@@jamieenoshima5147 You're not giving the goods for free, though. You're buying peace with the dwarves. When you, as a High Elf, are fighting literally everyone, bribing one to stop is a -small- -tiny- -reduced- non-burdensome price to pay.
"A long time ago the elven race split in two. One became arrogant, murder-happy and obsessed with world domination. The other one were the dark elves."
Ngl, the Druchii have good reason to be all those things. Their ancestors were a racial minority who were blamed for the "degeneration" of elven culture, forced to fight as disposable bodies against chaos while the Asur sat back and watched, their gods betrayed them and no longer looks after their souls. Then, to make all of that worse, the only general who actually cared about them had his throne taken from him. I'd start worshipping Khaine too, since he's the only God who cares.
@@somerandommencomparing anything to 40k makes them a saint. Skaven are just better imperium, the orcs are better than 40k. Dwarves exist in fantasy so mega plus and the faith and actions of the eldar are far grimer than that in fantasy. When the scale is an entire galaxy, a grimdark writer will happily make it the worse place to live in
@@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial the ones of Lothlorien have a full city on top of the trees, and the ones of the Mirkwood live in a palace inside caverns, none of them are the classic hippies that i said
Especially since they seem to enjoy money and gold, even in the books Thranduil only went to the lonely mountain after he heard Smaug was dead and figured Thorin and his group were dead as well so they could just loot the place.@@MiguelSanchezDelVillar
6:09 “well yes, the lizards helped” If by “helped” you mean kill millions upon millions of demons and make it actually possible for the high elves to last longer than five hours then yes, they helped.
"If a dragon decided you are its best friend, you'd have an ego the size of Texas" This pretty much explains why Imrik's ego is through the roof even by High Elf standards!
As a lizardmen man, i have a soft spot for the high elves. They are the only faction who not only dont treat you like a mindless animal, moreso seeing you as equals or even their elders in knowledge.
Fellow LM fan, same here! The high elves are our brothers and I always try to ally them in every LM campaign I can, and will go out of my way to save them if I can.
As a High Elf enjoyoor I always like to have an allied Saurus unit in my army so I can RP with them as my elite auxiliary and guides through the jungle. And of course alliance with all LM factions and resurrect the minor LM factions if I can.
@@quyiter One of these days, I kinda want to do an Imrik campaign, ally with lizardmen, and start filling the allied slots in my armies with salamanders...
In my current campaign I got sword of Kaine on Alistair for a short time. He's already kind of a beast but dear God he was practically soling entire armies with it
The funniest (and saddest) thing in the Gotrek and Felix books is when Teclis was sleeping with his two consorts he realized they were both probably thinking of his brother instead. Poor elf cant have a break. And to top it all off, he probably spends every day since he met Felix fighting the hordes of hell thinking, " this is all part of some great plan by the gods to grow and harvest us for some unknown purpose, like a gardener watering and harvesting his crops."
you missed some noteworthy lore cons about the high elves - namely, that they are rotting from the inside. lothern is one of the most majestic and beautiful cities in the warhammer world, yet outside of the bustling mercantile foreign quarter, it is a derelict ghost town. it's filled with abandoned manors and condemned buildings. the inner kingdoms are being gnawed away by pleasure cults, as those safe behind the annuli mountains ignore the plight and degradation of the outside world to drink, love, and fall prey to hedonistic desire. hell, in the tyrion/teclis books, there are conversations with nobles in lothern who advocate for the exact same kind of cold-blooded predation that the druchii live by. those within the outer kingdoms are practically nonexistant - yvresse is a ghost kingdom that has never recovered from the desolation of grom. cothique was an underground kingdom that was flooded ages ago. chrace is constantly beset by druchii, who wage a geurilla war in the woods, and must constantly deal with the corrupted beasts from high within the annuli mountains. half of tiranoc ceased to exist during the sundering, and the only ones who remain are those who lived in the foothills of the annuli. nagarythe is a barren wasteland, where every single person who still lives there being a shadow warrior who has more in common with the druchii they hunt than other high elves. all of these outer kingdoms are beset yearly by norscan raiders and dark elf murder warbands. and, in all of these outer kingdoms, more and more people leave their dismal life for the inner kingdoms, falling into the comfortable degenerate idyll that it promises. those who have the power to change things don't care enough to see that things need to change - and those who see that things need to change are so beleaguered and battered that they cannot do anything but survive. tyrion, teclis, and finubar are so noteworthy and heroic because they are among the extremely few asur who are both capable of doing good outside of their small bubble (unlike the outer kingdoms) and who have not succumbed to out-of-touch lethargy (unlike the inner kingdoms). they are a shining example of who the high elves used to be, and who maybe - just maybe - they can go back to being once again.
Posts like these make me really angry with the way Fantasy Warhammer was handled. Fuck the end times and fuck Age of Sigmar. Why couldnt Games Workshop do something the likes of 40k's Abadon's with his crusade and Great Rift to the Fantasy? Give as some major character's deaths, some huge events that change landscape of the world in some major way. Advance world's history. Give more suffering, but also hope and the possible way to defeat chaos and restore the order. Break overall status quo and start a new age. Mb even with some new faction. Instead those idiots just murdered whole setting for the likes of AoS with its Sigmarins...
@@Altmer353I cannot describe the sorrow I felt when I got into Fantasy only to learn it had been destroyed by GW years ago. While I’ve come around to liking Age of Sigmar for the most part, that stain will never really be washed away
And that is why we play Warhammer Total War 2 and 3 :) Oh, elves are only a small amount? Yeah, no. See all these upgrades and commands? Now their growth is through the roof! Gotta pop out countless healthy high elf babies to make up my vast legions after all :)
Before I played total warhammer, and watched these videos, i didnt care about elves and space elves. But after both, i realized something. Elves.. are really neat. I like elves. Elves are pretty cool. While ill always be a human fighter at heart, i have grown to appreciate the elfs and their elf-e-ness
"I fight for the greater good!" Tau music immediately starts playing. Never change NonfunctionalPancreas, never change. Except make Do or Don't Lizardman, change that (Also the Elves wouldn't have been able to set up the Vortex if the Lizardmen hadn't taken on the bulk of Chaos, warmblood).
There was a belief in Ancient China that out there were items which could let you achieve immortality. This was a fairly substantial belief of Daoism that people gave considerable weight to. In particular there was a conception that you could produce a potion of immortality that would let you live forever. China's first Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi looked into this a lot and attempted to stave off the Grim Reaper by (among other things) consuming powdered Jade and Mercury. Doing so drove the guy crazy in his latter years before his death. But the death of one Emperor was not enough to kill interest in the idea. During the Han Dynasty subcultures emerged based on the legends of the immortals, as did a tradition of alchemy to produce Potions of Immortality. Mostly their efforts produced Potions of Mortality. Even so, this did mean that Chinese Alchemists did by trial and error work out a fair number of properties of a lot of materials both mineral and biotic in origin as well as means and methods such as distillation. In praticular in the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) Alchemists discovered that a mixture of ground up charcoal, sulphur, honey and bat guano would burn briefly and intensely. This was published and experimented with, with the honey being removed. Even so during the Song Dynasty (960 to 1279) the applications of this concoction would be known. It stared out with tubes of bamboo attached to spears with string and sealed off at the back, save for a small hole. These were filled with a mixture of this volatile powder and pebbles. When a force of cavalry charged, a burning wick would be applied to the vent and the object would be set off, shooting a blast of fire, smoke and stones very fast. This would scare horses and men charging in as well as pelt them with high speed projectiles. It was a cheap way to bolster the performance of spearmen and was known as the firelance. Such weapons were used to build the Song Dynasty, but they would come into their own in the attempts to save it. From 1205 to 1279, the Mongols invaded China. First conquering the breakaway Jin Dynasty and then pushing southwards. Few things could stand against these fierce horsemen, so the Song threw everything they had at the problem. Their artisans made Rockets to rain down on the Mongols, bombs of bamboo and cast iron to blow them up and refined the Firelance. Instead of making them out of bamboo which would only last one shot they started making bronze and iron versions, both man sized and larger ones. These were more accurate, hit harder and could be fired repeatedly. Unfortunately despite holding out for 74 years the Song Dynasty was eventually over-run by the Mongols. By which point the Mongols began fielding their own Handgonnes and Cannons. Even so, their rule would be short lived. Not long afterwards the Chinese rose up in the Red Turban Rebellion and kicked the Mongols out. In no small part the Rebels succeed through innovatie use of black powder weapons against the Mongols.
Actually crazy though how difficult it is to get a diplomatic campaign going when you play elf/dwarf duo in warhammer and every interacgion with your friend piles on negatives in every surrounding faction :'D
The Lizardmen experience in a nutshell. *do literally anything* Good work killing those demons/vampires/ect. You have to die now. I don't often play Mazdamundi. But he's absolutely right.
About the special units, there is also a mod to make them available to everyone after you confederate them. It's called "High Elf Units for High Elfs".
I’d like you to know that before I watched this channel I was deeply anti-elf and now I have a 1500 pt iyanden army almost done. Thank you for showing me the way, you insulin goblin
I have a friend who ALWAYS plays High Elfs in our Multiplayer campaigns. So I love making speed runs to see just how ridiculous I can be getting my chosen race to ally an elf faction next to him. My top 3 favorites was allying the elves as Ogres, allying the elves as Clan Skrye, and finally, allying the elves as the Chaos Dwarves while simultaneously trading weapons to the Dark Elves, Norsca, Skaven, Gimgor, Grom, and anyone else who declared war on him.
@@draconomega Ogres are easy, Play Scrag, snd it's neutral diplomacy, some gifts, some pacts, and you have an ally. Skrye and Chais Dwarfs are more difficult, you have to constantly send gifts, and offer to join any war they start (typically with Slaanesh) for free, while avoiding declaring war on other High Elves or allies they make, while rushing Diplomacy techs. It's a pain, but doable, and Chaos Dwarves have a hard time of it.
I think lack of great artillery is less of a problem than made out to be. Just borrow from your allies. Having even four is almost overkill,empire is your natural ally and since you only need to borrow that one thing, High elf endgame non doomstack armies are the strongest.
I too enjoy Alarielle's game the most, it just fun having her either field swarms of laser bow sisters or if I wanna. Re-create the final march of the ents as I go make some Orcs have the worse day ever. That and having her grab the sword and go around beating everyone to death as she demands they stop polluting or she'll kill them...even more than she already is.
Tyrion was my first Total War Campaign, and I think that's actually a good thing. It's a nice, relaxed place, Ulthuan. I had no idea wtf I was doing, and just kinda went on a reverse Malekith, laying waste to the continent, before getting btfo'd by the Vampire Coast factions.
Mine was a strange, strange Mazdamundi. I didn't even know how strange it was at first, until much later. Malekith did the like, thing, he can do with the Shrine of Asuryan, force a military alliance or vassal or something all high Elf factions, and did this quite early, so the entire northern part of the map was just genocidal Elves trying to kill everybody. I didn't know better, so kept nursing and protecting the Empire guy right there instead of just flattening him, as he occasionally kamikazed tiny stacks of swordsmen into things. I don't know what he was doing, but Gor-Rok apparently gobbled up the entirety of Lustria, so pushed north, and declared war on me, too. So it was just Malekith and all the high Elves, versus Gor Rok, with me in the middle. I actually won the campaign though. Didn't know what I was doing, but kept spamming dinosaurs, and at some point figured out that enemies on walls or in combat won't dodge the Comet of Cassendora, so clawed my way through. I just wanted to smash dinosaurs into knights though, I didn't know it was what you were supposed to do.
While I might not be this much of an elf simp, reading a High Elf armybook was what sealed my fate as a warhammer nerd they're just that god damn cool. When Old World comes I know what faction I'm going with.
7:50 In no particular order of significance, here’s a list of all the countries with a red, white, and blue flag I can think of who have done something wrong at some point: - Russia - United Kingdom - United States - France - North Korea - Australia - Netherlands
Which of the High Elven leaders would you want to go on a date with? It doesn't even need to be a romantic one, just a day to hang out with them. I'd pick Finebar, since he likes the ocean, and I like the ocean. We'd probably just sail the world and chill. Also he's the best Phoenix King and I feel my blood boil whenever I think about his fate in the End Times.
Finubar is a great pick honestly. He's definitely one of the more chill and relaxed characters in the setting. That said, I think I'm gonna go with Teclis if we're limited to who we see in-game. He's the least likely to toy with me, he's a bookworm, and he has a kind and caring disposition. That alone catapults him above 99.99% of every other character in all three settings (Fantasy, 40K, and Age of Sigmar).
Some motherfuckers read some Baalbuddy comics about elves and then decide to make that their entire personality. Glad you got out of that hole, you inconspicuous Skaven.
True that with the names though. Tiranoc, Saphery, Lothern, Avelorn...all beautifully classic sounding fantasy names that are very well chosen for a mythical, idyllic fantasy realm. You almost want to roll your eyes at how fantasy they sound...but at the same time you'd love to go there. Instead you're stuck working a 12 on 12 off job in the foundries of Nuln or something
And probably will turn to undead because Vlad decided to start another vampire war with much more high quality forces and almost are in the doorstep from Nuln and Altdorf together and Franz, Volkmar and Gelt cant do shit.
Though The Empire is my favorite faction in Warhammer Fantasy, I have a soft spot for the High Elves for both their amazing lore & of course their Dragons.
4:27 I think the dwarves declined more than the elves after the war of vengence or the war between elves and dwarves. dwarves suffered from large casualties, lost of technology, karaks and especially rune crafts, they dont know how to make anvil of dooms and runic golems anymore. Unlike the high elf who only suffered from population lost, which is indeed a bigdeal for the elves since they reproduce slow, but compare to dwarves, there are no records that they lost magic tomes, technology etc. And btw they only lost colonoies not vital kingdoms Everything about elves a thousand years ago since the age aenarion is still intact to the present day. Dawis on the other hand, majority of whatever legacy thought to them by their ancestor gods was lost.
You can finish the game with a 1/3rd Spear 2/3rd basic archer army spam. Kinda crazy how good they are even with the most basic of units. If you start with Tyrion it is easy mode anyway with all the buffs he hands out. With 2 more confeds and rest is just having fun.
25:40 Imrik gets unique dragons, some of which are REALLY powerful. Granted he only gets like 5 of them but it's enough. They also give him permanent buffs and stuff, so with Imrik you're usually running around with 1 super OP dragon and heavy cav army and a bunch of cheap spear and arrow armies.
"just be warned because while only elves can draw it initially, anyone that beats the weilder can pick it up, you do not want grimgor getting his hadns on it" HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHE, good times
You know, for an elf simp this video is pretty much one of the most realistic and deep video about the elves, all memes aside. Pogs to you Pancreas you filthy elf simp. We love you
I do love an Imrik campaign with the dragon legion mod. Glorious cavalry charges, fire magic bolt throwers and copious amounts of dragon's fire. Pointy ear heaven if you ask me.
The artillery problem can be quite easily fixed in Warhammer 3 Just lease them from the Empire or Dwarfs (or scaven if you want to meme a bit and have way to much influence) using an aliance building.
I really liked the voices and tone of the faction. "Aenarions' will!" is pretty high up there with "summon the elector counts!" and "KHAZUKAN KAZAKIT HA!"
Looks like youtube’s picked you ip for more recommended Warhammer III videos and I’m really happy about that. Well edited and a chill tone makes this very nice to watch.
I’d really love more do or donts for Warhammer specifically considering every other overview of each faction is either just reading out what the game already tells you or is 2 hours long
In my current campaign with Gor-Rok I managed to somehow make friends with Teclis and the dude almost lost all his provinces but by the will of the Old Ones I would be damned if I lost the ability to recruit ranged and I somehow managed to save him from a siege by Kyros. Now around 100 turns in I’m about to club the hair out of Imrik because he wouldn’t stop declaring war on me because I got the Dwarven end time
7:55 of the top of my head the countries that you are probably refering to are : Serbia, Croatia, Russia, France, Great Britain, USA, North Korea, Chillie and probably many, many more..... You know now that i think of it there are not a lot of counties out there that have not commit some sort of crime against humanity to others or there own people..... Lichnestein... San marino.. Those are the only 2 that come to mind (sorry for grammar mistakes)
Man threw shade at France, Great Britain, Russia, Chile, North Korea, Liberia, Australia the USA and idk how many more with 1 single sentence. The only continent that escaped shade was Antartica
hell jaa man loving your videos on anything , I love warhammer 40k the most but any video you do i stop everything even playing warhammer 3 to watch your videos
"They've helped train humanity" Well, Teclis did, against the wish of all other Elves, because they think humans are stupid and can't understand magic XD
Funny you say Alarielle combines MLP and Doom because i remember Mandaloregaming making the joke of her being a cross between Polly Pocket and Michael myers.
Just wanted ti point out that having outposts in your allied factions settlements also provides influence. 2/4/5 per turn, depending on a tier of the building. just keep some random elf factions with gate only as an influence factory, and ur all set.
Why settle for cheap knock-offs? Because those cheap knock-offs will ball up those fancy silver helms and dunk them in the garbage if they ever had any conceivable reason to fight each other. Edit: Now I wanna try High Elves again and also play my 70th Louen campaign. I just can’t decide.
You need to make an elf race from any property that absolutely hate. Not in the where it’s “ they are elves but they added slavery and bdsm gear” and more like elf in name only.
Here's a lore downside: The phoenix king can literally die in a closed door room and no one notices for several weeks, maybe years. Finubar doesn't. Do. Much? He doesn't show up in total war for note.
I remember doing a campaign with eltharion, i was always on the backfoot with money between defending ulthuan from...well, EVERYONE and by the time i was starting to have enough money to recruit a decent army with eltharion he was so in the thick of it between croocked moon and clan mors i ended up using an army mainly basic archers and spearmen...and win against everything.
Unlike in a lot of fantasy settings (cough cough Altmer) the High Elves in Warhammer earned their arrogance. Saving the world from Chaos multiple times, constantly coming out on top over the Dark Elves, possessing the world's greatest navy with colonies on every continent, working towards more cooperation between the nations of the Old World through trade and diplomacy, and overall having the most stable and sane society as Warhammer goes, they deserve to be a little snobbish.
Bruh 25:42 no special units for imrik? Dude has 6 legendary dragons (including his mount) that can form a pretty much unkillable stack that can wipe most units without even landing
The High Elves were the first campaign I finished in the Total War: Warhammer series. (I played a bit of Warhammer I, but wasn't that big of a fan for some reason and got distracted with other games). They will always have a place in my heart because that, enjoy elves in fantasy settings (but not as much as Mr. Pancreasnowork) and they manage to check every box I want in a high elf faction. And the ranged units are just so fun to use, considering how annoying rifle units can be sometimes with their obstruction issues the archer units are just pure experts ala Lord of the Rings efficiency. It almost feels like playing Empire sometimes with their ranged efficiency. Then the sword masters of Hoeth just giving you that blade mastery feel you want, flowing like water on the battlefield. Even their basic units of spearmen and archers are excellent and can win you a lot of battles on their own. And don't even get me started on my love for dragons and phoenix, just bombarding the enemy with fiery bombs and breath attacks.
the millenia old hatred between the dwarves and the elves disapearing when i click court intrigue twice
All they needed was an appology.
@@DzinkyDzinkand perhaps a shipment of ale
Role-playing as a High Elf I am far too arrogant to send shipments of free Elven goods to a bunch of roided up mountain men.
@@jamieenoshima5147 You're not giving the goods for free, though. You're buying peace with the dwarves. When you, as a High Elf, are fighting literally everyone, bribing one to stop is a -small- -tiny- -reduced- non-burdensome price to pay.
I see a fellow Big D enjoyer and I tip my hat to you.
That "I Fight for the Greater Good" followed immediately by the Dawn of War T'au theme was just priceless
Every now and then I have a flash of brilliance
@@pancreasnowork9939 oh god im surrounded by weebs death to all elves and tau
Hell yeah, that drop reactivated neurons i thought long lost
@@pancreasnowork9939can't wait to see Old Man Reacts reaction to this vid. He's gonna blow a fuse😂😂😂😂
What's the timestamp? I can't find it
"A long time ago the elven race split in two. One became arrogant, murder-happy and obsessed with world domination. The other one were the dark elves."
Ngl, the Druchii have good reason to be all those things.
Their ancestors were a racial minority who were blamed for the "degeneration" of elven culture, forced to fight as disposable bodies against chaos while the Asur sat back and watched, their gods betrayed them and no longer looks after their souls. Then, to make all of that worse, the only general who actually cared about them had his throne taken from him. I'd start worshipping Khaine too, since he's the only God who cares.
@@somerandommen Cool motive, still murderous, slaving, degenerates. :D
@@shorewall When compared to Drukhari from 40k, they're saints.
@@somerandommencomparing anything to 40k makes them a saint. Skaven are just better imperium, the orcs are better than 40k. Dwarves exist in fantasy so mega plus and the faith and actions of the eldar are far grimer than that in fantasy. When the scale is an entire galaxy, a grimdark writer will happily make it the worse place to live in
@@somerandommenkhaine only wants fighting amongst the elves he doesn’t give a care if that weakens the elves or not
One of the few elves in media that truly follow Tolkien's elves style of having proper cities and not just living in a forest like a hippy
Nobody mention the Tolkein wood elves
@@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial The ones who still had massive cities, just you know, in the forest? Those ones? Why not?
@@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial the ones of Lothlorien have a full city on top of the trees, and the ones of the Mirkwood live in a palace inside caverns, none of them are the classic hippies that i said
Especially since they seem to enjoy money and gold, even in the books Thranduil only went to the lonely mountain after he heard Smaug was dead and figured Thorin and his group were dead as well so they could just loot the place.@@MiguelSanchezDelVillar
@@brandonlyon730 exactly, they are normal elves that happen to live in forests, their culture and personality doesnt revolve around trees
6:09 “well yes, the lizards helped”
If by “helped” you mean kill millions upon millions of demons and make it actually possible for the high elves to last longer than five hours then yes, they helped.
That's what I am saying!
Ultimately why I love fantasy over 40k.
Live together or die alone
The lizardfolk who were created to kill demons when they slaughtered demons
The high elves: shock pikachu expression.
They created a distraction so the High Elves could make the demon spawn rate go down
lol
"If a dragon decided you are its best friend, you'd have an ego the size of Texas"
This pretty much explains why Imrik's ego is through the roof even by High Elf standards!
@@desperateneedofscotchGhorst.
As a lizardmen man, i have a soft spot for the high elves.
They are the only faction who not only dont treat you like a mindless animal, moreso seeing you as equals or even their elders in knowledge.
Fellow LM fan, same here! The high elves are our brothers and I always try to ally them in every LM campaign I can, and will go out of my way to save them if I can.
@@TheRaptorsClawYeah If I'm playing as Kroq'Gar I usually try to save Teclis. Dude needs the help.
Only if they support the great plan. If they stand in the way, then they will die.
As a High Elf enjoyoor I always like to have an allied Saurus unit in my army so I can RP with them as my elite auxiliary and guides through the jungle. And of course alliance with all LM factions and resurrect the minor LM factions if I can.
@@quyiter One of these days, I kinda want to do an Imrik campaign, ally with lizardmen, and start filling the allied slots in my armies with salamanders...
FUN fact: Alastair a recruitable legendary lord for the best faction in Warhammer (high elves) was made for a kid in the make a wish foundation.
In my current campaign I got sword of Kaine on Alistair for a short time. He's already kind of a beast but dear God he was practically soling entire armies with it
And the kid is still alive!
That's lovely. Good on CA for doing that.
He is one of my favorites! I really love the White Lions.
While dwarf racist is still a favorite archetype of mine, I gotta say I appreciate the elven style now
Ye.
Still reposting if hate elves though
Repub if hate elves.
High elves are alright. Still repub if hate elves tho
‘ate pointy ears
‘ate greenskins
‘ate raki
(not racist, just don’t like ‘em)
luv me beard
luv me beer
luv me gold
luv me mountain
simple as
The funniest (and saddest) thing in the Gotrek and Felix books is when Teclis was sleeping with his two consorts he realized they were both probably thinking of his brother instead. Poor elf cant have a break. And to top it all off, he probably spends every day since he met Felix fighting the hordes of hell thinking, " this is all part of some great plan by the gods to grow and harvest us for some unknown purpose, like a gardener watering and harvesting his crops."
you missed some noteworthy lore cons about the high elves - namely, that they are rotting from the inside.
lothern is one of the most majestic and beautiful cities in the warhammer world, yet outside of the bustling mercantile foreign quarter, it is a derelict ghost town. it's filled with abandoned manors and condemned buildings. the inner kingdoms are being gnawed away by pleasure cults, as those safe behind the annuli mountains ignore the plight and degradation of the outside world to drink, love, and fall prey to hedonistic desire. hell, in the tyrion/teclis books, there are conversations with nobles in lothern who advocate for the exact same kind of cold-blooded predation that the druchii live by.
those within the outer kingdoms are practically nonexistant - yvresse is a ghost kingdom that has never recovered from the desolation of grom. cothique was an underground kingdom that was flooded ages ago. chrace is constantly beset by druchii, who wage a geurilla war in the woods, and must constantly deal with the corrupted beasts from high within the annuli mountains. half of tiranoc ceased to exist during the sundering, and the only ones who remain are those who lived in the foothills of the annuli. nagarythe is a barren wasteland, where every single person who still lives there being a shadow warrior who has more in common with the druchii they hunt than other high elves. all of these outer kingdoms are beset yearly by norscan raiders and dark elf murder warbands. and, in all of these outer kingdoms, more and more people leave their dismal life for the inner kingdoms, falling into the comfortable degenerate idyll that it promises. those who have the power to change things don't care enough to see that things need to change - and those who see that things need to change are so beleaguered and battered that they cannot do anything but survive.
tyrion, teclis, and finubar are so noteworthy and heroic because they are among the extremely few asur who are both capable of doing good outside of their small bubble (unlike the outer kingdoms) and who have not succumbed to out-of-touch lethargy (unlike the inner kingdoms). they are a shining example of who the high elves used to be, and who maybe - just maybe - they can go back to being once again.
Posts like these make me really angry with the way Fantasy Warhammer was handled. Fuck the end times and fuck Age of Sigmar. Why couldnt Games Workshop do something the likes of 40k's Abadon's with his crusade and Great Rift to the Fantasy? Give as some major character's deaths, some huge events that change landscape of the world in some major way. Advance world's history. Give more suffering, but also hope and the possible way to defeat chaos and restore the order. Break overall status quo and start a new age. Mb even with some new faction.
Instead those idiots just murdered whole setting for the likes of AoS with its Sigmarins...
@@Altmer353I cannot describe the sorrow I felt when I got into Fantasy only to learn it had been destroyed by GW years ago. While I’ve come around to liking Age of Sigmar for the most part, that stain will never really be washed away
And that is why we play Warhammer Total War 2 and 3 :) Oh, elves are only a small amount? Yeah, no. See all these upgrades and commands? Now their growth is through the roof! Gotta pop out countless healthy high elf babies to make up my vast legions after all :)
Pancreas on his way to once again not make a lizardmen video
GLORY TO THE HUNTSMAN'S EXPEDITION 💯💯💯
I’m still waiting on Thanquol.
Glad im not the only one disappointed
He's doing to spite me specifically at this point.
Now that I think about it I don't think I've ever even heard pancreas say the word "lizardmen" outside of 1 time during a live stream
Before I played total warhammer, and watched these videos, i didnt care about elves and space elves. But after both, i realized something. Elves.. are really neat. I like elves. Elves are pretty cool. While ill always be a human fighter at heart, i have grown to appreciate the elfs and their elf-e-ness
Damn I got the opposite result
Fucking knife ears can never be trusted. Dwarves all the way.
This entire channel is an elf psy-op
Fuck off stunties, go back to inhaling coal fumes and dying of liver cancer.
"I fight for the greater good!"
Tau music immediately starts playing. Never change NonfunctionalPancreas, never change.
Except make Do or Don't Lizardman, change that (Also the Elves wouldn't have been able to set up the Vortex if the Lizardmen hadn't taken on the bulk of Chaos, warmblood).
There was a belief in Ancient China that out there were items which could let you achieve immortality. This was a fairly substantial belief of Daoism that people gave considerable weight to. In particular there was a conception that you could produce a potion of immortality that would let you live forever. China's first Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi looked into this a lot and attempted to stave off the Grim Reaper by (among other things) consuming powdered Jade and Mercury. Doing so drove the guy crazy in his latter years before his death. But the death of one Emperor was not enough to kill interest in the idea. During the Han Dynasty subcultures emerged based on the legends of the immortals, as did a tradition of alchemy to produce Potions of Immortality. Mostly their efforts produced Potions of Mortality.
Even so, this did mean that Chinese Alchemists did by trial and error work out a fair number of properties of a lot of materials both mineral and biotic in origin as well as means and methods such as distillation. In praticular in the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) Alchemists discovered that a mixture of ground up charcoal, sulphur, honey and bat guano would burn briefly and intensely. This was published and experimented with, with the honey being removed. Even so during the Song Dynasty (960 to 1279) the applications of this concoction would be known.
It stared out with tubes of bamboo attached to spears with string and sealed off at the back, save for a small hole. These were filled with a mixture of this volatile powder and pebbles. When a force of cavalry charged, a burning wick would be applied to the vent and the object would be set off, shooting a blast of fire, smoke and stones very fast. This would scare horses and men charging in as well as pelt them with high speed projectiles. It was a cheap way to bolster the performance of spearmen and was known as the firelance. Such weapons were used to build the Song Dynasty, but they would come into their own in the attempts to save it.
From 1205 to 1279, the Mongols invaded China. First conquering the breakaway Jin Dynasty and then pushing southwards. Few things could stand against these fierce horsemen, so the Song threw everything they had at the problem. Their artisans made Rockets to rain down on the Mongols, bombs of bamboo and cast iron to blow them up and refined the Firelance. Instead of making them out of bamboo which would only last one shot they started making bronze and iron versions, both man sized and larger ones. These were more accurate, hit harder and could be fired repeatedly. Unfortunately despite holding out for 74 years the Song Dynasty was eventually over-run by the Mongols. By which point the Mongols began fielding their own Handgonnes and Cannons. Even so, their rule would be short lived. Not long afterwards the Chinese rose up in the Red Turban Rebellion and kicked the Mongols out. In no small part the Rebels succeed through innovatie use of black powder weapons against the Mongols.
This was a very interesting history lesson. Thank you!
That is cool, but why here?
Chat GPT ass comment
Thank you history man, this was genuinely interesting
Please keep putting history into comment sections
@@secretname2670etter question, why not here?
Actually crazy though how difficult it is to get a diplomatic campaign going when you play elf/dwarf duo in warhammer and every interacgion with your friend piles on negatives in every surrounding faction :'D
The Lizardmen experience in a nutshell.
*do literally anything*
Good work killing those demons/vampires/ect. You have to die now.
I don't often play Mazdamundi.
But he's absolutely right.
About the special units, there is also a mod to make them available to everyone after you confederate them. It's called "High Elf Units for High Elfs".
I’d like you to know that before I watched this channel I was deeply anti-elf and now I have a 1500 pt iyanden army almost done. Thank you for showing me the way, you insulin goblin
"Franz can never let you down - if the campaign goes bad it's you letting HIM down." Absolutely killed me XD
I have a friend who ALWAYS plays High Elfs in our Multiplayer campaigns. So I love making speed runs to see just how ridiculous I can be getting my chosen race to ally an elf faction next to him. My top 3 favorites was allying the elves as Ogres, allying the elves as Clan Skrye, and finally, allying the elves as the Chaos Dwarves while simultaneously trading weapons to the Dark Elves, Norsca, Skaven, Gimgor, Grom, and anyone else who declared war on him.
ZASED
how do you even manage that?
@@draconomega Ogres are easy, Play Scrag, snd it's neutral diplomacy, some gifts, some pacts, and you have an ally. Skrye and Chais Dwarfs are more difficult, you have to constantly send gifts, and offer to join any war they start (typically with Slaanesh) for free, while avoiding declaring war on other High Elves or allies they make, while rushing Diplomacy techs. It's a pain, but doable, and Chaos Dwarves have a hard time of it.
I think lack of great artillery is less of a problem than made out to be. Just borrow from your allies. Having even four is almost overkill,empire is your natural ally and since you only need to borrow that one thing, High elf endgame non doomstack armies are the strongest.
My dream army is Imrik, 1 or 2 dragons, fire mage, iron drakes, helstorm RBs and the rest sisters. Everything burns
“The High Elves are called this because you’d actually have to be high to pick them as your race.” -TheRussianBadger
Badger, accidentally the greatest follower of the great plan 😂
I too enjoy Alarielle's game the most, it just fun having her either field swarms of laser bow sisters or if I wanna. Re-create the final march of the ents as I go make some Orcs have the worse day ever.
That and having her grab the sword and go around beating everyone to death as she demands they stop polluting or she'll kill them...even more than she already is.
Tyrion was my first Total War Campaign, and I think that's actually a good thing. It's a nice, relaxed place, Ulthuan. I had no idea wtf I was doing, and just kinda went on a reverse Malekith, laying waste to the continent, before getting btfo'd by the Vampire Coast factions.
Mine was a strange, strange Mazdamundi.
I didn't even know how strange it was at first, until much later.
Malekith did the like, thing, he can do with the Shrine of Asuryan, force a military alliance or vassal or something all high Elf factions, and did this quite early, so the entire northern part of the map was just genocidal Elves trying to kill everybody.
I didn't know better, so kept nursing and protecting the Empire guy right there instead of just flattening him, as he occasionally kamikazed tiny stacks of swordsmen into things.
I don't know what he was doing, but Gor-Rok apparently gobbled up the entirety of Lustria, so pushed north, and declared war on me, too.
So it was just Malekith and all the high Elves, versus Gor Rok, with me in the middle.
I actually won the campaign though. Didn't know what I was doing, but kept spamming dinosaurs, and at some point figured out that enemies on walls or in combat won't dodge the Comet of Cassendora, so clawed my way through. I just wanted to smash dinosaurs into knights though, I didn't know it was what you were supposed to do.
While I might not be this much of an elf simp, reading a High Elf armybook was what sealed my fate as a warhammer nerd they're just that god damn cool. When Old World comes I know what faction I'm going with.
And I just started an Alith Anar campaign, you have perfect timing my man!
25:40 not to mention that Alarielle gets access to Sisters of Avelorn on minor settlements while everyone else only gets them on Major ones
"I fight for the greater good"...wait a minute...¡That no Elf! That a Tau in disguise!
7:50 In no particular order of significance, here’s a list of all the countries with a red, white, and blue flag I can think of who have done something wrong at some point:
- Russia
- United Kingdom
- United States
- France
- North Korea
- Australia
- Netherlands
Which of the High Elven leaders would you want to go on a date with? It doesn't even need to be a romantic one, just a day to hang out with them.
I'd pick Finebar, since he likes the ocean, and I like the ocean. We'd probably just sail the world and chill. Also he's the best Phoenix King and I feel my blood boil whenever I think about his fate in the End Times.
Alarielle for her long and bendy sword (of Khaine)
Finubar is a great pick honestly. He's definitely one of the more chill and relaxed characters in the setting. That said, I think I'm gonna go with Teclis if we're limited to who we see in-game. He's the least likely to toy with me, he's a bookworm, and he has a kind and caring disposition. That alone catapults him above 99.99% of every other character in all three settings (Fantasy, 40K, and Age of Sigmar).
Teclis is absolutely going to toy with you but he's going to at least acknowledge you are slightly more than a dog that can hold a sword
i used to be anti elves but i have since wised up and painted 2000 points of Lumineth
Some motherfuckers read some Baalbuddy comics about elves and then decide to make that their entire personality. Glad you got out of that hole, you inconspicuous Skaven.
True that with the names though. Tiranoc, Saphery, Lothern, Avelorn...all beautifully classic sounding fantasy names that are very well chosen for a mythical, idyllic fantasy realm. You almost want to roll your eyes at how fantasy they sound...but at the same time you'd love to go there. Instead you're stuck working a 12 on 12 off job in the foundries of Nuln or something
And probably will turn to undead because Vlad decided to start another vampire war with much more high quality forces and almost are in the doorstep from Nuln and Altdorf together and Franz, Volkmar and Gelt cant do shit.
Though The Empire is my favorite faction in Warhammer Fantasy, I have a soft spot for the High Elves for both their amazing lore & of course their Dragons.
great video, i havent watched it yet but im sure its a great slideshow with fantastic voiceover.
“Good fucking luck teclis” immediately gave me depression
what was that weird meat slapping sound in the background thought
Oh no!! I'm caught up! This has been basically all I've been listening to at work for almost a week.
4:27 I think the dwarves declined more than the elves after the war of vengence or the war between elves and dwarves. dwarves suffered from large casualties, lost of technology, karaks and especially rune crafts, they dont know how to make anvil of dooms and runic golems anymore. Unlike the high elf who only suffered from population lost, which is indeed a bigdeal for the elves since they reproduce slow, but compare to dwarves, there are no records that they lost magic tomes, technology etc. And btw they only lost colonoies not vital kingdoms Everything about elves a thousand years ago since the age aenarion is still intact to the present day. Dawis on the other hand, majority of whatever legacy thought to them by their ancestor gods was lost.
Why do tou think thormin grudgebear most of voice lines is "retake the realm"
"Don't need to worry about outlasting corpses."
*Laughs in undead factions*
Some of the more enjoyable Total War: Hammer content out there.
Played imrik for the first time
No dragon sex
Uninstalled
the finest dragon pussy awaits for you in Cathay
You can finish the game with a 1/3rd Spear 2/3rd basic archer army spam. Kinda crazy how good they are even with the most basic of units. If you start with Tyrion it is easy mode anyway with all the buffs he hands out. With 2 more confeds and rest is just having fun.
Absolutely. For such a dying race, I zerg rushed the map with basic archers and spearmen.
25:40 Imrik gets unique dragons, some of which are REALLY powerful. Granted he only gets like 5 of them but it's enough. They also give him permanent buffs and stuff, so with Imrik you're usually running around with 1 super OP dragon and heavy cav army and a bunch of cheap spear and arrow armies.
"just be warned because while only elves can draw it initially, anyone that beats the weilder can pick it up, you do not want grimgor getting his hadns on it"
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHE, good times
You know, for an elf simp this video is pretty much one of the most realistic and deep video about the elves, all memes aside. Pogs to you Pancreas you filthy elf simp. We love you
The only faction where you can play as the DnD Paladin, Harry Potter, Barbie, Dylan Sprouce, Batman and Daenerys Targaryen with a penis
Yo your music choices are so on point! That dawn of war song takes me wayyyy back
I do love an Imrik campaign with the dragon legion mod. Glorious cavalry charges, fire magic bolt throwers and copious amounts of dragon's fire. Pointy ear heaven if you ask me.
Imrik also now has to deal with the Chaos Dwarfs and their fire resistance, his whole thing is fire damage. It’s great
Funny also Tyrion does no fire damage despite his own sword being on fire.
To be fair, Imrik also has access to fire resistance, so that goes both ways...
Nagarythe is by far my favorite high elf faction, since i'm not too fond of that whole "friends" thing
Fun fact the elves would’ve failed to created the vortex if the slann didn’t step in and help
More reasons the lizard bois are the best
The artillery problem can be quite easily fixed in Warhammer 3 Just lease them from the Empire or Dwarfs (or scaven if you want to meme a bit and have way to much influence) using an aliance building.
I really liked the voices and tone of the faction. "Aenarions' will!" is pretty high up there with "summon the elector counts!" and "KHAZUKAN KAZAKIT HA!"
Well ironically one thing that unites Druchii and Asur are Aenerion. This 2 factions especially Malekith, Tyrion, Teclis and Anar like him.
Looks like youtube’s picked you ip for more recommended Warhammer III videos and I’m really happy about that. Well edited and a chill tone makes this very nice to watch.
I’d really love more do or donts for Warhammer specifically considering every other overview of each faction is either just reading out what the game already tells you or is 2 hours long
Honestly my only real gripe with the elves is the helmets.
And that they aren't Undead.
Ah, but they *can* be undead, but not with that attitude! Go, and make them your undead thralls, you master of the dark arts, you.
In my current campaign with Gor-Rok I managed to somehow make friends with Teclis and the dude almost lost all his provinces but by the will of the Old Ones I would be damned if I lost the ability to recruit ranged and I somehow managed to save him from a siege by Kyros. Now around 100 turns in I’m about to club the hair out of Imrik because he wouldn’t stop declaring war on me because I got the Dwarven end time
Have you heard of the High Elves? *crunch* *blphlew* *mhmph*
But I have a question, good pancreasnowork sir. Have you heard of the High Elves
I dont know why, but it always makes me laugh. When spearmen go up against a monster they yell "THAT THING IS HUGE!"
"Aggressivly German" was a term i didn't know i needed in my life 7:03
Another great video! Please could you do Chaos Dwarves next? Ive not seen much about those but they seem awesome.
7:55 of the top of my head the countries that you are probably refering to are : Serbia, Croatia, Russia, France, Great Britain, USA, North Korea, Chillie and probably many, many more..... You know now that i think of it there are not a lot of counties out there that have not commit some sort of crime against humanity to others or there own people..... Lichnestein... San marino.. Those are the only 2 that come to mind (sorry for grammar mistakes)
Man threw shade at France, Great Britain, Russia, Chile, North Korea, Liberia, Australia the USA and idk how many more with 1 single sentence.
The only continent that escaped shade was Antartica
hell jaa man loving your videos on anything , I love warhammer 40k the most but any video you do i stop everything even playing warhammer 3 to watch your videos
2:43 "Don't need to worry about outlasting corpses."
Helman Ghorst, with +500% healing cap and regen for zombies : "I...disagree."
The weight of eyelashes joke made my day. That perfectly describes what I imagine a real elf warrior would be like
Watching this while playing Teclis. Can confirm, genitals have been crushed.
Le simp has arrived.
It's nice to finally see someone who doesn't just go "Haha, fuck elves amirite?"
"I assure you, my Lord, that it is vital for the war effort that the Dragons are given piles of gold to sleep on."
I love elves this was a great video!! you should do one of these for wood elves
Completley off topic..... I need a Do Or Don't Ossiarch Bonereapers in my life.
Suite life was clever reference to the voice actor for alith anar being dylan sprouse (or the other one?) In suite life of zack and cody
"They've helped train humanity"
Well, Teclis did, against the wish of all other Elves, because they think humans are stupid and can't understand magic XD
The awkward ness when you like warhammer fantasy but not 40k. You look at one and the other won't leave you alone.
Funny you say Alarielle combines MLP and Doom because i remember Mandaloregaming making the joke of her being a cross between Polly Pocket and Michael myers.
Okay, we need a Do or Don't on the Druchii. It's only fair that we get all flavours of Elves here. B)
Just wanted ti point out that having outposts in your allied factions settlements also provides influence. 2/4/5 per turn, depending on a tier of the building. just keep some random elf factions with gate only as an influence factory, and ur all set.
Dude the midwest is the garden of eden, you just have to leave chicago.
Why settle for cheap knock-offs? Because those cheap knock-offs will ball up those fancy silver helms and dunk them in the garbage if they ever had any conceivable reason to fight each other.
Edit: Now I wanna try High Elves again and also play my 70th Louen campaign. I just can’t decide.
Conquer the Donut in zeh name of zeh lady, obvs.
"Allergic to offensive tactics in strategy" - does not main dwarfs. That's a grudgin'.
I love that I was able to see a live stream of pancreatitis doesn’t work
Is there an Imrik/Miao Ying reference?
There better be
I would be curious to see how you feel about the elfquest elves, since they are so different than the “Tolkien-esque” elves but they’re still cool
the and teclis bit was so good
You need to make an elf race from any property that absolutely hate. Not in the where it’s “ they are elves but they added slavery and bdsm gear” and more like elf in name only.
the fallen empires of stellaris
Calmly waiting for Vlad von Carstein do or don't. Well character equivalent of it you know what I meant.
You Need to do a lizardmen video, the lizard boys need to be represented as the best boys in the setting
Here's a lore downside: The phoenix king can literally die in a closed door room and no one notices for several weeks, maybe years.
Finubar doesn't. Do. Much? He doesn't show up in total war for note.
Well because Malek killed him isn't he?
@@Warmaster2001 Most political positions usually require a showing that your still alive at some point, that's the point I was trying to make anyways.
@@nonya1366 ah got it)
I remember doing a campaign with eltharion, i was always on the backfoot with money between defending ulthuan from...well, EVERYONE and by the time i was starting to have enough money to recruit a decent army with eltharion he was so in the thick of it between croocked moon and clan mors i ended up using an army mainly basic archers and spearmen...and win against everything.
Unlike in a lot of fantasy settings (cough cough Altmer) the High Elves in Warhammer earned their arrogance. Saving the world from Chaos multiple times, constantly coming out on top over the Dark Elves, possessing the world's greatest navy with colonies on every continent, working towards more cooperation between the nations of the Old World through trade and diplomacy, and overall having the most stable and sane society as Warhammer goes, they deserve to be a little snobbish.
Bruh 25:42 no special units for imrik? Dude has 6 legendary dragons (including his mount) that can form a pretty much unkillable stack that can wipe most units without even landing
From experience, Grimgor with the Sword of Khaine is fun.
Bruh. Or Wurzag))
Massive respect you use Age of Mythology music, I love the campaing cant wait for the remake/remaster/whatever. Maybe it will revive the game
The High Elves were the first campaign I finished in the Total War: Warhammer series. (I played a bit of Warhammer I, but wasn't that big of a fan for some reason and got distracted with other games). They will always have a place in my heart because that, enjoy elves in fantasy settings (but not as much as Mr. Pancreasnowork) and they manage to check every box I want in a high elf faction. And the ranged units are just so fun to use, considering how annoying rifle units can be sometimes with their obstruction issues the archer units are just pure experts ala Lord of the Rings efficiency. It almost feels like playing Empire sometimes with their ranged efficiency. Then the sword masters of Hoeth just giving you that blade mastery feel you want, flowing like water on the battlefield.
Even their basic units of spearmen and archers are excellent and can win you a lot of battles on their own. And don't even get me started on my love for dragons and phoenix, just bombarding the enemy with fiery bombs and breath attacks.
I prefer night elves from warcraft, but these elves are really cool! They sound fun.
That’s it Gretchin that’s going in the book
Really enjoyed this, great video!
That giggle to Teclis spawning in the thunder dome xD