DWARF ARMY GUIDE! - Total War: Warhammer 

You forgot to mention that the longbeards have longer beards then the dwarf warriors. Thats the most important thing... to dwarfs

In the Dwarven source book for Warhammer it says about the Master Engineer that if you assign him to a cannon and ask him to shoot that Troll on the other side of the battlefield he will ask you which eye he shall hit. One of my favorite lines in a book full with them.

Bugman's rangers are more for the lore that anything else, whats more awesome than a bunch of angry dwarves going on a quest to avenge their most famous brewery while they are drunk?

Wait isnt everything large for a dwarf? So is anti-large just a bonus against everything

I will always remember the day a Greenskin army attacked Thorgrim by Varenka Hills. All my dwarves died, except Thorgrim. He fought back for atleast 15 minutes. The enemy broke and retreated. I have never had more respect for a legendary lord in my life. :D

"They aint gonna run away in a hurry. Mainly because they have short legs." :'D

Dwarfs are so damn fun. I was playing a friend in Battle mode and sure thought I had lost after his Beast army overrun and killed most of my army. My Ironbreaker squad, Lord (Melee specialist forgot name) and a Thane hero literally held off 6-8 squads of infantry and 2 archer squads and routed them. Their defense is insanely high.

reason miners have vanguard is because they tunnel under the battlefield

A minor correction about the passive "The Old Grumblers" trait on the Grumbling guard: it doesn't just give the unit slightly better vigor. It actually removes a significant amount of fatigue from all allies within 40m, every 25 seconds. That can be huge for the kinds of drawn-out, grindy melee fights the Dwarfs sometimes specialize in.

"Chavalry, chavs on horses, imagine that." Thank you for that, I'm imagining 50 track suit clad Chavs on decrepit mopeds, that make a HHHHHHOOOOOWWWWWW sound as they rev, stuck in mud on a battle field, yelling, blaming each other, fighting each other and throwing bear bottles.

won my first legendary as these bastards. easiest campaign by far, but that book of grudges is relentless as a victory condition.

"They aint gonna run away in a hurry. Mainly because they have short legs" but.but... dwarves are natural sprinters.

I saw your Dwarf 'rush army' on another video. Their little legs were going like pistons, must have been knackered by the time they got up that hill!

Vanguard makes sense for miners if you ever played Oldhammer Tabletop. The fluff for them was that they'd use their digging/tunneling to sneak closer to the enemy. In fact, some more creative hobbyists would make miniatures of them popping out of the ground.

Dwarfs don't necessarily have a lack of anti-large just because it's not listed on the unit card. Obviously the cannon, Slayers, Irondrakes and Brimstone gryo are the 4 main anti-large units, the former 2 being available very early in the game. But large units are weak against projectiles, which make up half the dwarven army rosta. Any artillery piece works well against large units (especially clumsy giants who have a chance of falling over) and even the humble Quarreler can fell a giant with relatively few complaints because of that large unit weakness (armoured large can be a problem). Thunderers melt cavalry like cheese in a microwave and are the heavier alternative to the not so armour piercing crossbow.

Once again, thanks for doing these videos. Very informative.

I'm at the beginning of the dwarf campaign and ive taken the entire silver road. I only have the one beginning artillery grudge thrower, i put it at the back and take hills with crossbowmen and a strict spread out formation to bring all fighters to bear and to avoid easily being surrounded. The infantry formation get thicker if im dealing with cavalry. This is my first time playing any total war game, im a huge fan of warhammer (40k and fantasy). I tried playing empire but those fucking beastmen lol

Manling RUNES ARE NOT MAGIC!!! MAGIC IS FOR WIZARDS!!!

make dwarfs great again:1.gyros can fire while moving 2.charge defense on all slayer units 3.dragon back slayers bonus vs dragons and /or all flying units 4.longbeards with great weapons should get a buff in weapon strenght 5.make Ungrims bonus at least 70 6.give all dwarfs special rule which gives them more mass so their lords and inf. are not so easiliy pushed around

" going after kolek because has cojones " i spit my coke all over my screen thanks to that

man there are some really great cinematic shots in these videos! love the opening slow motion walking in this one

It's strange how the dwarves, a faction that is known to have to fight many large monsters, and regularly fights factions with cavalry, don't have like pikemen or something. You'd think they'd get on that.

I wish I'd found all of your videos from launch, when I had absolutely no idea how to play the game. Even now (though I'm still not exactly a master) your guides are really helpful and informative. Love your work.

In the campaign i had a fairly unbeatable Dwarf formation. 3 lines deep. Frontline is thunderers, flanked by the best melee infantry you can get, preferably ironbreakers if you can afford them. Second line, same again, but replace the thunderers with quarrellers. Third line, same again, but with a grudge thrower rather than the shooty infantry. Basic idea was, the enemy gets so whittled down by the three lines of dwarven ranged fire that by the time they reach you, the actually surprisingly decent thunderers n such can deal with what's left, and the ironbreakers are so tanky your flanks are fine. Formation also has optional gyrocopters to lure the enemy into attacking you if needs be.

The Miners' Vanguard makes sense if you consider they are "good against gates". Imagine them sneaking up the gatehouse and planting explosives.

18:00, 83 melee defence!? What is this madness?!

"The sooner they die, the less effective they will be"...sound advice. Lol

Can you do a new/updated version of this please. New player here and learned a lot from watching your Noob Mistake series + the breakdown of the High Elf Army. Would love to see some updated versions for current state of game!

God Damn! Informative, entertaining AND good production quality? I don't even really need a guide and I will still binge watch these videos!

Dwarves are like obi-wan, undefeatable when they have the high ground: Thorgrim:"It's over grimgor, i have the high ground" Grimgor: "ya underestime't ma nou pawarz!" *grimgor take 2 blast of a conon and 2 volley from thunderers and burning from a hell canon* Grimgor: "I heyte yaaa!" *Thorgrim smirking and barring a hell lots of lines from the Damaz Kron*

Yo dude I'm a completely new Total War player your series have helped me out so much!!! Please could you do a guide on the Greenskins next?

dwarves: "its over, we have the high ground"

I feel like the dwarves should have a natural resistance to calvary charges. Their short but stout stature plus heavy armor would mean a lot of leverage against charging horses. I'm no expert on combat from horse back but I imagine that trying hit a 3-4 foot soldier with a lance or sword from atop a horse is going to be really difficult. Just holding a lance that low to hit a guy who may be a stout 300 pounds in his armor seems like a nasty shoulder tear waiting to happen. having to lean down to swing at a dwarf would make it pretty easy for him to yank you right off the horse. Especially if hes got something like an axe that can stick into your flesh/armor or even be used to hook you around the neck. On top of that, a dwarf will not only be able to slip under the bulk of a horse's weight but will be in great position to take out its legs with a hefty swing of a sword or axe. It feels like a charging force would end up losing a lot of horses. Knights would end up eating shit. Landing right at the feet of a dwarf, ready to bust his head open with a hammer. People ask why dwarves dont use spears for charging calvary. Id say its because they dont need spears to deal with it.

As Maximusprime98 mentioned, miners have vanguard deployment because they tunnel under the battlefield. This was a key tactic in the War of Vengeance.

My Dawi armies generally consist of 4 units of longbeards, 2-4 units of slayers, 4 units of quarrellers w/great weapons, 2-3 units iron drakes 2 gyrocoptors 2-4 organ guns 2-4 grudgethrowers. Sometimes ill use thunderers in place of quarellers. Some armies I use miners with charges, depending on what enemy I intend to battle. The only weaknesses ive noticed with dwarfs are no cavalry and their lack of speed during battles. Underway works great for campaign map. My Dawi are hardy af. My ranged weapons cause massive casualties before the enemies ever even close the distance, then they have to contend with my longbeards and slayers. My gyrocoptors at the moment work best when attacking in melee. They disorient enemy units and buy me time to reposition my units obviously dawi are slow so every second counts. Irondrakes are a life line. When used correctly they can break the advance of entire units with one volley. Couple that with miners using charges and the results are literally explosive. Dawi are good when facing most factions. The later game Chaos herds provide a great deal of challenge when they have enough Artillary and chariots, cavalry, and Aspiring Heros I believe theyre called. Late game presents alot more challenge but I enjoy the challenge. My IronDrakes with torpedos are about to be unlocked in 3 provinces so im ready to see how well they do. Thanks for the content btw! Definitely gonna subscribe!

I'm Hispanic, and this is one of the best uses of the word "Cojones".

One thing I would note is that the flame cannon is definitely worth it in the right situation. It has worse range yes, but it has a terrifying rate of fire and each hit landed is totally devastating. It can take out even some armoured units in three or four volleys. Seems like a good deal to me, if you can keep it well protected.

dwarfs my fav, the only faction which i brought up to beat chaos with in legendary, bretonnia? crumbled, the empire? forget it, vampires? nope. dwarfs? Cross 1 in the book of grudges.

Staggered lines of Miners are very good for clogging up enemy infantry while you smash the bejeezus out of them with artillery and projectiles. They're also nice to mix in with dwarf warriors when you come up against Grimgor and his black orcs in the campaign for a little extra armor piercing power.

You forgot to mention that the Ekrund miners have 3 ammo for their blasting charges as opposed to the 1 that regular blasting charge miners have. So those guys are grenadiers, and pretty good ones at that!

Who would like to see a battle between Zerkovich and HeirOfCarthage? :D I Would!

I just disabled my adblock to thank you for this video. You are amazing at explaining how this game works. Thanks so much and keep doing this!

I had to stop watching when I head: “The chavs on horses… Imagine that!”😂 Great work and great humour!

2 cannons and any large unit is dead before it reaches the dwarf lines! Fucking love the midget madmen :)

Man, fuck being the guy holding up Thorgrim the entire fight.

Love your Vids, greetings from Germany :D

I always love the "very fast (for a dwarf) " thing

Thanks for all the input and research... Whated to make sure my playstyle was on the money

flame canon is especially good vs elves (same range as waywatcher ) and because of low armor and trees. I found a lot of uses for it lately because of its incredibly fast firerate . I sometime take control of it when it get attacked and fire 2 shot in 5 sec and then half the attacker health is gone won all my last 5 ladder match using it😂😂😂

"Gyro's can't beat pigeons in a melee fight" lol. I'm new to tw:wh and starting at the basics so thanks for this. Comprehensive.

Rangers with great weapons have been an MVP unit in my last campaign. The damage they unleash on armored units is absolutely nuts.

Fresh off the press! 😀 thank you for answering our requests and giving us a guide on the stoic dwarfs 👍

I find using a combo of Irondrakes, Troll Hammer Torpedoes, and Thunderers on your flanks will stop most cav charges in the campaign. Support them with a gyrocopter bomber or brimstone gun, and it makes a good flank and rear defense

Something you didn't mention about the white dwarf. Arguably his strongest advantage is that he buffs his army like crazy. In the grand campaign he is one of the first you should level.

Chav's on horses. Well that's given me nightmares

Dwarfs: *gives black-powder to the empire* Elves: *gives magic to the empire* Orcs, undead, beastmen and servants of chaos: "oh fuck"

Vanguard deployed miners are like special forces. I use them to weasel behind enemy lines and smash the ranged units, first artillery, then bows.

"Chavalry? Is that chavs on horses, imagine that." I died.

I just picture a wall of Ironbreakers with Belegar (the rightful King) chilling in the middle, with a shit ton of blast-charge miners behind them, nuking anything that gets close. Throw in some Rune of Wrath & Ruin, now you’re REALLY nuking enemies.

Possibly due to patches, but I had quite a lot of trouble utilizing organ guns, however, the flame cannon I leveled to gold. In one battle. I use a pair, and they get 300+ kills against vampires/norsca, and 200+ against empire/dwarves, each. The flame cannons are just insane, they have awesome fire rate, firing in an arc, ridiculously accurate, and massive boom. Only thing missing is that they can't damage towers or gates, however, the regular cannon shreds those. I use 5 artillery now in campaign, 2 cannons, 2 flame cannons, and a grudge thrower.

Thanks a lot! I was realizing I wasn't playing the game well. As in: Terrible at it! first campaign, at 'easy' and loosing terribly. now I see how and where I went wrong. Thanks! this may sound dull, but I found out that tactics actually matter...

This was really well done. I'll have to watch your other vids.

full dwarf army guide: -play as ungrim -full slayer/giantslayer stack -go chop chop -settle grudges -die in battle

those catapults were bugged af

I feel like the vanguard deployment let's you set up your front line a lot closer so that your artillery can start as close as possible to get that damage going right away and not let them re-arrange without taking heat

The mental images conjured up by "chavalry" are the stuff of tzeentchian nightmares.

Miners having Vanguard is weak hold over from the table top version where the unit (depending on Edition) could pop out of a terrain piece or a board edge after the game is already underway.

An awesome and informative guide as always. Prior to now I've been undervaluing slayers, underestimating large units, and not appreciating the cost-to benefit ratio of the bog-standard warriors. I was also amazed to see how easily the organ guns shred cavalry; my experience has been that the faster the unit, the less effective the artillery. I'd supposition however that the Flame Cannon preforms superbly as an anti-archer unit. It's AoE attacks can stun an entire unit at once, and with a firing speed of roughly 10 seconds that's near-constant suppression. Also, while it has pitiful range compared to most artillery, it has greater to equal range compared to any archer unit in the game (that most missile units are lightly armored and need to halt while firing is just icing on the cake). Finally, the only "fast" units in the Dwarfen roster (Slayers and Gyrocopters) have as much resistance against penetration as a Slaaneshi whore's undergarments, making them easy prey to the very archers they're trying to run down. I'd therefore assumed that the FC was essential in clearing out massed or high-tier ranged units that other factions would need cavalry to deal with. Is this a valid strategy, or have I been blowing my cash on an overpriced gimmick?

thanks a lot for all of your video on every factions

yes! my vote was worth it. Thanks for this guide!

There are actually a few reasons why people tend to not bring a lot of cav against the dwarfs: 1. Many dwarfen infantry units have a charge defense against large and apart from the charge cav units do not tend to have goo stats across the board 2. Dwarfen cannons and Gyrocobters are highly efficient at taking out even high-elite cavallry units like demigryphs in a big hurry, you do not want to risk so much money if it can get sniped out easily 3. Many of the more elite cavallry units like bloodknights and chaos knights with lances are actually meant to fight other cavallry or monsters, less elite-anti infantry cav like black knights does often not shine against dwarfs Usually your money is better invested into more infantry, artillery(do not forget: The dwarfs are actually very weak against artillery themselves since they are rather slow), monsters or the ultimate dwarfen doom: chariots.

My favorite faction. I love playing defensively

I love when the green skins come to me so I can hammer them with cannons and grudge bearers and when they’re in range thunderers

I just love that Thorgrim is carried around by four Longbeards. Such a flex.

I find that Dwarf rangers with throwing axes make for very cost effective anti large units. Their throwing axes are high damage and armour piercing. They are short range, so they have to be used in support of the main line. It is a highly underrated unit IMO.

“Major weakness and holes in their game” that’s a grudgin.

What about Clan Angrund's unique ghostly heroes? They are ethereal, unbreakable, and cause fear and terror. In support of a front line unit, they'll easily cause the other side to rout, no matter how many units they stack against you. The trade off is, if you want to use them, you can't use any of the Dwarf's named lords besides Belegar. Also, Runelords can be placed on an anvil of doom.

This is a pretty good video (for a dwarf)

i just bought the game and im doing very well in multiplayer even with just 6 hrs with the game cuz of all your informative videos!

With my current experience with the faction being one campaign for my entire experience with the campaign that hasn't even been completed yet the Dwarves are a good starter faction at least to me

The Grumbling Guard Vigor ability actually doesn't work like you think it does. If you look, it affects allies within 40m of them, and it has a repeating cooldown. Which is basically to say it increases vigor by 18 percent EVERY TWENTY FIVE SECONDS around them. In fact I think it was actually nerfed since this guide was made since now it's like 9%, which is still ludicrously powerful at increasing your amies staying power on top of Dwarves already insane buffs to fatigue resistance that their lords can apply. They are an incredibly useful unit for keeping units energized and in the fight that much longer.

This is my first Total War game, i was one of those kids who was playing Risk with my babysitter when i was 6, how tf i didn't play this series until Warhammer came to town, i'll never know! But it's crazy how much you can watch yourself grow in this game. I started as the Dwarfs when i first got the game, and was getting steam rolled by Greenskins by around move 20 or so... lol on easy. I thought i knew a damn thing about military formations... i was wrong. My formations were trash. Now i'm sitting on top of the SE corner of the map, with the badlands nearly beaten into submission, and my holds are BURSTING with coin! But the Chaos wastes stir... and the Vampires have gone unchallenged aside from a welcomed civil war, which has bought me much needed time to get those anti-large units i so desperately need. Now if i can just beat this sleeping thing...

Do Norsca! :P Thanks for the great informative videos!

People. People! Dwarves are slow couse they have no knees and don't let any one tell you otherwise.

Thanks for these videos. Very helpful. Could you do guides when you walk through army builds?? :)

There will be a updated version for Warhammer 3?

Have a like for the "chavalry" and the runelord with cojones, you cought me really out of guard with those XD

Great Work here! My favourite faction 🙏

Truly my son! These videos truly shine. The 5 angels have granted ye a talent for explanation. I have sent neophytes to take in thy word.

hope we get an updated version of this videos topic after the next DLC

Ungrim is actually pretty ridiculous. He comes with a clickie damage bonus, which can be upgraded, and I believe his quest weapon also has that same clickie, which is increased weapon strength. Combine all of them together with some other items thrown in (potion of strength, for example) and he can damn near one shot every lord in the game. On top of that, Karak Kadrin probably has the best starting location in the campaign. Dwarves already have the best economy buildings, and Kadrin just happens to start next to 3 freakin' gold mines in an easily defensible position.

Thanks dude, your 30 min video saved a noob 30 hours

I forgot to mention dawi lack agents. You are limited their missle specialist and runesmith can be extremely effective though. Like you said dwarves are a great defensive faction. The abilities from these two agents in a lords army can turn the tide of battle. They are good on the campaign map, though ive honestly used and upgraded them for lords army attributes. I am gonna have to do another campaign and try the opposite. Sorry btw for typing so Damn much. Just love this faction and the total war games period.

They need to rename the organ gun the badger cannon, 'cause it just don't care! Great video as always! I swear, these guides are some of the most entertaining, informative, and overall well-done videos I have ever seen, keep up the fantastic work. Will you end up doing faction guides when TWW2 comes out, or will you wait for the legendary lord pack to be released?

Awesome channel and great report. However, I must make this point that chavs on BMXs are scary enough the last thing I want to think about is chavalry omg. :-)

12:30: I'm no lexicon, but I'm pretty sure the Runesmith's there to Smite the Runes.

What sucks about the dwarfs is they are always written about by people whom have no inclination toward really imaginative details for them. Everyone underestimates the dwarves, but living underground, why is it nobody has every said " oh they do have monstrous troops to call upon, all these great creatures of the deep places of the earth." DWARFS RULE! STILL UNDERRATED!

Thanks for another excellent guide dude To be honest, i struggle to enjoy playing Dwarves. They're just way too passive. I like to be the one that's acting, not reacting. Nah mean?

They need to add the goblin hewer and death-rollers to the roster. Maybe even Long Drongs slayer pirates.

"The key to Dwarves is formation" Me who uses miners as flanking units and artillery as main units: *Pikachu face*