How AZAZEL can instantly ROUT (almost) ANYTHING! - Total War Tactics: Warhammer 3 

"he'll do disgustingly weird things to you from behind" is the perfect way of putting it, well played!

Doesn't seem unreasonable since it's this LL's gimmick, it's kind of limited to whatever he's currently attacking, and relies on time limited abilities. And there's a couple hard counters. Way less cheesy than vampire trait stacking, at least.

And don't forget, you can give an army the gift of slaanesh for another -8 leadership when fighting your army and the seduction bonus. Spreading gifts and getting the research that gives you 50 souls per turn, PER gift, is actually insane. I basically diplomacy'd the entire northern landmass with norsca and wintertooth, then when the dark elves inevitably invaded from across the sea I was able to mark 3 of their armies and force a vassalage. Suddenly I owned 90% of the chaos wastes and tripled my vassal tributes, and my vassals were actually starting to take land from my enemies like Kislev. LOVE this faction.

They nailed immortal empires. I was a bit worried about campaign performance but it runs better than before. Runs really smooth in fact. For whatever reason

Azazel himself probably also causes the "Stronger and faster enemies nearby" debuff, which means even more Leadership Decrease on the targeted unit.

He is also an exceptional lord sniper right from the get go. Just send him and the Manticore from his starting army tag team the enemy lord.

This is good, I like how it sort of works together with his theme, and it seems overpowered but then you remember that Azazel basically disappears when missiles come anywhere near him, and most factions have some sort of hardcore immune to psych units for the late game, so it makes him very unique and powerful under the right conditions but with seemingly fair and interesting counter-play

Makes sense considering how fragile Azazel is as a tradeoff. I haven't used him yet, but I fought him a few times while playing Kislev in Immortal Empires and I was surprised at how he just melts against focus fire missile attacks. I wasn't even using any Ice Guards, just basic Kossars and he died in seconds.

I like sending Azazel with my cav at the start. This combo plus a cav charge into the immobilised enemy and you’ve won the cav fight before infantry lines have even engaged. Then you chaos knights and hellstriders are free to roam the back lines unabated. Very fun!

I do love the flavor of daemons getting so terrorized they get banished. 😈 Glad to see the Azazel content!

If you really looking for overloading on LD penalties, you can also bring the withering on shadow casters, which adds another -8 LD on top of it for 40 seconds.

theoretically you can kind of do this with the vampires too. Fear- Rear Attack Bats/wolves- Isabella Time of Arising- Vlad Mesmerizing Aura- Vampire Trait Dread Incarnate- Spell Dooming Darkness. Probably more complex then Azazle (-64) but Vampires are at -72 before Terror. Going to have to mess with it. I use Dooming Darkness in campaign pretty often, but never tried to line them all up on something Tough. Normally if you have vlad hitting something it dies anyway. With half Vampire Hero/ half Flying unit stacks.. you can normally glob stuff up and Vortex it to death for the Mana.... then call down your flying stuff to kill chase down stray units. Bats btw have a ton of Mele defense now...

In campaign obvi has access to the lore of shadows leadership debuff! Even makes the dragon siblings starts to shutter!

Karl Franz's special Greatswords: Ah finally a worthy opponent!

He has "the look" from Disco Elysium. That will make anyone want to run.

I remember seeing Boris Todbringer + a death caster in the past. Azazel makes it smoother since it's packed into a single character and I think the Boris combo is also lowering the LD by 4 less than Azazel. Good video!

i have been searching for this tutorial since i've started playing game, thank you, this was awesome!

My first IE campaign is with Azazel, loving the campaign!

Seems like hes absolutely countered by grombrindal, white bearded guy just makes everyone unbreakable

::teleports behind you right after a waking nightmare:: Look, I've been on the internet long enough to know where this is going and I want no part of it.

Clan Skryer DOOOOOM Rocket. Empire Artillery hell. Vampire Coast Bullet Hell. Tomb Kings Suprise Uasabi. Every faction is broken if you play it right.

loved watching those ogre cav bois just not attack and derp around. Big units still bugged i see

Azazel: -74 leadership wombo combo My Unliving ass: *Laughs Vampirically*

The dwarves you showed at 0.48 actually did manage to not route. But they retreated anyway, close to routing but no route flag. They did go -2 for half a second but there was no retreat flag. I think they where terror routing instead which is brief.

Bretonia peasants be like: I don't seem to notice the problem here.

Phantasmagoria is a great net spell for slaanesh, it also helps greatly to stop enemy cav charges and to surround them

The sex demon attacking you from the rear has an appropriately damaging effect on your psychology.

He looks like jeepers creepers

I freaking love this thumbnail this gasming azazel got me like nothing else

"naturally as slaanesh, we're looking to get in that cheeky rear attack" phew lol

Great vid man, I loved doing this with Manfredd or Heinrich with Krell. Stuff was so fun!

very useful information! thank you, Zerkovich

So basically a slightly stronger single target version of the vampires AOE leadership bomb combo of fear, the withering, and doom and darkness. Then use a unit of bats, vargheists, or flying lord to get the rear charge penalty to kick in.

Azazel has shaped up to be my favourite LL so far

Hello Azazel, Be'lakor and Malagor want their dirty tactics back! X)

I believe a routing unit does fight back when immobilized by a spell or ability.

Exactly. Meaning Undead, aka "Unbreakable" will start desintagrating on contact.

I'm glad slaanesh got some broken love even if temporary

Thank you! I was trying to figure out how to have fun with his squishy ass

you can also do this with Malus. Take a Death Sorceress and a Kharybdis with Malius and he can rout almost every army. if you take the ror Medusa for even more LS debuff

Not my grail knights! For the lady!!

I know I always cheesed in 2 using lore of death to give -leader ship to undead to give them disintegrate or make it faster. Turns out they went for it and wanted to make it disgusting.

Skaven is a goner.

I just came up with a nasty PVP Army build to land battles thanks for the suggestion and info

I love that CA is making the Daemon Princes and Greater daemons wrecking balls....They SHOULD be the nastiest thing in the setting, and they are doing a great job of portraying them as such.....

believe it or not this save my Azazel run

Unbreakable saurus is the answer!Rip poor rite of resilience!

Given that it requires a ridiculously overpriced spell, i don't think it's outlandish

Very fitting for Azazel.

Hell yeah! Amazing to me, love you videos!

Have you considered ANY Kislev units?

Slayers- need quills for book

I really enjoy the game now. The only thing I need is more units for wh3 factions so they aren't so boring and repetitive.

brutal

phantasmagoria is a very pretty spell does anyone know why marauders on steeds of slaanesh have soulhunter but demons dont since the flavor text seems to indicate they get it from the mount kindof weird if they rout without being able to move do they still take the full extra charge bonus when attacked as if they where running away?

Does the slannesh variant of the soul grinder have a ranged attack? Because you could use that to quickly target the same unit for a further LD debuff from being 'under artillery fire', don't even have to fire as the arty LD debuff applies the moment the unit is targeted, for uh, reasons. Top secret CA reasons.

I think the only race that you can’t do this is kislev because of the buy our blood, and if you play immortal empire the first human race you will face is kislev

So Azazel IE will be my next campaign ❤️

Iron breakers routing wtf

How does Azazel do it? Warhammer equivalent of passing around 2 girls 1 cup links

Two words for Mr. Azazel: Dwarf Slayers.

if u kill the enemy lord there is a permanet leadership debuff, don´t know if is -6 or something, maybe just -4

i got the sword of slaanesh with him and it made him unstopable

So bring extra flying units to very fast skirmish cavalry to harass him so he can't pull this off?

good video!!

Azezel has been Yassified by slaanesh lol

If I had a nickel for every guy named Azazel that did a lot of damage and left a bunch of ash-poofs around the battlefield, I'd have two nickels!

This has been a thing for years. I can see why its easier with him but nearly every faction can do this.

Spooky.

I mean what else can we use to make elite infantry obsolete in these games tho? For very very cheap mind you

Also WHY THE F**CKKK DOESNT ANY LORD HAVE TELEPORT IN BATTLE YET!? WTFFFFFFF I really want to swoop Tzeentch into battle and bring down a comet on his head as the enemy attempts to swamp him with their strongest units only to have him teleport a couple hundred meters away

Multiplayer is running pretty choppy in mortal empires. Skirmish mode is fine though.

3:27 how can you group up the spell so you can cast all of them together ?

what is battle difficulty, because leadership change a lot !

Stupid question. What is terror routing?

so youre saying if i want to deal with Azazel as dawi i need to bring the slayer king?

clearly OP, CA needs to sort this shite out.

How do you get phantasmagoria

Think they'll nerf it ?

i am not really fond of this faction. It's too micro heavy, azazel gets stuck all the time, converting using influence took too long and i couldn't afford it either. Khorne is so much simpler and more effective.

The new races, particularly the demons are ridiculously OP in immortal empires. The Order factions are very very weak. In particular the demons seem to get level 3 and 4 units 20-30 turns before the old world Order factions can get their hands on anything to touch them. You line up your high elves or dwarves, even corner camping and dwarf warriors and elf spearmen break in 10 seconds against them, even on normal difficulty. They labelled Immortal Empires a Beta for good reason. A massive amount of rebalancing is required for the average player to enjoy the game. Every since Warhammer 1, the Chaos races have never been weak, I think because they are less played, the developers think they should be made more powerful, but strength isn't why people play factions. All they are doing is making the game less fun for more people. I was really hoping the "Chaos Tide" that stopped me playing Warhammer2 would be fixed in Warhammer3, but it is worse than ever.

he is way too OP

Man CA are so bad at balancing.

Nerf Azazel this is stupid also first

p2w much ugh