Skaven for Dummies 

-loses 80 skavenslaves out of 1286 units -close victory yeah game, that was tight

"As a Skaven life is cheap" that's what needs to be remembered.

I know "Legend is really a Skaven" is essentially a meme by this stage, but damn, his seamless transition between human and Skaven voice is a thing of genius.

Legend: "We shot our own troops there and did tons of damage to them." Every Skaven General Ever: "And?"

Legend in 2019: my favourite races are tomb kings, high elves and lizardmen Legend now: Skaven might be my favourite race COUNCIL’S MISSION-TASK IS COMPLETE YES-YES!

Wonder if this will be turned into a series like high elf for dummies, vampires for dummies etc.

Rule 1: There are ALWAYS more rats! Get those skavenslaves!

Legend: "I had no intention of winning!" Also Legend: *Wins*

1:35:40 Well, I didn't expect to hear that said in this video or anywhere else. Having not played Skaven yet I actually learned a few things from this. I hope to see more like it.

Legend: "We keep losing until we win.... by using warp bomb"... Thats a very Skaven tactic

Legend is clearly a Skaven at heart: he's obsessed with cheese. It was there all along, boyos, staring us in the face...

The secret to Skaven is cheese! Yes-yes!

I thought a “Skaven for dummies” video would be helpful for dummies like me. I feel even dumber after watching this.

"cheese" as it pertains to Skaven........seems so absolutely the way Skaven should be played. It's the shit they would do. Watching Legend play Skaven is so FUCKING enjoyable. (Edit) I wanted to see you continue playing lol.

Skaven were the first race I learned how to play and to this day everytime I see them I get so excited. Video idea: races from best to worst for new players! Back when I was getting started deciding on a race was rough because I didn't know their play styles and I bet a lot of new players get frustrated with this.

THIS is why the title of Legend is well deserved... the last battle was simply EPIC. I love this channel!

The Horned One speaks to us us !

I imagine legend enjoying making this video. This is pretty hilarious title.

You really seem to love doing other peoples disaster campaigns. It provides a real insight into a faction when you do, because it's a plan done on the fly. I love your work.

We need legend Skaven voice modpack, NOW!

Skavens are the best, yes-yes. Though I think that the best Skaven faction in Vortex is Clan Eshin because they don't have to deal with all those rituals.

Skaven in a nutshell: first capture region use food to lvl 3. Make plaguecatapults and get skavenslaves. Then make ratatata guns, jezzails and plaguepriests, campaign done:)

Legend doing Skaven impressions is what keeps me sane during a pandemic

Hm is there any chance the guy just didn't own The Prophet and the Warlock? update: in a similar comment Legend said the guy had DLC RoRs on cooldown. Honestly makes his campaign choices even weirder

"life is cheap in the skaven burrows" true-true

Appreciate you taking the time to show us this legend. It will certainly help on my skaven campaign.

Damn. At first I thought you really made a Skaven guide. But it is fine too.

Just 3 Minutes in, and i'm sooo confused as to the building choices this guys has made. I like to build clanrats with shield simply for flavor, but you have the bloody Clan Mors HQ in Yuatek which gives you Clanrats with Shields from the very start. No need for Clan Barracks. Yuatek is at Level 4, but has no Weapons Pile or Construction Cavern? And why Skavenslave Slingers? Even Night Runners are better than them...

I love how much Legend is into the Skaven.

I'm guessing that they were going for the Steam achievement for 10 Plague Monks, figured that the game was telling them to do that for a good reason, and got frustrated that it wasn't working out.

Legend in 2021: doesn't like the Vortex campaign Warhammer 3: hold my chaos realms...

I love how often I get 'close' victories since I throw waves of slaves to pin the enemy in place as my ratling gunners tear them to pieces, taking no causalities of their own.

I like this series bro, you are definitely the best/most knowledgeable total war guy on RU-vid you have my vote to do this for every race

I laughed so hard every time Legend said 'we need to build a wall'. I know it's an old meme, but it still checks out

I think it's okay to keep one barracks at least just to make a bunch of Stormvermin for Queek early game since they're super cheap for his army. Same way you might get a bunch of Plague Monks in Skrolk's army right away. Otherwise yeah

I lowkey expected this to be in his famous Skaven voice.

That last battle has glorious. Lul Legend your hilariously delightful.

>plague monks in Queek's army I'm sorry but not even two minutes into the video I'm facepalming.

step one - skaven slaves step two - ratling gunners step three - profit step four - be clan skryre step five - profit more

Nice format, cool to get some strategic advice in addition to battle tips.

How on earth do you squeeze out that massive range for your ratling gunners ??, I admit today was the first time I used them, but their range is horrific, just terrible, what skills/heroes/spells etc do you use to get them that good ? And thanks for your videos they are supremely entertaining :)

Thank you! It was really helpful for a noob-beginner rat like my self. Fallen even more in love with the Skaven after this.

35:55 bro you're too good at that

The victory at the end was beautiful

By the way I noticed you had a few Crown of Command. They are actually amazing as skaven - making summon unbreakable for 30 sec is very powerful, specially if you have warp bomb

You have taught me so much on how to improve my gameplay in this game. You made me buy the vampire coast dlc just so I can necrofex spam.

I would love a "Race/clan for dummies." series.

Thanks for this, learned a few things I didn't know. That's what I get for just assuming I could figure them out as I played lol. New to the game, and Total War in general, and Skaven are extremely counter-intuitive if you're used to playing other strategy games. Took me 2 failed campaigns to realize that expanding my territory rapidly was *hurting* me. Usually, rapid expansion in a strategy game means you're kicking ass. Didn't discover the importance of Under-Cities until halfway through losing my 3rd campaign. Fingers crossed that this will solve my remaining problems...

Bro , i don’t know why but i like to play your long videos even though i am not familiar with total war and i don’t mostly watch the video , i just like how you explain stuff and i like playing something in the background and your voice isn’t grating , best of luck and keep at it man

That last battle was insane.

Drink everytime he says "But Legend..." in all videos from now on.

"But they are cheap!" Yes, yes, more cheese!

The skaven ending to the vortex campaign is beautiful

You need to do a series like this but a little more condensed if possible. Warhammer for Dummies and break down each legendary lord and the strategies around them and what to do with them and what not to do. People would use them as a how to guide. I learned a lot watching this.

I bet this dude doesn't have the Prophet and Warlock DLC.

Big note for new players: rattling guns and jezaels are DLC units and are basically the endgame for skaven. I’m fairly new myself and tried skaven one time and felt like I had trouble getting a strong army together against lizard men only to find out that I was missing what seems to be pretty essential units.

This has really helped with my clan eshin campaign as well, ive now killed Malus, krock-gor and that dragon elf. and ive confed with clan mors and have qweek as a lord only thing left is to take the orcs out but grimgors faction is huge now. i've got assassins running around everywhere aswell...please do more of these! getting about 10k a turn now

I’m going to try skaven because I’m looking for a good ww2 rts.

Dr. Ikit Claw, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Warpstone

Skaven Reliability: Very High.

We need a generic Skaven lord voiced by Legend for WH 3.

The McGyver of Total War. Give Jeff 2 Clanrats, a random caster, a paperclip, and some Jack Daniels and he can take out a Dark Elf Doom Stack lead by Lu Bu. My hat is off to you Sir.

Hey Legend!!! Love the new video! I’m a veteran total war gamer, and I’m always learning something new in your guides. “CHEESE 4 THE CHEESE GOD”

Not even 10 min in and I've already learned more about playing Skaven than I've gotten from any other source of Warhammer 2 content.

Thank you Legend! This was quite insightful!

"Hmm, I could cause a revolt... Let's go back up this way" - and then SCARE CORD

I remember your hatred for the skaven when you first started covering this game. You said something along the lines of "they're absplutely disgusting" and you "can't understand why anyone would ever want to play them." Lol. Im glad that youve changed your opinion.

A rat appreciates cheese, yes-yes.

Legend you do a Skaven voice absurdly well

How to play Skaven: Send in the rats and then drop a nuke on the blob!

This gave me so much nostalgia, I miss SYDC!

"untrusted worm poison after" best queek saying

That last battle was basically a Rambo movie. If Rambo were a skaven.

I spent that last battle cackling like a Skaven, lol.

hahahah. I think you are gradually turning into a skaven mate. It won't be long before you start squirting musk during your streams. I swear you do when warp bombs go off hahahaha. Cheers for the tips old chap.

Skaven battle tactics: " We won the battle " " At what cost? " " Nothing, just some slaves lol "

This was incredibly interesting to watch... I have watched a few videos but don't actually own the game myself. Love your videos where you teach and explain. What do you think about a video dedicated to talking about down in the dirt army compositions when in battle?

Watching these Skaven gunners mow down medieval infantry is the closest thing to watching Ultramarines in action. Lol

I have yet to find an exhaustive, yet focused, guide on Skaven on youtube, that is NOT for legendary. Feel free to guide me to one. Why not legendary? Because a guide to legendary is a Cheese tutorial, because of how the AI cheats. It is not for the average player. Mortals like me are more interested in " playing the game " than finding sort of exploits and weird mechanics and army combinations, that are not vital for normal or even hard. Yet one needs to know what he's doing to enjoy a faction like the Skaven in particular. As Legend said, practice is key, but a " how to approach the faction and its challenges " is essential.

This campaign reminds me of playing WRE in TW: Attila. Gotta triage the multiple massive problems, focus on improving your important provinces, etc.

Wish I'd seen this before my first few Skaven campaigns!!

You're brutally honest.... I'm getting used to it now 😁

this was super helpful for me! Warhammer 2 is my first ever Total War game and I chose to play as Queek to learn how to play. even tho this video was more on the situational side i picked up a lot of information!

I’m so glad to see that I’m only playing Skaven 30% wrong. Especially since I’ve only played Skaven since I first got the game.

This was glorious and that last battle, ohh yes soo skaven, so Epic Yes-Yes

I clicked on this thinking Legend had actually published a Skaven for Dummies book. Still great video but not gonna lie little disappointed we don’t have that book.

the last battle is amazing....

Skaven voice during first minute of the video nice

CA should just invite Legend to voice the next skaven lord dlc

"And that's how you Skaven!"

hI legend did you do a mors vortex campaign in stream upload on youtube ? Great guide thank you for the devotion you put into this franchise

I always knew skaven suits his playstyle

Also I found out that sacking and looting the same turn a 4-5 level settlement is actually bad for money because it destroys almost all buildings. It's more cost-effective just loot because it leaves some high tier buildings

Exasperated, not exacerbated.

My normal skaven basic stack rush ratlings 6 of those plus like a lord and 2 plague monks and some slaves will win pretty much anything till like high tier armies (many big units etc). What do other people do as a basic stack/army? Just curious.

"Skaven for dummies" in 5 minutes please, I have the attention span of a toddler.

we all serve the council of 13

What should army composition look like if you don’t have the rattling gun dlc?

enjoyed this being a bit of a longer one .... hope you do more saving your campaigns as aposed to just battles.

The main advantage of playing the vortex over mortal empires is that you get to play on different, less compressed campaign map.