Some comments: On building cities - Walls. Walls are super valuable in any city that might be attacked. Not just for their presence in a siege battle but mostly for the fact it makes the enemy take a couple of extra turns to stop and build siege equipment before they can attack you. That gives you extra time to respond to what's happening. Trade Resources. Trade resources are very good, if you have someone to trade with. Some factions just have no friends and so will never make serious amounts of money from trade. Those factions should put much less weight on trade resources unless they have a compelling secondary function. Growth buildings. They're good, but the benefit from upgrading them tends not to be cost effective. The upgraded tiers of growth buildings only provide a small increase over the first tier for a greatly increased cost. Build them, leave them at tier 1, demolish them when the city can build everything you need from it. On managing Lords and armies - There absolutely are right and wrong ways to level up lords. Most factions should take their blue skills first until lightning strike (exceptions are those that have Stalk stance and factions that use many cheap armies like Vampire Counts). Legendary Lords that rely on magic should focus on that first until Arcane Conduit. After that focus on red skills for the units you plan to use the most of. Even lords that are going to be combat frontliners should take those skills last, they start off good enough. You don't need to park lords in cities. If you've got walls, you've got time to recruit a lord next door and quickly recruit an army of regiments of renown to march in and lift the siege. Save your Regiments of Renown for doing that. Every lord you maintain increases the upkeep of all your armies (except for Bretonnia), so having them just sitting around costs money you could be using to build things or maintain armies that are doing something useful. Ambush Stance. The AI knows everything. It can see the whole map all the time. That means it knows where all your armies are and will use and abuse that information to avoid superior armies, snipe weaker ones, and gang up when it needs to. But it can't see armies in ambush stance. That means it will do foolish things in their presence. Things like siege cities, start raiding, or just walk through them to get at a weaker one.
How do you get so much money? I just got this game and basically my income peaks at around 2k per turn. From then on, it keeps getting less and less and I can't afford my armies. Then an enemy will come and attack a city that I can't afford to defend and it's a downward spiral for me that I can't afford. edit: I should add that I always buy the income buildings in my cities but it still isn't enough and I always run out of money.
@@uberaustin777 It's hard to say without more context, but I suspect your problem is actually that you've got too many armies. You only really need one army per front you expect to fight on, and it's best to keep yourself out of unnecessary wars. (That also means avoiding alliances quite a lot of the time, they're just an invitation to trouble). Don't feel like you have to rush around the map finding everyone, expand slowly and only when you can securely hold what you take, trade but don't ally until you're very secure at home. Don't rush to confederate either. It's better to slow roll it and let the AI build up its provinces then get them at higher levels (excepting maybe other legendary lords so the AI can't ruin their level ups).
Hello! I’m planning on getting the game, and this comment was very helpful. Does all of this still apply to the Skaven? I know they have some weird mechanics with undercities and such.
@@georgecalisti3894 Yeah, it still mostly applies to Skaven. Skaven are one of the races that don't need to worry about getting Lightning Strike on lords, so you can focus on other skills first. You don't need to worry much about undercities, pop them in very rich enemy cities to siphon a percentage of income, but otherwise you can kinda ignore them. They take a long time to pay off. One thing I will say though is that if you want to play Skaven you should also pick up The Prophet and the Warlock DLC, because that adds all their best weapon teams and makes them much much more powerful and fun to play (and Ikit Claw, who is one of the best lords in the game)
This genuinely helped me. I'm finally getting a grasp of everything and I've been having trouble playing Khalida right now. On easy mode until I get a hold of everything then to normal and so on. At multiple points I was confused as to what I should do in my situation (playing Vortex), which clan to wipe early and so on.
Worth noting with vortex rituals- even if lost, re-colonizing an involved settlement before the ritual is done will allow the ritual to be complete anyways. This applies to the AI, too. So if you're going to interrupt, attack them or buy an intervention right before the ritual ends, like 1 turn left. Your intervention will probably raze a single city, and the AI, although they'll beat the intervention, may not be able to get back in time to re-colonize the settlement before their ritual is done.
I am so bad at this game. I bought it the day it released and ever since I come back occasionally just to get wrecked on the easiest difficulty. This was a very helpful guide.
Thanks for the tips but i would like some strategic tips like where and how to expand when to attack and when to retreat and stuff like that but still i appreciate your hard work 👍🏻
I just started playing, and I went for Easy/Easy as I have no idea how to play and figured that would be the most enjoyable way to learn. My friend who started recently said he went for Easy/Medium and got destroyed a few times, so it sounds like it can be complex. Also got a critical success on my first hero assassination, didn't know that was the only way to permanently get rid of them.
Make a separate cheap unit that all it does is surf the water and finds treasure. It gives massive amounts of money for vortex mode. Ports are also a huge amount of income so islands are ideal targets to conquer. Look for unqie buildings like with the White Tower of Hoethe, each region has a unique structure to its own region
Thanks for the tips man, this is really enlightening, especially the vortex rituals one. I've gotten desperate on my first campaign going after the rituals and got completely overwhelmed lol. Good to know they're not so pivotal once the other AI's start them before you.
Thanks, this was exactly what I needed. I just did my first campaign up to around turn 100, and started to realize I did everything suboptimal, but wasn't sure what to do different in my next campaign. This will help me get a better second run for sure :)..
Glad this could help! Please note that these are indeed beginner tips, so as you learn more about the game you might see there are better ways to accomplish some things. Please let me know if you have any further questions or anything else i can help with.
I am totally and utterly crap at total war - even on easy mode but I do enjoy it, would be nice if I could be remotely effective so thanks for the assist
@@adroitone8911 it's a nightmare, if you too fast your economy slows to a craw, which is fine but what tends to happen is while I'm slowly upgrading everything some other faction goes on a mad one and takes 10/15 settlements around me so I'm screwed anyway, either by being rushed early or by taking my time.
@@samhawkes6597 Yeah, some races have it better than others. High elves are the easiest for me. Personally, I tend to wipe out factions that up against game walls. So I'm not surrounded by all fronts. It's also easy if you don't declare war on more than one faction at a time.. I have a Tyrion campaign where I've conquered half of the elven isles, I formed either confederations or alliances with the rest of the elven factions and then we proceeded to invade and conquer all the lands to the south and west of us. I currently have 8 full armies under my control with all elite units. Again, diplomacy helps a lot.
It's a joke about how the British government and Prime Minister in particular broke their own rules for covid lockdowns. There were originally three tiers (levels) of restriction with tier three being total lockdown, no movement, no socialising.
One thing that I wanted to mention is the corruption level of the provinces and controlling it with certain buildings Also you sound like a serious version of Ssethtzeentach
True! I decided that i wasn't gonna mention to much about things that change from race and faction. E.g Dark Elves dosen't like corruption, unless you play Morathi. Not sure who that is, but thank you? :D
Good question. I also don't see how it's worth spending a ton of money uograding growth buildings from lv2 to lv3, but I suppose that the sooner you get more growth/more income, the sooner your cities start paying you back for your investment.
Late answer, but no it is not. The Vortex campaign is very much more focused on defense, but you can totally focus on conquering fast and killing everything if you want. That said you will also gain territory faster than you can prepare to defend them, so its a double edged sword.
Would you say that the general build order tips (economy + growth early game, etc.) apply to the older historical titles like Atilla and Shogun? I want to branch out from Warhammer but haven't played any historical titles yet. Thanks.
I know this is late, but I can at least speak for Shogun 2. Yes, that build order still applies. I usually get one or few really developed provinces that become the hubs for army production while all the rest are solely focused on as much economic growth and happiness as possible without costing that much upkeep. The same strategy applies for the other standalone title Fall of the Samurai as well.
Loved the guide. BUT i feel i need a guide that is even more basic than this. Like, where to press Y buttons to do X. The in-game guide is not that good, because, it gives you advices like "Put you lord in ambush mode", but does not clearly show me what button i need to press to put it into ambush mode. And Skaven Priest? came to my city. What does that mean? My public order was falling. I did not know how to interact correctly with this priest. I just tried to press everywhere around the skaven priest, and got something like diplomacy, and could offer a peace treaty, which they declined. What do i do then? How do i attack the skaven priest in my capital? I dont know.
I feel the same way. Just bought both 1 & 2 and couldn't find the ambush button. However, I felt the same way at first with Three Kingdoms, but after many hours - got it figure out. So, I guess it'll be a while.
That is a totally fair feeling to have. However i feel this is something the game teaches you if you choose the legendary lords with turtorial starts. Not 100% sure since i haven't done those since i started playing.
@@alexj7406 no sir , still watching how to videos on different games. Trying to find one that will not eat up alot of time. But that is most of them lol lol
Its a bit hard to give a concrete answer not knowing what other buildings you have, but the growth building also gives more maximum food capacity so its not terrible.
The tip on removing growth buildings when your city is at max tier only applies if the building provides no other benefits. Eg Empire growth buildings usually provide no other benefits so are useless at max tier, whereas if Skaven buildings also produce food, they may still be necessary.
How do you get so much money? I just got this game and basically my income peaks at around 2k per turn. From then on, it keeps getting less and less and I can't afford my armies. Then an enemy will come and attack a city that I can't afford to defend and it's a downward spiral for me that I can't afford. edit: I should add that I always buy the income buildings in my cities but it still isn't enough and I always run out of money.
It's a balance. Each unit has an upkeep cost, which is the amount of money they cost to have around per turn. Example: you earn 4000 gold every turn and the upkeep of your army is 2500. That means you will only earn 1500 gold per turn in total. Perhaps you are buying to many expensive units to fast. I'll start doing livestreams and campaign play through's soon, but I'm busy with exams at the moment so if you need answers now I'd say you should watch a play through of the faction you're playing on RUclips
It largely depends on faction you are playing, some of them just have terrible economy and you'll have to deal with it. I'd advise you to play Tyrion as he has the easiest starting position and he just don't pay money to his starter troops with his upkeep reduction :D
yes like the guys said it depends on your faction some factions like (greenskins, vampire counts, Norsca, ETC) dont have much income even if you build economic buildins especially on VH/VH difficulty but there are other ways to gain money or reduce the upkeep cost of these factions. the best way to know how to play with a faction is by seeing a vetern TWW2 player playing with this facton( Skip the battels if you want just see his campaign choices)
Tip 1: Don't watch anime Tip 2: Don't be a cringe weeb Tip 3: Don't watch a weeb trying to explain something like warhammer in any shape or form Tip 4: Start Total War Warhammer instead Tip 5: Play it. Bonus tips: 1 Go to skirmish, pick your favorite faction and fill your slots with your favorite single entity unit (mine are carnosaurs). 2 Choose Dark Elves as the opponents. Fill their slots with witch elves. 3 Choose the map and start the battle. 4 Pretend you are watching a bunch of filthy internet weebs pretending to be cute anime girls being slaughtered by your favorite single entity unit (carnosaurs). 5 Satisfaction.
excellent beginner's guide, thank your for not spending 30 minutes showing us that tooltips exist!
I was hoping he'd spend that time going over how to install the game.
Some comments:
On building cities -
Walls. Walls are super valuable in any city that might be attacked. Not just for their presence in a siege battle but mostly for the fact it makes the enemy take a couple of extra turns to stop and build siege equipment before they can attack you. That gives you extra time to respond to what's happening.
Trade Resources. Trade resources are very good, if you have someone to trade with. Some factions just have no friends and so will never make serious amounts of money from trade. Those factions should put much less weight on trade resources unless they have a compelling secondary function.
Growth buildings. They're good, but the benefit from upgrading them tends not to be cost effective. The upgraded tiers of growth buildings only provide a small increase over the first tier for a greatly increased cost. Build them, leave them at tier 1, demolish them when the city can build everything you need from it.
On managing Lords and armies -
There absolutely are right and wrong ways to level up lords. Most factions should take their blue skills first until lightning strike (exceptions are those that have Stalk stance and factions that use many cheap armies like Vampire Counts). Legendary Lords that rely on magic should focus on that first until Arcane Conduit. After that focus on red skills for the units you plan to use the most of. Even lords that are going to be combat frontliners should take those skills last, they start off good enough.
You don't need to park lords in cities. If you've got walls, you've got time to recruit a lord next door and quickly recruit an army of regiments of renown to march in and lift the siege. Save your Regiments of Renown for doing that. Every lord you maintain increases the upkeep of all your armies (except for Bretonnia), so having them just sitting around costs money you could be using to build things or maintain armies that are doing something useful.
Ambush Stance. The AI knows everything. It can see the whole map all the time. That means it knows where all your armies are and will use and abuse that information to avoid superior armies, snipe weaker ones, and gang up when it needs to. But it can't see armies in ambush stance. That means it will do foolish things in their presence. Things like siege cities, start raiding, or just walk through them to get at a weaker one.
How do you get so much money? I just got this game and basically my income peaks at around 2k per turn. From then on, it keeps getting less and less and I can't afford my armies. Then an enemy will come and attack a city that I can't afford to defend and it's a downward spiral for me that I can't afford. edit: I should add that I always buy the income buildings in my cities but it still isn't enough and I always run out of money.
@@uberaustin777 It's hard to say without more context, but I suspect your problem is actually that you've got too many armies.
You only really need one army per front you expect to fight on, and it's best to keep yourself out of unnecessary wars. (That also means avoiding alliances quite a lot of the time, they're just an invitation to trouble).
Don't feel like you have to rush around the map finding everyone, expand slowly and only when you can securely hold what you take, trade but don't ally until you're very secure at home.
Don't rush to confederate either. It's better to slow roll it and let the AI build up its provinces then get them at higher levels (excepting maybe other legendary lords so the AI can't ruin their level ups).
Hello! I’m planning on getting the game, and this comment was very helpful. Does all of this still apply to the Skaven? I know they have some weird mechanics with undercities and such.
@@georgecalisti3894 Yeah, it still mostly applies to Skaven. Skaven are one of the races that don't need to worry about getting Lightning Strike on lords, so you can focus on other skills first. You don't need to worry much about undercities, pop them in very rich enemy cities to siphon a percentage of income, but otherwise you can kinda ignore them. They take a long time to pay off.
One thing I will say though is that if you want to play Skaven you should also pick up The Prophet and the Warlock DLC, because that adds all their best weapon teams and makes them much much more powerful and fun to play (and Ikit Claw, who is one of the best lords in the game)
GloatingSwine thanks for the help! I can’t wait to get into it!
This was great. I went into a campaign trying to wing it and it was rough. This helped big time.
This genuinely helped me. I'm finally getting a grasp of everything and I've been having trouble playing Khalida right now. On easy mode until I get a hold of everything then to normal and so on. At multiple points I was confused as to what I should do in my situation (playing Vortex), which clan to wipe early and so on.
Worth noting with vortex rituals- even if lost, re-colonizing an involved settlement before the ritual is done will allow the ritual to be complete anyways. This applies to the AI, too. So if you're going to interrupt, attack them or buy an intervention right before the ritual ends, like 1 turn left. Your intervention will probably raze a single city, and the AI, although they'll beat the intervention, may not be able to get back in time to re-colonize the settlement before their ritual is done.
You are correct!
Well I'm going to have to start a new campaign
I am so bad at this game. I bought it the day it released and ever since I come back occasionally just to get wrecked on the easiest difficulty. This was a very helpful guide.
Thanks for the tips but i would like some strategic tips like where and how to expand when to attack and when to retreat and stuff like that but still i appreciate your hard work 👍🏻
Not every battle is the same so those tips would be difficult to work out
I just started playing, and I went for Easy/Easy as I have no idea how to play and figured that would be the most enjoyable way to learn. My friend who started recently said he went for Easy/Medium and got destroyed a few times, so it sounds like it can be complex. Also got a critical success on my first hero assassination, didn't know that was the only way to permanently get rid of them.
Best guide I found so far for a beginner.
Glad it could help you!
Make a separate cheap unit that all it does is surf the water and finds treasure. It gives massive amounts of money for vortex mode. Ports are also a huge amount of income so islands are ideal targets to conquer. Look for unqie buildings like with the White Tower of Hoethe, each region has a unique structure to its own region
Thanks for the tips man, this is really enlightening, especially the vortex rituals one. I've gotten desperate on my first campaign going after the rituals and got completely overwhelmed lol. Good to know they're not so pivotal once the other AI's start them before you.
This is exactly what i was looking for. Thank you.
Thanks, this was exactly what I needed. I just did my first campaign up to around turn 100, and started to realize I did everything suboptimal, but wasn't sure what to do different in my next campaign. This will help me get a better second run for sure :)..
Glad this could help! Please note that these are indeed beginner tips, so as you learn more about the game you might see there are better ways to accomplish some things. Please let me know if you have any further questions or anything else i can help with.
Thank you this is exactly the guide I was looking for!
Thanks for the tips. Its been years since I played a Total War game so this is helpful.
I am totally and utterly crap at total war - even on easy mode but I do enjoy it, would be nice if I could be remotely effective so thanks for the assist
straight to the point, great video
Awesome video. Super helpful for beginners - Thanks!
You're very welcome!
Excellent guide, thank you!
I'm finding things really difficult. Focus on econamy and I get overrun, focus on army and I still get overrun
it seems to be a tricky balance of forward, but careful, progress offense-wise
@@adroitone8911 it's a nightmare, if you too fast your economy slows to a craw, which is fine but what tends to happen is while I'm slowly upgrading everything some other faction goes on a mad one and takes 10/15 settlements around me so I'm screwed anyway, either by being rushed early or by taking my time.
@@samhawkes6597 Yeah, some races have it better than others. High elves are the easiest for me. Personally, I tend to wipe out factions that up against game walls. So I'm not surrounded by all fronts. It's also easy if you don't declare war on more than one faction at a time.. I have a Tyrion campaign where I've conquered half of the elven isles, I formed either confederations or alliances with the rest of the elven factions and then we proceeded to invade and conquer all the lands to the south and west of us. I currently have 8 full armies under my control with all elite units. Again, diplomacy helps a lot.
Cool idea!
If my capital is in tier 3 but my minor cities are in tier 2 can my hero visit his mum if he is in her protected bubble?
I.. His mum? I do not know what to say
@@Rejnols it’s ok, it will all be fine come the 19 Jul Boris says
It's a joke about how the British government and Prime Minister in particular broke their own rules for covid lockdowns. There were originally three tiers (levels) of restriction with tier three being total lockdown, no movement, no socialising.
Thank you for the video
it helped a lot I built miltary buildings in a minor town and at the end I couldnt win I feel so dumb
One thing that I wanted to mention is the corruption level of the provinces and controlling it with certain buildings
Also you sound like a serious version of Ssethtzeentach
True! I decided that i wasn't gonna mention to much about things that change from race and faction. E.g Dark Elves dosen't like corruption, unless you play Morathi.
Not sure who that is, but thank you? :D
nice
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Is it worth upgrading money houses early? The incremental increase in income compared to the upgrade cost seems almost too small.
Good question. I also don't see how it's worth spending a ton of money uograding growth buildings from lv2 to lv3, but I suppose that the sooner you get more growth/more income, the sooner your cities start paying you back for your investment.
Question: is this a create a giant blob army and go around conquering while keepig a second blob at home waiting game?
No. They take up income so you have to be careful with sitting armies
Late answer, but no it is not. The Vortex campaign is very much more focused on defense, but you can totally focus on conquering fast and killing everything if you want. That said you will also gain territory faster than you can prepare to defend them, so its a double edged sword.
Thanks guys
Good video bro
Thanks for the visit!
Would you say that the general build order tips (economy + growth early game, etc.) apply to the older historical titles like Atilla and Shogun?
I want to branch out from Warhammer but haven't played any historical titles yet.
Thanks.
I know this is late, but I can at least speak for Shogun 2. Yes, that build order still applies. I usually get one or few really developed provinces that become the hubs for army production while all the rest are solely focused on as much economic growth and happiness as possible without costing that much upkeep. The same strategy applies for the other standalone title Fall of the Samurai as well.
Loved the guide. BUT i feel i need a guide that is even more basic than this.
Like, where to press Y buttons to do X. The in-game guide is not that good, because, it gives you advices like "Put you lord in ambush mode", but does not clearly show me what button i need to press to put it into ambush mode.
And Skaven Priest? came to my city. What does that mean? My public order was falling. I did not know how to interact correctly with this priest. I just tried to press everywhere around the skaven priest, and got something like diplomacy, and could offer a peace treaty, which they declined. What do i do then? How do i attack the skaven priest in my capital? I dont know.
I feel the same way. Just bought both 1 & 2 and couldn't find the ambush button. However, I felt the same way at first with Three Kingdoms, but after many hours - got it figure out. So, I guess it'll be a while.
That is a totally fair feeling to have. However i feel this is something the game teaches you if you choose the legendary lords with turtorial starts. Not 100% sure since i haven't done those since i started playing.
Wow never played a total war game before , but does look complicated lol
Did you ever decide to buy it?
@@alexj7406 no sir , still watching how to videos on different games. Trying to find one that will not eat up alot of time. But that is most of them lol lol
@@FalconWing1813 haha understandable. I just bought it, and divinity original sin 2. Figured I'd play that while watching how to videos on Warhammer
nice
So when I develop my cities to highest tier for skaven in 4 slot cities, what should I swap growth building for? I always kept them for money
Its a bit hard to give a concrete answer not knowing what other buildings you have, but the growth building also gives more maximum food capacity so its not terrible.
The tip on removing growth buildings when your city is at max tier only applies if the building provides no other benefits. Eg Empire growth buildings usually provide no other benefits so are useless at max tier, whereas if Skaven buildings also produce food, they may still be necessary.
How do you get so much money? I just got this game and basically my income peaks at around 2k per turn. From then on, it keeps getting less and less and I can't afford my armies. Then an enemy will come and attack a city that I can't afford to defend and it's a downward spiral for me that I can't afford. edit: I should add that I always buy the income buildings in my cities but it still isn't enough and I always run out of money.
It's a balance. Each unit has an upkeep cost, which is the amount of money they cost to have around per turn.
Example: you earn 4000 gold every turn and the upkeep of your army is 2500. That means you will only earn 1500 gold per turn in total.
Perhaps you are buying to many expensive units to fast. I'll start doing livestreams and campaign play through's soon, but I'm busy with exams at the moment so if you need answers now I'd say you should watch a play through of the faction you're playing on RUclips
It largely depends on faction you are playing, some of them just have terrible economy and you'll have to deal with it. I'd advise you to play Tyrion as he has the easiest starting position and he just don't pay money to his starter troops with his upkeep reduction :D
yes like the guys said it depends on your faction some factions like (greenskins, vampire counts, Norsca, ETC) dont have much income even if you build economic buildins especially on VH/VH difficulty but there are other ways to gain money or reduce the upkeep cost of these factions.
the best way to know how to play with a faction is by seeing a vetern TWW2 player playing with this facton( Skip the battels if you want just see his campaign choices)
Beginner Guide, 4min into it: let me show you what end game looks like
Eh i think you misunderstood that part. My bad if it wasn't clear enough!
pretty sure you mean "minor settlement" and not "city". good video thanks for the tips
really like the hero tips
Tip 1: Don't watch anime
Tip 2: Don't be a cringe weeb
Tip 3: Don't watch a weeb trying to explain something like warhammer in any shape or form
Tip 4: Start Total War Warhammer instead
Tip 5: Play it.
Bonus tips: 1 Go to skirmish, pick your favorite faction and fill your slots with your favorite single entity unit (mine are carnosaurs).
2 Choose Dark Elves as the opponents. Fill their slots with witch elves.
3 Choose the map and start the battle.
4 Pretend you are watching a bunch of filthy internet weebs pretending to be cute anime girls being slaughtered by your favorite single entity unit (carnosaurs).
5 Satisfaction.
Damn buddy, who hurt you
I didn't think projection was a thing until I read this comment. Thanks.
Someone should have hit you more as a kid to teach you some respect.
@@AlwaysRetr0 There's something really wrong with you. Stop, and get some help.
Oh no if I don't own warhammer 1 I cant play.
Jk I pirated both games
Wow what a badass. Openly admitting to not supporting a product you have probably played for dozen of hours!
You could've just bought them for 10 to 12 bucks and supported the creators.
3rd world country budget gamers with APU rigs be like.
its cool to be poor
good on you the fact that you have to own 2 games to play one campaign is a scummy fucking move. they asked for it
The best guide out there ! everything to the point ,Great vid man💯