Why You SUCK with Skrag 

Alright, and now I've watched the rest of the video, I now understand that the great maw is in fact a supernatural entity of the ogres and not merely referring to a venerable glaswegian matriarch. Will definitely help now that I'm not sending all my meat to govan. You've saved the day as usual, blake :)

It’s always a great day when you get a take from Blake

3:10 Okay I'm not going to lie that got me good. The, "We're boring," guy being a random ogre is perfect lol.

Your videos are so entertaining AND informative. Thank you Blake.

I was not prepared for the Az clip out of nowhere lmao

Another fine take. Something I like to do with ogres is to intentionally piss off the orcs, because orc armies in the early game really have nothing capable of handling ogres which means you get an unlimited supply of meat that cones to you

You're getting better and better at these, genuinely good fun to watch. Cheers Blake!

Mate, keep it up. You're one of the best and most informative TW youtubers out there and no clickbait needed. My Kairos campaign was a blast because of your vid.

Just want to say mate - absolutely love this series and hope you never stop. This video finally made me play the ogres and I am crushing it with them on Hard/Hard thanks to your tips!

Now would be a great time to continue with Kholek, because he has an interesting faction mechanic, and many options to go and lots of legendary lords to contend with in the early game. Maybe you can do polls to determine the next take? 😊

I agree with your takes mostly however my friend you forget or do not know of some amazing ogre abilities often overlooked. 1. Choose your Hunter heroes very carefully! Big names are a big part of the ogre game! Hunters can come with Gnoblarkicker a big name that makes all gnoblars unbreakable! Or Boommaker, the real gem here a stackable 20% increase of damage to leadbelchers and ironblasters! With these big names you can make terrifying dreaded ogre gun line armies, all on the back bone of a few ogre hunters! 2. Ogre camps have increased growth when you raid nearby them! This ability also stacks so several lvl 1 ogre lords all raiding a region bring fat stacks of growth. 3. Bloody and raw is just as amazing a trait as come and get it or the global recruit buff. 10+ attack damage on each ogre adds up to some stacked damage.

Please don't be depressed Blake you are such a gem in the community. This is another great take, I hope you more reasons to feel good about all of the amazing work you do and all of the helping you do as well. You are one of the good best chief.

You, good sir, are a hidden gem amongst the over-saturated collection of TW RU-vidrs. Your takes are the only TW videos I'll watch for both the humor and insight on gameplay mechanics. After you drop a new video, it's time to play an IE campaign as the faction you showcased. Thanks again for all your informative, and genuinely funny content.

30:23 All Ogre units have wallbreaker, even cavarly and leadbelchers. Also giants and stonehorns have it.

Absolutely loving these videos! Your sarcastic/dark humour and tone are peak comedy to my ears.

I was waiting for this video :D We really do need an update to Ogres though :/ A rework for camps, contracts, and Skrag and Greeasus skill trees.

Probably my favorite take out of you Blake! Can’t wait for more of your takes :D

You can put a camp in enemy territory and raid the enemy for 10 growth per army. If you want to play as good guy Skrag, you can make peace with Border Princes after taking Akendorf and get friendly with dwarfs and humans.

Thank you so much, good sir! I had lots of trouble to play with Skrag, now I will try it again and see how it goes.

This is wonderful. I was having trouble and confused. I was laughing the whole video, absolutely hilarious 😂

Oh boy a new why you suck videos 😁 love em

Great video as always, keep up the good work!

Been a while, always a pleasure, thank you!

We want more Blake's takes! Thank you

the heels vs babyface cameo was absolutely beautiful thank you

Glad to have you back sir!

I love this video! Can we see an Empire guide next? For someone like Franz or Gelt.

That Az (HeelvsBabyface) reference was golden. Thank you for a good laugh!

Love this series :) Please keep it coming :) got 1 question... where is the best place to put a camp ? Not sure if you mention that in a video... is it in your own territory ? enemy territory ? near city or where exactly ?

This is amazing content. I wonder what differences Greasus’ campaign would have. I imagine it’s quite different.

One thing I'd like to add(a multiplayer strat here) you want to layer your gnoblar inbetween the ogres. Gnoblars prevent the bulls from being surrounded and act as a meatshield whilst the ogre bulls deal the damage. You want the gnoblars the absorb the charge and then charge the bulls through the gnoblars into the enemy unit. Works wonderfully ;)

Thank you so much! Keep up the good work 😊

This was a good video, hope we get a Greasus guide next because Grimgor always poops on my party sooner or later when I decide I want to play as him

Great take as always mate!

Thank you. going into a new playthrough to give it a whirl. Never had any luck with these guys before. I'll let you know how it went.

Im new to your channel, but you sound like a kiwi news reporter, so I trust your take Blake

Remember to use melee gnoblars to break the "Bracing" on enemy units, any unit that is fighting cannot brace and so will receive full charge bonus, you can even charge THROUGH your gnoblars because they have so little mass the Ogres have no problem charging through them and into the enemy. That should be enough to win some frontline fights without even flanking, of course it's still a good idea to flank, I always deploy my Gorgers on a corner behind their armies and pounce on someone after the main fighting has begun, they are glasscannon units that will absolutely wreck any early infantry very quickly.

So far I've only completed just 1 ogre campaign but after watching this I may give it another go I've learned a lot here today. Another great video looking forward to next one :)

Been waiting for this one!

Just found your vids and instantly Subbed. I am eagerly looking forward to more Total War Instructions. If i could ask though, how different would Goldtooth be compared to Skrag here if i like different obese warlords leading my largest of lads?

I like placing my camps in enemy territory, then repeatedly sacking the nearby settlement while using raiding stance with the growth in enemy territory tech to boost my camp up to around tier 3 (or 5 if lategame). only when I have my camp where I want it I take over the enemy settlement. This is a great video though. I feel like ogres are too often labled as bad because a lot of people don't know how to play them properly. It would be a shame if this lack of knowledge would end up being the reason for their very unique and greatly enjoyable playstyle being changed. Great take!

Very informative videos. Thank you.

keep the good work i love this series

Loved the video. Do you think you could do one for Imrik? He is so hard on very hard difficulty I just get jumped on by everyone

I'd like to nominate lord skrolk for the next one, maybe the white dwarf depending on when the dlc comes out. Those are some rough starts.

This is the video I didn’t know that I needed haha

For Firebellies, there's a unique building by goldtooth at a volcano that gives you more of them. I think it's 3-5? It also raises their rank when trained. Might be misremembering though.

A good day for a good take.

Nothing more fun than watching a Gorger bellyflop an Empire soldier.

Such a quality video 👏🏼

Huh, ive always used a combo of trappers and dual swords to pelt and pound the enemy before the charge. All those time i played as VC in warhammer 1 really helped my timing skills. XD

Great video! I really enjoyed the effort you put in to showing off the strats for the Ogres.

I found Gnoblar Trappers incredible in the late game IF the army also has a Hunter that has gotten the passive that makes Gnoblars unbreakable. Sure, they're not going to kill much on their own, but having a front line that will hold forever is AMAZING, especially with a ranged-heavy army. And if some Trappers die or would take too long to replenish between battles, just replace them with new ones at the speed of light. 4-5 Leadbelchers and a couple of Ironblasters behind them putting in the work and whatever you want to flank around/protect your own flanks (Crushers). Yum.

The Az cameo was a welcome suprise lol

I would add: Ogres reward you for having multiple armies with lower numbers (10 units) as taking over settlements provides them with 10 food per turn (from settlement building). At least until you have more camps to spare. That way, you would also have more Lords leveling up, which is a huge force multiplier. I also read that having a "mobile" Camp should help a lot. As food cost for your more important armies get negated. You can somewhat sidestep this issue by recruiting a new Lord, if the previous one runs low, but loosing those levels would hurt.

amazing guide

I think they should add another Gorger specific buff on Skrag. Since he's the Gorger centric lord. I feel like they got nerfed too hard. Still do pretty good with them when I flank from a back corner of the map with mix of Gorgers and Sabers.

1:34 amen brother ✊🏻 right there with you

Please, someone. Name of the song at minute 5:15 I swear to good i have it somewhere in my memory. By the way awesome guides, you are both fun and didactic.

Yeah, yeah... I suck with Skrag. I admit it. Which will make this video all the more interesting tho! Thanks for another entertaining take muh man!

Since Gnoblar are high entities units. Can't you use then as anvil in an anvil an' hammer move?

I died laughing when you put Az on an ogre.

These are great guides

Cant wait to eventually find out why we suck with the Tomb Kings

You got me at the pokemon part

awesome video , will there be wysw vampire coast in the future? :D

Another great take, Blake. I'm taking a break from Warhammer 3, but the videos are always appreciated. Let's hope CA doesn't kill the game.

can we get alith anar?

I hate to be that guy but I have to point out one mayor oversight in your video BT and that is the unique meat mechanic of the Ogres. Yes you mentioned the sacrifice mechanic with the great maw or the picknick before battle stuff but you did not mention that EVERY SINGLE ONE of your armies are, at least when not beeing close to a camp, ALWAYS on a timer from the beginning to the end of your campaign. Since meat is more important to the ogres then gold it should have deserved its own number in your list, because you can run your armies without gold for a few turns (there is always a settlement to sack nearby) but not without food. Their dependence on meat to keep them going is in my opinion one of their mayor drawbacks. Otherwise this was as usual a very entertaining and informative video. Looking forward to the nexxt one.

What's your opinion on The Great Ogrehaul and Mobile Camp mods re: this videos topic?

Great vid! Hey can you do why i suck with rakarth next? The thousand maws were my fav in wh2 but i suck with them in wh3 immortal empires lol i can never seem to get rolling all the way . I defeat all the lizardmen ally myself with the vamp coast and clan pestilence but the men and elves and dwarves always come down from the north and ruin my campaign

I just like the confirmation that I was using the army right. (Altho don’t sleep w Pistol ma eaters and lead belcher doomstacks.

I don't even play total warhammer, but these are still fun to watch. Also, what's the song at 5:10?

You forgot to mentions 3 things imo. One is the tech -50% upkeep on goblar units that is a must ! it allows you to fill your camp with free of upkeep units to defend ! Second is the tyrant generic lords, they are great recruiters ! They gives +2 local recruit cap & +5 recruit ranks ! Lastly to racks early on the +10% tech bonus, always have 3 others slaughtermaster lords with skrag, replacing them when they got the skill. It was a nice video but you also should have mention to either stomp Wurzag or ally him because his savage orcs are purely anti ogre (45% physical resistance and anti large, i still remembers my pyrrhic against him lol)

Daemons of Chaos next!

I uninstalled the game but I still watch your videos XD

So I just attempted this campaign and had a rather interesting screw over. Was slightly too slow going south after the first major siege battle, Sartosa got that last Border Princes settlement down there. So I had to go to war with them. Turn 16, I'm just finishing off Sartosa, Wurzzag decides to declare war and invades my land with 2 and a half full stacks. Campaign over, Skragg and my extra army were too far away and damaged to get back in time and do anything to help. What could I have done for that? How did you avoid the Wurzzag issue?

Do one on our big fat greasy boy (Greasus) next please.

Can you do one for Kholek? I really wanna try and get better at him

so good... please do a malus darkblade

Another good vid.

good guide

Did the bugs in this game ever get fixed? Never played a total war game is this a good place to start?

You can get some 3 more Firebelly slots by conquering the Fire Mouth settlement in the mountains or mourn.

Can you do one of these for Be'lakor?

Hope to get your take on why I SUCK with Zhao Ming soon.

Theres a big name thats useful that makes gnoblars unbreakable, i think you had to win a battle with over 6 gnoblars or something like that

if you havent already could you do a video on Kroq-Gar.

Reason why you suck with Skrag: you don't take the best big name early in the campaign: the +20 relation to all factions. Seriously, it's powerful and it's one of many reason that Skrag is far better than Greasus. You are already a neutral faction, dwarves still dislike you but with the others you can act like a true mercenary faction. Factions will less likely to declar war on you. You will be able to choose the way you want to expand and the factions you want to ally or be at war with. Especially Skrag in his starting position where you are surrounded. It's actually pretty great start position, you won't suffer too much IA anti-player bias as long you stay powerful and don't do stupid shit diplomacy-wise. For instance, I rush Belegar in my campaign. Then Sartosa declar war on me. But I ally the wood elves and Ikkit. I choose to expand north in the Old world, making trade with the vampires. I had non aggression pact with the greenskins from the south. And I barely go east so I let the other dwarves alone. At tier 5 camp, I was strong enough to expand every way I want, with that confortable start is far more easy than Greasus's situation. Also, a tip I use early campaign with ogres: Use your main army to do your things, but recruit turn 1 another lord that will follow your leader. When you feel you will have not enough food to go further but you want to finish your opponents, just swap your main army to the other ogre lord that follows you. Him will have a lot of food banked, because He will earn so much passively being alone. And then at the start of the next turn reswap the armies if you like. Your ogre buddy will also being great to draw ennemy attention while your main army is ambushing.

No mention of big names? Which ones to watch for?

You know blake, my take is Skrag is better than mobility scooter man. Good vid too with that smooth engl5ish voice. Very dank memes too.

Thank you! The ogre kingdoms are unfortunately a bad start in both cases. Strong late game, but not well designed

Pls make one for throt the unclean or the changeling!!!

Love the Az edit

Have to say - Iloved the AOT meme

16:00 Blake literally turned into the Narrator of the Stanley Parable. Wait. Are you the Narrator from The Stanley Parable?

I hope u r doing ok!! Ur videos r hilarious

the thing is, if the AI just chased them proportionally, using gnoblars and stuff to essentially just, run away sounds like good battlefield tactics to me, not any sort of exploit or shady shenanigans. Luring enemies out of position is just normal battlefield theory! In an ideal world it'd work better on like, empire and orcs and not at all vs dwarves or elves but that's just really specific. And it goes without saying it shouldn't be luring 8 units of enemies, just 1 would be good value. Should be doable to solve the overcommitment bit but I've never seen any videogame AI that could genuinely act with ideology matching its faction so that might be an ask :D

Also other provisions tip: download the ogrehall mod. Night and day.

How to manage hunger? I keep having to build food buildings in settlements because my armies are hungry which damages my income