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Another cool thing about playing Yvresse: Any lord or hero reaching level 15 (or higher after condeferated being) gets one of 3 different very strong & useful traits that the player can choose from. I love the one that reduces enemy agent success chance by 70% a lot.

Eltharion is my favorite high elf campaign. Love the mistwalker units and putting fking Malekith and Morathi in permanent timeout.

Eltharion's ammo regeneration makes him one of the best legendary lords for sieges in the game. I also appreciate that his faction is capable of holding wasteland settlements with 0 penalties, unlike most of the other High Elves.

I do like the idea of tossing Skarbrand in jail. I imagine Khorne is just chilling on his skull throne up in the Realm of Chaos laughing his ass off because Skarbrand is down there beating his head against the wall of his cell unable to do anything. Although I think for certain LLs maybe they should add a small chance per turn of a breakout attempt, because I sort of doubt a prison exists that could contain Skarbrand for long.

I did Eltharion's campaign recently with both starting places. Compared to WH2 it was brutal on Very Hard, especially that the AI still has anti-player berserk tendencies. In WH2 once you cleaned out Tor Yvresse you could disband that army and focus on badlands. Not anymore. In WH3 you have Nkari, Noctilus, Grom, Belakor and his vassal that have nothing better to do that rush you, and Morathi. Morathi was one of the AI absurdities, I was in defensive alliance with Tyrion and Alarielle, and once Morathi went to war with us, she ignored Eataine and sent 2 armies to the other side of Ulthuan to invade my minor settlement. All that while the other 2 went all the way next toAncient City of Quintex. On the Badlands side you were somehow safe from the south and west in WH2. Not anymore. Everyone hates you, and the AI will blitz toward you crushing anyone on its way. Skarsnik took out Karaz a Karak before I could even discover them and finished off Barak Varr almost all my himself just to invade me. Ikit took out Myrmidens and frequently invaded my territories, all that while Belegar was getting near next to his capitol. You're surrounded by couple Skaven and Greenskins factions, and Ogres, Khornites, Beastmen, all that while struggling to get enough funds to muster half the armies you need. It was glorious. Though the berserk AI really ruins immersion.

Mentioned it before on the Campaign Review for Alith Anar, but it bears repeating here: the Mistwalker Traits for characters that reach level 15 during Eltharion's campaign are saved along with the character, should they be brought into any other Elven Campaign afterwards!

I love this campaign, especially when holding on to both locations. Eltharion has this feeling of fighting alone behind enemy lines. But it can also be very tiresome if you try to build up both locations as you get attacked from different directions in each location. In the badlands there is a lot of ground to cover which can end up with you being pinned down between pirates, goblins, ogres, skaven, demons and beastmen.

Holy , finally a livestream again . I was so starved for Legend livestreams . Been rewatching so many streams .

Not Settra eh? Are you sure? You could be great you know.

Colonial Elf time! First thing i do is pack up and go to Tor Elasor lolol. Great vid as always Legend.

If your tabletop buddy loves High-Elves or fields High-Elf army as his main; get him The Warden & The Paunch. Great replayability and cool looking extra units.

This is one of the more interesting campaigns I have played in the game. Tried the badlands first, but have started a second one where I split my resources. Very fun and challenging.

Sky hawks are one of my favorite units. Their penetrating arrows actually travel through infantry so using them against chaff and doing a charge on them makes it a devastating precursor missile attack

Then theres me.... invades the border princes and joins the southern realm.royale with clan angrund, skrag aranesa

One of my favorite campaigns. The jail ability is realllllly strong. And I think playing both areas is harder but really fun tbh. I think legendary dif is a flat requirement for any high elf run, their roster is a bit OP. Just base archers can doomstack, lol.

What I’ve found you can do is move the Mage’s army before you attack with Eltharion and then sell Ivress. You get to keep the Mage’s army to either reinforce Eltharion in the Badlands or attack the irks and eventually retake Ivress when N’kari comes down that way.

Hands down my favorite HE campaign. You just have so many options on what you can do

Honestly probably the strongest player faction in the entire game, being able to put annoying legendary lords in jail permanently is such a huge benefit

I greatly enjoy playing as Eltharion because I enjoy using the Mistwalker units a lot. Usually I stick to Yvresse and abandon the Darklands, but I don't disband Eltharions army - I take the long way and mess with some other potential enemies along the way. I like to take (and hold) Sartosa for example, and kill the Beastmen in Estalia, helping out the Bretonnians a bit.

I usualy go more north just to smack border princes for quick traits from vamps 👍. Otherwise it is a fun campaign in my opinion. Oh and keep up the good work, love your vids/streams

Having a hard time getting steam going in a eltharion campaign I dont play elves well. But there is a ton of good advice in this! thx legend!

The idea of imprisoning Skarbrand is absolutely hilarious

I tried something a bit different with this campaign, but it made for a fairly interesting narrative. I had Eltharion sail back west at the start of the campaign, but landing midway on the journey to Ulthuan - at Estalia. The climate wasn't entirely favorable, but it was an okay little corner to start an empire in the southern realms, which allowed for a less cumbersome contact between the Yvresse Ulthuan homeland and "overseas possessions". From there it was just a matter of stabilising my holdings in Ulthuan and coordinating from both patches of territory to begin conquering Bretonnia.

eltharion probably has one of the most challenging campaigns if you decide to hold both locations

This series is great, love the content!

Honestly your videos make Warhammer what is it!

I honestly did not know that the Eltharion Campaign was so diverse.

I don't know if it was my comment that did it, but thank you for covering Eltharion regardless.

Please do a deep dive into ambush stance, and all tricks, cheese, and Lord specific variations.

Holy shit I’ll be able to actually catch a live stream rather than watching the vod!! Let’s goo

I held on to Yvresse, didn't land in the Badlands, and took out Aranessa and Ikit first. It's fun so far!!

Hey @LegendofTotalWar I have been loving this series it’s very useful and your assessments are spot on. I do have a question of what do you think about climate and its impact on the campaign? I just did a badlands eltharion and found myself pretty frustrated with the climates after 30ish turns. There are no green climates except for the 10-15 settlements around gronti. Unless you go to the darklands. I found that frustrating and annoying but do you have some tips about dealing with yellow and red climate or is it just not as high impact as I think it is? Please let me know! I won’t be a internet person and get mad for disagreeing hahaha

On turn 1, after abandoning and disbanding the Badlands, I send Eltharion's Hero off to spot Imrik and Teclis for eyes on Confederation too.

It is so strange that the moment legend pointed out the grimgor's starting position change from the black crag something came to my mind immediately Why do I think the upcoming chaos dwarf DLC will bring Gorfang rotgut as a legendary lord for the greenskins?! I don't know but i feel CA did this starting position exchange for grimgor for a reason

Warden's Cage is often less reliable than desired. Large entities knock targets around wasting precious seconds, and if target is too fast, all that time might have been used to catch up to target. For a more reliable Warden's Cage I highly recommend "Wardens Cage Tweaks" mod. Instead of a snare it makes the target unbreakable and lasts entire battle. If you can win the battle, you get the target imprisoned.

Ah yes. Settra The Grim.

Also in the Badlands, once you expand a bit you will end up with Aranessa and Skrag declaring war on you as well

my first TW:W2 legendary lord. 2 or 3, i still love his campain

I really wish they hadn't downgraded Yvresse's marble resource to pastures, It's hard for me to justify holding onto Yvresse when it's significantly less valuable than before.

love it. tyvm for doing this one

I'm hoping for The Western Provinces next personally.

I was playing the Ulthuan only version and for some reason Be'lakor decided to come poop on my land. I cannot describe the spiteful satisfaction of capturing him and keeping him in the cell :D Side note: Never knew you can prison heroes.

Grom is like penguinjoker The Athel mechanic of capture and release is great for gaining monies from them.

Thanks for doing this. :)

This is one of the campaigns I have never played but want to, I think I will make it my next one before Chaos Dwarfs drop.

I like how they are getting longer=)

FYI, the short-term victory conditions changed in WH3 IE vs WH2 ME. No longer a need to conquer the Dark Elves so the campaign has changed in that way as well

What are some early game tips for attempting to hold both start locations? If you decide to focus on Tor Yvresse, how do you get Eltharion and his starting units back fastest? Stuck full speed boating for a few turns?

My favorite campaign so far.

Got the long campaign victory on legendary/veryhard at turn 60 with nothing but t1 archers, spears, 2 eagle claws at most and 4 mistwalkers across 5 armies. Didn't need a single unit of cavalry or sisters let alone phoenix or dragons. Since ranged units allegedly got nerfed, i assumed i'd need to at least get silverin guard to be able to hold the line but silverin guard are basically chosen and never really needed them in the first place. The main reason why battles are too easy with high elves is that even without any AP dmg, t1 archers easily shred t5 armored units with silver shields. If simple arrows couldn't penetrate heavy Khorne armor - as it shouldn't - i'd have had to think of a different way of dealing with them, swordmasters, sisters etc. It really is a sad waste of a very cool roster when t1 archers can basically carry the entire campaign. I recruited an army full of mistwalkers and attacked Lothern just to see the units in battle. I should've needed the Knights of Tor Gaval. They should be dying fighting Be'lakor not be in the roster as a souvenir. Edit: Let's be honest, ultimate campaign victory is as interesting as the end game scenario. Which is a meh at best.

i had Be'lakor locked up for the longest time, seems fitting

If you're doing the "go home" campaign, disband Cavil as well. If you send him back by boat, he'll meet Beastmen and Skaven that'll quickly send armies to your undefended south very early on.

more like Eltharion the Fabulous

Elf Batman is easily my favorite high elf campaign.

Thanks for the video

fun thing ive found is getting the mod to increase cavills starting trait to one of the better ones and then saving him once he gets to lvl 15, can have an army full of henry cavills with mistwalker traits in any elf campaign

My favourite High elf campaign by faaar

Tired holding both locations on very hard once, but it seems impossible to keep up with the amount of forces the greenskins throw at you in the badlands. Especially when beastmen and Khorne start adding up to them

Dude! I never even thought about just keeping them in jail lol. I caught skarbrand twice, and never even thought about just keeping him in jail. I'm a moron.....skarbrand was a pain in my rear in the badlands. I fought, captured, and executed him twice...until finally wiping them out of existence.

I think Etharion has the best HE campaign easily, but at the same time its a shame that your magical smoke machine doesn't work outside of Ulthuaan, why give us the option to go crusading in the badlands if we can't use the mechanics built into the lord? I feel like there should be some way to get the mists on the settlements you own in the badlands, I understand that it would be a little OP, but with the amount of enemies in the badlands and how powerful they all are I think it would help alot, even if its only that you can get it in wasteland provinces or something like that.

You should review Skarnsik's Campaign.

S.E.T.T.R.R.R.A.A.A.!.!.!.!.!

Anyone else notice these gradually get longer and longer lol

I'd say there are 4 options, you can also sail the second army to estalia or tilia and conquer a city there.

doign that campaign right now! thx

Currently playing his campaign have spent the better part of the game running away from scarbrand And ended up in lustria

As always, I want Boris, but also Thorek.

Can Hellebron be next please?

Can you use that starting army of Eltharion near the badlands and, instead, take Sartosa? Is that a viable alternative action?

No "See you next time fuckers"? A bit surprising, but I'm certainly looking forward to the stream :>

Eltharion is the only High Elf I find fun. Just personally.

Is the Gobbo Stocks Unlimited Inc. still up and running for Elthatrion? I had to be careful with it in WH2 as triggering stack overflows with money was ridiciliously easy.

I like keeping the badlands, sacking everything I can until Eltharion is leveled up, I've indoctrinated a few LL and gotten enough money coming in that the economy is kinda broken, then leave and go back to Ulthuan

Legend Eltharion is my favorite legendary lord, thank you for the advise

And another Settra campaign. And another one where Settra has found pointy ears to glue to his crown. And again, Settra does not serve except for ice-cold Asur vengeance. Settra is pleased. And so am I. My Nagarythe campaign fizzled out because the Shadow Walkers still are badly balanced and the faction has annoying climate requirements. So why not give Settra a chance? Been a while since I played high elves proper.

The badlands are horrendous. Takes two turns to travel between most setllements. Horrible. I always just head back to Ulthuan.

Clan Eshin next !

Great timing! I just started an Eltharion campaign yesterday. I got a question for anyone who wants to answer. How do you manage the income in the early game with the two armies? I was wondering if I should use Eltharion in some kind of hit and run tactic just to gather money and experience while I secure more cities on the doughnut with the other army

Hey guys I forgot, how long can you keep someone jailed for again? And thank you for the video Legend

Do the Great Greaser

SKRAG SKRAG SKRAG SKRAG!

What would you say is more fun. Eltharion s vortex campaign in Warhammer 2 or mortal empires in Warhammer 3?

Will You Upload it later in case one cant make it?

can't even confederate the other high Elfs since I don't own Warhammer 2 but is it really worth spending $80

Morathi next?

Do a skrolk review next please

what does it matter what legendary lords are where ?

Thx

nice

Is the athel tamara cheese still working for IE? Where you get bonus gold depending on the amount you have in your treasury

So if you do the Ulthuan exclusive campaign, then Eltharion has to disband and lose 5 turns, no? Isn't this a pretty bad starting deficit?

i'm loving these vids. are you taking requests? i'm kinda curious/hesitant to start a grombrindel game

Will you make a community post about livestream?

not covering settra anymore Sadge

Is the Eltharion wall build time reduction ability still bugged?

how does the prison mechanic work in multiplayer? can i put me friend's legendary lord in permanent timeout lmfao

Hey Legend, are you aware of the soul quench exploit where you can cast it and then move when it starts to cast and get a free cast with no cool down? I am sure it works with other characters but it is great with Eltharion!

AI Eltharion always go back to donut,I never see him in that area at all I don't sure if it is same as some lord like empire's lord that get full province if they are AI or his main army just all die everytime

These campaign reviews keep getting longer and longer!