Warhammer 2 Imrik is OP!! Total War is a Perfectly balanced Game With No Exploits! Dragon Only Army

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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
  • The warden and paunch DLC released last week with fantastic success in bringing fun back to the greenskin factions. However the DLC saw yet another update to the elves making them yet again studpidly powerful. I am of course not talking about the new dlc legendary lord but instead the free bonus lord Imrik. He is the lord of dragons and thanks to the new updates the most powerful lord to mess about with. He can lead a dragon only army which is crazy op and able to melt just about all late game opposition by swarming them with fully upgraded monsters of fire who can solo armies by themselves. I love warhammer 2 total war and this dlc is everything I love in a grand strategy game. New armies new abilities and crazy overpowered new strategies and combos.
    So sit back and watch as the spiffing brit tests to see if Total War Warhammer 2 is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits or if the overpowered dragons are broken!!
    This video game exploit video will be jam packed with a best bits funny moments montage style of editing similar to that of Valefisk, Robbaz and RTgame. So sit back relax and grab a cup of tea to enjoy with the spiffing brit!
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    Title: Warhammer 2 Imrik is OP!! Total War is a Perfectly balanced Game With No Exploits! Dragon Only Army
    #Funny #Exploit #TotalWar

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  • @98ahni
    @98ahni 4 года назад +2384

    Devs: "Look at our new DLC!"
    Spiff: "Well,.. that's kinda garbage..
    Also Spiff: *"But look at this **_free_** update!"*
    Devs: "but, _nooo..."_

    • @its2three4
      @its2three4 4 года назад +90

      inb4 spiff is never given another press key from creative assembly :(

    • @MrGrimsmith
      @MrGrimsmith 4 года назад +132

      I have a sneaking suspicion that the conversation was more along the lines of "So what do you think?" "Well, I haven't found anything bad with the stuff you sent me the key for" "Phew!" "Yet! On another topic, the other stuff? Here's a few things you might want to look in to..." "What have we done?!"
      To be fair, from the support perspective (past job) I'd prefer people found this sort of thing before it goes out to the world. Someone like Spiff needs to be on retainer to any serious developer as they are *guaranteed* to do something that wasn't expected. Give him all the keys, pay him a bounty for every exploit found, especially for multiplayer titles. Win/win for everyone.

    • @98ahni
      @98ahni 4 года назад +9

      This is the first time one of my comments has got a heart! Thanks!

    • @emescub
      @emescub 4 года назад +4

      ABSOLUTE CHAD MOVE.

    • @treelobster6137
      @treelobster6137 4 года назад +33

      It's actually tactical genius! By advertising a free feature instead of a paid one, Spiff potentially sells the game itself to more people! Upselling the DLC would at best just sell a DLC to some scrubs. They'd be fools not to give Spiff a 50% commission on every sale of Total Warhammer Deuce from the moment this video uploaded onwards.

  • @MandaloreGaming
    @MandaloreGaming 4 года назад +3249

    You're too kind.

    • @void-creature
      @void-creature 4 года назад +120

      MandaloreGaming : the guy somehow absolutely every other RUclipsr seems to adore... I mean, really can’t blame them, but still, I’m pretty sure you are using some kind of diplomacy exploit

    • @dustinmcgladrey562
      @dustinmcgladrey562 4 года назад +50

      @@void-creature I emailed him once about doing Warhammer: Dark omen and he answered the email! What a lad.

    • @brosephnoonan223
      @brosephnoonan223 4 года назад

      Gross

    • @lukeclark6803
      @lukeclark6803 4 года назад +34

      hey hey people, mandalore here

    • @nekoschar6170
      @nekoschar6170 4 года назад +1

      @@thespiffingbrit you and me both I love mandalore he's a legenddddd

  • @DCdabest
    @DCdabest 4 года назад +754

    "Egyptian Necrons"
    It's like you knew exactly the most inflaming phrase you could use to piss off a very specific group of people.

    • @Pazenator
      @Pazenator 4 года назад +121

      Though let's be honest here, every single faction in Warhammer and 40k has a single phrase that will absolutely, without fail, trigger it's fanboys.

    • @gabevenderdahl1642
      @gabevenderdahl1642 4 года назад +42

      Pazenator for tyranids it’s tau overwatch

    • @john-paulsilke893
      @john-paulsilke893 4 года назад +42

      Gabe Venderdahl or call the Tryanids Space Scaven.

    • @tyranid1174
      @tyranid1174 4 года назад +37

      @@gabevenderdahl1642 *High pitched Tyranic screeches*

    • @austinrollins1856
      @austinrollins1856 4 года назад +9

      *mechanicum noises*

  • @Mi_mcmuffin
    @Mi_mcmuffin 4 года назад +1841

    Calling Grom, the greatest Goblin king of all time, an Orc, has got to be a cardinal sin.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 4 года назад +155

      Whatever the greenskin version of a Grudging is.

    • @Red171
      @Red171 4 года назад +9

      YES

    • @jtr7377
      @jtr7377 4 года назад +93

      @@DIEGhostfish
      DER IZ NO NEED FOR SOME STOOPID BOOK, WHEN ALL YA NEED IZ A CHOPPA TO KRUMP DA GIT

    • @shrarneomar8080
      @shrarneomar8080 4 года назад +13

      excommunicatus ex cathedra

    • @akkoXD
      @akkoXD 4 года назад +5

      THANK YOU

  • @-AytaL-
    @-AytaL- 4 года назад +330

    "You, French, you fight for money. And we, English, we fight for honor". Surcouf replied while "Everyone fights for what they lack"

  • @Sarril101
    @Sarril101 2 года назад +125

    30:58 "Yes we could auto-resolve and instantly win, but I find it more fun when there's a bit of a challenge involved" - Spiff 2020, leading an army of dragons, with heroes having legendary artifacts equipped

  • @MakAlexMosc
    @MakAlexMosc 4 года назад +662

    1:12 "Egyptian Necrons"
    I think we made full circle here.

    • @alexanderzhmurov9624
      @alexanderzhmurov9624 4 года назад +8

      I was Just thinking that!!

    • @megashark0305
      @megashark0305 4 года назад +191

      “What’re Tomb Kings?”
      “Egyptian Necrons.”
      “What’re Necrons?”
      “Space Tomb Kings.”

    • @TheTilitus
      @TheTilitus 4 года назад +11

      @@megashark0305 "Tomb Kings of space"

    • @seb2750
      @seb2750 4 года назад +4

      lol yeah I had to pause and rewind that bit.

    • @brianring3425
      @brianring3425 4 года назад +4

      Tomb Kings were came out way before Necrons. So Necrons are space Tomb Kings.

  • @102728
    @102728 4 года назад +1758

    Daenerys: I'm the mother of dragons
    Imrik: That's cute

    • @lemeres2478
      @lemeres2478 4 года назад +117

      He is the romancer of dragons. Hide your daughters Daenerys. Sons too.

    • @shawneti7893
      @shawneti7893 4 года назад +51

      He' da dragon daddy

    • @italianspiderman5012
      @italianspiderman5012 4 года назад +6

      Stepmother actually.

    • @dylanjwagner
      @dylanjwagner 4 года назад +59

      More like
      Dænarys: I’m the mother of dragons
      Imrik: well, they all call me Daddy. ;)
      Everyone else: o_o

    • @codyhedrick4295
      @codyhedrick4295 4 года назад

      shawneti oo on ono. Lno n y🤤🥔😜😭♋️♈️♈️🕎🕎🕎🕎🕎🇬🇧🇻🇮

  • @bennytheclone1199
    @bennytheclone1199 3 года назад +265

    Imagine being a warrior who grew up in peasantry and trained their entire life to fight for their land, home, and family. ONLY TO GET THEIR SHEIT ROCKED BY AN ARMADA OF DRAGONS.

    • @bensoncheung2801
      @bensoncheung2801 2 года назад +22

      Or one of Spiff's spearmen, just paid to stand around and look good while the dragons do all the work.

    • @azraelselvmord3650
      @azraelselvmord3650 2 года назад +10

      @@bensoncheung2801 Best job in the world.

    • @maciejstelmasinski6630
      @maciejstelmasinski6630 Год назад

      B

    • @witherslayer8673
      @witherslayer8673 Год назад +1

      fleet, not armada(armada is a naval army)

    • @Asgardians3t
      @Asgardians3t 8 месяцев назад

      @@witherslayer8673 the word fleet also is for Naval army. the right word for a huge army is Legion :)

  • @hinty6424
    @hinty6424 4 года назад +1637

    So. An Imrik campaign is essentially "Pokemon: Veitnam".

    • @lemeres2478
      @lemeres2478 4 года назад +40

      It is a bit more like a "Pokemon: Lance version"

    • @JAS1983-t4e
      @JAS1983-t4e 4 года назад +22

      spiff: if it can fly it can sizzle.
      the plains in the sky: burns.

    • @j-hackhammer6078
      @j-hackhammer6078 4 года назад +11

      pretty much, except you're supposed to play as america and actually win

    • @DCdabest
      @DCdabest 4 года назад +1

      "Gotta FUBAR them all!"

    • @cajeeofkitagawa4361
      @cajeeofkitagawa4361 4 года назад

      @@DCdabest imrik has rubbish campaign benefits tho. Go Eltharion and confederate Imrik. much better

  • @scyantic4104
    @scyantic4104 4 года назад +140

    Spiffs:"All of the other elves live on this magic donut."
    *Sad Alinth noises*

    • @Horvath_Gabor
      @Horvath_Gabor 4 года назад +18

      Also Teclis, as he starts in Lustria both in Vortex and ME.

    • @scyantic4104
      @scyantic4104 4 года назад

      True, forgot about him

    • @Bongstahable
      @Bongstahable 4 года назад +6

      @@scyantic4104 Even sadder Teclis noises

    • @IntusMortuum
      @IntusMortuum 3 года назад

      Alith Anar's realm is technically the NE of Ulthuan though. He only fights in Naggaronds lands to prevent them invading Naggaryth. Which fails obviously since the game starts with the Scourge of Khayne owning his lands

  • @zimeron1
    @zimeron1 4 года назад +522

    New exploit for you Spiff: Checking the new "AI Control" button on reinforcements and unchecking the "Control Large Army" box means that the enemy cannot reinforce (capped to 20 units) but you still get your entire reinforcement stack, just with the reinforcements under AI control (it counts the AI reinforcements as a different faction). Basically a free lightning strike.

    • @generalharness8266
      @generalharness8266 4 года назад +11

      2 bad the AI is so dumb

    • @bubbasbigblast8563
      @bubbasbigblast8563 4 года назад +25

      They do reinforce, but it's actually worse for the AI because they send the replacement units to fight alone as they reach the battlefield.

    • @joeb1955
      @joeb1955 4 года назад +4

      If you do this as greenskins your waagh ability doesn't affect the reinforcing units. Only your original 20.

    • @zachcreaghcoen2389
      @zachcreaghcoen2389 4 года назад +1

      This is not in any way an exploit and if you want to classify it was that people have been using this one since the game came out so NEW dosnt really track there

    • @darvicproductions4417
      @darvicproductions4417 4 года назад +24

      @@zachcreaghcoen2389 Welp since the AI control button was added with the latest patch, it's technically a new exploit.

  • @firockfinion3326
    @firockfinion3326 4 года назад +469

    Dovahkin: "I can kill dragons and consume their souls for power."
    Imrik: "I'll do you one better."
    Donkey from Shrek: "And I'll do _you_ one better."

    • @blackmoon7668
      @blackmoon7668 4 года назад +27

      Donkey should be named Donkey Kong with a Big Dong. He did that dragon after all.

    • @mavericksetsuna7396
      @mavericksetsuna7396 4 года назад +7

      This better be pinned.

    • @teddy-beargamer6385
      @teddy-beargamer6385 4 года назад +1

      @@blackmoon7668 poor bastard probably had to go spelunking

  • @lagbait3076
    @lagbait3076 4 года назад +563

    I just love the smell of dragon's fire in the morning.

  • @Storming360
    @Storming360 2 года назад +74

    Elthorion is actually pretty great. He has his specific units which are a shoulder above everyone else, he can buff units with his capture ability and his faction is very well defended because of buffs and place in map.

    • @Wargulf2838
      @Wargulf2838 2 года назад +7

      is he better than dragon napalm though?

    • @Storming360
      @Storming360 2 года назад +15

      @@Wargulf2838 more certainly. Dragon spam can be done with every high elf faction and confederated legendary lord but Elthorion is unique. Also dragon breath is nightmare to micromanage, especially the angle of attack could be different between 50% kill to 5% kill.

  • @JB-xl2jc
    @JB-xl2jc 4 года назад +358

    Eltharion's buffs apply to Mistwalker units of the proper types, along with the Tor Yvresse buffs for those units, so at higher levels you can have an army with 18 of them, a mage, and then Eltharion.... it becomes literally unbeatable. They become like Lothern Sea Guard with double the range and missile damage on the level of Sisters of Avellorn. It's pretty wild honestly.
    As for Grom, he suffers from the fact that the Greenskin roster is melee-based which suffers at higher difficulties. The AI gets too many bonuses in melee combat that they don't in ranged. But, his cooking mechanic has some wild options. Aside from campain bonuses which really do help, my favorite is actually... the one that makes EVERY goblin arrow explosive. EVERY SINGLE ONE. So your cheap unit of Gobbo archers can fire into a group of spearmen.... and every arrowhead explodes and deals splash damage. It's lovely.
    Imrik is pretty great though, I shan't lie.

    • @brningpyre
      @brningpyre 4 года назад +4

      The real fun is when you give your Elves a Waugh.

    • @Arbaaltheundefeated
      @Arbaaltheundefeated 4 года назад +2

      And the spearmen bonus applies to their new unit whose name at the moment escapes me, the considerably better spearmen. I'm not sure if it might even apply to Lothern Sea Guard, haven't checked... I'm still of the opinion that Alith Anar is the most OP Elf though purely because of his blanket bonuses to all ranged infantry units, which are king in Warhammer campaign and especially for Elven factions.

    • @cathulionetharn5139
      @cathulionetharn5139 4 года назад +8

      @@Arbaaltheundefeated forest dragon blessing:
      - 2000 gold
      - 10 turns
      - +20apmelee damage
      - +60%ap ranged damage
      because apparently lothern sea guard shields and SISTERS OF AVELORN!!! spams aren't good enough
      From what I understand when you challenge and beat a dragon you remove it from the blessing roster so you can technically have only this guy left.

    • @dr.vikyll7466
      @dr.vikyll7466 4 года назад +20

      Grom has the advantage of being really funny though

    • @chrisf7730
      @chrisf7730 4 года назад

      Iron Gobbos

  • @AnonSeacat
    @AnonSeacat 4 года назад +67

    "Then you've got the lizard people for when you just want to be weird..." Look, some of us just like having armies of all dinosaurs.

  • @Magaruis
    @Magaruis 4 года назад +400

    Someone at Creative Assembly ;"Should we test this DL ?
    Some other bloke at CA ;"Nah , lets just give a key to the spliffing brit and fix whatever he finds."

    • @kairuw6477
      @kairuw6477 4 года назад +11

      I mean spiff didn’t play it so... I guess it means it’s good to go lol

    • @Myerfire1
      @Myerfire1 4 года назад +34

      LegendOfTotalWar is the true game breaker ;)

    • @peebutt6225
      @peebutt6225 4 года назад +18

      @@Myerfire1 What this guy said. This video is actually a bit of a useless addition because everyone already knows that spamming big dick units in Warhammer 2 is OP. Dragon Ogre Shaggoths, War Mammoths, Steam Tanks, etc.

    • @trantrungnam612
      @trantrungnam612 4 года назад +18

      pee butt it looks impressive for noobs or people who aren’t playing the game, not the same effects for veterans though lol

    • @pinguin4898
      @pinguin4898 4 года назад

      unsurprisingly effective

  • @SkipaDaFlipa
    @SkipaDaFlipa 4 года назад +53

    I love how genuine Brit is. He dosnt trash on the game for having these kinda wack additions, but rather embraces it and encourages people to have fun with it. Love your channel man, keep up the good work!

    • @yevgenyiyeet8737
      @yevgenyiyeet8737 4 года назад +3

      he is genuine but he is also very wrong a couple of times in the video

    • @SkipaDaFlipa
      @SkipaDaFlipa 4 года назад +2

      yevgenyi yeet yeah, but that’s to be expected tbh

    • @chriskowalski6087
      @chriskowalski6087 4 года назад +5

      He’s super wrong about so many things in this video. Not to be a war hammer gatekeeper but he’s playing on normal difficulty, which is a cakewalk with literally any lord or race. If he tried this on legendary he would do decent for the three breaths then land and get decimated. I would love to see him try to do this on legendary just to see what happens.

    • @casvandijck9338
      @casvandijck9338 Год назад

      @@chriskowalski6087 I feel that every true exploit should be shown in legendary mode, no matter the game.

    • @lafaucheuse2001
      @lafaucheuse2001 Год назад

      @@casvandijck9338 yeah but he does not have the skill to do so

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 года назад +620

    If I drank a cup of tea after every soldier has died in this game, I would attain the title of a true Brit and go to the rest room every three minutes.

    • @wayne2629
      @wayne2629 4 года назад +13

      Man how u everywhere

    • @sincord1
      @sincord1 4 года назад +2

      and we meet again. Until next video

    • @joethesheep4675
      @joethesheep4675 4 года назад +2

      no. You would drown yourself.
      So, no worries about having to run to the restroom all the time. You should be fine. ;-)

    • @nikolasmurasaki8587
      @nikolasmurasaki8587 4 года назад +1

      And have heart attack

    • @kekkek3358
      @kekkek3358 4 года назад

      get a diaper so no disturbance while drinking tea

  • @aulvinduergard9952
    @aulvinduergard9952 4 года назад +87

    Alternate title: _How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended_

  • @sambradley7393
    @sambradley7393 4 года назад +380

    This is gonna give Legendoftotalwar an aneurism

    • @robinekhoodekful
      @robinekhoodekful 4 года назад +78

      Well yeah, but this is normal difficulty so you can manage it way easier

    • @adrianbundy3249
      @adrianbundy3249 4 года назад +50

      @MongrelMage He might use it more if he played a difficulty where you can pause the game to queue up these dragon breaths on different units nearly as much as this video displayed.

    • @varmituofm
      @varmituofm 4 года назад +31

      Why? His current campaign has Imrik with all dragon army.

    • @bubbasbigblast8563
      @bubbasbigblast8563 4 года назад +22

      Dragons aren't great on Legendary Ultra size: they take a long damn time to chew through the enemy doomstacks.

    • @skyeazura3593
      @skyeazura3593 4 года назад +3

      Legend will have some words for this

  • @RetiringvirusReacts
    @RetiringvirusReacts 2 года назад +102

    Just a heads up @The Spiffing Brit i noticed you didnt go down the bottom tree of level ups on Imrik and i think that's a mistake, because you know how you got the dragons upkeep down to -75%. Well the bottom tree by investing 10 points, you can add an extra -23% upkeep to your entire army not just dragons, so in theory you can have you upkeep on the dragons in Imriks army at only 2% upkeep XD so good

    • @nobody-yj9uu
      @nobody-yj9uu 2 года назад +7

      Free dragon estate lol

    • @danielkirpichnikov2007
      @danielkirpichnikov2007 2 года назад +1

      just attach a noble with 15% upkeep trait to the army. Anyway it doesn't work on higher campaign difficult and there are better points to spend

  • @aaronbasham6554
    @aaronbasham6554 4 года назад +251

    *spiff says Grom is an orc.*
    Grom: Finally, someone to snack on

  • @youvebeengreeked
    @youvebeengreeked 2 года назад +18

    "ROME: Total War: The best game of all time."
    *You, Sir Spiff, are a true man of culture.*

  • @borislander1
    @borislander1 4 года назад +103

    Smaug: "I am fire. I am death."
    Spiff: "Allow me to introduce myself."

  • @gosuckalemon988
    @gosuckalemon988 4 года назад +390

    "Imrik is the only one that gets things done."
    * Alith Anar stares at the Spiffing Brit while shooting Malekith and Tyrion and ambushing every god-damn dark elf west of the high elf donuts*.

    • @Differentialify
      @Differentialify 4 года назад +44

      All praise the Edge-King

    • @NICOTHATKID
      @NICOTHATKID 4 года назад +22

      Someone’s deep into lore.

    • @generalharness8266
      @generalharness8266 4 года назад +28

      The arch mages are a massive buff for him as they get ancient cunning so every army can have a 100% ambush rate.

    • @CrashB111
      @CrashB111 4 года назад +36

      @@generalharness8266 Dark Elves when the coastlines start speaking Asur: *Deep Concern*

    • @raikaria3090
      @raikaria3090 4 года назад +7

      Yeah but Alenith Anar dosen't like the other High Elves much so....

  • @ClingyParasite
    @ClingyParasite 4 года назад +39

    Imrik's army serves to stand there to be his live audience as he flexes on the dwarfs

  • @kuvuta
    @kuvuta 4 года назад +158

    "Longbeards - A very powerful lategame unit"
    Yeah, sure Spiff^^

    • @benvos2458
      @benvos2458 4 года назад +38

      yeah some of the things he says just aren't really true, but it sure is entertaining.

    • @KorsAir1987
      @KorsAir1987 4 года назад +15

      Probably the best mid-tier line-holding infantry though

    • @Grivehn
      @Grivehn 4 года назад +8

      Also Saurian infantry being above spearmen. Saurus are best tier 1 infantry, but still tier 1. Regardless, entertaining video for sure :)

    • @yevgenyiyeet8737
      @yevgenyiyeet8737 4 года назад +8

      @@Grivehn saurus are better than spearmen. maybe not for High elves because of the playstyle but they are better.

    • @Grivehn
      @Grivehn 4 года назад +7

      @@yevgenyiyeet8737 Perhaps I wasnt clear. Yes, Saurus are better than Spearmen. Spiff just incorrectly named them higher tier, while they are both tier 1 units.
      However, he does play the most famous strategy games so Im not expecting him to remember each and every unit correctly. Just joined the nitpicking team a bit here, but honestly its not a big mistake.

  • @naboost9485
    @naboost9485 4 года назад +36

    "there is nothing that can one shot a dragon" : have you heard of the troll torpedo dwarfs doomstack ?

    • @matthunt8190
      @matthunt8190 4 года назад +11

      not a story the assur would tell

    • @benjaminlindqvist6274
      @benjaminlindqvist6274 4 года назад

      Aka, The Torpedo Stack, lol.

    • @jacobwalsh1888
      @jacobwalsh1888 4 года назад +4

      Its not a one shot if it takes a dozen units to do it.

    • @07calabria
      @07calabria 3 года назад +2

      One shot from 15 different units

  • @psmv3
    @psmv3 4 года назад +76

    Ok this is kinda getting weird. I’m subbed with notifications on RTGames and The Spiffing Brit, but when a video gets released on RTGames I immediately get a video from The Spiffing Brit. This has happened to tons of times.

  • @CStone-xn4oy
    @CStone-xn4oy Год назад +10

    Seeing all those dragons descend on that one Lord at the end made me smile. "Are you alright? Are you having fun in there? Oh he routed."

  • @borgCube100
    @borgCube100 3 года назад +12

    ADDITION - Those sword of Khaine wielding incendiary Archmages can ride Moon Dragons lol. So there's that too. Only 10 months late for saying this.

  • @Fastwinstondoom
    @Fastwinstondoom 4 года назад +118

    You should try this again on a higher difficulty setting. I want to hear about how you spent the first 40 turns avoiding having your dragons eaten by Eshin rats.

    • @BittermanAndy
      @BittermanAndy 4 года назад +4

      Yeah, this.

    • @alexeben7776
      @alexeben7776 4 года назад +2

      Very easy on legendary once you own the dragons.

    • @lafaucheuse2001
      @lafaucheuse2001 4 года назад

      @@alexeben7776 only way to really get away in legendary is by taking Avelorn, to global recrute sisters of Avelorn and cheese the fck out of everyone. Or taking a doom stack of star dragons, but other dragons are just not worth

    • @TheKINGJONSEY
      @TheKINGJONSEY 4 года назад +2

      New to the game here, how did he have 4 dragons so early? I get imrik gets one as a mount but could he have beaten the dragon battles so early?

    • @thomasmeyer6943
      @thomasmeyer6943 4 года назад +8

      @@TheKINGJONSEY IIRC Dragon fights are currently every 15 turns and on hard the fights are complete pushovers after the first one assuming you stick all the dragons in Imrik's army. You can have all of them by turn 90. Plus Imrik gets a dragon mount at 14 and Fire Mages get a dragon mount at 22.

  • @chiromagi7822
    @chiromagi7822 4 года назад +93

    Oh beans, never been this early to a Spiffing video before. Gonna grab some tea and watch only the most balanced of gameplay.

    • @bigchurroentertainment3452
      @bigchurroentertainment3452 4 года назад +2

      Yes, most balanced indeed

    • @Haarsgard
      @Haarsgard 4 года назад

      He actually has no idea what is actually broken in the game. He has no idea

  • @nroke1684
    @nroke1684 4 года назад +74

    The devs forgot the most important question,
    -
    -
    -
    -
    “BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS?!”

    • @gameoflife9576
      @gameoflife9576 4 года назад +6

      I got that Shadiversity reference.

  • @gunter488
    @gunter488 4 года назад +52

    Spiffing Brit: "Dragon breath is OP!"
    Wind of Death: *exists*

  • @rossassin
    @rossassin 4 года назад +40

    "some of the things which makes Imrik's campaign so *easy*"
    I saw that normal difficulty you know!

    • @Finwaell
      @Finwaell 3 года назад +1

      yep, on legendary it's one of the top 2 hardest starts along with Malus Darkblade.

  • @marnixjonker4951
    @marnixjonker4951 4 года назад +15

    spiffing brit has like a separate harddrive just for all those stock photos

  • @TheGuardingDark_
    @TheGuardingDark_ Год назад +5

    “Dragonsfire, nothing else in the world smells like that. Smells like victory.”

  • @CommissarMitch
    @CommissarMitch 4 года назад +11

    I love how Spiff does not know any of the lore. I genuinly love seeing someone fresh say wrong stuff and chuckeling to myself.

  • @dank_smirk2ndchannel200
    @dank_smirk2ndchannel200 3 года назад +6

    2:03 "Well, ladies and gentlemen, he's not overpowered, he's okay. Yeah he's just a pretty decent lord, nothing too special."
    I see that Spiff has not yet found out about the cheesy exploits that makes up Grom's cauldron.

  • @lpletch118
    @lpletch118 4 года назад +8

    Spiff: "Have I told you about the Hall of Dragons in Vaul's Anvil?"

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 4 года назад +12

    Callin Grom and Orc? That's whatever the Greenskin version of a Grudging is.

    • @bulldogant3781
      @bulldogant3781 4 года назад

      meats back on the menu for grom’s gobbers

  • @alexanderlisin1134
    @alexanderlisin1134 4 года назад +54

    LegendofTotalWar: Spiffing brit chose wrong faction to cheese with dragons!

    • @KazeKoichi
      @KazeKoichi 4 года назад

      He never said that.

    • @rockstar450
      @rockstar450 4 года назад

      Calador is actually the weakest high elf faction due to their start. Normal difficulty, all their campaigns are laughably easy but Imrik is the only one with gimped economy. By the time he gets all his dragons Alith Anar can own half the map

    • @alexanderlisin1134
      @alexanderlisin1134 4 года назад

      @@rockstar450 not weakest, but hardest to start. i played on very hard and there are the main imrik boi troubles:
      1) rats at the beginning can send you back to campaign selector
      2) some of your winning conditions provinces usually owned by grudgy santa and tyrion the unconfederable. that usually takes you to war w them and ORDERTIDE
      Apart from that, pretty good elf campaign. And yes, Alith Anar is a f-ing scaven

    • @rockstar450
      @rockstar450 4 года назад

      Alexander Lisin i agree after the first 30 turns you’re only an alliance away from the dwarves away from winning, but Calador still remains the weakest faction. He gets a doomstack but they all can get a doomstack and can easily run x2 mid-tier stacks to take the whole map. Imrik doesn’t have trade or the economy. He’s still excellent but even Teclis and Eltharion have way better economies and can raise far deadlier stacks sooner.

  • @DanteneNyx
    @DanteneNyx 3 года назад +19

    You should do an archery one with the wood elves. Seriously OP…

  • @trickedgames4019
    @trickedgames4019 4 года назад +11

    I just finished making a cuppa tea when this uploaded. That timing was impeccable.

  • @Yiazamat
    @Yiazamat 4 года назад +8

    31:02 Spiff: "I find it more fun when there's a bit of a challenge."
    Me: So that was a lie.

  • @Talvekuningas
    @Talvekuningas 4 года назад +8

    i play imrik on legendary. he's my favorite ! dragons are great even on higher difficulty. it's more tricky than sisters of avelon , but it still works great.

    • @thatguy3421
      @thatguy3421 2 года назад

      I am struggling to defeat my first dragon even on normal. some assistance I will need

  • @SereglothIV
    @SereglothIV 2 года назад +16

    I find it amusing how Spiff is so proud of himself that he cheesed the lizardmen to sally out from their walled city and corner camped, while in fact assaulting the city would be much easier and cheesier.

  • @lordbalthosadinferni4384
    @lordbalthosadinferni4384 3 года назад +6

    This really brings to mind that phrase Shadiversity is ever so fond of:
    "BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS???"

  • @MadnessIncVP
    @MadnessIncVP 4 года назад +6

    "The Napalm. It's too much!"
    No, Spiff. There's *never* 'too much' Napalm.

  • @durrangodsgrief6503
    @durrangodsgrief6503 4 года назад +6

    Spiff: Grom the paunch the greatest orc to ever live
    Me looks at grimgor:
    You best take that back friend

    • @AsaelTheBeast
      @AsaelTheBeast 4 года назад

      Grom isnt even an orc, he's a really fat goblin.

  • @AcidPhos69
    @AcidPhos69 4 года назад +1

    I just want to say that I noticed you used the cover of Warhammer: Battle March for the background on the thumbnail and I love it.

  • @charlieawerbuch5352
    @charlieawerbuch5352 4 года назад +42

    The Imrik Cheese here is honestly rather meh outside of easy. Yeah, dragon's are pretty solid, but by time you get them you can usually only afford a single stack, and the AI is throwing 4-5 full stacks at you a turn. far better using archer stacks for early game and shifting into Sister stack for the mid to late game - they are cheaper and just as effective allowing you to field more armies and better handle the multiple armies being thrown at you.
    Oh, and regarding your "I need the spearmen and archers to anchor my dragons" you don't. Dismiss them, and recruit a life mage on a horse. There you go, that is your ground based anchor so you don't auto lose which can also heal your dragons thereby reducing your downtime between fights.
    Had you done this video during the early access period, you could have broken the game in half with Grom and one of his food buffs that turned gobbo archers into 90 damage killing machines, but CA fixed that one prior to releasing the game.
    And Eltharion has an ability that gives every unit in his army infinite ammo, which we still can't believe they actually gave him.

    • @clairelili873
      @clairelili873 4 года назад +2

      tbf, its only to eltharion, right? so it doesnt affect too much outside early/mid-game.
      ikit have a way stronger infinite ammo with those ratling guns, that with some combos, you really only need them as anything else il be melted in 1 volley.

    • @Witch_King
      @Witch_King 4 года назад +4

      @@clairelili873 yeah, but Eltharion has access to one of the strongest missile infantry in the game with 200+ range and decent melee stats. As for Skavens, their military equipment had a chance of destroying itself during the process and killing its crew and I don't understand why CA hasn't implemented that mechanics since we had miscast chance.

    • @Ansalion
      @Ansalion 4 года назад +1

      What are you talking about? Elves can build up an insane economy with entrepreneur heroes and if you have dragon-willed lords and Hall of Dragons, dragons are basically free. You can easily field 10 armies of all dragons that only cost ~2000 gold each.

  • @GamingMagicMark
    @GamingMagicMark 4 года назад +4

    "That'll teach you for grouping up..." Never a truer or more timely phrase used ;)

  • @gerhardvanniekerk3759
    @gerhardvanniekerk3759 4 года назад +16

    For the love of everything tea. Can we please get a video from Spiff co on the perfect balance of sid meier's civilization beyond earth.

  • @EverybodyhatesChris98
    @EverybodyhatesChris98 4 года назад +1

    I really love Warhammer II, and i love watching spiff break games so these video’s are awesome. I especially enjoy your video on the vampire hero blob, a cheese that i now like to use myself :)

  • @Human_Decoy
    @Human_Decoy 4 года назад +4

    5:22
    Spiff: "It's warHammer Time"
    Can't touch this

  • @IntusMortuum
    @IntusMortuum 3 года назад +4

    See my Imrik campaign so far has me fighting Druchii who own the entire map... it's me in the corner battling 4 armies to every 1 of mine. Rough part of the elvish roster is that they are pricey and the main income of High Elves is trade.... and I have no friends to trade with. Imrik is a beast but he can't be everywhere, especially when Chaos invasions are a thing

    • @SereglothIV
      @SereglothIV 2 года назад +1

      Main high elves income is taxes. Recruit a lot of mages with entrepreneur trait. They increase local tax rate by 15% and global tax rate by 3%. And it STACKS. Put 10 of them in a province and it's tax rate will be around 280% (100 basic + 150 local bonus + 30 global bonus). The only problem with it is that you need a tier 4 city to increase your capacity for mages. The income boost isn't that significant at first, but gets more and more powerful the more mages you recruit.
      Max possible capacity for one hero type is 100. In theory, if you hire 100 mages with the entrepreneur trait and you put them all in one province the tax rate there will be 1900% and 300% in all your other provinces. What it means is that a single building that would normally make like 200 gold, can now make even 4000 gold.
      In my campaign where I conquered the entire map as Avelorn, my income was over 600k per turn.

  • @dilophosaurussk4333
    @dilophosaurussk4333 4 года назад +4

    15:25
    "We can fight whoever we want"
    *Sees a settlement owned by Grimgor*
    *Shooketh*

  • @JunkyardGod
    @JunkyardGod Год назад +1

    Napalm Death is a legendary grind core band. They also have the record for the shortest song ever. It's called You Suffer.

  • @asterixobelix20
    @asterixobelix20 4 года назад +6

    Damn, you and Mandalore really makes me want to play this game even though these kind of games are not really my cup of tea (pun intended).

  • @inferndragon
    @inferndragon 4 года назад +2

    To be honest I've been obsessed with the dwarven flame throwers... Literally being able to control the battle with 1 unit... Now since the invocation of Imrik... I feel like I've found a new favourite.
    Other than Deathmaster Snitch of Clan Eshin (who also starts next to this boy)... Sounds like alot of fun...

  • @thebastmaster
    @thebastmaster 4 года назад +2

    Spiff: "Because all of the actual elves live on this donut."
    Alith Anar, the Shadow King and Prince of Nagarythe: "Am I a joke to you?"

  • @kingsarues1586
    @kingsarues1586 4 года назад +12

    Spiff: go watch the mandalore video.
    Me: I’m pretty sure he’s ssseth

  • @mistcat8833
    @mistcat8833 4 года назад +5

    "The thing about treeeees....very flammable....VERY FLAMMABLE" 🤣

  • @spooky2466
    @spooky2466 4 года назад +10

    "Nothing can one-shot a dragon"
    Irondrakes doomstack: k

    • @Mugdorna
      @Mugdorna 4 года назад +1

      My thoughts exactly.
      Got 2 Trollhamner torpedo dooms tacks in my late fane Dwarf campaign. Although only 3 engineers with one of them.

    • @quasarlgq
      @quasarlgq 4 года назад

      In small unit scale Grom literally one shots dragons with his glare ability, and since it has no Cooldown it can one shot 3 dragons. I know small scale is broken, but all my laptop allows me

  • @emetanti
    @emetanti 3 года назад +3

    Just remember: Its not a Imrik campaign until you at full volume blast "Magic Dragon" by Gloryhammer throughout it.

  • @iulianju7893
    @iulianju7893 4 года назад +14

    Have to say, coming up with an exploit video in a game that has Legend of Total War is pretty hard.

    • @Haarsgard
      @Haarsgard 4 года назад +1

      And he didn't even come up with an exploit

    • @udozocklein6023
      @udozocklein6023 3 года назад

      ​@@Haarsgard thats the magic - the game exploits itself.

    • @Haarsgard
      @Haarsgard 3 года назад +2

      @@udozocklein6023 that kinda isn't how that works

    • @udozocklein6023
      @udozocklein6023 3 года назад

      @@Haarsgard lol

  • @BelthansMods
    @BelthansMods 4 года назад +4

    Saw "Napalm Death" thumbnail, expected to hear some metal.

  • @drbeeant
    @drbeeant 4 года назад +7

    -Longbeards
    "A very powerful late game unit"
    *He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit!*

  • @MCshadr217
    @MCshadr217 3 года назад +8

    Spearmen and archers: What do we even do then?
    The Spiffing Brit: Stand there and look pretty.

    • @SudsyMedusa53
      @SudsyMedusa53 2 года назад +1

      They're elves, they're good at that.

  • @F_L_U_X
    @F_L_U_X 4 года назад +15

    10:00 "-25% upkeep for dragons, -25% recruiting for dragons...what that means is 75%"?

    • @lucasbeck1391
      @lucasbeck1391 4 года назад +7

      Combined with his other bonuses probably
      (Haven't played imrik so i dont know)

    • @divout6688
      @divout6688 4 года назад +4

      And then you have an other 23% in the ordinary elven lord-skill tree. Plus 5% in the techtree. So at the very least you're down to 47% upkeep for the dragons.

    • @MonaFlowers__
      @MonaFlowers__ 4 года назад +1

      Yup -25 for two forms of dragon army building means a 75% overall cost

    • @adrianbundy3249
      @adrianbundy3249 4 года назад

      -25% recruitment can be forgotten about. Upkeep is really the main thing that matters, recruitment cost is a tease.

  • @tohafi
    @tohafi 4 года назад +1

    I played his campaing. On turn ~15, four skaven lords, with 17-20 Units each, arrived at my capitol :) After the battle (i lost for some reason) it told me, that the skaven had 5100 units remaining. Even tho i got destoryed, it looked very cool!

  • @Gormathius
    @Gormathius 3 года назад +3

    "The dark elves for when you're feeling a little spicy" That's the politest way of saying "edgy" I've ever heard.

  • @ragespark7080
    @ragespark7080 Год назад

    Checked out Mandalore Gaming and dam boi did I had fun for an hour and a half. Now im back here to finish watching your video. You guys made me download the game again! Great stuff

  • @defensivekobra3873
    @defensivekobra3873 4 года назад +8

    When the mountains start speaking dragonic and elf
    *panics in dwarf*

  • @sillyboy9314
    @sillyboy9314 4 года назад

    Hi Spiff, did you know that you can get goblin archers to deal 80 damage 60 of which is armour peircing. Play as Grom, get eagle talons. add the eagles talons as the 3rd ingridient to the cauldron, then use scrap to increase the AP damage by multiplying by 10, the eagle talons add 5 making 6 ap damage which is, 6*10 = 60 + 20 base damage = 80

  • @johnp.2267
    @johnp.2267 4 года назад +30

    "We want you to check out our new paid DLC, Spiff!"
    **shows off free content that's better**

  • @mrkakaw358
    @mrkakaw358 4 года назад

    Is that a Grindcore band reference i see in the Thumbnail? How GLORIUS!

  • @ondank
    @ondank 3 года назад +3

    "Thanks for the free key ... but I think you misunderstood my channel"

  • @Nick-bi9xf
    @Nick-bi9xf 3 года назад

    you are definitely a most excellent Brit. This video got me into playing this game. thank you for this, you glorious sausage. also you got me into OpenTTD as well.

  • @SereglothIV
    @SereglothIV 2 года назад +14

    Spiff: Look how powerful I am!
    also Spiff: 600 income at turn 96 as high elves on normal difficulty

  • @Welcomingpotato
    @Welcomingpotato 4 года назад +2

    One problem Spiff, Dwarfs can get units that rip dragons out the air before they can get close.

  • @hudsondeweerd3910
    @hudsondeweerd3910 2 года назад +8

    "There is nothing in the game that can one hit a dragon" sips my tea.

  • @livingwish
    @livingwish 4 года назад +1

    That feeling when you're sitting down for a nice Spiff video and sipping your tea when suddenly an unknown picture with a guy that looks EXACTLY like you many years ago in an outfit you can't remember. Does anybody know where the image on 4:28 is from?

    • @udozocklein6023
      @udozocklein6023 3 года назад

      if you didn't wear this outfit ever, just don't worry about it. theres a good chance that theres multiple people on this planet looking just like you.

  • @FirelordJade
    @FirelordJade 4 года назад +17

    Exploits warhammer 2 by just playing Warhammer 2

  • @evanmcmaster3900
    @evanmcmaster3900 4 года назад +3

    I'm just glad someone finally showed me the correct way to play this game.

  • @Arthur-jx8bm
    @Arthur-jx8bm 4 года назад +19

    How the f has Spiffing Brit not got the Queen and crone DLC and still be successful with the High elves. Sisters of Avelorn is quite possibly the best doomstack ever
    PS Grom isn't an Orc, just a very fat Goblin

    • @calrex4513
      @calrex4513 4 года назад +1

      you do not need Sisters of Averlorn to win while yes they are powerul they are weak against monster doomstacks

    • @chriskowalski6087
      @chriskowalski6087 4 года назад

      Calen Clay not really, they shred most doomstacks. The only doomstacks they’d have trouble against is the lizard men, and the AI normally doesn’t make doomstacks per say.

  • @RedwoodTheElf
    @RedwoodTheElf 2 года назад +2

    Hey Spiff, I've got a new glitch for you to do a "Perfectly balanced game" video on for "Pathfinder, Wrath of the righteous"
    Step 1: Play the game normally until you get Daeran the oracle in your party.
    Step 2: Level up until he can get the "Life Link" ability.
    Step 3: From that point on, he is immortal. Put a life link on every member of your party, and send Daeran in first in every fight to get the agro of all the enemies.
    No matter how much damage he takes, he never goes below zero hit points, and simply won't go down.There are some ambush situations where this won't work, but for the really tough battles, in most cases, you can pick a character to go in first to get all the enemies to attack, and if it's Daeran, you win.

  • @raikaria3090
    @raikaria3090 4 года назад +3

    "These dragons are perfectly balanced"
    > Lions have the most kills

  • @kevingersteling8007
    @kevingersteling8007 4 года назад

    Spiff you kill me on this single point.
    Despite knowing exactly what is going on and what is gonna happen, you have such a tone of surprise and you make like there was no way you could have expected "that". Frikkin hilarious XD

  • @hugoakerlund5114
    @hugoakerlund5114 4 года назад +6

    Grom is not an orc, He's a goblin. And Eltharion is actually one of the best commanders in the game.

  • @patrickh8109
    @patrickh8109 4 года назад

    In the Grom the Paunch campaign there's a way using the right combination of upgrades and recipes to make your basic goblin archers do as much damage as Wood Elf Way Watchers. I think it was eagle talon ingredient, heavy ammo, and all the goblin research.

  • @unknownunknowner2903
    @unknownunknowner2903 4 года назад +11

    I like Spiff videos, but, honestly, he's not absolutely right, and this really looks like an exploit for those, who does not know the game. I had 120 turns as Imrik on very hard, yes Imrik's dragons are OP, but that's hard to survive at the beginning, and generally speaking having one beast army is not that important if you have to control large territory, there are also more details, but anyway video is nice

    • @frederikaltmann9051
      @frederikaltmann9051 4 года назад

      High elves in general are completely OP. Mist walker armies with eltharion are basically unbeatable.

  • @the_dropbear4392
    @the_dropbear4392 4 года назад

    You should try Eltharion, his buffs to his special mistwalker units are very powerful.
    One of the units is essential better lothern sea guard on crack, with the range of artillery.
    I saw a three of them delete a unit of chaos warriors in a single volley

  • @Koreanspree
    @Koreanspree 4 года назад +5

    "level 1 spearmen" "chumpy archers" he says about one of, if not the, best early game build for high elves in the campaign

    • @bulldogant3781
      @bulldogant3781 4 года назад

      remove the spearmen and it’s a better army

  • @Diwwah
    @Diwwah 4 года назад +2

    Imrik is probably the only lord to effortlessly get three of the four big ones; perfect vigor, unbreakable and regeneration. The only thing missing is hunger.

  • @Lemmingcave
    @Lemmingcave 4 года назад +4

    spiffing brit in TTW2: this is OP
    me who plays on legendary/against other players: you poor innocent child