It's a long one guys so do please us the timestamps. For the quickest summary feel free to skip ahead to the Timeline section

I really want to see Cathay get a dragon turtle with a gun platform on it's back.

I am a pretty big fan of some of the Legendary Heroes in the later part of WH2 DLCs, adds a lot of flavour to the faction

I want to see a fully fleshed out Hobgoblin Khanate. With hobgoblins already being part of the Chaos Dwarfs, it should be fairly straightforward to create a solely hobgoblin faction with a horde style of play.

Nagash should be his own faction because he can use Tomb King, Vampire Count and Vampire Coast. I think the Vampire Count DLC should introduce a legendary lord for the Strigoi, Lahmian, Blood Dragons and Necrarch. Here are the Legendary Lords for each blood line I think are going to be introduce Ushoran for the Strigoi, Neferata for the Lahmian Sisterhood, The Red Duke and/or Abhorash for Blood Dragons and W'soran for the Necrarchs.

With regards to Cathay, I do think we’ll get thematic DLC for Li Dao (The Fire Dragon) and Yuan Bo (The Jade/Earth Dragon). Li Dao is associated with flame and there’s several units that immediately come to mind: - Fire Lancers as shock cavalry with a precursor projectile attack. - Sky Junk (Dragon Fire Thrower), mentioned in the in-game tech tree as being a massive flying flame thrower unit sometimes repurposed for propulsion. - Dragon Fire Thrower weapon team. - Vermillion War Birds, again mentioned in the tech tree, the creature that keeps Sky Lanterns and Sky Junks aloft. A Phoenix-like creature, but without reincarnation. Yuan Bo is closely associated with the Moon Empress, and so may likely come as construct focused which would also be in-keeping with being the Jade Dragon. - Onxy Crowmen as monstrous flying infantry. - Temple Dogs as construct monstrous shock cavalry. - Jade Lions as SEM monstrous constructs ala Khemrian Warsphinx. - Terracotta Warriors, possibly multiple variants. Yin-Yin, the Sea Dragon, is likely to be FLC. But there is mention of Water Snakes in the Water Snake Handler ancillary, giant snakes supposedly capable of killing giants, so that might be a FLC unit coming with her.

Always wanted someone to flesh out Moonclaw! I love the beastmen and I think moonclaw has the potential to be written into the truest form and most powerful of the beastmen. I also think he would fit the mystical theme of the east very well and with all the new Cathay lore coming out it would be very easy to include Moonclaw there.

Tamurkhan vs. Elspeth hits a number of gaps for both factions, thematically if nothing else. Really hoping to see both.

There are several factions that really need the return of naval battles to get the most out of their theming, this is one of them.

Thanks for the long video, I love listening to these when I’m at work, helps me retain some of my sanity

Would love to get a nagash faction where its a mixture of TK, VC and Vampire coast

Aislinn has a particular (and peculiar) loathing of Halflings. My brain immediately upon reading that: THIS IS MY NEW FAVOURITE CHARACTER!!

Karl Franz: "FOR SIGMAR! (as long as he is dead)"

Id love to see Theodore Bruckner as a legendary hero for Elspeth Von Draken that will uniquely have access to a demigryph mount and be a monster in melee since mage characters tend to start with a body guard melee hero he was relatively important to the Tamurkhan story.

After Playing Morathi campaign and seeing halfbaked state its in with unfinished corruption effects, missing garrison for ulthuan fortresses, no tech to address daemonettes. I would say at least kinda revisit patch for DE is coming

Karanak being a LL would be the funniest shit ever.

Your monkey king dlc is exactly what I want and I hope and pray it is that

Been missing your long videos for a quite awhile! Thanks for all the great work you put into this! Anther region of the map I could see them expanding upon is the upper right corner of IM map and adding in more chaos wastes/ the regions the hobgoblin khans are known to live, could see them potentially do a hobgoblins army one day.

a possible interesting unit for a middenland dlc thats kind of obscure are the children of ulric. they were mentioned in the first gotrek and felix book. werewolves in the empire that have a tacit “we leave you alone you leave us alone” agreement with some local rural nobles, and have some religious relation to ulric. very anti chaos and fills in the monsterous infantry niche that the empire lacks that would be really cool. would t be something that a general empire army would be keen about, but maybe a middenland one.

I cant remember how many times(2-3) I have watched this. I love all the speculation videos. Hope all is well and you plan to release some more lore and speculations videos once time permits.

Enjoy hearing you, hope there's more to come

Looking forward to this video, I love hearing your thoughts and you have a way with words. Glad you stay to yourself and your own ambitions even if it can be hard sometimes. Won't have time to watch this through in one sittings, will take a few!

imagine sea lord Aislinn was voiced by Reagan Murdock, the dub va of aki from chainsaw man, his deep voice could be perfect for a warhammer character like AIslinn

Regarding cathay, i could see them doing either ‘cathay vs monkey king..’ ‘cathay vs those snake humanoids’ and/or ‘cathay vs ogres’ (or i hope so) all 3

The name of the ships company are Mariners, maybe just as sword units or an aditional option with bows on a later tier

This was great, alot of work went into this. Thank you.

The general returns, appreciate your long form content mate.

"Let Norsca have some bears"! Along with Albion, this is all I want.

he's back right when we need him the most!

kislev could have bear men, reindeer riders, wolfs, ice guard mounted on snow leapords, giant owls, berserker units, the chicken house could be a single entity monster as well as a mount, and some more artillery

Why the heck does this only get 900 views,this is underrated work !

Ch ch ch "Chorfs" potentially in time for Christmas sounds fabulous as well as Aislinn coming as well.

I think Thanquol for free is an option. He's iconic, but his faction has received several very major updates already that have expanded their roster. Some Skaven players will be furious about Stormfiends, they were an End Times unit so there is no guarantee they will come or have all options.

I love playing Immortal Empires + listening to your videos = The complete Warhammer 3 experience IMO .😊😊😊

really enjoying your speculation my dude

super glad our general is back, and with a nice pfp

Looks like I will watch literally anything you produce. Lovely!

For the Dwarves, I woukd like to see: engineer lord, slayer hero, thunderbarge, doomseekers, rune guardians, grudge rakers, and maybe one more unit. I think either Grimm Burlokkson or Malakai Makaison would be good LLs for this pack(or why not both?). Also, I honestly wouldn't mind off all packs from here on out were mono faction. I think this might streamline the process and help to not make any race feel like it was slighted versus their counterpart.

Great video thank you!

From all the factions Kheresh is the one that interests me the most since it is the biggest unknown and it is not a human faction.

very enjoyable video to watch and good information

For Norsca, I think I'd like to either see the "Tribes of Chaos" expanded, so Hung, Kurgan, etc. Each comes with a couple new units, and variants that make sense aesthetically/thematically. Or, a 4 lord pack consisting of Beorg Baerstruck, Sayl the Faithless, Mona Mnim (or some Fimir), and Mortkin, along with a shieldmaiden hero. Shieldmaiden would be fun to have for the viking side of Norsca. Beorg is pretty neat for the shapeshifter side, always wanted to learn about the Fimir, and that would be new. And then Mortkin and Sayl are both unique characters (at least personality wise). That could be 2 rival DLCs or one big momma style dlc like the WoC. Unit wise there's a ton of ways to go, so I'll just leave that be.

Id love to see a video kind of like this one where you go through each faction and come up with possible end game scenarios for each race!

Thinking about missing content is missing nippon, West coast of naggaroth, I would say some kind of Pacific DLC could come with korea/nippon?naggaroth coast... I would not mind nippon being done in EmpireTW way like extra tinymap not really connected other then sealanes

Recently fell in love with dark elves and would love one more dlc😩

I think they could add characters like Amratha Mangorer, Sa-Ator & Dematt Ghoulchewer as new Legendary Lords for the Daemons of Chaos as possible representatives for Minor Chaos Gods like Necoho, Malice, Zuvassin, Mermedus, Kka, The Great Beast, Kweethul Gristlegut & Screaming God-Child

For the Empire there should also be A Witch Hunter General.

I think tigermen would be both Cathay and Ind could access to, while Cathay would have some armored heavy variant of Tigermen as shock troop, and Ind would have less armored but faster tigermen as "monster skirmishers" so to say. Personally Cathay do need some "melee breakthrough" units and "Mobile Missile units" to make their playstyle more variable, right now it just battle line, battle line and Battle line...

I think when a Vampire DLC drops, it will be like the Warriors of Chaos. You'll get 4 legendary lords to expand upon the Lahmians, Strigoi, Blood Dragons, and the Necrarchs. Nagash would be the 100th LL lord in a DLC with much fanfare.

Moonclaw makes the most sense for the next beastman LL, I could see CA adding him, a rambling crazed LL for the East. I can also see the CA team having fun with voicing him/it. Gives me Luthor Harkon vibes lol

That's one heck of an optimistic timeline schedule. They said they would support the game for many more years into the future so I'd say at least five years. They're already taking their time with the Chaos Dwarves as in a few days we'll be getting patch 2.2 and they probably won't release the DLC in the immediate month after. At the earliest we would get it in December for the holiday season but that would be unlikely. In the 2022 roadmap CA said they would wrap up the year with either a large patch 3.0 (Chaos Dwarves) or a smaller one 2.2, and it's confirmed we're getting the smaller one. Chaos Dwarves will likely be pushed to January or February, so the release dates would be 5 to 6 months apart. Another point is that I don't think CA will do small 2 lord versus packs anymore. With the new format we got with the Champions of Chaos it's likely that the rest will follow suit. Then the lord packs would either be a 1v1v1v1 or a 2v2 or a 4 on the same team. They could do the small 1v1 lord packs in between the larger ones, but then if my first point above is true we would have already seen a hint of that it would be coming, since Chaos Dwarves would release in February. Since most older factions are really just missing Legendary Lords and less units, it makes more sense to incorporate them in a pack like the Champions of Chaos. You could do a massive release of the empire, drop 4 LLs and the few unique missing units. Same for the Vampire Counts, or the Beastmen, or Norsca. There might be a possibility that they would start doing smaller 1v1 lord packs after the Chaos Dwarves since they by then would have laid the groundwork with immortal empires coming out of beta and having streamlined the process, thus CA having more resources to work with.

Summon the Elector Counts DLC = Take my money!

1:52:52 My man Ushoran got no respect, lead a successful and peaceful empire or vampires and humans and then died protecting both only for the knight to get the title of ‘good vampire’

Have to disagree on that first rival pack. I think they’ll pair Aislinn with Yin-Yin. Plus, I just can’t see Norsca getting Blight Kings. Did like your thoughts on giving Norsca 4 marked characters, but I’m not sure Aekold is a good fit. He seems more like a Tzeentch mono-god lord, especially with his association with daemons. Though you’re right, they kinda already used Vilitch, so I’m not sure who else they could bring in. Also, Dechala was a High Elf, not a Dark Elf. I’d have to look again, but I think she was corrupted before the Sundering.

Yes ,your desired time line is essentially where i has it, but dont forget the halflings!😇

Thought you were gone... Till I saw this absolute UNIT!

all excellent ideas

Think the Tomb Kings will at least get a Khemric Titan added imo I think if there’s any High Elf FLC, Caradryan is a shoe in. Idk if you’ve ever seen the idea that Norsca will get rebranded as the Tribesmen of Chaos, where they include Norsca, the Kurgan, & Hung, and this would come with an expansion of the Eastern Steppes into the northeast of Immortal Empires. I personally would like to see Temple Dogs & Jade Lions as separate units. Both would be construct units with the dogs being monstrous cavalry and the lions being single entity monsters akin to Warsphinxes. And I’m expecting Cathay to have multiple DLC. The implications CA & GW have been giving for both Cathay & Kislev lead me to believe that we haven’t seen even half of what those armies have to offer. I disagree actually with Yin-Yin starting in Cathay for Immortal Empires. I think she’ll have a dual start like Eltharion & Malus, where she’ll be in possession of the Eastern capital of Fu Chow, but she will actually be in Lustria, as she was the one who led the first Cathay expedition westward that ultimately was the undoing of the Jade Fleet at that time. It would also highlight her expansionist nature. Can’t believe you missed three easy monsters for Kislev. Frost Fiends, Hawks of Miska, & the special reindeer they have (I think they’re Indryka or some variation of that). Considering we got DLC for 3 previous DLCs in the Warriors of Chaos, Beastmen, & Wood Elves, another DLC for Ogres seems like a sure fire thing imo. Surprised you didn’t include Runic Guardians/Rune Golems & Shard Dragons for the Dwarfs. I’d rather Valten not be in the game tbh. Never liked the idea of Franz giving up Ghal Maraz. I’d like to see the Ar-Ulric as as the Legendary Lord. Tbh, I think Hobgoblin Khans are more likely as a full blown faction than Dogs of War. I think Dogs of War have more of a shot for including certain units as just general mercenaries that most factions could potentially recruit. The same could apply to LLs, but it would require completing a quest battle to recruit them. Would like to see the Goblin Spear Chukka for Greenskins too.

Awesome vid

Sword and board for high elves would be very interesting

The Kingdoms "DLC" model for Med 2 was on point for me, and I'm not sure why CA haven't looked to standardise it as a process for DLC development in other Total Wars - seems like the Warhammer universe is ripe for a series of DLCs with new, highly detailed, narrative driven and concentrated maps to play out particular wars from Warhammer history. Seems like the concept works, as even the prologue campaign for Warhammer III went down well!

Probably sounds weird for most but I would like to see a mod whereby you can unlock Phoenix Kings like the Tomb Kings. Only certain ones can be unlocked via tech tree just like the Tomb Kings that give specific buffs to specific units so you could have thematic doomstacks. They could be on a 20 turn cool-down to the army and Phoenix King disappear after 20 turns and you have to wait another 20 to use that same one again. So in effect you could have half dozen Phoenix King thematic doomstacks every turn

There’s also the possibility of IE and MP only dlc races

I would see Tamurkhan, Vorgaroth and there brothers as mortal legendary lords for the chaos gods.

Sea Lord Aislinn vs Dechala (High Elves vs Slaanesh is classic) is the call for me and I put it as DLC #4-5 Norsca vs Kislev I think is the most likely way we see them with Mortkin vs Ostankya (Valnir von Raukov - Empire FLC?) When I think about possible DLCs, especially lord packs, we should think about classic rivalries as currently there are only two Lord Packs that don't engage with that theme. Hunter and the Beast and Shadow and the Blade, maybe make an argument for Silence and the Fury but Beastmen are Chaos and Lizardmen (and by Extension Oxyotl) hate all Chaos forces.

the beastmaster might have a abillity to summon a bear

For the Kislev vs Skaven dlc concept, my idea is a 2v2 dlc pack: Mother Ostankya and Naryaska Leysa for Kislev Grey Seer Thanquol and Skreech Verminking for Skaven Naryaska could start on the border with the northern wastes in the realms of chaos, and in immortal empires she starts on the border of the darklands Skreech would start deep in the northern chaos wastes, fairly close to Skarbrand (as Thanquol and Skarbrand have history, it'd be a nice gag), and in immortal empires he could start in the east, giving Snikch a skaven ally nearby, as opposed to being all on his lonesome

For Middenland Emil Valgeir the Ar-Ulric would be better as the LL for the pack. Also Marius Leitdorf, Valmir von Raukov and perhaps Aldebrand Ludenhof could be added as Elector Count unique Lords.

Keep up the good work.

I feel like the obvious first DLC would be Neferata and Chaos Dwarfs.

i love your videos bro!

jades lions would be for cathay, and tigermen are most likely for ind if we get ind. Also tengu crow men would most likely be for nippon.

The curs'd ettin lock pretty cool to me

Malakai should start in Fort Straghov in northern Kislev. This is where he docks the Spirit of Grugni in the Gotrek and Felix novels and where Thanquol ambushes them. Would also be a very unique start for dwarves.

1:24:40 There were vs DLC's for Beastmen and Wood Elves, who are both DLC factions. Considering that, as a pre-order faction they are essentially another starter faction, I do think there is a good chance they'll get a DLC to become more fleshed out. Also compulsory "I hope we get Snake Waifus of Khuresh" comment.

Ind and Khuresh can only happen if Games Workshop engages with it, which is not likely at all, as they already have their hands full with bring back a ton of things. So Ind and Khuresh has smallest % of all of your guesses.

I don’t necessarily agree with your analysis of Norsca. Their army book isn’t like the Warriors of Chaos. What separates them is that they’re not drooling over the Chaos Gods like WoC. Norsca is this unfortunate alliance of the downtrodden and cursed coming together to survive more than anything, both against the Old World and against the forces of Chaos. Being a Norscan doesn’t mean they’d work in Norsca, like Sigvald for example. I’d think we’re more likely to see the newly introduced Mona Minn, a Fimir Matriarch, as a new Norscan as she fits their thematic structure more than these WoC characters.

A 2 and a half hour long video from Inept?!? Lets goooooo!!!

Excellent video, hopefully CA will communicate a new roadmap outlining their DLC roadmap which will hopefully be more frequent than this years

Those Vermin Lords have some of the coolest Models imo.

uhh for kheresh with the dreadmaw it would be cool to implement them not only as a unit but also a way of campagnemovement in the game dune spice wars is a faction - the fremen - who can transport their armies with worms over very large distances also in the battle of the 5 armies the orcs use worms to create tunnels for quicker traveling and better position on the battlefield if not as campagnemovement they would also be great as army ability where you can select a unit of ur choice ( not flying no SEM) who disappeares, and then spits out of ground where you want, the worm crushing the ground underneath enemy units could at the same time be a medium damage spell'like effect and then the unit of ur choice comes and fights ( like i believe council of the 13 spell for skaven ) and to balance it out you could see, just like every other spell, its cast area i d honestly like the army ability more then the campagnemovement idea but having both would be the greatest ( the campagnemovement would function similar to the fremen in dune - they are a ressource you get via xyz, maybe replenishes over time...

Just imagine this; A full-blown End Times battle at the end of a cinematic campaign. It is a full blown 3-4 hour battle. Your allied factions slow come in, your enemies slowly trickle in, it could have phases where Thorgrim is battling Queek, Grimgor vs Archaon, Lizardmen vs Daemons & Skaven. It could be massive, non stop action which leaves the player exhausted like they should be

We need to come together and create a petition that'll make CA make atleast 3 or 4 more skaven dlc's

I hope we get all this and more, is a great game that needs a lot of work but it has an awesome potential

How could you go for Scyla over Egil Styrbjorn for a Khornate Norscan representative?

1 : 13 : 05 Dechala was not a corrupted Dark Elf, she was a corrupted High Elf :P There are plenty of Slaanesh-aligned Dark Elves but Dechala has never been one of them.

I think they could do panda riders and just use the bear cav animations for it.

I think The Monkey King might be a Legendry Lord of Cathay, and he is going to be set against The Changeling.

What’s the background music? Almost sounds like oblivion music

Khorne wont be complete without Arbaal the Undefeated. Great video. The only thing I would disagree on, is Arbaal would probably start north of Kislev, as he has a long history of clashes with them. He did burn down and seize Praag leading daemon hordes more than once.

Honestly I'd love to see Moonclaw myself.

Now that's a juggernaut

this video is so gooood

Nippon being added with their units being solely melee focused with some support units. CA/GW should just lean in heavily into the whole Japanese samurai mythology and just make the scary melee units that just annihilate anything they come into contact with. I feel like that side of the world near Cathay is just too safe so having another big race faction over there might help create some tactical threats. If Nippon wanted to invade Cathay its a good reason for the Sea Dragon Yin Yin to actually exist as a coastal defense force with a marine/pirate/navy theme units to help fend off Nippon in the east. Again with Ind and Snake people in the south gives a good reason for the other dragons to also exist. I feel like a lot of the factions can exist if they create a reason for other lords to exist on the map that way it just builds up regions. I wanted Araby in the south to give TK a viable opponent but I guess with them being "retconned" TK factions are just there to mop up each other and the sub factions. Kinda boring and disappointing. I just hope they don't do the same to Ind.

Ind magic idea Have it be a chakra thing where they pull a from different lores that represent different elements Any fire spell, water teardrop spell, heavens spell, life spell for earth, either shadows or light as the final I think more casters should be hybrids, this is an extreme example but could be interesting

Moonclaw sounds cool.

dwarfs big issue is more a balance issue with how unviable great weapons are in general and less so in units needed beyond the thunderbarge as a central unit, though I would be very happy with the full slayer cult. I fully agree with nagash being fully worthy of his own big DLC with bits across the three undead groups the empire just needs so, so much work it's not really even funny

I actually hope nagash is going later than the vampire count bloodline dlc and hopefully rework. Since when you put everything together everybody is going to play nagash, because it's nagash and he possibly going to be the strongest. And second reason : if nagash and the rest gets munched together the chance for the other bloodlines getting attention is far less and I hope we finally get legendary lords for the vampire counts with unique mechanics and there are a couple more units we could see for the vampire counts and I hope to see simulacras and tomb scorpions for kemmler. At least tomb scorpions. And krell should Stil be a legendary hero. Overall I could go on for at least two pages they need love

I’d like to see Kawmunkast and Huskk Gnawbone

I think you forgot the potential of nippon and hobgoblins making an appearance