Of course we expect a new guide once the empire rework is out :)

@@francesco.virzi4 of course sir.

Is this a mod or something? Why is Karl franz like a giant on his gryphon mount?

@@robosoldier11 no mods, just camera angle causing perspective I'd say.

Thank you, happy new year to you too!

You're goddamn right.

Really wish the game told us this because this IS huge. Makes retuning the province easily the more desirable option pretty much 100% of the time (unless you really really need the approval of the guy holding the province, but that's almost never worth more than +1IE)

​@@octogen1282 I always returned the settlements to make sure everyone was in their place. Averland takes the moot and no event to return it? Guess Averland's about to find out.

@@deskslam4232 Poor Marius probably just forgot he doesn't have any halfling subjects, lol

i believe the main part of this is that a lot of imperial authority is fluid as you lose one authority for empire provinces not being fully controlled by electors, but you gain one back if the province is fully controlled by empire factions. also returning capitals is the ultimate cheese sometimes as returning it gives 2 fealty and an imperial authority each time you return it, so when toddy loses middenhiem for the fifth time you can get more authority from giving it back to him.

You just prefer lore accurate playthroughs, that's fine!!

do you want an end times? because this is how you get an end times.

@@BlakesTakes420 I can't get the End Times because there is no End Times crisis for late game.

Bro thinks he's General George McLellan

​@@GamerGrovyle based, square based.

THAT WAS CONFIDENTIAL!

How in all the years of playing total war have I not done that tactic. Always just brute forcing my way through or chasing 🤦

Ambush exploit cheese... so inovative... you can just set the game to easy too.

@@fakeprophecy a brave attempt at spelling innovative friend.

​@@fakeprophecy Exploit and cheese are mutually exclusive Cheese is using a mechanic in its intended way but it gives far more value than intended, i.e projectile dodging Exploit is using a mechanic not in its intended way gaining an unfair advantage i.e save scumming The AI can always see you have an army in ambush, but if not discovered, it will ignore it, working as intended, ergo, not an exploit. You can call anything that gives you an advantage "cheese" but then the word losses all it's meaning. i.e Doomstacking, traits stacking, healing single entities,

Correct, I should have put a section in clarifying that

​@@BlakesTakes420 you missed alot in this video lol just remake the video

You are explaining exactly what he explained. He doesnt have to say every single way to apply it. Put your artillery on the high spot because it can see. The idea is just put the artillery where it can see. Stop nitpicking every little thing. Maybe go make your own channel and release "better" videos.

@@mherrj What I described was putting the artillery on the LOW spot. And no, I will continue to offer alternatives and good advice, no matter how mad that makes you.

It sure does, dwarf infantry and Brettonia cav are great additions

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! "Borrow" a Dwarf army with a lvl 20 Engineers (immortal) in it, dis and him just before the army disaplears, and when he comes back hes yours to keep, and will buff tge ever living shit out of your artillery and ranged units 👀

Wait what. Can you explain a bit better lol​@@MatteV2

@@jonathanenciso In WH3, if you are allied in good standing with a faction, you can request to borrow an army for a limited amount of time. If a high enough level hero were to die on the turn just before the army leave, the hero would return not under the Allies control, but yours instead! One of the best uses for this particular glitch for an Empire army is to get Dwarf engineers, as they massively buff Handgunners and IIRC also artillery. Its great.

@@MatteV2 bruh. I've been allied to the biggest drawf faction in my latest campaign. I knew I could hire their units but not a whole army 💀. What's the best way to get them killed on the turn before they leave? Is it just getting them into a battle?

The Fortress battles are very satisfying. I wish they had made the settlement layouts more like that in Warhammer 3.

Lore accurate skaven wouldve just dug under the wall

If you build the 300 supply rampart on a barricade portion of your supply capture point, you can spam your crossbowmen onto and off of it to gain ammo.

Thank you friend, I hope it helps!

Welcome aboard friend.

I do this with everyone I try to confederate with no matter the race. It seems to work well

Glad you enjoyed it friend.

Verily.

or you can just vanguard deploy outriders to open up on the enemy and achieve the exact same result. Vampire Counts will always rush you anyway - they only have melee troops.

Not to mention, they don't take any morale damage so one of the key powers of artillery is useless.@@BlakesTakes420

@@BlakesTakes420doesn’t sylvania have access to crossbows?

@@johnbourlier7883 in very, very small quantities. They also have access to handgunners in small quantities too. Only by advancing the Von Carstein bloodline can you access these, so I didn't include it. I have only seen the AI field 1 unit of crossbowmen in an army, which wouldn't pose much of a threat to your outriders.

Thank you so much, let me know how your new campaign goes!

Love to hear it sir!

if you need to use his corn on a lame faction like The Secessionists you really struggling in Life they aren't even a hiccup of a faction. taking walls is so easy against the AI

thats an old old trick... you cant be a veteran if you didnt even know this! thats basic play

​@@thegreatrainman2336Doesn't mean it isn't annoying or costly depending on the difficulty level. There's a difference in quality between winning a fight you could win and a fight you could've won easier.

@@GamerGrovyle No one should be struggling against this faction unless you have minimal hours put in they are so easy to beat.

Yeah, if Brettonia take Marienburg I declare war, simple as that.

that or Kemmler. Vlad might not be as much of an early danger if you avoid war with him, but Kemmler always ensures I need to fight some undead early on Also its actually possible to just confederate Marienberg via the normal mechanics. Karl doesn't start off with the best relationship to them but if things drag out too long being friendly to them can still pay off.

You see I just return all their land to speedrun fealty and confederation. You raise a good point though.

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it. That's a spicy strat I'll have to try it.

Good one having second lord instantly is also what I do it just helps with getting more items, better recruit, better stealth strategies and easy winning against superior stacks with trash units. Even later I rarely field single Generals they are usually running around in a team with economically smart stacks instead of pricey doomstacks.

They definitely do perform better, but still not good enough to rely on.

Good to see you again Herr General. The Empire is in a bit of a strange position. Jack of all trades master of none. But there are some real standouts. As you said demigryphs, Helstorms, I'd also add their magic in there, so much versatility. The empire was always going to be a contraversial one, because so many people main the empire. They'll all have their own niche strategies which make things work such as, halberdiers with the right tech, or imperial authority farming just to mention a few. I'll probably have to make an addendum to this video to cover off a lot of the comments. Glad you enjoyed the Franzer meme sir. Strength and honour, General.

Glad you enjoy it sir, thank you for your viewership!

They certainly do.

Rejoice. DLC is here

Absolutely, the Runefangs are excellent and I should've mentioned them.

It's a strategy I haven't had the pleasure / courage to try

Greatsword frontlines are somewhat viable especially at hacking through enemy chaff and mid tier infantry. Unfortunately their anti infantry bonus will only carry them so far and will struggle to kill chaos warriors, marauder champions, Black orcs, and high dps skaven infantry before their low leadership fails them

@@BlakesTakes420I’ve got it running late game in my campaign so I can give all my heroes in that army runefangs and good items for buffing, probably couldn’t have more then one but it’s pretty funny seeing great swords or swordsmen bully chosen

High praise from you sir, thank you very much. Loved Nurgleworld™ btw.

Absolutely they apply to different factions. But I often see folks saying they can't win as the empire and they haven't brought a wizard in their army, so I want to make sure that people are aware of how powerful imperial magic is.

@@BlakesTakes420 yeah, I did that mistake playing a Drycha campaign. I completely ignored brancwraiths, which was unwise.

Thank you sir, glad to be of service. 🫶🇭🇺

the empire starts crumbling on turn 3, it's just not enjoyable in this state, it feels like an endgame crisis from the get-go

@@urahi830 Yeah. Removing the penalty (at least for first 50 turns or something) from the civil war would legit save the Empire campaign. You can deal with all the threats fine as they are. Empire needs enemies, otherwise they become the largest faction every time. (100+ turns in they already always are in top5 as AI) You just cant deal with all the threats killing your fellow Electors in the first 30ish turns...

@redluke you rock at everything sir.

Don't you worry, I haven't forgotten. ;)

Thank you. I don't know if you did the Skrag guide because of my request but i certainly appreciate it as i don't suck with him anymore, so god bless you and godspeed 😀🙏🏻

The trick with Kholek is to get Grimgor as a vassal ASAP, and try to maintain good relations with Archeon so your northern border is safe. Honestly, from my personal experience, he is the only faction I've ever seen manage to do anything on its own as a vassal, I remember how he'd manage to raid and pillage his way all the way across Cathay while I was attacking from the north, while my ogres vassal were utterly useless and just raising entire armies of goblars that folded in half at the first sign of resistance.

to be fair, they're better than they were in Warhammer 2, I think they did a pretty reasonable job at readjusting the ranged meta from that game, but yeah Greatswords I always thought were too expensive for how poorly they performed.

Happy to be of service sir. 🫶

You're most welcome sir. Thank you for your continued viewership hun 🫶

Christmas and my day job slowed me. I enjoy making these, so I'm not going to stop. 🫶

this, though the wound time reduction is OK (lmao simply don't die) really though it's a bottleneck skill you have to take it to get to the juicy 2nd half so no reason not to.

@@TsunamiWombat Yeah never said not to take it just don't have hope that it will double your replenishment rate XD

Thank you sir, hopefully I'll get to the emo elves soon.

Glad to be of service sir

yup, blakes videos seem to annoyingly correspond with my new campaigns too

You're most welcome.

Bah! My 12 hell storm rocket batteries know your zip code. -Gelt Gang

KZfaq didn't post my response to this mademoiselle, my apologies. Beelining for Gelt is the correct play for sure. He's an excellent Lord. I hadn't considered farming the imperial authority in such a manner, I'll probably do a follow up video for this at some point, you'll probably make it into that just like Thwarting Throt. Thank you as always, great input.

@BlakesTakes420 aww, don't flatter me too much, I've just been around for a while. Keep referencing my comments and you'll turn me into a channel celebrity XD

@@simonbas6 no paparazzi please. Just @simonbas6 doing the Lords work in the comments section.

Thanks you! all Suggestions are taken, but Dwarves will likely come after Thrones of Decay as they're getting changes.

Thank you. Yeah Reiksgurd aren't terrible to be fair, probably a bit harsh on them in my handout. Still, the awkward building and the cost of them is just too prohibitive for me to place them in my armies. May do some testing and a follow up to this video. Watch this space.

What? Daniel might be, but Lohkir is one of not only the easiest DE campaign, but the whole game .

Thank you pal

Thanks for the honest feedback.

In TWW 2, I beat a Chaos 4 stacks with Empire army with Settlement garrison because when my outriders ammo ran dry, the winds of magic is exhausted, but FAITH remains.

I *love* the warrior priests.

Glad you enjoyed it sir. Great Khorne stream the other day.

Thank you! @@BlakesTakes420

You are most welcome my good man.

I have ideas brewing for one.

Thank you man - hope you enjoy!

You're very welcome 😊

Feels weird I know lmaooo

The best kind of on-time.

Thank you sir! Glad to be of service to you.

Dankeschön ❤

@@BlakesTakes420 gerne!

Thank you sup! 🫶

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More to come soon! 🫶

Glad to hear it!

Thank you!

all aboard!

Thank you friend 🫶

@@BlakesTakes420 I'm welcome😊

Thank you sire!

Thank you sir! 🫶

Thank you friend!

There’s actually some fun strats for the empire, I recommend you to take nuln by force after the secessionist. It will give you a great economic base, an Autowin elector count unit in the steam tank and nuln hates your guts anyways you would take ages to confed them peacefully That nets you a -7 authority, but who cares you’re just gonna clap vlad next by slowly camping through his vampire territories and then trapping him before sieging castle drakenhof Once you wiped him (don’t take out the weak vamps first because they will actually distract him in a helpful way) your economic base is so solid you can afford 2 1/2 stacks now you can decide to either try to play good empire man and not go to civil war (which is weak because it takes forever) or you confed a strategically important ally (Balthasar) and drop down to -10 to have a jolly old civil war against a bunch of weakling empire factions Averland you overrun first to connect your territory, stir land will be fighting back because they have no enemy, talabecland and Hochland will usually be taken out or decapitated at the least by festus (by the way squeez Hochland for money early on because they die quickly but don’t make any treaties with other empire factions you don’t 100% want to confed, they will at some point force you to break treaties which is terrible) midden land is in shambles because of festus and khazrak. Marienburg doesn’t care but has most likely been decimated by either kemmler or louen, nordland is getting rekt by norscans, ostland (?) is being rekt by drycha and the last dude up north is really too far away to be doing much Voila you just gobble everything up and make sure to get NO authority because now you want to stay at -10 (-10 is actually good because it’s neutral in terms of bonus malus) Best elector count units are tbh the Hochland long rifles … such insane missile troops After you have united the empire you are literally steamrolling everything else unless you managed to get your ass into too many other wars due to bad diplomacy (appease the dwarfs and kislev man …)

Thank you friend, I hope so too!

Thank you sir! 🫶

That's it, it's a mindset. It's not a guarantee that Vlad will go to war with Drycha there's a bit of RNG to it, but he definitely will end up warring Katarin, and she doesn't get bodied as hard these days. V

Hope it doesn't disappoint!

Hello fellow Blake. 🫶

Thank you Anton! More coming soon!

I hope it doesn't disappoint!

Thank you sir and welcome aboard!

Unfortunately the elector count system is still...bad, but The Empire's in a reasonable spot.

Glad to hear it. Brettonia will have its day, very soon.

Thank you sir! Very kind of you to say so.

Go get that bag.

You're very welcome sir. Hopefully have the next installment out the weekend after next. High Elves will definitely be done soon.

You're most welcome, thank you for the lovely comment.

Thank you sir, I hope to!

Thank you sir. Appreciate your comment!

FCM's are an excellent early game 'chaser' unit because they can fire while moving. I use them on flanks in low tier armies, to fend off enemy fast attack. They can shoot/tangle with wolves decently enough, and if the enemy has it's cavalry stuck in FCM it's not killing your much more valuable dedicated ranged troops. They can also chase routing enemy infantry with shoot on the move, and fight them if they regroup and turn around. And, of course, Volkmar turns them into goddamn royal marines

A little warning there. Don't let Gotrek loose a single battle against Vlad, because Gotreks defeat trait would make Vlad unbreakable.

​@@Tiberium10332 That's more scary than any late game archaon sweep

This was a good read, thank you. The United States of Reikland, Team Reikland world police.

You sure can!

You're most welcome!