EPIDEMIUS - The New FLC Lord for Nurgle - Thrones of Decay DLC - Total War Warhammer 3 

An argument can be made that Bela’kor was an FLC Lord.

I honestly love that Epidemius is un-nurgly in personality. He's the Tax-man, and nobody likes a taxman. Epidemius is the kinda guy where if you ask a great unclean one about him they'll go "by the grandfather that guy SUCKS. He takes all the fun out of what we do!"

Plague drones need armour. In fantasy settings, giant insects have heavy armour. It's basically the law.

Imagine he makes plaguebearers the nurgle equivalent to Grom's goblins. Just cracked undying homeboys

Could not agree more on chaos realms needing to be put in IE. I really hope they're working on this and the endgame scenarios for chaos to truly get that end of the world feeling as an option.

I'm guessing either a Naggaroth or Lustria start. Either to connect to his was with Malekith or to spread Nurgley goodness to Lustria

Guys like Epidemius and Skulltaker have always been some my favorite demon lords hope to see them all maybe with the Masque of Slaanesh soon.

Epidemius being so grumpy and task focused reminds me of taking adderall in high school, itd help me focus sure, but itd make me a miserable wretch to be around if u broke said focus lol

I agree with you with the realms of chaos stuff. I typed up a fairly long-winded Reddit post on how CA could even implement it without causing any undo harm to the I.E map. Anyway, I hope they do implement it because it is actually a fun place to be and I really like the challenge of it.

Chaos Realm Battle Maps should be used when an area is at 100% corruption. There's so much detail and effort put into them and it's sad to see them languish

I think if The Changeling gets to be a horde faction then maybe epidemius should be as well. Similar gameplay style where he has to bounce around the map spreading and then cataloguing plagues

I like the idea of bringing the Realms of chaos to the immortal empires, even as some side quest. Although maybe near the end of releases do a End times map, Immortal Empires but with the deamons having to fight their way out of their own realms andspreading like a dark tide from the poles while the warriors of chaos are rising up through the realms?

Slow roman style elite infantry tactics with plaguebearers seems to me like a fun playstyle. I think that I'm going to be playing this lord a lot.

I can see CA integrating the Realms of Chaos into Immortal Empires in one of two ways. Either by simply expanding the world map northwards and blending them all together. Or by including the portal mechanic into Immortal Empires as an endgame crisis where portals spawn as they do in the other campaign, strong armies spawn from them and defeating the battle in each realm prevents that god's armies from spawning next time.

If unit deaths near Epidemius is a likely feature for him in TW3 then it adds to the reason of why they changed the Army Ability basis. It avoids redundancy in playstyle theme there.

So good having Indy back. So good having some amazing Warhammer content to look forward to.

Honestly, it would be cool if there was a game mode where they added demonic settlements to each realm of chaos and that is where all the demon factions start. They can vassalize or confederate the other factions that reside in their realm, the only way you can leave the chaos realms is through cultist's/warbands that travel the world to establish gateways. But the only way to remove a gateway is if it's destroyed by a mortal faction which gives them the opportunity to invade the chaos wastes and wipe the demons out.

What i really want to see is an end game crisis for IM that utilizes the realms and the portals.

Epidemius did have a physical model, and in metal. so a bit more loved than alot of other lords by tabletop players

I agree that the realms of chaos battle maps are possible the best ever possible visual interpretation of the chaos lands we have. Maybe they can add an event in immortal empire where you can go into one of the realms to barter for something

Epidemius: *"I DON'T HAVE TIME TO DIE!!! I'M TOO BUSY!!!!"*

Having a faction effect where plagues boost research rate would be very on theme. Probably like a boost up to a certain cap every time a plague spreads

Finally a Gamer LL is joining the game astride his gaming chair/shit-bucket

Epidemius should start around Nagarythe or northern Lustria not just for lore reasons but also some variety since Ku'gath, Tamurkhan and Festus locations are focused on the Empire and Cathay

I agree i hope the realms of chaos get implemented into IE somehow like just have portals in certain places and just have them like the teleport spots in the oceans

1:46 I sensing some hostility. Keep up the good work

the "random portal spam" from the RoC campaign should just occur at the northern and southern most fringes of the chaos wastes, and any daemonic faction that dies should respawn in their respective realm brayherd-event style and then travel through their respective portals back to the mortal realm and have ultra-rare item rewards for clearing the various realms

Malekith: the ultimate dine and dasher at the chaos buffet.

110% agree that the realms of chaos maps need to be integrated into mortal empires. Im confident there's an amazing gameplay experience thats possible with the integration and a new way of interacting with these areas. Maybe as part of the end times dlc

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Don’t know if I’m reading to deep in this, but hopefully with the addition of Epidemus as a FLC means that they are willing to free out the roadmap to allow for a lot more FLC’s for the chaos mono-god factions to truly flesh out and showcase what each has to offer. Nurgle has always been my personal favourite chaos faction with the most interesting characters I want to see animated in the game (and could provide interesting campaigns if given the LL treatment) such as the Glotkin, the Maggoth riders, and Gutrot Spume, but I’ve been fearing that their is just to little time to possibly ever see these guys. The mono-god factions as a whole all have bunch different unique designs and characters within their faction and I really hope this game can showcase that aspect of them rather than have them just be “the big evil monster guys”.

He's honestly my personal favourite character in all of warhammer

I will say it once again, you are giving us the best TW content

Wasn't Be'lakor FLC?

The "fun guy" bit worked extra for me as I'm both a basketball fan and specifically a Kawhi Leonard fan.

My wish-list for TWWH3 in near future, at least a few of them: - The addition of the Realms of Chaos to the Immortal Empires - The addition of a generic mechanic to revive those legendary lords whose factions were destroyed before the player had a chance to confederate them - Bringing the remaining legacy races to the standards of TWWH3

That story with Epidemius and Malekith make me think of something. One of Nurgle's domains is stagnation, right? So, does that mean Malekith was being so bullheaded that the god of stagnation's Taxman throw his hands up in annoyance and change his deal?

In TWW history there were great FLC lords, with fun and entertaining mechanics, like Drycha, Imrik, etc

GW previews recently have heavily hinted at a new Epidemius model is probably going to be released pretty soon.

They need to link the maps to corruption and have a chance to show up and have that give god related items as a % post battle drop chance. Or just go the easy route and make them show up in chaos wastes land types so you can at least increase the battle map diversity since it’s such a warped place and could make sense for the realms to blend together.

Just make it so random portals open up in the chaos wastes (or places with high corruption) every 10 or so turns. Armies can then use those portals to travel to their choice of realm, which would act as a sort of dungeon where a powerful enough army can search for unique items and battle demonic armies in exchange for traits and blessings. Then, instead of fighting a demon prince for its soul, have an exit at the end of each realm that transports you to where you left the map. EDIT: You could even add a corruption system (similar to Realms of Chaos) where armies that overstay their welcome have increasingly harsh debuffs placed on them.

Realms of Chaos have got to be opened up and I think the ability to also teleport around the map via chaos rifts would add a huge amount of variety to IE campaigns. Imagine getting to TP to any continent if you don’t like your fave character’s start position. All of this could be a toggleable setting too.

For his starting position in Lustria it kind of make sense purely because of Yuan Bo, i mean the daemon is the representation of the slow decaying administration that some hospital can have, or the other start that would be fun and logical for nurgle his in Bretonnia

Glad to see some more Nurgle lords making their way into the game. I would have liked if they had another unlockable one in the base game similar to the Kislev lord you can unlock by playing as them.

Easy way to insert RoC into IM: Chaos Invasion Endgame Crisis. Don't even have to use the annoying RoC portal mechanic, just use the fixed portals that can already be opened by Chaos factions.

I trhink a cool way to add chaos realm in IE would be just for the deamonic factions, give those unique quests and mechanics to battle it out in the chaos realm, with their own personal armies and currency, and every X turns a winner is decided and that one is 'ascending' giving that faction bonusses on the IE map. In that regard Daniel as a faction could sort of choose how he helps or who he helps and at the end of a ascendency cycle, he would gain rewards depending on how he helped. I don't feel the need to add the mortal races in the chaos realm, it would be impossible for them to survive there for any amount of time, and why would some factions even bother going there (IE vampire coast, wood elves)

Yes Realms of Chaos should have been in the IE map. Would have loved for the chaos gods to fight and consolidate in the Realms of Chaos and have to build up some kind of magical energy that went spent they can use a portal to advance into the mortal world.

Be'la'kor was technically an FLC LL after people were annoyed at his initial implementation

Laughing my ass off man, great video! It's why you're the GOAT

They could easily make the realms of chaos as an activatable portal near your capital or something so you can get a cool buff or good item at the cost of corrupting a provence or something.

I could see Epidemius getting a little bit of casting, even if it just some bound hexes. Maybe something a bit like the Blood Dragons Lord's truncated magic line with a mix of a few buffs & Debuffs from the Lores of Nurgle, Death, & maybe Shadows.

we currently don´t have a chaos crisis so maybe the RoC mechanics will be used in mortal empires for a new Chaos invasion crisis

Niiiice I just bought him as a Mini and now he appears in WH3 amazing!

I might honestly start with this guy on launch day. I really like tamurkhan, but I’ve always wanted to do a full daemon run on nurgle and it’s just never been that great until now.

I'm super excited about this DLC. I can't wait for it to drop.

petition to have bile trolls become flame thrower units, projectile vomiting on the battlefield with limited ammo, recovering ammo when getting kills!

Agreed. I have no idea what to want or expect with him. he is a meh charc and better suited as a LH for Kugath but here we are. My guess is a rehash of the cauldron mechanic AGAIN mixed with the new plague mechanic. If not that then somthing more Chwarf like on upgrading a select group of demon units into bonker op status. and or nothing new and he just plays normal with a different starting loc and a few minor diff bonus to his faction.

The last 40 seconds of your video are just pure and everflowing wisdom, sir. May this come to occur sometime in the future.

I’m thinking it’ll be a western start position then, Naggaroth or Lustria. We’ve got two eastern boys in Tamurkan and Ku’Gath, and a central plague boy in Festus. So they’ll probably spread the love

He certainly is far more mentioned than sealord Aislinn or Grim Burlockson where everyone acts they are this giant lore characters that need to be in Total War... Also Drycha wasn't really an FLC as you need the Wood Elf DLC for her.

I find myself hopeful for Epidemius. I really do hope they have him supercharge plaguebearers, they’re units I genuinely want to use. I also can’t think of them doing this ever being a bad thing. Throt’s campaign of roided up rat ogres is great, and Ghorst is actually fairly enjoyable with his dirt-cheap zombies of doom. So yeah, I hope they don’t miss this opportunity.

Epidemius seems to be the last holdover from the old lore characterization of nurgle daemons, that being plaguebearers being joyless drudges. Kinda miss the symbolism of nurglings, plaguebearers, and GUOs representing people going from happy go lucky kids, to unhappy workaholic adults, to content grandparents

Come Mr. Tallyman, tally me plagues and war crimes

I am so hyped about this DLC, most of the others have been like...meh but this one...contain all 3 of my favourite factions, well except VC but hey you cant get everything in one go

So he's just a real life version of us sitting on a chair playing total war? I knew it, well done CA.

1:53 I think of Ebeneezer Scrooge yelling at the Muppet rats.

Bruh that one plaguebearer doing the XD face lmao

I really do hope they go the extra mile and give Epidimius' forces unique depressed voicelines

I really hope for a nurgle butcher dude with a kinda pumpkin like head

Unless you count Be'lakor and Boris Ursus, there hasn't been any FLC lords in WH3 yet. I do think that Aekold Helbrass should have been one though.

I'm really hoping that in this DLC they're going to be adding counting to the tallymen during battle, it was such a disappointment that you can't hear the droning counting from plaguebeaers during fighting, i mean, they added the sled to Katarin, so it's possible right?

The realms are so fun I cant fathom why it isnt in Immortal realms

Agreed on all points! Well said

I think CA should put some cities or things that you can take over and hold in the Realms of Chaos, and put some portals scattered around the world.

To be fair, i am hype for nurgle retwork

tamurkhan looks super cool but feels almost more like a WoC lord than a nurgle one in his mechanics and flavor, it'll be nice to get a more demon focused lord alongside him

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Nurgle and boys representing us gamer more than any other faction beautiful 🥲

It never fails to baffle me that Nurgle, the faction all about diseases and poison, literally doesn't have any DoT-style poison, in a game where poison wind globadiers exists. When I read about the death's head grenades plaguebearers can throw, I thought for sure those would function just like globadiers' and deal insane aoe DoT poison damage! But no...for whatever reason the so called poison grenades are just single target sniper shots... My wishlist for Nurgle is for someone in CA to give Nurgle more DoT attack methods and turn the death's head grenades into something more like poison wind globes.

i definitely agree about rot fly buffs, there iconic to nurgle and should be in every army but there just absolutely not worth using atm

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Really want Realms of Chaos in that top corner.

Yes, yes, yes the Chaos Realms have to be in Immortal Empires as a "War in Heaven" option for the Chaos factions at least. Add in cities to build, defend and destroy to gain more favour from the Gods. Its such a waste and there is room on the map above the Chaos Wastes (or simply expand it north to cater for them. It would also flesh out the Chaos Realms more for the Chaos powers. Archaon could have a final quest to reach a centre point to prove he is the Everchosen. The options are endless.

I really dislike LH because I like my armies to be consistent. Each army has certain lords, certain units, predictable. So Markus Wolfheart is a faction I dislike. Seeing as Tamurkhan is similar I doubt I will enjoy him. But learning that Epidemus is going to be an FLC LL made me super excited. I love Nurgle and wish Festus was part of the Nurgle Faction rather than WoC but I am super excited for Epidemus. More so than Tamurkhan. I speculated he would start in Naggaroth somewhere because there is a giant plague sized hole in that region. Same with Ulthuan but fitting anyone else there is a nightmare. Alternatively I could see him in Cathay but that seems too close to Kugath imo.

I was wondering when they would release this guy, I hope they make it good

Man, I was hoping for another Dwarf Lord or Empire Lord. Kind of disappointing, but I like Epidemius in theory.

Can't we have a true underworld map section that operates similarly to entering and exiting the Realms of Chaos?

So I thought about the Realms of Chaos stuff for IE for a bit and here's what I came up with. I'd like the RoC to be added alongside a "rework" of the main daemon factions. What do I mean by that? The RoC should be added similarly to how it is in the RoC campaign, BUT the points of interest that are in the campaign, like "The Eyrie of the Watcher" are cities that are inhabited and owned by factions of that specific god. At the start of your campaign as Kugath for example, you will have your army in the mortal realm to invade and conquer the world, but you also own a city in the realm of Nurgle, similar to how the WE own the Oak of Ages. These cities in the RoC offer powerful landmarks and bonuses to recruiting your armies (it's the realm of chaos after all). Your goal as Kugath should be to unite the realm of Nurgle under one banner and then start conquering the other realms of chaos so that you basically "defeat" the other gods and the RoC only consists of settlements from your own god. This would apply to Kairos and Nkari in the same way, but not to Skarbrand. He will not have a home city in the realm of Khorne. The Exiled will first have to make a huge sacrifice of skulls, before he can enter the realm of Khorne and start uniting it under his banner. So the cities in your RoC will not be a safe space because the realms are constantly at war with each other, as you will also have to manage invasions of the other gods in your realm. Non-Chaos factions also require a mechanic with which to enter the RoC, but can not occupy the cities there. They can only raze them, thus defeating the dark gods once and for all. Defeating and razing the realm of Tzeentch to the ground could wipe all Tzeentch factions from the Mortal realm, thus ending the chaotic threat. Of course factions like Epidemius, Skulltaker, etc. will also be encouraged to unite their realm and will have access to enter it through portals, but so that not every demon faction plays the same, I thought only the big bads like Kugath, Kairos and Nkari will have a home city in the RoC right from the start. I would really like an implementation like this, but I'd like to hear, what you guys are thinking about this. (I hope what I wrote is understandable, English isn't my first language).

Not the best video I could've put on while eating dinner

I know a lot of people said Bela’kor, but would Boris Ursus count as FLC?

So he's probably gonna be the helman Ghorst of Nurgle

PAPA NURGLE🔥

Thanks for the video

All FLC Legendary Lords bow in reverence to Queen Repanse.

Or add some immortal empires factions into realms of chaos. That would be better

Ooh sweet a data scientist lord!

On the one hand I really don't like Nurgle at all, not my faction in the least... but on the other hand this means more disgusting targets to blast with the new Empire and Dawi toys so I guess it's a net positive :D

Rot flies are an enigma. In lore, they’re the “upgrade” of beast of nurgle. But why is it that this game has beast of nurgle as a single entity unit and rot flies have multiple models? Also, the former is a good nurgle unit while the latter are just pitiful. Seems like they’re going backward with that one.

I wish they would have went with The Glottkin Brothers for FLC

8:38 Please indy, you’re our only hope to make rot flys any good. They’re so cool, but they have been unusable for 3 year. The roster really needs them to be good to fill out nurgles play style. They really should be a staple unit.