Slaanesh unit’s don’t wear armor because they don’t like “protection” They have devastating flanker because they like to get into peoples rear without consent.
My finest moment with N'Kari was when I charged head on to Skarbrand with N'Kari first thing in the battle through his infantry lines, debuffed him, and killed that croak with 4 hits, he didn't land any. Euphoria I felt was... divine.
Tbf there are Keepers of Secrets that just obliterate bloodthirsters. I forgot her/his name but there was a Keeper of Secrets that make it a habit of killing bloodthirsters and have rumored to defeat Skarbrand himself
For some reason, it NEVER occured to me to use devotee armees as free garrisons for my regions, i was just using them as backup for Nkari. I am going to start a new campaign with this "defensive playstyle'. Thanks for another great and inspiring video.
Important note for Fiend units. Just like Tomb Scorpions, they effectively ignore infantry units during movement, so they can quickly charge through your own back lines if you have to
I really like this "why you suck series" all the cogent info with a dry sense of humour. Will certainly be looking out for future episodes. I would love to see you cover all the races in this way
@@TheAzorg good old warhammer 2. back when the sieges were bad, but at least they worked. The good old days. Trouble with the good old days is you never know when you're in them until they're gone.
@@BlakesTakes420 i'm currently replaying warhammer 1 and 2 while waiting for SFO for warhammer 3 and i must admit - i totaly forgot how beautiful the world map was!
Of all of the "Why you SUCK" episodes, for some reason Slaanesh is the one I was waiting the most. Many thanks to you, Blake, for yet another informative (and entertaining) video
I only came across this channel yesterday and I must say, these are REALLY good. Extremely informative, covering something that isn't done well by any of the other large WH:TW content creators (helpful, specific campaign advice), and not only that but very entertaining to boot. You have yourself a subscriber, sir.
You're 'why you suck' series has actually helped me enjoy this game more.. instead of suck being literally clueless. Where you have a little theatrical 'flare' to the videos, for the most part they're straight to the point, and actually offer helpful advice on otherwise core mechanics of the lord/faction that I otherwise overlooked vs alot of guides that explain the backstory and dialogue (where interesting, not particularly helpful as knowing the storyline/backstory of the faction.. then still not understanding how it fundamentally works after a 30 minute video was frustrating) .. much appreciated and I hope you continue with the series
This guy just made a 40 minute long incredibly helpful guide on how to play a specific faction in warhammer 3 and then became all philosophical and starting giving legitimate critiques of our capitalist society. I love him.
@@UnholyWrath3277 Funny thing is; It goes just as far. All it took was a few seconds on a calculator and one Google search. Except the U.S. doesn't tax 60%, plus Brazil is...Brazil. So your take home after taxes is lower, after conversion AND you live in Brazil. So what even is your point? You kinda proved him right lmfao
These are great, comprehensive faction guides! It's always a treat when you find a youtuber you enjoy before they really take off. Looking forward to more total war content from you.
Just found this series after another lost Belegar campaign. After a conversation with myself about how I don't understand why I suck so bad while playing this game, I found the You Suck series. Very fitting. 10/10, I suck, now I get to learn why. Good on ya.
Tbh i never understood people complaining about the lack of armoured units in the Slaaneshi Rooster. Sure, having that "anvil" makes it a lot easier but found out that playing slaanesh timing and patience is everything. The Deamonettes are the fastest infantry unit in the game and u can us them as ur "anvil" simply by feinting attacks. Basicly building a front line, moving towards the enemy line and then retreat, dragging the enemy lines apart, encircle them and then take them out piece by piece. Really love their playstyle and ofc great video :)
Proliferate cults is actually amazing if you get a good roll. I managed to get a cult in Cathay which would've taken ages to get to otherwise. I then was able to vassalise Miao Ying and get a boatload of money from her.
It certainly can be, but in the early game when devotees are scarce I'd advise against it because of the RNG. Later on when devotees aren't an issue, I spam it on cooldown.
I'd add that vassalizing minor factions is often a waste and going after the big ones (Yvresse is always good) works wonders as they have a bonus in auto-resolve against minor factions, which is how the AI fights battles.
That's actually something I had in my notes to put in! definitely correct, legendary lords as vassals are very helpful, all other ones are garbage (apart from Saphery - just because you can get them quickly.)
I disagree. Even the minor ones are good as you can use the low tier stacks they make to capture settlements, support your troops and more importantly, pump out 2 disciple armies, so one stack is always 3 stacks. More allegiance, more troops. Also that vassal money is sweet.
Excellent video, Keeper of takes! However, as a Slaanesh enjoyer myself, i noticed quite a few things you missed: 1) Disciple armies can be spawned by army and have a cooldown of 15 when staying in one province, but 5 if you don't. So you can build cheap marauder spam lords to patrol and spawn free full stacks repeatedly. But there's more, and that's so cheesy it's borderline exploit - you can recruit a new lord, give him all of the units and cooldown of previous lord won't matter and you can make one or even more armies PER TURN PER LORD you set the route to. Absolute Slaanesh tide! 2) Slaanesh lacks recruiting capabilities, so setting outposts early with HE down the way you unlock basically free 2 local recruitment slots up to 4 units. Extremely useful when you need fast army early on. Also good anvil as spearmen are decent in holding the line. 3) Corruption makes your disciple armies stronger, so maxing corruption skill is a must in this situation. Also helps to unlock more manifestations, which are extremely useful apart from second one. 4)PO is simply not true on legendary difficulty, where the actual fun shines on Slaanesh: less PO means more money to make from buildings. Also SoK is more beneficial to your faction than every other faction in the game, as it helps to get the negatives going. 5)I don't like shrines, as they are very big, slow and can be shoot quite easily. A matter of preference, but a worthy one. **6**) dId yOu kNoW you can disband cultists that you spawned your cult with, rebuild the atelier building and gain essentially 2 ready to settle cultists? 7) For N'kari i like to go to the end of a blue line before taking his(yes) unique skill line, because replenishment, upkeep, seduce budget, movement range and lighting strike are quite useful. After renowned and feared i start taking unique skills. 8) Portals don't give growth as much as bastion buildings, also they give lots of building cost reduction for your eco buildings. 9) One chaos sorcerer is enough to reduce your tech researches by 1 turn simply by agent actions. Keep in mind while rushing the building to unlock the +25 devotees tech. 10)Seduce budget is busted in AR if you do it right: if you know how it generally works, you can turn decisive defeats into victories at ease: try to seduce maximum experinced units, as they give lots of AR bonus. Also you can strip away the strengths of army being lots of good frontline, few fast cavalry or elite monster that keeps everything at bay.
These are some excellent tips. You're darn tootin about the recruitment issues in the early game. Hadn't thought about getting early helf auxillaries - so that's a spicy one. Even with SoK at max, I just never saw PO issues - I play on VH though as a standard. I just find legendary has a steep bullshit to fun ratio (oh look, everyone of your neighbours have declared war on you at once and they all have 3 full stacks and you've just got a half stack of chaff kind of way.) forced to min max a bit too much for my taste. Hot take about the blue line. I went for a bit of a whacky build on this playthrough, picking up his speed and spells Great comment really enjoyed reading it.
there is a he faction that starts friendly and corrupted, get a defensive alliance (or vassalize) and you can build an outpost and use it to recruit spearmen@@MrNavetse
@@MrNavetse all high elf vassals that you get via subjugating early on can be used to build outposts to increase your local recruitment capabilities and also get your units for frontline like spearmen, or good archer like lothern sea guard. Or even fast units like eagles or cavalry. You can get lots of the outposts since you will have a lot of money from sacking and lots of slaves go build it upint
Bro, make one for Azazel please. I really don't understand why would you need warriors of Slaanesh at all when demons of Slaanesh do literally everything better besides taking a hit which is sort of pointless because then warriors of undivided can hold better than Slaanesh ones.
@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 They'd already sold Sigvald as an undivided lord and they couldn't very well take him back and sell him one more time. They also couldn't repurpose Sigvald because people with the old Warriors of Chaos DLC might not buy Champions of Chaos and thus wouldn't have access to the units that an updated Siggy would more or less depend on. What's truly maddening, though, is that Azazel and Siggy cannot confederate. Frankly, CA should have done something so the chaos factions could unite properly.
I actually greatly enjoy Warriors of Slaanesh, and consider them a staple in any Slaanesh army. They provide a sturdy frontline unit that Slaanesh desperately needed, and make flanking the enemy considerably easier.
to be fair, i wouldnt suck with nkaari if he didnt start his dash attack before getting in range and ending it right infront of the enemy. (is this still a thing? i havent touched him in months, but nkaari has touched me)
I've always found his animation set to be awesome, like that sweeping dash attack gives me two attacks inside of a second, and with N'kari's MA he doesn't often miss those, if you've to whitstealer, it cuts their health in half most of the time, and then they route, and die damn fast.
I'm glad your WH guides get so many views, you deserve waaaayyy more subs for the quality of content you produce. Here's to your continued success my dude!
Man's has assisted my intellectually challenged mind figure this super-task of a game out in many ways. Would love to hear more about how I suck with every faction
Nice guide, i have been waiting for a slanesh video for months and here it is. Thanks Blake for your content and piece of advice. It really helps the community out.
For armies, I went for Cultist + other heroes stacks, I had four own armies, cultists won't ever die as their melee defence is 80 to 90 when leveled up. Use those to summon Disciple armies whenever you can, then use your allies to maximum effect and make them spawn disciple armies also. Use all your cultists to give the gift of slaanesh to all your allied armies, so they will generate devotees and corrupt the areas for you. After the tech which gives you 25 disciples per gift, you never run out of devotees. I didn't train any normal troops usually, just heroes, and chaff, with a full stack disciple army in every city of Ulthuan. Most of battles are done with disciple armies which are free. Only problem in the endgame is that you have gazillion disciple armies and it comes tedious to use them all, and at least my game slowed down to halt in campaign map due to all the disciple and allied armies. Use cultists, I sent my first to Averlorn and had it subjucated on turn 20, after that your western flank is secured mostly.
Proliferate Cults is surprisingly useful I've found. After all, it's like performing a little preparation before you get to the main course, and by stretching these cults out across the world it can ensure that as many as possible fall to decadence and depravity
I got 50 turns into a very hard-very hard N'Kari campaign before I watched this video and now I feel exceptionally goofy for using the disciple armies like they were blood hosts and summoning them to back me up for a few turns while on the offensive and watching them disintegrate.
S-tier guide! I’ve been bouncing around between the different factions trying them out, but I think you’ve convinced me to go all the way with Slaanesh (boom phrasing😂)
For cultist creating cults in settlement, in the beginning always make the cult that raises the amount of cultists, late game you should spawn a cultist, use it to make a cult, then disband it if it doesn't have confident or discipled or sleek. Also you can make any amount of Cultists from one settlement, you just trash the cultsist building and next turn make a new one, so you can make cults all around that settlement. And if you disband your bad cultists after they made a cult, you have the cap so that it always spawns new cultist. I took out most of the northern map with just sending cultists there, then making more cultists, then making a disciple army in small settlements, then re-culting the settlement so if I couldn't take it, i could get a new cultist at least. Strike the unwalled settlements there and you get almost endless amount of small allies which will hamper the other chaos factions' plans as they have to send stacks to deal with them. Then if they take your settlements, just spawn more armies to take the small towns and they are in a limbo of having to take those back.
N'Kari can't get through blobs because they're too distracted by the glorious pleasure brought by pain! Shame it ends up banishing them back to the chaos realms usually...
What a nice birthday gift, a fresh hot take from the ol' hot Blake! Hot enough to actually make myself consider giving my least favourite Chaos God's faction a try, so well done there! Speaking of, those well-timed jump scares got a snort out of me each time they appeared. So three snorts! Anyways, I may lay myself to bed now, this was a good watch to simmer down with. Even though I am craving for some kind of pasta dish now... But that'll be for future me to worry about, good night!
One of the things I do is get better daemonets and fiends of slaanesh. Mix them with some chaos spawn and fury’s and you have a solid early-ish game army comp that can turn any major loss into a win.
best advanced guides on youtube Things I'd like to add: 1. Chariots are not needed in your armies if you don't like to micro so you can ski them entirely 2. Doing cycle charges is the best but also not necessary your armies are so fast and deadly at killing the battle will be over in seconds even on very hard 3. It is good to pick vassals that like each other. Vassals who are not friendly with you might refuse to fight in your wars thus diminishing their usefulness. For example having both HE and DE vassals might cause one or the other to refuse your calls to war. Having DE and Chaos factions could work better especially when they share enemies.
Hot takes - enjoyed reading them. Agree about the cycle charging - they did often buckle under the first charge, but if you have a particularly stalwart enemy like dwarves to hack through then it's good to get into the habit early.
You haven't mentioned one of the most important thing - Warriors of Slaanesh are so absurdaly powerful in autoresolve that you basically feel no challenge in the mid and late campaign if you use them.
Awesome, never played slaanesh so I will follow this whenever I get to them. I just never had the chance haha. What about chorfs next considering their unique economy and units/army comps?
this is a lovely comment which really makes me proud - thank you. where have I been all these years? Missing opportunities to do what I enjoy doing, which is making content for you fine folks.
I often find myself phasing out foot troops entirely in my late game slaanesh armies. Chaos knights of slaanesh are a capable front line themselves while being fast enough that they dictate the terms of engagement. 4 - 6 chaos knights and 2 fiends can pin a front line in place easily long enough for the chariots and heartseekers to take their flanking positions I find
I am a veteran of Total War and in Warhammer, Slaanesh is my fav faction, but I must admit I honestly didn't know how to play N'Kari. Thank you for this Vid.
I just got back to this video preparing for my first slaanesh playthrough. And this video really is great. Both for the actual advice - but also because it help perpetuate the lore and feel of slaanesh - playing tww is in part a rpg experience and I am now hyped for the faction :-D
Such a fun series :) I was asking for Slaanesh video some time ago ;) thank you so much... got my sub ;) keep those coming... would love to see you aproach to some other factions
@@BlakesTakes420 great time to subscribe, I love the way you why you suck “guides” don’t just tell you want to do for 20 turns but are in fact tips to help you improve at the faction and even spill over to general game play. An example I loved was skarsnik and the piles of shiny stuff making income back in a single turn. Keep up the good work Mr Blake and hope you enjoyed my take.
A fun trick is ressurecting dead races as Vassals. Example, by the time I went to war with Tyrion, he had already wiped out Saphery. When I took Saphery's capitol back from Tyrion, I was given the option to ressurect them as a vassal. Neither Warrior of Chaos (Sigvald nor Azazel) can do this...only N'Kari.
@@BlakesTakes420 I concur, unless my goal is to just vassal blob lol. But yes Saphery may have been how I learned about it, but Saphery is a useless trash faction. Wouldn't recommend them. Also it is something to keep in mind while taking territories. The order in which you do it could matter. For instance, if the unlikely happens and Tyrion kills Alarielle, and you want them both as vassals, you need to consider not leaving her capitol for last when taking Tyrion down, or you will be forced to choose one, instead of getting both of them.
I relly love your content and ecen though i haven't played with the ogre kingdoms as of yet, you have to explain to me all the reasons why I suck with Skrag the slaughterer 😂
Re: Chariots, I find that you don't want to actually tell them to attack units, but rather to just move through enemy units such as infantry. Their mass and speed allows them to send individual models flying, and it hits chunks off their hp. I'm not sure if that's just devastating flanker at work here, I suspect there is additional damage being applied just because individual models have been flung so far out of coherency for want of a better term.
Correct, but they can be a lot to micro when you're already microing your cav, Nkari and spellcasters. For ease of use I'd stick to cav. Chariots are very good but only if you can multitask well, they're v fragile.
I have found Nkari and Taurox to be my 2 go to factions. I have pulled off some absolutely disgusting heroic victories with slaanesh. I love everything about that faction. My favorite thing to do is send cultists to Cathay and pile up corruption then spawn like 4 disciple armies at the same time and now magically I have two campaigns at the same time. Some of my fondest memories are in the open field with Nkari and her mad max chariots and some whip boys to hold the line.
reading description of a lot of Slaanesh things... it sounds very... modern XD Like, you have consumerism as a researchable technology XD Like, I have feeling modern office drone will not find any unfamiliar secrets there.
Working on Slaanesh Long Victory now. I can appreciate that Slaanesh is no Tzeentch, constantly changing and ruining perfectly crafted poxes. Neither are they Khorne, casing mass death with no beauty. If anyone is a perfect partner in crime, it is Slaanesh. Grandfather will spead his love to the enraptured followers of excess.
Wow, I never expected this faction to have so much Micro managing, it's quite appealing to me. I like the idea of coordinating multiple hit and run strikes and flanks, cycling multiple units in a Flurry of Charges; A Dance for Slaanesh. I'll definitely give em a shot now.
Slaanesh unit’s don’t wear armor because they don’t like “protection”
They have devastating flanker because they like to get into peoples rear without consent.
An astute observation sir. I commend you.
Fairly sure that consent ruins the mood for most of them
I love this way to much 😂😂😂
@@alexreys7985they only enjoy it when you don’t like it
Totally spot on haha! CA should add this as a description of the faction :D
My finest moment with N'Kari was when I charged head on to Skarbrand with N'Kari first thing in the battle through his infantry lines, debuffed him, and killed that croak with 4 hits, he didn't land any. Euphoria I felt was... divine.
oh he must've suffered beautifully.
Skarbrand would not hate this.
Skarbrand would LOATH this.
Tbf there are Keepers of Secrets that just obliterate bloodthirsters. I forgot her/his name but there was a Keeper of Secrets that make it a habit of killing bloodthirsters and have rumored to defeat Skarbrand himself
@@AwesomeduudShalaxi Helbane
For some reason, it NEVER occured to me to use devotee armees as free garrisons for my regions, i was just using them as backup for Nkari. I am going to start a new campaign with this "defensive playstyle'. Thanks for another great and inspiring video.
They are your walls now. freeing up another build slot for yourself.
You're most welcome and I'm glad you got some good takeaways from it!
Same for me, sounds so obvious yet my brain could not understand the concept of defense.
I prefer them to the Khorne bloodhosts. They have more utility and longevity, and no upkeep.
@@baldygrey2779 probably because Slaanesh is the better chaos god... XD
@@The_Murder_PartyNurgle is the best grandfather and thus best chaos god!
Important note for Fiend units. Just like Tomb Scorpions, they effectively ignore infantry units during movement, so they can quickly charge through your own back lines if you have to
Absolutely. I found they rekt things wherever I put them.
REALLY good against cavalry I found as long as it's not anti-large. They rip through Silver Helms and Ellyrion Reavers no problem at all.
Oh yeah, I saw those sick backflips 😎
I really like this "why you suck series" all the cogent info with a dry sense of humour.
Will certainly be looking out for future episodes.
I would love to see you cover all the races in this way
thank you for your kind words!
Hopefully if CA doesn't evaporate the player base and kill the franchise I'll get round to doing all of them haha
@@BlakesTakes420 there is still warhammer 1 and warhammer 2!
@@TheAzorg good old warhammer 2. back when the sieges were bad, but at least they worked. The good old days.
Trouble with the good old days is you never know when you're in them until they're gone.
@@BlakesTakes420 i'm currently replaying warhammer 1 and 2 while waiting for SFO for warhammer 3 and i must admit - i totaly forgot how beautiful the world map was!
Literally started a slaneesh campaign today and sucked ass. what a perfect timing to learn why i suck so much.
Glad to be of timely service. I wish you good fortune in the depravity to come.
Now that you know how to not suck as N'kari you can learn to suck in a different way that'll please the Pleasure God. xD
STOP TEASING ME WITH slaneesh CHAOS CAMPAIGNS. LET ME GET BACK TO MAY LIFE LOL. STOP ABUSING MEEEE
Of all of the "Why you SUCK" episodes, for some reason Slaanesh is the one I was waiting the most.
Many thanks to you, Blake, for yet another informative (and entertaining) video
Glad to be of service sir. Thank you for your lovely words.
I see that you yearned for the Slaneeshi suck, are you satisfied now you thirsty fox?
This should be renamed (pardon the language use)….
From why you suck as
To why Slaanish is going to face F¥CK you !
I only came across this channel yesterday and I must say, these are REALLY good. Extremely informative, covering something that isn't done well by any of the other large WH:TW content creators (helpful, specific campaign advice), and not only that but very entertaining to boot. You have yourself a subscriber, sir.
Thank you and welcome aboard, sir.
Master Blake edging us through the video is not something I expected xD😊
Happy to have serviced you (;
Ikr😂
@@BlakesTakes420Does this make me a voyeur???
You're 'why you suck' series has actually helped me enjoy this game more.. instead of suck being literally clueless. Where you have a little theatrical 'flare' to the videos, for the most part they're straight to the point, and actually offer helpful advice on otherwise core mechanics of the lord/faction that I otherwise overlooked vs alot of guides that explain the backstory and dialogue (where interesting, not particularly helpful as knowing the storyline/backstory of the faction.. then still not understanding how it fundamentally works after a 30 minute video was frustrating) .. much appreciated and I hope you continue with the series
This guy just made a 40 minute long incredibly helpful guide on how to play a specific faction in warhammer 3 and then became all philosophical and starting giving legitimate critiques of our capitalist society. I love him.
I love you too. Thank you for your comment!
😂😂😂😂 Youre crying? Wanna switch places with me here in brazil with 60% taxes??? AND a 2K USD Annual salary or something :b
@@404person9 Difference being just how far those dollars go in both places
@@UnholyWrath3277 Funny thing is; It goes just as far. All it took was a few seconds on a calculator and one Google search. Except the U.S. doesn't tax 60%, plus Brazil is...Brazil. So your take home after taxes is lower, after conversion AND you live in Brazil.
So what even is your point? You kinda proved him right lmfao
I know nothing about Brazil but my monthly rent is higher than $2,000 in the USA...
Has anyone realised one of the better way to play Slaanesh is to flank the enemies from behind? Im sure the devs made it intentional lol 😘
Lore accurate and thematic.
These are great, comprehensive faction guides! It's always a treat when you find a youtuber you enjoy before they really take off. Looking forward to more total war content from you.
Thank you sir! Appreciate your kind words.
The most sexually charged "Why You SUCk with" video this far, and I absolutely love it
Oh my.
Where'd I leave my shirt?
imagine just dominating every single faction possible and then just winning from there, I'd have a delight to do that
Just found this series after another lost Belegar campaign. After a conversation with myself about how I don't understand why I suck so bad while playing this game, I found the You Suck series. Very fitting. 10/10, I suck, now I get to learn why. Good on ya.
Glad to be of service to you sir.
why can N'kari have such thick thighs, but not the Fay Enchantress? Bruh
Bruh
N'kari a pawg bruh.
Purple-ass wispy girl.
Goat leg
@@BlakesTakes420 that's true...i love the thiccness
Thick legs and a thigh gap. I'm gonna fuck my face with their hooves.
Tbh i never understood people complaining about the lack of armoured units in the Slaaneshi Rooster. Sure, having that "anvil" makes it a lot easier but found out that playing slaanesh timing and patience is everything. The Deamonettes are the fastest infantry unit in the game and u can us them as ur "anvil" simply by feinting attacks. Basicly building a front line, moving towards the enemy line and then retreat, dragging the enemy lines apart, encircle them and then take them out piece by piece. Really love their playstyle and ofc great video :)
The Slanneshi 🐓
Your combination of funny and actual gameplay advice is amazing, I hope people get wind of your videos soon cause they've all been great
Thank you for your lovely comment friend. Appreciate you.
That last part hit hard
you lav it
Hard indeed. Nice hot take on our society.
been waiting for this one, big MCthankies for yet another great guide
glad you enjoyed it sir! Thank you for the lovely comment!
Proliferate cults is actually amazing if you get a good roll. I managed to get a cult in Cathay which would've taken ages to get to otherwise. I then was able to vassalise Miao Ying and get a boatload of money from her.
It certainly can be, but in the early game when devotees are scarce I'd advise against it because of the RNG.
Later on when devotees aren't an issue, I spam it on cooldown.
Mate the video quality and the special effects with the voice are so good! Amazing to see your skillset grow!! Keep it up.
Thank you for your long-standing viewership and support ❤️
Your videos are great, I took your advice from alot of your videos and I have much better campaigns now.
Thank you sir, glad they helped!
I'd add that vassalizing minor factions is often a waste and going after the big ones (Yvresse is always good) works wonders as they have a bonus in auto-resolve against minor factions, which is how the AI fights battles.
That's actually something I had in my notes to put in! definitely correct, legendary lords as vassals are very helpful, all other ones are garbage (apart from Saphery - just because you can get them quickly.)
I disagree. Even the minor ones are good as you can use the low tier stacks they make to capture settlements, support your troops and more importantly, pump out 2 disciple armies, so one stack is always 3 stacks. More allegiance, more troops. Also that vassal money is sweet.
Excellent video, Keeper of takes!
However, as a Slaanesh enjoyer myself, i noticed quite a few things you missed:
1) Disciple armies can be spawned by army and have a cooldown of 15 when staying in one province, but 5 if you don't. So you can build cheap marauder spam lords to patrol and spawn free full stacks repeatedly. But there's more, and that's so cheesy it's borderline exploit - you can recruit a new lord, give him all of the units and cooldown of previous lord won't matter and you can make one or even more armies PER TURN PER LORD you set the route to. Absolute Slaanesh tide!
2) Slaanesh lacks recruiting capabilities, so setting outposts early with HE down the way you unlock basically free 2 local recruitment slots up to 4 units. Extremely useful when you need fast army early on. Also good anvil as spearmen are decent in holding the line.
3) Corruption makes your disciple armies stronger, so maxing corruption skill is a must in this situation. Also helps to unlock more manifestations, which are extremely useful apart from second one.
4)PO is simply not true on legendary difficulty, where the actual fun shines on Slaanesh: less PO means more money to make from buildings. Also SoK is more beneficial to your faction than every other faction in the game, as it helps to get the negatives going.
5)I don't like shrines, as they are very big, slow and can be shoot quite easily. A matter of preference, but a worthy one.
**6**) dId yOu kNoW you can disband cultists that you spawned your cult with, rebuild the atelier building and gain essentially 2 ready to settle cultists?
7) For N'kari i like to go to the end of a blue line before taking his(yes) unique skill line, because replenishment, upkeep, seduce budget, movement range and lighting strike are quite useful. After renowned and feared i start taking unique skills.
8) Portals don't give growth as much as bastion buildings, also they give lots of building cost reduction for your eco buildings.
9) One chaos sorcerer is enough to reduce your tech researches by 1 turn simply by agent actions. Keep in mind while rushing the building to unlock the +25 devotees tech.
10)Seduce budget is busted in AR if you do it right: if you know how it generally works, you can turn decisive defeats into victories at ease: try to seduce maximum experinced units, as they give lots of AR bonus. Also you can strip away the strengths of army being lots of good frontline, few fast cavalry or elite monster that keeps everything at bay.
These are some excellent tips.
You're darn tootin about the recruitment issues in the early game. Hadn't thought about getting early helf auxillaries - so that's a spicy one.
Even with SoK at max, I just never saw PO issues - I play on VH though as a standard. I just find legendary has a steep bullshit to fun ratio (oh look, everyone of your neighbours have declared war on you at once and they all have 3 full stacks and you've just got a half stack of chaff kind of way.) forced to min max a bit too much for my taste.
Hot take about the blue line. I went for a bit of a whacky build on this playthrough, picking up his speed and spells
Great comment really enjoyed reading it.
Could you further explain Number 2? Didnt quite got that.
there is a he faction that starts friendly and corrupted, get a defensive alliance (or vassalize) and you can build an outpost and use it to recruit spearmen@@MrNavetse
@@cathulionetharn5139 i see, thank you.
@@MrNavetse all high elf vassals that you get via subjugating early on can be used to build outposts to increase your local recruitment capabilities and also get your units for frontline like spearmen, or good archer like lothern sea guard. Or even fast units like eagles or cavalry. You can get lots of the outposts since you will have a lot of money from sacking and lots of slaves go build it upint
Aren’t you supposed to succ as Slaanesh?
Of all the "You suck with X" videos you made, this one was the one we all secretly wanted even if we didn't know it.
We have such sights to show you.
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Great, even though the cults had a bit of a rework it actually encapsulates how to play Slanesh and have fun. Thanks for amazing video!
Bro, make one for Azazel please. I really don't understand why would you need warriors of Slaanesh at all when demons of Slaanesh do literally everything better besides taking a hit which is sort of pointless because then warriors of undivided can hold better than Slaanesh ones.
I'll hope to make one on him soon sir.
I do wonder why they put in Azazel when they already have Sigvald
@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 They'd already sold Sigvald as an undivided lord and they couldn't very well take him back and sell him one more time. They also couldn't repurpose Sigvald because people with the old Warriors of Chaos DLC might not buy Champions of Chaos and thus wouldn't have access to the units that an updated Siggy would more or less depend on. What's truly maddening, though, is that Azazel and Siggy cannot confederate. Frankly, CA should have done something so the chaos factions could unite properly.
I actually greatly enjoy Warriors of Slaanesh, and consider them a staple in any Slaanesh army. They provide a sturdy frontline unit that Slaanesh desperately needed, and make flanking the enemy considerably easier.
@@Monochromatic_Spider CA is currently looking into cross-faction confederations, so better late than never I guess.
Love your videos mate! Nkari is one of my favourite campaigns, his influence on the campaign map is just so fun!
Glad you enjoy the videos sir! More to come 🎉
to be fair, i wouldnt suck with nkaari if he didnt start his dash attack before getting in range and ending it right infront of the enemy. (is this still a thing? i havent touched him in months, but nkaari has touched me)
I can confirm his animations are a bit janky still. Nothing game breaking, but could definitely be annoying.
it's an intended way for him to charge because he uses a unique counter-charge instead.
I've always found his animation set to be awesome, like that sweeping dash attack gives me two attacks inside of a second, and with N'kari's MA he doesn't often miss those, if you've to whitstealer, it cuts their health in half most of the time, and then they route, and die damn fast.
You can't do the cultist spam anymore. They removed the building and none of the new ones can spawn cultists.
Awesome guide. I've run so many campaigns in warhammer 3 I've lost count but never could get into slaanesh - this has totally opened the door.
Feast on the delights of this world.
I'm glad your WH guides get so many views, you deserve waaaayyy more subs for the quality of content you produce. Here's to your continued success my dude!
Thank you sir! Lovely comment ❤️
Thank you for the small Darkest Dungeon nod, great stuff as always. You're movin' up!
Thank you sir. Much appreciated.
Excellent video, this is the one I was looking forward to the most
I'm delighted you enjoyed it - thanks for your comment.
Man's has assisted my intellectually challenged mind figure this super-task of a game out in many ways. Would love to hear more about how I suck with every faction
A lovely comment, thank you so much for your kind words.
You're not intellectually challenged, you're beautiful baby.
Nice guide, i have been waiting for a slanesh video for months and here it is. Thanks Blake for your content and piece of advice. It really helps the community out.
Glad to be of service sir - thank you for your lovely comment.
The title of this particular video in the series got that double meaning.
Damn bro, went hard on tips and societal critique. My kinda Warhammer content. 😎
Showing up to tell you I took this advice and went from not being able to play to owning the west as a demon of love. BT you’re the best :)
I love to hear it sire.
For armies, I went for Cultist + other heroes stacks, I had four own armies, cultists won't ever die as their melee defence is 80 to 90 when leveled up. Use those to summon Disciple armies whenever you can, then use your allies to maximum effect and make them spawn disciple armies also. Use all your cultists to give the gift of slaanesh to all your allied armies, so they will generate devotees and corrupt the areas for you. After the tech which gives you 25 disciples per gift, you never run out of devotees. I didn't train any normal troops usually, just heroes, and chaff, with a full stack disciple army in every city of Ulthuan. Most of battles are done with disciple armies which are free. Only problem in the endgame is that you have gazillion disciple armies and it comes tedious to use them all, and at least my game slowed down to halt in campaign map due to all the disciple and allied armies.
Use cultists, I sent my first to Averlorn and had it subjucated on turn 20, after that your western flank is secured mostly.
I had a similar thing with cultist fatigue in fairness - becomes a pain to manage them all
Proliferate Cults is surprisingly useful I've found. After all, it's like performing a little preparation before you get to the main course, and by stretching these cults out across the world it can ensure that as many as possible fall to decadence and depravity
1. You didn't goon hard enough
2. Your too vanilla
It's usually 1 or 2
I got 50 turns into a very hard-very hard N'Kari campaign before I watched this video and now I feel exceptionally goofy for using the disciple armies like they were blood hosts and summoning them to back me up for a few turns while on the offensive and watching them disintegrate.
That final statement just hit differently oO
S-tier guide! I’ve been bouncing around between the different factions trying them out, but I think you’ve convinced me to go all the way with Slaanesh (boom phrasing😂)
Glad you like it sir! 🫶
That ending though..... Damn Blake..... Just came here for advice, not news on how I'm possesed by a demon :'D
For cultist creating cults in settlement, in the beginning always make the cult that raises the amount of cultists, late game you should spawn a cultist, use it to make a cult, then disband it if it doesn't have confident or discipled or sleek. Also you can make any amount of Cultists from one settlement, you just trash the cultsist building and next turn make a new one, so you can make cults all around that settlement. And if you disband your bad cultists after they made a cult, you have the cap so that it always spawns new cultist. I took out most of the northern map with just sending cultists there, then making more cultists, then making a disciple army in small settlements, then re-culting the settlement so if I couldn't take it, i could get a new cultist at least. Strike the unwalled settlements there and you get almost endless amount of small allies which will hamper the other chaos factions' plans as they have to send stacks to deal with them. Then if they take your settlements, just spawn more armies to take the small towns and they are in a limbo of having to take those back.
N'Kari can't get through blobs because they're too distracted by the glorious pleasure brought by pain! Shame it ends up banishing them back to the chaos realms usually...
He suffers beautifully.
Another Blake banger. Thanks for the vid!
You're most welcome friend. Glad to be of service. 🙏
What a nice birthday gift, a fresh hot take from the ol' hot Blake! Hot enough to actually make myself consider giving my least favourite Chaos God's faction a try, so well done there!
Speaking of, those well-timed jump scares got a snort out of me each time they appeared. So three snorts!
Anyways, I may lay myself to bed now, this was a good watch to simmer down with. Even though I am craving for some kind of pasta dish now... But that'll be for future me to worry about, good night!
Are you sure about the number of snorts?
Maybe I should not be counting things at 6am... At least I only made TWO typos in the initial post!
One of the things I do is get better daemonets and fiends of slaanesh. Mix them with some chaos spawn and fury’s and you have a solid early-ish game army comp that can turn any major loss into a win.
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Things I'd like to add:
1. Chariots are not needed in your armies if you don't like to micro so you can ski them entirely
2. Doing cycle charges is the best but also not necessary your armies are so fast and deadly at killing the battle will be over in seconds even on very hard
3. It is good to pick vassals that like each other. Vassals who are not friendly with you might refuse to fight in your wars thus diminishing their usefulness. For example having both HE and DE vassals might cause one or the other to refuse your calls to war. Having DE and Chaos factions could work better especially when they share enemies.
Hot takes - enjoyed reading them. Agree about the cycle charging - they did often buckle under the first charge, but if you have a particularly stalwart enemy like dwarves to hack through then it's good to get into the habit early.
You haven't mentioned one of the most important thing - Warriors of Slaanesh are so absurdaly powerful in autoresolve that you basically feel no challenge in the mid and late campaign if you use them.
yeah armour is overbuffed in Auto-resolve
Awesome, never played slaanesh so I will follow this whenever I get to them. I just never had the chance haha. What about chorfs next considering their unique economy and units/army comps?
Chorfs on the list but quite low down.
The last minute of the video made me feel personally attacked 😂😂 great stuff
Thank you sir!
Honestly, i think you make the best TW:WH content that i've seen, by far.. Where have you been all these years?
this is a lovely comment which really makes me proud - thank you.
where have I been all these years? Missing opportunities to do what I enjoy doing, which is making content for you fine folks.
Watching with captions be like: "Smoke weed every day in order to create a disciple army" 17:06
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Top tier video just when i was looking for it. Fantastic balance of memes and solid info.
Thank you sir!
I often find myself phasing out foot troops entirely in my late game slaanesh armies. Chaos knights of slaanesh are a capable front line themselves while being fast enough that they dictate the terms of engagement. 4 - 6 chaos knights and 2 fiends can pin a front line in place easily long enough for the chariots and heartseekers to take their flanking positions I find
It's a good shout. I do like a bit of infantry for their strength in sieges, but whole cav armies are definitely strong in the field.
fair. i just cheese the sieges or brute force them with disciple armies where cheese isn't an option myself
@@simonbas6 I think it'd because the AI love to hide in cities, so I find myself always sieging :(
The disciple armies are fantastic meat shields.
I am a veteran of Total War and in Warhammer, Slaanesh is my fav faction, but I must admit I honestly didn't know how to play N'Kari. Thank you for this Vid.
you're most welcome sir.
I just got back to this video preparing for my first slaanesh playthrough. And this video really is great. Both for the actual advice - but also because it help perpetuate the lore and feel of slaanesh - playing tww is in part a rpg experience and I am now hyped for the faction :-D
_You will feast on the delights of this world_
Such a fun series :) I was asking for Slaanesh video some time ago ;) thank you so much... got my sub ;) keep those coming... would love to see you aproach to some other factions
Thanks for the sub! More factions are certainly coming.
Let me know what faction you'd like to see next!
@@BlakesTakes420 No idea :) Slaanesh was my main request, maybe Ogres ? But I like this series so much that I will watch whatever :)
I cannot wait for the Ku'Gath video
It's right here brother :
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hmm I'd like to see your take on Daniel and the Daemons of Chaos.
Same here
never before have i been edged while watching a warhammer video
Glad to have serviced you. 😉
top class production mate, keep em coming, your katarin/tzeentch really helped me alot
Glad to help!
Great guide! Any plans to update the nurgle why you suck or maybe a separate video for the two new lords for nurgle?
There sure are, I just need time to do them haha!
@@BlakesTakes420 great time to subscribe, I love the way you why you suck “guides” don’t just tell you want to do for 20 turns but are in fact tips to help you improve at the faction and even spill over to general game play. An example I loved was skarsnik and the piles of shiny stuff making income back in a single turn.
Keep up the good work Mr Blake and hope you enjoyed my take.
19:10 I've played WH3 for over 700 hours and I had no idea there was a "request army" button there.
Glad to be of service, my liege.
Thanks for the amazing feel good speech at the end 😊Really made my day 🤗
Glad to have been of service.
N'Kari has the best ambush line. It says "surprise"!
I didn't notice that this campaign!
Very good guide BT. I didn’t know that i’m so suck playing as slaanesh until I found your video. Hail Dark Prince!!!
Gooooooood, gooooooood let the depravity flow through you.
You know a game has truly destroyed you when you get startled by the darkest dungeon stress sound appearing out of nowhere in a Warhammer video
I love to hear it. Such a good game.
Starting a N'kari campaign, last one didn't go so hot, thanks for the tips and wish me luck with the damn elves.
I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.
A fun trick is ressurecting dead races as Vassals. Example, by the time I went to war with Tyrion, he had already wiped out Saphery. When I took Saphery's capitol back from Tyrion, I was given the option to ressurect them as a vassal. Neither Warrior of Chaos (Sigvald nor Azazel) can do this...only N'Kari.
I find it's only useful if its a legendary lord faction
@@BlakesTakes420 I concur, unless my goal is to just vassal blob lol. But yes Saphery may have been how I learned about it, but Saphery is a useless trash faction. Wouldn't recommend them. Also it is something to keep in mind while taking territories. The order in which you do it could matter. For instance, if the unlikely happens and Tyrion kills Alarielle, and you want them both as vassals, you need to consider not leaving her capitol for last when taking Tyrion down, or you will be forced to choose one, instead of getting both of them.
You see I'll always kill Tyrion because I want the whole province of Lothern - it's just too valuable not to have it all.
@@BlakesTakes420 fair, though it was just an example. Could substitute any LL in both slots for what I was trying to say.
@@yobogoya4367 ah, then I am in total agreement. Dominated legendary lord factions are always a cut above other regular factions.
I relly love your content and ecen though i haven't played with the ogre kingdoms as of yet, you have to explain to me all the reasons why I suck with Skrag the slaughterer 😂
don't worry it'll all be ogre soon.
@@BlakesTakes420 😍
This is why I always make straight for Brettonia as N'Kari Nya
I didn't expect it's actually a Slaanesh ASMR video😂
😉
The hippo clip had me rolling.
Glad you enjoyed it sir.
Thank you for pronouncing melee [may-lay] correclty! 🤣
It took a lot of rigorous training, but I got there.
Oh my god, i had no idea the dutch were at your doorstep.
Yet, that is what you get for inconviniencing noble shoeboxes with stinky dogs :S
NOT SO LOUD!!!
They're onto me
Wonderful video! I played nakari once and just getting used to all that you can do. I died laughing at the naruto run😂. Can't wait for more
Glad you enjoyed it - thank you for your lovely comment.
I need more contentttt. I love your videos. Keep up the good work chief.
Oh you're going to love the next one Lord Farquaad.
Re: Chariots, I find that you don't want to actually tell them to attack units, but rather to just move through enemy units such as infantry. Their mass and speed allows them to send individual models flying, and it hits chunks off their hp. I'm not sure if that's just devastating flanker at work here, I suspect there is additional damage being applied just because individual models have been flung so far out of coherency for want of a better term.
Correct, but they can be a lot to micro when you're already microing your cav, Nkari and spellcasters. For ease of use I'd stick to cav. Chariots are very good but only if you can multitask well, they're v fragile.
I may be late to this, but I gotta admit.
I can watch "why I suck at any faction" all day long👏🏻
Awww thanks man. What a lovely comment.
@BlakesTakes420 You deserve it, and hope to see even more 🔥
This was such a good video series. Good job.
Thank you sir! 🫶
I have found Nkari and Taurox to be my 2 go to factions. I have pulled off some absolutely disgusting heroic victories with slaanesh. I love everything about that faction. My favorite thing to do is send cultists to Cathay and pile up corruption then spawn like 4 disciple armies at the same time and now magically I have two campaigns at the same time. Some of my fondest memories are in the open field with Nkari and her mad max chariots and some whip boys to hold the line.
FIGHTING SLAANESH ON AN OPEN FIELD, NED?
@BlakesTakes420 ohh man fighting elves on the open field with slaanesh is a wet dream
reading description of a lot of Slaanesh things... it sounds very... modern XD
Like, you have consumerism as a researchable technology XD
Like, I have feeling modern office drone will not find any unfamiliar secrets there.
As a modern office drone, I am inclined to agree.
I MISSED BLAKE'S "YOU SUCK" SERIES
Please make more of these!
Working on Slaanesh Long Victory now. I can appreciate that Slaanesh is no Tzeentch, constantly changing and ruining perfectly crafted poxes. Neither are they Khorne, casing mass death with no beauty. If anyone is a perfect partner in crime, it is Slaanesh. Grandfather will spead his love to the enraptured followers of excess.
lol the intro sounds like France’s 2024 Olympic entrance ceremony
With nakari, also, target u its behind other units to charge through. Equip a banner of swiftness asap
Yo i was looking firward to your next video 😂. Here it is!
Pleasure to be of service, sir.
The sixth domain of slaanesh palace is a realm filled with tips and tricks for total war narrated by Blake
Oh it is indeed. 🥵
@@BlakesTakes420 Great video as usual tho. Please do those sniveling Frenchmen next please! All of Bretonia needs some guidance in my hands
@@Frogjuice02 you're very kind, don't worry they're on the list.
Wow, I never expected this faction to have so much Micro managing, it's quite appealing to me. I like the idea of coordinating multiple hit and run strikes and flanks, cycling multiple units in a Flurry of Charges; A Dance for Slaanesh. I'll definitely give em a shot now.
The deadly dance unfolds.
I was a bit overwhelmed before this video, thank you :)
You're very welcome
this is just what I needed - so good.
Glad you enjoyed it!