Why You SUCK with Nurgle 

Enjoy "You SUCK" vids alot.. love your style and humor

As someone who adored playing Nurgle in the ROC map, I was so sad to find myself struggling so much with him in immortal empires. I’d all but written off Kugath as unusable until something changed but this lit a fire in me to play him again.

Definitely agree, especially economically. Run negative, sack lots, value heroes. Nurgle's one of my favourite factions, unironically (sad this needs saying), and this is good stuff.

I hope nurgle faction gets a bit of a buff, he's got it very rough at the beginning and he doesn't get much stronger as he goes on, though they seem to be busy making the chaos dwarfs as overpowered as possible right now.

I hope this series allows you to keep your channel growing, your videos are very well made (and you sound like somebody who reads out audiobooks for a living)

Great video, i will definetly make use of it in my 30th dwarf campaign

Extremely well put together video. You managed to make nurgle seem almost worth trying. Can't wait to see more of these!

THANK YOU! Hopefully now we'll get slightly less misunderstanding on this faction. I also want to add to not underestimate Nurglings, especially crap stacks of them. They are very cost effective and you can spawn them anywhere you want in your territory. They make for some amazing emergency army to defend yourself with.

Thanks for this. Been wanting to do a Nurgle campaign for a while but could never get past that slog of an early game. Will definitely be putting your tips to use

I played nurgle in realms of chaos when i first got Warhammer 3. And my experince with them was horrible. The campaign was a slog all the way through, but even though I managed to win that campaign, I never wanted to touch them again until they went through a rework. After watching this video, you inspired me to try them again in IE. I used your tips, I shit on Ghorst, conquered all of Cathay, and even went down south to slap Kairos back out of existence. I managed to get a long campaign victory, and I enjoyed it so much. I cannot overstate how much your tips helped me. This campaign was so much fun!

Good video! I've been messing around with Nurgle on higher difficulties, testing different unit compositions and plague strategies. It's a tough start, but once you can get going (and don't rely on autoresolve) you become absolutely unstoppable.

I love Nurgle in concept. I just feel the plagues need to do more. Clan Pestilens in WH2 felt amazing because the plagues actually did massive impact. The attrition changes in WH3 made both skaven plague and the Nurgle damage plague feel so worthless.

So the algorithm has deemed me worthy of blessing me with your video in my feed. I absolutely LOVE your content now - Thank you for putting information and humor into these!

Thank you so much. Nurgle is my fav faction, and I brute forced my way through everything in my previous play through, which involved a lot of dying, resetting, back tracking, gold I didn’t have and just overall tears. It was still fun at the end, but I had to do it on easy, and I want to go to normal difficulty for my next play through. This has been so helpful. Thank you

thanks man, this is a really good video. like a lot of others in the comments i tried nurgle and just didn't get it. Looking forward to trying again applying your advice, i did indeed level kugath's spell line lol

Thank you SOOO much for these! I've always loved the Daemons of Chaos and they were practically UNPLAYABLE for me in this game! I managed to gring Gorst out once and just abandoned the campaign there feeling like it was already over. This looks great!

This is the first video that i have seen from you and i have never touch Total War game but you really explain things clearly in a short time and i think your voice delivery was perfect. Good Vid 👌

GREAT video! Would definitely watch a series of this

I subscribed and liked when you showed that ranged attack in "your leveling wrong". Awesome stuff.

This style of content is incredible, I sincerely hope you get around to doing all the factions eventually. I unironically think it would be really useful for new and advanced players alike. I vote for "why you suck with skaven" next

Okay, this is insane quality for the amount of subs, you my friend are going places.

Almost knew the last tip was coming when I used to play nurgle without the DLC and it would show my characters had unlocked the war shrine but couldn’t even use it haha😊

This helps a lot and i wish there was more videos like this all the lords/factions. I tend to play all the factions generally the same and while this works most the time, some like nurgle kind of require you to play different or it doesn't work, but i also like seeing these things because encouraging me to play the game differently breathes life or nurgles case death back into the game and makes the campaigns more fun then just cookie cutter builds/playstyle that i use.

Didn’t feel like playing nurgle but I do now! Great video thank you! Subbed!

Great vid, I'd recommend adding example army comps especially for tough stages such as nurgle early game

The joke's on you, I can't suck with Nurgle if I don't play as Nurgle!

I expect all the factions on my desk soon! As in I’m saying I’m up to watch a entire series of you doing these!!

I appreciate videos like this. I am always willing to believe that the reason I do bad with a army is not cause its bad, but because I'm trash at it and likely don't understand HOW I'm suppose to play them.

Helman Ghorst is by far the most annoying opponent to go up against in this campaign for me especially with how quickly they can get a full stack going, while you’re also fighting another faction simultaneously. Great guide btw.

Such a good guide! Subscribing in the hope we get similar ones on other factions! I loved how you focused on faction strengths and weaknesses as well as common pitfalls and good strategies instead of giving a 40 turn recipe.

This is a really good video. As someone who really enjoys play nurgle and using the plague mechanics, this video was and is a serious help. The video also helped me develop an early game strat to manage Ghorst and lizardmen being that after I take the Isles settlement, I recruit a lord and all nurglings for Ku’gath, march north and take that settlement then through the sea to take the lizard men capital. Following such, rush back to the northern settlement to then set an ambush. I always found that once the ambush was set, Ghorst was stuck in flayed rock with about a half stack at Skrap towers that dies without much of hitch, especially with a great deal of steam of corruption spam since Ghorst couldn’t heal fast enough to counteract such. Again thank you for the great video!

Loved the video, instant subscribe, keep it up i'll definitely mention you to all my friends, none of whom have any interest in Total War or Warhammer, so make of that what you will.

Would love for you to cover some other factions, such a great video!

How can I not try it with such dulcet tones goading me into it. Subscribed!

Terrific tips, thanks!

thanks for this video. I love playing Nurgle, but as you say I suck with them. Will try these new ideas out. Thanks again!

So some tips and cheeses with Nurgle to provide full comfortable but also keep the challenge going: 1. If you recruit 3 additional lords early on, passing the plague between them (better if you pass in order like 1 to 2, 2 to 3, etc.) you can absurdly boost the infection counts because game is really tough to receive this information from you for some reason. So in turn you can get from 14 to 31 or more spreads of infections, allowing you to unlock the juicy stuff with recipe plagues. 2. Although it's not as good to take Ogres early, you might have to because they usually declare war on you on sight and their armies are really annoying to deal with (not hard, but annoying), so taking them(Greasus primarily) gives you some mid provinces with much resources. Beware of Grimgor tho. Also taking his province allow you to meet caravans which are a good snack for your economy, especially if you have 4 lords in one place, primarily since the number of lords multiply the loot of caravan. 3.Be sure to either befriend Drazhoath to keep the west safe, or aggresively take him with Imrik out, because both of them are kind of pain in the arse to deal with. Especially Imrik, frick Imrik. 4.Number of infections post-battle options depends on how much you captured (1 to 1 iirc), so if there's much high number quantity of infantry, better to fight it manually and kill the units if they routed. Don't just outright kill them if you know you're gonna win. Especially with regenerating stuff like Ghorst zombies you can get 1000+ infections post battle. Be sure to do that in field battles, not settlements, as they don't count captures. 5. -40% armour may seem meh, but for autoresolve it's busted because of how highly it's rated there. So if you really don't want to fight pesky Vilitch army, harass with attrition, then pop palsy (-4 MA), - missile damage and -armor, send the plague cultist to Vilitch when he is damaged. Then with your stack pop the phys res recipe plague and wha-bam AR is on your side.

I've watched my friend in coop do well with Nurgle, meanwhile I can't stand even the first 10 turns. Your notes give me some context on how I need to think when playing that actually makes me want to try the faction out again - No small feat!

Hope you continue this series with all the factions. Beastmen, lizardmen etc. Love it full of info. Earned a sub.

Bloody brilliant video!

Love these.

Nice video and narration.

100% Agree. The Way your said it, i did it a while ago and had a full Map covered in green and Plagues.

will there be an update to this vifeo after the release of nexts week's Thrones of Decay DLC? I love Nurgle and Kugath and I suck at playing as nurgle

A lot of the points you made, I've been doing with Ku'Gath and really enjoying his campaign. He does have a hard start though.

Lol Ghost and the tech tree have been my two banes since it's felt like he's always delayed me for far too long, thanks for this alt way to deal with him. Idk why I didn't think of the few small things, but I just always got it backwards on who sieges and who doesn't.

excellent guide. Funny thing is that I did Nurgle campaign two weeks ago and I did exactly the same thing as you said in this video without knowing it :D Something went wrong however because I was doing great killed Ghorst and Greasus but Imrik got too strong and Cathay minor faction both declared war on me and I got surrounded from both sides while being very poor and could barely afford 2 armies I gave up on the campaign.

I rush for 35% replenishment and vanguard deployment plague and build each town for cranking out soulgrinders (about 7 or 8). good point about minor settlements too, you only need a t3 for a town that gives soulgrinders and minor settlements work just fine.

From the golden streets of Cathay to the slums of Nurgle was a rough transition for my first rts game. Still haven't completed a campaign run on Ku'Gath. I'm on turn 50 slogging through the orc ravines like you said not to. Many restarts to get to this point. I will utilise the sacking strat as I've been occupying all settlements which would explain being broke 24/7. Thanks for the tips, you should make more faction guides like this 👍

Good video! Subbed.

I agree with all but the last one because I spend my money horribly and thus have the DLC, thanks for the vid I learned alot about how to improve as Nurgle.

Excellent video as always! Good points made throughout. Maybe now the only thing I’ll suck with is Slaanesh 😐

Nurgle is my fav faction lore wise so I'm hyped for thrones of decay. Great vid I'm leaving sub for more.

Nice video, you're the first person that's played TW: WH3 and doesn't hate nurgle o mark it as an incomplete faction, that i've seen in the community.

Noob question: what about nurglings? I feel like my first attempt at Nurgle also crashed and burned because I was neglecting my infrastructure buildings and nurgling bonuses. My second go around I stacked bonuses to get me more and cheaper nurglings and I swear the green tide was jealous with how many units I threw at zombie man. Plus the infrastructure buildings help you get to your heroes faster and spread the plague so I'm wondering if you ignore the buildings and Nurglings or just assumed everyone was building them since that's what good players do (unlike my noob mistakes)

Love your content. Its a bit unfortunate Nurgle need the DLC somewhat but is it viable to use them without while still following your guide?

Thanks alot for this. Please make a tzeentch guide as well.

Also don’t forget to use your channel winds army stance as often as you can since the lore of nurgle has such high winds of magic costs

Thank you kind friend of Grandfather I struggled with Nurgle and especially my boy Kugath but this should help I have one question though if your playing as Kugath can you still ascend your Sorcerers I thought that was a Festus only thing?If not I feel like I need to slap myself repeatedly as well as slap myself for not seeing your points sooner as your correct in everything I have been playing this all wrong.

Bunching up units was a really great tip, i beat a VC army three times larger!

Pure poetry of a video

Blobbing works, but another good way to handle battles is to use exalted plaguebearers, with a row of nurglings in front of them, because nurglings are small, the plaguebearers can use their ranged attack still while the nurglings hold the enemies at bay, and if some of the nurglings die, oh well, they are just nurglings and can be easily replaced.

I like taking the capital before the settlement with the lizards to the north, if you put your backup lord just out to sea they will usually try to attack that and you can retreat just out of range. After that you can easily take out their half stack with your near full stack.

Thank Grandfather for this guide. I shall spread his virulent love to all. Btw, that “This is prioritizing your targets… There is no honor in Kugath Plaguedaddy” gave me Sun Tzu vibes

This video is incredibly helpful. May make me revisit nurgle ME again if I get the chaos dlc. Sadly I had the misfortune of playing nurgle ME in ME beta... having to drag through every single minor settlement battle as nurgle. While I did eventually get rid of ghorst with ambushes, the ogres would rapidly declare war on you (not sure why as i thought ogres were unhygenic by lore). Later Imrik would also declare war and cathayian factions resulting in a 3v1. The turning point for me was vassalizing some skaven (clan Treecherik. They get trashed by Ghorst and Greasus early so are easy to vassalize) and defending them till they got to tier 3 where I used ratling guns and plague claws to finally turn the tide... But by that point I gave up cause it felt more like my army was 4 skaven units carrying a bunch of nurgle units rather than being an actual nurgle army... as your actual damage dealing units are locked behind that infuriating merry-go-round system. At least I now do know how critical the DLC is for nurgle to perform.

Played a Festus campaign a few months back, was very challenging but I had the most fun I've had in awhile in TW

If you must fight ghorst make sure to get as many exalted heroes on horseback, with maxed damage leveling as you can. Keep these hidden, once the enemy has engaged bring them out and snipe ghorst, he typically cant out heal their dps.

Seeing this makes me want to try out Ku'Gath in Immortal Empires. I still hope that Thrones of Decay throws a revision into Ku'Gath to put the Nurgling Faction buffs into his lord effects and make his faction effects into buffs on plagues, purely because offshoot lords being incentivized to also use a lot of Nurglings doesn't quite sit right for me. Especially since Ku'Gath's schtick is trying to make the best plagues, and making his faction's plagues better than the upcoming ToD Nurgle Lord's would be nice, else he get the Skrolk treatment.

Hi I'm here from Reddit. Nice channel bro good growth

Did you spawn a second Lord on your first or second turn? Also you were speaking of getting his "yellow" skills going but your mouse was pointing on his campaign tree, which has a few points already spent in it, so which is first? The campaign tree or the yellow tree?

I found that chaos spawn outperform warriors in every way for a similar price, nowadays I only build rancid aloe for spawn and soulgrinders, and then garden of blight if I got some spare cash. Cav is also kinda useless, soulgrinders are just better at performing the cav role lol

I'm bookmarking this video to watch later, gotta sleep, but goddamn your voice can whisper to me while I sleep,

I recommend to those of you that tried Nurgle when IE just to find it a horrible campaign. Ghorst has been fixed, both in his healing cap and that he doesn't start with the Mortis Engine. Also VC in general resurrect less units after the battle. You also have access to the strong units of the chaos champions dlc, which are mandatory. I also recommend the loreful nurgle mod, which gives nurgle units a bit of healing and a slight Mortis Engine effect. Turns nurgle from laughable to scary without being op, you just now have to know what you're dealing with. There's also a SFO version.

"Because I don't know anyone who plays that...other campaign." Perfect!

Nurgle is fun, I just think overall some buffs are needed. Especially with how the recruiting system works, it’s harder to just spam the few solid units the faction has. Some more damage on melee units and some more ranged power that isn’t just Ku’gath’s artillery attack or just magic spam would be nice. More artillery units like Ku’gath would be really nice and really fun. Stronger debuffs and have them more accessible in battle through unit effects or character abilities would also be really good.

I'm facing dark elves early in my campaign, and my early units suck - they get softened up with crossbow volleys and start crumbling as soon as melee starts. What can I do about it? (my heroes don't seem to be enough - perhaps I'm using them wrong)

I really liked Nurgle in immortal empires tbh. Made one of the strongest doomstacks ever that made short work even of the dwarves.

I've been a big nurgle enjoyer for a while and was curious if you could give your take on something I never noticed people doing that kindof seemed intuitive in the midgame. Essentially it involves syncing up your 4 stage resource buildings and using commandments to quickly cycle through the "cheap" stages and skip to the profitable ones to sit on. It would seem it might still just be better to get plagues and sack but do you see any merit in this. The only downside is that the timing on this can be tricky in some areas as you want to sync up pretty much every building to at least be either on the same stage or no more than 1 stage apart. It seems like you would have to micromanage a bit and kindof expect how much money you would need many turns in advance and also use the commandments sometimes to get a building built at a convenient time. I hope I explained this well because although it makes sense to me in theory, it seems a bit difficult to get perfect in a practical sense.

I'd love to see this type of video for Tzeentch

My understanding with Kugath (and Lokhir Fellhart) is that you're supposed to escape your starting position and act as a pseudo horde army. With (WH2) Lokhir I head north to his actual capital, build a powerbase in the relative safety there, then come back down to reclaim my colony in Lustria. (I do the same thing in WH3, but I make the colony more permanent from the start) With Kugath I bee line directly for Cathay, and try to ally with Eshin and Lokhir. The starting armies for Cathay are much easier to deal with than ogres or zombos. If I feel particularly bold (or bored) I take over the elven enclave isles to the south, then go to antartica and try to infect Araby, then upwards from there.

thanks for the tips ... but i just couldnt concentrate for like 80% of the video so i had to watch it again ... well i was thinking about if its actually appropriate to eat while watching this

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I've been adding the comment the last few days because CA revealed a roadmap to Warhammer III. Nurgle is being fixed later in the year. Nurgle is the only faction I struggle to get a foothold in Immortal Empires. I once was able to get a good foothold but didn't understand I needed to attack the Haunted Forest. I didn't even notice it there. Now I can't even get off the island.

I had to restart several times but the trick is for me was to take out Ghorst as quickly as possible and then go after the iron Dragon and take out Cathey.

I believe you that all of these strategies would work well, it's just that most of them are a reaction to really bad design decisions.

Nurgle is hard at the start but once I make headway and get to the higher tier units, the faction shines. I love the faction and cannot stop playing it, trying different combinations of units and so on.

I love this man's voice.

Great video

Followed your advice. Rolled ghorst by turn 14.

I've also noticed my kugath only has 110 missile damage and you have 545 on yours. Is that a skill somewhere that I need to take?

As a Kugath main with all his achievments and multiple finished IE campaigns on legy, i approve of everything you said. Except that i suck with nurgle, because i dont.

For some reason Nurgle is the the only faction I can play. I like the defensive playstyle. I'd love a vid on how to play the ogres better.

After you finish with the vampires you will have to deal with the ogres. As you push north and clear the big bois you'll meet Grimgor around turn 20. One move to make good cash and secure the north: Sell everything in the mountains to Grimgor. Build a 6.5k military building in Greasus' starter province and sell it as the last settlement to Grimgor, big money but it's worth it. He should accept to become a vassal. The mountains are crap climate and settlements (aside from the resources) and having him as a chained dog is great. Kugath and his mates are now free to turn Cathay into a toilet. Just watch the west to ensure whoever you're good with doesn't get wiped by Imrik. Edit: This is still the best Kugath rundown/starter guide out

RoC campaign for warriors of chaos and chaos dwarfs is actually a fuck ton of fun. Hope Blake and the rest of you guys are playing it.

Havent tried ol’goo-gath since pre immortal empires. Played anout 5 turns and said “no thanks”. Will have to try him now that Chaos dwarfs are nearby his start zone.

Of all the Chaos gods, I’d worship Nurgle.

Don't know if anyone else has this problem, but usually, whenever I siege an occupied settlement, the occupier just attacks back immediately. With both the garrison and occupying force, unless my army has considerable heft to it, I usually have to break siege that same turn cycle

its like this vid was made for me. First thing I realised playing Nurgle after so long and first time in IE is that I really needed a full tank of winds of magic. And #7 might uh... take awhile for me to fix xD

My guy, I don't even play this game and I watched it all... your voice is too smooth.

Me completing nurgle's ROC & IE campaign on legendary: You are right, I suck... at having a life lol