Vampire Coast Immortal Empires Battle Guide | Total War Warhammer 3 

I haven't had that happen yet, but I haven't played too much. I will have to look for that. Nothing like getting your army blown up by yourself XD.

that's actually hilarious

Lol

So thats what happened thanks i could figure out why that happened and assumed it was a bug

That could be counted as a bug....

Mortars suck right now since the nerf

As Noctulus i found it extremely fristrating to fight against highelves in earlygame on vh/vh. You have to travel to find your luck elsewhere.

You can do the same with Cylostra Direfin as well. The Twisted Glade isn't unique like the other 3 lords starting settlements. After I wipe out The Forgebound, I abandon Twisted Glade & do as I please.

Just be wary of taking over Caledor like the game guides you to, lest you find yourself swamped on all sides by angry elves for a hundred turns, fighting the same battles over and over.

​@@Cipher_8 what did they nerf about the cannon?

i def see what you’re saying but also gotta think if you get heroes or use like your lord or necro to kinda blob up their infantry all your gunners will just wipe them out so fast kinda same strat with dwarves(3-4 heroes rest quarrelers)

Agreed

Best guide to play terribily and lose on easy/easy maybe...these suck so bad, and the battles he fights are just so fuckign bad

@@leom8029 Someone sounds salty.

@@leom8029 Someone lost their entire army 💀

A really great way to "juke" the AI with Bess is to have a base mortars unit firing in tandem with her. With the mortars unit, actually target the unit you want to attack, and with Queen Bess use the Alt-Click targeting to have her fire on where you want her volleys to go, predicting where your target will move to avoid mortar fire. The AI runs from the targeted fire of the mortars, and they will likely try to not avoid Bess as much. Works especially great in walled sieges. If you want to get even more micro-intensive with her, her fire sound is *very* noticeable and has slow rhythm. Change her alt-click target area with every volley she launches to keep the AI "guessing". In field battles, just use Alt-click with her to target clumped frontline troops

I found Bess had the best success (in TW2, anyway) when firing close, at the units behind the enemy's front after they hit my line.

Genuis

Maneaters are an Ogre Kingdoms unit, so he's probably covered them in his OK video

The early mid and late game armies he provides are for generic lords. The LL's provide bonuses to certain units, and going over all of them would be tedious as by the late game their unit choices are almost all the same. Early game, they will all use deckhands and gunnery mobs except for Aranessa, who will mske use of Sartosan units. Mid game, they'll all be focusing on gunpowder units, though Cylostra will focus more on Syreens and Mournguls. Late game you'll either go for a combined gun line (i personally go for 6 deck gunners, 3 carronades and 4 Mortars with 2 gunnery wights and the rest as casters of vampires and deeps for the summons), or a monster stack (rotting leviathans, necrofex colossi or Death Shriek Terrorgheists with support from spellcasters and/or other heroes). Though maybe swap some of the casters out for more wights as needs require. Hell, I've even found a Depth Guard ball works surprisingly well against quite a few factions, with Vanhel's Dance Macabre boosting their attack to insane levels. But no matter what, have a vampires caster to heal your troops. Whether it's the admiral or a captain isn't really important.

Treasure maps need better rewards

High elves hard counter early game coast, as the HElves basic infantry has a good shield and charge defense, and the Coast doesn't get good area damage and spells until at least the mid-game. I'd recommend steering clear of Ulthuan early on, but return later when you have your artillery to crush them.

@@sev1120 Yeah that matches my experience. Mortars are a decent counter for archers but they are too slow.

WHAT DO WE BURN WITH WITCHES?! MORE ELVES!!🤪🤪🤪

Mortars, scurvy dogs, bats/droppers (ranged ones can go into melee to tie up archers in a pinch), ogre merc cavalry. Early game expect to have to maneuver around a lot to get the enemy in an ideal position.

@@sev1120 really, in my experience the elves are shredded by bullets easily. I have never had an issue with them and ulthuan is easier to defend late than a clump of settlements on the mainland

Gotta pay attention to line of fire, even small hills can stop them from drawing sight, so they demand you deploy based on the gunline more than the frontlint. Also they fire rather slowly, don't try to track fast units as they will slowly spin in circles trying to track and never actually shooting. Wherever possible use the Chevrons formation, it's their bread and butter

Yeah, as far as I know Games Workshop won't allow them to have ship battles: it's a separate part of the IP, which is already licensed out for another game Man of War.

The small ship you see in game is just the flag ship of a fleet, just like seeing your one guy on the campaign map instead of the full army

As someone who loves both the Vampire Coast and Naval warfare in general I think it's probably for the best. I'd love to see them implement naval battles but it would take a LOT of fine tuning to get it right.

ship battles in total war games are infamously terrible, so this isn't a bad thing

@@adam-petrovic Those ship battles are done by the same team that does the entirety of the rest of the game. Warhammer has the benefit of having what, three different teams working on it and its different aspects? They could certainly put one of them to focus entirely on naval battles as an update and get something good out of it.

"Slightly"

Handgunners like 140 range deck gunners 240? Plus double ap values and sheild breaker. Lol Pass the grass my dude must be good.

The deckgunners damage output is much better, especially late game. Because of range, armour piercing and firerate

You can just put the playback speed to 0.75, same effect

Those are t4~5 units. Meanwhile, vampire coast's t2 units (bomber zombies) alr have stupidly strong firepower. And it keeps getting better up to necrofex and queen bess. Gunnery wight and lore of the deep will amplify the strength even further.

@@Centrioless I don't care what a t4 or t5 unit is. The fact of the matter is, Skaven Weapon teams are overpowered beyond belief. This isn't a controversial point. And other factions out range the ranged faction. It used to be, on release, that Vamp Coast could legitimately run their ranked units and do fine. Now they can't, outside of a single spam. Queen Bess doesn't even remotely count when it's a single unit for a single army. It is *not fun* to play.

@@JJokerMoreau and i dont give a sht abt your opinion if you cant even understand how cost effective vampire coast units are

@@Centrioless No one cares about cost effectiveness when they played far better on release than now, with references to the changes being they were too strong at ranged... and then the company releases a series of busted ranged units like Skaven, which are also extremely cost effective. My dude. The PIRATE faction is outgunned in Campaign. F off.

This is what we call a skill issue, ive had no issues with any of these factions