"The Skaven have 32 different words for friendly fire"

Arch: “Warpfire throwers in a unit of 4, Rat Ogres in a unit of 60.” CA: “Warpfires in a unit of 32, Ogres in a unit of 12.

Stormvermin patrols are the second scariest thing in Vermintide on Hard and up!!

warp locks are poor shots? I seem to remember a story of a Skaven sniper shooting a dwarf though his telescope and then other dwarfs kept picking the scope up to look though because "of course the rat men can't have a gun that can shoo this far!" and of course, they too got shot as well.

I would actually prefer two 2-hour videos, please.

Ratling gun. I love it.

I just love this reference "Skaven slaves are like the average French soldier he wants to run from battle as far as he can " :D Shots were made

skaven slaves = french soldiers XD, that made my day

Ugh.... Warp lightning cannon.... I WANT to love it, it just looks so amazing! However, in the 10+ matches where I have fielded it, it has successfully shot (without blowing itself up) twice... TWICE! And only one of those times did it actually hit anything! Pretty sure my dice hate me.

My favorite thing about this pair of videos is how Arch pretty much goes off on how much he loves Skaven through his descriptions. Then you understand how well a job he did, when he gets into the units and you see all the times he uses *misfire* as "misfire"... maybe it's wasn't as much of an accident as the Skaven would want you to believe. I can see an Engineer's first priority in being able to have a secret setting for "accidentally" mowing down potential rivals. Great vid!

All in all (and except for the clan Skryre stuff, I'm still angry about that not being there), I'd say CA made a pretty good job with the Skaven

Get him working for Total war Warhammer

if the skaven are in total war then I will spend whatever they want.

*Squeaks happily*

your vids are amazing i am going to wright to CA about you and how they should use you for ideas

just subbed, these videos are a highlight in my weeks, I'd love to see more!

Damn i love these videos, they have been occuping every waking moment off my life, ever since i heard of total war warhammer. going through this extremly messy lore is extremly intriguing. I can only imagine how frustrating deciphering the lore must be and i thank you for doing it :) Hei fra Norge!

Been enjoying your videos for a few months now Arch, i gotta say, i enjoy the long ranty videos as they are always more informative, and tbh it's good when you rip on the end times too :)

These videos are awesome man!! Especially for someone who loves Total War games but isnt familiar with the Warhammer universe, these videos definitely help understand the back story for each faction and i cant believe how many there are especially considering each race is broken down into tribes and factions im so excited to learn and play Total War in this universe that i wish theyd release the first game and hurry up and move onto what is supposed to be north and south America, Africa, and Asia so we can see and play as some other factions, im sooo psyched to play as the Empire, Greenskins and ESPECIALLY the Vampire Counts!!!! Lol but like i said you do an awesome job of giving an overview of factions to understand how they work and i love that you break down the armies and units too. Lol

owch! that French burn was sick.

hey bruv, just stumbled upon your vids here an i must say thank you ^^ im a big TW fan an WH40 alike but im clueless on warhammer fantasy lore so this is a good start :D

I really hope that a CA employee sees this video, Amazing ideas!

22:52 Plauge monks with a Clan Mors banner?

Hope CA hire you as a Warhammer consultant, in the making of Warhammer total war ;) Are you gonna make a video about Bretonnia? Love their knights! GG

6:20 hahahahahahahaha *deep breath* hahahahahaha

Liked for the warp lightning cannon. I'm beginning to see why you love the scaven.

Would like 5 hr videos please. Thanks

I hope the ratling gun appears, first found out about it in vermintide, such a cool sounding and weird weapon

14:10 "There's no gas masks available to stop them." Shows models with gas masks. lol

Ought to be a toggle like skirmish where the rats in the units with the various machine guns surround the gun but avoid the nozzle, couple of meters, just to give it room and let it peek out the front, and a toggle where they cover the gun and defend position.

Rat ninjas!!!!!! That idea is so freakin wicked!!!!!

32 different words for friendly fire.. so from "oops" to "aw shit" to "err, sir. we've seem to have f**ked the 22nd". In 32 steps!

LOL! French soldiers!

A cool dynamic would be to have all units be either Slaves or Clan Rats then have multiple upgrades available through different clan buildings. This way you get the horde idea while conserving the play dynamic and balancing.

ahhh the carnage will be delicious!!!!! 34:28(time) my favorite line of the whole video!!!! XD

with the rattling gun, poison win globe throughers and warp flame througher they will more then likely their own unit considering iron drakes in the game currently so when skaven are brought in they will more than likely be their own units

hahaha the french soldier comparison. poor french army

The faction of the skaven should be divided into 3 sub-factions, Moulder, Skyre, and Pestilens. I think that the most likely factions to be introduced in the next to expansions are elves, and then either the skaven, tomb kings, or chaos (with dwarves as a sub faction of chaos maybe)

I love the idea of reduced total upkeep for slaves in an army it'll be so cool to be forced to take slave to afford your better units

Skavens: Throwing chaff at you since God knows when.

the pleagueclaw catapult was a project of clan pestilenz and clan skryrre together

30 odd words for friendly fire... How meny of them are just them laughing like nutters as the poor slaves hop around with varies limes blown off?

damn arch. They literally used your censer bearer idea for the night gobbo fanatics

I prefer the long ones - Oh and please make a video with Chaos Dwarfes, and if possible Dogs Of War :)

Nice video !

39:41 Best "shit happen" i've heard long.

Wow, 3 videos! PLS Arch, I had homework to do :)

They could add a mechanic in wich the slave rats and clanrats scavenge the scrapped armours destroyed shields and deteriorated swords axes and get a small buff in meele attack or defence

Nightgoblins would be awesome too, with all their uncontrolable fanatics and squigs

He is back! nm,

mhm some explanation about what warpfire and warp ammo is would've been nice earlier in this video (unless you've already done it earlier), considering how many skaven units using this. - Otherwise - thumbs up! I hope Skaven will be added quite fast-soon in the game.

What if the weapon teams were the skaven versions of heroes? I feel like this might make more sense because then these singular "heroes" can still be powerful but you don't have to worry about 4-8 of them becoming too powerful. What do you think of this?

Idk if it's just me, but i think the old metal warp lightning cannon looks better than the plastic one. I don't think the plastic one is bad, but i'm certainly gonna look for the metal one for my army.

I think the mortar will deliver a state reduction.

That tabletop story. Talk about bad luck.

The orks don't shoot their friendly units, with their ammo they shoot them, as the ammo.

These Skaven guys. They seem awfully familiar. Apart from living underground, they resemble Latvians in culture, combat "doctrine",internal politics, and religious practice.

I swear creative asembly wacthed this video and listened to it and put it in warhammer 2

All hail the great Horned Rat!

Vermintide is coming! gota make some research ^^

I re watched this after the Skaven came out.....I'm very sad

I hope misfire does not mean the unit dissapears from the stack in the world map

Epic frensh soldier burn! No ofens to the frensh sens thye evedently value life more then som ilution of reward in a hypothetic afterlife ;)

We know that the upper limit of unit sizes is now around 200 men/orcs/rats. You may now have a lot of videos to edit. :P

Doubt you'll see this but I've been wondering if you would ever be interested in making 40k skaven army video using the veer-myn models, was also curious about the Stat line/point value conversions you would do

Because it's in multiplayer where the Ratling Guns could be really OP. You see, for a weapon that's technically a "artillery" type weapon only have 200 range is a pretty big weakness when you look at it., especially when you consider that almost all other artillery can easily out range them and can just blast them to nothing without much problem.

I think that you should have fewer armies than the old standard however units should be in more depth. fewer more important more challenging battles. What I mean is that units should have a lot more options, upgrades and the ability to vett up. By this I mean you should be able to A) pick up upgrades as your units gain experiance. Asuming that every unit has its own champion you ourght to be able to invest in a better/ improved leader as well as upgrades to the unit as well. for example night goblin fanatics, a magic banner slot, a larger or a war machine crew. B) The ability to be upgraded into a more powerful unit like night runners into gutter runners, knights errand into knights of the realm.

awwww anzother video ov nice fluffy vitle skaven aww zhey are zo aborable.

Missfires in total war should´t destroy your artillery (although hilarious) but just disable the machine unable to be used in combat but available next battle if the enemy doesn´t destroy it.

I lol'ed at RATZILLA!!!

Whenever I see photos of figurines from the internet I wish I could paint mine like that :'( even my blood angels army looks like a total red turd even though they're the easiest to paint...

1 hour PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE

Dude there's actually a simple way to make the Ratling Gunners a balanced unit on their own. It's quite simple actually. Just have them only have 200 range, being the same range as upgraded bow monks in Shogun 2. And I'd say go look at the range difference between the Gatling Gun and Armstrong Gun in Shogun 2.

I know I'm hella late but what about rat ogre bonebreakers.

19 warp lightning cannons, 1 leader.

I like how the hell pit abominations bleed rats

Please warn us next time you decide to show us 35:17 THAT thing!

10:10 best picture quality 2016

Anyone else notice ratzilla at 36:18?

Any viewers/commenters/ Arch himself if hes looking, i have a question regarding the Warplock Jezzail. What do you you all estimate the caliber of the average Jezzail to be? Its almost a 1/3rd longer than the Skaven manning it. My first reaction was roughly .50 cal but if Skaven are man sized, it doesn't take 2 men to brace a.50 cal rifle. Does this mean the Jezzail is somewhere in the 15mm-30mm range? That was the conclusion i drew. I am open to more solid research though. EDIT: i interpreted the Jezzail to be 1.3x larger than the Skaven gunner based on how they appear in the model. I acknowledge they are somewhat crouched, but i have never seen a (pure) Skaven stand up straight.

what if you have skaven slaves your army wouldnt suffer attrition. they just eat the slaves

Like that reference to the French! lol

Skaven orgres ,doomwheels, abomination ext .... total war equivalent of elephants..... skaven have so many elephants .....

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!!!!!

Unites = units.

my army of 7583938575729 Skaven slaves will not be stopped

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I can almost guarantee that CA will not be making flails.

yay, french bashing^^ You aren't german are you? If not I promote you to an honorary german for that french comment^^

keep the video in one part but please don't shorten it

If you want an idea of how horrifying a Skaven assassin with 3 knives can be, look up the book "unseen", it really shows what kind of horror a rat man assassin can be in the dark.

skaven seem op (btw im new to the warhammer universe)

screeming bell plage furnce

Fear the 1's

Good ide to break up the videos, but I must say, I don't have a problem with the 1 hour + videos.

Imagine if instead of Age of Shitmar Warhammer Fantasy had advanced to a sorta psuedo-WW1 Trench warfare game.

you just want to watch the PC´s burn, dont you Arch?

1 hour

Surely a long gun like a warplock would be quite accurate?