Indeed I totally forgot about the Skulls button. I haven't played Skarby campaign since pre-IE alright xD Although that button could do with standing out a bit more. As I tend to ignore half the campaign mechanics anyway, this run fits me perfectly. Also highlights the point of how unessential a lot of mechanics are.
@@jpcofferip5325 TBF, in regular gameplay, taking settlements is optional with Skarbrand. Skarbrand can colonize automatically his home region and fare pretty well with just it. I am not as skilled, and managed to do a whole Hard/Hard campaign with crisis and 3 provinces.
Free Bloodletters spawning anywhere on the battlemap (including within' their artillery squad) is another blessing you did not get from gifts to Khorne.
This seems really fitting with the lore, the Khorn army not bothering with building anything and simply razing everything in their path, summoning more and more daemons
@@Zerkovich It changes with how far you pull them away from The original route. I feel like It was The right call on your part To use The weakend army to distract the imperials but under different circumstances It’d be worth waiting an extra 30 seconds-minute to make sure they dont spawn ontop of eachother
Skarbrand should be a horde, I've thought so since the first day. At leat make global recruitment easy for him! He's supposed to teleport around the world with cults and rampage through continents but really you need to play defense for most of the campaign
IKR! Playing normally you're only likely to get a single Cult going up north where Valkia starts, maybe more if she doesn't get blown up (AI Valkia always seems to get blown up early for me). That means you're not gonna be teleporting anywhere even if you could afford to.
Tbf global recruit is easy for him when he has a 9 win streak, which is quite easy to get on Skarbrand. The other stacks might struggle a bit with it. In general, if Skarbrand is sitting back at any point for more than a 2 turn recruitment+full replenish, something has gone wrong. Always Be Choppin'
@@aeriawindsor4722 Speak for yourself! personally I feel the new WoC playstyle is best, but there were some very good mods for the previous game that made playing pure horde WoC an awesome experience. As long as there is a deterrent for resettling things razed by chaos boys it can absolutely work. On the other hand my favourite race used to be pre-rework beastmen so I may be biased or deranged
Im not sure to be more impressed of you forgetting about the skulls for the skull throne button or managing to accomplish this without using it, you took an extra challenge
On the no blood summons in battle - did you ever click the "skull throne" ability at the top of the campaign screen? That's a very important part of playing Skarbrand. It didn't look like I ever saw the button greyed out as active. Lasts 5 turns, 10 turn cool down, base cost 2000 skulls.
@@Zerkovich it's easy to forgot even when you know it's there! He's probably my favorite faction, really chaos in general, but I'll still enter battles and have an "aw crap I forgot to activate it" moment from time to time
@@christianlangdon3766 Are you kidding? 2 more units for every Blood Host, Summoned from Beyond, more money from post battle loot, and more movement range after razing settlements. The bonuses are honestly WAY more necessary if you're homeless Skarbrand.
@mattlievens3573 true, but if your homeless you probably need way more blood hosts, skulls are kinda just there. For the most part though I suppose you can use the skulls for the skull throne, but you don't need much money, the summons are probably the best thing it does.
Skarbrand was exiled from Khornes realm, so realistically he shouldn't have a settlement. He should have no settlement and just be a pure global recruitment faction with massive post battle loot bonuses.
Another good choice would be VCoast who can operate with no home province with no homeless attrition at all, with horde buildings and raise dead for recruitment
Just finished a Count Noctilus run where I was a pure pirate just sacking and raiding coastal settlements. 90% of the time I had zero settlements because Galleon's Graveyard was razed early on. But his hoard style mechanice where the army itself is settlement-like made the run very doable as long as I was constantly fighting. It was very refreshing not having to worry about empire-building. Just a globetrotting murder hobo with the Sword of Khaine.
it recruits last, after building/upgrading/demolishing buildings and after changing commandments so you can change to the recruitment commandment the same turn you start recruiting and it'll be as if you had it on all along
Well, you don't get the extra recruitment slots some commandments give. IDK if you actually get the other bonuses (rank up/cost down) but if you do that's pretty handy.
Ive kinda done this in warhammer2. Played Lyonesse modded in, lost my capital and only region to Mousillon. But instead of restarting, i sent him down to Araby, he was doomed to a life in penance. Running around smashing other armies until death. Took forever due to the armies taking attrition always when not in encampment. I had a ton of fun tho.
One strategy I've employed as Skarbrand to help with the money situation is to find areas where I can ping pong between settlements. Raze them for the money if its worth it, then do the same to the neighbor. Come back to the first one the following turn with its depleted garrison and raise a Bloodhost. Then go back to the second one and do the same. The size of the Bloodhost is not affected by having previously attacked the settlement so you can get the best of both sacking and razing. It just takes a little longer and you'll have to be a little more careful with casualties, especially with this playstyle.
You honestly did this on extra hard mode without using the Skull Throne ability at all. While that's active you could have had 2 more units for every Blood Host, Summoned from Beyond ability in battles, more money from post battle loot, and more movement range after razing settlements.
I really love these different approach videos you've been making lately Good stuff. Also dont forget to make some more advanced tactics and unit comparison videos. Those always please me as well. Good work my friend.
One thing you could do that would let you still recruit units without a home province: Allies. If you build an outpost in an ally’s settlement you’ll be able to recruit units from them, and if you get an ally of the same culture as your faction you can get units that you’d normally be able to recruit. Also, if you ever do another one province campaign why not try it with Franzy boy? You’re hard locked into only having the Reikland, but you have to run around the rest of the empire returning settlements to their elector and putting out the endless brush fires that pop up everywhere
there are a ton of technologies for blood hosts so even tho you aren't growing in the territorial sense, at least you can be growing technologically since you rely on blood hosts so much
Overall I'm happy I'm not the only one with big issues in the head (Though I was crazy in Diablo2, WC3, WoW and SC2 xD)! xD Homeless Skarbrand, that was cool! xD
The Dark Elves could do a homeless campaign as some of them start with a Black Ark which will allow you to keep recruiting and the can assault costal settlements.
did you know, that you can change the place where your reeinforcements enter the battle? just klick and drag the icon in the set up phase along the border, where you want it.
I love this, it fits a lot more for warmongering demons! Destroy everything instead of building a demon empire. They should totally allow us to play as some of the nomadic factions
I like to think reinforcements are don't know what side they're on untill they enter the battle. Like they're best friends with the enemy untill they see their main armies fighting
Once again this coul be verry fun with skaven, utilizing undercities and defensive alligences for units. Edit: maybe also counts or coast, because raise dead
when your fighting a 20 stack and another army if you have a reinforcing army you can set them to AI control and turn off control large army this makes it so you and the enemy can only field 20 units at a time the game doesnt count your AI allies as your force so they can deploy their armies at the same time yours are alive but the enemy forces cant which allows you to field more units at once than the enemy
Honestly, if you level up Skarbrand smartly, you don't even need units to crush *everyone*. Like with Archaon, even if it takes a little more time for him. Both of them don't need anything but themselves to win.
I enjoy the label of "homeless Skarbrand". Like everyone around him is kinda eubbing it in, right before he knocks down their door and burns down the whole village
Why would you insta raze cities, just sack them first, then next turn raze? Then you get more money, more xp, more items, use that money to get alliances so you can recruit from your allies?
I realized something: you asked us if we play with mods but have you tried to play with mods? If so, which ones? I know you didn’t like Radious from TWWH2 but hey you tried it lately? Or SFO? Or did you revert back from Update 3.0 because it almost killed the whole game?
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Indeed I totally forgot about the Skulls button. I haven't played Skarby campaign since pre-IE alright xD Although that button could do with standing out a bit more.
As I tend to ignore half the campaign mechanics anyway, this run fits me perfectly. Also highlights the point of how unessential a lot of mechanics are.
Yeah, unessential mechanics, like taking settlement, building them, recruiting units...
No skulls...?
Another handicap here was the fact that bloodhosts made by other bloodhosts have less units in them. In case you were wondering why some had 8 or 12.
@@jpcofferip5325 TBF, in regular gameplay, taking settlements is optional with Skarbrand. Skarbrand can colonize automatically his home region and fare pretty well with just it. I am not as skilled, and managed to do a whole Hard/Hard campaign with crisis and 3 provinces.
Free Bloodletters spawning anywhere on the battlemap (including within' their artillery squad) is another blessing you did not get from gifts to Khorne.
you need to click the button at the top of the campaign map screen to get the bloodletter summons it costs skulls to activate
I personally wish there were more skull dumps in the campaign
@@GonzakoableJust like some "spell/buff" or a campaing way to force armys of factions to atack You insted of summoning a army to atack skarbrand.
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
SKARBRAND HATES BUTTONS!
"Skarbrand himself is invading my lands. He better pay me before I come down to kick his ass" -Emperor Karl "Titanium Ball" Franz
Oh please, his threat is completely meaningless. Skarbrand's a hobo, he doesn't have a land to send those hundred thousand flagellants to!
This seems really fitting with the lore, the Khorn army not bothering with building anything and simply razing everything in their path, summoning more and more daemons
You can also drag the reinforcement markers around the edges of the map to reposition where you're getting reinforced from.
WHAT?
It increases the timer though. By quite a lot last time I tried it.
@@Zerkovich certainly does!
WHAT????
@@Zerkovich It changes with how far you pull them away from The original route. I feel like It was The right call on your part To use The weakend army to distract the imperials but under different circumstances It’d be worth waiting an extra 30 seconds-minute to make sure they dont spawn ontop of eachother
Skarbrand should be a horde, I've thought so since the first day. At leat make global recruitment easy for him! He's supposed to teleport around the world with cults and rampage through continents but really you need to play defense for most of the campaign
IKR! Playing normally you're only likely to get a single Cult going up north where Valkia starts, maybe more if she doesn't get blown up (AI Valkia always seems to get blown up early for me). That means you're not gonna be teleporting anywhere even if you could afford to.
Tbf global recruit is easy for him when he has a 9 win streak, which is quite easy to get on Skarbrand. The other stacks might struggle a bit with it. In general, if Skarbrand is sitting back at any point for more than a 2 turn recruitment+full replenish, something has gone wrong. Always Be Choppin'
Problem is horde playstyle sucks ass, WH1&2 Chaos already proven that, you still need settlement/bloodground to prevent A.I from colonizing the ruins.
@@aeriawindsor4722 Speak for yourself! personally I feel the new WoC playstyle is best, but there were some very good mods for the previous game that made playing pure horde WoC an awesome experience. As long as there is a deterrent for resettling things razed by chaos boys it can absolutely work.
On the other hand my favourite race used to be pre-rework beastmen so I may be biased or deranged
I would've thought he was like Vampire Coast lords. They have horde mechanics but can have settlements
Im not sure to be more impressed of you forgetting about the skulls for the skull throne button or managing to accomplish this without using it, you took an extra challenge
On the no blood summons in battle - did you ever click the "skull throne" ability at the top of the campaign screen? That's a very important part of playing Skarbrand. It didn't look like I ever saw the button greyed out as active. Lasts 5 turns, 10 turn cool down, base cost 2000 skulls.
Totally forgot that's a thing haha. Haven't played his campaign since pre IE. Good to know he can survive without it, even homeless.
@@Zerkovich it's easy to forgot even when you know it's there! He's probably my favorite faction, really chaos in general, but I'll still enter battles and have an "aw crap I forgot to activate it" moment from time to time
@DJSashaMinkh doesn't help that if you are going homeless it's bonuses are nice but not necessary.
@@christianlangdon3766 Are you kidding? 2 more units for every Blood Host, Summoned from Beyond, more money from post battle loot, and more movement range after razing settlements. The bonuses are honestly WAY more necessary if you're homeless Skarbrand.
@mattlievens3573 true, but if your homeless you probably need way more blood hosts, skulls are kinda just there. For the most part though I suppose you can use the skulls for the skull throne, but you don't need much money, the summons are probably the best thing it does.
Those opposite reinforcing armies coming from the same spot at 14:20 was pretty hilarious.
They pretended not to see each other on the way to the battlefield
and lucky for Skarbrand
Love this new ideas with unusual campaign playstyles!
Skarbrand was exiled from Khornes realm, so realistically he shouldn't have a settlement. He should have no settlement and just be a pure global recruitment faction with massive post battle loot bonuses.
The reason they didn't do something like that is because people hated the old hordes.
But now they all improved
@@Dking3078 And are not fully nomadic.
Love your videos and would absolutely watch a campaign like Lionheart does from you. You have an amazing voice.
5:00 ... cmooon man, you didn't have to do us dirty like that!
This type of content (and humor) is what makes Zerkovich the best Total War channel
Another good choice would be VCoast who can operate with no home province with no homeless attrition at all, with horde buildings and raise dead for recruitment
Malakai, Taurox, NaKai can also be played similarly.
Just finished a Count Noctilus run where I was a pure pirate just sacking and raiding coastal settlements. 90% of the time I had zero settlements because Galleon's Graveyard was razed early on. But his hoard style mechanice where the army itself is settlement-like made the run very doable as long as I was constantly fighting. It was very refreshing not having to worry about empire-building. Just a globetrotting murder hobo with the Sword of Khaine.
it recruits last, after building/upgrading/demolishing buildings and after changing commandments
so you can change to the recruitment commandment the same turn you start recruiting and it'll be as if you had it on all along
Well, you don't get the extra recruitment slots some commandments give. IDK if you actually get the other bonuses (rank up/cost down) but if you do that's pretty handy.
Ive kinda done this in warhammer2. Played Lyonesse modded in, lost my capital and only region to Mousillon. But instead of restarting, i sent him down to Araby, he was doomed to a life in penance. Running around smashing other armies until death. Took forever due to the armies taking attrition always when not in encampment. I had a ton of fun tho.
One strategy I've employed as Skarbrand to help with the money situation is to find areas where I can ping pong between settlements. Raze them for the money if its worth it, then do the same to the neighbor. Come back to the first one the following turn with its depleted garrison and raise a Bloodhost. Then go back to the second one and do the same. The size of the Bloodhost is not affected by having previously attacked the settlement so you can get the best of both sacking and razing. It just takes a little longer and you'll have to be a little more careful with casualties, especially with this playstyle.
Loving the new take on videos. They are quite entertaining! Looking forward to the next one.
You honestly did this on extra hard mode without using the Skull Throne ability at all. While that's active you could have had 2 more units for every Blood Host, Summoned from Beyond ability in battles, more money from post battle loot, and more movement range after razing settlements.
Ironically we analyse so much and tinker and minmax and then u see we actually worry too much :))
oh great now skarbrand is going to be hanging out at my gas station all night long drunk asking for free drinks and roller grill items
This is oddly specific 😂
I really love these different approach videos you've been making lately
Good stuff. Also dont forget to make some more advanced tactics and unit comparison videos. Those always please me as well.
Good work my friend.
One thing you could do that would let you still recruit units without a home province: Allies. If you build an outpost in an ally’s settlement you’ll be able to recruit units from them, and if you get an ally of the same culture as your faction you can get units that you’d normally be able to recruit.
Also, if you ever do another one province campaign why not try it with Franzy boy? You’re hard locked into only having the Reikland, but you have to run around the rest of the empire returning settlements to their elector and putting out the endless brush fires that pop up everywhere
The first five seconds, if ya dont wanna watch the whole video; then at least the first five seconds. That has no right being that damn funny XD
Skarbrand is now the ultimate murderhobo
Still unsure why Skarbrand isn't a horde faction, kinda makes no sense for him to own settlements
lmaaoooo skarbrand crying at the start killed me
I really love these campaigne review and challeges type of videos, Thanks a lot!
you can click on and drag the reinforcement army icon to change the position it arrives from, fun fact
What, really?
You can move the reinforcement zone on field battles just drag the green circle
The techs increase the # of times you can use that ability but if you dont already have the ability they dont do anything
Very interesting and well edited video.👍 Although the Skulls-Throne-Button could have helped in some situations 😂
Do a campaign where you mostly focus on sea fighting maybe? Something that sounds like I'd play into Alberic strengths
Man out here doing the research.. For Science!
there are a ton of technologies for blood hosts
so even tho you aren't growing in the territorial sense, at least you can be growing technologically since you rely on blood hosts so much
Love the work you do , please keep it up
Overall I'm happy I'm not the only one with big issues in the head (Though I was crazy in Diablo2, WC3, WoW and SC2 xD)! xD Homeless Skarbrand, that was cool! xD
The Dark Elves could do a homeless campaign as some of them start with a Black Ark which will allow you to keep recruiting and the can assault costal settlements.
You can even trade those units with your armies. But it's gonna be real hard though, since you basically need to keep sacking to not go bankrupt.
You can move the reinforcement icon
Yeah it increases the time though. Think it worked in my favour anyway :D
Excellent content as always Zerk
Ah, Hobo Skarbrand. Traveling the rails, eatin' beans in a can.
Key thing overall is to manually fight. Even losing battles to at least take out key enemy ranged units before maybe returning with a better army.
4:25 was that an MXC reference 😂😂😂
so you're playing tww1 beastman campaign in nutshell? Huh, neat.
This looks like a fun horde mechanic faction.
I can see it: next video "Can I beat the campaign with only tier 1-3 units?". Me: wait but that's how I normally play.
You can move from where the reinforcments come at the cost of time. Just click the reinforcment army icon and drag it along the edge
You can move reinforcement position marker around. It takes longer to come but they st least wont stack with enemy's
You forgot the vampires coast
I thought you could recruit in encamp stance?
did you know, that you can change the place where your reeinforcements enter the battle? just klick and drag the icon in the set up phase along the border, where you want it.
You can sack and then claim skulls or blood
Also, summoned armies barely summon other armies when using blood for the blood god
I love this, it fits a lot more for warmongering demons! Destroy everything instead of building a demon empire. They should totally allow us to play as some of the nomadic factions
Feel like the Druchii could also pull this off with their Black Arks.
I like to think reinforcements are don't know what side they're on untill they enter the battle.
Like they're best friends with the enemy untill they see their main armies fighting
Once again this coul be verry fun with skaven, utilizing undercities and defensive alligences for units.
Edit: maybe also counts or coast, because raise dead
now we have super hobo, the changling
Its tough for Skarbrand finding a place after Khorne disowned him
Zerkovich... you can move where your reinforcements come in bro
*Karl Franz jumpscare* got me
Great content, love your stuff.
I was wondering if a Karl Franz campaign could work if he sided with the vampires?
You should do a campaign as Alberic were your only allowed on the sea and can capture Port settlements
00:01 MY GOD HES SO FUCKING RIPPED 💪💪💪💪💪💪
Everyone who does content always does this area how funny.
Why didn't you moved your reinforcements around to more favorable places?
WE ATTACK THE FRENCH!
Why have a home when you can just crap out Blood Hosts?
when your fighting a 20 stack and another army if you have a reinforcing army you can set them to AI control and turn off control large army this makes it so you and the enemy can only field 20 units at a time the game doesnt count your AI allies as your force so they can deploy their armies at the same time yours are alive but the enemy forces cant which allows you to field more units at once than the enemy
been wanting to see this
Do you have the debugged camera for the battles??
no you cannot do that qu3st battle with this army. to do that you need a lot of herores to help fill up the army
This challange is easy with the right lord. Just play Nakai and you will be fine
Honestly, if you level up Skarbrand smartly, you don't even need units to crush *everyone*.
Like with Archaon, even if it takes a little more time for him.
Both of them don't need anything but themselves to win.
funny ! I do miss old Horde no settlement playstyle . sucks that every single faction now builds cities .
Imo Skarbrand should have been horde lord like Beastmen or Nakai. Khorne settlements suck so much I don't even bother with expanding.
Awawa
Makes for a nice adventure
I enjoy the label of "homeless Skarbrand". Like everyone around him is kinda eubbing it in, right before he knocks down their door and burns down the whole village
you can sack then summon, all you lose is replenishment.
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the.. homeless?
you do know that you can reposition from where your reinforcement are comming from ?
right ??
Why didnt you use skulls for the skull throne?
Forgot it exists xD Haven't played Skarby since pre IE really. But hey, can survive, even homeless without it.
@@Zerkovich Haha no problem iI was just curious haha very nice video either way! Keep up the good work. I absolutely love these challenge campaigns!
you can move your reinforcements spawnpoint.
you know you can rotate your reinforcement points around the map right?
Home is where your homies are.
Can't you move the reinforcement markers?
The french jokes made me lol. As an Englishman I approved
Thanks for quality humour and intelligent comments. :)
U can move where the reinforcements come in from
You didnt gave skulls for the skull throne, so no army ability
you could use outposts for more units
I don't get it... why weren't you also sacking settlements? It's lots of money to be had.
I was making a lot of enemies. Didn't want to stick around in one spot for too long. Plus, what did I need money for other than Bloodhost upkeep haha.
Why would you insta raze cities, just sack them first, then next turn raze? Then you get more money, more xp, more items, use that money to get alliances so you can recruit from your allies?
I realized something: you asked us if we play with mods but have you tried to play with mods? If so, which ones? I know you didn’t like Radious from TWWH2 but hey you tried it lately? Or SFO? Or did you revert back from Update 3.0 because it almost killed the whole game?
The Beastmen: “Pffft. Poser.”
Haha loved the french bashing quota !
I'm french, you have to know that you are worldwide known 😉
Wouldn't the vampire coast better fir a run like this?
Is there a link to which we can donate to help Skarbrand buy a house ?
Tricky with Skarbro. Piece of piss with Taurox though. Even beneficial.
I'm having issues trying to figure out how to play Taurox. When attacking the vampire coast these ethereal units really fuck me over.
SKARBRAND HATES THE HOUSING MARKET!