NOOB'S GUIDE to ASTRAGOTH IRONHAND 

I'm so glad G.W. and C.A. are giving representation to such an underrepresented demographics. First we've had lord pepe on his mobility scooter, and now we have lord Astragoth with his Mobility walker. Truly it's only in warhammer fantasy that a toad too important to walk and a demonic dwarf too rock hard to even wiggle his toes can duke it out on a battlefield.

What i like the most of the Chaos Dwarfs is how they are a mirror to their uncorrupted kins: they have a concept of Honor that needs to be restored if you mess up, the Iron Guards concept similar to the Slayers concept, they stick to their words and aren't treacherous or duplicitous, they respect experience and age, plus they are perfectionists even if not shackled by traditions and, to end it all, their faith in Ashut is no less absolute than their kins faith in the Ancestors gods.

Gotta respect a guy who instead of using a wheelchair, went full anime and grafted a mech suit to his body

I love how derpy his run cycle looks, especially since it distracts from the fact that he's genuinely terrifying! The moment I saw him I knew this was my boy.

The problem with our modern society is that we've forgotten the importance of tall hats.

An odd quirk about Chorfs is that they seem to prefer living above ground. That's quite unlike regular Dwarfs.

Wooo a twopeat, let's see if he can do a hat trick!

This DLC has me singing ‘Where there’s a whip, there’s a way’ from Lord of the Rings.

TWO Noob's Guides within a week? You're spoiling us Cody 😅

Astragoth loves trains so much, he's made it his life's mission to become a living steam train, but his elders back in the day told him that his wish would only be granted if he can source the iron required from the blood of those shorter than him. him sacrificing the people who made his prosthetics were the first on his path to trainhood.

Glad you mentioned the Curse of Stone, at first it sounded like he was in the walker solely due to age, lol.

You forgot to mention his best piece of lore, how it was he who gave Grimgor his nickname, "Ironhide". For you see during one intense and long Borc Breaking Session, a piece of Astragoth's Ironhand broke off, and thus did Grimgor become known as "Ironhide". Source- cryptic messages from my fever dreams

In the 16th and 17th centuries England faced a growing problem: a shortage of wood. Its population was expanding, which meant more homes to build and more fireplaces, stoves and ovens to cook. It was also when Britain began to reach across the sea on wooden ships (which often got eaten by shipworms) and were armed with cannons. A ship of the line would have more than 60 cannons, each a multi-tonne mass of cast iron shooting spheres of cast iron. Casting all that iron required fuel. Forests were clear cut for firewood and farms, but demand increased. As such, people switched from burning wood to burning Coal, which England has a lot of. At first, they mined surface deposits. Then they dug deeper. But as they did so, miners would often face the problem of flooding. Mines could be pumped out, but doing so required a lot of time with horse. As such, a natural philosopher named Thomas Savery created a steam powered pump in 1698. Latter, in 1712 Thomas Newcomen invented the Newcomen Atmospheric Engine, which used steam to push up a piston and cooled it down by spritzing some cool water into the piston chamber, which reduced the pressure and caused the piston to go down. The Newcomen Engine was better and became the standard of mine engines in England for the Next Sixty years, even though it was by it’s very nature an inefficient coal hungry machine that was only really good for pumping out mines. Then Scottish inventor James Watt would refine the design between 1765-75. The Watt Steam Engine made use of High Pressure Steam and a reciprocating mechanism to discharge it, converting the thermal energy of the steam into kinetic energy that rotated a wheel. The Watt Steam Engine was useful in a much wider range of applications, notably factories far away from rivers and other forms of moving water. The system would be further refined the early 19th century by Richard Trevithick, who would among other things for a special application for use in coal mines. An Engine which could be hitched to a railcar and provide from it’s Location along said line the force to provide Motion. Locomotives would be mostly confined to Coal Mines for their first few decades until 1826 with the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Dude is on a mech suit wheel chair, but he's still capable of kicking your ass! Dude is a chad, much like all Chaos Dwarf legendary lords.

Cody, you handsome beast, thank you for not blowing out my ear drums with the Thomas joke at 1:07. I'm so sick of people thinking LOUD AND DISTORTED = funny

Being a long time watcher and born and raised in Valdosta this was such a trip video

Cody mentioning cable contracts made me feel as old as Astragoth himself

A few things. Astrogoth isn't A high priest of Hashut. He is The high priest of Hashut. There is only one, he is the leader of the conclave. Also he's alot older than 400. Drazhoath has been the lord of the black fortress for 300 years and is probably over 400 years old. Astrogoth is much older.

You killed me with the Valdosta bit.

When you get a chance could you do a noobs guide on Grimgor you make these guides absolutely hilarious and Grimgor is my favorite character. I can only imagine the jokes you would have to mess with him.

I don't even play Total War or know anything about Warhammer - but love watching these vids to hear the backstory on so many cool characters.

That joke about drowning in the Rubicon....

Man now I need to see a power armor fight between him and the Master of clan skyre

That Valdosta, GA joke made me laugh cause I live there lol

You making that Thomas the Tank-engine joke means there will be a mod made to make that a reality. And I love you for doing it.

Man I love the idea of taking a demon of one of the literal gods of evil and shoving it into my axe/sword/mecha/favourite pet/anything that could possibly need the power up to make said object that much more ludicrously powerful. Cus what else are they supposed to be used for?

Cody: "Rock hard and ready to roll" Astragoth: *smacks his own groin with a warhammer* Now that the meme is out of the way, is that kill for power bonus a permanent, or a per battle buff? (Gotta get a new computer before I get TWW3)

Everyone on the council is equal. But Astrogoth is more equal than the others.

ok I feel attacked, I live in Valdosta

as somone qualified in the arcane art of tig welding i thankyou for the shoutout (btw a lot of welders I work with love yore channel oddly)

laughing my ass off at the Valdosta shoutout

2:56 As a native of Georgia, I get it. I ain't laughin, but I get it. Fuck...

The fucking Waluigi joke nearly collapsed my lungs XD

1:09 ok we IMIDIADLY need a mod that changes iron demons to look like tomas

It should be mentioned that their god is a bit up in the air in the old lore and might just be an evil ancestor god

Should've mentioned how that little shit has 5000(!) mass - 900 more than the Arachnarok Queen. Makes sense, definitely not broken.

I watched it already during the livestream! Great work!

This was great, you taught me a lot and made me laugh the whole time, bravo!

Lets go! All the tall hats!

Again a great video Mr. Bonds

I honestly find it very incredulous that Ol' Asty survived long enough to become a grey beard.

God, I love the economy mechanics of the chorfs. It’s satisfying as hell.

Have to say, Love the Train comparison 😂

This is amazing

Gotta love a double bill

I've never actually played a total war game (besides the space marine one that was mid), only played tabletop twice (skaven4lyfe) but I absolutely love videos like this, hilarity, a lil lore, and some memes, oh and "strategy" whatever that is.

i feel so called out being from valdosta.thats a funny ass reference

So true, the real problem with politicians is their lack of drip

I find it funny chaos space marines are missing their dreadnoughts when the chaos dwarfs have this dude

I thought the dark elves are british, but now I am convince the chaos drawaves are 100% british, they have trains, they have a parliament and even do they use poor families to work in mines, orks are kinda british with that accent, so yeah they are british and try and convince me otherwise

I hate the wilhelm scream so much, but thi goblin version hahaha I love it.

Hats for the Hat God!

The Valdosta joke was so good coming from someone who lived 3 hours away from it😂

Here comes the baby with the walker

Why would other Dawi drown in a river? Due to....shortness of breath?

Feeling spoiled with all these eps recently

I can't believe Valdosta got a shout out

YAAAASSS ANOTHER CHAOS DWARF!!!!

uu now i cant wait for the Dawi zarr with obsydian axe

Amazing

Hasshut, vorgund, zharr-Naggrund!

Oh my....what a week

I am still sad that we have no Bull Centaur LL

Thank youuu

He was originally named Ironpants but it wasnt commanding enough respect ... also there are dwarf sorcerers who turn into stone from head first, but we dont talk about those ..

3:10 “A thumb in every pie.” A Jack Horner reference?

Yesterday I heard a Brit joke about chaos dwarfs being Warhammer Victorians and now I can't unsee it

I’m from Valdosta and I can agree

"The Chaos Dwarfs have no centralised government, but instead aee run by a cabal of the high priests of Hashutt" My guy, that sounds like a centrlaised govenrment to me.

All this talk of tall hats in politics with NO reference to Lincoln is criminal. Bro had that chorf drip with the fireborn build.

1:00 choo choo

7:14 Damn it, now he's Waluigi... thanks, I guess...

The spice..... THE SPICE MELANGE!

yeah

Absolutely missed the opportunity for 'It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and stone'

Love that beard.

0:52 The greatest enemy to all dwarves. Stairs

Hecking CHORFS!

Oh they made Chaos dwarfs like Rome total war Romans? That's better than I ever hoped for, why we don't have that yet.

Where did all these cool cutscenes come fro? lol

Doug Dimmadwarf, owner of the Darklands Dimmatower.

The rubicon joke was inspired.

This man knows how to get around, but can two mecha legs match the eight dawi legs of high king? Foot race time!

Astrogoth vs Ikkit claw, the battle of the elderly fantasy cyborgs

The bull centaurs sold it for me

This is a funny sketch and trailer but not a noob guide…

neat

Two Noob's Guides in the same day? Alright, did CA move the release date to the 13th or am I missing something!?

Whose got better Power armor though? Ikit claw or Astragoth?

Please tell me there is a taller hat chaos dwarf mod

Sounds like they serve the fantasy version of vashtorr

I am about to unlock Boris on my first campaign for Kislev, but the patch with chdwarfs drops tomorrow... Today actually. Any chance it will be save game compatible? (I just managed to convince Ostland they really don't want to occupy Praag entire game around turn 100)

Wouldn't a sorcerer die anyway once they got petrified above the belt? Not being able to go to the toilet is very unhealthy. Maybe I'm looking into this too much.

Zhatan the Black next???

1:36 Any reason why this cloak of flayed incompetent acolyte skin isn’t in the game or on his in game model? Because that’s absolutely metal.

All chaos dwarfs sit at the same round table as equals, Astragoth is just more equal than the others

Were is gordabackstaber the true leader of the chaos dwarf XD

Dwarves without centralized Goverment... so Anarcho-Capitalists ^^

the most powerful devious dwarf, whou used his genius to create a mecha-suit, so he can be as tall as the average human

Will there be a third video coming for the last lord sometime soon?