Finally got around to updating my boy Ikit for The Silence & The Fury DLC. It does change things up a bit, but you can still get super strong, super fast!

I started my Ikit campaign over ten times in a row before I discovered this guide. This time I'm 100% sure I'm going to complete it.

I thought I was watching this on 1.5 speed but realized it was on normal speed. Anyway, awesome work. Helped me a lot on my nth restart

This guide was a god send. After being able to recruit Warp claw catapults its smooth sailing.

Your vids helps a lot, I'm starting new campaigns these days and these tips are pretty useful ;)

I completely fluffed up an Ikit campaign by fighting in the corner with my weapons team army surrounded by trees and I got obliterated. Keen to give it another go with this guide to start :)

Good guide, but I disagree with your expansion recommendations. I generally try to take over Tilea, then Sartosa. After that, I head north, taking control of The Vaults, Black Mountains and finally the Eastern Border Provinces. I mostly ignore Estalia, except to sack/raid Tobaro each turn and building an under-city there (Scavenger Horde, Under-Keep, Kill-Perches, Deeper Tunnels). This gives you 12 provinces under your control, along with one Under City. Tilea gives you 2 ports and a pasture (+6 food/turn). Sartosa gives you a port, several trade goods and two useful landmarks. The Vaults has a landmark in Karak Izor that greatly improves your weapons teams, and even more trade goods from Karak Bhufdar. Black Mountain gives you iron to trade, and more importantly pastures (+6 food/turn). Eastern Border Princes is even better, with a port, salt to trade and another pasture (+6 food/turn). The three pastures you control will give you +18 food/turn, along with +3 food/turn from the under-city, +6 food/turn from the capitals, +2 food/turn from Warpstone Telescope/Tractor Beam for a total of +29 food/turn (minus 12 food/turn for your regions and another -1/turn for each army, but you should still have a good surplus). You should also be getting some food by sacking/raiding Tobaro each turn. Provided you can find some trade partners, you should also be making some good income per turn. After that, you can get serious about getting a campaign victory (although you should have already achieved some of the goals). If you're trying to win the long campaign, you'll need to do a lot of travelling, but you can make things a little easier on yourself if you start with Brettonia and the Empire's lands, and don't bother with The Galleon's Graveyard, Lothern, Gaean Vale and Naggarond (although these can be good places to build Under Cities).

Thanks a lot for this guide! Recently got back into TW WH and started my first Ikit Claw playthrough. Looking forward to more videos!

Great guide straight to the point and very quick

This is fantastic. Thanks for the great guide!

So, I tried this, and more or less everything worked like you said (although like some other commenters posted, a random lord from I think Estalia did interrupt my sack city fun for a while) but then I went on to the rest of the campaign and I'm literally about to quit at turn 80 or so. My main issues are: A) I never have enough money; rat buildings start out cheap but get expensive real quick when you're capturing cities at level 5. Throw in that we're buying quite the expensive army for Ikit Claw pretty quickly and it was probably turn 60 before I was no longer spending down to a couple hundred gold a turn, every turn. B) the loyalty mechanic is driving me so crazy I don't want to hire Ratling generic Lords anymore; at all. I'd much rather just use the mod to let me confederate dead factions and work exclusively with the legendary lords - which so far, do NOT have the loyalty mechanic. As it stands now I have a level 40 (yes, forty) Warlock Engineer who goes "disloyal" every 12 turns and I have zero choice but to either lose him or save scum and hope. It's tedious, and quite frankly losing a level 40 lord is "feel bads" enough to just end the campaign right here. It doesn't matter if I move his army to someone else, nothing is replacing the fully leveled up experience tree and I don't have the time (or will) to do another forty turns of sacking at this stage of the campaign. C) Everyone hates me; my allies break our treaties fairly regularly and there's too much going on in our starting area not to eventually get "low" trustworthiness or even "untrustworthy" and then you pretty much live there. My trade is a joke, I have no friendly neighbors; the entire diplomacy panel might as well be blank - as a lizardmen player primarily, I'm used to diplomacy sucking but I'm not kidding, they hate me. As for confederating Ratling lords WITHOUT the mod? Yeah that's not happening - none of my relationships ever exceed about 65 with ANYONE else on the map, and I don't have the gold to just throw 500K at adding Headtaker to my pokemon collection. Folks who write about early ratling confederations are clearly a lot better at this game than I am because I don't think I could get a confed with any of these guys if you gave me 300 turns. D) Additionally of course, the area I now control is vast, going north to the Vaults and South all the way to the northern coast of the desert. I was going to go munch the Tomb Kings but... Coroune (sp?) beat me to it. They also beat me to the north. Actually I'm 2/3's surrounded by Coroune who seem to have infinite armies and agents everywhere. This now leaves me only two options - fight Britania, or fight Wurrzag; both of whom have grown quite powerful. E) I can't do siege battles with this roster to save my life; and the problems start right away with the map - it's incredibly hard to keep my guys from getting shot and take advantage of my range advantage, when the deploy zone is so close to the walls and so short at the back. There are additional problems too. The Ratling guns are useless, the Jezzails are near useless, and no matter HOW well I plan out the siege, there always comes a moment where I have to rush in with some random infantry and run smack dab into their monstrous units and heavy cav, with no ranged support because telling Ratling Miniguns to fire into the giant hole in the fortress walls is apparently too much to ask - they will either refuse because "friendly fire" or try to get an angle by going all the way around - up the wall, down the wall, over to the opposite courtyard and THEN trying to fire. F) I can't do the summons right. Every single person online says crap like "I don't even USE ratling infantry, just summons" - well you folks must be goddamn maestros because I can't fire off more than 2 or three of them before the fact that my caster has to be TOO CLOSE to use them gets him killed, or at least surrounded by angry enemies. Furthermore, my guys STILL won't shoot into a melee fight - even if the units fighting are completely disposable SUMMONED ratling mans or for that matter, just a swarm of rats. In fact "my caster has to get too close" is a problem for literally every spell in my arsenal that is not warp lightning. G) I don't understand why anyone thinks the doomflayers, or even worse, the doomwheels, are good units; and that's even setting aside the fact that they're pretty expensive for mediocre cav. I don't mind getting it as a mount for a lord so you can run away easier, but trying to use them as cav to distract the enemy is more or less a sh*t ton of micro I don't have time to do, since I'm spending the ENTIRE BATTLE trying to get a firing angle for my miniguns and jezzails and/or trying to figure out the range on a summons as hordes of enemies close in on my lines. Yeah sure the guns melt anything they touch - but that still doesn't seem to help me keep them out of melee combat; where they die like insects. I don't want you to get me wrong here; I'm not LOSING these battles. But my casualty numbers are significant and for an "easy mode" faction - this is a lot harder than collecting lords and leveling them till they get dinosaurs, then going to town. Thanks for the video, I'm definitely going to try this start again at some point - but the fact that nothing I know about total war actually works with this roster, is... a lot.

Great video. Always loved the Skaven but due to their mechanics I have always been confused on where to start. I got lucky with my run as Khazrak isn’t bothering me so I can sack Tobaro at will. Thanks for the Help! Great editing as well.

Love the content keep grinding!

on turn 1 you can do a trade agreement with miragliano and demand money from warherd of the one-eye incase you want the extra cash at start

love your videos , keep it up 😁👍

Ok, this is the one. I didn't have to watch 2 hours of streaming to get the basics. :)

Nice guide! Could be updated for WH3 Immortal Empires, but it takes 120 food to be able to upgrade to 4

You can still get tier 3 faster this way but tier 4 is unattainable as it takes 120food now.

for some reason I can't abandon settlement

Thank you!

Nice guide. I got extremely lucky and fought like 2 times each turn because estalia kept recruiting lords outside of tobaro. I am on turn 27 and ikit is level 17

thanks. Could never make this one work on very hard.

For some reason I can't sack the settlement on turn 5??? I only get the "loot and occupy" and "expand under empire" and "do nothing"

So by the time you abandoned Skavenblight I had already taken a level 2 city and the Warrens and I couldn't abandon the city. I think you have your editing out of order because it said to take buildings before you abandoned the city.

thanks

Just sped through 100+ turns in the last couple weeks since watching your first guide. In regards to your ikit late game army mention, I've gone with having a basic front line pretty much the whole time - starting with slave Spears and then clan rat Spears and now stormvermin halberds and swords. Usually just 4 units of front line, and using ikit and 1-2 doomflayer units to kite (the rest is 4 cannons, 3 Jez, 3 rat guns, 1-2 warp throwers) - but I haven't had very much luck kiting against the empire (I went north). I'm playing on hard so I'm doing just fine, but if you play against the empire I'm wondering how your build works since they seem to bring 8+ cav units and then 3+ hero's, making a 15+ ranged unit army pretty tough to fight with

Is there any reason you can't just do this to get enough food to boost skavenblight to rank 5 after a few more turns of sacking? Excellent guide otherwise!

Great guide, thanks for this! Got one quick question: On turn 5, a Lord showed up at Tobaro :S Wondering what you'd suggest here? I can't successfully sack it again with him sitting there as my army is still pretty small.

Am I the only one that had Estalia shove in an army around turn 5?

Nice guide, but i dont know why i cant leave skavenblight and bcs of that i cant resettle this province on tier 4 :/

Man I wouldn't like to be a peasant or a fisherman living in tobaro

I tried this but on turn 5 their reinforcement came from another town of their with more man than me and I just couldn’t manage to beat it

Why plague priests? Why not chieftains to blob up enemies and hold back enemies whilst your ranged so the damage?

You didn’t cover the best case scenario? If tobaro is still a sack city

It is still working for Vortex? I am sacking every turn but just get like +2 food ;/

So instead of Estalia sending out a single general in turn 2, they sent out a general with 8 unit cards in turn 2. Should i just attack him?

Im new to this game and total war in general. Any tips on taking main cities with walls? The mortar is biggest problem that is in centar of the city. I try to doomrocket it but always one survives with half hp.

This doesnt seem to work for me. I dont get enough food to resettle until turn 5

Khalida pls

Good video but I have a question as to when to start upgrading the structures at Skavenblight. Do you upgrade them around the same turn you upgrade the warpstone telecope? Or are you trying to save money to get Ikits first army? Also, how did you recruit Warpstone Jezails and Ratling Gunners without their recruitment building? Is it just me, cause I feel like i'm missing something...

what will you play in warhammer 3?

Whilst you do list what to do to min/max the start of Ikits campaign, I’d like to know why you keep sacking instead of occupying the first small settlement there. I’m a new player and I can’t find any guides that actually take there time to explain anything in a slow and meaningful manner. They all tend to zip through the content as though we are all seasoned trans to the game. Surly explaining why things are done would be better, as I would think veteran players know how to work this stuff out on their own? I just wish there were guides aimed at newbies like myself tbh. TWWH3 doesn’t seem to cater for newer players anywhere on KZfaq. Or at least, not that I can find. :(

so what happens if the enemy move an army to tobaro on turn 5?

Can you do Malus Darkblade next? I know that there is a way to confederate Malekith at turn 2.

I'd love i guide from turn 10 to 30

did they patch this ... cuase now i can't even colonize it to lvl 1 after demolishing it... is this a bug im encountering?

I wish I understood why this even works. Can you endlessly sack any settlement like this? I'm new to the game lol

Did they remove the recolpnize ability?

can't abandone settlement :(

Just curious, playing against skaven, they expand really widely, is that something you might not want to do here? I have a really hard time understanding what to do as Skaven, Dark Elves and Vampire Coast due to their aggressive mechanics and the loyalty of the lords.

Was this fixed? Can't demolish skavenblight :(

I think Increased Mobility only counts for the hero not the lord/army so unless you're intending to use him to travel and develop undercities later probably best to use those points on either of the yellow lines early to buff the army/hero respectively, especially if you intend to keep him embedded indefinitely. Great video otherwise!

Here we go again... xD