NOOB'S GUIDE to IKIT CLAW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- A Noob's Guide to Ikit Claw, the Skaven Warlock Engineer of Clan Skryre and one of the two new legendary lords in the Warlock and the Prophet DLC for Total War: Warhammer 2.
This video is a new style for me as I still am not able to sit down for Let's Plays. A bit of a quick witty commentary coupled with review and gameplay footage. Hopefully you'll enjoy it. - เกม
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If it doesn't say Phyrric Victory, you didn't build enough DoomRockets.
"How many Doom wheels? Never enough doom wheels!
*NEVER ENOUGH DOOM WHEELS!* "
@@Sir_Bucket SPIN THE WHEEEEL
@@razagan1343 RATTLE ME BONES 🦴
The description for the Warpstone Tractor Beam tells you everything you need to know:
"Only the most reckless individual would dare attempt to somehow pull celestial objects out of the sky... cue Ikit Claw."
Ikit Claw: What if the moon was made out of cheese, and the other moon out of warpstone, yes-yes?!
The under empire discovery mechanic should've been an underground siege, not waking up and suddenly finding out every last rat is gone. That's not how infestations work.
If your home rat infestation is ending in a siege there are larger questions in play here.
@@codybonds Skaven always come up underneath ready to attack that butt!
But it's super easy to destroy under empires. Just ask Karak Eight peaks . Right? Right?
Its like that time I had a rat infestation and I had to call a SWAT team, resulting in a 2 week long Siege resulting in 400 deaths
@@iamdanyboy1 That's a grudgin.
"Well, it is rocket science, but let's not split atoms."
Aaaaand I just decided to like out of my own free will.
I consider that one of my better puns.
@@codybonds Wow, I was not expecting you to still be replying to comments on a 1 year old video. Do you just have notifications on for all your videos? If so, does that not flood your inbox?
@@TheRealSimeon Yes. And Yes it does. It can be a pain - but it also allows me to have nice moments like this one.
@@codybonds Ah, well thanks for all your effort, man. It is always appreciated to see the video creator reply to your comments.
Keep up the good work 💪
You know that you're stupid, when you first had to read that comment to press the like button yourself as well! :D
Engineer: "Master, I have the casualty report from our doomrocket test"
Ikit Claw: "Yes Yes?"
Engineer: "500 Slaves and 42 Reptile things"
Ikit Claw: "... Good good"
Truth. It's such a good feeling to spawn some menace below on an advancing army, watch them pounce eagerly and mob up on my sacrifice, then drop a nuke on top of it all.
@@JohnDoe-xv9du that 1 reptile thing was kroq gar
Engineer: 500 Slaves and no reptile things.
Ikit Claw:...Good good.
Depends on what those reptile thing were. Carnasors? bastiladon? stegadon?
Truth be told that's better than my casualty report. My weapons teams made quick work of the enemy and had no one to test one of my 4 doomrockets on. Naturally I sent 4 units of skaven slaves with spears to huddle up in a blob before the enemy completely routed off the map and nuked them for "testing purposes." Moral of the story: Don't wait for that perfect moment with your doomrockets, because the second you get weapons teams there won't be any enemy blobs large enough to warrant using a nuke on.
Dark Elves: "We are the most delightfully evil creatures in existence"
Ikit Claw: "Hold my warpstone detonator, Elf-thing, yes-yes"
"Bombs are not instruments, Ikit Claw."
"YES THEY ARE, AND I'LL PROVE IT!"
Ikit Claw no!
@@jacksonbowns1087
Ikit Claw yes yes
IKIT CLAW ALWAYS YES YES
You lack vision,yes-yes!
Maggot ikit claw is just the Tchaikovsky but for the skaven
@@baker90338 'No, Tchaikovsky, Cannon is not an instrument'
"Because when you're talking about man-sized sewer rats, your mind is always in the gutter."
I had a good, hearty chuckle at that one.
As a Brit I feel equally parts attacked and entertained. Ah well just another Monday
same, but it's Thursday.
*laughs in free socialist dental care* Rule Britannia
You definitely got the last laugh on that one.
@@lc2131 It's actually hilarious in itself that its still a stereotype considering that, joint with a few Germany, the UK has the best dental services and hygiene in the world.
@@Wanderer628 The thing is that, we have Fewer Feelings
*ITS A QI JOKE*
Omg, this video is amazing. The 1812 overture at the end? Perfection.
Plot twist! The 1812 Overture has been playing the entire video. That bit at the end was just the finale.
@@Anergyne when you hear the first notes and the beginning at the video and you KNOW what's gonna happen.
Is cannons an instrument?
No Patrick cannons... oh wait.
I hadn't noticed that the first go. I love it.
“If you enjoyed this video, use your free will as a human and decide how to act on that because you shouldn’t take orders from people on TH-cam. Have a nice day.”
Okay, I’m sold. Nicely done.
**THIS VIEWER DOES NOT SERVE**
Yeah I liked and subscribed. His reverse psychology was strong.
I skillfully skipped that part, and then read your comment. Double checked, liked and subbed, finally commented.
WITNESS MEEE!!!-Skaven Rider
...Horned One!
4:00 , common misunderstanding with the hidden settlement system for both Vampire Coast and now Skaven: you can also establish hidden settlements with agents (Vampire heroes for Vampirates, Warlock Engineers for Skaven).
I knew you could with VP. But couldn't figure out which did it for Skaven. I love that it has a passive random spread option as well.
@@codybondsThe warlock engineer
The fact that "1812 Overture" is playing from the beginning and builds up to 8:40 is a wonderful detail in this video.
Cody : describes how he thinks warp fuel is made supposedly and how it's totally hard and ineficient
Sounds Skaven enough to me
Lol more videos like this please
*Ratling Guns, Snipers and Nukes Exist Now*
Everyone Else: *Makes a strategic army of both powerful melee and ranged units*
Me: *Replaced all of my melee units for guns and war machines*
I see you're a man of culture as well.
@@codybonds Yes-Yes!
@@iamsinistar8971 don't forget clanrats-meatsheild!
@@lordwarlockthangwrath8662 Melee units don't matter when the enemy never gets to melee range
Parry-block this you man-thing wimp-casuals! Yes yes!
I liked the easter egg with the crossbowmen from Medieval 2. Well done !
The bane of my teenage existence.
Yeah. We're it not for the ai being dumb and the ease of using towers in sieges, and units being bugged during sieges, I don't think I could have played anywhere near them lol
usually played Medieval 2 as France, and everytime i went to war with Milan, was trembling in fear of those crossbowmen
Those milanese crossbow sounds were always music to my ears back then. ^^
Somehow, Without Really knowing what he was going to say, I knew what he was going to say.
Now I know how Scar felt while hanging out in Lion King when Zazu mentioned Mufasa.
"Never mention [Milanese Crossbownen] in my presence!" XD
8:38 - the rats ringing the bells in time to the 1812 overture bells is just the perfect trouch in a great video. Bravo, Cody!
Finally, the Skaven as they're supposed to be, yes-yes!
An Oldworld Race in TW:WH2 that actually starts in the old world in Mortal Empires? Unbelievable!Same can be said for the quality of this video, gotta say.
you say that, but whats funny is that Ikit Claw start reletively close to some knights stuck in hte middle ages so if you want ot blast them or send your warlock engineer to build an under empire, there are multiple ways to kill them
Tucher97 That’s the best part, and you also got some hairy midgets in the north. Grumpy as hell but their ale is quite good
@@SpookyMarine yes and setting up an ambush against them is reletively easier if you know what you are doing, just dont make to many enemies too soon
@@Tucher97 unless you are actively befriending the other factions they will declare war on you
@@lucasbeck1391 err that is true but in the end Brettonia will hate you in hte end but again if you are careful you can diminish them with somewhat ease but do not put effort in expanding the under empire to much with them as the regions are always city followed with a single settlement
Ikit Claw for president 2020
Finally! A candidate that believes in the things *we* believe in!
Can't do a worse job than the current one.
@@1987MartinT yes-yes. Orange fur of Clan U.S. is a true Skaven
Got a bug during a campaign, that I think came from conflicting mods, that gave me an extra doomrocket during battle. I have never wielded as much devastating power.
So you won that battle?
It took me entirely too long to realize that Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was playing the entire video and the sound was just turned up for the Finale. Well played, sir.
Skaven: REEEEE
orcs: Waaaaaaaagh
Human: well shit, *loads crossbow*
Humans: "Fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FU-"
Alternatively, if we're going factions...
Empire: SIGMAR PRESERVE UUUUSSS!!
Bretonnia: BY ZHE LIGHT OF ZHE LADYYYY!!
Southern Realms: something something MYRMIDIA
@@christopherlane467 I AM DE BLAD OF ZHYL
No no no
Skaven: REEE
Orc: Waaaaaagh
Human: Loads Hellstorm, and pray.
@@dontmindme.justaguy implying they get the chance to load it before the jezzails snipe the crew.
Dark Elves: Welcome to the internet, primitives.
4:00
You can establish under-cities with warlocks. I use that free raze all the time to get a free settlement that is too hard to capture with my current armies.
How can it be hard you place your army close to the enemy and then throw a doomrocket on your troops
You get a like for the 1812 overture
"It is rocket science... but who's splitting atoms?"🤣
This is by far one of the best videos I have seen in a while - informative and entertaining :D
Basically a "What if Dr.Strangelove was a crazy ass human size rat?"
The 1812 Overture should really be in more videos. I smiled and shed a tear at that point.
"Witness-watch me!"
Love it, classical music with mad rats, perfect combination.
*Dwarfs coming back from a proper trip through the mountains finding some shiny shit, see their fortress gates in the distance and gather round enjoying its brilliant majesty .... only to see it get blown ass backwards to kingdom come and take half the damn mountain range with it. Skaven laughter is carried over the winds, grudge intensifies*
“And if you liked this video...” that expectation subversion definitely made me instantly like and sup and ding that nasty lil bell. You just got a fan.
Well played, indeed.
Reverse psycology.
Holy crap, the ending was so perfect, so sublime. I shed a single tear watching the carnage.
1812 overture and Skaven, a pairing of my two favourites things that seems incredibly obvious, yet I'd never thought of it myself. Amazing video.
you know the engineer agent can also spread the under-empire right?
I have. But it was a rush to get all the info in before release date. Normally my Warhammer videos never get over 2K watches so I didn't expect this level of scrutiny. As I've stated elsewhere my warlock engineer was assassinated early on so I missed that feature.
@Simple Barghest You..Have made me realize that Skaven now have the easiest Vortex win in the game.
The doom engineer can also create under-empire and it also give it a special building known as the Warlock Laboratory. Basically free exp for all warlock per turn + some benefit.
@Simple Barghest Proper use for the doomsphere;
1) send an engineer to the middle of Athel Loren
2) wait till you have rat infestitation in every elf-hippy nest
3) start building doomspheres in every hole at once
4) profit - wood hippies exterminated
@Simple Barghest But it's so much better just to sack it: at least 20k gold from that to fund more kill-devices!
interesting... your 700% speed footage is actually new version of end turns... is nice
I was just looking to see if anyone had commented about this, it's kind of amazing the difference that patch made, makes you wonder what TWW3's "Immortal" empires map turn times are going to be like
“Ikit has the biggest brain of *all* rats!”
-Ikit Claw after blowing up the moon because why not.
Playing Ikit Claw makes the War on Terror look like a water balloon campaign. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are diminutive next to Skaven Boom Booms
I love finding a new channel with quality content. I enjoy your sense of humor, and your joke delivery was spot on. I'm exercising my free will to like this video.
Nothing’s more Satisfying than watching a cavalry charge brought down to a grinding halt from a ratling gun barrage
RATATATATATTATATATATTATATATATATTATATATTATATATTATTA, KA-BOOOOOOOOM!-Ikit Claw, probably.
I just found your channel and I'm hooked. That ending was amazing
Claw: " want some....freedom?"
I don’t even play war hammer and even understand a single thing about it, yet here I am binge watching all of the guides for some reason.
Warp Fuel is made though an arcane process which does have increadily high failure rate, but it's not made from dead bodies... its made from souls. Basically Warp Fuel is LCL, except green instead of orange.
“To win win would fighting is what skaven slaves are for for.”
-Rattzoo, the art art of war
Love that 1812 overture at the end. Not sure if it would be hurt or enhanced by some subtle skaven laughter though.
Ikit claw is the best Skaven of all. He’s an inventor, Conqueror, Fighter, Revolutionary in the field of science, and Proprietor of Progress! Rest in Peace you Magnificent Skaven.
Pretty amazed by the consistent high production levels on your content - good stuff. I've been watching these and I don't even play the game
I recently got into a lot of Warhammer TH-cam videos, and this was by far the best one I've seen
"lay more spray than Peter North in a fireman's outfit" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh wow, this was awesome! As soon as I heard the first few strings of 1812 overture I was all excited for the big BOOMs at the end. Make more like this!
this was a really good video. Loved the music and narration. Keep up the good work
This was randomly in my recommended
I’m so glad it was
I read this comment.
Good for you?
Amazing video, perfect music, comedy, and irony. Wouldn't be surprised to see this video blow up, and id love to see more videos like this.
Ikit Claw is at it yes-yes
Nothing more satisfying than Doomrocketing 10 Chaos Chosen you bogged down with the perfect Menace Below
The word play and puns in the video are off the chain. Well done.... got a few good belly chuckles out of this one.
Thank you for this! It was very entertaining and also gave a awesome understanding. The finale was Amazing!
Selecting 1812 as background music was so obvious yet so nice.
I am so glad I found your content, always makes my day. Keep it on my man
This style of video is amazing, and that 1812 thing at the end was very well done
The ending of this video reassures me that I love your channel as a whole. Fairest youtuber there is.
One of the best Total War Warhammer 2 videos I've watched. That ending! Bravo!
First video I have seen of yours and I am a HUGE warhammer fan... Instant like, subscribe and notify! Had me laughing out loud in a rickshaw in Cambodia, keep it up!
Great video mate, perfectly sums up how I'm playing the Skaven! ⚡
Loved every second of this video your humour is brilliant! You have earnt a new subscriber!!
I just finished a Lokhir playthrough so will be taking your advise on the mortal empires start dont want to do that side of the map all over again
7:00 "Witness Me!"
and I just LOVE the 1812 ouverture. Really nice implemented in this video. And again, AMAZING video.
Nice touch with the " *Tchaikovsky special* ", very fitting.
There is a reason this style of army was the most popular Skaven army used in tabletop, it was just as brutal there too. It was because of this army's popularity on table top that the doom flail rush orc and goblin armies, full chaos marader horse and artillery imperial armies became meta, basically to counter this broken $#*% during Warhammer Fantasy in the 2000s, this was a super popular Skaven army from 2004 to 2010. I saw them at ever GW store I visited. The only way to beat it was to move as fast as you could into melee before they wiped you out during the combat phase in the first two turns or hit them with big area templates.
I've been waiting for this proper skaven campaign for years. it is truly beautiful.
LOL, the melodrama, the murderous rats. perfection
Very nice. The comedy pacing is really good and the outro was unique, respect
By far the most entertaining video I've seen on youtube ever!
Nice use of Tchaikovsky at the end there. Keep making videos like this.please they are fun
This video is pure art! Thank you!
You can also spread the under-empire using the Warlock Engineer heroes, including the one from the rite. In fact, the one from the rite builds a really powerful lab that increases the number of warlock engineers you can have, increases research speed, and gives free XP every turn to your engineers. Combined with one of the unique buildings in Skavenblight, and Ikit can eventually, if you like, expand the under-empire most turns. Taking Karak Izor to your north is a must, as it makes all your new toys even better.
The last minute of the video is awe inspiring.
this has got to be one of, if not the, best warhammer video online
Pro tip: instead of getting melee units get 3 plague priests who can spawn clanrats, more room for shooty-shoot units
ok.. the last 3 mins of this vid are truly masterpiece
I am in awe of your vulgarity's
20 points for Peter North refrence.
Terry Pratchett references my god your an a role.
I remember watching the trailer and the smile on my face was so wide it had the word ‘load’ written across it.
Ikit’s laugh gives me life.
Ey, a new channel about warhammer 2 with fresh new formats and bad puns! I like it.
You really did have fun making this! Fantastic work man, subbing after that!
Thank you, it was a true pleasure to watch, especially becasue of remarkable sense of humor.
i like how he brings up "Free Will" in a video about Skaven
With the doom rocket all I can think of is a sc2 ghost calling down a nuke but it’s a skaven
Entertaining and informative. I'd just add that at 3:35 you make it sound like the only way to create undercities is by attacking a city or through natural spread. The Hero you start with (I forget the name) has a Hero Action to create undercities.
I'm currently running my first playthrough of Ikit right now, and I'm loving the glorious bastard. First off, dont even bother getting frontliners later on. They need to be replaced too often and theyre mostly in the way of the low-arching shots of the gatling gunners and flamethrowers. Instead, get 2 or 3 doomflayers to hold a semi-frontline. They can tank for a decent while, and theyre single entity. Meaning the enemies poopy frontline will scramble to surround it like the idiots they are, and you'll have very very minimal friendly fire. Ofcourse also use Ikit to tie up a good few units/lords. Also grab a warlock engineer hero or two. They give amazing weapon team (gatling rats, warpfire throwers, bombadiers,etc.) bonuses including damage, range and reload time reduction (bring two, seriously.) Make sure you get the trait for Ikit that gives 12% more damage to weapons teams too. Pair this with 2 warlock enginers and your ranged rats get an added 36% damage on their ranged attacks. For gatling rats that already do somewhere close to 300 damage, this is absolutely ridiculous. Not that warpfire throwers, bombadiers, and jizzails dont benefit from this too. The trait on Ikit that gives 20% more ammunition for weapons team is also a must have as it ensure your backline is firing throughout the entirety of the fight. All in all, I like to bring in this composition; Ikit, plus 1 or 2 warlock engineers, 3 jezzails, 3 dg bombadiers, 3 ratling guns, 2 warpfire, 2 or 3 doom flayers, 2 warp lightning cannons, and finally 2 plagueclaw catapults. This comp ensures that you merely fight a small skirmish by the time the enemy reaches your army.
There is a mod that adds the warp-grinders to the forbidden workshop. It's tier 3 upgrade for them is to make them expendable. The other upgrades give them +30 melee attack and +50% damage resist once below 50% health (along with unbreakable). I'm so looking forward to using them as a frontline!
They also don't have that many models so I suspect that they won't be too much of a problem for the weapon teams and if they are... Well, they are expendable after all...
@@TheRealSimeon Personally, I would forego bombadiers. I switched them for 2-3 more Ratling guns. With the workshop ugrades and 2 warlock engineers, your ratling guns hit for 900-1,000. Its actually ridiculous considering they start much closer to 300 than 1,000.
There is nothing in this game more satisfying than watching Ratling Gunners do their thing.
What a fantastic video and a hilarious final montage. Now I know which new faction I'll be playing first on Christmas Day 😆😆
You sir should have more subs. Seriously, I can tell this stuff takes a while and the quality is great.
okay that music synced to the explosions was wonderful :D
Coming back to this video after a year has reminded me to go look for a mod that allows unlimited use of doomrockets per battle.
Great video, you're going on the short list of people who's ads I won't skip.
Wow what a surprise of a well produced vid. Deserves ALOT of views.