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This channel and the way you put out information is excellent. I genuinely hope more people flock to this channel and the longform proof of concept style. Also, just referencing back to another video you did on Minor settlement battles - fuck that was a good prediction and I hope it gets implemented.
Thanks mate! I'm really glad you enjoy the videos and the longer format. I've always felt that it's not fair to just *say* something works and expect people to believe it. It's got to be proven along the way. :)
Thanks mate! Definitely more coming. I'm experimenting with Kostaltyn at the moment and I'm pretty sure I have the best start figured out for him. Just a matter of giving it one more play through, then recording. After that... Not sure which faction I'm going to go for. A couple of guys have asked for Ogres and I've never played them before, so might go for them.
If you are going to get rid of it anyways, you can do open markets in ironspike for a free 1k, you can also give it to the skaven the next turn and recruit two extra darkspears early with the free money, using the heroes as tanks was super useful realization for surviving some of the tougher fights, so thanks a bunch for showing that
Also you can pay slaneesh ~200 on turn 2 for a trade agreement, and it will pay for itself by turn 4-5 and you already get the increased relations for the others faster, and using the sacrifice to khaine before skeggi will more than pay for itself and nearly cap out your slaves
I pretty much did the exact same steps you did, but made the mistake of making alliance with Bleakhold thinking I could confed them later. But all that did was making all the high elves declare war on me as I was taking care of Hexolt lol
Ouch! Yes, avoiding that contact until you're ready for the extra fights is crucial. I have been continuing the campaign and might be uploading it as a Let's Play series and shortly after where this left off (after I'd taken out the New World Colonies and sold some of their settlements to the Blue Vipers to get money and solidify my southern border, I was moving a Black Ark toward Tiranoc and Alarielle appeared from out of nowhere with a nasty stack (three eagles, some Sisters of Avelorn, etc), declared war and attacked it. Clearly she was on her way to sneak attack me the whole time, even with no High Elf contact.
With 2.20 this tactic is still very viable (most effective one I've tested out), but I had to make a small adjustment in taking Skeggi. I couldn't really tell in the video, but now it seems like Skeggi is packing a lot more cavalry. Every time my Shades took a capture point they were rushed by cavalry that began moving their way the moment the shades took the first capture point on the way to the others (the gate). They would always get overwhelmed by the cavalry backed by whatever retreating units managed to regroup. Instead I found it more effective to just use the Shades as extra archers and bleed them out further alongside the Darkshards along the wall. If there was a decent army inside (they didn't attack to the north) I never managed to pull off a victory, as this army always had 3-4 units of cavalry and without that battle (video's chapter 11) you won't have Pit of Shades for the heavy hurt needed for army loss to really get going (Melkoth's doesn't do enough with those extra numbers). Tried multiple times/multiple approaches but no luck. Might be a 'get better' problem, but yes this was on Legendary. Never had a problem with the Shade trick on Hexoatl but also didn't have to deal with a decent army plus the garrison, as Mazda went elsewhere every single time (once bypassing my ambush and going for Port Reaver lol). Ironically, the extra cavalry makes that Chapter 11 battle even easier. Harder to harass with the shades, but Norsca cavalry is far less dangerous than infantry. It just messes with trying to ninja control points in the battle for Skeggi.
Wow, big change with 2.3 in that Morathi starts with a long-standing Non-aggression pact with Mazdamundi. Even with Mazda's -40 relation dislike for Morathi this change means you will have a positive relation with him (about +8/turn once you discover him). It will of course grow higher over time, especially if you pick fights with Mazda's enemies. The ambush declaration on war/ninja'ing Hexoatl is a bit more problematic now, but might not be as necessary. One of this video tactic's strongest points in its favor was that Mazdamundi would always hit ya from the south eventually, but starting with this non-aggression pact and a favorable diplomatic relation with the toad...you might not have to. As much as I would like to try out the new possibilities, I was having some glaring problems with winds of magic reserve. 2.2 I would have a reserve of 70 for Skeggi, but with 2.3 it's been 20. Not sure if it's a bug or not (sure hope so!) but this limited reserve really hurts Morathi's ability to drop Pit of Shades.
I followed this guide, but by the time I got to Skeggi the enemy had fire projectiles in the walls and heavy armoured troops. My two Masters got mullered by the fire from the wall within seconds.
Expanding through skaven is a trap.. After trying this one, ayup, understatement of the year. I had to restart this one so many times because her starting position is just a rebellion ball ache just as in TW2.
Im struggling with kislev so far i just play like dwarves where kislev praag and erengrad just buff those cities but the outlying cities those little villages, i just temporarily take them and sure enough azazel, throt, throgg, norsca, azhag, vampires, dricha all of them come over and take a shit on something
jJust discovered your channel today, and loved your content and way to explain things being clear and detailed enoug, i ll look forward to your others vids, good job) you get a new suscriber !
