Enjoy "You SUCK" vids alot.. love your style and humor

As someone who adored playing Nurgle in the ROC map, I was so sad to find myself struggling so much with him in immortal empires. I’d all but written off Kugath as unusable until something changed but this lit a fire in me to play him again.

Definitely agree, especially economically. Run negative, sack lots, value heroes. Nurgle's one of my favourite factions, unironically (sad this needs saying), and this is good stuff.

I hope nurgle faction gets a bit of a buff, he's got it very rough at the beginning and he doesn't get much stronger as he goes on, though they seem to be busy making the chaos dwarfs as overpowered as possible right now.

Great video, i will definetly make use of it in my 30th dwarf campaign

I hope this series allows you to keep your channel growing, your videos are very well made (and you sound like somebody who reads out audiobooks for a living)

THANK YOU! Hopefully now we'll get slightly less misunderstanding on this faction. I also want to add to not underestimate Nurglings, especially crap stacks of them. They are very cost effective and you can spawn them anywhere you want in your territory. They make for some amazing emergency army to defend yourself with.

I love Nurgle in concept. I just feel the plagues need to do more. Clan Pestilens in WH2 felt amazing because the plagues actually did massive impact. The attrition changes in WH3 made both skaven plague and the Nurgle damage plague feel so worthless.

Thanks for this. Been wanting to do a Nurgle campaign for a while but could never get past that slog of an early game. Will definitely be putting your tips to use

I played nurgle in realms of chaos when i first got Warhammer 3. And my experince with them was horrible. The campaign was a slog all the way through, but even though I managed to win that campaign, I never wanted to touch them again until they went through a rework. After watching this video, you inspired me to try them again in IE. I used your tips, I shit on Ghorst, conquered all of Cathay, and even went down south to slap Kairos back out of existence. I managed to get a long campaign victory, and I enjoyed it so much. I cannot overstate how much your tips helped me. This campaign was so much fun!

Extremely well put together video. You managed to make nurgle seem almost worth trying. Can't wait to see more of these!

Thank you so much. Nurgle is my fav faction, and I brute forced my way through everything in my previous play through, which involved a lot of dying, resetting, back tracking, gold I didn’t have and just overall tears. It was still fun at the end, but I had to do it on easy, and I want to go to normal difficulty for my next play through. This has been so helpful. Thank you

The joke's on you, I can't suck with Nurgle if I don't play as Nurgle!

Good video! I've been messing around with Nurgle on higher difficulties, testing different unit compositions and plague strategies. It's a tough start, but once you can get going (and don't rely on autoresolve) you become absolutely unstoppable.

This style of content is incredible, I sincerely hope you get around to doing all the factions eventually. I unironically think it would be really useful for new and advanced players alike. I vote for "why you suck with skaven" next

Almost knew the last tip was coming when I used to play nurgle without the DLC and it would show my characters had unlocked the war shrine but couldn’t even use it haha😊

Helman Ghorst is by far the most annoying opponent to go up against in this campaign for me especially with how quickly they can get a full stack going, while you’re also fighting another faction simultaneously. Great guide btw.

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So some tips and cheeses with Nurgle to provide full comfortable but also keep the challenge going: 1. If you recruit 3 additional lords early on, passing the plague between them (better if you pass in order like 1 to 2, 2 to 3, etc.) you can absurdly boost the infection counts because game is really tough to receive this information from you for some reason. So in turn you can get from 14 to 31 or more spreads of infections, allowing you to unlock the juicy stuff with recipe plagues. 2. Although it's not as good to take Ogres early, you might have to because they usually declare war on you on sight and their armies are really annoying to deal with (not hard, but annoying), so taking them(Greasus primarily) gives you some mid provinces with much resources. Beware of Grimgor tho. Also taking his province allow you to meet caravans which are a good snack for your economy, especially if you have 4 lords in one place, primarily since the number of lords multiply the loot of caravan. 3.Be sure to either befriend Drazhoath to keep the west safe, or aggresively take him with Imrik out, because both of them are kind of pain in the arse to deal with. Especially Imrik, frick Imrik. 4.Number of infections post-battle options depends on how much you captured (1 to 1 iirc), so if there's much high number quantity of infantry, better to fight it manually and kill the units if they routed. Don't just outright kill them if you know you're gonna win. Especially with regenerating stuff like Ghorst zombies you can get 1000+ infections post battle. Be sure to do that in field battles, not settlements, as they don't count captures. 5. -40% armour may seem meh, but for autoresolve it's busted because of how highly it's rated there. So if you really don't want to fight pesky Vilitch army, harass with attrition, then pop palsy (-4 MA), - missile damage and -armor, send the plague cultist to Vilitch when he is damaged. Then with your stack pop the phys res recipe plague and wha-bam AR is on your side.

I expect all the factions on my desk soon! As in I’m saying I’m up to watch a entire series of you doing these!!

Thank you SOOO much for these! I've always loved the Daemons of Chaos and they were practically UNPLAYABLE for me in this game! I managed to gring Gorst out once and just abandoned the campaign there feeling like it was already over. This looks great!

This is the first video that i have seen from you and i have never touch Total War game but you really explain things clearly in a short time and i think your voice delivery was perfect. Good Vid 👌

GREAT video! Would definitely watch a series of this

I appreciate videos like this. I am always willing to believe that the reason I do bad with a army is not cause its bad, but because I'm trash at it and likely don't understand HOW I'm suppose to play them.

"Because I don't know anyone who plays that...other campaign." Perfect!

Seeing this makes me want to try out Ku'Gath in Immortal Empires. I still hope that Thrones of Decay throws a revision into Ku'Gath to put the Nurgling Faction buffs into his lord effects and make his faction effects into buffs on plagues, purely because offshoot lords being incentivized to also use a lot of Nurglings doesn't quite sit right for me. Especially since Ku'Gath's schtick is trying to make the best plagues, and making his faction's plagues better than the upcoming ToD Nurgle Lord's would be nice, else he get the Skrolk treatment.

Also don’t forget to use your channel winds army stance as often as you can since the lore of nurgle has such high winds of magic costs

After you finish with the vampires you will have to deal with the ogres. As you push north and clear the big bois you'll meet Grimgor around turn 20. One move to make good cash and secure the north: Sell everything in the mountains to Grimgor. Build a 6.5k military building in Greasus' starter province and sell it as the last settlement to Grimgor, big money but it's worth it. He should accept to become a vassal. The mountains are crap climate and settlements (aside from the resources) and having him as a chained dog is great. Kugath and his mates are now free to turn Cathay into a toilet. Just watch the west to ensure whoever you're good with doesn't get wiped by Imrik. Edit: This is still the best Kugath rundown/starter guide out

How can I not try it with such dulcet tones goading me into it. Subscribed!

Okay, this is insane quality for the amount of subs, you my friend are going places.

I think it's a bit awful that I had to come here to not get crushed by Ghorst every campaign, and having to cheese the AI into killing itself effectively.

This is a really good video. As someone who really enjoys play nurgle and using the plague mechanics, this video was and is a serious help. The video also helped me develop an early game strat to manage Ghorst and lizardmen being that after I take the Isles settlement, I recruit a lord and all nurglings for Ku’gath, march north and take that settlement then through the sea to take the lizard men capital. Following such, rush back to the northern settlement to then set an ambush. I always found that once the ambush was set, Ghorst was stuck in flayed rock with about a half stack at Skrap towers that dies without much of hitch, especially with a great deal of steam of corruption spam since Ghorst couldn’t heal fast enough to counteract such. Again thank you for the great video!

thanks man, this is a really good video. like a lot of others in the comments i tried nurgle and just didn't get it. Looking forward to trying again applying your advice, i did indeed level kugath's spell line lol

I recommend to those of you that tried Nurgle when IE just to find it a horrible campaign. Ghorst has been fixed, both in his healing cap and that he doesn't start with the Mortis Engine. Also VC in general resurrect less units after the battle. You also have access to the strong units of the chaos champions dlc, which are mandatory. I also recommend the loreful nurgle mod, which gives nurgle units a bit of healing and a slight Mortis Engine effect. Turns nurgle from laughable to scary without being op, you just now have to know what you're dealing with. There's also a SFO version.

Blobbing works, but another good way to handle battles is to use exalted plaguebearers, with a row of nurglings in front of them, because nurglings are small, the plaguebearers can use their ranged attack still while the nurglings hold the enemies at bay, and if some of the nurglings die, oh well, they are just nurglings and can be easily replaced.

one thing id like to mention is that the blue line capstone skill gives +1 recruit rank to every nurgle unit GLOBALLY, even if the lord is not active on the map ignoring the caster line is a very crucial point, for this reason i just went with death lords as they only need 2 points into leech and 1 into passive to be a master caster yes, heroes, heroes heroes.... i had like 9 plagueridden in my kugath stack (no DLCS at the time) and once they took flight i got a massive powerspike, sieges became a joke

Of all the Chaos gods, I’d worship Nurgle.

The exalted hero of Nurgle has such a badass model

Lol Ghost and the tech tree have been my two banes since it's felt like he's always delayed me for far too long, thanks for this alt way to deal with him. Idk why I didn't think of the few small things, but I just always got it backwards on who sieges and who doesn't.

I had to restart several times but the trick is for me was to take out Ghorst as quickly as possible and then go after the iron Dragon and take out Cathey.

I subscribed and liked when you showed that ranged attack in "your leveling wrong". Awesome stuff.

Bunching up units was a really great tip, i beat a VC army three times larger!

This helps a lot and i wish there was more videos like this all the lords/factions. I tend to play all the factions generally the same and while this works most the time, some like nurgle kind of require you to play different or it doesn't work, but i also like seeing these things because encouraging me to play the game differently breathes life or nurgles case death back into the game and makes the campaigns more fun then just cookie cutter builds/playstyle that i use.

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I've watched my friend in coop do well with Nurgle, meanwhile I can't stand even the first 10 turns. Your notes give me some context on how I need to think when playing that actually makes me want to try the faction out again - No small feat!

I rush for 35% replenishment and vanguard deployment plague and build each town for cranking out soulgrinders (about 7 or 8). good point about minor settlements too, you only need a t3 for a town that gives soulgrinders and minor settlements work just fine.

I really liked Nurgle in immortal empires tbh. Made one of the strongest doomstacks ever that made short work even of the dwarves.

Me completing nurgle's ROC & IE campaign on legendary: You are right, I suck... at having a life lol

Don't know if anyone else has this problem, but usually, whenever I siege an occupied settlement, the occupier just attacks back immediately. With both the garrison and occupying force, unless my army has considerable heft to it, I usually have to break siege that same turn cycle

RoC campaign for warriors of chaos and chaos dwarfs is actually a fuck ton of fun. Hope Blake and the rest of you guys are playing it.

Thank Grandfather for this guide. I shall spread his virulent love to all. Btw, that “This is prioritizing your targets… There is no honor in Kugath Plaguedaddy” gave me Sun Tzu vibes

I'm bookmarking this video to watch later, gotta sleep, but goddamn your voice can whisper to me while I sleep,

Because...I've never played Nurgle? Perhaps this will reverse my course in this endeavour.

The one thing I hate the most about Ku’gath/Daemons of Nurgle is their building system. I hate how the buildings go through a cycle and can’t just be built up normally like other factions. I get that the cycle is a nod to Nurgle’s lore of life, decay and rebirth, but it really restricts the units you can recruit and also hamstrings your economy to the point that you have to be aggressive and raid and sack settlements to make money. I’d probably play Ku’gath more if Nurgle’s building system wasn’t the way that it is.

Before the sack plague value nerfed, Nurgle is a blast. I hope CA buffs the value up a bit maybe 30-50% more.

Played a Festus campaign a few months back, was very challenging but I had the most fun I've had in awhile in TW

100% Agree. The Way your said it, i did it a while ago and had a full Map covered in green and Plagues.

Hope you continue this series with all the factions. Beastmen, lizardmen etc. Love it full of info. Earned a sub.

My guy, I don't even play this game and I watched it all... your voice is too smooth.

will there be an update to this vifeo after the release of nexts week's Thrones of Decay DLC? I love Nurgle and Kugath and I suck at playing as nurgle

Would love for you to cover some other factions, such a great video!

Didn’t feel like playing nurgle but I do now! Great video thank you! Subbed!

Such a good guide! Subscribing in the hope we get similar ones on other factions! I loved how you focused on faction strengths and weaknesses as well as common pitfalls and good strategies instead of giving a 40 turn recipe.

I just don't play as Nurgle for one very simple reason. I don't find Plague concocting and spreading a very engaging mechanic, same goes with creating cults and whatnot. It doesn't matter how good they are. The battle side of Nurgle worked fine once I realized you're supposed to play as fat Vampire Counts - always blob, always heal, no retreat, no surrender. Still, there's something terribly dissatisfying with the roster and my guess is, it is their lack of good monstrous units like Plague Ogres, Blight Trolls or some Nurglish giant with high resistances. As far as the other info in this video - fair, it's a good summary. Generally speaking mage lords tend to suffer early on because red and blue line skills are better than investing into magic, and Ku'gath could be an exception. Luckily Ghorst as the AI and Ghorst as the player are two completely different beasts and beating him is not all that hard at all. He lacks most forms of offensive spellcasting and pound for pound your Plaguebearers should be able to annihilate his zombie armies before he can reach the coveted factionwide buffs (which the AI still cannot utilize). In my latest Ghorst multiplayer campaign I am on about 20 heroic victories across four zombie armies and my co-op partner took up arts and crafts in the downtime where I am deathballing the enemy armies to death in battle. As I said, good video, although the audio is still a bit below what I'd consider optimal. You know the problem with Ku'gath? He's extremely tedious to play, so people don't want to put in the effort and for good reason. I knew most of this stuff but I know my own limitations so despite being the most interested in Ku'gath out of all the monogod factions I never really played through a campaign. It's sad, really.

Loved the video, instant subscribe, keep it up i'll definitely mention you to all my friends, none of whom have any interest in Total War or Warhammer, so make of that what you will.

Nurgle is hard at the start but once I make headway and get to the higher tier units, the faction shines. I love the faction and cannot stop playing it, trying different combinations of units and so on.

thanks for the tips ... but i just couldnt concentrate for like 80% of the video so i had to watch it again ... well i was thinking about if its actually appropriate to eat while watching this

From the golden streets of Cathay to the slums of Nurgle was a rough transition for my first rts game. Still haven't completed a campaign run on Ku'Gath. I'm on turn 50 slogging through the orc ravines like you said not to. Many restarts to get to this point. I will utilise the sacking strat as I've been occupying all settlements which would explain being broke 24/7. Thanks for the tips, you should make more faction guides like this 👍

Hi I'm here from Reddit. Nice channel bro good growth

thanks for this video. I love playing Nurgle, but as you say I suck with them. Will try these new ideas out. Thanks again!

"Your cunning ruse of hiding a 3 story tall demon that smells of the most potent fecal matter..." I made an abs workout out of this one phrase by laughing way more than I should, thank you so much :D

I believe you that all of these strategies would work well, it's just that most of them are a reaction to really bad design decisions.

Excellent video as always! Good points made throughout. Maybe now the only thing I’ll suck with is Slaanesh 😐

Nice video and narration.

this is the best total war warhammer guide channel !.

Followed your advice. Rolled ghorst by turn 14.

I've been adding the comment the last few days because CA revealed a roadmap to Warhammer III. Nurgle is being fixed later in the year. Nurgle is the only faction I struggle to get a foothold in Immortal Empires. I once was able to get a good foothold but didn't understand I needed to attack the Haunted Forest. I didn't even notice it there. Now I can't even get off the island.

I just won a valiant loss battle with nurgle in a siege, just turned it into a bar brawl with the plaguefather in the middle and brawled lol it was so funny I lost like 15 people against their 395

Even tho I knew everything before, i can totally agree on your points. But still: All this brainpower is ONLY needed with nurgle. All this knowledge is ONLY needed with nurgle. Its the ONLY faction which is completly flawed in its design, the poor eco, the missing AA, the wrongfully named spells, the fucked up techtree, the abyssmal bad units ... the list goes on and on. Its truly a fact that someone at CA hates nurgle and i dont have much hope for 5.0 when our "buff" comes.

Nice video, you're the first person that's played TW: WH3 and doesn't hate nurgle o mark it as an incomplete faction, that i've seen in the community.

I like taking the capital before the settlement with the lizards to the north, if you put your backup lord just out to sea they will usually try to attack that and you can retreat just out of range. After that you can easily take out their half stack with your near full stack.

Great vid, I'd recommend adding example army comps especially for tough stages such as nurgle early game

Its very ironic that "favour" is the currency of chaos and Nurgle factions tend to have the least on average, even though Nurgle loves and dotes on his followers the most. From a lote point of view, Nurgle bois should be the most "favoured"

If you must fight ghorst make sure to get as many exalted heroes on horseback, with maxed damage leveling as you can. Keep these hidden, once the enemy has engaged bring them out and snipe ghorst, he typically cant out heal their dps.

I love this man's voice.

Great video m8. Many thanks

Dude's smooth as Slaanesh and smart as Tzeetch!

My understanding with Kugath (and Lokhir Fellhart) is that you're supposed to escape your starting position and act as a pseudo horde army. With (WH2) Lokhir I head north to his actual capital, build a powerbase in the relative safety there, then come back down to reclaim my colony in Lustria. (I do the same thing in WH3, but I make the colony more permanent from the start) With Kugath I bee line directly for Cathay, and try to ally with Eshin and Lokhir. The starting armies for Cathay are much easier to deal with than ogres or zombos. If I feel particularly bold (or bored) I take over the elven enclave isles to the south, then go to antartica and try to infect Araby, then upwards from there.

Pure poetry of a video

Great video. I fully intend to link it to everyone that complains about Kugath. An idea for another video is "Why Vlad keeps killing you". Where you can share the various tactics of how to take out vlad for struggling players

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I agree with all but the last one because I spend my money horribly and thus have the DLC, thanks for the vid I learned alot about how to improve as Nurgle.

Terrific tips, thanks!

You forget the : Recruiting Plaguebearer instead of nurglings early game. Plaguebearer is shit early game, wasting your gold for unit that not having synergy with your lord. Nurglings will tank better than any plaguebearer while also cheaper with all of the kugath buff and faction buff. Toad is also not entirely useless, atleast in the early game. they're good clearing ghorst blob up zombies. Hide them in the forest. Also a secret. Skrap tower map is the best map you can find to fight ghorst. there's a cliff where you can blob up while protecting your flank and rear. the cliff also can be used to double your stream of corruption damage to clear the zombies. the only thing that dangerous from ghorst is his mortis engine. spam spirit leech/rancid to destroy it. make sure your exalted hero is also always attacking it.

Admittedly nagahizzar is a bit of an exploit but it changes the early game dynamic so much if you just abandon the dragon isles to the lizard boys. Taking nagahizzar then deal with a weakened Imirik. Can easily scoop up a deal with the chaos dwarves to join the war against helman after he had pissed off everyone in the area first.

Noob question: what about nurglings? I feel like my first attempt at Nurgle also crashed and burned because I was neglecting my infrastructure buildings and nurgling bonuses. My second go around I stacked bonuses to get me more and cheaper nurglings and I swear the green tide was jealous with how many units I threw at zombie man. Plus the infrastructure buildings help you get to your heroes faster and spread the plague so I'm wondering if you ignore the buildings and Nurglings or just assumed everyone was building them since that's what good players do (unlike my noob mistakes)

excellent guide. Funny thing is that I did Nurgle campaign two weeks ago and I did exactly the same thing as you said in this video without knowing it :D Something went wrong however because I was doing great killed Ghorst and Greasus but Imrik got too strong and Cathay minor faction both declared war on me and I got surrounded from both sides while being very poor and could barely afford 2 armies I gave up on the campaign.

As an omega veteran of nurgle, I will have to disagree with the first point. It is better to prioritise the capital, then move to the settlement with an army. There are a few min maxy reasons. First, it reduces back tracking. What you propose will result in you getting that settlement, going back to the islands to take the capital, then going back to that same settlement. That wastes a turn, even in ideal circumstances. Now, there are benefits to doing this. The delay can make it so you can recruit the exalted heroes before fighting ghorst, as it takes about turn 7 to start recruiting them. And as shown in your video, you set up your ambush at turn 9. But aint no body got time for that, im ambushing helman on turn 7 cause i gotta get rolling. Secondly, it results in less experience. Yes, letting the enemy recruit will result in harder fights. But in those areas, there are a lot of woods. You goad the enemy into attacking by using kugaths range, then you run into the thick forest. It doesnt matter if the enemy has 10 javelins, there are too many trees. Then you cast stream of corruption til they all die. This is coming from a guy that played kugath in the dark times, when the lizard had a carnosaur character and ghorst had a literal mortis engine. Other than that, I agree with most points. But small disagreements in things like Exalted GUO vs Demon prince, getting chosen, etc. Also, I find that at the start, get rid of most units other than nurglings and plague drones w death heads. They are not worth the upkeep cost as nurglings with kugath are much better. Death heads are needed to deal with ghorst/unholy load stone, then can disband if wanted

Nurgle is fun, I just think overall some buffs are needed. Especially with how the recruiting system works, it’s harder to just spam the few solid units the faction has. Some more damage on melee units and some more ranged power that isn’t just Ku’gath’s artillery attack or just magic spam would be nice. More artillery units like Ku’gath would be really nice and really fun. Stronger debuffs and have them more accessible in battle through unit effects or character abilities would also be really good.