One of the reasons that Napoleon was able to climb the ranks so fast was his early mastery of the Searing Doom spell

Not bad; the only big Napoleonic thing I can think of that you missed was going into the Chaos Wastes and losing all of your troops to attrition.

Fun Fact! in Total War: Napoleon, the Voice actor of Napoleon is Stephane Cornicard, who is also Louen Leoncoeur in Total War: Warhammer.

My enemies are many. My equals are none. In the shade of Olive trees, they said Tilea could never be conquered. In the land of pharaohs and tomb-kings. They said Nehekhara could never be humbled. In the land of forest and snow, they said Kislev could never be tamed. Now? They say nothing. They fear me, like a force of nature, a dealer in sorcery and death. I say, I am Balthasar Gelt! I am Sorceror!

Napoleon DID have horse Grenadiers! The Grenadiers a Cheval de la Garde Imperiale. Neither them nor the foot Grenadiers used actual grenades, though.

“Gelt, just like Napoleon, starts with the Searing Doom spell” This joke was enough to knock me out of my seat lol

Looks like someone enjoyed the new Napoleon movie trailer lol

Napoléon's artillery was highly mobile at the time and was horse drawn. Light 4 and 8 pounders could be moved quite easily with the infantry for support. The bigger guns, which have a longer range, were more often "in the back", which doesn't mean super far back either. Battles would mostly start with an artillery exchange, and you would try to "soften up" enemy troops or positions while they were advancing. Also, most cavalry men had two pistols and a musket. So they could fight on foot (like dragoons) or fire from horseback. Although cold steel was mostly used in cavalry charges to be sure.

This is cool, but Napoleon had bayonets, that your troops lack. Historically, until someone figured out that you can put a spear head in a musket and turn it into a spear if needed, most armies had 1/3 of the infantry composed of spearmen. So the gunmen would retreat behind the spearmen when meleé ensued. Also pistol cavalry was very napoleonic.

Won’t lie we literally all love these kinda videos where you give yourselves cool challenges and or themes like the Mongolian one. One province. This one. Keep doing them

Thats what I always go for when I play Gelt: Gunpowder only! Except for a Warrior Priest/Life Wizard as "Medic" for example, or Fire Wizard as "Flame Thrower" =D

What would have been really Napoleonic is having 3-4 half stacks moving together surrounding and dividing enemy armies

That square formation looked amazing and ambitious and it totally paid off.. it was bloody epic !

the going straight for the enemeies major settlements and bypassing their armies is very napoleon.

Hate to be that history buff, but Napoleon did not know searing doom. He was actually a bright wizard and only lost to Russia due to a tactical miscasting of burninghead.

You did take the "They can't stop me, I can lose 30 thousand men a day" to heart.

square formations like that were actually used in Napoleonic wars mainly against cavalry charges so that no matter where the enemy is charging from, they gonna meet a wall of bayonets

This and Genghis Karl are two of the best Empire videos I have seen. It would be great if you expanded these into full campaigns. Great work.

Tip for people doing this or heavy missile army comps: Infantry rotates WAY faster when in box formation rather than line formation. Also you dont need to worry about LoS for models within the same unit, they ignore themselves when checking for LoS.

we NEED more challenges like this!

Gelt, a "wizard" whose magic consists of inventing smokeless powder, percussion cap and electrolysis. Because you can't drop "al" from alchemist until it's 1700's :D

Thats the thing thats really good when it comes to TW games, you can make the army that you like and still be victorious and TWWH offers the greatest range of units.

I feel like you could make pretty good Napoleonic army as Kislev. Streltsi make a good frontline and Wnged Lancers are almost a perfect fit for Napoleon's Polish Lancers. Unfortunately the only way to get cannon batteries is to ally Empire or Dwarves and Kislev doesn't have Napoleon Geltaparte, but what can you do.

That classic Napoleon tactic of sticking his commanders out front on their lonesome 😂

Nobody told Napoleon at Waterloo that the British were actually immune to final transmutation on account of them already being iron hard bastards.

masterclass concept. Came from the Rome's one and you're nailing this "historical in TW3" idea. Had so much fun watching it. Thanks for the content.

Great creativity, loved the formation and terrain use!

Keep this style of content coming! These are great to watch

fun fact, i was a weird kind of kid. in 4th grade at age 10, everyone in my class had to make a presentation about a famous person of their choice. while my classmates came up with hannah montana,, elvis presley and a bunch of other celebrities, my weird nerdy ass was stood there telling a bunch of 10 year olds about napoleon, his rise to power and his military campaigns

3:58 Besides not being at war with them yet, even this is accurate to the playthrough because that's pretty much how napoleon defeated austria the first time around. their army was distracted so he kinda just went around them and kicked in the door to vienna

I usually play this way allthough I use the bayonetts and reload animations mod for guns so it becomes a bit more interesting

Top tier! I love fun challenges like these :) So many cool unique formations and tactics to try

This popped up in my recommended. Definitely enjoyed it! Keep it up man!

Great video. I love the idea of themed armies in TWW3. Love Napoleon Galtaparte! Now I am going to check out Karl Franz with Mongol tactics.

I can tell you for a fact layering troops and shooting past/over each other was a common napoleonic era tactic

It's kind of surprising when reading about most Napoleonic battles as they tended to end with the infantry charging into the enemy lines. And the calvalry at the time did use firearms, including flintlock pistols.

Totally aware you do this mostly for fun, so no serious intention to nitpic history facts here, expecially since you showed a good share of knowledge about the Napoleonic era in your comments. But I cannot resist making some comments ;-) So use of high ground always was a good thing, even in this period. Shown several times by Obi-Wan Wellington, like at Waterloo or back in Spain, like at the ridge of Bussaco. Also the Austrians defendet well at Wagram, using the Russbach heights. Finally, key element of the victory at Austerlitz was the capture of the Pratzen height by French troops. So high ground was important back then, I say. On the other hand, you nicely managed a 'manouvre sûr les derrières', a march behind enemy lines to cut supply and communications with your strike against the vamps capital. Reminds me of the manouver at Ulm 1805 when Boney encircled an army of a "large AI Empire" (the Austrians) and made them surrender :-) Also, your box formation reminded me massively on marshal MacDonalds 'giant infantry square' of corps strengh at the Battle of Wagram ;-) - probabyl the biggest square ever formed in the Napoleonic wars. And since you asked: Use of cavalry in the napoleonic age had many varieties. Light cav would be indeed in front of the army, screening their advance, scouting, skirmishing. The heavies (like your empire knights) would indeed be in reserve, waiting for an opportunity to punch big holes in the softened up enemy formations. So indeed in your vampire battle around min. 5 you did quite accurate! Of course there were exceptions from the rules, just one example being Espagnes Cuirassier division literally holding a 2 mile frontline at Aspern-Essling just by repeatedly charging the advancing Austrians (and bleeding out while doing so). By any means, it is a highly entertaining video! Thanks for the awesome content!

I'm really enjoying this series, it's given me some ideas for campagins to try, thanks!

These themed challenges and play throughs have been very refreshing and enjoyable to watch.

I love your creative campaign ideas!

"Napoleon style tactics" is giving the same vibes as when they have to write "juice style drink" on things that, for legal reasons, cannot be called juice. Great vid as always :)

Baltholean Geltapart made me laugh far more than it should have, great video

Love the sound of imperial handgunners letting loose a volley. one of the most satisfying sounds in tww, next to a chorf train going choo-choo

Clicked for the gameplay, stayed for the Napoleonic military lessons. Have a big fat like, my dude!

This was back in WH2 and I haven't tried the same in WH3 yet, but in my Wulfhart campaign Free Company Militia were amazing value, even though 99% of the time they were fighting Lizardmen. Used them both as frontline infantry and later a few as flanking units to go around the lines and pepper their infantry with pistol shots from the back while they were stuck in melee.

Over the hills, and far away ... Through Gobbos, vampiers, and pain ... King Zerk commands, and we obey ... Over the hills and far away!

Balthasar Gelt's golden hat, when subjected to a rigorous mathematical analysis involving the square root of his total spell-casting energy and the gravitational pull of the Warp, surprisingly yields a figure precisely equal to Napoleon's hat circumference during the Battle of Austerlitz. The mystical number 42, often associated with the secrets of the universe, emerges as a crucial factor. By dividing the sum of Napoleon's horse shoe sizes by 42, we inexplicably arrive at the exact number of feathers on Balthasar's hat. Coincidence? Doubtful. By dividing the average height of a French baguette by the number of days Napoleon spent in exile on Elba and then multiplying by the speed of light, we surprisingly get a figure remarkably close to Balthasar's preferred temperature for spellcasting. So, it's very clear, they are the dual convergence of weird hats in one personification.

Nice. Now Oppenheimer tactics with Skaven?

Your first battle is just the battle of waterloo the guns of that time weren't that inaccurate with some armies even deploying rifles to sniper units. If i'm remembering right the average shot radius for a musket was four inches at 40 yards.

I've been enjoying the HELL out of these themed campaigns!

Another awesome video. Loving your content at the moment! Keep it coming.

Vlad: "YOU KILLED MY WIFE!!" Bathapoleon Geltnaparte: "Look man, she just flew right into my gunline, what did you expect me to do, NOT shoot at her?"

I just watched the new Napoleon film and by learning from your videos I quickly realized that Napoleon lost at Waterloo because he didn't do what you would do. His cav to run past the silly infantry who are stacked up in tight formations and masacre Wellington and the artillery crew. To use his artlillery to blast into pieces the enemy cav and the silly infantry stacked up in those tight formations. To finish the runners with the infantry and the cav. Then take the British cannons too, and when the Prussians arrive to just mop them up. Thank you strategos :)

I absolutely love gun only campaigns in Warhammer. Empire, dwarfs, and Cathay are all a… blast with this limitation.

polish Free state wing huzzar used shotgun axes and were some of nep most trusted unites so gun cave checks out his horses though would uses many pistols to fire faster

BROOOOOOOO!!! Now I want to see more!!!

10:46 This is the part at which the tides turn for Balteon Bonagelte, because now he has the legendary invincible Lord named Gottfried *van Vonvolkvanvolkvanvolkvolkvonvonvanvonvolkvan* on his side. Now one can beat this legendary dude of a man of the Vanvonvolks clan.

This reminded me of a mod made by Snek, "Guns of the empire", basically adding new gunpowder units and artillery. I like it, The units are not OP and not too shit. There's also some gun units that work like musket on Napoleon: Total War, it can be pretty decent in melee but still would be outmatched by high tier melee infantry.

I love Vamp Coast ,going full Gunline with about 5 carronades . unless you get bad terrain ,only rare few armies can get to you .

Loving these random little mini campaigns

This is how I play Empire every time. The Guns of the Empire mod really helps.

Pretty good! Although you forgot to try to invade Khemri and parts of the Badlands only to scarper back home in a small fast ship, leaving your army to die in the sand while blockaded by the mighty Albion navy. Khemri was as you obviously know a puppet under the once mighty Greenskin Empire, and although Albion didn't reaaaaally like the Greenskins, they absolutely hated Napoleon. So they helped the "Sick man of The Old World" chase Napoleon out of Khemri.

8:12 😂 funniest joke I’ve heard in a while

Glad to see good old van Vonvolkvan is leading the troops.

Please make more of these. Love it. 😂

The socket bayonet is the missing ingredient. Itl it let handgunners double as spearmen, which is why they replaced all other infantry weapons in the 17th and 18th centuries

Dragoons were intended as infantry men with guns but on horses. So the idea was to move them around, dismount and start shooting. But this practise kind of stopped by the time of napoleon. So ranged cavalry was indeed not really a thing. Also lances and spears were very rare in comparison to just sabers and heavy sabers. And cannons would probably be best of on a hill somewhere, in a grand battery shooting at the enemy line. Although the could also be among the line but I would say that was probably considered very dangerous. One of the things napoleon did well was placing and moving his guns throughout the duration of a battle to get good shots. Many generals just placed them on a hill and hoped some infantry would get inside the killzone.

I know the Indians often put their guns in front of the line infantry to poor effect (Battle of Assaye). I believe the most common tactic was artillery on the flanks. As another comment said though a lot of artillery was horse drawn. I definitely heard though that Napoleon was a potent pyromancer

Great video love the campaign videos.

Chasseurs a cheval were a thing as well they were essentially light infantry on horseback

16:55 In Germany if you do some sins in traffic while driving a car, you receive a nice fee and get some points - They are collected in Flensburg, didn't know it's in the Warhammer Universe as well. I hope my points are got destroyed while the siege.

This was fantastic!

I remember this part of the movie!

yes, more please! Give us pike & shot tactics next! ;)

I really enjoyed this

"Zerkovich, if you wanted to play as Napoleon, why don't you play Empire: Total War?" Zerkovich: "Napologelt go brrrrrrrrrr"

You could have also done this with the dwarves, as most people might know Napoleon was a real life Dawi, as evidenced by his vertical issues and homeland of Corsica essentially being just one big mountain.

I remember reading about Napoleon in school, raining fireballs and searing shards of metal on his enemies while riding on a pegasus

This pretty much ended as a LegendOfTotalWar video with the ranged spam 🤣

You are right about Napoleon knowing searing doom, generally cav were on the sides of the army, not the bad, otherwise, v. accurate.

Funnily enough, i currently have a break from tww3 since one of my friends is on holiday so we can't continue our campaign, and instead i've been playing the hell out of tw napoleon, so this video is just what i didn't know i wanted, but needed. And yes, terrain is waaaaay more important for napoleonic warfare than the average tww battle(which in part is why i actually have started preferring napoleon over warhammer) And btw, there actually IS a better line infantry unit in tww3: "the black spot", the zombie pirate gunnery mob with handguns(i believe that was how they were called) RoR. They are a musket infantry unit with high entity count, but also have bayonets, giving them charge defence and bonus vs large, and are one of my favorite RoRs. Although i'd loooove to see a skeleton line infantry, simply because skeleton units are always perfectly synchronized and in formation, which would look absolutely awesome i'd believe. Maybe in a vampirate dlc introducing "bone-apart" as the new LL...

The box works well for dwarves, make it more anvill shaped and use slayers or ally recruited cav as the hammer.

Something very Napeleonic is to strike deep into enemy territory when and where your enemies least expect it and move very fast from one source of resistance to the next, which he used very effectively especially in his campaigns in Italy against the Austrians and Germany (against the 4th Coalition, I think?) So, your blitz into Sylvania was actually text-book Napoleon

i like the simple logic behind this whole equation

my guess would be that the empire gunpowder infantry use rifled weaponry, which didn't become common place until well after the Napoleonic wars, hence why they're so accurate and have a much bigger range than the gunpowder cavalry, who don't care about range as much as they care about ease of reloading so they would be using smoothbore guns, hence the smaller range

16:06 there is a handgunner unit that fires here thats oh so satisfying. highlight of the video. But seriously, these videos are very enjoyable, the same as the Genghis Karl video.

Faith, steel and GUNPOWDER! Wellington did the three ranks thing at Waterloo

4:08 1337 income, how convenient

They had skirmish cav in the napoleon area. They’d have short barrelled muskets and/or pistols with a melee weapon

Love this vid !!

14:08 I see Festus has two of the same RoR in his army (the Nurgling one). Thought it was only one of each ever.

First thing should be declaring war with Frantz

"Welcome to Estalia gentleman" -Napoleon.. probably

Love this and Genghis Karl so much!! Can you do a crusader king or leader for Volkimar the Grim? Like Baldwin of Eddessa, Geoffrey of Buillon, or Louis VII.

You earned my like after spitting on the elves.

It was very napoleonic of you to prioritise the destruction of the enemy army and then taking settlements, rather than taking settlements in sieges. This is a sometimes overlooked strategy that revolutionised the battlefields of Europe, since before that the armies would attempt to capture key settlements first and establish logistics and then push on, whereas Napoleon sought to eliminate the enemy army in the field in a swift fight, leaving forts and cities open for the taking

All Ranged infantry/cav units should really have a 360 fire zone, as there's nothing real that stops a gunner from just turning around and shooting an opposing unit.

The Gelteonic Wars

... does missile cav shoot over the missile infantry? like putting them behind the infantry does cover their line of sight?

i find the grave guards in total war such chads because they're a beast for melee tanks.