"How does an Averlander tell a difference between his woman and his cattle? He can't!"

"you shall not beat to death your neighbour with his own wife" im dying

Interesting how in the Warhammer universe people believing in you actually strenghtens you and could make you become a god. Like Sigmar.

Man, the Empire sounds like an alright place considering the Warhammer universe. :D

Not gonna lie I genuinely miss this style of arch lore videos even the semi shitty mic adds a bit of character to the video and the music is just perfect.👌

Every time I play the Empire, I do my best to unite all of the Empire through war or Confederation. Usually I get a good chunk of land but Chaos comes in and tears up Kislev and everyone has a bad time

Did I hear that correctly? "You shall not beat to death your neighbor with your neighbor's wife." LMAO.

the Holy Roman Empire in our world wasn't a centralize state either, it was rule by countless lords, each and everyone had absolute power inside their own little realm, especially after the treaty of Westphalia, the elector-count in warhammer is also a copy of the prince-elector in HRE

"Hairy Foot Savages" says the Skaven fanboi.

Bright Wizard: You know what this comment section needs? ...A flame war... I liked Attila Total War.

who's watching this when total war warhammer is out

god the dlc spam when this games gets released

Ahhh the optimism when he talks about the campaign- intricate politics, family trees, individual empire factions. CA fumbled the empire.... time for mods !!!

The Empire is like a minigame on itself. CA could drawn inspiration from Crusader Kings and how they handle many different dynasties and vassals inside a single kingdom, or maybe how the Christian kingdoms worked with the Papacy in Medieval, only if you ever declared war on your fellow county you would be "excomunicated" immediatly.

the spanish terrcio's started the Pike and Shot formation first.

On second thought lets not go to Moot it is a silly place...

Little did Arch Warhammer know... The Empire nations all more or less vied for the throne because... Screw Franz?

So the Empires allied with both the High Elves and the Dwarfs. Given that they hate each other,if they need to call both of them to fight the Chaos Hordes,that could be problematic..

I'm surprised bretonnia could put up any sort of fight against the larger better equipped and better trained empire

There is no real life, only warhammer

So..if the Empire is Germany, Brettonia is France, Estalia is Spain and Tilea is Italy..what is the real world equivalent of the Border Princes?

re-watching these old videos of yours is one of my top ten relaxing activities...so yeah thanks again man

I just bought Warhammer Total War and as a huge Warcraft fan, I've found the depth of Warhammer to be beautiful. I've played Warhammer 40K but I've no idea what the real backstory is. Although this is the first video in your series that I've watched, I'd like to thank you for making this.

"Et setra, et setra, et setra the imperishable"

I am rewatching all your old vids to stick it to GW. Hose the hosers!

love your warhammer lore videos keep up the good work!

"Okay we won't do it for $10. Just pay us $1. Sounds fair right? Have to pay the workers and all"

CA Is making a ballsy move making a TW Warhammer, Not complaining I am fucking EXCITED I am pre-ordering the second it's available, BUT if they fuck this up, multiple WAAAGH!'s will be started and CA developer corpses will be on pikes.

49:58 gotta love those Polish Winged Hussars

This was a realy good lore video, most of them get boring from time to time but in this one there was a perfect balance betwen interesting facts and a bit of humor (I chuckled a bit at some of the jokes and realy gave a laugh at the 'Reciving the brunt of the bastardy' part). I realy wanted you to cover some other knight orders like the Knights of Morr being one of my favorites. But I understand that you could not cover everything in one video, I was just realy damn happy that you went in to detail about Nuln its my favorite city in this Warhammer world and few people realy go in to detail about it generaly ignoring it in favour of Altdorf.

Really enjoying these vids Arch, looking forward to the elven factions!

I just want to point out. The call of warhamner mod did all that work. they added animations too. CA BETTER damn well step up and provide what a non-monatery supported modder managed to do.

It says "holly roman empire" in the video description heheh have a holly jolly empire day lads and lassies

6 years later, CA has basically incorporated a lot of Arch's ideas. I bet they never gave him a cent.

I am playing Empire in tabletop for about 12 years now and your video is quite nicely summarizing all the important story there is to tell about the empire, really liked it. If someone would ask me what is Warhammer Fantasy and the Empire, I couldn't explain better.

Love your vids man

It was worth the waiting Arch. Thank you.

Arch really has come a long way

"The imperial foot" ... sounds like a magic spell to me.

Watching these videos years later, thinking about all the ways the games disappointed.

Pfft I'm sure the Dwarfs have thought up those ideas, they're just new still, I mean they're only in their 400th year of prototype development

Really cool videos,thanks for uploading

I would watch these videos just for the artwork, it really is awesome

Omg Arch sounds like such a baby in these old videos xD

Good video, love your style.

Best history class ever ;-)

Old school Arch had the best accent

Welcome back!

"On second thought let us not go to the moot, 'tis a silly place"

listening to thi while playing Total war warhammer... You have no idée how good it feel !

You know, after learning about the Empire, their not at all like the Imperium and I can dig that. They are my favorites from now on.

SO now that the game is basicly done (with DLC) What do you think about how the empire was handeled in game? Seperate provences but no unique units outs side of RoR.

I'm hoping the game plays as the 1 faction empire and you have general units you can recruit anywhere but have to recruit certain high quality troops in certain regions. It would be awesome to raise units and have them march to a staging area for assignment. Please bring back non general lead armies. Tired of having to march my army back home when i could have sent reinforcements from the capital halfway through the campaign so my army could continue its onslaught. Or have the states be chosen as separate factions but you can commission troops. So you would have a recruitment tab and a commission tab. There you could see the units of your allies and choose which ones you would like to commission. So if you want some heavy gunners you would have to wait 2 turns for them to be recruited and then oh so many turns for them to reach your capital. Then you can assign them to an army.

such good lore wish it was still kicking on the table :(

19 people were watching this while hanging upside down.

I see a solution to the single nation or choose your province issue: make the whole empire a faction option, and have the provinces as well.

19:00 That's more or less how it works in mortal empires.

it would be awesome I'd you re released these without the background music. still enjoying 6 years later 😘

Anyone watching in 2024, ahh young arch old but gold

finally the Empire, lovely stuff

That pigeon guided bomb was a reference to a real life test which was successful test in contrast to this fantasy counter part

i really do hope you make a video on kislev they are awesome

where did you get the images for the Empire?

Where do you source your art for these videos ? I would like to do some 3d modelling of warhammer fantasy but finding a solid source of warhammer art is difficult

What is the background music? It's awesome

It's nice seeing this after the fact and seeing CA and SEGA basically do none of it. Also, pikr and shot is still renaissance fighting?

well i see often late gothic and maximiliar armor in the imperial also in real world plate armor around 1500 was fully able to repell small arms fire and was bulletsproof which wa sthe reason many people just wore chestplate

i know this is really out of date, but i always thought carving the empire into 3 general factions roughly aligning with the time of the 3 emperors would be a managable compromise. one based in riekland controlling the south, one based in middenland controlling the north, and one based in talabechland controlling the east. east having about 3 provences under their control.

It's cool to see how your audience has grown Arch - but I'll always have been your very first to comment on your very first video :DD

You could always get fire mages to work in foundries in peace times.

Why does empire has do many skulls on uniforms?

19:30 nope everything is just broken up and a dwarf on dwarf war is simply unavoidable.

Hey i dont see the elvesmor the ogres in the video's of total war or On the map! Does it exist?

You are the best, arch!!!!!

To a Bright Wizard, the phrase "Help me, my house is on fire" is either non sequitur or a request to help add _more_ fire to the house.

Hey Arch Warhammer. Do you know if there is a podcast, or something similar, where I can hear about the Warhammer history from the different times and races in depth? Best regards, Matthias

Now I am going to raise more Reiksguard, I have never known.

If bright wizards can control temperature accurately they could be used for various industrial procedures in conjunction with the lore of metal....

I love those videos

The BGM is from TW:W game? god I love that BGM, I need to know where I can get it

23:35 third druid mage from the left looks perfect

what if you choose one of the nations then you can deside ider to work with everyone then move on to war with other factions OR? you can choose to go to war with everyone then become one nation and one emperor ?

where did u got these maps? and question: the country of the vampires,silvania is from transylvania right?:Pi live in the country of dracula/vlad the impaler

awesome video, and i really really hope CEA wont screw this up.

i think that when it comes to picking the empire as a faction you will be able to pick from 3 of the main provinces and the rest will be npc factions or released as dlcs

In my total war game i made us hereditary by limiting the power of the elector counts and conquering the crap out of the empire proveniences

Given what we have now seen of the game now internal conflict within the empire should not be difficult. Given that unit banners and hovering icons indicate friend or foe not colours on the units themselves; factional empire would just involve changing those icons and unit choice limits and a few unit bonuses. I can even see how they could do dwarf on dwarf or a great greenskin brawl. Halflings should be a separate army though. The have their own army book and pie cannons are a must.

Hej Arch love you video. Can I get the name of the music you play in the background.

everytime i hear stirland i think it has the banner of ostland, well because it has a stier as symbol

I think whether or not the Empire will be one faction depends on the size of the game map. If it's small and focused on the Old World and the general Empire vicinity then it would be logical to assume they'd make the individual provinces, because a united Empire would essentially cover a quarter of the map and that's just OP I would say.

Not gonna lie I miss warhammer fantasy. It felt like a grimdark but approachable version of middle earth and way more developed. Age of sigmar feels more like a board game with a fantasy setting where as WHF felt like an awesome universe that you got to play. It's also the only universe I ever fantasized about living in when I was a kid and I found my first book explaining the main factions. Hell me wanting to be a vampire count at 9 was probably what set me up to be a goth and metal head. Then gw fucked it all up so they could own the copy right for every aspect. What's the point if owning the copyright when no body wants to buy your shit? Hopefully they will just abandon aos and go back to fantasy

I think Felix Jaeger had a Sudenland Cloak. I think this because the author mentions it by name so much I assumed it was an inside joke of some kind

u need a better microphone bruh, but good info overall, i bought tww going in blind on warhammer lore but loving past tw games, im watching these to get me up to speed

I loved this

What is the backround musics name?

Ah, those times in which it was the empire lore video instead of the highly detailed lore of a random pebble

The empire the tastiest snacks the orks have ever eaten.

good stuff!

18:41 Maybe instead they have it where some kingdoms just ban together in times of trouble? Or they just have it where some kingdoms lend their armies to other kingdoms in exchange for currency?

this kind of reminds me of berserk. btw. nice video.