Legend's worst enemy is truly Closed Captions. From Carrot Cake Eats, to Skarsnik's Nazi Skulkers it just has no idea wtf to do 😆

This actually made me want to start a Clan Angrund campaign just to try the Skavenblight rush strategy. Looks very fun and since Skavenblight is relatively isolated it gives you a good spot to perhaps build up and set sail to the badlands. Great vid as always Legend! ❤

Just want to point out that there is a much better way to increase your research rate than farming Ikit Klaw. The dwarfs are among the factions that can earn ancillaries that improve research rate, they have acces to the “student” and “archivist” followers. Both increase reaearch rate by 10% and all you have to do is win a battle when not reaearching any technologies. They are very easy to get and your research rate will go through the roof. Clan Angrund is also perhaps the best faction for this because the followers can only be attached to heroes and they already start with 4. So just get rid of Ikit, no need to take any chances

I like how you find out that belegar can take skavenblight so early. You should tried it with thorek against kroakgar, it make the campaign interesting.

Liked his campaign. This "getting my old town back and then kick all rats and orks out of all dwarfholds " is a epic role-playing quest.

When he panned the camera on Skavnblight I lost it. Fkn Legend 🤣

I love Belegar's campaign. I play a lot of dwarves and his campaign is really challenging and have a lot of flexibility with how you want to play your campaign. I play VH/H though. Although the additions of the Ogres is a real pain, but not in a bad way. I just really like uniting the northern mountains dwarves instead of the southern ones, it makes it really dynamic.

I usually capture Karak 8 peaks super late, because mountains around you are pretty rich. So you can easily maintain 2 armies even 3 if you simply capture them. The dwarves to the right, Karak Hirn will be confederated when you kill those first greenskins. And then you can just rush Karak Norn i think or whatever the name of it, and its a pretty rich province with 4 settlements. So you'll make 4x400 simply from 4 tool makers. And then you can help bretonnians, who always get obliterated by mousillon and henrich kemler and belakor + norscans from north. Not a single time in my campaign Louen actually confederated all the bretonian lands. He almost always sits with couronne and anguille(or whatever the name) because he doesnt have enough money or force to kill the undead. So helping bretonnians + taking massif orcal is more profitable imo. And/or also taking setttlements of Karak Ziflin province. And at the same time fighting in south with skavens and beastmen. And only after all these adventures im attacking karak 8 peaks. Belegar's doomstack are just rangers. So you can super easily hire them from one of those settlements by making rangers barracks and just buying 15 rangers. And obliterate any army. They got stalk by default and thanes can make them snipe. So 1 thane gets guardian and another snipe for rangers. And thats it, a perfect doomstack, cheap and effective. 5 heroes(lord + 4 heroes) + 15 rangers. With ironwarden's tankard? i think that's it, you get liquid fortification, and all your heroes become super tanky.

Concise yet thorough. Always a good review. Belegar isn't one I've played much because of the 50% thing, but the abuse of Ikit sounds interesting. I wonder if I can keep an army at skavenblight for sacking Tobaro(I think) and still have enough strength to go take 8 peaks early as possible.

I have to say, if you take Savenblight on turn 3, there might be a situation where Sartosa and the Beastmans declare war on you almost immediately and at the same time. As a result, you will have to fight with 2 stacks of orcs, 2 stacks from Sartosa and 1 stack of Beastman. And it is possible to do all this under the plague. )) This is exactly what happened to me on Legendary difficulty. But, I will say for sure that the old campaign scheme from the 2nd part of the game works stably. Thanks for the video!

I love the teleboy CC at the start

Looks great. I've got tw3 on the sale. I played tw2 a lot but I never managed to finish a dwarf campaign. Those mortal empires winning conditions were too much for me. I've gotta give Belegar a try

5:10 Non-ironically, I would absolutely watch a Legendary Lords unique skill lines tier list video.

Wow this looks cool i will try it thanks LEGEND!!

To be fair the factionwide buff from capturing K8P should be considered as Belegar's faction traits. It's not super OP but it's decent enough among dwarves.

Congrats on the 460k Subscribers, Legend! Much deserved!

Thanks for this legend. i found this campaign brutal at the start with Skrag, Aranessa, Morghur and Ikkit all declaring war on me at the beginning. So a strategy of taking out Ikit early might help out and i certainly didnt think to try that!

Thanks for the video!

Belegar has interesting synergy with the Ekrund Miners RoR. Their unique trait is that they start with triple ammunition for their blasting charges, and with Tunnel Warfare, that becomes 9. I've been able to pump that number all the way up to 15, at which point you can basically treat them as a dedicated ranged unit. I'll be damned if I can remember how I did that, though. This is really more funny than overpowered, but I thought I'd mention it.

Loving this series of videos. This start for Belegar is quite fun.

the longer the better with these videos love them

Since I’m doing a dwarf faction to get back into WH3 today and potentially have a good DLC coming up including the angry cousins, I definitely needed this because I didn’t realize just how much of a pain the Bum King Campaign would be

I would really like you to cover Ungrim next. I played ungrim on L/VH about 80 turns and its imo the most miserable campaign in the entire game, yes even worse than empire. You are COMPLETELY surrounded by enemies. Grimgor is on you, drycha is on you, rictus is on you, vlad is on you, and on top of all of it festus destroys entire empire, ice court is in ruins and throg is moving towards you. Oh and for some reason thorgrim is a literal vegetable when you play as ungrim. If you don't save thorgrim from Skarsnik ASAP your entire campaign is literally doomed. I think i found the most unfun campaign in the game lol. Also the first 10 turns is a literal coinflip of who declares war on you first. Add the terrible replenishment and growth of dwarves on top of everything i said.

I don't like that when you play the campaign "normally" all of your wars pull you away from Karak Eight-Peaks. I wouldn't mind fighting my way to Eight peaks but for like the first 40-50 turns you're going the wrong direction fighting ikit, sartosa, morghur, sometimes even the damn elves. I think it might be a good compromise to go for a pseudo-rush and take your first three provinces, max out your army, then migrate to Ekrund and take it from Wurrzag. I love Belegar as a character and his buffs to miners are awesome. It also feels kinda stupid OP that you get to keep your ghost dads after you take Eight-Peaks. I bet most players would hate this, but I always thought it would be thematic if they disappeared when you recaptured it and you got some massive faction buffs instead.

if you wanted to farm ikit, do the lords have to be out in the field for the bonus to apply or can you disband them and keep it anyway?

Just started this campaign yesterday. Only difference is I moved north to take the two settlements from the Broken Nose Greenskins, claiming the province, then force marched to Skavenblight. Letting the Skavens go unchallenged so close to your small settlements is a sure handicap yourself, especially with the Pirates of Sartosa pushing up the coast and declaring war in the first 10-15 rounds.

Made it to Eight Peaks turn 42 with a level 50 belegar when IE first came on on legendary. I didn't have to fight ikit until after I captured eight peaks some how. But hit saltspike, fat ogre, tree goblins, dancing greenskin, then took eight peaks. Ripping and tearing, and before they patched defeating one lord and getting 10k xp from the reinforcing army. Also when all battle were settlement battles. That really helped because his Army is pro at close quarters combat. Smol and fighting street to street

Belegar Ironhammer *UNHHH* REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I dunno if they changed it recently or it was like that before but now Ikit is always sitting in Skavenblight at turn 3

I love how straight you talk about the ridiculous names for settlements

Hi Legend I followed your advice and sacked Ikit's last settlement multiple times until eventually Beastmen, Estalia and Sartosa were also hunting that settlement. So I had to kill them to protect Ikit to farm to the research rate! Ultimately, not really worth it considering the ease of getting archivists and students. If I had to play it again, I would go for Skavenblight, kill Ikit straight away, go straight into Estalia and kill them and the Beastmen (Morghur's missile resistance trait isn't worth what it was in WH2), raze all of Estalia to totally close my west flank, take out Aranessa and gift Mirigliano province to Orion to stop him declaring war and to open trade with him, after that, military ally with him and put your outpost in the Kings Glade for sick Wood Elf units (great synergy with the Belegar Ranger kiting build). Then kill the Ogres on the way to 8 peaks, probably take out Wurrzag on the way because he gets an item that gives whole army 24 melee attack every time he casts a spell with a 17 second duration and I can't allow that. Wtf is that passive btw, when poor cockroach mortuary cultist Khatep increases cooldown 15 seconds? Anyway, great campaign. My only 2 issues with it is 1) that in the current build, and by the way this bug even goes back to Warhammer 2, Belegar and all Angrund's lords cost 2.5x base instead of 1.5x base, and 2) the victory conditions are too bloody easy and simple. Make some noise about this bug because it makes the Angrund game harder than intended and certainly cuts your resources and capabilities. The only problem I had with the turn 3 Skavenblight pathway was that by the time I got back to the Vaults to reunite them, Balthasar Gelt had taken Karak Izor which basically meant if I didn't want to go to war with him I would have to pay him tens of thousands in gold to buy it off him. So in the end I only had Bhufdar and Zarakzil and missed out on that sweet Izor landmark.

Minor damage on the miners

will you do a immortal empires faction tier list ?

maybe my favourite dwarves campaign ! a lot of different start and the quest to capture eight peaks is great

Rakarth next maybe?

Thanks for the video

Really like these campaign reviews, very informative for all the LLs you don’t really feel interested by in the first place. Giving much appeal to all these campaigns. The funny question I have now, would legend do same campaign reviews for WH2 as well when all here are done ? :D I would like to get these showcases for WH2 as well now lol. I completed 9 campaigns in L/VH in WH2 during previous years, but I am sure I would be tempted to try some others if legend do these reviews for WH2 as well, even outdated now since WH3… Until that, I chose to start Volkmar’s campaign in wh3 cuz of legend’s review about it, and I don’t regret it, diplomatically it’s a very interesting campaign confederating within the old world plus expanding south of Khemri in my original spawning region, i really like that campaign. Thanks to legend, I wouldn’t have probably started it if he didn’t do that review about Volkmar’s campaign that convinced me. Also very interested by Thorek’s & here Belagar campaigns since I saw the reviews, also 2 good examples why these reviews are useful. I am not a dwarf fanboy, pretty sure I wouldn’t even have looked at these campaigns if legend didn’t present them and made them so appealing… so thx to legend for that 👍

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Great video! Can you do Grimgor Ironhide next?

Wow definetly gonna try this. Taking ikit out immediately seems like a really ideal way to go

Playing this at the moment and I rushed K8P. Fighting and taking a few settlements along the way for replenishment etc. and took the settlement early on. From there I managed push out stabilising the region eliminating Mors and Skarsnik. One the most challenging campaigns I’ve done but having a blast with it!

Can someone please describe the siege battle in more detail? My rangers always get attacked on the victory point and the Missile and Runesmith heroes always get killed. I've tried 6 times with the same outcome each time on normal difficulty.

What's the best way to take Skavenblight turn 3 in terms of playing out the battle with minimal casualties?

Belegar is my favorite

You could make a tier list of faction traits

I have started this campaign so many times amd never thought of attacking Skavenblight. :)

I just bought WHTW 3, i've heard that the calvarie was shit when the game was released with no weight to it's colision. It has been fixed?

lol i never would have thought of that.

Dodging a nuke is widely considered a hard thing to dodge especially when someone has, uhh, a tallness deficiency. So I don't blame you for not doing it.

Legend truly dont wanna go to the book again, so he praise shorties a lot)

Belegar is one of my favorite in lore characters. He kind of reminds me of thorin oakenshield from the hobbit who is one of my favorite middle earth characters

LEGEND, NEW CHAOS DWARVES TRAILER IS OUT WE NEED YR VIDEO ABOUT IT NOWWW

I just did a Belegar save and didn't even think to go take Skavenblight that early. I just consolidated my starting province and sat there with an army of rangers/miners since Belegar buffs them so hard. I would just farm attacking armies of skaven, vampire coast, and ogres until the province was really high level and making some decent money. Made good friends with Balthasar and the border princes and we pushed back the tide until I suddenly had this very easy avenue to get to Eight Peaks. At first It looked like Belegar might be more difficult but honestly hes pretty fun. Still really wish they'd ease the upkeep debuff though.

I played this recently for the first time and it was fun. It was both challenging and rewarding.

CAN YOU DO CLAN MOULDER?

They should rethink the upkeep penalty and maybe make it increase over time, where you would start off with maybe 10% and then every 10 turns you get +15% or something like that, until you retake your ancestral halls, thus giving an incentive to go there early

Now that is s start i never thought to do and I am definitely doing this today because ikit claw in the late game is the bane of my existence as I can never dodge the nuke

Seems the Chaos Dwarfs' location will make some of your starting location reviews obsolete indeed.

I don’t know how many others would like it, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on each campaign which is legenedary and has ultimate crisis mode on with 200% str and min turns to fire. Like… How can Khemri survive the Black Pyramid swarm?

For a moment I thought you got to 8 peaks on turn 3!

chaos dwarfs

What's the benefit form his faction's unique grudge again? (Recapturing eight peaks)

I haven't been playing too much, does anyone have advice for taking settlements? He says it's dirt easy but I've been struggling lol

Great review, and will definitely be giving the early rat poison a go next time.

cool

Is it just me or is his volume a bit too low?

skavenblight then skrag, hes a real bastard if you dont take him out, once their gone its a lot easier.

Thank you for this guide. Belegar is my Favorite dwarf lord, and im just about finished my boris campaign and was looking at who to play next. This might be a dumb question, but how big is the jump from normal difficulty to hard difficulty?

What's fun about belegar is you get used to doing more with less with his penalties. Once you get karak 8 peaks his economy explodes and you have so much money to spend suddenly

I like Belegar as my main Dwarf because of Confederation. He can send 2x ancestral lords, turn 1, to start spotting Grombrindal, and Thorek in the south. The other dwarves would take ages to spot them all.

Alberic please...

I hope you make a Belegar Immortal Empires campaign guide or livestream. Also would appreciate continuing Empire Livestream

need malus darkblade for 14 min video

I really like belegars campaign the only faction ive ever completed the crisis with also protected the border princes (definitely not to extort them) and i can proudly say they were going strong at turn 160

I had fun rushing Skavenblight. Played it just few days ago. Got lucky and found it empty with skaven busy in Bretonnia. Took over all of the western cost in the area and turned my sights towards 8 peaks. Sadly all the dwarves in area got wiped by then, very sad. Was 4 turns from my beautiful home. Found 8 peaks controlled by....... THOREK!!!! It ruined the game for me since I wanted to ally my dwarven brethren not fight them. End of that run, ragequit lol

I think they changed his start position since Orion had a tendency to non stop Harras your settlements unless you deal with him, leading you to A. Put up a never ending defence against wood elves (Pain) or B. Try and take out all of athel Loren from the start of the campaign (PAIN). Since wood elves and dwarfs are not too friendly, i think they changed belegars position so he doesent start with wood elves right up his Bum from turn 1. Thats my take anyway.

What do you get from taking Karak Eight Peaks besides removing the debuff?

The problem wiht Thorek, at least for me, is that, after dealing with the inital greenskins/skarbrand/khalida trifecta, fucking kroqgar declares war on me every single campaign. Which creates a chain of war declarations from tiqtaktoe and teclis. I end up fighting against order factions and then meeting/fighting kairos because of it. WHEN ALL I WANT IS TO GO NORTH WHERE MY ACTUAL ENEMYS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE. thanks for listening to my frustration induced ted talk

Skavenblight turn 3? I should give that a try. I usually go west and capture Estalia and then expand eastward. That way you're not caught in the middle of multiple wars with Aranessa and Skrag. Sadly, Belegar doesn't get his "oath fulfilled" for capturing Karak Eight Peaks anymore. Was an incredible factionwide buff, but eventually just disappeared between patches during wh2. Notably Belegar gets a second rune of spite in his grudges

Fun tool

Massively underselling having 4 ethereal heroes from turn one at the end there

Ikit Claw is a monster left untouched. Great play. Way better than wrestling orcs for Karak Izor

Newest patch gives longbeards/dwarf warriors/ironbreakers in Belegar's army 75% chance to block missiles with shields. :o

His faction mechanis may be bad, but he is cool to use. Also, tyou get autoconfederation after capturing the GS settlement nearby.

Belegar has golden shield and gives plus one shield level for all units in his army. Why nobody cares about golden shields? For me there are two things sticking out about this campaign: 4 free ghost heros from the start and golden shields.

The AI sucks at defending their settlements.... ... the miners got nuked ...

What I did with my Angrund campaign is take the normal route and confederate Karak Hirn and use their army to take out Skrag by turn 4, and then i sent belegbar to save tiles and destroy aranessa and then go for the rat

when will we expect to see disaster battles again?

dont you get + 4 PO, +5 Lord recruit rank and exp for units per turn when capturing K8P?

This strategy is not worth it anymore as of patch 3.0 (chaos dwarf update). The AI can't be stealth capped, meaning you have to conduct a full out battle. You will take such heavy casualties that it will take turns to replenish. By the time you then defeat ikit claw and then have all your forces back to full health, it's turn 12 and your being attacked by vampire counts and orcs.

I wanted to try to create my dwarven dreamteam starting with Thorek. The confederation event didnt trigger with Karak Azul and it was only ever possibility after I had confederated Karak Hirn and it seems really impossible to confederate other legendary lords as dwarves now. It sucks in my opinion. That used to be the best thing for me in the Warhammer II In Mortal Empires. Any tips on creating a dwarven allstar team on mortal Empires is highly appreciated.

I'd love to see how you take Skavenblight on turn 3 honestly because I can't see how you beat 2 skaven lords + Ikit (all who have magical attacks) and 2 turns of recruitment with minimal damage, even rushing to cap the victory point with your lord/heros you just get swarmed midway through, thats a level of cheese I have not tasted yet.

I just think the upkeep cost forces you to always to the same route, it sucks after the first campaign

Do you recommend sacking and taking the southern realms cities? They are supposed to be your allies but they grant you a route from your capital to a seaport if you annex lets say, Tilea. I never know what is the best option. They are useless at repelling Sartosa invasions

would rly love a guide for belegar

Does anyone know if there’s a good talent tier list? Yellow tree for example seems pretty garbage Red tree and blue tree are S tier - red being pretty mandatory at least somewhat to get MA/MD boosts to core units to offset difficulty penalties

Bellegar has in my opinion the worst karak eight peaks building chain. Queek being very eco foccused, Skarsnik being very good but i dont remember it exactly but bellegars i remember as very meh

I always considered taking down Ikit ASAP as mandatory; that Skaven snowballs ridiculously fast otherwise.

Great campaign but can be better still waiting for belagar's lords having %250 upkeep instead of %150 bug fix. It should make early game much smoother.

Belegar unique skill lines got buffed didn't it? Now that's rad. I just wish they rework Ungrim's unique skill line too.