The only way to improve Elspeth's army depicted in her quest battle is by completely replacing Handgunners with Ironsides. They deal twice as much damage and have twice more ammo, so...

@@bogdanleshenko7149 Yeah my other setup that I showed briefly has 8 Amethyst Ironsides + 2 Wizards of Light to net enemies for them. That also works really well for farming the QB. Not sure which is better actually.

It feels similar to twitter nolifers accusing people randomly with sexual harassment, just because they disagree with them.

No Tomb Kings yet sorry!

@@MercytheMad All good, good sir. Still a great faction. Can't wait to farm the crap out of schematics and go on a crusade.

Mercy is not just for Christmas

You can actually kill Vlad with Elspeth so she could come back in 1 turn, then intentionally get her killed at the end of the turn so she can basically swap instantly (over the end turn) without losing any turns on her). That's what I actually did instead of respec, so I wouldn't lose any turns.

You get no schematics from Vampire Count routers as they are not a gunpowder faction. For Vampire Coast- you have to kill them while they are CRUMBLING - that counts them as captives like other races routing. Fast Disintegration makes it hard though. Not as ideal as Empire or Skaven or something where you can actually spend the post battle killing all the routers though.

Yeah but you also get Gift of slaanesh on every hero you take in. So 4 heroes means you are rocking +20 slaanesh corruption everywhere you go. Good thing is you only have to win the battle once when you finish to get rid of the gift. But the gotrek battle is less optimal because trying to keep gotrek and felix alive makes you rush, and you generally get less schematics overall - but I only tried it a few times. Maybe if you practiced you could make it work. Karl franz has an easy battles vs undead if you can confed him early, but probably low schematics.

It's not gunpowder schematics, its schematics from "target practice". You get target practice schematics from ALL battles when you do damage using gunnery units.

No they don't

Nope

Maybe it's just the Malakai battle? Normally you don't get wiped if you concede a QB

Oathgold is captives divided by 8. Slaves is captives divided by 2. Gotta kill em after they rout.

@@MercytheMad thanks a lot

It multiplies Captive numbers by the number of Lords you have supporting the battle. I probably had 2-3 extra Lord supporting that battle

Use any other ability or spell while the blast is casting to cancel it.

@MercytheMad ok sorry, just so I'm clear, is that during that during the countdown, right after the countdown or during the cooldown period?

@@KrytoRift yeah, while you see the timer on the icon, during that phase you press another ability. He literally shows it in the video, around 7:04

@@KrytoRift As seen in the video - watch the coruscating blast button as soon as the casting animation plays (on the button- not the model) then click another ability. You just have to click it before the cast animation (on the button) finishes. Just give it a try it will make sense.

My take is that Elspeth defends the Empire, but she is also unapologetically ruthless about annihilating heresy whenever she finds it. Averland actually gets taken over by Slaanesh at one point in the Lore(in my head cannon that's the point just before Elspeth comes in and establishes Martial Law, kills the traitors, brings order to the province and returns Averheim to the rightful Elector.

because to some extend its fun to break the system. Its its own meta in a way

Because people like to watch these videos.

I mean, no one forces you do this, and usually these exploits, if you wanna call them that (I wouldn't, since it's normal game mechanics used in a different way), are tedious to do or repetitive. And, it's a singleplayer game, no one cares what anyone does. As it should be. :P