It is a good list of tips, but I think you forgot what is one of Kairos' biggest game changers--especially late game, which is the teleportation stance. For a cost of 50% of the Winds of Magic bar you get a free ambush battle in the field against any army within reach. Late game, the tech tree can make this completely free. This means you can completely murder most armies in auto-resolve.

Honestly i play kairos like hes meant to be played, if something bad happens i just roll back the save. Its not the future i wanted anyways, everything goes to plan. lol great video

I like the why you suck series. Its more about patching up what your doing wrong than what you should be doing. Its unique and you found your niche

I'd like to add, RUSH the tech that gives arcane mirth to all horrors, 20% faster magic regen for every single horror unit in your army, gives you essentially 360% base recharge rate without considering arcane conduits or similar

Perhaps I have judged the blue boys too harshly...

I played Kairos for the first time a couple of weeks ago and my problem was that Teclis came for me on like turn 15 and continuesly harassed my vulnerable settlements from that looooong coast. I could never get enough time to finish off the slaanesh faction. Thankfully it feels kinda lore friendly to save scum as Kairos! 😄

I would love to see one of these on the dark elves, because I can say they're the only faction I've ever played that I genuinely didn't understand what I was supposed to do with them.

Excellent advice all round. One of my personal favourite strategies for dealing with ol' Oxy is to give him time to get in range of Fateweaver's Crevasse then catching him in an ambush using teleport stance. You'll be reinforced by the garrison and have and a guaranteed positive auto-resolve provided you didn't lose your high-tier units fighting Tecles or the minor Slaaneshi faction. You can get the same result with a normal battle but by teleporting you'll suffer less casualties and can spend less time recruiting and replenishing before taking the fight to Oxy's home base.

This is gonna be a good series! I watched your Nurgle one and started a campaign right after and dominated.

I have yet to thoroughly test this, but it seems that in this latest patch you can land yourself an early confederation of Sarthorael's Watchers. Which is convenient, because not only you land yourself an early Big Bird with a new unique skill, but you can use his last settlement to bribe someone, unless you rescue him by transfering a settlement.

Okay now that I properly watched the video, I have to fully admit that I did never use Blue Fire correctly at all. I just looked at it and said "Eh. Monsters and for lord sniping only."

With the new update to blue fire where it will actually target a whole unit formation instead of in a straight line, kairos just became a first person shooter

I love how tough Tzeentch's early game is because if you get on top of it then you are rewarded with the delicious cheese that are lords of change and soul grinders doomstacks. I absolutely love melting everything with those units and even if I always make balanced armies in my campaigns, I feel like playing Tzeentch allows me to embrace the cheese just once.

great guide I always had problems with Kairos since his position changed but I learned something new from your guide.

I could have used this a while ago! I already completed a Tzeentch campaign in IE, and I can agree with your approach. Some main differences are that I sent a small army to the Eastern Colony islands for some very safe economic settlements, and I used CotW to buy time with the northern factions while I conquered the south pole.

One time I had a cult come up in the demon prince’s province to the north, so I used transfer settlement on one of oxyclean’s conquered settlements from the tzeentch ai faction to the demon prince. Daniel ended up allying with me, because of the common foe (which i artificially injected into his life) and I was able to recruit nurgle and khorne units from him. You can count on Oxy to take it back quickly, so your not even really losing land in the southern continent in the long run, plus if you time it well in his warpath, he might have to turn around to reclaim it and may save you many valuable turns to run kairos back to your capital from the slaanesh area

these videos are fantastic, I really hope your channels gets way more attention, and I wouldn't be too surprised if it did! quality stuff, keep it up 👍

I started watching your channel for more Warhammer YT content, and that has definitely been a factor in watching your videos, but your voice is incredibly relaxing and more calming than ASMR or guided meditation.

Your voice and audio quality is spot on top. Clear articulation and intonation. Really easy to listen to.

This is such a great series, looking for more to come :)

i was already loving your content and then you bless us with a Snatch reference. you sir, will go far!

Great videos so far. I'm really looking forward to more content from you in the future. Very specific Immortal Empires advice like this seems kind of rare, for some reason.

Most interaction I've had with this game prior is just hearing it's name, but although there's many specifics I don't know this was a entertaining and interesting video, well done!

Wonderful video, hope your channel will grow!

I actually agree with you on Tzeentch being a defensive faction. The ability to wipe out half the units of an army with your powerful spells, then send in your army to clean up is just efficient and makes sense. You have incredibly low recruitment and casualty replenishment rate, but winds of magic is cheap compared to it. Any straggler Calvary or flying units your range can usually destroy before they touch your frontline and the barrier absorbs what little comes through. And late game your hit and run units come in with your spellcaster to take out even more of the forces. It seems almost intentional with how well it works. I recommend putting your stronger units on any army BUT Kairos, as a subpar army is more than fine due to Kairos being such a power house as said. I really enjoy stacking pink horrors with the tech "Great Locus of Change" which gives 20% power recharge rate per pink horror outside of melee. Which can help with generating a bunch of winds while saving strong heroes for your other armies. Kairos can just nuke the enemy army and the pink horrors in right formation can nuke whatever is left. Keep a cultist of Tzeentch as a defensive caster to protect your horrors and no army can stop you until the deep late game.

These videos are great! Would love to see more. Your Nurgle one really helped me.

hey man, I was really frustrated that I couldn't reliably get over the early game hump of the Tzeentch campaign, but after watching your vid I burned through Oxyotyl far far smoother. Blue fire OP. Much love!

Love your in-depth guides, also, your sense of humour is really on point

Really appreciate this and your nurgle guide. I love the demon armies, but they do require quite a different mindset than some of the others. I took these tips and am having a blast with my kairos campaign now, keep up the good work mate

These videos are some of the only ones for Total War where the tips haven't been fairly self evident. Nice work. Looking forward to a Chaos Dwarves one.

What a delightful narration sir! Greetings from Spain :D

Thank you for this awesome and entertaining video, I learned a lot from this and I appreciate the work you put in. I am really glad I stumbled upon your channel.

Nice video. I loved the part where you did a take on the new roadmap coming soon! Truly loved it!

Great video, loving the channel so far 😎👍

I actually thought they were a defensive faction because i never watched any previews to the game and when I fought Tzeench in the tutorial campaign for the achievements, every time I wasn't able to bog down the ranged horrors, they deleted my units in seconds. Its freaking wild to think they'd be a hit and run faction to me.

Congratulations on having entered the algorithm, I am here because of the Nurgle video and now i can't wait for more of these videos

Brilliant video, the editing and voiceover is superb, subscribe and looking forward to more of yours videos!

Great vid! Lookin forward to tryin this out

Oh man this was BEAUTIFULLY and i loved your voice man, and the wordplay! Very, very fun to listen to and good tips! I'm 1000000000% here if you decide to do Skarbrand or any other people!

I believe this was the first time I've been excited to see a new upload.

After nurgle, another great Take! Truly hope you do this for Khorne and Slaanesh aswell, especially Khorne which i just dont understand and everbody seems to love the campaign.

Fantastic video with great information and fire memes. I was struggling really hard with this campaign but i think this has set me right pretty well, the only thing i veered off on was that little buddy faction you let the lizard dudes murder, i used the changing of fates and some settlement trading to plant them on elf land, trying to keep them alive but it may be a futile effort.

Regarding fragments, I'd personally say taking shadows as well could be useful. Extra movement speed on a flying caster is nothing to scoff at, especially considering it'll be active on every spell you cast.

Reason 7 - you can have friends. You can vassalize Chronos, Sarthorael and sometimes even the Slaanesh one.

Please make one of these for Skarbrand. I was very surprised checking your videos and seeing you're a new channel, these videos seem polished, I assumed you'd been making them for a long time.

fantastic video, hoping for more!

These are absolutely fantastic videos, please make more

Objectively the best intros in the Gaming Guide Landscape and with exquisite language!

What a good video. Im a Tzeentch fanboy and there is nothing greater than the Changer of Ways. The editing is superb and i 30:16 just cracked me up. I dont know how people can like Nurgle. Just look at the Lord of Changes FEATHERS. Those wings are eye porn. Truly magnificent.

See, I did something else with the Slaanesh faction near Kairos’ start: I vassalized them, sent them towards the Last Defenders while I dealt with Tiktaq’to and Teclis. Also somehow Khazrak sent his last lord down to me after he got eradicated up in the Empire, I gave him a settlement to use as a herdstone, vassalized him too, then sent him to fight the Thorek, who I’m currently struggling against. Also I have no idea what’s wrong with my campaign. You said I’m not supposed to have many allies, but in addition to my two vassals, I’m in military access with _Ku’gath!_

Great video, learned a few things myself. Though I think differently on a few things: 1. Blue fire should only be used on low count units. Pink flame is much better on the higher count units. A burning head spell (from your cultist hero) can do an insane amount of damage along lines of enemies. If you can hit reinforcements coming in or a long line of units coming at you, a single cast of burning head can cripple an (early game) army entirely 2. Think it is always best to befriend slanesh. I usually trade them a settlement and then use changing of the ways to get it back. You can keep doing this periodically to keep them friendly, get extra cash, and eventually command them to help you cover fronts 3. You should be using unholy manifestation #1 as often as possible, even right at the start of the game. Just recruit an extra lord and disband when complete. This gives you 250 (or 500 if event active) grimores each, making transfer settlement and halt faction very affordable. 4. Teclis should be elimated as soon as possible (attack him instead of slanesh). You can then trade his terriories to clan mors for extra cash and more of a buffer zone to the north, allowing you to focus almost entirely on oxyotyl. 5. Some sieges (against slower factions) can be easily won by setting up your army/kairos as far from the victory point as possible (out of range of towers) and deploying your cultist/cavalry on the opposite side (hidden in trees). Break through a door with your hero/cavalry and rush the end victory location while kairos opens the door next to your army (that still stays out of range of towers). You should be able to get to the end victory point before any enemies do and renforce by flying karios over there. Just with kairos/cultist spells you should be able to devistate enemies madly trying to get to you in unorganised clumps

Late to the video, but something I find quite nice about the in-training lords is that, instead of taking them for their spellcasting and solely for ambush bait, since you're planning on swapping them out for Lords of Change, is you can just have one spec'd for the passives in the blue- +winds of change, +chaos, +local recruitment. it never hurts to have a winds of change battery hanging out with you, and the bonus from draftmaster can make recruitment for main army a lot quicker.

Awesome video, one of these for all factions would be fantastic.

thanks bro, this was very helpful to get footing in the early game to someone who generally is bad at the game

Loved the dry comedy comments! that alone gets a thumbs up, the content got my sub. keep it up!

your voice is so calming

1 min in and i find the video hilarious. good job mate, subed.

Just found your channel and I like the way you do your content, you got a new sub from me.

I never noticed his insane quick cooldown for his spells. This is a game changer, thx a lot! His early campaign still sucks, but I can finally bring change to to the world

This video is a gem, I like your style

I play the high elves like this. Teclis with his Phoenix and a squad of Phoenixes harass the enemy and deal the majority of the damage. The sea guard sit in a defensive formation and get buffed with the fire spell.

I never played Tzeentch but like Warhammer. I arrived on your video wand was hit with a mindrending breaking of the fourth wall, I was confused, I realized I was confused and thus trapped in the tendrils of Tzeentch's master plan, this video surely embodies the will of the god of change, it is excellent.

Never stop making these

I played first just for the epicness of the battles and warhammer fantasy. I never played campaign because I failed hard at it… I was not tactical at all. Your “why you suck with” series are fun and knowledgeable at the same time! Thanks and keep going !

This video feels like and you’re an evil servant whispering devious plans behind my shoulder. Very fitting for the faction

Awesome video. Love it.

Fantastic guide! Can’t help but notice the coincidence that a video dropped from another creator yesterday doing a Legendary Tzeentch playthrough and it was also his first time… I know you’ve probably been working on this for a while so it’s not connected but it gave me a good laugh

I'm a simple man. I see someone reference Snatch, you get a sub. Favorite movie. Good content as well.

This guy's voice is audible chocolat. It's like ASMR. Honestly, you make good contgent, so I hope your channel grows. these why you suck videos are pretty damn good.

Wait, the hit and run faction is Slaanesh, Tzeench being a magic and missile heavy faction was always meant to be defensive. The barrier helps in hit and run with cavalry, but also helps trading with missile troops and makes the frontline more resistant in general, but specially against missiles as the barrior can regen between salvos.

This guide helped me a lot thanks

I've also found force rebellion to be a pretty good changing of the ways. It's quite cheap and can be used to get enemy armies to move out of the settlements, there was multiple times I used it on a minor settlement to get an enemy army to leave their capital and then just steal their capital next turn

Great vid - subbed

These videos are great! I hope you do nkari or skrag soon.

Great voice and narration beautiful video

Hi, The tip about extra lord using to lure ambushes stays for all factions, especially those who struggle early game, it is something I exploited to no ends in Kugath campaign, unlike TW2 upkeep penalties are really tiny (4% vs15% on VH) It is especially useful for chaos factions for for another reason: they ascend their lords, so you can recruit a lord, put all points into spells/yellow line and then by the time you want him to carry actual army around you can ascend him to big chungus and make him more of a general (red line) I'd say for Kairos 2 points in life/death/fire are mandatory more or less in this particular order, wild is very good but no so important, you probably want that 200% spell intensity and hero casters have conduits, exalted pinks and lords of change have poor man conduit(20%) Last time I played cultists on war shrines were bugged, they didn't add to spell mastery (foot and horse was ok) Also I don't know it that's just me but I feel like mortal lords are way superior to deamons, their red line is better and they replenish bariers, quite often I skip spells on lord (heroes do that) and make my lord a meele frontliner (because units don't do that too well)

Revealing Faction tensions is also good to help set up ambushes.

I and a friend both were playing a tzeentch mortal empires game, he tends to use a blitzkrieg approach while I turtle up and dare anyone to look at my lawn twice. It was interesting to see the differences in approach and results even from the same units, but overall I had the easier time of it.

I don't know why but that Oxyotl with the Doom armour and music just really cracked me up

This is a great video to get me to try this faction. Unfortunately after patch 4.0: The halt the faction action is replaced with halt army action which only stops one army. Which sucks because I wanted to try that halt faction against a "friend" in MP. Reveal Faction Intentions was also removed because players thought it was useless. Also like others have said a lot of spells have been retooled and no longer work like they do in the video. Oxyotyl besieging your settlements has been patched where he will attack if the battle odds favor him. Lots of faction changes that happened after the video which is pretty fitting for Tzeentch tbh.

I am loving these guides

Thank you for the Oxyotl Doomslayer edit.

You helped me have a great nurgle campaign

To be honest while playing Kairos I can easily make a grand long-term plans, anticipating all potential obstacles. While looking back I can easily spot where and when any other force made a mistake that can be exploited. But for some reason I often get lost in the present

Those Snatch reference, I LOVE IT

Good thing I watched this very informative guide on a faction I never intend to play Very tzeenchian in fact, I would say

I don't even like Tzeentch, so I was gonna pass this video. But I like your channel so I decided to give it a watch. Was not disappointed. :D I look forward to more.

Totally agree with the defensive faction take. The only hit and run units are the big ones (knights, doomknigths, and fast moving cavalry), the warriors and tanky units are a real barrier (in both meaning) to protect ranged units. and Having 2/3 spellcasters in kairos army is mandatory to boost his spells with his unique line.

In an interesting play I actually went and smacked Teclis immediatly taking the peninsula. From there I was able to deal with oxyotl and slannesh last

transfer settlement is also insanely strong for tzeentch because you can take from a faction then sell it to them for massive money, positive diplo and even vassal. I ended up running north to grimgor, giving him a single cruddy settlement and instantly vassaling him into the strongest rank 1 vassal on the map. He single handily beat down cathay and I then took his settlements from him for a safe haven that was that was pre-leveled thanks to his investment. Sure all the chaos hated me for being "friends" with him, but I ended up making them all fight each other and slowly became friends with vilitch forcing him into vassal by again trading settlements to him that i took through changing of ways. Ended up completely safe on vilitches starting fortress with a sizeable land mass of my own. Grimgor killed all my enemies map wide with villitch as I halted enemies so they couldnt run from the tide of death. Force war was simply too costly and I could never use it to the absurd costs late game.

Hi, love the series, add to this list of videos some of the warhammer 2 factions, would be cool to se them.

Oxy really is like a monster in a horror movie for Kairos. You know hes out there, and you know hes coming for you. Its not a question of if, its a question of when. Im always suprised in my tecles campaigns that Kairos can knock on my door without Oxy beating the piss out of him.

again an amazing video

One of the hardest and slowest early game but very rewarding if one makes it to the endgame

thanks professor Snape, i really like your videos :D

These last 2 vids have been so good. Kislev next?

"You call it chaos, I call it thriving wind market" XD

Love these videos

Nice video! Thank you for this piece of art. You are truly blessed by Tzeentch, since you have 9 reasons :D Do those Tzeentchian Factions come back as rebellions? Since Sorthrael(?) the Ever-Watcher got a unique trait now, would be awesome to somehow save him. I tried myself, but the fight against Teclis is tough at the start, if you directly sail for Dawn's Landing. Before 3.1 you could vassalize Sorthrael's faction and integrate later. If you are able to just get the correct faction as rebellion, than this would be easier.

It has been decided that I would leave a like here and subscribe to this channel for Tzeentch had wished it.