The funny part is in medieval times peasants would actually be taught to cut wood to properly create barricades against Knights those sharp barriers that if a knight were to try to jump over it would get impaled by the sharp wood getting killed these barriers were called tilt surprisingly deadly against Knights also because peasants were poor they didn't wear armor and had the cheapest weapons possible so they were faster than most units so if a unit of knights were to fall to a trap like this and some survived they would get swarmed and murdered by peasants horrible way to go trust me

Wouldn't actually be murdering knights/men at arms, mind you, because anyone able to afford a horse and/or fancy armor would be a valuable captive and likely held for ransom.

​@@psybanatheplatypus3184unless you're fighting the Swiss or Hussite 😅

@@psybanatheplatypus3184 Tell it to Lithuanians at Grunwald lmao

It should be noted that peasants weren't that common of a sight in medieval battlefields. One of the major reasons why many peasants gave up their freedom in exchange for serfdom is that by law, unfree people had no obligation to do military service, whereas free ones did. And at some points in time, there were almost no free peasants left in medieval Europe, leaving the fighting to be done by knights and their retainers, and later on you start seeing increasing numbers of men-at-arms being hired as mercenaries.

Awwwwwww❤ *cough* It's : we are meant to be expandable *cough*

Zombies are my favorite unit. I have them in all the armies, all the way into the end game. Bonus if you can buff them. Way more useful than other expendables imo. Only downside is they don't really have a chance to come back, if they routed. They just die. :(

@@dododooooo I mostly play Coast and not Counts, but I also love me some zombies. Shove some guns into their hands, point them at an enemy, and the enemy is gone. That'll teach them for thinking zombies are useless.

Came here to write the same comment lmao

@@dododooooo are the skelebois still free? Because they have more effective HP vs front-facing arrows, which is (90% of the time) the main use of zombies/skellies anyway...

Bravo

He'd be made president IRL

@@Scriptures_K why do you think I sent him before democracy was invented

😂

Skink Javelins are no joke one of the best units on the Lizardmen roster.

@@ktvindicare easily. Cheap and easy to recruit, yet capable of astonishing acts of violence. And they get a LOT of campaign buffs.

Especially with Oxyotl, they can stay useful until late game

They really are insanely threatening. I'd also mention blasting charge miners as a terrifying low-tier unit.

@@evanchan9983 Those things are nasty, even if they don't kill that many they still disrupt a formation and can cause a charge to slow down or fail outright.

because of the 20 unit limit thats the only way i feel comfortable doing it with primary armies, unless im early on

I was gonna make the same comment😂😂

Expendable unit in life Expendable unit in death

zombies can't lock anything down these days cuz of the cav changes

@@Weberkooks ghorst zombies

@@trizick5379 Ghorst Zombies are elite units

given skaven culture I'm honestly a bit surprised that never made it into the game

"Friendly fire? We call those acceptable casualties"

There's mods that let you do just that.

"Looks like Meat is back on the menu Boys."

@@akaon666what’s the name of the mod?

With the right mods, your vampires can summon a whole lot of zombies! I agree though, it does suck that they take up a spot.

In the late game, yes, but in the early game they are valuable.

Create a expendable army. I usually have 2 combo army in tandem at all times. 1 main army.. And 1 expendable army. They move together. Confugure that general for cheap unitn build and its pretty much a free army

Expendable units are incredibly cheap precisely so you can spam them. It's better to fill up the slots with expendables and slowly switch them out with your mainstays rather than walking around with half a stack and basically asking to get jumped. A full stack with a lot of expendables also means you can take over settlements faster to get the economy up or rebuild ruins cheaper.

Well this tactics is obviously targeted to multyplayer i think, as in single player like you sayd there is not reason to pick them

I hate fighting him as Ogres, a juiced up zombie takes half an ogre bull's life... It's just goddamn annoying

Halberdiers are weirdly good empire melee units... They survive and deal decent damage- despite not having a shield and being technically inferior in stats.

What if you only have enough for 1 Expendable unit (theoretically)?

Beastman with free upkeep and 0 recruitment cost: let's us introduce ourselves.

@muhammadsaduddin308 That's what usually ruins it for me too. Skaven slaves are probably the worst example as clanrats are already cannonfodder but generally do the same job more effectively. The difference in cost isn't that big and sadly these expandable units take up the same amount of slots in your army as proper units.

I feel like you could solve this by creating another army that follows your actual army around.

​@@danedaner1357 well, another army means more supply cost. Unless you are bretonnia, but then it costs a peasant slot which could be an archer Zombies and skavenslaves slingers... Yeah, they work out. Besides that? Useless in campaign if you are at least average in skill level. Unless you go for a themed army/playthrough ofc, then everything goes

Might as well be an imperial commissar

Yes, just having more units than the enemy can help you do all sorts of stuff, and meatshields can be used to soak up ammo and charges without needing to worry about loosing them. Many factions also have a lot of skills and research that buff base tier units making them VERY cost effective in single player, having 1 trash army guarding the other side of where your main army is early game or to overwhelm the enemy at the front with has a big impact. I always have armies mostly of mega buffed lower tier units in my campaigns (depending a bit on the faction).

The premade garrisons is one of the worst features of Total Warhammer, they are absolutely worthless most of the time.

Unless your army of actually good units made it there on time, the garrison is basically dead 99% of the time.

The garrison is 1. Free 2. Truly expendable 3. Useless in most cases without support as well as 4. Gets sieged down in cases 3 is not applied

hold alt to drag, hold ctrl to rotate

@@stopdropPANIC Thanks.

Unfortunately an SSD is probably the way to for a game like this

When was the last time you played? They did separate stat buffs from AI capabilities, so that's good and you can tune both. If you engage "normally", it's OK, but there's plenty of ways to cheese it still. AI difficulty is more about dodging artillery and spells than actual tactical acumen, though.

On higher difficulties, they are. Obviously, the lower difficulties are meant to be easy so the AI doesn't play too tactically.

@@arthanor9631 i don't actually own WH3, but i own most total war games, Except Three kingdom and Pharaoh. the recent title doesn't seems to have an actual improvement in the Battle AI so i stop buying total war series. just wondering how good is it now, so i could decide to try or not. my biggest issue is unit clumping and blobbing, they never reserving unit and recycle fresh unit and tired in and out

@euricoaw1535 well then I wouldn't say it has changed appreciably. It is better at dodging artillery and spells than WH2, has "better" target priority so it's harder to waste it's ammo, does use a main battle line and flanking units, but otherwise hasn't changed all that much. WH3 is for playing with/against more factions and reworks like Warriors of Chaos, Empire or Dwarves which improved a lot. It's not fundamentally different from 2. Recent chatter is that there is little improvement to AI because the guiding thought within CA is that players have fun when they "outsmart" the AI and they don't want "fair" matches. Hence it gets cheats to upkeep, recruitment and replenishment to cover up the huge losses suffered at the hands of the player, just so it can lose more, as that's what the players enjoy. I'd love to see a competent AI without cheats, but apparently that's not coming. 🤷‍♂️

Depends. In a field battle, the AI handles melee armies reasonably well. They'll usually make a super wide line, and make sure their infantry charge reaches your frontline at the same time as their cavalry charge attacks your backline. They tend to ignore single unit entities you migh try to tie them up with, and instead charge you. Often abusing units with high mass and collission to pull straight through halberds and spears to attack the ranged units behind them. Granted, it still struggles to use ranged armies properly, and really struggle with sieges. You can also confuse them with enough effort, though it'll take more work than it did in game 1 and 2.