The King of One Man Doomstacks 

Or took more effort to make it look legit ;)

@@Vyleea Yeah I suspect the same thing too. The list of neat defeat traits at the end really really makes it look like a trait managed lord lol.

@@holysword876 Well he IS 225 turns deep into a campaign.

@@codysmith66 All the more reason to have a bunch of useless traits. The reason why traits are hard to get isn't because of the number of turns a game is in, but the fact that over time useless traits+legedary lords going extinct preventing you from getting those traits.

@@holysword876 It's a simple matter to revive a dead faction. Cause a rebellion in the territory, and a rebel army under the banner of that defeated faction will spawn. Very time consuming, which is why it usually takes this many turns to make that happen. Possible, but a pain in the arse

What old AI are you referring to? If you mean TW2, then I had a Malus one-man doomstack go up against pretty much the same army type as the one in this video, and when surrounded by hundreds of dwarves in melee ON FOOT, Malus was getting shredded from all sides by thunderers, and even organ guns... with pretty much no friendly fire to the dwarves. He is just that much taller even on foot.

Better than shooting your own units with the arrows

@@Riwillion previous AI in WH3.

@@Riwillion THAT'S GOING INTO THE BOOK, WAZZUCK!

@@harsteu Skavens would like a word with you.

Probably this. In even battles where I think my missiles might be weaker than the enemy's, I will wait till they target mine and move them back a bit at a time and they will walk forward to stay in shooting range. Eventually, they crash in the frontline and stop shooting :/

Guard mode simply does not function like its supposed to or even did in wh2. As a player my guard mode missiles will constantly run into melee while getting LOS blocked or just for fun.

I think it might also heavily depend on the battle difficulty. For me the ai has been quite competent. But I might have a mod that makes it stronger not 100% sure

@@ragnarok6723 I havent played in about a month, so I'm not up to date on the last changes, but in my experience guard mode only works if the manual target you select is on range at that moment and then moves away. If you order something out of range or line of sight, guard mode does nothing. Happened a lot on WH2 sieges with artillery

Not sure if this thing has been approved by the engineering guild

@@Yetidelamontagne definitely approved by the old ones.

in this case it's against dwarfs though

Yeah his ability for calling the army losses is uncanny.

Yes Yes

True, but the transformation is an internal hp loss fwir, ward save only applies to incoming damage.

@@jackryan5880 pretty sure damage resistances actually apply to direct damage as well. a big part of why some undead characters like Luthor Harkon sometimes lasts so long after army losses kicks in is because his insanely high magic/spell resist actually allows him to resist the damage inflicted by crumbling and disintegrating. pretty sure Malus can do the same thing with Tzarkan's damage (it's just harder to notice since Tzarkan's damage was likely set up with that resistance in mind while Luthor just has the same crumbling/disintegrating damage as all the other undead that don't resist it)

@aola wili I've positive you replied to the wrong comment there.

Don't agree at all really. I think the ai is not much less fun, it's jsut bad in a different way, my issue is that they have not fixed anything. For example Instead of shooting single small lords, who can jsut dodge shots, they don't shoot them at all, so they can just harass the enemy lines early and get a big headstart, especially if its a caster and you use forest. So it does not help at all regarding the "God of War" point. Also don't agree with the Doomstack long campaign thing since I only play on very hard or legendary, neber build doomstacks and can't even fathom taking months to ocmplete a campaign. And my favourite armies were like few heroes, some monsters, bunch of fireleech bolas, skink backline and melee frontline. Last thing I played a few weeks ago I painted the whole map with Oxyotl, which is a very hard campagin cause i.e. legendary Chaos invasion is something that will pop up only in YOUR territory with like 24 armies just in the first wave and "waste" a lot of time, took me barely 20h of playtime. If you only play 4h over every weekend, yo ucould do that in 5 weeks, and I know not everybody is that fast, but it's a really favourable example since playing 4h per week is lower than most players and most never paint a map and would only play like halfway and the latter turns take the longest. But either way, you do you/everybody shoudl jsut do what is fun for them.

@@AGenericFool the God of War was referencing the 1-man army. And missile units not targeting small targets, I thought that's an *upgrade* for them actually using their ammo efficiently rather than wasting. Stop the cheesers. Yes, no one wants to waste a month on a campaign when most can't with time or patience, I know I don't go all the way, I've a 1000+ hrs on WH2 and I finished maybe 4 campaigns total, just I like early game more so. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, I can see the ai have not improved a whole lot, but to me it seems they've been made to not benefit cheesers. The endgame crisis throws big armies against your big armies, with strategy or overwhelming power, play as you wish, im fighting with all tactics in mind and not just throwing 1 man or unkillable monsters

He can't get the ward save though, which is the thing which makes a one man doomstack viable...

Yeah, pretty much the only reason for the sok here is for the spell, if you get some more melee defense, drop some wardsave would be okay, plus you kill them faster so you don’t need as much longevity

@@dostayer3369 Wth are you talking about? Bejeweled dagger + 25% Celestial Dragon Banner +20% Trickster+Preservation + 26% Iron ward + 5% = 76% without the Sok or the blade of Slaneesh with witch he is far above 90%.

Villitch will be nerfed. He's powerful in MP battles as well

One must wonder how they managed to make the AI so much worse

Sigvald sycophants in shambles

I believe she can spawn as a lord during vamp end game crisis

Teclis in WH2 and Zhao in 3.

She potentially returns as a lord during the Vampire endgame crisis event

It's kind of a moot list as it's heavily dependent on what is considered most useful, most tanky (Malus, Zhao Ming, Vlad, Tyrion) or fastest killer (Teclis, still Zhao Ming/Vlad) and with/without Sword of Khaine, as they can be pretty night or day depending on those circumstances. All this aside, I think Be'lakor/Teclis/Zhao Ming/Vlad are going to be your best-bets as they all have ridiculous wardsave/spell-casting and can comfortably murder single entities.

Also comment for the cheese god