This is literally "I'll build a pyramid and make them pay for it".

"Tombkings suck, they generate no income. how am i gonna get those sweet tier 5 units?" Legend: "observe."

Settra the Imperishable, real estate tycoon.

Ah yes printing money, the most effective way to enhance your economy.

Settra does not serve the market economy. Settra rrrrules the market economy !

And so the Loremaster of Cheese has exposed one of the tastiest flavors. Say goodbye to charnel valley nectotects in the next patch

Some adolescent necrotect: "But Daaaaad, I don't wanna be a pyramid wrecker, I want to go to college and study art." Necrotect Dad: "Nonsense. Pyramid wrecking is the bedrock of this great nation. I've been pyramid wrecking for years, so has your grandpa and his dad before him."

"You can reduce infrastructure building costs to 0" Ok thats pretty neat. "then just demolish them" Oh. *OH MY*

Necrotect: "nooooo you can't just scrap my prized architecture for gold" Thutep: "haha money printing building go brrrrrrrr"

Aka: How to win by commiting insurance fraud.

The Tomb Kings have the most ancient cheese, very pungent. Fine work.

Now I know why Egypt in Rome 1 always has endless money and snowballs so hard with 20 stacks. It all makes sense now.

Not that it particularly matters because High Elves have incredibly good economy anyway, but this works even better for High Elves. If you stack 4 or so with the Administrator trait, they'll reduce both the cost AND the build time, causing multi thousand dollar buildings to build in a single turn, which you can then delete for cash just like this. But High Elves make so much money with entrepreneur eventually that it just doesn't matter.

I'm on turn 70ish of my legendary Setra campaign making 12k passively a turn because I put the income buildings almost everywhere. 150g a turn doesn't seem to impress but it does add up!

Best treat following straight after work - a freshly uploaded legendoftotalwar video! Thanks man!

Sooo, with addition of some of the comments, here is more detailed guide. How to get: 1. Research the Third Dynasty, get Thutep, all heroes, then whatever dynasty and whatever 2 heroes. 2. Rush for a sack-city in a mountain region. Don't wait for all heroes, remove gained necrotects to be allowed to get one more. 3. Farm the city with Thutep until you get a Charnel Valley necrotect on each hero which would give a -90% cost. 4. There must be necrotect because he has a -10% cost talent in the limits line, which starts at lvl 10. Or get a Fith Dynasty proclamation. How to use: 1. As soon as you get -100% cost, move in a place where you can move between 3+ provinces easily. 2. If there are no tier 4 cities yet, rush growth since it is free. 3. When there is tier 4, start to build both tier 4 infrastruction things and demolish when they're ready. 4. When this starts to look inefficient, send the team to rush growth wherever you need. Also, lords can get -25% main buildings cost followers after any sacking, and this follower can be transfered to heroes.

That thumbnail though...

Cheese for the cheese god

This is a great video! It would be great to see more tutorial / explainers for some of your strategies on both campaign and battle map! Thanks Legend!

thank you! i saw you doing this on stream a few days ago and this is pretty cool.

Legend of total war when he started playing as the tomb kings; We will make Tomb kings rich again

"Anytime you get cash, you'll put it in your buildings and you'll never loose it !" Any Chaos faction (and bots) : "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT !!?!!"

1 minute ago, exactly 10 minutes. Perfectly balanced as all things should be

Shekeletons

Legend you're crazy man. I love this kind of stuff. Brilliant!

This is great, you should try making a series about cheese strats for each faction. But it's only a suggestion, your streams are already fun to watch.

I never had any financial problems when playing as the dead Egyptians, then again I never play on legendary cus it feels more like a chore instead of an enjoyable gaming experience

I just thought the item was a random drop, I didn't realise it was specifically from mountainous regions. At least the Priest of Vaul/Isha sort of clue you in as to where to get them.

That king should be named "King Bob the builder" lol

Thanks for the video, Legend!

whenever someone says 'oh you're cheesing the game' whenever you're playing effectively or winning aka not cheesing, i kinda smile a bit, i think its funny

Really well made and thorough! This was planned out really nicely beforehand so the transition to explaining different concepts was really smooth. Well done

Great cheese. Can't wait to use it. Thanks, Legend.

If only Wall Street knew about Legend's skills...

No idea if you saw my suggestion on the no steg video but keep this up. Like it was stated by another user, you can do an entire series about each race economy and you might see a decrease in SYDCs :P

Awesome, thank you! Am just about to brave playing Tomb Kings :)

2 tips, sacking gives you chance at skeleton labourer follower, gives 25% off main settlement cost. Only goes on your lord though but can go on heroes. So while sacking the mountains, check if you get a skeleton labourer and move it from your lord so you can get more. 2nd tip, you can't get charnel valley necrotects if you already have one. So if you only have 2 or 3 or 4 heroes but need 6 for the cheese to work, enequip them from your heroes and Lords as they get them so you have a bank of more.

Charnel Valley Necrotect: We can make money out of nothing even though we really don't need it for ourselves.

Very good explanation!!

any chance you can do a video on what character traits to get for each faction

I needed that!

I came for the thumbnail and stayed for the thumbnail. The video was pretty good.

Very nice, will try this for sure If I give TK a try. I feel like I've become spoiled from my last ME campaign as DE though. Naggarond currently has 163 000 / turn income (with Tyrant Malekith and loads of assassins in province). Current total income is 460 000 / turn, own half the map though. First time I try slave economy, and got to say I like it ^^

wow great stuff man i always just built the blue line on my commanders and raided and sacked for money but this is great

Great explanation.

LegendofTotalEducation, I love it!

Morning peeps

If i remember right the necrotect hero has a flat discount trait that stacks.

Thank you!

"Everything effective is considered cheese", which is why I laugh when the same ppl on the forums and reddit who complain about "cheese" struggle with normal difficulty.

"reduces construction cost for infrastructure buildings in the local province" The instant I knew where this was going.

You should keep making these videos on cheese. Its great to see :)

@LegendofTotalWar Are you going to do a magic guide too? I finally get the general idea now that 30 magic is max and the reserve decides how fast regeneration goes... But id like to see a guide by an world famous cheese connoisseur like you!

God I love you. Can't wait to practice this cheese.

Add the Necrotect's "master builder" skill and you've got 1 turn buildings as well.. It's fine. Looking forward to the next Tomb King campaign.

what about skeletal laborer? Didn't know that you need to sack specifically mountain region

I noticed this exploit during my Settra campaign... but was already steamrolling and close to victory : ( Good to see an optimized run for this!

Sand chaffing between bandages. Big oof. Anyway, commenting for the algorithm! Thx for the cheese leggy :)

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Hey i know how ill spend the weekend now. Making cheese in the desert.

Top notch thumbnail. I actually lol-ed.

Hi, What skill do you get your hero's on. I have started recruiting and disbanding to try to get the +2 Scorpion unit on the necro techs, but I like the TKs wizard school and go for the one that gives +5 attk and def to tomb scorpions or Knowledgably, but I don't know what is a good one for the tomb prince, at the moment i go for the + atk vs infinity or the Wise to get +2 Jars on top of the + 3 they get form the blue skill line.

Appreciatecha

If I'm right, you don't need to disband the heros if you have the ehro capacity.

My Jewish soul sings at this wonderful cheese. Well thought out and effective strategy. Perfect.

Canopic jars are for closers!

This whole video reeks of "When you have a really good turn in a card game"

That’s the definition of cheese if I ever saw one...

Nice video, i need a skaven economy cheese, i want to try ikit claw, but i suck at skaven...

See, Wind of Chamon is yellow - what if it is for cheese, not just gold? Legend is actually the avatar of Chamon

I had NO IDEA acquiring followers worked was impacted by region. Also I could have sworn you could get followers by attaching heroes to armies (even if that is true, it might not apply to charnel valley necrotech).

But can t you buy extra army slots for jars and gold? So you do the jar cheese to get loads of canoptic jars and you do this money cheese and then you can more or less buy a army slot every 2 turns. That is very powerfull for the tombkings. As they caN churn out skelettons in unlimmeted numbers for no upkeep cost.

Another economy-related tomb kings cheese: Get +1 army capacity Recruit tomb king Put points in canopic jar hoarder Replace tomb king Once you're recruiting them at level 5 or higher each one you recruit will give 3 canopic jars a turn and they're free to recruit. You can start out using the casket of souls rite to boost their recruit rank (which...we're all using that as soon as it comes off cooldown anyway right?) but once you're doing it naturally the only limitation is lord pool. It weakens your military slightly because one of your armies will spend most of it's time led by a low-rank tomb king with bad skill selection, and it is a pain if a "real" tomb king dies and you have to sort through the 40 you never want to spawn, but 120 free jars a turn makes it well worth it.

Nice, thanks ;)

Imagine taxing deads

Can you do this for other factions my dude

That cheese was Legendary

Aaa, that's some fine cheese there!

Nice

Hi, dose this still work ?

This works also for High Elves and Administrator Mages - for all buildings, ofcos. I actually feel that early game, when you have much to build and not so great economy to percentually boost, Administrator is much better and more useful than Entrepreneur (though this seems not to be general consensus and most people would go straight Entrepreneurs anyway). EDIT: and HE can demolish stuff (even the Phoenix King's Court) every other turn, no problem. Granted: it quickly becomes unnecessary anyway, but still.

Its been like that for a while. Anyone who didn't know, didn't appreciate the hell out of tomb kings lol.

How many of you know his legends actual name

This need a little bit of luck. Comparing to the Vampire Counts Lore Keeper Cheese it might be easier because I don’t need to. constantly disbanding heroes.

whats Grand Hierophant like as a commander?

The comparisons when?

So is there a way to turtle in campaign without getting decimated? Sorry I've grown so accustomed to Attila Total War it's hard to adapt to Wh2

So, I believe this works, but when I played as Settra in the Vortex campaign...I could never get enough necrotects for this to happen. I’m sure I did something wrong, but I first wanted to make sure I had a necrotect in each main army for my constructs. I had heard about this plan, including which legendary dynasty to get (which I did). I just never saw a way to get enough free necrotects to have 3-5 hanging out with that guy. I wondered if I just didn’t play the campaign long enough, but we certainly went past turn 30. What did I not understand? Should I have not worried about the necrotect with the constructs and only focused on the buildings?

Are the Skeletal Labourers gained randomly after levelling a hero in a specific terrain type as well?

cheese you say? that is why I AM HERE!!!

Does the Empire have any sort of economic cheeses?

You naughty boy..

Huh. I didn't know item/follower drops were affected by region.

Your cheese musk is poweful.

Holy shit no wonder you are known as Legend of Total War

Late game vampires you can do the same.

I hope they won't fix this

Does this work now in WH3?

I whish i would have known that during my kahtep me campaign

You can actually get the followers by just raiding the regions