Grimgor Ironhide Immortal Empires Campaign Review 

Hes literally the most op faction in tge game now lol

@@sicthemutt why?

Tip from a WH3 friend. The faction leader of those greenskins you are fighting has a giant in his army. You can try to confederate him. How i did it. After the first settlement you take. He is usually is at the second settlement mustering more units. He sometimes summons a new lord outside the settlement you can attack that lord with the faction leader as reinforcing army. You can rout the giant just get 2 orc boyz to pin him down and shoot him with gobbos try not to kill him and win the battle. That's how you can get an early giant if you want. :)

Also if you wonder why i dont attack the settlement with the faction lord inside. When you win you wipe the units inside. (i might be wrong here cuz i dont play a lot of greenskins. It might let you confederate him before choosing an option to take settlement.)

@@alexnikolov1248 you are not wrong, i played Skarsnik yesterday and i noticed that the settlements are taken before the confederation event popup and not after so the units would be wiped out.

@@leo-paulgrain3832 Good to know!

I've been holding off until Chaos Dwarfs release as I think that will make the start even more interesting, plus Grimgor can lead a campaign of revenge against them! Was hoping they would have released by now though...

I was initially exited for it, but than i realized that WAAGH trophies dont stack... so when u finish a waagh it overrights the trophy you already had. They should have let us keep top tier trophy from every race...

@@WrathOfLust that would be insanly strong and legit make the campaign way to easy bro, but l understand why u would like that... if that would be the case then they would have to heavely nerf the curently buffs for wagh so that there weaker early but get stronger late game

Basically a revamped Crusade mechanic from M2TW.

why?

@@narxes that and because the dark lands feel a bit empty currently, with placeholder factions and only a few other Legendary Lords

Samesies. It's gonna feel great krumping them

Chaos dwarfs are really the last piece we're missing

Or you could do it now and also do it later. If he Chorfy boys change up the darklands so much then that means you only have until they are released to enjoy it as it is.

Kugath is awful rn, I guarantee you Legend agrees with you.

For Kugath you need to be lucky with Ghorst and take him out quickly. Getting rid of Ghort's starting army is pain but then it gets better.

Kugath is actual shit it's not you. I've retried the campaign over 6 times and it just is not workable right now. Nurgle is the weakest of the chaos factions and they need some help from CA right now.

Something interesting about the greenskins is that empty corner of the map above the eastern steppes, something tells me the hobgoblin Khanate may show up in future DLCs

@@FreddieMercurytheSharkWrestler What I've noticed with them is that they have a lot of tarpit/tank, but not many damage options to complement it. Their magic isn't strong enough with the WoM nerf to suffice, all of their melee is very slow, and the only ranged units I've seen get good results are the soul grinders & Ku'gath himself. They're basically dwarfs with a low damage lore of magic, no strong ranged infantry, an even slower melee infantry, and one "ok" fast unit (the plague drones).

There is a mod that allows you to change starting positions!

Yes. Would be cool if some of the popular lords had more than one start position.

An important note -- if you have a greenskin endgame crisis, it *doesn't* deactivate the greenskin ability to forcibly confederate by defeating their faction leader. This means that you can have a big greenskin endgame crisis, go defeat *just* the faction leaders, and suddenly you have all those armies for yourself. And very critically, the lords who are created when an crisis kicks off don't contribute to supply lines and have free upkeep for all units in their armies. CA has explicitly said they're not going to change this because it's cool and a fun thing to do.

"but have never played greenskins so" mean you didn't play WH. :) You must stop what you doing now and start immediately a Grimgor campaign! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

waaaghh mechanic now gives reserve generation per turn to all armies among other bonuses, it makes your magic insane which is very cool and lore-like

while plaiyng for Imrik. Grimgor just rolled over everything. absolute nightmare to deal with

@@BloodyArchangelus lmao

I destroyed Kholek, "freed" his vassal, signed up a defensive alliance with them and sent them some money time to time. They went HARD after Archaon lol

If it gets the same ammount of love that WH2 got, by the time it's done Warhammer III should be a true masterpiece worthy of comming back to it for years to come

Well it's hard to answer because some DLCs can change the way you play factions drastically, like skaven for instance. One lord has access to a laboratory and mutations which is super cool, or another specializes in contracts and assassinations, both with agents on the map and in battle. You also have the ability to delete an army from a distance... And that's only 2 lords out of 6 I think...

DLC-mandatory factions are Beastmen, Norsca, Tomb Kings Vampire Coast, Woodelves, Bretonia (Free DLC) plus Skaven iirc. I may be forgetting someone, though haha. The rest often just get the RoR, a new LL or two (which are often just different starting positions plus some mechanics only for that LL). The Skaven get really important stuff in their the DLC so you can make weapons teams or mutants and are lackluster without. You are not missing out that much in the Lizardmen, really. Yes, no Red Crested Skink Chief and Kroxigor Lords, Lord Kroak, Skink Oracle. The units you are missing out definitely aren't a key units (like Cameleon Stalkers, Ripperdactly, much nerfed Salamanders or Dread Saurian). Most of those extra units are too expensive to be fielding on for most of your campaign. Especially Dread Saurians are very overrated, since they are derpy and big. The Engine of the Gods Stegadon you mostly just use on Heroes, but can totally do without. I'd miss not having Carnosaur or Stegadons in mid to late game and some Bastilladons and Life Slanns in early-mid game - that's the bread and butter stuff that will carry you through their campaign. In general with exception of the Skaven, the DLC stuff is definitely something for the second or third campaign for any given race. Also, check out the Free DLC CA has on their site. For example all of Bretonia, Rakath and Grombrindal. In my opinion, DLC-free viable factions are The Empire (as you'll have Outriders Grenade Launchers and Hellstorm Rocket batteries + Steam Tanks, you are only missing out a few heroes and unimportant units like Flagellants and Gyrocopters), Dawi (who cares about not having bolt launchers), High Elves (Sisters of Averlorn can be cool), Vampire Counts (missing the Mortis Engine). I don't really play Dark Elves so IDK what else you are missing there, but you at least wont get some good LL and Sisters of Slaughter. Same goes for Greenskins. I think WH3 is MUCH less dependent on DLC than WH2 or WH1, since you can easily fill percieved holes in any roster with allied units or even borrow entire armies. Also check out the Steam Workshop, a lot of factions get cool units from there. For example I love what it has for the Dawi (Rune Golems, Dawi Thunder, Thunderbarge) There are also mods that let you put more allied units into your armies, if you feel like.

I've played a few Mors campaigns on Legendary/VH and honestly Skarbrand is not a threat at all, in fact he usually just gets stomped on by Settra so not even worth allying with unless you want to be dragged into another war. The biggest challenges for me were Imrik and Khalida. I'd like to know Legend's thoughts on the Skaven campaigns though as I've tried them all and Mors has actually been the most fun so far.

@@Spaghettus Kind of shame he gets rolled over tbh. There'd be a chance for Vermintide 2 style of an alliance since they're both all about heads-skulls

@@stampsu Unfortunately the AI just doesn't make good use of the Khorne mechanics. It really is a shame that Skarbrand isn't the big scary monster that he is supposed to be. At least on the flip-side if you are the one playing as Skarbrand then Queek does make a useful ally.

CA acknowledged it and will fix it in the next patch.

I use a simple reskin mod to turn him into a propa black ork Grimgor. Much better look. Glad to know that CA will fix this anyway.