I´ve just tried this and it works like a charm! Thank you for finding this! A couple things I would like to add which made things even easier for me: 1. You can move your firemage into the castle for range, if the AI is further back. 2. Try to waste enemy ammo by standing behind the rocks to the right of the gate with the mage. They will take almost no damage from the mortars. 3. Since you have them, make use of the archers. After the mortars are out of ammo you can place them close to the wall (but out of range of the turrets) so when the AI starts moving units again you can have some free target practice. 4. Bring in the dragon too with Imrik and the cav. You usually wont need it, but its nice to have some backup. Thank you again and have fun killing rats everyone!

That's a neat strategy! It's a shame I'm already past turn 60 in my Imrik campaign.

Production quality in these videos is awesome, very well done

i used to send a 5/10 units inside as bait and use Imrik and the princes to enter through a different gate rush to the victory point and capture. use the dragon and mage to kill blobs in the meanntime. never failed me

Thank you for this. I had a fun time taking the chaos dwarfs tower, now I will try my hand at this

really fantastic guide, I cant wait to try this after work tomorrow

This is a really great guide. I appreciate you making this video.

@One Pitch Man great Video, I have to try this out. Thanks for sharing! Edit: Tried it, it works! Very fun. I'm going to try this strat on stream tonight, I'll link this vid, hopefully funnel a few people your way.

30 turns later: giga chad grimgor meet giga chad imrik near the dark fortress 😂😂😂

Thanks for the video, that was really nice. When I tried it, the Skaven refused to form a blob, so I just used archers and the mage to burn a hole into their ranks, kill the monsters, until I could rush with Imrik, the dragon princes and the dragon to the main point and defend it until win.

I've never played a really solid Imrik campaign and haven't tried him in WH3 yet so this is a cool trick to know

As someone who enjoys a great start in my campaigns i appluad you mate great work new sub

Succeeded on the first try, had to change some things up once I was inside the walls with Imrik and the cav as the AI had about 3-4 units still moving around back there. But worked out!

Imrik: "Look at me! I am Nagash now."

Great video dude!! love the format! More of these!!

This doesn’t work anymore. Now the enemy catapult systematically gets in range of the infantry

Great stuff...thanks my man...

One thing I have noticed is its easier to get the skaven to burn charges if you keep imirik back. Sometimes they only use 4 if you push him out immediately. I have never gotten them to blob closer to the gate. It is also a struggle to get the princes and imirik inside if they dont blob properly. I also cant get them to burn all 6 charges for whatever reason. Edit: So the most reliable way I found to get the units to blob is to bring up your own blob closer then run imirik in and out and move your blobl back and forth until they get there. Youre mage should stop with around 40 magic left and once you break the gate for imirik and prince knights to go in, use the rest of your magic to wittle down the units coming in. Bring your dragon with you to snipe off mortars and range units. You also can run around the cap point without fighting to prolong it.

Awsome job man this is amazing!

My Zhatan campaign was on a steamroll until I encountered endgame Imrik, who had 30% fire resistance on his army, and phoenix' and dragon princes that were practically invincible to all fire damage. Since all high tier Chorf troops do fire damage, Imrik really is a hard counter to them

I kiiiiiind of found a way to do this on 3.1, while playing on Normal. The problem is that it requires the Greater Invocation of Vaul, so you have to be at turn 10 in order to effectively carry it out. I'm not sure if that's too late for it to be considered a rush, in addition to the difficulty having been a bit lower on my end. Either way, I would be happy to share if you'd like to hear it. Even if it's just so you can get some ideas for another way to approach it

I did this before I saw this video & got army losses when the princes were standing on the final objective. Little later, maybe t10.

Cheesey Imrik

I dont mind waiting till i get 2 stalk units. Wait for them to be far away or near the walls, have tge 2 stalk units run on the west side and capture both victory point generating points at the same time. By the time enemies reach the points it is already a victory. Granted you need 2 stalk units which is the hard part.

NIcely done, getting a dragon doomstack this early will be so fking OP. Although what's the reason you recruited so many archers? I thought that control large army only required 2 armies and the amount of units doesnt matter or is that a WH2 thing?

awesome video, trying this out now c:

Great vid, keep it up

imagine they would make a warhammer game like this BUT you can actually play in first person in battles ... I think I would only play this until my eyes fall out

What would you recommend after this? Going West to kill off Queek or putting that off and pushing east to kill Ghorst and nurgle like normal runs?

Super cool demonstration man! Do you know which other settlements start at level 5?

does the making ai blob strat work with all skaven settlement with this layout?

I have found out about this..in my Drazoath campaign. I didn't want to cheese raiding it, I just wanted to smash the rats. Right far side is where I usually start as well. But I separate my units = less damage taken. It's a bit of a dance to let them burn through all the summons. But man..I was so surprised. AI sallied out during battle map siege..first time ever for me. They formed first blob inside a gate, but next one was created outside walls and since I had control large armies - they all chased me into my lines of waiting hobbos and dwarfs.. Draz ended up with like +2000 kills and 180 000 damage done. Courtesy of lore of Hashut

Looks like you got lucky. That dragon was so low for so long and somehow didn't die

Is it possible to just put the reinforcements inside the city and run them into the victory point and wait out the countdown? I just did that with the grimgor strat.

I can’t get the AI to bunch up! They camp spread out inside near the gate

That is some epic cheese. Nice shit!!

Sad face this no longer works :(

How does your dragon have 6 breath attacks?

I had no idea you could move reinforcement points and I’ve been playing since twwh 1!

So why have you recruited all these archers, when you don't actually use them in battle?🤔

Are the dragon battles bugged for anyone else?,

I can't seem to get them to blob anymore. Did they fix it in the last update, or am I just doing it wrong?

I've done this before however tried today after the latest patch and can't seem to get it to work now? Hoping it's just me 😢

It's NaggaCHEESE-HARD ! 🤣

How do you deal with the large units? Non of them sustained much damage from the fire and they just steamroll the princes and Imrik.

For some reason the rat ogres keep moving and chasing me down when i get to victory location

nice

The volume is really low on your video, I literally need to raise the volume to maximum to hear lol

Cant you just use the Grimgore Turn 2 streategy to have the Reinforcing at the plaza? So imrik starts at the gate bash it down and then Reinforcing army comes behinde in city and taking the plaza.

Did you manage at first try? I tried several times and Imrik can't stand this position long enough

you video is really quiet buddy

That's a good strategy! But the only downside is playing as the knife ears. Can Anyone else exploit this early on?

you can move the reinformcent point? Since when?

If the goal is to get them all to bug out and blob so that you can kill them with aoe, wouldn’t it be better to leave control large armies ticked? Then their entire force would blob at the same time and you can kill them easier.

voice is a little to low try normalizing your voice or something in the settings

what do i do if blob doesnt move up?

Tyrion chese confederations ?

These sentinel cheesing strats are silly

Can you provide save files for this and turn 2 tier 5 grimgor?

This is insane😅

Imrik is fun 56 wardsave round 15 XD

Catapults keep mauling my army in the blob

Very tasty cheese.

this has been fixed sadly

Audio is a bit low buddy

Would be a great strat, if it worked more easily. I wasted 3.5 hours attempting it twice and failing both times🤦🏼‍♂️. Great idea on paper, not so easy in practice.

Why did you need all the archers?

Does not work

how much did they charge for the chaos dwarfs dlc again? lmao

Great video, but the volume is too low.

Nice video! They really somehow butchered the siege AI in 3.0 with the mega blobbing thing xD

You're a little bit quiet. At 100% and I would like to turn you up a little bit.

Gg

bit cheesy though...

Lol CA game design is so bad, thanks for showcasing it XD no large army / lighting strike is a joke, add the sieges and how bad the defenses are (no oil, no need for equipement, towers with narrow vision) and its an easy win.

Why the f he so quiet??

Ai bait LOL

another boring cheese siege battle

What is it with half this damn community and doing everything EXCEPT fighting a fkin battle normally?