A few tips for yourself and any other new TW players that could use them. 1. Always right click and drag to form a line when positioning your units. That way, you can form the line as wide or as narrow as you need, and can form it in the direction you need. 2. Always keep your ranged units behind your melee lines. You never want them in melee unless shit has hit the fan. The icon at the top of the unit card will tell you if it is melee, ranged, cavalry or artillery. 3. Hold Ctrl and 1,2,3 etc and learn to use ctrl groups. It gives you quick control of your units and allows you to react to things much faster. 4. Its almost always better to stretch your army wider than your opponent if possible and encircle him. Hitting him in the rear or flank will give leadership penalties and cause his weaker units to rout much faster, enabling you to bring increasing numbers to bear on his tougher units. 5. If both sides lines have clashed, use your archers to focus down their archers quickly, instead of firing into the melee and causing casualties among your own men. 6. Your melee units are mostly "fire and forget". Throw them into melee, and forget about them. Use that opportunity to micromanage your lords, ranged and especially cavalry. Good luck with your campaign. This was fun to see a totally new players first time with tw. Looking forward to future videos. :)

Watching someone playing for the first time makes me feel old. I have no idea how am I 2,3k hours in that game, I feel like I just bought it a month ago. Welcome aboard to the warhammer community, I will wait for you to BE CALLED BY A NATION A NATION THAT MARSHALS THE MEN A NATION THAT HAS HIS CONSENT

wekcome to the community pal! And dont stress yourself to look like an insane good player you get there soon enough and look forward to dive 600h into the game without having each faction played once XD

As a long time total war player (recently got into warhammer myself) i really liked the prolouge of this game. One tip i will pass on, not sure if anyone else said this yet. If you get your melee troops in a group and lock that group, when you send them into a charge or attack they will attack the units in front instead of having to specifically select and give attack orders. Take the game slow, learn, die, win. Its all you can do and then the war crimes will follow 😂 Have fun!

Actually most of that DLCs are for game 1 and 2 and were released prior WH3, but they are also DLC for WH3 at the same time, yes it is strange. And if you own WH3 and own WH1 and/or WH2, they both will work as big LL DLCs for WH3 adding most of its content to WH3 (except narrative campaigns).

Just a tip dont just click to move the units use the form a line mechanic to either spread your units thin or pack them together

Welcome to the community!!!! It is so interesting to watch a new players initial experience.

TW warhammer 3 as your first RTS ever is a wild but at the same time awesome looking forward to watching more. Quick tip when you group specifically melee units and want every unit in that group to attack different units just click the padlock next to the group number and this will lock the formation so when you order the group to attack they will move towards the target and every individual unit will attack the units infront of them

The newness in this is fun to watch.

Good luck!

Warhammer Fantasy takes inspiration from real life cultures for their factions. So Kislev resembling Russia is on purpose. You will also see other factions like Cathey that are basically China, or the Empire that is Germany, or the lizardmen that take inspiration from Aztec/Mayan/Inca culture etc.

Fun to watch, can't wait to see you progress into playing legendary campaign difficulty on immortal empires!!

God I hate this kind of content - it just hooks me right in and I have to watch it all then go play total war XD Nice vid dude! subbed

Breaking the enemy unit's morale and having them rout is satisfying, tutorial or not! It's why I love playing Bretonnia, cavalry charges are addictive.

You should do a full stream on this, i have an insane amount of hours in the game. Watching a new player would be pretty entertaining, especially on the high difficulties.

The best advice I can give an rts noob is pretty simple, change pause from P to Spacebar and enjoy the best damn warhammer game ever made. You'll pick up tricks as you play and learn the factions and how to deal with or fight with them. Don't worry so much about playing perfectly as mistakes will happen and they can be fun!

Good luck on Warhammer 3 , pal! This game can be challenging, but it's extremely rewarding! It's going to require a bit of practice and studying to become an effective Commander.

If you still like the game - and want someone to play against (landbattles PvP), let me know. I am also quite new to this game and the magic part is what I am struggling with - I have more than enough trying to control all the units and figure out what is happening on the battlefield, to have time to look and cast spells. I have tried some PvP landbattles mostly against a friend and I lost 99% of those, so I need someone equally new to this game to practice with - loosing in the first 5 minutes of the game every time is not very motivating.

fun watch! i hope you keep up. This game is so weird and fun, and you dont even need to be that good to enjoy it

Dont worry to much about not being to great at it on stream, as a seasoned total war player its quite nice to experience wh3 through fresh eyes. Really hope you make it through the tutorial and into the main game!

subbed for part 2 and beyond and hope to watch your first immortal empires journey (wouldnt recommend realm of chaos anymore since immortal empires is out but you do you and learn at your own pace)

oh yeah a bit confusing but like, total war itself is a franchise of game total war: warhammer is just a "total war" game with the theme of "warhammer" by gamesworkshop specifically warhammer fantasy aka the old world, which is not the space 40k dudes. warhammer fantasy is pretty much a parody of real life, the empire being holy german empire, the dwarves being some sort of mix between scottish-irish-scandinavia, norsca being norse vikings, cathay being china, tomb kings being ancient egypt, dark elves being north america,.... if you like the classic, history ones then they've made quite a lot of historical games like medieval (europe-north america during medieval times i think), shogun (edo period i think), three kingdoms, rome, troy, pharaoh, genghis khan, napoleon,... warhammer 3 has the largest map by-far in tbh, pretty much all total war games. there're a lot of races (each races having 1-4 factions) and quite overwhelming to know what they do and how to counter them but if you know the basics then you'll do well in battle (use the wiki, it's really useful) immortal empire is the largest campaign that combines both 1 and 2 and 3's realms of chaos mini-campaign storyline thing

Drink every time someone says Dervingard

This makes me wanna play Total war for the first time again, Love the easygoing vibe, very nice little brake between studying, will probably be back

Just for clarification, Horus Heresy is on Warhammer 40K. Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K have basically the same laws of nature, are kind of parallel but they are not the same universe. 40K is not fantasy 40.000 years in the future. I love both settings, but fantasy has a special place in my heart. Welcome to the ultimate epicness :D

I'm sure others have already pointed it out, but Total War: Warhammer is fantasy, Horus Heresy takes place in Warhammer 40K, a sci-fi setting with SOME similarities to fantasy but pretty different also.

Lovely video

I highly recommend the audible Horus Heresy audiobooks and the voice acting is pretty good and helps bring the characters alive a bit more. Also Legendof TotalWar is a great resource for learning how to play TotalWar Warhammer he has some great videos and really helped me up my game/ fun experience.

A fine choice sir and what a year to pick it up..................also "flight of the eisenstien" is god tier reading

Just happened across this and I am extremely interested in how you do and learn if your willing to pursue this endeavour. Also TWW3 is a big big leap but hey here with you and turn the difficulty down to easy if you need so u can get the hang of it all.....I'm writing this while your watching the open sequence lol

I know im a little late to the party- but if you like stories with characters screaming at the heavens and being angry at deity figures... you should definitely take a look at the Tales of the Malazan, Book of the Fallen series by Steven Ericson! Its a long one- but very rewarding. I'll get through the rest of your vids that are out and leave a few tips when i get caught up! Been playing total war for a few years now and there are always new things to learn!

@Chip Harbody assuming you’ve played some more since this video. Which faction are you liking so far?

Blood DLC is must have - it adds a lot of effects and animations Its cheap and never goes on sale i believe because this is part of the base game that sold separately to reduce the age rating.

you've got 2 archer units look at your unit cards along bottom you've got 1 archer in mele don't do that unless they got no ammo also spread your units out big clumps get stuffed from arty or spells thiner lines take less damage and put more troops in fighting line 27:46 watch your troops get smashed because you got 2 clumps right behind each other so arty goes through 2 units you can setup units into groups by holding ctrl and clicking on unit cards ie click 2 archers then press num 1 you can then press 1 to select both archers as group 1 then you can do same with other units to have quick select on them

Do you have a discord server? As a veteran total war player i might be able to give you some tips

They sound russian cause Kislev faction was inspired by real life Slavic nations mainly russians, polish and ukrainians.

im a huge total war fan. i own all but pharo. i have like 5k hours in warhammer 3 total war mostly immortal empire (cause thats the best) if u ever need advice hit me up. i will watch ur vids and if i see u need help with something and notice u havnt figured it out by the end of ur vid ill comment.

Bro if you're reading Horus Heresy I highly recommend finding a good reading list, Its a great series but there are some stinkers and some really irrelevant books, don't try to read the whole thing in release order. I made that mistake.

well once you have all of the DLCs and race packs. you can easily put in 3000 hours into this game.

good luck if your new you should really try shogun 2

Warhammer is fun. But if you want a more ''realistic' RTS with better balance you should try one of the historical ones. Warhammer is just dumb fun but balance is out of the window with it ;)