I think it's very important to get an alliance with the Exiles of Nehek. In my first run I didn't engage in much diplomacy with them and they went to war with me. It can make the campaign much harder if they're sending stacks from the south. Second time I gave them Shroktak mount, a town I wasn't going to develop much anyway, and some gifts every turn to keep them happy and get an alliance with them. They can help keep Morathi off you as well. If they're hostile they will make sure your home province never gets built up.
Love your attention to diplomacy here and normally I'd say this is a great strategy. The reason I don't recommend it here is the Sisters 'sometimes' will hate or war with them. Given the natural aversion from Wood Elves this means they will be hard to trade that necessary resource or you could spend a fortune gifting to avoid war because you're screwed if Valkia declares as well. I've found a simple trade deal will keep the relationship rolling to the positive and because Tomb kings are typically so poor you can gift to keep them onside at low cost. That said, if you don't care about the resources you could have just as powerful of a campaign by crushing the Sisters with Nehek :)
Grombrindal is awesome dude after watching this video i'll probably try him for the 4th time and each time i just snowballed the campaign with ease. Dwarfs are slow but the forge mechanic with all those awesome items + grombrindal himself make them fun imo. Nice video btw keep it up 👍
I found your channel yesterday and binged all your Mortal Empire High Elves guides! Super great and thank you! I know elves are your thing but since you're branching out to different races for Immortal Empires can you cover the Empire as well?
Glad you're having a blast. I have a formations vid covering each Dwarf lord coming up shortly or if you're newer I have a video breaking down battles for all factions here: ruclips.net/video/pCHwQwtqPco/видео.html Thanks for the comment and happy hunting!
Just started this campaign a couple days ago, Hard/Normal since I want to relax after work... Damn, it still makes for a challenging early game. My starting decisions were totally different. I built artillery building on turn along 1 with barracks upgrade, built 2 catapults as soon as I could, took blessing of Valaya for replenishment, and after capturing my 1st province I went straight for Malekith's throat. He was just passing by so conveniently, all alone. I ended up taking lots of casualties, damn, those Grudge throwers don't hit as hard as I remember from my dwarf campaign 2 years ago. Then I beelined for Har Kaldra, sacked, replenished, captured it. Still, I'm so broke I couldn't upgrade the main settlement straight away, Naggarond is too tough a nut to crack, and Valkia has already obliterated Ghrond and her stack looks _scary_. I think I'll defo' be better off mimicking your way, that is, saving on artillery in favor of growth building and lots of infantry, along with taking the "fighting" Ancestor God blessing. And yeah, gotta play smart around Naggarond, I just got too used to cheating from my Clan Angrund campaign, with them ghost heroes.
There's been a fair few changes in the game so it's likely a bit different now. Sounds like you've got the chops to get it done and make it work! Clan Angrund are never a push over. Good luck in the next one mate!
I'm doing a campaign now and having similar issues. Fighting the Dark Elves... just sucks. Their firepower is insane and you really need to scout them out before the main battle starts. Had to build two armies to finally crush them. I also went with the Research Ancestor God blessing... thinking that was a big mistake.
I'm playing him now after the dwarf changes. I was getting annoyed with Malekith and his shade spam. Thanks for the walkthrough! Also, on turn 2 I immediately hired a second lord, hired 4 units, and sent him immediately to take that greenskin settlement and sold it to the Tomb Kings faction for gold and trade.
Thanks for the effort you put into this! Did a Grombrindal playthrough with a mod that makes the SoK an enchanted item instead of a weapon. I forged elfsbane and iron warden's tankard and sailed to Ulthuan... Let's just say war crimes we're committed. The war of the beard was avenged. Great guide.
Hey as for the structure. I think you might be one of the few content creators that could put out a video of this length and we will still watch all of it. If they are going to be long could you do timestamps. Length of your videos doesn't really matter because there is usually no filler of fluff. It's all useful information. If you want to break it up great if not great
Thanks for the feedback. Also, thanks for bringing to my attention the Timestamps. I do them for every video but a formatting error had them not showing! Updated and fixed for all future viewings! Thanks!
Welcome back, I think we're maybe 1 or 2 patches away from WH3 eclipsing Mortal Empires. Right now it's very good but Mortal Empires set the bar so incredibly high.
I get the impression that you favor more defensive factions, but have you ever considered doing a Greenskins guide? They're my favorite race and I love the snowball nature of them. I particularly love the building that increases global post-battle loot and sacking income. I had a game where I built like 50 of them and was able to sack Altdorf for 120k gold. You can go into a ridiculous gold deficit with them and still be making money because of the insane battle loot that this building provides and I've yet to see a RUclips channel highlight its power. Would that be something that interests you?
I do enjoy diplomacy and feel I have the most to offer with the Ordertide factions as a consequence but will absolutely cover the other factions, Greenskins included :) Them and Skaven will be among the next covered when I can get to them :)
@@Piotrus2019 Skarbrand cannot get anywhere near 90% ward safe meaning that it doeasnt survive nearly ua much. Also Zhao has magic and an easy to get passive that constatly damages anything around them. Miao and Yuan Bo could be on par but they pack their on form or regeneration.
Valkia, the skaven and ogres just kicked my ass really hard, I'm going to look at this guide before trying again. Thank you so much Edit: I hate having to pay a demon, especially when it doesn't belong to the Slaanesh harem😥.
can you please do a video for the belegar campaign? the 50%upkeep seems to bone me everytime. I love your videos, theyve helped me beat many factions on very hard as a noob!
Yeah, I remember doing his campaign in WHII, not on Legendary tho', and probably with Normal battle difficulty. Still, it was a bitch. Before 1d4chan died, one of the latest edits to the Dwarfs TW Tactics page reads as follows: "Clan Angrund In immortal empires Belegar's difficulty level has been severely reduced, on turn one as soon as you take your first settlement you can full-confederate Karak Izor instantly. After that it's the usual hop and skip to Karak-Eight-Peaks, however with it in Skarsnik's hands now, it's significantly easier to take as Skarsnik doesn't start with a full 20 stack army unlike the 'Crooked Moon Mutineers' from Warhammer 2." Now, back them, eliminating Skarsnik ASAP was obviously a priority. After that, my personal decision was to take Skavenblight and Sartosa, so I had a safe rear while marching to K8P. This brought up another issue: by the time I've fulfilled The Reclamation (of K8P), Grimgor has gotten out of hand. I don't remember precisely, it was like 2 years ago, but I defo had to resort to some save-scumming. Regarding Belegar's army composition. I've checked his skills on TW Planner, it seems the gist stays the same. First, disband the Hammerers after the first battle. They have an ungodly upkeep, and they won't carry the day for you. Rangers will. See that "Tunnel Warfare" talent? Go for it ASAP. Obviously, the respective redline talents and research as well (don't bother with economic ones in early game). Make a doomstack of Rangers, with 1-2 axe variant squads for that juicy AP. After amassing some money and oathgold from battles, take a Bolt Thrower with the Flakkson's Rune of Seeking, and a couple of catapults with runes of Burning and Penetration. So, 3 arty pieces, Rangers, and a couple of Miners w/Blasting charges (Belegar gives them +200% ammo and some melee stats with the aforementioned talent). Now, let's talk about your ghost heroes. They are awesome. Take "Sharpen weapons" for Runesmith and Dead eye line for Engineer, obviously. Now, one of your Thanes is more offensive (has more Charge and MA), and the other one is the defensive one (more MD and a silver shield). Their last names give the obvious hint which one is what. Take Wanderer talent for the offensive one to get that juicy "Snipe" for your Rangers, and Keeper of the gate for the latter one. And cheese the hell out of the AI. Especially during sieges. Belegar and the two Thanes are your frontline. Use the classic "invite them to clump around your tank" tactics. In sieges, send Belegar with 2 Thanes to literally knock at the doors (your lord has a Siege attacker trait). When the gates fall, just send the three of them in. They'll hold on forever with Guardian and Mighty Oathstone, and Belegar at some point (Age of Reconquest talent) gets an aura that affects enemy leadership in sieges. Abuse Rune of Wrath&Ruin on those clumps, while Rangers shoot everything around and Miners throw their grenades. Even tho' I'm necroposting here a bit, I hope you will still find these advices interesting and useful. Don't forget to blast "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold" song (extended editions) while playing Belegar.
Haha thanks mate. I'll probably do RUclips Membership soon for those who wish to support, but we have Discord with a community that will probably do people just as well without cost :)
Maxing his personal line provides some HP and have a look at the items. There's also one (name I can't remember) which deals a bombard... this is EPIC and levels entire armies that blob around him. Also, the Ancestor faction ability provides buffs, I can't recall if it's HP as well. Sorry, it's been a while! Haha
@@ElvenPlotArmourdid y’all figure it out, my grom is level 50, idk what I’m doing wrong, but I also don’t have that much health, still pretty strong, but unsure what defeat traits I’m missing
@@AresCarriessI'm not sure if the video poster had it on his Grombrindal but getting the maxed out bloody trait is essential for any 1 man army. He didn't seem to have it so probably got his health from elsewhere but maxing that out will give an additional 20%
It's hard to compare since there's the ease to create the powerhouse lord and their ability to deal with other units. Imrik is great, but when you compare him to Teclis' army clearing abiity it's an odd pairing. His mount, I will argue, is the strongest in the game!
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Thanks champion!
I think it's very important to get an alliance with the Exiles of Nehek. In my first run I didn't engage in much diplomacy with them and they went to war with me. It can make the campaign much harder if they're sending stacks from the south. Second time I gave them Shroktak mount, a town I wasn't going to develop much anyway, and some gifts every turn to keep them happy and get an alliance with them. They can help keep Morathi off you as well. If they're hostile they will make sure your home province never gets built up.
Love your attention to diplomacy here and normally I'd say this is a great strategy. The reason I don't recommend it here is the Sisters 'sometimes' will hate or war with them. Given the natural aversion from Wood Elves this means they will be hard to trade that necessary resource or you could spend a fortune gifting to avoid war because you're screwed if Valkia declares as well.
I've found a simple trade deal will keep the relationship rolling to the positive and because Tomb kings are typically so poor you can gift to keep them onside at low cost.
That said, if you don't care about the resources you could have just as powerful of a campaign by crushing the Sisters with Nehek :)
@@ElvenPlotArmour Thank you. Your guides have really helped with the order factions, whereas I usually play the evil factions first.
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Grombrindal is awesome dude after watching this video i'll probably try him for the 4th time and each time i just snowballed the campaign with ease. Dwarfs are slow but the forge mechanic with all those awesome items + grombrindal himself make them fun imo. Nice video btw keep it up 👍
I agree! Thanks mate!
I found your channel yesterday and binged all your Mortal Empire High Elves guides! Super great and thank you! I know elves are your thing but since you're branching out to different races for Immortal Empires can you cover the Empire as well?
Summon the Elector Counts
Just started playing TW3 and I’m having a blast with dwarf faction. Thanks for the helpful videos.
Glad you're having a blast. I have a formations vid covering each Dwarf lord coming up shortly or if you're newer I have a video breaking down battles for all factions here: ruclips.net/video/pCHwQwtqPco/видео.html
Thanks for the comment and happy hunting!
Just started this campaign a couple days ago, Hard/Normal since I want to relax after work... Damn, it still makes for a challenging early game.
My starting decisions were totally different. I built artillery building on turn along 1 with barracks upgrade, built 2 catapults as soon as I could, took blessing of Valaya for replenishment, and after capturing my 1st province I went straight for Malekith's throat. He was just passing by so conveniently, all alone. I ended up taking lots of casualties, damn, those Grudge throwers don't hit as hard as I remember from my dwarf campaign 2 years ago. Then I beelined for Har Kaldra, sacked, replenished, captured it. Still, I'm so broke I couldn't upgrade the main settlement straight away, Naggarond is too tough a nut to crack, and Valkia has already obliterated Ghrond and her stack looks _scary_. I think I'll defo' be better off mimicking your way, that is, saving on artillery in favor of growth building and lots of infantry, along with taking the "fighting" Ancestor God blessing. And yeah, gotta play smart around Naggarond, I just got too used to cheating from my Clan Angrund campaign, with them ghost heroes.
There's been a fair few changes in the game so it's likely a bit different now. Sounds like you've got the chops to get it done and make it work! Clan Angrund are never a push over. Good luck in the next one mate!
I'm doing a campaign now and having similar issues. Fighting the Dark Elves... just sucks. Their firepower is insane and you really need to scout them out before the main battle starts. Had to build two armies to finally crush them. I also went with the Research Ancestor God blessing... thinking that was a big mistake.
@@Jagonath they just spam Shades on me and skirmish my units to death. Damnit I hate getting kited this is just like when I played Warrior in WoW.
I'm playing him now after the dwarf changes. I was getting annoyed with Malekith and his shade spam. Thanks for the walkthrough!
Also, on turn 2 I immediately hired a second lord, hired 4 units, and sent him immediately to take that greenskin settlement and sold it to the Tomb Kings faction for gold and trade.
Fantastic guide mate.... heard Grom is next...cant wait :p
Greenskins are most likely among the next 3 to be covered... Unfortunately someone summoned the Elector Counts first!
Thanks for the effort you put into this!
Did a Grombrindal playthrough with a mod that makes the SoK an enchanted item instead of a weapon. I forged elfsbane and iron warden's tankard and sailed to Ulthuan... Let's just say war crimes we're committed. The war of the beard was avenged. Great guide.
Haha not a problem - sounds like you had a (literal) blast!
Hey as for the structure. I think you might be one of the few content creators that could put out a video of this length and we will still watch all of it. If they are going to be long could you do timestamps. Length of your videos doesn't really matter because there is usually no filler of fluff. It's all useful information. If you want to break it up great if not great
Thanks for the feedback. Also, thanks for bringing to my attention the Timestamps. I do them for every video but a formatting error had them not showing! Updated and fixed for all future viewings! Thanks!
Awesome! Thank you.
Cheers for watching!
I had quit WH3 becuase I didn't find it fun. I found it a slog..... You have rekindled my interest in the game. Thanks pal...
Welcome back, I think we're maybe 1 or 2 patches away from WH3 eclipsing Mortal Empires. Right now it's very good but Mortal Empires set the bar so incredibly high.
Hell yeah, brother.
Cheers!
This is great man. Looking forward to Lokhir for some of that sweet black ark spam!
Looking forward to it!
I get the impression that you favor more defensive factions, but have you ever considered doing a Greenskins guide? They're my favorite race and I love the snowball nature of them. I particularly love the building that increases global post-battle loot and sacking income. I had a game where I built like 50 of them and was able to sack Altdorf for 120k gold. You can go into a ridiculous gold deficit with them and still be making money because of the insane battle loot that this building provides and I've yet to see a RUclips channel highlight its power. Would that be something that interests you?
I do enjoy diplomacy and feel I have the most to offer with the Ordertide factions as a consequence but will absolutely cover the other factions, Greenskins included :) Them and Skaven will be among the next covered when I can get to them :)
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Appreciate it mate, thanks and have a good one!
Elven plot armor playing "hatred of elves" channeled into one dwarf? What is this insanity
Gotta see how the other side lives!
Try to max Zhao Ming, its the strongest single entity in the game. (Gets to 76% ward save without Sok). It also has magic...
Dragonlords of Cathay are done justice in this game!
Can Skarbrand with all his talents and acquired weapons win against the dragon?
PS. Is it really the strongest dragon?
@@Piotrus2019 Skarbrand cannot get anywhere near 90% ward safe meaning that it doeasnt survive nearly ua much. Also Zhao has magic and an easy to get passive that constatly damages anything around them. Miao and Yuan Bo could be on par but they pack their on form or regeneration.
@@6XenYang9 Thanks
Grobrindal Knows no Fear!!! Pays off enemies 🤣🤣🤣 Grombridal is wise. A dwarf that parts with gold to survive seems almost obscene.
Come turn 30 he collects it all back :)
@@ElvenPlotArmour actually that is pretty fitting considering who tolkien partially modelled his dwarves after.
Valkia, the skaven and ogres just kicked my ass really hard, I'm going to look at this guide before trying again. Thank you so much
Edit: I hate having to pay a demon, especially when it doesn't belong to the Slaanesh harem😥.
Haha absolutely. Keep in mind things have moved a bit since this start but the overarching concept should work.
can you please do a video for the belegar campaign? the 50%upkeep seems to bone me everytime. I love your videos, theyve helped me beat many factions on very hard as a noob!
Yeah, I remember doing his campaign in WHII, not on Legendary tho', and probably with Normal battle difficulty. Still, it was a bitch.
Before 1d4chan died, one of the latest edits to the Dwarfs TW Tactics page reads as follows:
"Clan Angrund In immortal empires Belegar's difficulty level has been severely reduced, on turn one as soon as you take your first settlement you can full-confederate Karak Izor instantly. After that it's the usual hop and skip to Karak-Eight-Peaks, however with it in Skarsnik's hands now, it's significantly easier to take as Skarsnik doesn't start with a full 20 stack army unlike the 'Crooked Moon Mutineers' from Warhammer 2."
Now, back them, eliminating Skarsnik ASAP was obviously a priority. After that, my personal decision was to take Skavenblight and Sartosa, so I had a safe rear while marching to K8P. This brought up another issue: by the time I've fulfilled The Reclamation (of K8P), Grimgor has gotten out of hand. I don't remember precisely, it was like 2 years ago, but I defo had to resort to some save-scumming.
Regarding Belegar's army composition. I've checked his skills on TW Planner, it seems the gist stays the same. First, disband the Hammerers after the first battle. They have an ungodly upkeep, and they won't carry the day for you. Rangers will. See that "Tunnel Warfare" talent? Go for it ASAP. Obviously, the respective redline talents and research as well (don't bother with economic ones in early game). Make a doomstack of Rangers, with 1-2 axe variant squads for that juicy AP. After amassing some money and oathgold from battles, take a Bolt Thrower with the Flakkson's Rune of Seeking, and a couple of catapults with runes of Burning and Penetration. So, 3 arty pieces, Rangers, and a couple of Miners w/Blasting charges (Belegar gives them +200% ammo and some melee stats with the aforementioned talent).
Now, let's talk about your ghost heroes. They are awesome. Take "Sharpen weapons" for Runesmith and Dead eye line for Engineer, obviously. Now, one of your Thanes is more offensive (has more Charge and MA), and the other one is the defensive one (more MD and a silver shield). Their last names give the obvious hint which one is what. Take Wanderer talent for the offensive one to get that juicy "Snipe" for your Rangers, and Keeper of the gate for the latter one. And cheese the hell out of the AI. Especially during sieges. Belegar and the two Thanes are your frontline. Use the classic "invite them to clump around your tank" tactics. In sieges, send Belegar with 2 Thanes to literally knock at the doors (your lord has a Siege attacker trait). When the gates fall, just send the three of them in. They'll hold on forever with Guardian and Mighty Oathstone, and Belegar at some point (Age of Reconquest talent) gets an aura that affects enemy leadership in sieges. Abuse Rune of Wrath&Ruin on those clumps, while Rangers shoot everything around and Miners throw their grenades.
Even tho' I'm necroposting here a bit, I hope you will still find these advices interesting and useful. Don't forget to blast "Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold" song (extended editions) while playing Belegar.
Who will defeat a fully developed Grombrindal (with perks, ancestor and all items)? (duel)
You are so quiet. Please increase your mic sensitivity in future videos!
I'll keep an eye on it in future. Cheers for you feedback :)
@@ElvenPlotArmour other than that amazing videos!
You ever consider coaching on fiverr or something?
Haha thanks mate. I'll probably do RUclips Membership soon for those who wish to support, but we have Discord with a community that will probably do people just as well without cost :)
how did u get so much HP ? Lvl 28, 7,6k ??? wtf dude, mines lvl 35 and got 3,8k ?? lmao
Maxing his personal line provides some HP and have a look at the items. There's also one (name I can't remember) which deals a bombard... this is EPIC and levels entire armies that blob around him. Also, the Ancestor faction ability provides buffs, I can't recall if it's HP as well. Sorry, it's been a while! Haha
@@ElvenPlotArmour all good my guy, thanks for the fast reply, btw great work on those videos!
@@ElvenPlotArmourdid y’all figure it out, my grom is level 50, idk what I’m doing wrong, but I also don’t have that much health, still pretty strong, but unsure what defeat traits I’m missing
@@AresCarriessI'm not sure if the video poster had it on his Grombrindal but getting the maxed out bloody trait is essential for any 1 man army. He didn't seem to have it so probably got his health from elsewhere but maxing that out will give an additional 20%
Not the strongest. That would be Prince Imrik
It's hard to compare since there's the ease to create the powerhouse lord and their ability to deal with other units. Imrik is great, but when you compare him to Teclis' army clearing abiity it's an odd pairing. His mount, I will argue, is the strongest in the game!