I like autoresolve because it usually wipes out the entire enemy army while half of them manage to run away from the fight when I lead the battle.

My biggest struggle is losing territory as my main lord is way across the map in the early game..

Knowing when NOT to auto resolve is an important skill in this game.

I think the auto resolve system basically always underestimating your army is actually fine because after all this is a total war game so I think its fine that it sometimes forces you to play out a cool battle.

playing as the wood elves taught me one thing No one is immune to arrows (and Micro is hard)

CA absolutley trolling new players by having skirmish on by default start as an active setting

The assassinate or wound function for heroes is so underrated

My first campaign outside of the tutorial was grimgor. I found myself playing and replaying every battle to build my realtime management skills. Finally winning battles that I tried 2 or 3 times that seemed impossible before was both amazing gameplay wise but also eye opening. After that I find that trying more factions / subfactions out is more important than just trying to master one

There are a few things that need to be put into context: Spending all gold: The main question here is how your ecomomy is doing. A faction like the dwarves almost always want to do this because they have strong basic income. But when you are playing the vampire coast your settlement income is shit, your money comes from raiding so you're basically living from the gold you have until the next conquest. You might need it for raising the dead and if you wait for two turns you might be able to get an upgrade for your legendary lord. Of course they should spend gold, but it's not always the best choice. Building your settlements: Especially the "garrison everywhere" strategy is not consistent. Again: The Dwarves/ elves and other "civilized" factions almost always want to do this because they have amazing garrisons and amazing garrison buildings. Also each settlement is very valuable to them so they want to defend it. It makes sense. If you're playing the greenskins however it's almost never a good idea unless you have no other idea for the building slot and to much money. The reason is that their income building is simply amazing on the cost/income scale so you almost always want to prioritise that. Also they have really shitty garrison so when a full stack is coming the chance of defending is pretty slim. Additionally there is amost no value put into those settlements. You can rebuild it fast and there is little gold invested. This is why greenskins usually almost exclusively build this when defending a warfront or in a valuable capital that they cannot afford to loose. Basically: Think about what situation you are in and especially what your factions strategy is. Do you build settlements and economy or do you pillage and raid, building little villages you don't care about with a few important bastions and stategical points every now and then.

>garrisons in every settlement Uh. That's a noob mistake. Garrison settlements that must be attacked by the enemy, are vulnerable to attack, or on the border with an enemy. That's it. If you need to defend your hinterland periodically against hordes or something build an extra army for defense.

once you know most of the units youll then look at each battle to see if you can win or not, i got sandwhiched once by the empire while playing as gor rok and i had a slane mage leading an almost full stack, i used the forest to shield from the hail of bullets and used the bastiladons to shred through their lines, it was a close victory but the auto res gave me a defeat. Auto resolve wisely, there may be a battle you can win when it says defeat.

I disagree with your settlement building. In the early game the growth buildings are the most important, followed by income buildings with military buildings only being built once your economy is on an even keel :)

Hi. Not bad advice, but the bit at the end of section 9 ( 2:40 ) about building defense buildings everywhere.. I've been playing Total War games from the beginning and I've seen the devs trying different things when it comes to defending settlements. Like in Medieval 2 you could house a specific number of specific units for free in a city. Since Rome 2 we have a very limited amount of space in any city. So in a big province, you can have 8,4,4,4 spaces and as the main building takes one, we get 7,3,3,3 so 16 in total. If you play on very hard as I do, you get -4 control and you have to counter that - that's at least one slot. Then we have things a faction might want and need. The Chaos Dwarves can make minor settlements camps or factories. In the first case, you want those 3 slots (mining, scavenging and control). If you have a resource building, that also takes a slot. So if you start building buildings that enlarge your garrison, you will be limiting yourself extremely. In some cases (other races) you can squeeze a military building in most cities, but in other ones you need the space for other things. And if you have a minor settlement at level 1 and a military building at that same level you will get about 2 basic units. Now if your attacked by a very small army, this may matter, but it usually won't. Also, if you're rapidly expanding, and do the sensible thing and build economy buildings first, by the time you get to the military ones, the front line would have moved anyway. Back in Warhammer TW 1 I tried to reinforce every city in my first campaign. Now, if I do build those buildings, I do it just in one or two key locations. It's much better to recruit an army to stop an attack. If your empire has buildings that give you lords on a decent level, say 15, you will usually get a mount and can use his points to make him a great fighter or/and mage of the bat. You should save a few renown units for such a situation as you can recruit them instantly. Now you have a good lord and a few elite units on the way of the enemy. If you have time, recruit another army and fill it with something good in defense (archers, crossbowmen). That's the best strategy.

very helpful as someone starting their first campaign in the game, hopefully i remember this stuff

Another mistake i could name is spreading too much. When you find a chain of poorly defended settlements and you capture them too fast, you might have everything unser control until a random faction nearby decides to declare war on you. More provinces does not always mean better

For me, the point about using saves is that it gives me options. Unfortunately or not, a 'smooth, safe sailing' gameplay style is almost always successful, but there are a lot of opportunities for crazy hijinks, like a faction-wide blitz or daring enemy territory raid. I don't want to give up on zany schemes entirely, but I also don't want to hang my entire campaign on my latest brainstorm succeeding. Now, there are gamers who do like that - who like to risk everything and play with no net - and that's fine. It's just not me. At the end of the day, as far as I'm concerned, it's a game, and if you're playing in a way that makes you happy, that's kind of the point. If you're doing things that make the game either boring or frustrating, because you're convinced it's the 'right' way to play, my advice is: stop doing that. There are plenty of things in life that are boring or frustrating - you don't have to make more of them for yourself. It's your game. Figure out which way to play makes you happiest, and play that way. - - A big aspect of autoresolve is learning which factions (and in some cases army builds) are darlings of the autoresolve feature. Empire can get away with a lot more auto than say, Skaven. An Ikit Claw-led army fully capable of pulverizing an enemy fortress while losing only a few skavenslaves might very well be autoresolving as a crushing defeat. Autoresolve is deeply wonky - sometimes wonky in your favor, sometimes not. Learn the difference.

In regards to special buildings, read what they do. You wont always need the bonus and some cost 10-15k to build. Money that could give you a new high tier unit or more troops in an area. For some factions resources are a waste to build since they dont trade or have to little trade it doesnt make enough difference. Know your faction, otherwise the right special building at the right time can be extremely powerfull :) In terms of the AI and was I have found much use of all the new command features, building recruitment stuff inside there towns... It sometimes let me bridge weakness by combining another races unit with my own. I had this amazingly unholy mix of undead stuff and greenskins as Azhag. I agree with avoiding military agreements they are not great. :)

As a new player, this was gold. Thanks!

With Point 4 I don’t agree with leaving my assassin’s out of the army. Even when they take out another hero it’s still a low chance die roll if they actually kill VS wound their target. For some factions, Bretonnia for example, the Assassin hero is the Paladin, which is also my extremely strong melee hero. There’s no way I’m leaving my paladins out of the army. In my experience the best heroes to leave out of the armies are the ones with Block Army. The ability to pin an enemy army in place for a turn me is far more impactful than simply having an assassin roam around. And as a bonus typically the heroes that block armies are also the assassin’s (but not always).

my dumb ass read the video title as "Top 3 warhammer 10 noob mistakes" and for a brief moment I was wondering what happened to the seven I aint played yet... I don't know who needed to read this for a laugh but there you go.

As for not spending gold, I would not buy anything as soon as you have it, sometimes it's good to save up a few turns to get certain upgrades, especially with some of these lords

I feel called out with that first paycheck statement

well...I love the game so far, and it´s running jsut fine besides the 5min loading times for every reload or battle

The biggest thing that makes save scumming so necessary is that a settlement almost always drops a level whenever it is conquered. So if the AI conquers a settlement and then you reconquer it, it will be almost always worthless. A tier 4 settlement will be set back to a nearly useless tier 2 settlement which is a absolutely devastating loss. Compound this over, lets say an entire region, and your empire will have likely regressed almost to a point of no return. Its why finding natural barriers and stopping points for your conquests is sooooo important. Using mountains and allies as walls is a massive benefit to you as you will be able to push in different places otherwise. You want your empire to expand in a single direction, not inflate like a balloon, trying to expand in all directions at once because inevitably you will find that your empire is stretched out thin, and there are armies attacking from all sides.

i remember when i started playing different factions, that i could turle up with everyone, did not work of course, so got to learn how to play different factions and how to use units better

I love the attitude towards save&load, and the analogy is perfect. It's a single player GAME, play however you want and whatever makes you happy. Don't hurt yourself by insisting on weird standards

I’m a noob but I try to keep my army small as possible and save $ early game so I can quickly upgrade buildings and growth. I find doing that I’m able to pump out higher tier units faster

Noob misteak building a garrison in every settlement

I save scummed so much as i was starting to learn the game, learning how to recover from mistakes is important but i found going back and seeing what i could do to avoid the situation or have it end better for me made me much better at the game. I rarely if at all save scum now but i highly recommend for new players.

I strongly disagree with the alliance point. I really like to have at least one or two defensive/military allies. It can keep one of your flanks secure from enemies, or at least create a buffer between you and enemies. If they are neighbours you often end up fighting factions close to you that you want to be at war with anyways. And if it's factions far away you get dragged into a war with it doesn't matter either since they'll not come to your land. Besides that you can recruit their troops which I find really fun and it's also a usefull addition to your recruiting roster and recruiting capabilities. Especially if you are in provinces where you cannot recruit your own elite troops: your allies troops are always available. I also really enjoy the mechanic that you can loan complete armies from your allies. You can get a pretty good army for free for 10 turns and you can do it on a place on the map where it suits you, plus it doesn't matter that much if the army dies.

For number 5, knowing when to tell your units to walk instead of run is very important. If you're out of range of the enemy's ranged units and you're just moving towards them, there's no reason to charge. Your units will be tired going into melee while the enemy troops were sitting pretty and relaxing. Leave the charge until the last moment.

I agree with 8 and 7 completely from a new player's perspective! Don't give up and load a previous if you think you can do better or want to try a different approach. Doing that when you're just beginning is nothing to be ashamed of.

Manual battles are the main and biggest appeal of this game. Why would you consciously avoid them?

I just tell myself that save scumming with Tzeentch is basically just roleplaying

Big like on the save-advice. Id argue that its the best way to learn the game. If you replay the same battle three times to get the best outcome, you have learned how to manage your army and you got immediate feedback about which tactics work and which dont. If you play the same battle just once, you may learn nothing; you won, but was that because your army was just better? Or because you actually played well?

I'm such a noob I was playing as Nakai and I lost all my krokigors

Once you become more advanced at income management, you can spend many turns in deficit by sacking You will quickly learn this skill by playing Chaos or even Wood Elves

So I always have trouble when should you start or end wars like when is it a good idea to get a sack city or make a full province and when’s a good spot to start making a second army or focus on making your lords army better?

Something else I feel people (myself included) tend to do too much is taking ever settlement in front of you. Sure this is usually the best option however it also ends that army’s turn. Instead hold right click to see the movement of your army and try to see if it’s quicker to move around that minor settlement to get to the AI’s major recruitment settlements and take or raze them. Life is MUCH easier when you remove the enemies ability to recruit elite units and leave them stuck with t1 infantry. Obviously if you can, take or raze any settlements on the way but if at all possible take region capitals first before cleaning up the region.

My biggest struggle is using pike and shot tactics with the empire

My philosophy is to always manually play a predicted loss. Sure, you might lose, but you'll almost certainly inflict more casualties than if you auto resolved, and auto resolve is really bad at factoring magic and ranged, so you might have a necrofex doomstack that it claims is a decisive defeat when it most certainly isnt. Also, auto resolving can lead to more casualties on your side then necessary, so certain character like skarbrand and the beastmen need to manually fight so that they get worn down slower.

is skirmish the reason why my blunderbuses kept running away instead of standing their ground and turning the goblins into swiss cheese?

I think one of the worst mistakes is not learning general army formation for your faction( not to confuse with composition). Vampire coast is an extreme example. But is very frustrating, when your deck gunners didn't fire a single shot.

gonna say i use save scumming to redo wars and learn from my mistakes and see if there was something i missed that i can use later

Really good video for the most part. However, Not Save Scumming is not a noob mistake. It's a personal preference. If anything, the more experienced a player is, the less likely they would be to use save scumming as they shouldn't be making the kinds of mistakes they need to recover from and don't need the benefit of learning from trial and error like noobs do.

'Save your Game' *Always plays on legendary* "I have no such weakness..." Still nice video ;)

The isabella line needs to go in a total war warhammer museum.

So here is a thing when it comes to whethering to auto result or manually right, take this question into consideration if you have units that regenerate and/or able to recover during battle lets say Norsca skin wolves and Lizardman rejuvenation crystal, yes, you maybe losing a few in that regiment but it does not mean said regiment will enter the battle at full health. Another, pay attention to your unit card, what do I mean by that? Simple, sometimes your Ork ard boiz who are bigga and arda may seem like solid high end infantry, they also antilarge. Another example, just because your Norsca hunters armed with javelins maybe Anti-large, it does not mean your skinks with javelins are anti large. Now you may say "well all range units are anti large" and yes that is true, but are those gunners anti large when they are out of ammo, in melee? No.

3:10 i personnaly use the save to test thing out, you're not sure if the enemy army will attack you ? save and find out. recently as an example i started an imrik legendary campaign and needed to wipe out nurgle before ghorst or drazoath declared war on me and since imrik have a rough economy start i only had 1 army, saved at a "checkpoint" and continued on, and you know what 2 turns later drazoath was sieging my capital while imrik was sieging ku gath.

I would add not using ambush/raid/encampment enough and overusing force marches. Also starting multiple wars because taking that one unprotected settlement seemed convenient and easy at the time but usually ends up dragging for way longer than planned and eventually drains the economy

Always start with chaos dwarves, best faction for noobs. Greenskin labourers are the only troops you need and there are no supplylines

Noctilus is the easiest evilcampaign? Starts laughing in Changeling/Belakor

I dont typically suffer from too many of these problems, however my one friend that likes and enjoys the game does... in fact, I feel like he suffers from at least 9 out of the 10 total issues. The bad thing is, he is not new by very many means. It might just be because we like to play multiplayer with one another but he tends to have issues deciding what to do and where to go. In this case, he plays Tomb Kings, which he sees as a generally easy to play as faction who specializes in generally throwing loads of armies against a brick wall... the problem rises I believe when he auto resolves too many fights, and even sacrifices his high tier starting troops. The reason he says he does this, is cause he doesn't want us to need to wait the whole time (regardless of us telling him contrary to such that we would understand and not care (when we dont want to kind of faf about by controlling the AI army)) though, I feel like such a recap on what you may be doing wrong in multipler against/with friends would need another video in itself to explain that whole mess.

Spreading corruption/destroying corruption can be added to the list

I really dislike auto-resolving but the load screens in this game are so freaking long even on my SSD. Drives me nuts and keeps me from fighting a lot of battles

i did the tutorial then played daemon lord for 50 turns but didnt like the flow then hopped into the campaing as china or something got to around turn 50 (also the flow wasnt feeling good) and every turn my desire to play scaven grew stronger because i liked the ratlinguns and how they are technologically farther than some archers. im now over turn 100 as ikit and will after getting a victory start a new campaing as the rat who does questionable experiment on his army or meaby chaos dwarwes since they also have cool technology sure as hell was kinda hard to manual battle and the fact that the rats run away after getting a scratch but im slowly learning and improving

I learn so much from save scumming. I get to see how different choices play out in the same scenario. If you're against save scumming you're restricting your ability to learn about the game.

Standardize your turns : you have limited ressources, be it gold or movement range, and you NEED to optimize it ! Nobody wants to find out they can't upgrade their settlement because they tried (and failed) an assassination just before that... That boils down to basic concepts, no need to overthink it. Move you heroes before your armies, wait to have finished this turn's battles before building stuff, make sure the gold you spend hiring and recuiting doesn't lock you out of building, and vice versa,... You don't have to lock yourself into such scheme either, maybe you REEAALLLLY want to make this landmark, even if this means no hero action this turn ;7

Letting a vampire know you’re a weak in the knees for her is definitely a costly mistake.

I also love to auto resolve my battles. Any faction that is really good at auto resolve? Isn't Alith Anars Shadow Warrior Army kinda good at it?

i'm just watching to see that I don't do any of these mistakes therefor I can feed myself with selfcongratuling.

5:51 artist or source of that Isabella please , looks pretty good !

You don’t have to play every manual battle that you think you could win. I was playing as Grom and I was fighting the dwarfs, and I would auto resolve every single fight even if I thought I could manually win because fuck fighting dwarfs. I played one manual battle where the dwarf warriors got knocked down to 1 single dwarf and 4 health but they still fought. Dwarfs have to be completely decimated to the last unit standing and I refuse to do that, especially when the last man standing could be a single irondrake who just refuses to give up.

1. Karl Franz, difficulty: easy. Looks like a best start for a noob player! 👍

This Isabella one made me laugh 11/10

About 8, I never do it it any game, exit save only. I consider load/save cheating since you can just bash your head against any wall until it breaks.

Reasons I'd reload a save: because the campaign map lied to me about my movement range

What is point 8? Saving? Never heard that in this game

i have to autoresolve everything because despite having an amazing computer warhammer 3 crashes every time i try to open a battle.

I find that I always do worse when not autoresolving combat ...

Yes but what if im saving it to build a building

ALWAYS move the first 50% of your movement in encamp stance. That way, you will never get ambushed (at lesdt kot for the first half of your movement. Ive lost enitre missile based armies half a dozen times because i just walked right into an ambush i had NO idea was there. This is more for lwgendary though, because you can just save scum on lower difficulties if yoy know theres an ambush.

Playing norsca in wh2

Some people have voices made for top 10 lists.

6:24 At that point just play Civ 5 or CK2 lol

1:11 im 33 and still do that 😂

I mean. Save scumming is a viable tactic sure... But i wouldn't consider not save scumming a "Noob mistake" some people just don't like to cheat 😂 (not saying ppl who do save scum are necessarily cheating)

Another note on save scumming, it always morally correct (imo) to save scum against skaven or other ambush attacking factions. Because that crap is bullshit.

Is there a stellaris version of this video?

yes sir colonel o7

Guardmode

Until someone buys me all the games and the dlcs, they can shut their mouth when I save my game lol

First off Colonel you’re a millennial not a boomer 😂 Secondly you are down bad for that joke about Isabella 😂

Haven't watched the whole video yet, but number 10 has alot of caveats..... Depending on your faction and what you want to buy soon or eventually, saving the right amount of money can be huge. I try to keep at least 500-800 in bank early game and 300 upkeep unless there's an emergency. Also, save scummming is the dumbest term I've heard, along with the calling everyone a s.j.w. era. Games glitch and f--- up sometimes. The game gets weird cheats sometimes. Our only weapon against this is saving and reloading saves. Lol.

I don't understand how people are able to enjoy TW while save scumming or auto resolving everything. For me if there's no real chance for failure the game quickly grows stale, not just TW but any game, I never save scum and play nearly every battle

That drawing analogy deleted your credibility for making the point of save scumming. Its a solo PvE game do whatever you want to have fun, just tell people that. Do not try to invalidate the players who enjoy perma-death. I don't alt-f4 out of the long dark when a bear attacks me because I will lose 200 hours on a save, the point is that it is an achievement and by design alot of difficulty is lost when save scumming. Living with your decisions is what makes games like Rimworld an amazing game for creating stories of triumph over difficult odds.

So yes garrison in each settlement SEEMS like a waste of money but I agree, especially considering that the free garrison troops aren’t gonna eat thru your budget unlike an army you keep in each province “just in case”

Great Vid - lots of good and useful info. Too bad the creator talks so damned fast its difficult to absorb much of what is said. SLOW DOWN.😠

I've watched many of these KZfaqrs and they all try to out do the other by how fast they talk.

First comment let’s goo

Keep in mind, the game actively suggests the Grand Cathay as your first campaign. I played Warhammer 2 extenstively and still was not expecting how hard that campaign start.

Reporting this video. Reason: I'm in it and I don't like it.

1. Not playing Warhammer 2.

Trade does not increase your gold by alot

Please stop talking so fast. I have a job 😂

As a bit of constrictive criticism i think around 50% of these tips are unnecessary. Spending money/upgrading settlements, manual battles and saving often doesn't really need to be said. Even so, there are many saving a little bit of money can be very useful as confederating can random events can tank your economy and if you go negative your armies will literally self destruct. Not everyone knows this till it happens. Building certain structures in minor settlements caps their max level, which isn't always obvious. What about armour-piercing, terror and shielded mechanics? You could talk about physical unit size and anti-large and those dynamics or caveats with gunpowder vs missile units. You speak about agents but don't discuss how to use some of them, should I be using them in armies or for subterfuge, or sit them at home providing bonuses? Theres so much you could talk about that are REAL tips as opposed to this generic list. You just give off the vibe of someone who has played a little but isn't really in a position to coach anyone.

Playing only the turn based campaign map?? The campaign map gameplay is incredibly simplistic and boring. I would hardly call it a game... The whole point of playing a TW game is to fight battles....