there was more to that system. Imagine if there were techs that let you upgrade the number and quality of those troops, like how the Skaven can upgrade their Vermintide armies.
My only complaint about that system is the seige battles are pretty much over by the time you get to play them, though I supposed that was the 2 version, idk how 3 is with it
I only remember being given some guys, spawning next to Norscans, and immediately being overrun by Skinwolves and being forced back off the map before my guys could get a shot off.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Yeah it's either that or you can't get to the fight before your allies are dead. Meanwhile, auto-resolve is almost always a victory.
Or make it like the Cathayen Caravan system, only instead of sending them around the world for riches you assign them a rough area of the empire to protect, where they can join battles of empire armies. Slowly getting better and stronger. But well, there is a lot of empires and you have only so many reserve armies. Do you help in the battle now, and see the capital fall because your army is still healing up? do you shift them to Nordland so the Norsca raids stop being D-Day and start being Dieppe? Do you try to keep Vlad into Sylvania for a bit longer.
Yooo I'm the guy who made the thunderbarge mod and it's awesome seeing you use it! Love ur videos and watch all the time so really cool seeing u use it and appreciate that u like it! Keep up the awesome video mate.
WELCOME TO ESTALIA GENTLEMEN. I WILL NOT LIE, THE CHANCES OF YOUR SURVIVAL ARE SMALL. SOME MAY EVEN TURN AGAINDT YOUR FRIENDS AS LIVING CORPSES- BUT YOU HAVE MY WORD, THAT I SHALL USE MY ARCANE GIFTS TO ENSURE YOUR BODIES ARE GIVEN UP TO MOR'S GARDEN. THIS IS THE GREATEST REWARD, MORE THAN EVEN GOLD, FOR THE FATE OF YOUR SOUL IS AN ETERNAL CONCERN. NOW COME, FOLLOW ME, STROKE DOWN THE UNDEAD THAT RISE AGAINST US. ALLOW ME TO FIND THIS ELDRITCH AMULET. I ASK NOT FOR MY OWN SELFISH STUDIES, BUT FOR THE GOOD OF THE EMPIRE.
Imperium: what is that?? A daemon?! Oh no! We are doomed! The emperor has forsaken us! We must blow up entire planet's so no one can ever learn of this disaster! Empire: square tf up chaos thots
The empire Karl Franz campaign is what made me download over a 100 mods in III. No regrets to be honest. Having a way to make us of over 20 different knight orders and using my prestige for buffs like you mentioned makes Me feel immersed
My empire campaigns usually follow the same formula, secure reikland, kill marienberg for the port, farm authority in middenheim from festus and the beastmen burning it down all the time.
The Empire might be the boring "some dude" faction like the imperial guard, but at least they arnt so cowardly they need a guy in a funny hat to point a gun at them so they don't run from danger
As luck would happen, I have just finished a Legendary Franz campaign. I managed to get a relatively quick kill on both Kazrak and Festus, confederated Gelt early, and Vlad just sorta died for no reason. Aside from the fact that I rolled a Death wizard instead of literally anything else, a real blessed run. I love playing Reikland in TWW. Such a great selection of units, so many fun ways to build an army, and Franz being the chaddest chad that has ever chadded.
@@samuelevans738 Well, I wouldn't say it's *that* bad. Like, it's still better than having no magic. I just don't think it works as well with Franz' campaign as the others. He's an excellent brawler lord with gunpowder units in his starting army, so Spirit Leech and Fate of Bjuna is just not as valuable. Purple Sun is expensive and unreliable, and you can expect to be fighting a lot of undead, who don't really care about leadership bombs. Some would argue that the Beast wizard is worse, but at least that one gets manticore summons and a griffin mount on a unit roster that's very low on flying units. The various buffs are also good for supporting your rather underwhelming infantry, or giving your Reiksguard a bit more "oomph" on the charge. As for the schools not mentioned yet, I'd say Fire and Life are the best, followed by Heavens, then Light and Shadow.
- me playing gelt - having strong dwarfen allies to secure my eastern and southern flank - having rooted out everything threat within the imperium - preparing to go kick some norscan and chaos ass at around turn 90 - fucking tzeentch ambushes
The lore of Fantasy will always be better than the lore of 40k. You can fight me on this but the only thing that keeps 40k from falling in on itself from being far too serious is the Orks
We need Total War 40K, they clearly have a good basis to accurately portray Guilliman's headache trying to pull the Imperium's shit together judging by how well they did it with the Empire.
40k is way too technologically advanced for a total war game, there’s a reason we have HOI4 instead of Total World War 2, the system is build around columns of men charging or using primitive ranged weapons that require reloading after just one shot.
@@woomod2445 I take it you have never read the rest of my comment, but none of the factions work. Eldar are about hit and runs, Imperium relied on WW1 tactics, Space marines don’t sit in tight square formations slowly matching at the enemy, etc. Fantasy worked great since it shared the warfare style of total war games but if you’ve ever played a single total war game, you’d realize that it’s type of strategy and fighting are far too medieval for a science fiction setting. Also, you can’t give everyone an automatic weapon in total war, the game would be buggy as shit.
i highly reccomend the mixus legendary lord mod it makes all of the elector counts into unique legendary lords which adds sooo much variety to the game- elspeth von draken is my personal favourite
Welp, I'm looking forward to the Do or Don't for Kislev, with the most obvious lore negative being "If you don't like bears, you don't want Kislev. They're not nearly as bad as the Space Wolves, but bears are fucking everywhere. The only one of their characters, lords or heroes, who doesn't have a bear mount is Ulrika, both kinds of war sleds are pulled by bears, YOU GET THE IDEA?" Update: yeah, Mother Ostankya and the Hag Witches all exist, but they're DLC content and Shadows of Change turned out to be garbage DLC in its original release state.
For anyone who want to play the Empire, I strongly suggest the Volkmar campaign. It is not really hard and they replace the elector count mechanics with gathering the books of Nagash.
Your Karl franz vs the world happened exactly to me but with Arkhan instead. My army of humble nehekaran warriors managed to kill all the monsters and cavalry so it was a fun fortymi uses of arkhan pimping out spirit leeches onto heroes, skeleton summons into cycle and flanking charges, Arkhan the Black killed 2600 skeletons of varied types (including tomb guard) of these lesser tomb kings. And because my mate thought I couldn't do it I got a free curse of the vampire coast dlc as a bet
That's a pretty open ended question: It largely depends on what kind of world or voidship you were born in, how the locals feel about psykers (if they even know what they are), what sort of status your family has in local society (if applicable), the precise nature of your powers, and how and when they first manifested. Depending on the circumstances, from there it probably depends on if you can survive to adulthood. And in the event the black ships got you and are hauling your ass to Terra, it's a matter of whether you escape or, more likely, someone sees potential in you beyond feeding Big E. And all that assumes you don't get fried by your own powers at any point, possessed by a daemon, or otherwise dragged off into the Warp.
"They ARE just regular humans." Bro, that is in NO way a downside. I'm a 40k Guard man, I don't even like spoice marines 'cause there's nothing exciting about super soldiers doing super things. When an Elysian without backup and half his promised equipment accomplishes his mission, THAT is a story.
Maybe not that important, but: -There is a mod to add Snorri Nosebiter by PinkPonyKnight -Other to add Gotrek and Felix as one unit (two entities, one space in the army) call Ye Olde Skool Gotrek and Felix! by Chapter Serf Just in case 😉😉
One of pivotal points of what makes Pancreasnowork videos are so enjoyable to me that it's a good break from the meticulously and overtly serious Warhammer 40K lore analyses videos (especially videos akin to Luetin09 which often defends the status quo of currently available lores so much) which often regurgitate the same lore progression unless new stuffs (sometimes through leaks) happening, even biggest gacha games' progress their lores much faster than GW's previous years' lore "movement and progression", so much of "The End Times" It's like the off-cam and American (with somehow less entrepreneur-minded) version of Majorkill, plus with more references of stuffs outside GW that doesn't involve real talk self-esteem, but Majorkill is still great nonetheless, he insists to think that there's always sense of W40K entire lore despite the stupidly vomiting amount of (expensive) scarce lores and ambiguity at least before current GW-era of lore-progression Keep up the great Warhammer work alongside the general eloquence for promoting Warhammer Fantasy settings, Mr Pancreas (your halo references are great too)
My Franz campaign was cursed I was almost able to get reilkland under control then fing marienburg takes the border town (forgot the name it borders marienburg) and then I swear Duke of pavilion declared war on me for no reason I had only my level 1 fort at Helmgart. I swear it was cursed
0:30 oh yeah do people not know that GW made Warhammer fantasy, and then put it in space? I'm massively abridging but I think Fantasy Battles 2nd edition existed before Rouge Trader was published (I don't have a source besides some vague memories and 'dude trust me' so if I'm wrong, lemme know)
"Thats right you corpse worshippers" Uhm isn't that considered "Heresy" by the gue'la/monkeigh/humiez? Also, oh sure, when the humans are the new kid on the block everyone gawks in awe, but when the Tau come about everyone turns into a salty rooster. This is a joke btw
You know, I had one pretty good campaign with the empire. Got all the provinces, bulldozed marienburg into servitude, kept the bretonnians out my arse and sicced them at the dark elves/shadow legion and purged Vlad out of existence. When I was thinking of going to help the dwarves the end times event hit and chaos started to pour from every inch of land I didn't control. While I like the challenge, fighting and killing Archeon EVERY THREE TURNS turns into a chore very fast. And the only way I found to stop that is colonizing Norsca, and BY SIGMAR I HATE THAT PLACE! Still did it though. Kicked every single chaos faction into oblivion to get my final victory but MAN chaos invasion overstays it's welcome.
"They will lose in melee against Chaos (and the Orks as well I might add) and they will lose in an artillery duel against the Dwarfs..." ... but they still kick Bretonia's ass in a cavalry duel (see: Zerkovich, Total war 1v1) and that's hilarious! 😂 Demygriph knights won a 1v1 against Pegasus knights even though the latter is a flying unit so the Demygriphs couldn't do anything against the initial charge and just took it like champs... and still managed to win in the end. THE EMPIRE ENDURES! ⚔️💀💪
Lol idk man I've had several good guy emperor playthroughs based on trade deals and alliances...always ends in a boring ordertide. Everyone kills the villains before my armies even arrive. I honestly WISH all my good guy playthroughs had an endgame challenge where my lands all went to sh** and I have to fight desperately to keep it alive, but it never does.
40k imperium is like: You doesn't like eating algae and 18 hour shifts in your slave pit? To the adeptus mechanicus you go! You will make a great servitor!
Cathay is great and all, but I wouldn't consider it a realm of man. Sure, most of its inhabitants are human, but it was founded and is ruled by a family of immortal dragons. Sigmar's Empire is of Mankind, by Mankind and for Mankind.
Bretonnia has the whole "acting honorable" etc.. but the key difference between the Honorable Bretonnia and the Empire is that one is a feudal society, preventing peasants from moving up in the ladder, while the empire still is merit based and a peasant could get out of the situation of being a peasant.
Warhammer had a great mod which added a whole bunch of different war wagons including one which deployed a unit of swordsmen, was deploying ye olde Mechanised infantry and steam tanks in a renaissance blitzkrieg practical, no was it incredibly fun oh yes!
Do or don't, do SFO. On a side note since you mentioned the 5% Kohrne automatic settlement feature i think it's total bullshite, Many times other factions will just swoop in and take the settlement before that 5% chance kicks in it's utterly useless.
ngl the empire is cool but weak, they really need a rework. the empire ai never survives long and literally every other race is stronger. in my most recent Skarbrand campaign by the time I got up to the empire not a single empire faction was still alive. the empire needs some new Legendary lords plus a major overhaul to their mechanics, units, and such.
The Empire, the only faction with any sense of logic and reason. Once Karl gets full control over the squabbling Elector Counts and finally tell all of their neighbors to fuck off with huge amounts of faith, steel, snd gunpowder. Other tham that the Empire really needs buffs to their faction management and the smaller Elector Counts need buffs, a lot of buffs. But the units of the Empire are fine, they're a jack of all trades master of none kind of faction. But mass Steam Tanks rolling over Brettonia will never not be hilarious in both practical and historical sense. And mass Steam Tanks will never not be fun for at least one army/playthrough, even if it destroys your whole economy. Money well spent is all I can say.
honestly, because of the state of the current Empire campaign I just restart once I Unite the elector counts, seriously it's a mess but once the mess is over, which can be fun when you know what you're doing, it can become really boring especially since all your focused energy was spent entirely on the lands of the Empire and most other factions would just be retreating from your heavily veteran armies because the AI spent 120 turns bomb rushing enemy cities and churning fresh wannabe doom stacks making it easy steamroll for the rest of the game with the only difference being Endgame conditions.
'Stuck on an island being invaded by their asshole cousins' Yes but humanity is its own asshole cousin so we pretty much draw with the elves on that front.
Great video, also the Improved Electoral Machinations mod allows you to spend prestige to get defensive or military alliances with the elector counts and even spend it to improve authority or fealty.
I've wanted to get Total Warhammer for a while now, but I'm not sure whether to go with TW2 or TW3. I've seen a whole bunch of reviews saying 3 isn't great because it's buggy and has fewer features and armies than 2, but those reviews were written a few weeks after the game first released. Is 3 worth it now, or is it better to go with 2, or even wait a while longer for 3 to get better?
I havent gotten 3 yet, but ive played a ton of 2, Ill recommend it for sure. Btw Im not sure but I think you have to have 1 to fully unlock 2, and 2 to fully unlock 3.....I think. I know for sure you'll end up wanting/needing to buy a few dlc's too.
When asked about what makes a good Empire numerous voices claimed different things. “Diplomacy” “Magic” “Infrastructure” all of these are wrong, yet every citizen under our fair Empire knows the 3 tenets by which we live and thrive. Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder. For the Empire and Franz brother
"the empire being under constant threat early game is the worst part" uh no it's the best part. Fighting tooth and nail to unite the empire, then conqure the world is the appeal.
i had a lot of fun slapping Teclis with Kairos Fateweaver im sure thats not lore accurately possible but its still fun to do because no you do not want teclis to level up in any type of scenario
Yeah I should make the pinned comment something original and clever, that way it’ll look like I’m an intelligent and funny content creator.
SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS
But it’s turn 20 Franz they all died
@@icealkion except wissenland, they rebelled and are fighting you
@@Max-bg7oo Also, I'm pretty sure I saw Skarbrand making a break for Altdorf from the Southlands a few turns ago.
@@BossEvasion ah, he will give company to festus, he's quite lonely after taking over a third of the empire
SMUOMN ETELOCR THE CUTONS!
“One man with a halberd may not be a match for a giant, but then, no man fights alone when he fights for Franz”
FOR KARL!!!!
@@robberyproductions1363 ROCK AND STOOoone... wait wrong game.
@@robberyproductions1363 ROCK AND STONE BROTHER!
FOR KARL! ROCK AND STONE!
@@sixten2100 FOR STEEL AND GUNPOWDER!
Karl Franz actually has a warhammer, need I say more?
I loved the part where sigmar said "you did it Franz you truly are the total warhammer III."
Karl Franz has _the_ Warhammer: Ghal Maraz, aka the Skull Splitter.
@@BlueSatoshi Fancy words magic man.
@@BlueSatoshi "Ghal" sounds like the Finnish word for skull "Kallo" just enough for me to believe they took it as inspiration. That's cute GW.
Faded than a ho
Pro: You can send tanks to kill Bretonnians
Cons: You are bordering Bretonnia
😂
My biggest gripe for "Time of Legends" was how Sigmar threatens Bretonnia to help then just forgets about them after.
Pro of the Con: You can get to killing Bretonnians faster.
How are we supposed to kick their ass when they're halfway across the world?
@@drysocks4412 Way to turn those lemons into lemonade.
Remember:
Never ask a woman her age
Never ask a man his salary
Never ask Marius Leitdorf what happened in 2502 IC in the Moot
Why what happened
@@MaxterandKiwiKing look him up and you’ll know
They had it coming. They only had themselves to blame. If you had been there, if you had seen it, you would’ve done the same.
I will always ask what a man earns. For if he or I are cheated out of money by our employer we better know
Hahahahaha good one 😂
Balthazar gelt literally has an item quest where he beats up a necromancer to get his cloak back and pretty much tells his men that life is temporary BUT THE DRIP IS ETERNAL.
'Welcome to Estalia, Gentlemen."
Nicolas Appert was a French Inventor who lived during the French Revolution and Napoleonic War. An important fact about armies is that they need to be fed and with the Levee en Mass the Revolutionary and latter Napoleonic Army had more mouths to feed than ever. To that end, there was considerable investment in ways to keep Food Fresh. Appert worked out a method of preserving food for years by putting it into glass bottles, sealing them, submerging them in a vat of boiling water for a period and then extracting them. In 1806 he perfected the process and was awarded 12,000 Francs for the job and sold large volumes of preserved food and vegetable products to the Grand Armee.
Shortly afterwards in 1810-12, English inventors Peter Dunard, Byran Donkin and John Hall developed a similar system. However instead of glass bottles (which while clean and effective were prone to shattering) they used tin-coated cast-iron canisters to storage their preserved food and sold them to the Royal Navy and British Army. Soon afterwards "Canisterized Food" would be contracted to "Canned Food".
He wasn't able to develop canning in time to help Napoleon though. Still, a very important development for humanity.
The best part about that story is that can openers weren't invented until a good bit after. This lead to smashed and damaged cans being a mass find in 19th century military archaeology. Oh and lead poisoning
You know, I was just wondering about when modern food preservation became a thing.
Man what a coincidence that not even a few days ago I was looking up these very same inventors for adding some industrial flavour to my renaissance/napoleonic-inspired D&D setting and now here I am reading about them again on a warhammer video.
What I learned:
If it weren't for these wartime French and English people, I would starve 99 percent of the time.
Thanks 👍
Remember, CA recommends this faction for beginners.
However, what most people don't realize is, they're not recommended because they're easy. They're recommended because new players need to understand this is a brutal world and that they need to git gud to survive.
speaking of tw gameplay, i really wanted to be able to play mortal empires but choose which regions i'll like to interact with, like, i want to play empire but i do not want to deal with whatever the hell is going on in lustria or cathay, both for the sake of not wanting to deal with either an massive lizard,elfs or skaven armies, but also because i don't want to spend many minutes just waiting for my turn to move 2 regiments to one point to another and repeat this process all over again
I'm like my CPU. We both finish quickly.
It's because they were easy in Warhammer 1 and 2. It's only in Warhammer 3 that they have a tough time.
@@GeraltofRivia22 Can't say for WH1 but they were by no means easy in warhammer 2. If anything Karl's starting army is weaker in WH2 which makes that siege battle a lot harder at the start of the game.
@@OHGAS-rt5uc then just play warhammer 1
"How your average Imperium and Empire citizen react to a daemon invasion"
IOM citized : WHAT IS THAT UNHOLLY ABOMINATION! THE EMPEROR HAS FORSHAKEN US!!! "Planet turns into a daemon or gets exterminatus within months"
Empire citized: Honey pass me my blade and musket, Imma kill the sh*t out of that red d**khead! "Chaos struggles to take over a single city IF they're lucky"
Sigmar Priest: That's it! I'm getting me mallet!
SIGMAR PROTECTS
It illustrates how the God-Emperor was foolish for trying to keep his citizens ignorant of the Warp. All it did was leave them unable to see the threat of corruption for what it was. In the Empire, every citizen knows what a daemon is and why you don't mess with it. They're informed of the dangers of magic, and thus are immunized against it. (It's hardly perfect, of course. There's always going to be a fool who thinks they can handle Chaos. But at least Empire people are making informed choices).
"The things I do for Nurgle...."
Sigmar more like Sigma
Pros: you get to summon the elector counts
Cons: nothing
Correction: one of them is a vampire, on second thoughts no you are completely correct no downsides
@@creed2466 Another pro one of them is Vlad Von Chadstein
@@creed2466 As long as the vampire isn't Manfred, then everything's good.
@@jacksonbowns1087 Ahh good old Mannfred
Thr Erebus of Fantasy
I mean.
One of the Elector Counts is Balthazar Gelt.
That sounds like a pro at first, but then you realize nobody will ever play Karl Franz again, and Toddbringer unironically has more fans
Ultimate pro:
Unlike the Emperor of Mankind, SIGMAR let’s you have Elf Waifus
Based and Sigmarpilled.
Praise Sigmar!
Guilliman: Sign me the FUCK UP!
@@Tomcat13436 Guillman to Sigmar: Are you my new dad?
Sigmar: you see that elf woman who brought you back to life. Marry her to strengthen the bond between elf and man.
Sigmar to Guilliman: The emperor may be your father, but he ain't your daddy.
"Three things make the Empire Great; Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder." Magnus the Pious #ForTheEmpire
MAY SIGMAR'S HAMMER EVER GUIDE US.
One of the best quotes in fiction
Bretonnia has super soldiers blessed by some elven god in a lake.
Tomb Kings were alive and now are skeletons.
Cathay is ruled by actual dragons and half dragon blooded lords.
You know what the Empire has?
FAITH!
STEEL!
GUNPOWDER!
And somehow, it shall endure longer than the first two, and will continue being a pain in the arse for Cathay's self esteem until it's erasure.
@@samuelevans738it took a fucking full scale chaos invasion and none existent giant ratmen to eliminate the empire wtf is it on? Humanity that's what
And a whole lot of friendship.
"You only have one of those things and not very much of it."
Brettonia, sets up a political system that makes them(the kings and dukes) immune to chaos corruption because their leaders are background checked by an Elven goddess. Sadly she doesn’t check their academic records, so it’s a nation run by supersoldiers who peaked in high school.
"Um, Witch Hunter, you know the rumors about those large rat men? Skaven, I believe they are called?"
>Quiet, apostle. There are no such ratmen.
"Well... If that is the case, what did Emperor Mandred Skavenslayer slay?"
>...
>Prepare the pyre.
That's not why skaven don't exist. Manfred killed them all. This is from the second Gotrek and Felix book
Gelt and Franz are wonderfully fun Legendary Lords. Not only do they pack a punch, they are just fun characters. If you get frustrated with a Gelt campaign just flip through a bunch of diplomacy dialogue from him or rewatch "Welcome to Estalia gentlemen" and feel your will to live return as his raw charisma refuels you
He has some of the best diplomacy insults in the game, especially against Greenskins.
@@nerdyvids1 I love the way he threatens Chaos champions by implying he can super heat their armor that they cursed to never remove
Balthasar Gelt is pretty damn cheesy
1 Winds of Magic bombardment spell?
Fine..stay in your fortress, i can literally spam cast for the next 50 minutes straight
@@adrienwatson2179 don't forget the artillery spam
When I eventually free up space on my computer, I'll definitely do an Empire campaign with the sole purpose of bringing the forces of Order together and make Karl Franz proud. His speech for the Immortal Empires trailer is some of the finest I've ever heard, I think in part because he isn't just wanted the Empire to endure, but for everyone. He was born into this world, and now he's determined to save it.
He also took up the mantle of emperor of mankind. Has a lot to live up to. He could be corrupt and cowardly, but he truly tries to live up to that expectation.
I think he’s a good man.
That's a fine aspiration, but you'll spend hours achieving that only for one faction to declare war on another and loads more take sides. It's really easy for that house of cards to collapse because while they'll be friendly and loyal with you, they won't be with others in the band. And that's why it's a nobel idea but one which rarely works
@87mc12 you need to be high elves for it to work, so you can use their mechanic to make other factions like each other
Personal opinion: while being awfully misused by GW writers, i personally love Volkmar the Grim a bit more than Karl. He is a old man with a determination of steel and such incredible faith that pushes him on even with a scarred and aging body. He knows that Chaos cannot be defeated only with repeatedly applying hammers over the problem until it stop being a problem and he searches for a more permanent solution. He is definitely a grey character because of all the evil shittery the cult of Sigmar does and did during history (and his army is usually made of crazy, self maimed maniacs), has the very badass title "The Grim" which says everything about him, has a literally weaponised pope car AND, most important of all, has the most powerful pair of mustaches that i ever saw. Those mustaches are some Bismarck level shit.
@Quotzalcoatl By Belakor even, during the absolutely blursed Winds of Magic campaign. This is the same one remembered in lore where basically a who's who of chaos got bogged down in Middenland for some reason until Grimgor came up and gave Archaeon a spanking, and is a reflection of an IRL campaign done by players at the time.
His mustache is on par with Piłsudzki
He is what Lorgar wanted to be, if he was in another story.
"eat your heart out tchaikovsky because balthazar gelt is your biggest fan and he's giving one hell of a performance"
brilliant writing.
Franzer division is genius.
Karl Franz got done dirty by GW, he was THE guy who could've brought about a golden age for both the Empire and the forces of Order...then the world exploded. GW could've kept things grim and dark, but a man like Franz would've been one of the few beacons of hope and light to bring about something to make it more then just "40k but fantasy" which fantasy tragically became when AoS rolled around.
I prefer to act if AoS doesn't exist. Never clicked with me. And I have yet to find a license holder who is capable of forcing my brain to accept whatever is they canon of the month.
The way to make Imperial authority work is by always occupying empire settlements, then selling them to a bordering elector count and waiting for the event to return it to its previous owner next turn. With this, the whole Empire becomes an Imperial Authority farm, The Wasteland and Sylvania included.
Of course you are doing this as Gelt and laughing at the peasants down below as you repay the Dwarves a few thousand kilograms of steel.
Imperium stops making sense when it stops being treated as a parody
Empire still kinda makes sense on it's own given the fuckin insane world it's in
Pancreas hates Bretonnians for worshipping an Elf deity and basing their warriors on them.
However, Pancreas is an Elf simp and would do the same.
Curious.
You forgot one upside: 40k's standard Bolter and an Empire Handgun both have the same range, have Strength 4 and ignore armor saves of 5+ or worse. Except one is a master-crafted piece of equipment with every shell being untold hours of an artisan's life to make the perfect whell, while the Handgun is just a metal tube on a stick filled with powder and a ball.
Or how a 40k Lascannon, a powerful laser cannon meant to deal with tanks and monsters, has Strength 9 while a Fantasy cannon made with 1600s technology is Strength 10.
I tried to play them once in Total War Warhammer 2 I had absolutely no idea what the hell I was doing I managed to Confederate a single other area and then the rest of the empire declared war on me while nordland was busy getting invaded by norskans
Lol, exactly my experience. Played them twice, both times got ROFL stomped and dropped the entire TW Warhammer series. Back to Rome 2 where it all makes sense 😂
*Boris Todbringer has entered the chat*
"I heard the sacred summon."
There’s a fantasy setting that’s near and dear to my heart called “Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends.”
If you ever get a chance, the Renaissance human faction, the Vinci, reminds me of the Empire of Man from WHF. If you own a physical copy, congratulations. For those who don’t, good luck finding one.
Or you can find a zip file pretty easily on most arcive cites
Sseth did a video on that
I used to think that the fantasy warhammer was just another lost/forgotten planet of the warhammer 40k universe and that Sigmar was a lost son. Others used say the fantasy world was a dream reality setup by the Big E that's why you have all the monsters from 40k in the fantasy realm.
It used to waiver back and forth before they more or less completely disconnected the settings. I'm pretty sure one point it was like you said, Fantasy was a planet in the Eye, and then I believe at another point the entire 40k universe was in a globe on some dude's shelf in Altdorf which is really funny to me.
@@pancreasnowork9939 hahaha yeah I saw that on the men in black movie where an entire galaxy is in a cat collar trinket. It's a great theme, or when the entire Lovecraft reality is based on a ethereal beings nightmares, love it!
It's actually completely different, it's just that GW is mega lazy to come up with new names. New names that are worth a shit and not "aelfs" or "orruks". roflmao /facepalm.
Personally, I don't think the two Warhammer settings NEED to be connected, save through the vagaries of Chaos. They do just fine as separate settings.
@@pancreasnowork9939 I often wonder what would it be like to have a cross over between age of Sigmar and 40 k like imagine the maelstrom became a portal to the nine realms.
Wizards and Warriors did an excellent video series on SIgmar and his creation of the Empire and watching that has also gotten me to gain a great deal of respect for the intentions behind WHY it was created and the leader/god who made it happen.
"I am Sigmar. I am Golden. I am God. Harken for my name, for it will echo redoubled through the ages. It will strike down my enemies wherever they may hide. It will be heard when the need is greatest."
-Deus Sigmar.
Fun fact, that glass tax riot you mentioned has historical basis. England had a "window tax" in the 1600s iirc, causing houses to be built with as few windows as possible, or windows to be boarded up, and in the early 1800s there was a glass tax, which raised prices on glass up to 300% before it was finally scrapped.
Something I really hope gets more fleshed out or brought to other factions is the "send a detachment of troops" events that pop up for Empire. I love being handed a small selection of troops and told "go have your Riders of Rohan moment", and wish there was more to that system. Imagine if there were techs that let you upgrade the number and quality of those troops, like how the Skaven can upgrade their Vermintide armies.
My only complaint about that system is the seige battles are pretty much over by the time you get to play them, though I supposed that was the 2 version, idk how 3 is with it
I only remember being given some guys, spawning next to Norscans, and immediately being overrun by Skinwolves and being forced back off the map before my guys could get a shot off.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Yeah it's either that or you can't get to the fight before your allies are dead. Meanwhile, auto-resolve is almost always a victory.
Or make it like the Cathayen Caravan system, only instead of sending them around the world for riches you assign them a rough area of the empire to protect, where they can join battles of empire armies. Slowly getting better and stronger. But well, there is a lot of empires and you have only so many reserve armies. Do you help in the battle now, and see the capital fall because your army is still healing up? do you shift them to Nordland so the Norsca raids stop being D-Day and start being Dieppe? Do you try to keep Vlad into Sylvania for a bit longer.
By Sigmar I’m boutta summon the elector counts
Yooo I'm the guy who made the thunderbarge mod and it's awesome seeing you use it! Love ur videos and watch all the time so really cool seeing u use it and appreciate that u like it! Keep up the awesome video mate.
WELCOME TO ESTALIA GENTLEMEN. I WILL NOT LIE, THE CHANCES OF YOUR SURVIVAL ARE SMALL. SOME MAY EVEN TURN AGAINDT YOUR FRIENDS AS LIVING CORPSES- BUT YOU HAVE MY WORD, THAT I SHALL USE MY ARCANE GIFTS TO ENSURE YOUR BODIES ARE GIVEN UP TO MOR'S GARDEN. THIS IS THE GREATEST REWARD, MORE THAN EVEN GOLD, FOR THE FATE OF YOUR SOUL IS AN ETERNAL CONCERN. NOW COME, FOLLOW ME, STROKE DOWN THE UNDEAD THAT RISE AGAINST US. ALLOW ME TO FIND THIS ELDRITCH AMULET. I ASK NOT FOR MY OWN SELFISH STUDIES, BUT FOR THE GOOD OF THE EMPIRE.
They lost the schematics for the steam tanks? Ah yes typical GW writing. Can't just have a look under the hood and draw up new schematics....
Imperium: what is that?? A daemon?! Oh no! We are doomed! The emperor has forsaken us! We must blow up entire planet's so no one can ever learn of this disaster!
Empire: square tf up chaos thots
The empire Karl Franz campaign is what made me download over a 100 mods in III. No regrets to be honest. Having a way to make us of over 20 different knight orders and using my prestige for buffs like you mentioned makes Me feel immersed
He's my favourite character and he needs a serious update. I need to check out mods for him.
My empire campaigns usually follow the same formula, secure reikland, kill marienberg for the port, farm authority in middenheim from festus and the beastmen burning it down all the time.
The Empire might be the boring "some dude" faction like the imperial guard, but at least they arnt so cowardly they need a guy in a funny hat to point a gun at them so they don't run from danger
As luck would happen, I have just finished a Legendary Franz campaign. I managed to get a relatively quick kill on both Kazrak and Festus, confederated Gelt early, and Vlad just sorta died for no reason. Aside from the fact that I rolled a Death wizard instead of literally anything else, a real blessed run.
I love playing Reikland in TWW. Such a great selection of units, so many fun ways to build an army, and Franz being the chaddest chad that has ever chadded.
Is death magic really that bad?
Or is it just not one you like very much?
@@samuelevans738 Well, I wouldn't say it's *that* bad. Like, it's still better than having no magic. I just don't think it works as well with Franz' campaign as the others. He's an excellent brawler lord with gunpowder units in his starting army, so Spirit Leech and Fate of Bjuna is just not as valuable. Purple Sun is expensive and unreliable, and you can expect to be fighting a lot of undead, who don't really care about leadership bombs.
Some would argue that the Beast wizard is worse, but at least that one gets manticore summons and a griffin mount on a unit roster that's very low on flying units. The various buffs are also good for supporting your rather underwhelming infantry, or giving your Reiksguard a bit more "oomph" on the charge.
As for the schools not mentioned yet, I'd say Fire and Life are the best, followed by Heavens, then Light and Shadow.
Having Franz late game with all his items and upgrades is just amazing. Sending him in to to beat the piss out of the enemy lord never gets old.
Do I play Total War? No. Do I actually care about Warhammer Fantasy? No. Will I watch a PancreasNoWork video about it? Every time.
- me playing gelt
- having strong dwarfen allies to secure my eastern and southern flank
- having rooted out everything threat within the imperium
- preparing to go kick some norscan and chaos ass at around turn 90
- fucking tzeentch ambushes
The lore of Fantasy will always be better than the lore of 40k. You can fight me on this but the only thing that keeps 40k from falling in on itself from being far too serious is the Orks
We need Total War 40K, they clearly have a good basis to accurately portray Guilliman's headache trying to pull the Imperium's shit together judging by how well they did it with the Empire.
40k is way too technologically advanced for a total war game, there’s a reason we have HOI4 instead of Total World War 2, the system is build around columns of men charging or using primitive ranged weapons that require reloading after just one shot.
@@georgestoebig105 So only the tau don't work?
@@woomod2445 I take it you have never read the rest of my comment, but none of the factions work. Eldar are about hit and runs, Imperium relied on WW1 tactics, Space marines don’t sit in tight square formations slowly matching at the enemy, etc. Fantasy worked great since it shared the warfare style of total war games but if you’ve ever played a single total war game, you’d realize that it’s type of strategy and fighting are far too medieval for a science fiction setting. Also, you can’t give everyone an automatic weapon in total war, the game would be buggy as shit.
@@georgestoebig105 I was making a joke about 40k's love of melee.
So, who else is coming back after the empire got their new rework?
i highly reccomend the mixus legendary lord mod it makes all of the elector counts into unique legendary lords which adds sooo much variety to the game- elspeth von draken is my personal favourite
Karl Franz doing Aragorn's black gate speech: ruclips.net/video/cNYj7IAY8AM/видео.html
Welp, I'm looking forward to the Do or Don't for Kislev, with the most obvious lore negative being "If you don't like bears, you don't want Kislev. They're not nearly as bad as the Space Wolves, but bears are fucking everywhere. The only one of their characters, lords or heroes, who doesn't have a bear mount is Ulrika, both kinds of war sleds are pulled by bears, YOU GET THE IDEA?"
Update: yeah, Mother Ostankya and the Hag Witches all exist, but they're DLC content and Shadows of Change turned out to be garbage DLC in its original release state.
Would love to see more Do or Don't's on TWW3, great game!
Do or don't on factions from Warhammer 3? Gimme already 😂
If we’re gonna be seeing more Total Warhammer videos, how long before we hit either High Elves or Wood Elves?
Karl always answered when I called; Sigmar is a bit of a prick but he gets the job done.
For anyone who want to play the Empire, I strongly suggest the Volkmar campaign. It is not really hard and they replace the elector count mechanics with gathering the books of Nagash.
Your Karl franz vs the world happened exactly to me but with Arkhan instead. My army of humble nehekaran warriors managed to kill all the monsters and cavalry so it was a fun fortymi uses of arkhan pimping out spirit leeches onto heroes, skeleton summons into cycle and flanking charges, Arkhan the Black killed 2600 skeletons of varied types (including tomb guard) of these lesser tomb kings.
And because my mate thought I couldn't do it I got a free curse of the vampire coast dlc as a bet
While 40K is obviously far more popular, fantasy and the empire of man have a special place in my heart!
New PNW lore: his Brettonia hatred was born from his lack of cavalry skill and every other reason is just there to justify it
that was there from day one, pal
How would you "try" to survive in warhammer 40k as a psyker?
That's a pretty open ended question:
It largely depends on what kind of world or voidship you were born in, how the locals feel about psykers (if they even know what they are), what sort of status your family has in local society (if applicable), the precise nature of your powers, and how and when they first manifested.
Depending on the circumstances, from there it probably depends on if you can survive to adulthood. And in the event the black ships got you and are hauling your ass to Terra, it's a matter of whether you escape or, more likely, someone sees potential in you beyond feeding Big E.
And all that assumes you don't get fried by your own powers at any point, possessed by a daemon, or otherwise dragged off into the Warp.
When will you discuss Karl Franz himself in a dedicated episode?
"They ARE just regular humans." Bro, that is in NO way a downside. I'm a 40k Guard man, I don't even like spoice marines 'cause there's nothing exciting about super soldiers doing super things. When an Elysian without backup and half his promised equipment accomplishes his mission, THAT is a story.
Maybe not that important, but:
-There is a mod to add Snorri Nosebiter by PinkPonyKnight
-Other to add Gotrek and Felix as one unit (two entities, one space in the army) call Ye Olde Skool Gotrek and Felix! by Chapter Serf
Just in case 😉😉
One of pivotal points of what makes Pancreasnowork videos are so enjoyable to me that it's a good break from the meticulously and overtly serious Warhammer 40K lore analyses videos (especially videos akin to Luetin09 which often defends the status quo of currently available lores so much) which often regurgitate the same lore progression unless new stuffs (sometimes through leaks) happening, even biggest gacha games' progress their lores much faster than GW's previous years' lore "movement and progression", so much of "The End Times"
It's like the off-cam and American (with somehow less entrepreneur-minded) version of Majorkill, plus with more references of stuffs outside GW that doesn't involve real talk self-esteem, but Majorkill is still great nonetheless, he insists to think that there's always sense of W40K entire lore despite the stupidly vomiting amount of (expensive) scarce lores and ambiguity at least before current GW-era of lore-progression
Keep up the great Warhammer work alongside the general eloquence for promoting Warhammer Fantasy settings, Mr Pancreas (your halo references are great too)
Make a Do or Don’t: Harlequins you cowards
(Please I’m begging you)
My Franz campaign was cursed I was almost able to get reilkland under control then fing marienburg takes the border town (forgot the name it borders marienburg) and then I swear Duke of pavilion declared war on me for no reason I had only my level 1 fort at Helmgart. I swear it was cursed
Yeah this is why i always download the anti cheat mod.
Just getting rid of the anti human code makes the game better.
Guarrente there's going to be an entire section just to Karl Franz.
"Snorri thinks young Pancreasedbulwark does not understand how vestments work if he thinks they will be returned to him. Silly manling."
0:30 oh yeah do people not know that GW made Warhammer fantasy, and then put it in space? I'm massively abridging but I think Fantasy Battles 2nd edition existed before Rouge Trader was published (I don't have a source besides some vague memories and 'dude trust me' so if I'm wrong, lemme know)
"Thats right you corpse worshippers"
Uhm isn't that considered "Heresy" by the gue'la/monkeigh/humiez?
Also, oh sure, when the humans are the new kid on the block everyone gawks in awe, but when the Tau come about everyone turns into a salty rooster.
This is a joke btw
You know, I had one pretty good campaign with the empire. Got all the provinces, bulldozed marienburg into servitude, kept the bretonnians out my arse and sicced them at the dark elves/shadow legion and purged Vlad out of existence. When I was thinking of going to help the dwarves the end times event hit and chaos started to pour from every inch of land I didn't control. While I like the challenge, fighting and killing Archeon EVERY THREE TURNS turns into a chore very fast. And the only way I found to stop that is colonizing Norsca, and BY SIGMAR I HATE THAT PLACE!
Still did it though. Kicked every single chaos faction into oblivion to get my final victory but MAN chaos invasion overstays it's welcome.
Oh yeah, Karl Franz technically needs some mooks under him to do his thing, doesn't he ?
I played Empire in tabletop and I approve this message.
Faith. Steel. Gunpowder.
"They will lose in melee against Chaos (and the Orks as well I might add) and they will lose in an artillery duel against the Dwarfs..."
... but they still kick Bretonia's ass in a cavalry duel (see: Zerkovich, Total war 1v1) and that's hilarious! 😂 Demygriph knights won a 1v1 against Pegasus knights even though the latter is a flying unit so the Demygriphs couldn't do anything against the initial charge and just took it like champs... and still managed to win in the end.
THE EMPIRE ENDURES! ⚔️💀💪
You forgot handgunners and crossbowmen not shooting when I order them to. 😂
Granted, this action might not have their consent, but damn does it hurt.
Lol idk man I've had several good guy emperor playthroughs based on trade deals and alliances...always ends in a boring ordertide. Everyone kills the villains before my armies even arrive. I honestly WISH all my good guy playthroughs had an endgame challenge where my lands all went to sh** and I have to fight desperately to keep it alive, but it never does.
40k imperium is like: You doesn't like eating algae and 18 hour shifts in your slave pit? To the adeptus mechanicus you go! You will make a great servitor!
An Emperor is literally named "Skavenslayer" and the empire still doesn't believe in Skaven? Really?
Cathay is great and all, but I wouldn't consider it a realm of man. Sure, most of its inhabitants are human, but it was founded and is ruled by a family of immortal dragons.
Sigmar's Empire is of Mankind, by Mankind and for Mankind.
Bretonnia has the whole "acting honorable" etc.. but the key difference between the Honorable Bretonnia and the Empire is that one is a feudal society, preventing peasants from moving up in the ladder, while the empire still is merit based and a peasant could get out of the situation of being a peasant.
Warhammer had a great mod which added a whole bunch of different war wagons including one which deployed a unit of swordsmen, was deploying ye olde Mechanised infantry and steam tanks in a renaissance blitzkrieg practical, no was it incredibly fun oh yes!
I DISLIKE THIS BRETONNIA SLANDER, FOR THE LADY.
(I love the empire tho. I just like bretonnia too.)
Do or don't, do SFO. On a side note since you mentioned the 5% Kohrne automatic settlement feature i think it's total bullshite, Many times other factions will just swoop in and take the settlement before that 5% chance kicks in it's utterly useless.
Pancreas: Warhammer fantasy is better than 40k
Empire of man: Let's give our territories random lands and ad the word 'land' at the end
I love the psyop that is Warhammer, but either way it is fun to play
The entire Warhammer 40k universe is contained inside a bottle on a shelf inside the tower of a wizard in Altdorf, or so one story tells.
ngl the empire is cool but weak, they really need a rework. the empire ai never survives long and literally every other race is stronger. in my most recent Skarbrand campaign by the time I got up to the empire not a single empire faction was still alive. the empire needs some new Legendary lords plus a major overhaul to their mechanics, units, and such.
The Empire, the only faction with any sense of logic and reason. Once Karl gets full control over the squabbling Elector Counts and finally tell all of their neighbors to fuck off with huge amounts of faith, steel, snd gunpowder. Other tham that the Empire really needs buffs to their faction management and the smaller Elector Counts need buffs, a lot of buffs. But the units of the Empire are fine, they're a jack of all trades master of none kind of faction.
But mass Steam Tanks rolling over Brettonia will never not be hilarious in both practical and historical sense. And mass Steam Tanks will never not be fun for at least one army/playthrough, even if it destroys your whole economy. Money well spent is all I can say.
Karl franz could make the perfect team up with guilliman. Like captain America and superman respectively.
Finding a khorne mechanic "infuriating". Truly lore accurate design
Fantasy is the peak of wargames an is the best setting ever created. No discussion no contest fantasy is peak 👌
Now do Warhammer Fantasy dwarfs! :D
I wonder if PNW is going to return for another Empire video after the latest dlc for Total War?
honestly, because of the state of the current Empire campaign I just restart once I Unite the elector counts, seriously it's a mess but once the mess is over, which can be fun when you know what you're doing, it can become really boring especially since all your focused energy was spent entirely on the lands of the Empire and most other factions would just be retreating from your heavily veteran armies because the AI spent 120 turns bomb rushing enemy cities and churning fresh wannabe doom stacks making it easy steamroll for the rest of the game with the only difference being Endgame conditions.
Day 3 of asking for do or don’t Soulblight Gravelords
Can't wait for the Free Guild Guard Do or Don't. Also greetings from Puerto Rico.
'Stuck on an island being invaded by their asshole cousins'
Yes but humanity is its own asshole cousin so we pretty much draw with the elves on that front.
Great video, also the Improved Electoral Machinations mod allows you to spend prestige to get defensive or military alliances with the elector counts and even spend it to improve authority or fealty.
I've wanted to get Total Warhammer for a while now, but I'm not sure whether to go with TW2 or TW3. I've seen a whole bunch of reviews saying 3 isn't great because it's buggy and has fewer features and armies than 2, but those reviews were written a few weeks after the game first released. Is 3 worth it now, or is it better to go with 2, or even wait a while longer for 3 to get better?
I havent gotten 3 yet, but ive played a ton of 2, Ill recommend it for sure.
Btw Im not sure but I think you have to have 1 to fully unlock 2, and 2 to fully unlock 3.....I think.
I know for sure you'll end up wanting/needing to buy a few dlc's too.
When asked about what makes a good Empire numerous voices claimed different things. “Diplomacy” “Magic” “Infrastructure” all of these are wrong, yet every citizen under our fair Empire knows the 3 tenets by which we live and thrive. Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder. For the Empire and Franz brother
"the empire being under constant threat early game is the worst part" uh no it's the best part. Fighting tooth and nail to unite the empire, then conqure the world is the appeal.
i had a lot of fun slapping Teclis with Kairos Fateweaver im sure thats not lore accurately possible but its still fun to do because no you do not want teclis to level up in any type of scenario