Vtuber reacts to Lore of All Races in Total War Warhammer 

Apologies if there are some weird cuts during the video. YT is having a field day placing 30 second audio claims.

"The wood elves want nothing, simply to be left alone" *Me after Durthu burns Nuln to the ground for the 15th time*

10:17 "Slay everything without a beard!" is an actual battle cry, delivered by many Dwarf units in game as they wage into melee. 😂

When the beast men were described as "the true predators on top of the food chain" I accidentally bumped my headset just so it sounded like "the true redditors on top of the food chain" and that was very funny to me.

Love how the Skaven are the ones who brought down the golden age of the Dwarves and nearly destroyed the entire planet in ancient times, simply because they built a thing (the first Doomsphere) and wanted to know what it does, and in typical Skaven fashion it exploded with disastrous consequences. But even more hillarious is that it was this first happy “accident” in the Skavens history that had them decide to live below ground, expand and breed like only Skaven could, so no single disaster could ever spell extinction for the Skaven ever again (at the time they were all living in a single location, Skavenblight)

Here are some of the Settra Titles : Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds... and many, many more...

Ogres are actually interesting because, much like the Dwarves and Lizardmen, the Ogres were expressly designed by the Old Ones to be tools against Chaos. The theory goes that while the Dwarves were designed to be magically inert and be slow to change both physically and psychologically, and the Lizardmen were basically biological machines that lacked the necessary ego to fall to Chaos, the Ogres were an attempt to create a race that would be incapable of being corrupted by Chaos, a physical powerhouse able to survive off of damn near any food source, AND be able to utilize magic that couldn't be corrupted by Chaos without sacrificing their ability to innovate and learn. In short, the Old Ones were trying to recreate the Orcs and remove some of their negative traits, as Orcs were an alien race that the Old Ones accidentally brought to the Warhammer Fantasy world instead of a deliberate creation of the Old Ones like they were in Warhammer 40k. And in many ways, they succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. The Ogres were monstrous physical powerhouses capable of fighting even the strongest creatures of the Warhammer Fantasy world, they could survive off basically any form of organic matter, they possessed an ability to learn and adapt extremely rapidly while being simple-minded enough to be virtually incorruptible by Chaos AND still had access to a unique brand of food-based magic that the Ogres refer to as Gut Magic or Gastromancy. The only problem was that the Ogres possessed incredible appetites and required large amounts of food, and so the Old Ones gave them a land of open plains and steppes filled with mega-fauna to eat while they worked on the Ogres. Then things went tits up and the polar Warp Gates collapsed. While the Ogres survived the resulting Storm of Chaos, the Old Ones left before they were able to finish their work, and so the Ogres began to overpopulate the lands that had been set aside for them and started ranging afar into Cathay, where they ran into the Dragon Emperor and promptly managed to piss him off SOMEHOW, which ended in the Dragon Emperor using his court of Celestial Wizards to pluck a huge meteor out of space and launch it straight into the heart of the Ogres' territory, wiping out most of the Ogre population and killing virtually all of the mega-fauna that the Ogres relied upon for sustenance, causing the surviving Ogres to begin starving and be forced into cannibalism. AND THEN IT GOT WORSE. Whatever the Dragon Emperor hurled at the Ogres resonated with them, and the incidental sacrifice of thousands, if not millions of Ogres empowered this being into something akin to a living god. And just like the Ogres, this thing was HUNGRY, and that shared want for sustenance caused this eldritch god-thing to latch on to the Ogres, condemning them to an eternity of ravenous hunger that can never be fully sated. This God of Hunger is called the Great Maw, and the Ogres constantly feel it whispering in the back of their minds, always demanding that the Ogres feed it more and more food. It also calls to the Ogres, often compelling them to undertake pilgrimages into the magically irradiated wastelands where the Great Maw actually is, and the call is so strong that many Ogres who get too close throw themselves into the Great Maw. For added horror, the Great Maw has actually tunneled straight through the entire planet to the other side of the Warhammer Fantasy world, creating something called the Galleon's Graveyard, a yawning abyss at the bottom of the ocean that opens ane draws all of dead things in the seas of the Warhammer Fantasy world to it, swallowing them and vomitting millions of gallons of seawater back out like it's bloody Charybdis. So par for the course really.

Yeah the Vampire Counts is pretty fun You either recover troops after winning or lose everything As you dont have morale if your heroes fall while on the army I dont remember exactly your army simply slowly desintegrate LOL

fun fact, Settra the leader of the tomb kings once burnt down half of Norsca because they stole his crown, the book of choyer actually has a video on this conflict as well if you wish to check it out.

Book of Choyer has great narration. A good way of thinking about the Great Vortex is like the bathtub drain that prevents overflow. Wood Elves were High Elves at one point but after the WAR OF VENGEANCE (only the elves call it the war of the beard) against the Dwarfs they were ones that stayed behind because the forest was cool. A Black Ark is basically a whole city not just a boat.

I’m just impressed how much gameplay he guessed right

32:28 btw bretonnian grail knights are no joke, their power levels in the lore varry but they seem to be on par with Chaos warriors or blooddragon knights (incredibly powerful knightly vampires from the line of Abhorash, one of the first vampires who got rid of his need to drink blood by defeating a dragon and consuming its blood). as much as bretonnia is memed on by some it is an incredibly interesting faction.

dwarf women yes they exist and most of the time they dont have beards but rather long braids of hair "The Dwarfs are fundamentally a patriarchal race. This is due in no small part to the fact that in every generation of Dwarfs, only a small minority are female, a ratio of around one or two girls in every ten Dwarf births. Dwarf women live longer than the men, on average up to fifty years longer. There are even records of female Living Ancestors, known as the Daughters of Valaya. The bulk of daily work and craft is undertaken by male Dwarfs, while Dwarf women tend to the raising of the children and the running of the household -- much like in the Empire of Man." there is also the "gartering of the girth" that a dwarf male has to perform before he is allowed to marry a female, he has to be able to wrap his beard atleast once around her waist as a tell of venerability, wisdom and good behaviour. dwarfs can use magic but as mentioned they do turn to stone eventually because they were originally made as the anti magic race and their bodies resist it, all dwarfs have a 25% spell resistance buff when used in the game too

Just a tip for your entertainment: how many and how far enemies are flung away from a charge depends on the mass stat of the charging unit, so get say, a line of heavy cavalry or even a big monster charging into a vulnerable flank, and you shall enjoy a ragdoll fest

Yup. If you have a dark elf ship nearby itll show a yellow outline on the campaign map. If you do a manual battle you can use the black arks as army abilities to do artillery strikes on the entire map. Malekith js actually the son of the first high elf king and that armor is bonded to him. He caused the high elves and dwarves to fight each other by attacking both sides and planting evidence. When that war happened, high elves wanted the high elves in bretonnia to help them and some of them chose to stay in the forest. The giant frog dude Mazdamundi actually caused the destruction of the dwarf golden age. He literally moved the continent tectonic plates since he saw it was out of order for the great plan LMAO. It led to what you would expect North and South Pole are basically giant webway gates or portals the old ones made but when chaos attacked and the old ones left, said portals malfunctioned thus permanently leaking chaos energy. You can travel to the realm of chaos from the north or south pole Yes. Skaven plagues are fucking annoying. You take attrition damage for your armies and unlike most plagues you can't garrison or use army movement stances to heal it. Literally just take damage for several turns and it can spread to nearby settlements lol Tomb kings were betrayed by Nagash. The guy who created vampires and invented Necromancy. Nagash is basically one of the big bad guys. Still around waiting to return. We'll probably see him next year or in 2025 for Warhammer 3. Nagash still fears and respects Settra though lol. Settra literally beat the shit out of nagash when he brought the tomb kings back to undead life lol. Archaeon who's the guy leading the armies of chsos used to be a Sigmar follower but rebelled. Fun fact. He actually blew up the Warhammer world because he thought it was better than letting it be a playground for chaos. In age of sigmar he realized that wasn't the best plan after the fact and now wants to be a chaos god to destroy the other ones. Despite being blessed by the other chaos gods he still hates them lol. The split personality vampire dude is actually a high ranking undead for nagash called a mortarch. That vlad guy is also one alongside neferata who's the first vampire. She's super hot but very deadly. She'll probably be playable when nagash does. Oh and she was a princess in the tomb kings when they were human. The oldest vampires were all tomb kings when they were human and before neferata turned them into vampires. Nagash cursed them with vampire weaknesses when they fled him when he called them for help against settra LMAO. Stuff like weakness to sunlight and what not. Think of nagash as the Uber Necromancer. He's the first one. Fun fact. Teclis taught humanity how to use magic properly. The guy in the first Warhammer 2 trailer. Cathay has several dragon children who are kinda like Fantasy primarchs. New lore and characters so we know little of them. The oldest child died before Yuan Bo was born. I have a theory one of them, the shadow dragon is secretly leading Fantasy Japan to the east of Cathay called Nippon (They'll probably be renamed if CA or GW works on them again lol) Ogres, Elves, Humans and Lizardmem were made by the old ones. Ogres however were incomplete when chaos attacked and the old ones left. True neutral faction. Suffer from eternal hunger due to the Dragon Emperor of Cathay summoning a giant meteor in their homeland called The Great Maw. Said maw of course has endless hunger and cursed every ogre on the planet with said hunger. Ogres worship it as their god. Don't fuck with the Dragon Emperor and Empress lol Also the dragons predate the old ones. Them and dragon ogres are basically the indigenous people of the world. Dragon children are full dragons that take on human appearance. Only dragons to do so. They also have children with humans and Cathay people who have dragon ancestry are basically superhumans to an extent

Emperor Karl Franz the First is the greatest Emperor! Also, his warhammer is THE warhammer fantasy and 40k are named after. Also gameplay wise he is probably the best to start as since he’s relatively simple to learn. Edit: Stubby little legs? You better believe that one’s going in the book.

If your first gameplay is Lizardmen, I'd suggest getting the Gor-rok FLC (Free DLC) because not only is he really strong (and thus beginner friendly) he starts with what is canonically the single strongest mortal spellcaster (ie. not a Lord of Change) in Lord Kroak. Being able to drop the sun on a blob of rats is an experience unlike no other

6:21 so about that, how should i explain this? A slann of the lizardmen decided that the mountains of the dwarfs needed to be moved a bit more to the left, then the skaven also caused even more earthquakes trying to expand skavenblight which damaged the dwarfs empire even more. On top of that hordes of orcs and goblins started invading through the broken underways, slaughtering untold thousands. the dwarfs are a dying species, when you look at a map of the warhammer world you will see the dwarfen holds, but only a few are still filled with dwarfs, or fully controlled by them.

The reason you could pick beastmen over chaos warriors is because the beastmen are the greatest horde faction. They are the steroid melee version of the VietKong, ever hidden ever ambushing.

There's an off-handed mention or two of an event called the 'War of the Beards'. THAT is what the High Elves call it, but humanity calls it the War of the Ancients. After Malekith fled to Nagaroth after his failed coup to take over Ulthuan, he and his followers bided their time in hiding for several centuries before making their next move. They orchestrated a series of raids on both the Dwarves and the High Elves, murdering all witnesses but leaving evidence to implicate both parties where appropriate. Eventually, the Dwarven High King at the time, Gotrek Starbreaker, sent a delegation of dwarf ambassadors to Ulthuan demanding compensation from the Phoenix King Caledor II and prevent a full-on war. Rather than humor the dwarves, investigating the matter, or simply just paying them off, Caledor was outraged that the dwarves would demand anything of him instead of pleading and begging. So he had their beards shaved and sent them back to Gotrek Starbreaker, who finally declared a War of Vengeance upon the High Elves. The war was long and bloody, devastating both sides in the conflict, and it only ended when Gotrek Starbreaker slew Caledor II and claimed the Phoenix King's crown as a trophy, declaring that the grudge that had incited the War of Vengeance had been settled and no more needed to die. The High Elves, in their arrogance, insist that the dwarves started a war over a handful of beards, and so they call it the War of the Beards, but it says a lot that the political incompetence Caledor II cemented the notion in their minds that a prestigious lineage did not in fact make for competent leadership, and so the position of Phoenix King has always been decided by vote ever since. Even though they had ALWAYS elected the Phoenix King via voting... Caledor II is also erroneously referred to by the elves as 'Caledor the Fool' and 'Caledor the Idiot', though they'll never admit to it. As for Maliketh? The incitement of the War of Vengeance was such a heinous betrayal of the dwarven people that the first High King of the dwarves, Snorri Longbeard, _rose from the dead_ as a living spirit of dwarven vengeance called Grombrindal, the White Dwarf. Why? Because Malekith and Snorri were best friends, and Malekith swore an oath to Snorri on the High King's deathbed that he would remain loyal to the things they fought for, and part of that was ensuring that the elves and dwarves would remain allies until the end of time. I should mention that the dwarves _believe_ Grombindal is actually Snorri Longbeard, and Snorri would very much be the exception to the rule because he was the son of Grungni, the chief god of the dwarven pantheon, and his coffin was inscribed with powerful runes of vengeance by the best dwarven runesmiths. Still, it's amusing to think that all dwarves can rise from the dead if you piss them off enough, and ONLY Malekith has managed to do that.

Slight addition to his Wood Elves bit, the Wood Elves can, and absolutely do, hunt other people for sport, even when those people aren't on their land. They've killed Dwarfs by traveling way out if their way to block a trade route nowhere near Athel Loren, and will butcher Bretonnians just for fun (with one notable Elf getting himself killed because his magic armour only protected him from magic weapons, and not the knife carried by the peasant girl he lured).

28:36 yep and their alliance with the elves has existed since the days of the old ones, the original elf queen gave her children to them to protect them i believe. Athel loren is a sentient forest that is much bigger on the inside then the outside, it is also verry magical in a "fey" way, time and space work differently there

The Elves were all once one people. But when the Phoenix King Aenarion died, his son Malekith sought to take his place and was denied. This then caused a civil war which split the Elves into the High and Dark Elves. Malekith then schemed and plotted for centuries for ways to weaken the High Elves so he could return and take the throne. This included staging a raid on a Dwarf trade caravan and pinning the blame on the High Elves. When a Dwarf emissary sought an explanation from the current Phoenix King, the Phoenix King denied involvement. Tensions rose until the Phoenix King ordered the Dwarf be shaved and cast out of Ulthuan. This led to what the Dwarfs call The War of Vengeance or, as the High Elves call it, the War of the Beard. After years of fighting, Malekith made his move and the High Elves were forced to pull back to Ulthuan. But there were those who were sick of fighting so they stayed in the Old World and settled in Athel Loren, where they would eventually become the Wood Elves.

53:18 Lizardmen and Grand cathay are currently the two best factions to learn from. Lizardmen teach monster rush army tactics; Grand cathay teaches defensive army tactics.

I love dwarfs I myself am short and I embrace being 5ft king I drink ale work with my hands and grow a beard feels good man.

If you want to be a defensive oriented faction then the dwarfs and chaos dwarfs is your safest bet, high elves second

The coolest part about tomb kings is that they are no mere thralls to vampires/necromancers. Some still retain even personalities from when they were alive and consume food and do "other" living activities in fits of nostalgia they cant shake.

31:05 the wild hunt is a mythological thing where fey and spirits rush through the night as a magical storm, in the warhammer fantasy world it is more like the wood elves go on a merry rampage throughout the lands, they do this to maintain the bond between them and the forest spirits, though it's been some time since i last read the lore of the wood elves

39:37 that is true, Ulthuan is a floating island that was given to the elves as their home by the Old Ones, since it is a magical island it is verry difficult to reach and it is the only place the skaven have not reached yet, orcs and goblins also never showed up there, until Grom the Paunch, the most infamous Goblin of all goblins was given a mission by Gork and Mork (the orc gods) themselves. Grom left the empire which he had almost completely butchered and set out to sea, most of his army drowned but he still managed to reach Ulthuan with a sizable army. Grom's invasion was devastating and the warbosses shaman instructed him to tople waystones that kept the isle afloat as well as kept the great vortex (which funnels away chaos energy from the mortal realm) running. pancreasnowork made a vid about Grom as well

Wood elves were high elf settlers back in the day but they thought the trees were neat so they fucked off permanently

Oh yeah. forgor to mention. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND at least one video from "Grim Kleaper" for you to react to before starting. It's a blast and it gives you an idea of pretty much what wacky stuff you can do in a campaign. They are editted down to around 15 mins or so My fav is his Tomb kings video: dismantling the IRS with necromancy. It's funny af and I'm curious what someone who hasn't played the game yet would think of it :)

Dwarves can't cast spells traditionally, because it petrifies them slowly (the leader of the Chaos Dwarves is 50% stone by now so he had to build himself an exosuit so he could keep moving). How exactly that interacts with runes in the lore is not something I know much about, but yeah.

On Norsca, remember that they got almost wiped out entirely by Sigmar once, only 3 Ships escaped the massacre in Nordland, or short: they already need chaos to balance out their own inbreeding

1:09:28 That was actually a change that Greasus got in Patch 4.1. He was so fast that the game couldn't actually work properly with it due to animation limitations so he was still slower then what he should have been technically capable of (his speed could be buffed in the campaign too, even beyond 500).Sadly, this didn't work with his actual charge speed which would override his new speed and instead slow him down to his old speed... unless you don't target the enemy unit and just order him to move THROUGH it instead of charging INTO it at which point he keeps all of his speed anyway while damaging enemy units. After all, he didn't technically charge them! 1:09:41 I don't recall this being a thing in WHF although the ogres could still eat some insane stuff like hot lava and troll meat without dying if they trained themselves hard enough. The ogors (who are all but outright said to be related to ogre survivors from WHF) from Age of Sigmar are known to eat demons though by using Maw-Pots. This is because Maw-Pots are divine artifacts and thus mess up the very essence of things like demons. There's also plenty of storys of them eating some insane stuff like enemy war machines (piece by piece, even the fuel which ended up killing the poor guy), ghosts, souls, raw magic ect.

The Grim Kleaper has some pretty good TW3 videos. He's done Nurgle, Skaven, and Tomb Kings iirc

So funny story about Maliketh. Originally, the Flame of Asuryan DID reject him, but come the End Times there was a significant retcon where the Flame didn't actually reject Malekith, because he was the son of Aenarion the Defender, the first Phoenix King, who had cast himself into the Flame as well. What people forget is that the Flame of Asuryan _burned_ Aenarion to death as we walked through it, and then he rose as the Phoenix King and walked out the other side stronger and angrier than ever before as a living embodiment of Asuryan himself. This was NOT a painless process, and the Phoenix King is supposed to use magic to pass through the flames unscathed upon their coronation; something Aenarion and Bel Shaanar the Explorer, the Second Phoenix King, both presumably did during their coronation, but Aenarion specifically chose to walk back into the fire a second time without protection. Maliketh chose to ignore the traditional wards because he believed he was the rightful king and would not need the protective wards because his father had managed to survive without them, so when he went into the Flame of Asuryan without any wards and discovered that fire is indeed very hot, he was understandably quite surprised and ran screaming back the way he came rather than committing like Aenarion. So, technically Malekith has ALWAYS been the rightful king of the elves, but his own fuck-ups, misunderstandings and hesitation has forever denied him his birthright.

You had it in one on the "rock, paper, scisors" mechanic, as units are naturally better at different things like spearmen being able to resist or outright ignore the extra damage charging units do, while some units are "ethereal" and incredibly resistant to purely physical attacks and ignore enemy armor, but fold like paper mache if targetted by a damaging spell or a unit with magically imbued weapons. Yes, vamp counts are very reliant on their leaders and also very very thin on ranged units, but a clever player can utilize a combination of their corpse carts and resilient, resurrecting chaff to drag the enemy into a war of attrition they cannot win. There's even a unit or two that imbues the weapons of all units around them with magic, so they can ignore the physical damage resistance of things like dwarven slayers and chaos daemons.

11:23 yes, the dwarfs are naturally resistant to magic, and if they use it, they turn to stone. Its due to the fact that at it's core, magic is the energy of chaos, translated into many emotions / actions. The dwarfs of old thus decided to create rune magic to even the playing field. By inscribing runes into something and slamming them with the hammer they can channel and concentrate the winds into them, thus using them in an indirect way that doesnt use their body as a medium, but the rune instead.

"Settra the Imperishable,", "King of Kings," "High King of Nehekhara, the Khemrikara," "Lord of the Earth," "Monarch of the Sky," "Ruler of the Four Horizons," "Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert," "Great Hawk of the Heavens," "Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands," "Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions" ................. "Owner of the biggest set of brass balls in all warhammer" Was all set to take his final revenge against Nagash until the chaos gods commanded him to kill his nemesis......... Settra does not serve, he rules. Told Nagash he'd be back later to finish him off, then strode off to kill the chaos gods.

Kislev: "hey do you like bears and guns?" uhhh, yes? "GOOD NEWS!"

48:55 Black arks are basically new armies that only spawn and move on the sea. At the same time they are recruiting hubs, and you can build on them, while also providing artillery support if you start a battle in their range, it also increases the loot and slaves you obtain if you finish battles in their range. The other added dynamic is that due to their moving nature, you can focus building economic buildings on cities to bolster your economy, leaving the black arks to take on the recruitment buildings.

Beastmen actually do worship the Chaos Gods individually, but that comes down to the preferences of the individual and their Warherd. There are Khorngors, Slaangors, Tzaangors, and Poxigors, who are all Beastmen who have sworn themselves to one Chaos God in particular, although in practice the Beastmen are, much like Norsca and the Warriors of Chaos, a Chaos Undivided faction that fields specific units devoted to a Chaos God, rather than an entire army list and playstyle dedicated to one Chaos God. The Champions of Chaos fill that particular role in Total War: Warhammer 3, although from a lore and tabletop perspective they'd either be lumped into the Warriors of Chaos or specific factions tied to each Chaos God depending on how the organisational structure of the armies at the time. Case in point? Dragon Ogres USED to be part of the Beastmen army list, being monstrous inhuman beasts devoted to Chaos instead of regular human followers of Chaos, before getting transferred out of the Beastmen as a faction and getting stuck in the Warriors of Chaos. There is technically nothing stopping a named Dragon Ogre or other Chaos Lord leading a multi-faction Chaos army, but for the sake of simplicity this is streamlined to avoid occurrences of faction soup when certain armies are allowed to mix units too easily. Look up the idea of 'Imperial soup' and tell me that doesn't sound nightmarish to manage...

Remember the Dwarfs and their downfall? One of the reasons for it was Mazdamundi, the giant toadlike lizardman on the floating chair. He got up one day and was like "well the tectonic plates aren't quite how they should be". So he fixed it, just like that. One guy collapsing massive chunks of the underway which are the dwarven underground highways and damaging most of the dwarfholds.

One thing you pointed out with the beastmen is actually one of my biggest gripes with GW: you are, indeed, right, there are supposed to be beastmen of any kind of animals HOWEVER GW only produced goats (gors) and bulls (minotaurs). Of course, you can kitbash and there are a lot of 3rd party options... but if you wish to partecipate in any official competition (no matter if a game tournament or a painting one) you HAVE to only use official GW parts or parts sculpted by you (which is legit, but I still would like some more options, like boars and co). Recently GW has introduced beastmen specifically for Tzeentch (tzaangors) and they are basically horned, wingless birdmen... you know Tzeentch loves himself a good bird. Oh, (kinda) fun fact about Morathi: her old model was topless and, for that, it was notoriously one of the most STOLEN model in tournaments and shops alike... guess thirsty losers were always a thing...

19:45 yep that happened, and only because Mannfred Von Carstein betrayed Vlad, the first vampire war was wild, the book of choyer has a video on vlad and that first great war I believe

27:09 they do directly worship chaos, it's just that the chaos gods are pretty neglectfull towards their children, hence why extra mutations given by them are seen with even more reverence, there are also beastmen that are chosen by one god in particulat such as Tzaangors.

18:14 those spectre knights are hexwraiths, they were sent by Morr the god of the dead to slay those that cheat death, but were bound into service instead

The gigantic bats that walk on the ground are vampires that did nothing but hunt and kill and drink blood. It seems when vampires do not learn how to control necromancy or refuse to put on the pretense of civilization they become like animals, Walking on all fours and unable to appear as anything other than giant monsters.

4:25 the skaven are arguably the most hightech, though it should be noted that engines like farsqueakers (telephones) and their warplightning cannons are not stable or extremely reliant like the tech of the Dwarves. Even then it is mostly Clan Skyre and their concurents that have the most technological power, which they sell for warp tokens. dwarves however take extremely long before they decide something is ready to be widely used, unlike skaven who are not so cautious, some dwarf engineers have made sentry turrets, submarines, and zeppelins, but the other dwarves don't always trust these new things that much and tend to be more conservative. the Empire meanwhile is innovating frequently, the plans for steamtanks may be lost, but it is telling that they have a rivalry with dwarfs on who invented the first rifle. they are improving sniper rifles, armor, gunpowder and more, Nuln is propably the most technologically advanced in that regard. when it comes to reliability the dwarves come first and the humans second, however when it comes to the destructive power then Skyre's crazy engines of war are superior.

Dwarfs: KILL EVERYTHING WITHOUT A BEARD! Chaos Dwarfs: …How now, brown cow? Dwarfs: …Crap.

You mentioned the potential dynamic Grimgor could have about his eye. Well that dynamic exists, but not with him. Instead it is Boris Todbringer of the Empire who took an eye of the Beastman Khazrak One-Eye, and a year later Khazrak took one eye of Boris.

Fun fact: a guy call Tarriff meme the living hell out of Norscan because they faction is so bad and CA haven't giving them a rework. so now they are basically a bunch of ape that can't fathom the concept of "wa-ll"

Karl Franz, elector count of Reikland, rightfull owner of Ghal Maraz, wielder of the Reikland Runefang, prince of Altdorf, rider of Deathclaw, Emperor of Man, heir of Sigmar Heldenhammer and the greatest statesman of the old world. They forgot a few of his titles XD

If you want a reason to play Beastmen, it’s this: Reject Modernity, Return to Monke. If you want to go all in on the War part of Total War, if you don’t feel like juggling trade deals and alliances, if you don’t want to worry about who defends your provinces, or how to support your economy, if you just want to _rampage and leave desolation in your wake…_ Beastmen.

Also with Luther Harkon, he tried to increase his magical power using lizardmen tech but it backfired and instead of increasing his magical power he basically became a black hole of magic, like a mini vortex, and he is now unable to use any magic except for his ability to raise undead. While it does weaken him it also has made it so that magic attacks do little to him, like if you throw a fireball at him it becomes less like a devistating ball of magical fire and more like throwing a candle at someone

In regards to Greasus, it wasn’t a programming error that turned him into the fastest fat alive. No, no, the reality is even funnier. He was getting a buff for his dismal 35 speed in a hotfix, and this was a long time coming. The ogres were a pre-order bonus, and ever since release players complained about his speed, especially since ogres are shockingly fast overall. So Creative Assembly meant to buff his speed to 40. Unfortunately the guy who did this added an extra zero by mistake. So Greasus’s memetic speed boost wasn’t due to a bug. It was due to a _typo._

Dwarfs wento to war over a bad shave with the elves, so yeah, RUNE OF DOOOOM!

The dwarf end game crisis is named a grudge too far

Always nice to see new people react to the Total War Warhammer stuff. If you want to learn more about Warhammer Fantasy lore I highly recommend you check out someone called “Loremaster of Sotek.” He’s pretty much the only content creator I know on RU-vid who has done really in-depth lore videos covering a bunch of characters important to the setting. He also does topics specific to each race/faction in the form of Q&A series and more obscure topics in the form of podcasts and vids.

46:10 that armor keeps him alive, after all he was burnt by the flames of a god.

I got the Karl Franz model as a christmas gift. Its an older model, but god does it look good. I want to make it a showcase piece for display

27:08 Of course they are. Chaos factions include: All the Monogod factions, Chaos Undivided, the Beastmen, Norsca and the Warriors of Chaos. In theory the Chaos Dwarves are also a Chaos faction, but they are substantially different from the others.

24:00 that creature you see in the background is a chaos spawn. That is what happens when the chaotic energy overwhelms the creature, and mutates it or them out of control. Thus creating a writhing mass of muscle, claw, flesh, sinew and creeping appendages that shouldnt be there.

21:52 necromancy is pretty powerful but you need to know how and when to use it, sure if you can keep winning battles you will win, but almost every vampire count that attacked the empire did so when it was weakened or in strife, if your opponents has prepared themselves for your arrival and you have no way to counter it and they start sniping your necromancers or send battle priests and light wizards to annihilate swaths of your troops to get close to you you have a problem

It's kinda funny where you mentioned the whole taking each other's eye rivalry with grimgore Ironside Because that rivalry does exist just not grimgore It's between the beastman khazrak one eye and Boris Toddbringer of the Empire

Grimgor Ironhide has legit only "lost" twice and calling them losses is even a bit of a stretch. The first time Grimgor was technically defeated was in a massive battle against the chaos lord Krom the Conqueror when they faced off in Norsca. While the chaos host and the orc Waaaagh slammed into eachother the herald of Archaeon and the green slaughterer met in the middle to engage in single combat. Grimgor went in with pure berzerk strength and just tried to cut Krom down as quickly as possible while Krom used his superior speed and shield to block and parry away Grimgor. This made Grimgor enraged, he had come here because he heard that the worshipers og chaos were great warriors, yet here was their lord, parrying, defending, evading. Grimgors rage grew with every attack blocked and every blow dodged, with his attacks becoming faster and stronger as his rage grew. After a while, Krom jumped backwards and lowered his weapons, just looking at Grimgor. Grimgor simply shouted "KEEP FIGHTING!". Yet Krom simply stood there and that's when Grimgor looked around and realised something. He was completely surrounded by chaos warriors and his own army was fleeing over the hills. Grimgor was not happy about this, but he wasn't stupid, he knew he couldn't take on an entire chaos host by himself. So he simply backed away, walking through the chaos warriors who parted like a sea before him, glaring in every direction, just daring any of them to try and stop him. Once he had walked so there were no more chaos warriors around him he hoofed it after his army, probably screaming curse words with every step The second time Grimgor was defeated was the time when he died. At the climax of the end times Grimgor faced off against Archaeon the ever chosen, lord of the end times, as he thought Archaeon was the only person left in the world who could give him a proper fight. So Grimgor and Archeon locked horns, battling in the middle of the shattered remains of the city of Middenheim. As the fight dragged on, slowly but surely, Archaeon was forcing Grimgor back, but then as they clashed their weapons together, pushing against each other, Grimgor pull his head back and delivered an earthshaking 'EADBUTT! to Archaeon. Shattering the magical crystal called the eye of Shirrian which gave Archaeon sight a few seconds into the future as well as shattering his helmet, the crown of domination. This swung the fight firmly into Grimgors favour and he begun to push Archaeon back, eventually overpowering him. But Archaeon had a trick up his sleeve that Grimgor did not see coming. As Grimgor went for the killing blow Archaeon released Uzhull, the demon inside his sword named the slayer of kings. This demon gave Archaeon extreme increase in strength, speed and durability. Catching Grimgor completely off guard Archaeon unleashed such a flurry of blows that Grimgor did not even have time to raise his axe to defend himself as he was cut down by the lord of the end times

warhammer fantasy has been split into two...well sort of 4 versions depending on how you see it - the OG Warhammer was set in the same universe as 40k - the Chaos Gate at the north pole is actually a broken Slaan warp gate that fell from orbit while it still open during the War in Heaven era (C'tan/Necron vs Slaan aka The Old ones) and Chaos Champions could get a dark blessing called "Gift of Technology" which allowed you to pick a ranged weapon from the Chaos Spacemarine army list and have it fused to their arms.... as you can imagine a boltgun or plasma cannon is this setting was OP as all hell.... oh and the Berserker Blade artefact was just a chainsword that would rebound on a roll of 1 and hit the wielder XD as you can imagine this version was phased out. for the longest time the main line Warhammer was a table top game of squares and rectangles - strong unit and regiment focus which is the setting that The Total War series follows. Then there was The Age of Sigmar which took a lot of the systems from 40k like smaller loose squad style formations and......added an Angelic counter part to the Chaos Warriors which sort of lessened the grimdarkness abit IMO. This is the current version of the Table Top game. and finally there is the Up and coming Warhammer: The Old World which is basically a return to older version with some revised rules which I'm personally looking forward to. ^_^

Not done with total war Warhammer 3 yet still got the faction introductions to watch.

24:03 oh that thing in the background, that's just a chaos spawn, when the gods of chaos bestow too manny mutations on you, or just feel like it they can turn you into one of those things

31:14 Outside they still fare well, it's not like they become weaker, but! Elves are a race that is naturally squishyer than others and have the second lowest vigor. So, yes you preferably want to set up defensive formations in trees, cuz they get buffed that way. Wood elves differentiate from the others by being the faction with the highest magic affinity, and archer variety. So they really focus on the range aspect of the elves. High elves have higher defenses and stats than other elves if their hp is higher than 50%; Dark elves focus on flanking and team attacks, and their ability is if enough models die, they go into murderous prowess, and deal a lot more damage for x seconds.

The greenskins are “Chaos Neutral, the faction”. They don’t care who you fight for; Norscan, human, Dwarf, Elf, Undead, Skaven, Daemon… they all have fights to give, and loot to pillage, and that’s what a green skin lives for: fighting and winning. They have no semblance of culture other than Might makes Right at a distance, but they’re smarter (and more religious) than what they seem, especially their warbosses, for after having lived countless battles you inevitably start learning a thing or two about your enemies. But when a Warboss gets too smart, everybody knows they’re a threat that must be put out before it’s too late. It also helps that their bravado also increases with their infamy, but if they’re infamous, it means they have a HUGE following. They’re the black mold equivalent of irl housing. Nobody knows where it came from, everyone hates it, and it’s very hard to get rid of. Still, they’re the “great equalizer”, when a faction gets too strong, the greenskins start to fight them out of joy, making the “strong” faction fight a battle of attrition as more warbands come knocking at their doors until they’re beaten, and the greenskins bored. They don’t do it out of goodness out of their hearts or strategic nuance, they do this because they like fighting. Nothing more, nothing less.

Love fantasy and 40k. But in both universes the ultimate fate is: “you’re right fucked mate, things aren’t going to end well” It’s really a classic theme of 40k and fantasy. The end is coming and it’s going to suck major willy, still might as well keep clawing through the mud as long as you can. Might be able to stave off the end a little longer.

39:22 magic which the Slann taught them in the age of the old ones

IMHO, Warhammer Fantasy is a lot less dark than 40k - specifically, there are some races that could be considered "good guys", even if they are at war with each other. High Elves, Wood Elves, Dwarves, Brettonians, the Empire, and even Lizardfolk could all be considered "Good Guys". In 40k, every faction is some flavor of "evil".

34:58 mostly yes, although on the table top there used to also be knights who fought on foot

39:59 yes, the wood elves were the first to split off from the high elves, cuz they were tired of all the political scheming of the high elves. The dark elves came to be during the first demonic incursion, when Aenarion the Phoenix king at the time drew the sword of khaine and cursed his bloodline forever. But at the same time, the creation of the dark elves is what tipped the scales in their favor. But later due to political disputes, the sundering happened and the dark elves and the high elves separated.

I'm late to the party, but been enjoying your Total War Warhammer reactions! I saw in one of your videos you wanted to see how the character and unit looks in actual gameplay. And I'd recommend looking at the Sync-kill compilations people upload. There's a channel that called DyslexicEphelant most of them, and a channel called TotalWarLibrary that has some of the more recent stuff. They are some cool animation showcases that show the units in action. Then there are cinematic footage like EngagingBears. His is all actual gameplay, but just filmed in a cinematic way. Highly recommend his videos, particularly "Legendary Strength" or some of his other battle montages.

Something not touched upon is within the empire they worship multiple gods depending on the region, the men of Kislev and Middenheim for instance worship Ulric instead of Sigmar, a hunter god of winter, he's all about self reliance and toughness. Or Morr the god of death, but he's more a god based around the protection of the dead from unnatural resurrection from necromancy. There's also men from other kingdoms which have no connection to the empire such as Bretonnia or Araby

Another glorious Video by Legitweebs! hmmmmmmmmmmm

DOSE 40K GITS DON'T STANDS A CHANCE, WEEZ GOT KARL ZOGGIN FRANZ

59:07 Nagash the Great Necromancer, Ptra burn his soul, was the one who brought ancient Nehekhara low, Cursed be his name.

Ngl Gor-Rok and Kroak can solo the entire campain :) It's easily one of my fav one (well, two) man doomstacks after Malus-Darkblade who can also paint the whole map red :) If you wanna start with something fun and simple, i REALLY SUGGEST either Gor-Rok , a free dlc for lizardmen (other lizardmen are a bit harder). or a high-elf faction, Tyrion is the most beginner-friendly. (I would normally suggest Imrik cause dragons go brrrrrrr, but his start is difficult for a beginner) But either way you gonna have a blast. Can't wait to see it. ^_^

Dwarf women probably do have beards, just not on their faces i'd assume

If you want more in-depth lore, you sgould check out channels like Loremaster of Sotek, Great Book of Grudges, ItalianSpartacus and other such channels. Though this is probably better do in your private time, not really good reaction videos. I also recommend just reading the wiki.

by sigmar what are you? a merchant from Ind? well dont go into estalia there are bad rats there, may sigmar bless your path!

Looks like next year will be filled with Warhammer for you, huh? Not bad, not bad at all!

Lord mandalore has a good review of warhammer 2

Cody Bonds has very new player/new to warhammer friendly videos, with a bit of memes mixed in. Could check out his lizardmen ones or Settra.

Settra vid would b poG

The Cathayan Commanders *are* Dragons that turn/take the form of humans.

3:17 pancreasnowork happens to hace a video about Karl, he is one of pancreas's favorite characters

9:15 that is actually one of the events in game yes

49:44 oh my sweet summer child, you don’t know

34:20 yep bretonnia has an air force

10:20 Dwarf women do indeed exist, but they do not have beards. Rather, they have plaits, or long braided hair. Beards are very, VERY important to Dwarfs culturally, as a beard can heavily signify what type of dwarf that beard belongs too as well as their station. As Dwarfs do not cut their beards (Except to lightly groom it), the length of a dwarfs beard indicates their age, with young Dwarfs being called Beardlings as their Beard barely reaches their waste, while an elder Dwarf can earn the title of 'Long-Beard' for... obvious reasons. Dwarf Women care for their plates just as fiercely as any male would his beard, with young Dwarf women known as Plaitlings. A unique but sad fact about Dwarf genetics results in a skewed gender ratio, with one or two women born for every eight to nine men. As such, Dwarf women are kept out of danger as much as possible out of necessity for the Dwarf Kingdoms survival, though every century the Dwarfs grow smaller in number. Karaz-a-Karak, the largest, mightiest, and most populated Dwarf Hold in the entirety of the Old World and seat of the High King, hosts but a measly 95,000 citizens in the current age. The actual number of Dwarfs may number around 100,000 due to Dwarf merchants and delegations from other Holds, but I doubt it exceeds 100,000 on its best of days. Its great halls lie open and rather empty, as the hollow mountain is a literal shell of its former self compared to its Golden Age.

7:32 pancreas has also made a video about this guy

40K is Grimdark- there is no hope, we are doomed, life sucks and it won't be any better, the encroaching darkness will consume us all in the end. Fantasy was just grim. The odds were hefty and the life harsh, but there was a glimmer hope and in spite of everything humanity held the tide. That is, untill GW did The End Times, and unlike Storm of Chaos that was equally if not more shit, End Times wasn't retconned and stuck around. It's not even the fact that they ended the Fantasy but how they did it. It felt like GW spit in our faces and took a fat steaming shit on our bed. Some of the highlights were things like Thorgrim getting assassinated by Snikch via knife in the back bc he forgot to close the door behind him... Absolutely no respect to the setting or any of the characters with the only person in the entire setting that got a cool sendoff being Settra.

the wild hunt is actually originally from old mythology be it nordic or germanic its a horrible insane rush of warriors across the skies

Vampire Coast has the greatest range game in Total War

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