Bretonnia In Depth Guide! TW3 Immortal Empires 

My favorite faction a couple things I want to go ahead and say. Bretonnia doesn't have to worry about supply lines, they have an insanely strong economy basically every settlement build both a farm and a windmill building. You shouldn't ever dip too much into your peasant economy and mid to late game your entire army should be straight knights. Early game I like to just recruit just straight Knight of the Realm and spam them later on you can upgrade to Questing Knights then Grail Knights. Remember to do your vows, I cannot stress that enough, best thing to do is recruit a lord and have him shadow your main army to collect experience and complete vow quests. Regarding their cavalry units they are very strong, key thing with battles is use your speed to your advantage and pick your engagements, the enemy can't catch you so stay on the move (this goes double for those with the Perfect Vigor trait) and pick off priority targets, focus on artillery, then fast units, then ranged, then finally ending with melee infantry.

These guides are so good man, can’t tell you how much I enjoy watching them! This game is really mechanic heavy and I’d be lost without them. Having a blast playing a campaign with Cathay, next will be bretonia to break with Cathay’s defensive play style. You earned a like and a sub

Somehow I'd never noticed Paladins giving a ward save bonus to nearby Lords and Heroes despite playing Bretonnia since Warhammer 2. Goes to show you can teach an old dog new tricks after all. Thanks for the video.

What a gem of the channel, currently setting myself a challenge to play through all factions alphabetically. Just a way of getting myself out of only playing Empire, High Elves and Skaven. I have 1000 hours in TW2 and didn't do half the races. These guides are perfect my friends. What puts me off is that it can take a few restarts to learn all the ins and outs of factions.

I feel like bretonnia is underated. While I dont often play them I always enjoy their mid/late game campaign. Once you pop off you pop off HARD.

I’ll definitely be taking this advice. I’d also love to see a dark elf video in the future! Keep up the good work

Alberic should be given the Ship Building Mechanics and his Quests and Victory Conditions should be to wipe out the Vampire Coast Factions

I like ur guides man, it's so informative

I got so good with Bretonnia in WH2 it got boring. So I tried WH3...there was a full stack of Orcs, Undead, and stack of Chaos with advanced units all attacking within a few turns. It seemed impossible to hold on to two cities, let alone think about expanding. Going to try again now.

Yes, been waiting for this one. For the Lady.

Finally indepth guide, been a while I played the Brets

The timing on this video is perfect as I was just thinking to myself it's time to learn how to play those silly sounding fridge magnet cosplayers who live next to the Empire. Thanks for taking the time to make this and sharing it with us, I look forward to honoring ze lady! *incomprehensiblefrenchhonking*

Really helpful, thank you

I've been waiting for this one! I like your video formats but Bretonnia and Vampire Coast are the only races I haven't ever been able to get into.

Love ur vids pls keep em comin

This was a good and helpful video

So I started watching some of the other guides. First off, you are amazing. Secondly, I came back to this one because I've always really liked Brettonia, But I've always done terrible. And part of it is because I always try to unify bertonia first. Then always go for lightning strikes and I try to expand way too quickly. So I really appreciate your time going through all the stuff and then sharing your opinions and whatnot on the different units because I was going in a completely different way and what you said makes sense. I was always building them like a traditional army. I would just maybe have like five or six Calvary versus the two or three that I normally keep.

Im super excited for when my first ever PC arrives, as i bought all the Total Warhammer games in the most recent winter sale for steam!! Im thinking either Bretonnia, Wood Elves, Norsca or Azazel/Valkia as my forat proper campaign

nice guide

Ah, you forgot to mention the Battle Pilgrims! Don't worry, CA forgot to add their card icon to the building they'd be recruited from. They are worth mentioning if you ever get a chance to, I enjoy having a couple of them kicking around for fun. :) *edit* whoops, I kept watching and you remembered to cover them later during the tech section. Sorry for commenting too early! XD

Nice job mate, hope it's Norsca next

My strategy with bretonnia goes something like; Have 4 lords sticking together to boost chivalry income and blob the ai in battle to get destroyed, spam archers + catapults in 1 or 2 of those armies, skip every non peasant archer / catapult unit and then spam hippogryphs or flying paladins late game with healing support.

Great guide! I went from getting crushed even though I cheated infinite money to conquering bretonia easy without cheating. Now I only need to figure out how to Safe the completely crushed empire from counts and Norma 😂

For the bretonnian industry a little trick is to grow it then demolish the windmill or the storage whatever. This will leave the settlement with a Tier 3 farm or industry building. Not 50% buffed but double its tier one production

Reason why the Confed tree seems off is because you get plus 50% income from ports for Louann so it encourages you travel down the coast first then get the inner continent. Also for confederation you can spend 700 chivalry 5000 gold or do nothing and get 300 chivalry.

In TWW2 the recipe was build farms in every minor settlement except Gold or Iron resource settlements. In those, you use industry. Is that still the case? Great stuff man...scribed up...thanks.

In future is it possible to talk about which factions to build outposts in would be most beneficial to there play style or bonuses, also would you do guides for mods whether for warhammer 3 or imperator Rome those imperator Rome guides really helped me when starting the game in vanilla and modded

I think building farms is way better because the farm line not only provides growth but also unlocks recruitment of peasant bowmen which is the ONLY decent peasant unit for their worth. Yes with farms you need to be careful with the peasant cap, but without farms and peasant bowmen what's the point of removing peasant caps anyway when regular peasant infantries are just useless? Regardless, awesome guide, definitely one of the best quality around.

What's not mentioned with the blessed field trebuchet is that it has no friendly fire.

Thank you for posting this. If you've played the Grand Cathey, do you think bertonia would be better or worse having a peasant system like what they have where you're able to take things to make the peasants better and better over time but still keep the peasant economy features

Appreciate the video, helped a lot. Heard they reworked the faction, so is there an info here thats irrelevant now?

When I confederate with the other bretonian faction with repanse I had to disband a ton of units. Is this the strategy you would've done? It was badly hurting my economy. I still really didn't have the income to support 2 full armies. What's your input on that? I always enjoy your opinion.

The issue with bretonnia is that until you complete the grail vow the upkeep even for knights errant is like 500 something maybe?

The reason I don't play Cav armies, is because of how they actual game play seems broken. Have you actually tried to extract your charged cav out of a blob? Enemies stick to your horses as they move out and away to get fully clear to setup another charge. Shit on a blank...... Running a full cav army seems daunting if you want to get off charge bonuses... Or have I missed something? I'd love to get feedback on this..

In my campaigns with fay the enchantress the wood elves become my most powerful enemy. They are relentless in trying to take my settlements from me, and have even caused me to abandon one of my campaigns. Is this something you've experienced?

Bretonnia not being able to channel winds of magic is unfortunate as well.

anyone know why bretonnian generic lords have a red/black color scheme as Couronne?

Your description talks about High Elves.

I like Bretonia, but man early game is rough.

How do I get bretonnia. i have warhammer 3 but i dont have warhammer 1 so i cant download the DLC. how do i get it for warhammer 3

Also not to mention that like 99% of the bretonnian minor facs also die to Mousillon and Grom within a few turns lol

Yea repanse was the first campaign I've ever lost in total war history, and you just acted like she was easy to use lol. I can't seem to use the early peasant units.....they fight for 2 seconds then route. I have no idea how to fight battles with them. I know their a calvary nation, but even early on the cav units route too. I'm assuming it's the fear caused by vampiric units and undead. I got hit continuously by tombkings and vampires until they finished me off, and this was on normal lol. I literally was attacked 5 times in one turn.

Too many limiting mechanics for me to deal with. thanks for the guide

Peasent bowman are good because of the battle of agincourt, the whole of Bretonnia is made of harasses, just some of them are ugly and stupid, still killing machines though lol.

Step 1: Never play Bretonia 😂 I love your guides but until Bretonia get some solid foot or a dismount toggle they just aren't worth playing imo

please stop saying halebards... pleaseeee (HALLLBIRDSS)

Imho, Bretonnia needs a rework. Has been almost the same faction since the first game, and is boring.

How to play Bretonnia... don't.