I sent in this request, and I would like to say just a few things. This was given pretty early in, near when they came out and I didn't really know much about how they work. The reason I had force marched was because at the time, Grimgor had only one army at that settlement and I didn't realize they had a waaagh, so I was more than willing to defend a settlement battle. Thank you, LOTW, for saving the battle for me!

The ammo repleneshment on barricades honestly makes sense. Realistically in a siege a defending army would have ammo stores in certain areas. So it's an exploit that makes sense to me.

To be fair for the ammo exploit I can't imagine defenders running out of munitions. Especially in a manufactory!

Ahh, this looks horribly familiar. In fact this is what usually happens in my campaigns. I stomp some warriors of chaos, Grimgor wardecs me somewhere around turn 15-20 and his boot goes up my heiney.

I have no clue how you are gojng to beat that, id just give up. You're truly impressive !

This was an impressive battle Legend. Thoroughly enjoyed that

Even as other factions than the Chorfs, I've been having trouble with the anti-player bias. I do not mind when another faction declares war on me before I can take out the one I'm focusing on, but it is usually 2 or 3 factions which aren't even allied. Even the Norscans and Chaos will forced march down to me with 1 or 2 full stacks, early on, when they are at war with 4 other factions.

That kill zone got so many green corpses that that entire Chaos Dwarf city will never run out of mushrooms to eat and smoke

Same thing happaned to me playing as ogres. Turn 20, I just captured the dwarven settlement at the mountains of mourne, encountering grimgor that same turn. At the end turn, grimgor declared war, even though our relations were only -10 and he had other wars going on, and besieged me with his 3 full waagh armies, 6 stacks in total, against my battle damaged early game army.

I hate how towers always miss. Like there’s a giant blob of enemies and they end up blasting my own troops 99% of the time 💀

I feel like the ammo restore glitch should actually be a feature, since you are defending your homebase. where else would your units stock up? at least from a non-gameplay perspective.

I love it when legends plays with his viewer's blunderbussies

legend makes everything easy ! even the hardest battle is easy for him ! it s simply amazing to watch

You are easily one of the best strategists I've known. There are SO many units in this game that I always just feel overwhelmed and watch videos instead of playing. However, you are able to retain the info of strengths and weaknesses of units, who would be best to fight who, and still cheesing the AI to fall to your beck and call. You are incredibly impressive my friend and would easily have been a general in the Great Roman Army if you were part of that society.

The common thread in chorf disaster battle submissions is that the armies are not 50% blunderbusses Rookie mistake

I am very glad you are doing these again Legend

As a player that is still relatively new to the game, I am learning a lot from these disaster battles

It is not only the anti-player bias that is ruining the fun out of a campaign. It is the AI actually prioritizing to defeat you, instead of trying to win their own objectives. I had Tretch, random greenskin factions from the dark lands and queek all declare war on me as thorgrim and send army after army, even though it was only turn 20, I was no threat to them and they all had extremely powerful enemies to deal with. Defeating me would serve no strategic advantage to them and they would lose their own stuff to others.

Grimgor really does seem like the Chaos Dwarf skill wall. Either you learn the Chaos Dwarfs enough to beat him early game or you get trampled, but if you do beat him it’s really hard for anyone else to stop you. (And he really does just gun straight for you if you are either faction near him with his WAAAGH!!! ready)

Man I'm glad Disaster battles are back!

Even though I’m new to Total War as a whole with this being my first game, I didn’t know how much of an issue Grimgor was. I surprisingly stomped him out early as Astragoth, though I did focus on him exclusively.

Had to restart my Astragoth campaign because all ork factions around me basically declared war on me really early on and kept sending Waaagh armies after my capital. Being sandwiched between Grimgor on one side and Wurzzag and Skarsnik on the other, and having to constantly fight off armies with twice my numbers with basically nothing but laborers, magic, and some dwarf units, while slowly building up capacity for better units, was one of the worst and most frustrating experiences ever.

I did not think that possible, Good work Legend

You sound calmer. I can hear the change.

That was a nice battle! It's good to see when the sieges kinda work in a fun way and not penalize the player.

i can just see dwarves fighting that way, "FILL 'EM WITH LEAD BOYS"

Legend at work. Verry Naise~!

I lost it at 17:50 You truly live up to your name Legend!

Bloody Legendary battle and such a fluffy one to watch

Finally a good old disaster Battle

Lol that 2 min at the end where he says I hope it doesn't crash then silence.

Thanks to you mentioning Instant-Gaming I started off with buying Total War 3, a bit of a big buy to get all the races but I'm already saving 50% on the base game so a good start off point.

The kills on those Blunderbusses reminded me of a battle when some of my cav, I think it was, got over 1000 kills alone lol, was outnumbered like 5-1, had a half stack and was against 2-3 stacks

Yeah this is the reason i go straight for Grimgor ASAP

As Grom said "Wez just warming up!"

That was sick

Well done man, made a mole hill out of the Ironhide mountain once again

Thanks for the video

Blunderbussy, holy fuck that made me laugh

Love the title on this one 😂

AAaaah. I've missed these.

The blunderbussers when they can't shoot from a perfect line of sight: "Professionals have standards" Grimgor got literally shot point blanc on this one, this isn't war it's an execution !

I have strong flashbacks from tw2 Thorgrim legendary campaign.

This is every Astragoth, Zhatan, Kholek, Greasus, Zhao Ming, any campaign who starts within 10 turns of movement from Grimgor. His anti player bias is so goddamn extreme in 3 its ridiculous. He will make a beeline to come and ruin your campaign with often times much more than just these 4 stacks. His cheats are wild, he brings Boar Big Uns and so many Black Orcs to every fight well before he has any right to have them. I've had him come and destroy me out of the blue playing as Mazdamundi because he rampaged through Cathay (lore accurate) and took the Sea Lane to Lustria

I had pretty much the same issue when I played Astraogoth - ran into 2 WAAAAGHed armies after fighting Kholek. I just abused AI control to field my 2 armies at the same time and then slowly chomp through their 80 units 1 army at a time. Also gives your AI controlled army their own winds of magic pool seperate to your own so it's even CHEESIER.

That was amazing 🤩

I think he only has the upgrades on because Grimgor is sieging him. That's what I would do at least. I personally wouldn't assume he's running two hellforge upgrades from turn 19 and on. You can after all turn them off again.

Some one said dey liked da end times 'Ant 'ave that

Epic man. The defenders restocking ammo from defenses is plausible. They could balance it by just adding a total that can be pulled or a cooldown between restocks.

Grimgor is a real pain in the ass for the chorfs. I see what you meant when you said you recommend taking him out asap. Even if you smash him down to his last settlement if you don't finish him he WILL be back and WILL make you regret it

Not the blunderbussy 😩

I started an Empire campaign as Reikland the other day. Vlad had destroyed every Empire faction except for myself and The Golden order. By turn 25 i was facing 5 stacks of zombies, skellies and vargeists seiging altdorf.

I sense a hellforge upgrade Tier list video in the works😊

Your content, makes me want to play this game more, also now buy the DLC (despite how overpriced it is). I know you're not exactly affiliated with CA anymore but they should recognize how valuable you are as a content creator, proliferating the health of their games. You're an absolute Legend LoTW, and clearly not here to fuck spiders!

oh no not my blunderbussi

I noticed you were having issues with single entities, my suggestion is to combine flaming attacks and weakness to fire spells, both covenitly on Astragoth. Clump up your blunderbuss and use flaming attack spell on them. Then use a single entity hero, e.g. that pony as bait to lead him back and forth in front of the blunderbusses. Not forgetting to cast ash storm on him. Alternatively if you get lucky you can get blunderbusses to fire when he's fighting your trash units.. but they are sucky with terrain as light of sight range attackers. I only get it to worth with larger entities and/or with height advantage since sometimes it lets them fire when they probably shouldn't. You are effectively trading winds of magic for less ammo spent and quicker killing time, which is sometimes worth the trade. Edit: Not in this case, but if you have a flame sorcerer hero you can take this a step further and hit them with his ranged attack to apply flammable. Then cast both flaming attacks and weakness to fire spells at same time you get a massive 80% increase to damage (Don't forget to pick up the passive spells to increase weakness to fire, when casting). I use it often to remove ice bears, stone golems etc. from the map in 1-2 bursts.

That's why you should always demolish blue building as Astragoth and build cannon one turn 2. Having just 2 magma cannons turn 6 make fights like this much easier

Hi Legend, I just wanted to know if you were going to review the hellforge upgrades? You say that some of the upgrades are really good while others not so much. Is their a tierlist?

A masterclass in defeat in detail as always Legend

This happens every time you dont kill Grimgor early. But its so damn tedious and you meet all ogres, rats and the cathay which declare war -_-

No wonder that all the Hobgoblins are hunched. They are constantly carrying the Chorfs in early game😂

Yes this game has made me learn that some times it is better to give up a town, or even 1 time an entire provence. Wile they are busy taking level 1 or 2 settlements, i am regrouping for a push that will end up steamrolling them.

Total Legends have no idea how important every factory is to chaos dwarfs.

omg! blunderbussy might be the best thing ever to come out of this game

YES!

that tower lmao missed the first 10 shots or so

Fun fact:You will never see Grimgor until he have 2 full army and full Waaagh, that bitch never dare to come at you with less than 40units

Its impressive what you can do with a chokepoint and two units of blunderbusses

do you have a video that is like a guide for legendary (or very hard) campaigns as im doing all achivements and winning a legendary campaign is one

This kind of thing happens all the time. Grimgor is so stupidly strong.

The second battle looked far more interresting. I'd like to see how you sort it out. ;)

Astragoth ZOOLAHOO

Did anyone else have the video freeze while the audio continued between around 24:50 and 25:30?

Good old Grimgor, he is still playing Warhammer 2, when other factions playing WH3 AI.

grimgor gaming

Blimming Grimgor. Pesky little scroatal sac.

This defence remind me about Battle of Bakhmyt

I see fields of green...

I don't know why or what, but something about "Don't make me hit you with this, I'll do it." in that monotone voice absolutely slew me.

I didn't know that platforms could reload ammo!!! Does that work in any faction!?

WADDLE OVA DER!!!!

Grimgor either gets really strong really fast, or he gets nuked by a nearby faction, there is no inbetween lol

Looks like CA gave Grimgor access to game console :D

And that is why you play as Skarbrand - he can handle much more by turn 19 even with a basic army.

Grimgor always has a wagh and two stacks around this time. The guy just had a crappy army composition, weird upgrades and found himself caught on the defense. I also notice he has no secondary lords helping him out. You really need ambushes to break apart these big grimgor forces. Oh and he went to war with Kholek. Lol

Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I think Astragoth has the same voice actor as Grombrindal. I keep looking for Gromby on the battlefield when he spoke

Grimgored

Having did a 50 turn as that, Grimgor never waghed me, but naturally had 2-3 full stacks trying to attack me on normal map dif. I'm legit shocked at now roided Grimgor got and he is one of the harder lords to beat at low level as well.

There should be a mechanic where you are defending, and you can restock ammo 2 or 3 times depending on city level to a few units. Perhaps only for gunpowder races, i don't know but it fits.

This killbox gives me rimworld vibes.

And this is why my primary target as chaos dwarfs is always grimgor. You level up for lightning strike and rush to kill grimgor. Lets see how their "waaagh" bullshit works when i deny them with lightning strike.

Seems like some stuff got screwy with the video upload around the 25 minute mark for a minute there.

This is 100% lore acurate, you are defending in the factory so you have infinite ammo. xD

CA should consider giving siege defenders a passive restock ability too, maybe at tier 3 and above. Ofc that only make sense if walled settlements are gotting actually defensible & they change the two victory points. Either by the better point nullifying if the lesser get capped, or by not having the lesser give out tickets at all.

The second I defeated Astragoth's starting enemy I Beelined it for Grimgor and took him out by like turn 10 or something and the rest of the game was a breeze.

Remember kids "its not a bug, its a feature!"

How are you do get the colors like that though? For the units, your green isn't lime green, and your red is nice and dark. I like it.

@LegendofTotalWar I've heard that Waagh army gets wiped out when the "lord" unit is eliminated

This is exactly why I rush Grimgor and stomp his ass out of existence.

We need a tier list