Drazhoath the Ashen Immortal Empires Campaign Review 

Hands down my favourite lord to date, such a fun campaign

Thing to note . You can get heaps o gold on turn 3 or 4 by having a very small army attack the caravans that stop at your capital. The garrison should help

My go-to ally as Drazhoath was Greasus. A fairly powerful faction who kept the eastern flank secure for a good while, and was a good ally against Grimgor. Did eventually drag me into a couple of wars in Cathay, but totally worth it for that secure flank early game! Also, yes! I'm currently at turn 140 and *still* want to play more. Easily the most engaging campaign I've played in a long while.

Hey just a bit of a correction, Drazhoath's ability "Dark Renown" that he gets from his starting trait, only affects units with the Contempt passive and not all units so basically any Chaos Dwarf unit, hero, or bull centaurs. Not a big deal but I thought I'd point it out.

The +15 bonus vs infantry for the Infernal guard and Ironsworns is massive, it makes them not only tanky but also very good at dealing damage.

Previous, my favorite lord to play was Heinrich Kemmler because of his reduced wind of death cost and Krell. That being said, I really enjoy Drazoath. He is fun to play, even with the difficult start.

Nice! Love how you're going through what to do as well as provide details of the lords, etc. Keep it up

Something that helped me on this campaign is how factory settlements are apparently very valuable to the AI in diplomacy. They give like 50 points of “economic value” in the deal balance. I traded a couple factories in the mountains of mourn to Zhao Ming and now he’s my best friend.

Love the channel! Been playing Drazhoath as a THIS IS TOTAL WAR campaign and it’s crazy fun/stressful. Definitely recommend it!

Thanks for the great video! If you're ever thinking of new video ideas, I would be interested in hearing you talking about your late game army compositions for each faction. I often find myself hunting through your streams to see what kind of armies you build at different stages of the campaign, so would be nice to see this condensed into short videos like these, especially since doomstacks are less optimal in WH3.

I can’t wait to try out Drazoath! I’ve been enjoying my Zhatan campaign, but feel like a harder start might make things very interesting

Not getting a new one of these every morning before is gonna be a bummer it’s been fun. Thanks Legend!

I feel like A guide to their economy/tech and settlement progression would be really helpful Because I kinda struggle, I didn’t realize how much a top tier building can shift its buffs. There’s lots of little details and techs hidden In weird trees, or really important ones gated by useless blockers, that I’m probably overlooking a ton of interlocking mechanics.

Small suggestion for Imrik. In my 10 tries to see consistency I checked you can rush the orks and go straight for Imrik. You end up north of the dwarfs last settlement+army while Imrik is amassing force to attack him and get the province. Get close to that settlement and ambush next to your non-corrupt brothers. They will help you fight the knife-ears as neutral alliance and common enemy. Then you can wipe the dwarfs to get the settlement yourself and autoresolve every elf settlement from Imrik , he will not have time to build his army even in legendary

no doubt, Drazhoath is by far the best legendary lord in WH3. Amazing in battlefield, amazing commander and amazing faction leader

Please continue the Drazhoath stream. Super informative and fun!

Thank you for pointing out the difference between outpost and factories regarding minor battles. I honestly was struggling where to put my factories, I thought they all needed to be the same in every province lol

Currently almost done with my Drazhoath campaign (my first Hard/Hard campaign I'll actually get long victory lol) and it is quite fun, I did manage to get a good alliance with greasus by gifting him two settlements taken from grimgor (at least before betraying him like a true skaven fan yes-yes) but i'd say the difficulty very much varies on when Thorgrim finally declares war on you

I really enjoyed him on hard, Tretch, Imrik, the Ogres to the south and east, Ghorst, etc. all declared war on me and made the campaign pretty challenging, but it felt like they all declared like 1 or 2 turns later than they would have on legendary (what it feels like to me anyway) meaning i had a fighting chance to keep on squishing one to get to another! Was very fun putting out all these fires and securing my expansion in the early campaign and then being able to launch invasions of the rest of the badlands and the world's edge mountains was very satisfying! Overall one of the best WH3 campaigns I've played!

i find that keeping bitter bay and turning it into a factory works really well. with t3 walls it will auto resolve any scaven rebellions give you an occasional source of free labour and battle money.

Really love this guy, getting my first full map completion with him.

Hey mate,I really appreciate your streams,you are good company thanks for the work.

I did Drazhoath’s quest battle just now and holy moly can this lord perform on the battlefield. I kinda felt like I was playing as Teclis, flying around casting devastating spells nonstop while also having lots of bombardment abilities as if I had a dark elf Black Ark in range.

Hey thanks for these reviews. Well done

I was having a lot of trouble with this campaign on very hard (I thought I had a good strat but later on it sucked). Thanks for making this.

I'm having lots of fun with Draz. Super tough campaing combined with very strong LL and faction.

Yup he's a beast, really enjoying his campaign atm ^^

Had a blast playing Drazhoath on legendary as my first chorf campaign. My strategy was: 1) After the initial orc battles, took out the tiny ogre clan to the south and befriend Kugath + Goldtooth. This made my eastern border safe. 2) Around turn 10-15, waited for Imrik to move against Tretch, then sniped his capital as his army was to the north. Took them both out shortly after. 3) The rest of the campaign I spent mostly fighting the dwarfs to the west, while keeping Grimgor in check to the north, and later on the vampires, ogres and soon Cathay in check to the east.

very solid opinion man I was not sure on with CD lord to play, but I will definitely try him first! TY Legend

I just played his “Plot driven” campaign and it was a load of fun. You get massively powerful very fast.

I find Drazhoath the easiest because you can farm cathay caravan that pass near the black fortress. 7 to 20k gold and 600 slaves with 1 to 3 lords and the garrison helping from turn 4 on is amazing

This is the campaign I started with and had a lot of fun. Gotta beat that final mission tonight though, it was a tough one.

Glad I chose him as my first Chorf playthrough. Hearing about his lore helped, him being a flying caster Lord helped, him having and increasing the most and best lategame units helped. I dont think the other two are bad by any means, but Draz is broken levels of good and fun. Definitely one of my favorite campaigns, pretty much instantly. (I guess the only thing making his campaign real repetative is that you basically cant avoid fighting the Dwarfs in every single playthrough. The other two might be able to put that aside longer. Long enough for other enemies, mainly the Greenskins to deal with them instead.)

Outposts in the north, Factories in the south with the ports giving armaments and gold bonus. Raw material from the marble mines is all you need once you get those settlements to T3, if you can keep the labor up!

Just finished a 160 turn campaign as this dude, was great. Ironically I allied with clan mors the skaven and the nurgle so my south West and south East was covered 😅 after conquering the whole area I made a march for the tomb kings for long victory. Some great late game troops!

I would love an faction "guide" video from you. I really struggle to wrap my head around all of their mechanics and recources..

I've been doing so many unloreful things playing as Drazoath, I love it! This campaign is so dynamic and definitely my favorite out of the three. You can expand in any direction and take on a variety of enemies. My first playthrough I went east and allied with Deathmaster Snickh, confederated Astrogoth, and allied with Katarina after selling her some lands and kicking some pretty boy ass. Grimgor didn't grow to be much of threat. My current playthrough is on turn 67, I've almost wiped out Karaz-A-Karak but now I have Belegar Ironhammer knocking on my door after he took the land of the Border Princes. If that wasn't bad enough, Thorek Ironbrow has made some quick gains against my ally, Queek Headtaker, who was tasked with protecting my southern borders. I was getting ready to move north to fight Ungrim and Greasus after confederating Astrogoth but now I feel I made a huge mistake!! Whereas my first campaign felt like a walk in the park!

I really do wish, that we would get a second live stream with the Chaos Dwarfs

I found the best way of getting a good start as Astrogoth is kill tretch as soon as you finish off the orks, then strike the ogres to gain their ports, then strike Imerik before he gets his major power creep at around turn 15-20. After that you can basically do whayever, I went and killed the dwarves to get my long campaign victory conditions, though I did almost get wiped out by Grimgor because I waited too long to deal with him. Also deal with Greasus ASAP if you expand east, he is an absolute bastard that will declare war with you as soon as you get involved in a war to the west.

He's fun. I played as him a few times, with and without mods.(yeah, i use the reduced forge upkeep, deal with it) I've found that the high elves often leave you alone if you keep out of their sight. I tend to push northwest in the beginning, while leaving a backup force at home to help ward off attacks from the east, when either the ogres or vampires start pushing their weight around.

He was the lord I was drawn to the most and completed my chorf campaign with. He is by far the best chorf LL.

I would love your 20 turns style videos, they were incredibly helpful for learning the game. Nevertheless, these are good too.

That +15 vs infantry is insane, makes them pretty good at offense while being excellent at defense

I have unbelievably enjoyed Drazoath in RoC and the chorfs in general

nice to see that i chose the right guy, it was so fun and i loved fighting on 3 fronts (at some time even 4)

Had Draz with 1500 barrier for a little while, thanks to a chaos event. That was fun.

I am going to be real here. I don't usually like campaigns where you're surrounded by enemies, because it always feel like such a chore. But I LOVED Drazoath's campaign, to the point that I have trouble playing the other chaos dwarfs LL. Yeah, he's surrounded by enemies, but he has the tools to deal with them and keeps it fun while doing so, on the battle AND on the campaign map, which very few factions manage. 10/10, one of the few campaigns that I actually like in Warhammer 3.

Thanks for the video

Astragoth has amazing voice acting so I picked him for the first campaign

good review! chaos dwarves have very interesting mechanics

Drazhoat capital is in way of cathay caravans, they will come to you at 4-6 turn. Recruit second lord and smash them or even bring both of your armies to have additional money from them (the more lords involved in battle, the more loot you take, it works on caravan fights). It can boost up your start quite strong %)

My favorite campaign at the moment!

I chose Drazhoath as my first Chorf Campaign and played on very hard/very hard and actually had a pretty lucky campaign: Only had 2 different fronts most of the time, so no need to decide what to conquer - Chorf eco coming in with big numbers :D

Grimgor campaign needs another look after chorfs came out, his campaign was boosted so much

This is a wonderful lord for co-op campaigns, he has lots of factions nearby that pair well with him.

Iirc, astragoth gets extra conclave influence in his towers compared to the other 2 which makes him get most of the seats in the tower of zhar

Seeing this makes me want to play through Drazhoath again for the 5th time. He's so much fun because of his start position. Imrik is quite weird though but I think I am just bad at HE.

Agree, Drazzy is the funnest Chwarf lord!

I had a rough start with him but now I’m rolling and having a blast with him lol . I just kept sending small gifts to the elf’s to keep them off my back and went after Grimgor and Tretch. By the time I was done with them I confederate the other chaos dwarfs. Lol now I’m ballin and smashing the Dwarfs.

thank you

“In the center, only the strong survive”

I've been really enjoying playing as drazoath this week and he is easily my favorite of the chaos dwarfs. Glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks he is a 10/10 lord with all of the bonuses he offers and how broken he is casting flames of azgorh. Maybe wrong about this but that spell might be the highest damaging spell in the game right now, it is so crazy.

Looking forward to the Boris campaign review

Its funny but I became super friend with Clan Mors in my campaign as well. They severed as a great stall tactic to hold off the dawi and badlands orcs till i could get built up and dealt with Grimgore. By that time Queek was suffering pretty bad and i was able to sweep in and rescue him. By the time I finished reestablishing his empire, now he holds off Thorek for me while I mop up the Badlands. I would say he is the best friend Drazhoath could ever ask for... well positioned blocker for your campaigns.

It would be interesting if you included your thoughts on the lords quest battles in these videos.

In my campaign, i dealt with tretch in few turns, i met karaz a karak and the crooked moon (who was winning vs the dwarves). I couldn't go for imrik straight away because they both declared war on me, and two turns later grimgor joined the party. Fortunatly Imrik did not declared war on me, but i had to soak up a lot of armies before making any actual progress. However once i defeated their army,, i managed to made peace with skarsnik, went for imrik and then kind of snowballed until the vampire invasion. Fun campaign but very challenging!

I played all three Campaigns so far, and can say the Same. Drazhoath is a huge fun to play, but the first 20 Turns feel like you are a Fireman who tries to put out multiple Fires. ;)

I started the DLC with an ROC campaign with this little man. Early game was a bit stressful as I figured I needed to bumrush ghorst and then imrik to make sure they couldn’t get powerful enough to be a threat. I was lucky enough that grimgor didn’t bother me until I declared on him, but he was a PIA until I cornered him. My advice from my own experience is, try to leave greasus alone until you can deal with those other three LL’s. He’s not as big of a threat as he may look.

I killed Tretch, got declared on by Imrik, smashed him, smashed the Sisterhood and created a nice large chunk of territory. My advice? Invest in Blunderbusses. They deal a ton of damage and can knockdown entire units.

Extremely fun campaign. The most fun experience I had is when I fought Ku'gath from a Decisive defeat auto resolve because my army is just full of laborers and hobgoblin archers

I'm about 100 turns into this campaign (Hard/Normal with 150% endgame crisis strength), and having a blast. Drazhoath is honestly the best and most dynamic out of the 3 Chorf LL's. So far in my campaign, I've dealt with Clans Rictus and Imrik. Nurgle went on a tear for a while, then kind of got beaten back by the vampires. Grimgor was fairly annoying to deal with, but ultimately I was able to subdue him. I have already confederated the Servants of the Conclave and am close to being able to confederate Astragoth. I allied with Archaon and Clan Mors in my campaign. I am friendly with Greasus, but I'm not helping him as he's in a losing war against Nakai and his lizard cult, who have more or less exploded in size and taken over most of Cathay.

Recently hit turn 60 on this one. Definitely lots of enemies to deal with but ultimately you're quite powerful and wealthy. Definitely go with Hobgoblins. Labourers are just beyond awful.

"let you know total war here" we got a new one!

Didn't work selling the Bay of Blades with me because Mors didn't colonise the desolation of Nagash settlement. I still got the alliance later (turn 30 or so)but after I sold him Black Crag and K8P that I had sacked during a labour gathering expedition. Worth it but now Queek has issues with Kroq Gar.

CD have been one of the best DLC's in my opinion. Their economy is kind of challenging and it seems kinda fragile with the labor reliance. But god damn are their armies fun to play as. I thought I was gonna be relying on ranged armies with them, but no I am loving running around with double stacks, one of crap and the other with dwarves and just crushing all enemies. My side army has that lil hobgoblin dude and he seriously boosts them up

Astragoth is also relatively hard start, sure his north is secure, but he's got Grimgor on his doorstep to the east, Azhag to the west, Ungrim just south of Azhag, Vlad just next to Ungrim, Gelt just next to him, Drycha and Kislev just on the other side of the mountain from Azhag. I just played an entire campaign as him and didn't declare a single war, the AI declared on me rapid fire.

This campaign is possibly the most fun I've had in any of my 20000+ hours playing the series. I did not expect to like the Chaos dwarfs but they are an absolute and utterly unstoppable powerhouse mid to late game. I've only played Drazhoath as the others didn't appeal to me much and their starting positions aren't nearly as fun. Anyway, totlally agree with this review. Drazhoath all the way.

It’s my fav chaos dwarf campaign and I’ve done like 10 to turn 50 something all in legendary and imrik never declared me! He probably does at some point but I’m always rushing him after tretch. Trecht declares me everytime if I’m not already at war with by turn 5/7.

Headtaker Gueek bee friend with dwarf? Hilarious. :)

same, very fun campaign

Aaaaah the Badlands THunderdome :D

He is also my favorite chaos dwarf lord by far.

I didn't even met Throgrim in my campaign, Sakrsnik took him out too quickly. Then he declared war on me but greenskin are very easy to deal with for chaos dwarf. The Sentinels settlement has never been under attack after 80 turn. Grimgor did declare war and he is still around but he never came to attack me. I think he is to busy fighting Kholek and others. Herman ghorst can be a problem at the beginning cause it needs several turn to reach his cities and you are generally attacked on the same time at the other sides of your territory. Sending a secondary army to deal with him soon can be a good idea. I didn't even took the cities cause i didn't want to go to war with Cathay, i wanted to expand west. I befriended Kugath and let him take them.

Can’t wait for chaos dwarf roster tiers

Tretch is usually my first enemy. It's not 'he can be friendly' most of the time he aggros onto me the moment anyone else declares war, it's not an easy fight, but usually i end up trouncing him if i kill him early enough. Grimgor's the most difficult one because he usually declares when he's about to or has just started his waaugh, which makes him REALLY difficult to deal with.

I agree, Drazoaths campaign is great!

It’s worth always keeping a lord with no army at the black fortress. Chorfs have no supply lines and right next to the fortress is a caravan stop. Use the lord to lead the garrison to sack it and it pays for itself. Many MANY times over.

best skills, best color scheme!

He's also got the best aesthetic out of all the CDs in my opinion. Zhatan looks like a garden gnome and Astragoth is Foghorn Leghorn.

I'm just sad this series is about to be suspended until the next DLC FLC

10 out of 10!!! My boi made it! 🤧 🥲 🙌

@LegendofTotalWar I recently saw a breakdown of the Chaos Dwarf economy, which suggested that mixing factories and outposts in provinces, unless it was one without a tower, was a bad idea. Have you seen that or performed your own breakdown, and if so, what is your opinion? Would you still recommend a factory and outpost in Drazhoath's starting province?

im still dioing astragoth,going for dominiion victory and just need a few more settlements. but i love using this buy.

I replaced his staff with a "crown of skulls" staff (or however it's called in english. 15% extra wardsave and thirst regeneration really make him good in melee.

Playing as Draz on a moded campaign with the OvN, TEB, Dark Land Orcs, Gnoblar Horde, Jade Vampirws etc. and by Hashut it’s an absolutely crazy campaign! It could easily be the most fun I’ve had in a TW campaign to date especially burning down Cathay.

Yes indeed he is 10/10 lord

is there any chance you redo the imrik review sice it was on of the early 3 min ones and the chaos dwarfs changed things up a bit

Sir, I disagree with selling Bitter Bay to Clan Mors. You want to have a settlement in as many different provinces as possible. As I told you in the stream a few days back, Clan Carrion is the Amazon Recuitment Center. Put as many crapstack gobbo armies in their one settlement as possible. They are sentinel, they are literally incapable of declaring war on you without exception. If you don't declare war on them, they will let you raid them for roughly 269 slaves per army. 200 slaves can be sold for either 10 influence to rush the seats and confederations or 200 slaves for 1500 gold. Of course you can also use them to rush all of your buildings and the lack of supply lines makes it an awfully broken method to get a lot of outposts, which you should focus on first to upgrade your towers and factories later on. You can do the same thing with Zharr Naggrund, but Grimgor might tear your crapstacks apart and rush you down, so I suggest Clan Carrion, despite getting fewer slaves. If you recall it, I called my little strategy the "Amazon Recruitment Center". It's not really an exploit, but an oversight at best. Clan Mors won't care if you raid Clan Carrion either, so you can stay allies with them and tear through the dwarfs quickly with him. The start might be a bit harder since you have to kill Tretch and Imrik, but after that you have the easiest campaign. Grimgor - from my experience - leaves you alone for a long time since he fights the other Chorfs, which allows you to get your over buffed blunderbusses up and running to easily delete Grimgor from existence. Ghorst will declare war on you, but some of your units have flaming attacks and shred his army into pieces before it gets too close, especially if you use the mortars. TL;DR: Don't give away Bitter Bay, keep it as factory, kill the occasional rebellion for free slaves and keep on raiding Clan Carrion for free slaves.

after playing a few turns as each of the chorf lords, Draz' start is by far the most ridiculous. So many rich settlements to make you an absolute powerhouse. your literally swimming in resources and armaments.

Astragoath already gets bonus conclave support FYI, that's why he doesn't get bonus from towers. Because his bonus is something that affects all settlements, instead