Thorek is my favorite Dwarf Lord. The fact that only he and Grombrindal have any form of unique faction mechanics is criminal. Love my Dawi but they're SO vanilla. Hope they get a DLC with updates for the other lords as well.

Playing as Volkmar, AI Thorek conducted the best AI invasion I've ever experienced in TWWH, maybe all of TW. For one, the strategic/diplo basis was correct. Two, he launched a multi-pronged surprise attack at the perfect time, when my armies were well west wiping out Arkhan and Reponse. He attacked with three strong armies at once in a wide, cohesive front and occupied several of my settlements immediately. He consolidated gains and sent reinforcements, and also used his ally Khalida to hold gains and prod my weak points. I had NEVER seen a TWWH AI execute an invasion like this. It sent me scrambling to move troops back east, force peace with Arkhan and emergency recruit. The resulting war lasted many turns and was extremely fun to play. Hats off to CA, I had all but given up in seeing the AI ever launch a well-planned attack like this.

I'm really liking your reviews. What I find refreshing (and almost surprising) is given your experience and skill level; you are still talking about the campaigns from the perspective of all players and new players. I find too many other reviews feel too biased based on the reviewer's play-style, and feel almost dismissive of campaigns that are not meta-sweaty. Thorek is definitely my favourite dwarf campaign as well.

The most important rule. Don't play SHORT campaign as dwarves

This is one of the finest series of videos *anyone* has ever done in the community. It really has helped me reengage and enjoy the replayability. Would you consider doing a similar series for each faction showing every unique building and its effects? There are campaigns I want to try to get every unique building or rush a specific one that synergizes

Mannfred: Phew, I can finally fight someone else. Those dwarfs eastward of me started to become annoying. Thank goodness I left that blasted castle and can enjoy some other opponents. Thorek Ironbrow 25 meters away from Mannfred: Move it lads! We're settling in!

good tip is after the greenskins you are right on queeks doorstep and have to handle him quickly he tends to step out of his city so take him when he is out back, then either go to war with khalida or kroq gar (i usually get a military alliance with kroq as he has some relics) and i just go north from there

Playing as Khalida, I had a military alliance by the end of the short campaign. Things were looking good. I was taking the continent and Thorek was happy expanding north through the mountains. Then I was hit with the Dwarf endgame scenario and all those big armies protecting my main base became an imminent danger.

Right now, the scripted event to confederate Karak Azul is not working and never happens. You are also not able to confederate them until you confederate another Dwarf faction. Also, the unique Dwarf ancestor from Thorek can get all 3 unique Thane skills at the same time for some reason

Not 5 minutes ago I was thinking about trying out Thorek for the first time. I swear Legend has evolved from just being able to perfectly read Total War AI to reading minds.

Liking the 5+ min campaign reviews - Thanks!

Was my third immortal empire campaign and it’s prob my favorite so far, had such a blast playing this one!

I look forward to seeing the Chaos Dwarfs. Thanx Legend.

Been excited for this one

Wow....Settra is much shorter than i remember

These videos are always great, but this is the first one that REALLY made me want to drop everything and start a new Campaign. I love dwarves, but their lack of flair has bothered me for a while and it seems like thorek has some really cool mechanics to add that flair!

Thorek was my 1st Immportal Empires campaign. And up to today it is my favote one. The only problem i had with this, is that Thorek builds up Grudges for not building his artifacts, and as the different parts are so far away, you have to deal with 100 grudge negative effects throughout almost all of the campaign. I know there was a patch for this, but i am not sure if this "problem" is gone.

Thanks for the video

excited for this one

Thorek might be the king of sieges only after the passive mortis engine like Festus or Morghur, he can bombard with runes infinitely and end the siege by himself, so broken and so fun to cheese

the confederation scripted event is bugged, never appeared for me in like 3 campaigns

None of your videos have appeared in my feed for months legend, I don't know if it's happening to others but I genuinely thought you were off KZfaq or something, it wasn't until I searched you that I realised you've just been uploading as usual. Some algorithm trickery afoot!

Actually tempted to go give him a try after this, I never even realized he existed tbh. xD

Oh look it's Karak Zoom

I just got TWW3 recently and this was the first campaign I played. I was doing Ok, having taken most of the mountain range and I had just taken Karaz-a-Karak. I had not went to war with or confederated any of the other Dwarf factions and was on good terms with them. I was constantly beating back armies from Skarbrand and the greenskins coming in from the wastes, so most of my focus was there, I was about to move out to take out Skarbrands faction until Kroq-Gar south of me declared war. They were fighting Khemri who I was allied with, so I thought they'd leave me alone, but it turns out TikTakToe had allied Kroq-Gar and they together were beating the shit out of Setra. I unfortunately had left the area where Lybaras spawns completely unguarded. Just as I had pulled my spare armies back to deal with Kroq-Gar I got the grudge too far event. My main army with all my good troops was in Karaz-a-Karak completely surrounded, the dwarves that spawn near the dragon high elf guy were alive and started taking my settlements there, and I was losing ground to the lizards in the south, not to mention the unending stacks of greenskins and chaos demons I hadn't been able to finish off. With that my first playthrough came to an end as I had no way to fight on so many fronts. I played another 10 turns or so and watched as my armies and strongholds fell 1 by 1 until I gave in and called it quits. It was such a surprise coming from playing TWW2 where by turn 100 you're near unstoppable. I may have lost, but those last 20 turns or so were so much fun.

He's a really fun campaign

Get that sweet oathgold and PIMP-up your lords and heroes!

I think a big boost to the campaign mechanics would be if heroes had a settlement action where they could just sneak into town and steal the relic there. It would also be nice if there was a special diplomatic action where you could just ask a faction for a relic piece in exchange for gold or trade pacts or a city. Do they real care about keeping some Left Half of a Tongs? Karaz-a-Karak and Zhufbar both got snuffed out early, the confederation scripted event failed for me too, so there’s nothing even close to a dwarven ally. Plus dwarves hate me be because the quests are grudges and how dare I not conquer the entire mountain range to get them back already. Grudge meter is maxed out so I don’t have even a single dwarves ally yet. It’s turn 160 and I’ve assembled ONE artifact, the Dino one. We’re death marching north and have made it to Eight Peaks. There was 50 turns of absolute Bonetide from Khemri and Khalida (plus Teclis, Kroc’Gar, rats and Kairos Fateweaver)delaying us. We’ll get there, but this campaign has been a slog. I’m on Very Hard which probably has a lot to do with it. Edit- for reference I did a Karaz-a-Karak Thorim Grudgebearer run on Legendary and was Short Victory on Turn 66.

Playing a Thorek SFO campaign right now. You're not kidding that the artefacts are pretty spread out, but at least you can get the Yoked Carnosaur pretty early. He is a massive force multiplier for Thorek's army considering he excels at multiple things the dwarf roster is weak at (speed, anti-large, melee attack). Very fun and unique unit. In my campaign the throng has affectionately named him "High King Grimli Bonebiter", after the truly ludicrous amount of tomb king units he has feasted on. No doubt Thorek disapproves of this irreverent use of Thorgrim's title, but such things can be tolerated for the sake of good morale on campaign!

Clan pestilens next please :)

I think that thoreks rune of wrath and ruin should be like small doomrocket but have a ridiculous cooldown or need charged up somehow. Just makes sense his rune would be stronger as he is a master

Thorek seems to always be in control of those mountains when I'm around there, Skarbrand never goes that way unless I'm working my way through the jungles east of there. Then he steamrolls through. Might be interesting to fight Skarbrand mid-campaign for once rather than gunning for him and Teclis if I'm over there.

The lord is great, BUT the relics start as grudges ... and their severity increases quickly to get you maximum malus after just a few dozen turns.

We need a tier list at the end

When I played this guy I didn't realize that the end of the canal took me right into queeks territory and he nearly wiped me out lol. He also gives an armor boost to his troops.

Dwarf chad

Makes runes great again, bring back being able too have more the one of the same type equipped.

Thought my Thorek campaign was going well after 20ish turns. Was close to a non aggression pact with khalida and krokgar. Then within 2 turns both declared war on me and starting sending multiple armies. With dwarves slow replenish rates it became a real pain

Queek next please!

Doesnt Belegor get the confederation event as well?

This makes me want to fire up the organ guns again

Turn 134, still no confederation offer for Karak Azul. However, they’ve declared war on me, because they ally with Khalid’s and Imrik. Khalid’s also had Treaty’s with Imrik. And they had one of my artifacts, so ofc they had to go. So now Elves and dwarves hate me. Azul still lives. Got Belegar, tho. (And karak Hirn, not that they matter) Thorek was wiped out before turn 15.

Teclis has changed a lot. Why not cover him next?

You don't get to confederate Karak Azul with an event. Either it's bugged or removed. -edit after a playthrough: You also cannot confed him the normal way as the option is not there. The only way to get Kazador is to let Thorgrim confed him and then confed Thorgrim.

Boris Urson Campaign when?

i assume they changed the bug that tanked the grudge mechanic so that you don't start turn 10 with negative 500 or something?

Do Drycha next plz

I played 3 Thorek campaign but so far no confe event. Move to north b/c most of artifact materials there and suitable climate. Make friend with Tiktaqto, Kroq-gar and Teclics so that they can deal with Kairos. But also need to stay away from tomb kings.

Missed out looking at Thorek or his skill line, I'm not much of a Dwarf fan myself but if it looked good I'd give his campaign a shot. I tried them in WH2 but find Dwarfs quite boring. If I have a faction that just stands still and shoots/tanks in melee I like to have something to do like spellcasting (i.e. Empire or Vampirates).

I prefer thorgrim grudge bearer because as him I always speedrun to never get the negative effect from grudges I don't think its possible as any other lord (maybe grombrindal the white dwarf)

100+ missile strength quarrelers just hit

I think owning Warhammer 2 is enough to unlock him as well, since he's technically wh2 base game

Always wonder if I should disband my ironbreakers at the end of turn 1 in this campaign … upkeep is so steep just want more quarrellers

Nothing better than quarrelers with 77 missile strength

Dwarfs are a snooze fest for me in general. But Thorek is fun as hell. And it helps that rune magic is fun.

Go for Vlad/Isabella and which is better as lord/hero

Not a fan of Dwarf campaigns? You better believe that's a grudge!

Some could say his campaign could be kind of SHORT ehhh ehhhhh

I thought the confederation event was bugged. Never had it happen in game 3. Only game 2.

Belegar gets to confederate Karak Hirn.

Other Dwarfs not getting access to confederation missions isn't entirely true, Legend! Belegar does for Karak Hirn near Gelt.

They have wronged us.. [ca is ok for the rest there are mods]

You're not a fan of the Dwarfs? That's going in the book

I do find it very frustrating that you start out with 8 grudges that fill your meter

I like Thorek but really dislike his starting area, would prefer he was still in lustria tbh compared to the southlands, his need for relics causes a lot of grudges to slowly build up which can be a pain also.

A dwarfen dlc is really necessary because unfortunately there isn't much special stuff with dwarfes, Artillerie, and gyrocopters yes but the rest is really boring really. They really need to find something interesting in the dwarfen lore

I can't never finish a Dwarf campaign no matter the faction. There overall faction mechanics, playstyle, & roster is just boring. The Empire n Bretonnia are boring too but at least they have Monstrous cavalry (Demigryphs & Hippogryphs). Thorek can recruit a Yoked Carnosaur in his army once you get certain artifacts so that's kinda kool at least HaHaHa.

thorek remains by far the best dwarf multiplayer lord in both field battles and domination

I'm view #2. Saw "uploaded 43 seconds ago" and I just had to click.