Rating the only viable cavalry spam Doomstack 

Hippogryphs still better

@@ulumulu4228 I agree, all of my other armies are hippogryph spam. But considering how much the Fay Enchantress boosts them I wanted to give her a Grail Guardian army and it’s consistently proved itself to be really viable. The Grail Guardians are super tanky the most I’ve ever lost in a manually resolved battle was a little over 100 men.

@@lewishand3531 nothing wrong with some variety! Have you tried a repanse army by any chance or is enchantress objectively better?

He also doesn’t cycle charge so that is a thing.

@@obi-wan3916 Melee generally have an annoying time with sieges where a unit with the Mortis Engine effect is basically mvp. Repanse giving +17 melee attack with frenzy and a conditional +8 more vs undead is no slouch though she is good with any combination of Paladins/Grails/Hippos.

I would liken them more to the knights of Dom Amroth

MUSTER THE ROHIRRIM!

We left none alive.

HON HON HON!

Where was Gondor when the Greenskins attacked?

Theoden approves this

DEATH! DEATH!

Ze lady**

@@GlaDi02 Witch elves name themselves bride of Khaine and nobody cares. Bretonnian knights say ''for ze lady'' and they're immediately called simps. k

@@scholaepalatinae4988 Khaine and ze leydy don't really compare.

M a s s i f

184 armour +20% physical resist +18%ward save and tiredless .They are practically immortal in melee fights.

​@@Everchosen You literally have to pay for a second army's recruitment and upkeep because it's so bad at walls + AP missiles. There is nothing Doom about this doomstack when it sits on the side lines for a majority of the SP game.

@@mattheww.6232 I feel like people forget about heroes with Damage Wall. You can open 3-5 big ass holes and charge right in. The AI archers are usually pretty bad at turning around and shooting inside the walls once you are in.

@@Everchosen yup, the armour bonus for all armies from each and every blacksmith building (iirc??) really helps a lot . Maybe it’s called an armoury? Been a while since I played.

@@bookmanjeb7238 or you could just bust down all the gates and force your way in with grail guardians

He has the save right there, just auto resolve to see the results real quick and then reload.

Auto resolve is always worse than playing it yourself

@@aleksandarmijakovski6864 no it's not, mostly it is but sometimes auto-resolve is better.

@@prettyokandy230 true, he has had videos where he has said he tried to manually do better and couldn't beat the auto resolve.

@@prettyokandy230 if the odds are really on your side then sometimes autoresolve wins with some ridiculous numbers, but even battles, no way im using it.

i am the only one who hates grimgor for getting allways double of levels of my best army even i fight non stop and see him respawn after 2 turns? like "hello i'm your nightmare because even if you lose an entire army to beat me i will respawn more faster than you can regenerate"

A peasant challenge!

but they look great in this game (especially blood knights)

alternatively instead of looking at resistances look at how much damage they're still taking.

This man understands.

Same watching those chariots crawl across the minimap toward the trebuchets in slow motion lol

Yeah... I feel so sad for her...

I imagine he still sneaks off for a cheeky little visit every once in a while ;)

shes too manly, he needs something more soft voiced for a change.

@@diogovieira5563 Yeah he can't handle all the pure tomboy energy from reponse! insted he simp for a cam girl with bathwater such a deseption...

@@patuccaneven8027 Simping Henry :'( Repanse is definitely better :p

LE DEAAAAAAATH!!

@@Troubleshooter11 my thoughts exactly

@@razetheking a damn good song to

19:08 reform the lines! Take them head on! CHARGE!

There's a great mod called Cpecific's Trait Manager that gives you control over your traits in game. I use it exclusively for that situation, removing useless traits and adding in legendary lord traits when I would have otherwise missed them OR if my main lord was reinforcing a low level lord and the low level lord would have got the trait instead.

@@BleachNoteAlchemist Thanks for the info. That campaign I mentioned is almost over anyway, so I don't think I'll bother, but the mod might be useful in the future.

I had the same thing happen with Isabella's trait.

@@TheRavenofSin That sucks

Sure, GKn is considered as shock cav, GG is melee cav

She starts with a Blessed Treb, probably grew attached to it after 150 turns. But yes a mistake.

Maybe he wants to destroy a tower so he has time to use his magic to thin the garrison before charging in. Only some maps have large enough blinds spots or tree cover to hide 16 units of Grail Guardians.

@Lewis Hand

I’d assume tower smashing. Cav units being large models can take HOR-EN-DUS model losses from towers even in minor settlements battles. Even if this army would be perfectly suited for flag rushing.

Special/unique hero I think? Legend seemed to be [mildly] suprised or intrested at the start of the battle.

Did a little searching looks like it's a bug cause by training and or a few other things.

Henri le Massif is a special hero to repanse.

I had a Vampire hero in one campaign that had the same thing. I think it got bonuses to stats like it was a normal unit from it too.

What does that rank do ?

Lol:)

they're less vulnerable than they look, with 93 melee defence and decent resistances, pop a few heals on them and they just won't die, most fights you would barely take any casualties even without good micro.

That's what peasants are for. They're not real people.

foot heroes and lords I presume can be more difficult, like Grimgor here

Anti large is great because most spells aren't as good against single targets. Shooting them is also good, but basically SEMs are the bottleneck in defeating an army. So things that are good against them are in demand. And it's also good against cav and monstrous infantry.

anti large is very good, the main things it won't help against is foot lords/heroes, infantry, and missiles/artillery.

There's a tech that gives +10% speed. There's an easy to get trait that adds another 10% speed on top of that too. 5 assisted battles and any lord/lady can get the "Saviour" trait. :)

He doesn't get a Gryphon

@@kellerblair2952 There is repanse's paladin

@@honorguard7616 That is literally just Henri

Yes he does. I learned that in my most recent campaign. Any Hippogryph knight will give you Siege Attacker. Lord, unit or Henri.

Yeah, Henri in this case or a regular unit or lord would fit far better than a trebuchet

The major downside is the front cavalry has higher chances of getting stuck in melee, and a normal formation has a better impact (more cavaliers making contact with the whole line = more damage)

Probably more effective against thin lines you can punch through

@@gloubiboulgathefirst5784 in addition to what you said, they also have a smaller turning speed in lance so it's harder to course correct in case we need to adjust.

@@Laid2Rest94 normal formation can do that also (a bit less effectively) because of the game mechanics for the charge knockback

@@leadpaintchips9461 exactly and these changes give the player a harder time when micromanaging cavalry for it to survive and be effective

Calvary is useless in WH2, IMO. For what good they can do, it's lost, because in most faction there's a better unit that could take its place.

@@trev6783 True, though, I usually have one or two just to take down routing units.

he's done a norscan campaign, so if you look back through his vids you should be able to find it. It does kinda need a rework, but there are a few things you can do to make it easier. One is not expand too fast. If you take over norsca too fast everyone will declare war before you're ready. Making friends with dark elves is also pretty useful. War mammoths are op late game, early on marauder beserkers are very helpful. If you're getting absolutely swarmed by enemies in norsca, then you can abandon and go on a horde type gambit. Not ideal at all, but norsca isn't good at defending and too many enemies can necessitate this. Taking skavenblight plus marigliano makes a decently strong alternate base. Taking out either bretonnia or the empire early can also really help, since you need both of them dead to complete objectives. Vampires and skaven are good friends to ruin dwell your ruins.

@@sympunny8636 Yes 7 months ago which a lot has changed since then when it comes to campaigns for me at least, and Im not asking for a 20 min guide where he spends hours trying to find the best solution cus that campaign is just not fun right now and I cant grind my ass all day Im just asking what his thoughts are on it like 5 min video at very least. Ive searched people having the same issues and things and they said the same thing but I just think it'd be cool if he did a video for it cus Norscans got royally fucked

Norsca is one of my favorite factions. Very challenging, but very rewarding. The first key is you need to unite Norsca, which is super easy to do. You just need one strong army, and then defeat a faction leader in battle. Automatic confederation, no penalties. In the early game, effective use of javelins and chariots is typically strongest. And stay in raid stance to save money, even in your own territory if you have to. Then, you really just need to be careful about how many regular enemies you pick fights with. You want to rush the chaos invasion tree, but you don't want an order tide. So try to pick unpopular, weak factions to raid and raze. The bonuses really help, although some are clearly better than others. Then, you really just need to prepare yourself for the battle with Archaon. Declare yourself the true everchosen, and then your real campaign of conquest can actually start. Prior to that, you gotta play Norsca more or less as they are in the lore. You stay in the north, you fight other Norsca, you only leave to raid, you build up tribute from the dark gods and go on hunts for buffs. It's a slow burn game, it might be 100 turns before you go any further south than northern Kislev. But once you have all the campaign buffs, you're nearly unstoppable.

Knights not Khight

GK are anti large, GG are anti infantry. They complement each other.

Maybe ctr c for cav only

Shift+click works like it does on desktop files. It selects all units from the first click, to the second. Ctrl+click will select +/- 1 at a time.

Sadly, this is not the case. Blessed Field Trebuchets say that they don't hurt friendly units with their explosions, which is true. However, the projectile itself does do friendly fire. Also, Blessed compared to regular Field Trebs do TONS more damage with the missile itself, but less on explosion. Test it out yourself and see! Those Blessed rocks hurt a lot. XD

The treb can knock out walls to open up more holes for the cav

I'm working on one with arkhan after rushing nagashixxar might send it in

That was one of the first "doomstack", I'd say Legend disagrees

@@arthanor9631 but im not talking about doomstacks

@@TheSliazFair enough, there are different ways to evaluate units and being doomstackable is only one of them. I've only played one VC campaign. Why do you think they stand out?

@@arthanor9631 They beat pretty much every other cavalry in the game ,+ you can revive models

Honestly, the knights of Tor Gaval are pretty lackluster. I've tried it, mistwalker buffs, but really there's not much else for it, they're incredibly expensive, have a lower model count than other flying cav, and don't kill very fast. The knights are more like tanks, interrogate grom, get a tomb king in your box, and maybe a dark elf or something that gives some other good buffs. Or the skaven interrogation gives a ton of MD, I think VC and dwarves are a good combo too. Ethereal, and regen, with grom heal, or ethereal, and norsca for berserk. They are amazing for locking down armies, dive them in and arrow blast everything with non magical arrows so you don't kill your knights.

@@sevenayashinedown1283 Legend says they are among the strongest doomstacks in the game IIRC

Empire melee cav is pretty trash, but pistoliers and grenade launcher pistoliers are very nice to have a couple in your army if you like microing, especially the grenade launcher ones can rack up hundreds of kills fairly easily, even in sieges since they actually can arc the grenades onto/over walls.

@@Sora_ksgn Really. I never figured out about arcing over the wall. Cuz I just get handgunners with rockets and heroes armies

Hippogryphs are flying cavalry, not straight up cavalry. Flying Cavalry is really good, but normal cavalry isn't normally

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They're better than goblin wolf riders sort of. Those guys are utterly useless.