I will be using Hellblaster Volley Guns once I unlock them, but I won't be using cannons or mortars of any type. I really want to test the limits of normal war wagons, pistolers, and outriders as they normally get overshadowed by better options in my campaigns.
I think if you put those crossbowmen in guard mode they might've actually shot those bats. But honestly bats seem to make most units act really finicky
Isn't it just a bug? Same happened to my crossbowmen when I tried to make em shoot ground units tho, they would just walk into em like it's nothing (yes, they had ammo XD), but they shot flying enemy lord then, cuz couldn't try to melee him
Even without guard mode, they seem to shoot during melee sometimes. Edit: I will give that a shot though, especially because they don't usually need to chase units down as they simply shoot them as they retreat.
@@BrilliantStupidity I’ve noticed that with dwarf gunners, it seems like the ones in the back still fire while the ones up front do melee unless told to do melee
I'm glad someones praising the free company, they're a personal favorite, able to shoot down early game monster, effectively rout fleeing units via their move and shoot, skirmish decently, support each-other in melee ect. Great early game unit
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who’s experienced the ranged unit bug where they just refuse to shoot the enemy you target. I’ve been having the same problem and I just don’t understand why it’s happening 😂
I feel "only gunpowder units" would be a more appropriate title seeing as your still using them in melee and a hellstorm is a rocket launcher but it's still a good idea
"You may choose, warrior. The path of light, or the path of darkness" "I choose gun." "That is not one of the choi..." [cocks gun] "wait... what are you doing?"
I do not understand how you play this game so well. I am s*it at this game. Love to see a playthrough of Warrior Priests only. I don't know where they stack on the power level but I just love the unit or class since Warhammer Reckoning. Love watching your videos man you are awesome.
Arms master and elector count of Hochland Aldebrand Ludenhof being asked on his war strategy: "Guns, and if that don't work use more gun, and if anything is left standing at the end of the battle you know damn well you didn't use enough gun"
Loving the series. It's a fresh take and I don't mind that you edit out the turns where nothing happens. Not sure if it's a mistake but your Volkmar battle on turn 17 didn't load. It just goes from clicking on manual fight to the result screen.
It was intentional, but I should have made it more clear - that fight was just really basic and boring so I cut it out. Also, I'm glad you're enjoying the series!
Honestly ive found pistoliers to be pretty good, only if to attack single entity units if you need to get around and flank them. Killed a sigor with 2 units as one was being killed with rocks.
"how am I gonna stop some big mean Mother-Hubbard from tearin' me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer? Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun." -TF2 Engineer
This was a pretty challenging start to be honest, I've never got Volkmar so I had no idea what his abilities and bonus's are but wow there kind of wacky, great first episode though man, I think this one Is gonna be a lot more challenging just because of the limitation to just range ~
I love that after a run of teeth clenched, nail biting hell trying to keep my poor lizards alive one more turn on normal, I can go online and watch clips of someone winning IE with some insane bonus challenges.
Man, I thought this would be the easiest campaign by far and then I realized the empire gets handgunners only after a very long time then I looked at where you spawned. Then I thought what could possibly posses a man to torture him self in a game like this
The same thing happened to me. I was raging out loud saying the same things he did in the video. I don't know how he kept going after seeing that shit. I alt f4'd and haven't played since.
Give the Empire for another 100 years in order for them to perfecting their gun and you ask can we do it with gun? Of course, they're the future weapons. The gun goes Bbrrrr...
With the new DLC, I believe it may be time to redo this challenge, this time for the glory of Nuln ! Though a gunpowder only one might be better, I'd love to see the artillery wreaking havoc if nothing else !
Love your stuff my man....I'm trying to hang on, I'm pissed at the current state of the game. I've stopped playing.....but, try to mantain some interest thanks to you pal...
@@elijahgeorge9235 honestly it'd be fine. He starts with 1 of each, with ikit himself that's easily enough to take a settlement then abandon/resettle skavenblight at tier 3. Wait a few turns for the building, then get as many as you can afford (ikit gets a -50% upkeep on weapons teams from his starting trait and an extra 15% through his skills), so you can get a lot even on low money. Then just waltz around the map shooting everything.
In the volkmar campaign i noticed when looking for those books its better to travel to ilustria cause the scaven an pirates seem to like doing raids across the ocean once the huntsman are eliminated
theres a mod that gves any unit with ranged a hold position button, they wont move for any reason unless they rout or something, give them a target and they wont even shuffle around their own formation
You don’t need to checkerboard with free company (or really any gunpowder units). Just put them in guard mode and the rear ranks will continue firing through the front ranks harmlessly while the front ranks are in melee. It’s something that only works for a few units in the game, but all gunpowder units have this buff.
Shit, I didn't really mess with it other than slight compression. Does that happen with my other videos as well? I do need to keep my voice quite loud so that people with smaller speakers can still understand me though.
The crossbowmen that were not cooperating knew very well you were doing ONLY GUNS challenge.
The "Only X" series is so much fun to follow. Please do keep making these.
yknow I thought you'd be keeping the artillery (except for maybe the helstorm) since they're basically just bigger guns, but I don't mind this
I will be using Hellblaster Volley Guns once I unlock them, but I won't be using cannons or mortars of any type. I really want to test the limits of normal war wagons, pistolers, and outriders as they normally get overshadowed by better options in my campaigns.
@@BrilliantStupidity I like using war wagons to absorb charges that ae about to hit my gun lines
@@gamerz1172 that’s an awesome strategy
@@BrilliantStupidity Grenadiers full stack is stupidly good
@@foreignfat6009 yeah, grenadier is literally the empire doomstack
Hoping to see like 5 witchhunters in the armies just pumping the gun damage
Handle bar mustache, love of God, and a gun for every man, woman, and child? Are we playing as America?
Even better, manifest destiny
For Sigmar!
God and America dont mix
This is basically how I play Cult of Sigmar normally so i love the idea for this series
I think if you put those crossbowmen in guard mode they might've actually shot those bats. But honestly bats seem to make most units act really finicky
Well i mean, they are bats, even if they are big ones they are small flyng models, make sense, and well corona virus
@@unukthewarrior8077 "coronavirus" lol
In all fairness if I saw a bat the size of three men I’d probably act erratically as well.
Isn't it just a bug? Same happened to my crossbowmen when I tried to make em shoot ground units tho, they would just walk into em like it's nothing (yes, they had ammo XD), but they shot flying enemy lord then, cuz couldn't try to melee him
Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun.
- engineer 2007
Im pretty sure that if you have guard mode on then free company units will fire their guns while in melee
Even without guard mode, they seem to shoot during melee sometimes.
Edit: I will give that a shot though, especially because they don't usually need to chase units down as they simply shoot them as they retreat.
@@BrilliantStupidity I’ve noticed that with dwarf gunners, it seems like the ones in the back still fire while the ones up front do melee unless told to do melee
@@BrilliantStupidity It's not guard mode, it's fire at will. that'll make them shoot in melee. just don't put them in melee mode
They would shoot in melee mode, but it would also make them die faster due to the low density of troops in melee. Not very ideal to hold the line.
I'm glad someones praising the free company, they're a personal favorite, able to shoot down early game monster, effectively rout fleeing units via their move and shoot, skirmish decently, support each-other in melee ect. Great early game unit
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who’s experienced the ranged unit bug where they just refuse to shoot the enemy you target. I’ve been having the same problem and I just don’t understand why it’s happening 😂
What an amazing video, keep up the amazing work, we love you
Really glad YT recommended this vid, I love these type of challenges. Can't wait to see more of this.
I feel "only gunpowder units" would be a more appropriate title seeing as your still using them in melee and a hellstorm is a rocket launcher but it's still a good idea
🤓
"You may choose, warrior. The path of light, or the path of darkness"
"I choose gun."
"That is not one of the choi..."
[cocks gun]
"wait... what are you doing?"
I'm so glad I found this channel. I always enjoy my time with these videos, keep up your awsome vids dude!
I like your style. Total War campaign videos are difficult to make interesting but you've done a good job here. Subscribed.
“Three things make The Empire great - faith, steel, and gunpowder!” Emperor Karl Franz
I do not understand how you play this game so well. I am s*it at this game. Love to see a playthrough of Warrior Priests only. I don't know where they stack on the power level but I just love the unit or class since Warhammer Reckoning. Love watching your videos man you are awesome.
I did something similar in my first Cathay campaign. It was absurdly fun
I always love your challenge series. Please continue! I'd love to see a Vampire or OOOOG a Beastmen one!?! Beastmen rock
Great video as always!
I wish these videos were longer, I love them so much!
Arms master and elector count of Hochland Aldebrand Ludenhof being asked on his war strategy: "Guns, and if that don't work use more gun, and if anything is left standing at the end of the battle you know damn well you didn't use enough gun"
Loving the series. It's a fresh take and I don't mind that you edit out the turns where nothing happens. Not sure if it's a mistake but your Volkmar battle on turn 17 didn't load. It just goes from clicking on manual fight to the result screen.
It was intentional, but I should have made it more clear - that fight was just really basic and boring so I cut it out. Also, I'm glad you're enjoying the series!
Thanks for letting me know. I must have missed your explanation while watching the video.
really fun to watch these restriction campaigns!
The Empire: Just guns? Laughable.
Terrain: Allow me to introduce myself.
The Empire: *Fuck.*
I deadass thought this came out today. Same day just different year lol😂😂😂
Thank you for these! Your editing makes it very interesting and enjoyable even for beginners like me and you're constantly funny as well!
Honestly ive found pistoliers to be pretty good, only if to attack single entity units if you need to get around and flank them.
Killed a sigor with 2 units as one was being killed with rocks.
Great work mate, really enjoying these random campaigns
The turn counter in the top left is a great idea for Total war videos!
When you take the "gunpowder" out of faith and steel.
That battle where you had to corner camp was freaking awesome! Well done mate
"how am I gonna stop some big mean Mother-Hubbard from tearin' me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer? Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun." -TF2 Engineer
14:30 I too know the pain of Empire total war, glad to see it carried over to warhammer total war as the Empire.
looking forward to this mini series as Volkmar. I tried his new start on VH/VH and manfred was a pain in the ass even when I rushed him.
Have to say, great choice of music!
These videos are the highlight of my lunch
This was a pretty challenging start to be honest, I've never got Volkmar so I had no idea what his abilities and bonus's are but wow there kind of wacky, great first episode though man, I think this one Is gonna be a lot more challenging just because of the limitation to just range ~
If you wanted to win a campaign with guns only, I would probably go with Dwarfs... Empire is terrifyingly outdated...
I love that after a run of teeth clenched, nail biting hell trying to keep my poor lizards alive one more turn on normal, I can go online and watch clips of someone winning IE with some insane bonus challenges.
Love whatever the master and commander chello is called at the beginning
That was fun, thanks for uploading!
I feel your pain. Ordering range units to do anything just breaks their ai lol.
Geralt looking good on the thumbnail
Man, I thought this would be the easiest campaign by far and then I realized the empire gets handgunners only after a very long time then I looked at where you spawned. Then I thought what could possibly posses a man to torture him self in a game like this
Me never having played Volkmar’s campaign: *Sees he’s collecting books of Nagash and benefiting from them* HERESY SPOTTED!!!
14:40 shit like that will make me turn my computer off
The same thing happened to me. I was raging out loud saying the same things he did in the video. I don't know how he kept going after seeing that shit. I alt f4'd and haven't played since.
Doing this as kislev wouldn't be too bad
They dont have any guns
@@electromancer2645 Yes they do
@@electromancer2645 lmao you ever played Kislev kid?
@@electromancer2645 armoured kossars and strelsi say hi...
@@fedyx1544 why are you so needlessly toxic
Meanwhile Clan Skryre: "What is that Me-Lee thing you keep talking about?"
I love the premise of this video because it feels so obvious. It feels kinda like saying “can I conquer feudal Japan with just guns?”
Most underated warhammer youtuber fr fr fr
I like how you had Winter by Vivaldi playing in the background
Well this inspired me to start a Volkmar campaign.
Hell yeah, brother.
BrilliantStupidity: “Some people think they can outsmart me……maybe….maybe,”
“I’ve yet to meet someone who can outsmart Bullet.”
LOL Everytime I finish one of your videos I start a new game to try your build
bro turned total war: warhammer into total war: napoleon
Only third time I played Breton is and killed these 2 vampire guys over 20 times each
Give the Empire for another 100 years in order for them to perfecting their gun and you ask can we do it with gun? Of course, they're the future weapons. The gun goes Bbrrrr...
My god how they held the line 🤌
Tzeentch: sucks for you sonny for when you play against me it’s an ULTRA game!
With the new DLC, I believe it may be time to redo this challenge, this time for the glory of Nuln ! Though a gunpowder only one might be better, I'd love to see the artillery wreaking havoc if nothing else !
Love your stuff my man....I'm trying to hang on, I'm pissed at the current state of the game. I've stopped playing.....but, try to mantain some interest thanks to you pal...
Was half expecting you to play Skryre considering the ratling guns and Jezzails
Early game would kill you though, because you can't recruit any for a few turns and they're too expensive to field an army of early on
@@elijahgeorge9235 honestly it'd be fine. He starts with 1 of each, with ikit himself that's easily enough to take a settlement then abandon/resettle skavenblight at tier 3. Wait a few turns for the building, then get as many as you can afford (ikit gets a -50% upkeep on weapons teams from his starting trait and an extra 15% through his skills), so you can get a lot even on low money. Then just waltz around the map shooting everything.
Skaven Player: "What do you mean I can use other units that Rattlinguns????"
Volkmar the... currently running away. Hey... those look an awful lot like a thousand men with pistols... uh-oh. *UH-OH*
Me seeing Volkmar right at the beginning: "...does he have a giant eagle made out of warpstone strapped to his chest?
Brilliant discovered how to make an Imperial Guard regiment
Casually turning Total War Warhammer into Empire Total War, line infantry for the win
Well I'll be damned, I did not expected it to work that well
In the volkmar campaign i noticed when looking for those books its better to travel to ilustria cause the scaven an pirates seem to like doing raids across the ocean once the huntsman are eliminated
15:10 I've had the same problem with ranged units, and it's very annoying
For his neutral special, he wields a gun.
I mean, he wields that for everything, but his neutral special too.
This would be a lot easier nowadays with nuln ironsides and Elspeth. Okay on melee, VERY good at shooting
Blessed sigmar give to me the power of gunpowder.
Artillery are guns too. But I applaud the effort
10:44 now that is a nice music.
theres a mod that gves any unit with ranged a hold position button, they wont move for any reason unless they rout or something, give them a target and they wont even shuffle around their own formation
Want to see this challenge reattempted with the new stuff
My man did the guns only campaign 1 year before the empire update/ DLC with the gun mage school being added which adds mm to gunners/ rifles
I love your challenges
this arms race? no contest! rats show them our technocracy is superior to all no furs yes-yes!
I'm going to do everything in my power to get a military alliance with Skaven, to recruit Rattling gunners. It might not be possible though haha.
@@BrilliantStupidity good think-plan! skryre’s guns are blessed by the horned one!
You don’t need to checkerboard with free company (or really any gunpowder units). Just put them in guard mode and the rear ranks will continue firing through the front ranks harmlessly while the front ranks are in melee. It’s something that only works for a few units in the game, but all gunpowder units have this buff.
It may be over a year old, but this challenge has officially become easier
My drug of choice. Guns vs supernatural bullshit.
I think you gotta change the balance or something on your audio, because the subwoofer under my desk is BOOMING when you speak lmao
Shit, I didn't really mess with it other than slight compression. Does that happen with my other videos as well? I do need to keep my voice quite loud so that people with smaller speakers can still understand me though.
sire if Ciaphas Cain was with you, you would have the greatest hero of the Imperium.
Welcome to Estalia gentlemen
i love that youtube is showing me smaller channels now. your content is great!
The lack of reloading animations is so lazy
They were so great in shogun 2
Especially if you remember DUEL animations in shogun 2
Its more realistic to warhammer
Just download the mod
Ahhh the beauty of warhammer
1:30 Technically Mortar is also a gun, just bigger and not handheld 🤔
we have Napoleon total war at home
Napoleon total war at home:
GLLLORIOUS BLACK POWDER BATTLE!
id have used warplock jessails or ratling gunners but this works too
cannons mortars and artillery are guns? damn but did you handicap yourself lol. great vid as always though I’m really enjoying your channel
Empire total war: Um so you can , and same as with swords.
I thought this was some super crazy mod for mount and blade for a moment
Vampire Coast: “Hold my blood grog…”