For Skaven, "Bell Polisher" is probably a really prestigious position that would be hard fought about.

I think Markus would be better. You get some unique heroes in your campaign and Empire also has a solid selection of heroes. Isabella should also be a solid choice due to buffs she gets.

Army of Two was a gem that never got it's deserved respect. Would love a remake/sequel.

Ironically that "elven" faction was also trying to cleanse the land of the elves.

When the 3rd Ghoritch cut away happened I thought, your overdoing it, you then made laugh out loud by admitting you were overdoing it and then did it some more excellent stuff

Skaven standing the line as a group of very "fantasy protagonist" style band of heroes is hilarious, and I love it. Skaven are best-best, yes-yes!

Im voting for Belakor or archaon because they both can get 3 LHs I think and like every marked hero. My other vote would be Isabella von Carstein because she buffs heroes a crap ton.

Vampire Courts probably would work. There's enough regeneration that you could survive through most fights.

Surely Isabella would be way easier. Her doomstack is allready just stacking hero's and she get's the building for extra vamps as well.

You're making some top content at the moment. Loving these challenge campaigns, we wants more!!!!

I saw the first reversal coming but the "remix" got me. Well played.

For playing hero spams clan Eshin is the right call They can unlock much more assassins and shadowy dealings are perfect for leveling them up fast outside the battles

My favorite part is went he says GHORITCH

Love your challenge playthroughs! Thank you good sir!

One of the few ways to get me and my younger brother to not literally be at the other's throat is get us in Army of Of Two, so yes I remember that game.

This could definitely be a series of its own utilizing the heroes of certain hero focused factions like Markus, Repans, or Isabella.

6:04 IMO most significant benefit of heroes. I remember way back in the first game as beastmen, you could use minotaur hero to solo siege battles easily while rest of the army stayed back.

Army of 2 was great. loved the coop mechanics

"Army of Two, anyone remember that game?" Core memory UNLOCK sweet jesus. Brings me back.

Man I love your videos, always entertaining and this one was hilarious... The Ghorich meme was epic. Nicely done Z

I had a Kroq-Gar campaign where I stacked the Saurus building for the rank +1 factionwide for saurus warrior heroes. I had a stack of brand new level 49 heroes with Kroq-Gar. It was glorious.

Interesting idea. I played your all-ghost campaign with Heinreich Kemmler, and it was a ball. I had 3 full ghost armies, but after that I had to use regular undead armies to win the long campaign because my opponents were growing too rapidly. I got attack by 8 big dwarf armies instead of Archeon which was very cool. I've never seen that before. Apparently they mustered all their strength in secret.

Isabella is great for this. Turn 1 you start building the unique landmark that gives you vampire hero recruitment and + capacity along with Isabellas +3 capacity for 5 vampires by turn 3 plus Vlad who is already fully geared and can solo armies from turn 1. Summon a second hero (preferably Ghoul King since they are better in melee), stick 2-3 vampire heroes in their army and then once you've got tier 2 for Drakenhof (campaign starts with it upgradable, dismantle skele recruit building and get gold mine going ASAP) you can start building growth building to get to Necromancer recruitment so you can get Raise Dead spam going in the second army. Avoid fight dawi early on and bully Empire till you're stacked on levels and have plenty of Necros from tier 2 settlements to build armies that drown the enemy in zombie summon spam while the Vampire Lord murders priority targets.

When I played as Bretonia (Rapanse) that pretty much ended up being a hero playthrough. Yes, I did use other troops, but many battles ended with only lords and heroes left. The knights of Bretonia are quite tough, but it was mostly the other troops being weak except for peasant archers and the high tier knight units.

When I did a throt campaign once so long ago I too decided to watch that nice little opening to the whip quest battle but by the time it was over the enemy army had somehow already routed throt so that was fun

Another great one son, loving this random series of campaigns

I sometimes wish Creative Assembly release a Hero mode campaign where you don't pick a faction, instead you start out as a hero of your choosing. You then roam the old overworld with your lone hero, accepting contracts from lords, taking request from settlements and even accepting quests from taverns. Hell it'll be fun to roam settlements with your lone hero where you can either get additional heroes to join your party and grow it out and even increasing each others bond through gameplay or interactions. Of course you can still join wars, but you'll have no control of the armies you're on, just the heroes. Perhaps a chaos army is about to invade a settlement or the settlement you're in is about to attacked by Beastmen. Hell the settlement you visited migth put up a bounty for a dragon etc etc. I dunno. 😁 PS: Also Wuxia bros/gals would've a lot of fun if they allow Cathay heroes to have a lot of mobility without armor - or even allow dragon heroes.

11:06 lol bell polisher.

This inspired me to give it a try and I went with Isabella and honestly I’m steam rolling. Izzy + Vlad and the vamp were enough for me to wipe out the first Vamp enemy. Now I have an army with 7 vamps and I am wiping out 2 empire stacks with ease. I have a second army that has all the other misc heroes, a bunch of Necros Wight King and banshee and a few of the special vamp lords and it can auto a single stack no problem.

Love your editing in these vids. Keep up the awesome work!

I cant get enough of Ghoritch remix 😂

as someone who likes to try and reach points in my campaigns where i have a army of just heroes, i love this video, thanks

love the army of 2 reference, used to love playing that game with my dad.

8:20 I love that they didn't update the quest battle with the actual Festus. Also yeah, I remember doing a normal Moulder campaign and losing a few units and half my brood horrors' HP to that cutscene. Going for multiple full stacks of heroes might not be viable (at least...it would be very slow as you get more bell polishers) but you don't really need full stacks either? If every stack has a caster of some kind, you can probably make do with half stacks.

you've earned my sub for that remix

This video was amazing, as someone who can't play Skaven for the life of me, this was amazing. But it needs more Ghoritch!

army of two was awesome for the time :D Loved jumping in to a mini party and shooting badguys!

Army of Two looked very nice but i never had a PS3 or Xbox but i liked the "sequel" Kane & Lynch very much.

Listening to Zerk unknowingly (I assume) call everyone a cock sucker is something I didn't know I needed in my life.

I loved army of two. Played it with my friend all the time years ago. The gun customization was the best back then.

I was going to do a hero only and I am happy to see that YOU did it

Army of two, damn that brings back memories.

Should try Chaos, specifically Nurgle. You get the Chaos Champions that are tough and each one of them can add -10 Armor. And they return damage on melee. And they have fast mounts or chariots. Plus you get Chaos sorcerers. Also tough casters. If you have 10 Chaos Champions in the army you pretty much negate any armor any unit has. That is awesome.

So... you guys noticed Goritch was on the video? Quite a subtle detail to add on it, nice job

Noticed that when using menace belows, you summon them behind a unit then charge them in. If you summon them inside chaff units, you get like 3x the damage.

I suspect that N'kari could do this pretty well. A Chaos Lord of Slaanesh plus one cultist, one alluress, and one sorceror is already sufficient to deal with an absolute ton of stuff once leveled a bit and have good answers to massed infantry (slicing shards, pit of shades, pendulum of doom or just grinding them down with the chaos lord) and single entities (locus of beguilement, acquiescence, and enfeebling foe for nullifying melee defense). Probably best to keep them all on their regular horse/seeker mounts rather than chariots just because magic already takes care of the massed infantry so well. Using just my chaos lord (or 2) and heroes is already how I typically take on the high tier walled settlement battles anyway, so you could easily be on the attack. Eschewing devoted marauder of slaanesh spam at the start might slow down campaign progress a little bit, but it might actually be possible for N'Kari and one cultist to deal with everything normally on turn 1, then adding a chaos lord in preparation for turn 2, a second one for turn 3, and so on... which is already how I approach Ulthuan, just without the spam of devoted marauders of Slaanesh which seem like the least important part of that army composition.

i once did this with Repanse de Lyoness, just 19 knights on flying mounts with perfect vigor and more armor / ward save than anything can really chew through

Yes-Yes! Throt and Goritch with their army of heroes-lords is awesome!

Also pretty viable for this one is Drycha since she gets Coedil early and eventually Ariel along with a great buff for Malevolent branch wraith with a skill. Also the Gryphon wood buffs them too as soon as you awaken it.

Army of Two was so good, I remember playing it with my brother, god those were good times

Heh, I did this with the Lizardmen and hero mounted stegadons. It was quite fun.

Taurox would be a good way to do this. When you can his rampage, you can decrease the cost to increase your hero cap by 25%. Not to mention you’d be able to spend all the dread you’d increase unit caps on more heroes and summon them at up to leve 21 to start. And you can give all your heroes a magic item to summon cygores with.

I appreciated quadrupling down on the ghoritch cut bit

The ghoritch montage was about 5 minutes short. What a bell polisher move from you

I did this same idea but used the mod where if you kill an enemy hero you can recruit them

Army of 2 was such a great game when I was younger, what a throwback

I like Brettonia for this. Paladins come from a lvl 3 building and get Perfect Vigor, which is REALLY nice for single foot models. Attacking a Siege with 18 Paladins with Perfect Vigor is HILARIOUS! I once had a lord and 2 heroes get ambushed by a Skaven (Slave) army. I ran to the corner , so fleeing troops would regroup and beat the all 2- 3 armies of trash!

Love doing lord/hero-only runs with Vampire Court - Isabella. Highly recommend =)

I found a exploit of sorts where you can get infinite cultists as slaanesh. Step 1: Get a cult. Step 2: Build the building that gives you a cultist. Step 3: Use that new cultist to make a new cult. Step 4: Repeat from step 2. You will eventually get to 15 cultists so you can get 1 cult per turn. Pretty broken if you ask me.

I would have thought greenskins would be a better option as they have quite a spread of heroes that are all rather good. Goblin big boss, black orc big boss, orc shaman, night goblin shaman, and a river troll hag. That or warriors of chaos as you get variety from all the marks.

I did an Isabel campaign using a stack of nothing but vampires. It was so OP.

Legit spit my drink everywhere during that remix 😂😂

love these, thanks

14:10 where's the elf killing in this battle? Seems to mostly be wood chopping

Hey Zerk, what's the name of the legendary hero you used for this? I think he's a mutant rat ogre?

Gorich the one man mosh pit!

Truly elves are the most bell polishing bell polishers.

I think you're underestimating how strong Skaven heroes are and how large they'd have to be. Every full province would be able to get you roughly half an army when fully upgraded and the costs wouldn't be prohibitive, with magic and summons being able to get you all the way.

If you can get the limits removed hero armies can in practice be so much more powerful than tier 5 stacks, depending on the hero and wargear they get, taurox for example was made for this, skaven wolf packs or bound zombies, anything that has a bound summon is technically a second army too. If you want raw hero's then markus is the only one with access to multiple unique hero's, shame you can't "borrow" hero's from hired caravans to make a multi race hero army.

Kostaltyn Patriarch hero stack is lowkey one of the strongest if not the strongest in the game. Everyone's all Vampire Counts, High Elves, blah blah when Kostaltyn's Partiarchs have 20% Ward Save, more healing abilities than you'll ever need and crazy melee/leadership buffs and bears are a hell of a lot cooler than chariots or flying ponies. The bear ball blob is nigh unkillable.

@Zerkovich, if you ever plan on doing another heroes only campaign I would highly recommend the lizardmen and choosing Gor-Rok. @Anti-Kleaper has done a video like this as well and I'm sure if someone with his "doctorate" in the teachings of Nurgle as a plague doctor, I'm sure you can do it.

Queek with 19 Chieftains is fun. They all stack their 5% Ward save on Lord bonus on Queek

As Isabella you would just stomp everyone over. Vlad right from the start as a hero, giving vanguard deployment to everyone, 4 vampire heroes from turn 1, most heroes are essentially battle mages with healing and lots of dps, buffs for all heroes factionwide and on top of that literally every hero and lord are beasts in melee combat with great mounts. Honestly, this idea sounds even more powerful than the regular campaign. But ez is not what we're here for, is it? :)

GHORICH! GHORICH! GHORICH! Glorious.

GORICH! *metal music plays*

God I loved Army of Two, great call back. Miss the days of good split screen co op games!

LMFAO i love the gorich intermezzo

Never stop abusing that Goritch cut, never stop 😂😂😂

I would really like to see some guides for Darktide as the update comes? Alot of new videos for you to make! :D

Vampire Counts might be the best bet - you get a very strong Lord in Isabella who has excellent healing and strong Vampire buffs, Big Bad Vlad as a legendary hero, lots of summons to support your early army, and three more good hero types. Alternatively, Belakor is a one-unit deathstar who can take three extremely strong legendary heroes and self-heals.

Choosing to interpret this as you actually trying to build a normal army but Throt kept eating everyone that couldn't fend him off

Not sure you were even in range for that ambush at the start

isabella vamps with lore keeper is legit OP

Who was that guy again? I just didn't catch it the first 2000 times :D Hahaha. Great Video! As usual. Stay crunchy.

Nurgle is best choice for this style, because all resource buildings increase heroes capacity

This man autoresolves more times in a single campaign than I've done across all my hundreds of hours of playtime.

I’d recommend clan eshin for hero spam. Playing eshin lowers the building tier for assassin buildings allowing you to spam them in minor settlements for a whole bunch of assassins/eshin sorcerers

I love that remix 😂😂

Would you ever put the reinforcing garrison army on ai controlled as it feels off using garrison units in a hero and lord only campaign.

Although I despise your distain for my pointy ear homies, your content never fails to pull a gut busting laugh out of me. "GORITCH!"

Just kidding... Remix! You just killed me.

damn didn't think i would hear Army of Two i love that game.

Army you say? *Laughs in Skarbrand*

Okoii will be proud of you

I memeber, army of two was the go to for me, my brother and dad. The sequel was also great

Trying to play total war Warhammer like a RPG... that's so cool for some reason

*Invincible Queek, Or tretch... Get a full stack of Cheiftans. All is good, All is great*

For early game, i imagine belagar would be pretty good. Ghostly dwarves

Zerkovich is so funny man

that's an amazing idea! Now try tomb king