fun fact: grom is uniquely good as a chariot since hes the only lord who can attack while moving,other than collision damage,since he hits with his axe while hes being driven
He should be standard to how chariots work. And archaon should be standard how cavalry work since he actually can attack routing enemies instead of knocking them down. I doubt CA will do it. But I hope the community will do it in 1-2 years maybe
@@loowick4074 They sorta patched this in recently by removing the artificial limit on how many units can attack during a pursuit. Used to be like 40%, now every unit can do it. Charge/pursuit AI could still use some better logic and unit cohesion, but still a huge improvement.
Well, Grom did eat a troll meat, which due to the meat's regenerate properties, has grown grom to his enormous size. So, Grom's body mass is probably at least 50% troll.
Is there any mention that the regenerative properties of troll meat have introduced anatomical differences that just eating food in the same pace as the meat is regenerating can't replicate? If for example he was eating eggs to get that big and kept eating them at the same pace as just regenerating troll meat does, would you say he's 50% egg? As I have understood it, it's not anything special in troll meat that changed him. It was just gross overconsumption of food that most, if not all other goblins could not replicate It could be that brute forcing food inside of him would be too slow and he could not reach the same immensity by consuming food the regular way Of course if you count the content of others stomach as part of them then yeah, Grom might be 50% troll Although it's always the same piece of troll meat inside of him so it could be seen as a more intrinsic part of Grom than regular eating where the contents change What would happen to ogres when they eat raw troll meat? Their gut might just be too powerful and overpower the meat Maybe skaven could tinker themselves or pets to not need to be fed since they make them have a gut that create a perfect equilibrium with raw troll meat
@@tominieminen66 I think it's unique to grom at least that he grew that big because he has an iron stomach because if the same thing was done to other goblins they would just pop like balloons
Grom is an honorary troll because the River Troll Hag he starts off with is definitely his wife, he married into the family. This challenge run is just the family reunion, and the rest of the world trying to deal with it.
"I'm grom. Dat's my wife, and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dats my
Explanation for the weird auto resolve with lighting strike: You start with reduced vigour which really hurts the army. And since all the enemy units were puny humies facing both was better for auto resolve
I have a few ideas: Brettonian Peasant only Ghobblar only as Ogres Horrors of Tzeench only Air units only (whatever faction) Zombie only (vamp counts) Marauders onlv (Norsca)
quick comment, if you want to doomstack the trolls, confed wurzzag as quickly as possible, his 25% phys resist for trolls is massive along side the buffs from groms cauldron, at that point they are legit too stupid to die. love your content.
Fun fact: Grom is so corpulent that he can no longer see his own legs, but that’s okay - he’s also grown powerful enough in Greenskin society that he can have others see his legs for him!
Just by watching how you play, I've improved how I play extensively. I used to get almost wiped out on like turn 40. Now I'm on about turn 80 as lizard men and I'm doing the soul tornado campaign on Warhammer 2 I thank you for the funny content and the indirect pointers for a player that's only been playing for 2 weeks. You have my gratitude endlessly
now this looks like its gonna be fun EDIT: i think you should do more close ups of whats happening cus whithout being able to see the fights properly every challenge looks the same sorry if i sound picky
16:40 when you use lightning strike, your units automatically start the fight with exhausted vigor, basically making their stats worse, mainly : -30% melee attack and charge bonus, -10% melee def and damage , -25% armor and -15% speed
Really love these videos, a campaign idea I had fun with was Nakai Kroxigor only, I got to a point where I was destroying the entire armies of chaos the turn they spawned in WH2
I remember that Ovn lost factions campaign mods let you play as Ugma the River Troll chief, a unique (and very funny) campaign in which you have 9 different types of trolls units to use, plus some goblins cannon fodder which can literally be given to the trolls as food to restore their health. Very cool campaign, it's a blast.
the reason for the auto resolve at 16:48 is because youre units begin the battle exhausted with lightning strike or tired, but that plays into the auto resolve measure meant since its a heavy debuff something like 20 percent across the board but great video love your content brother !
YES! I was so excited for the new video! I really appreciate how you zoom into some details that you are talking about. It makes it much easier to see and follow along.
Thanks! Personally, I mostly watch TH-cam on my phone, so I try to make everything at least somewhat mobile-friendly. I find that with basic Total Warhammer footage, it's impossible to read most of the text on a small screen. Also, there is so much on the screen at once that I'm hoping it makes it more accessible to newer players who might not know where to look.
Found you back when you started your all guns Imperial campaign, really enjoying the total war videos. Your current content is incredibly high quality for how small of a channel you are, you have good, intelligent commentary with engaging explanations of some of your strategies. One thing I think you should employ is maybe discussing some more aspects of the game that you’re exploiting such as how you’re addressing the trolls low leadership for newer players like myself. I’ll watch regardless since I enjoy the content but it might attract people who are brand new to total war as well. Regardless, keep up the good work!
The "Waagh monga" effect from having high reputation (which is the currency used to declare a WAAAGH. Gained mainly by razing settlements and winning battles) gives the Greenskins gives a flat +10 leadership factionwide. On top of that, the recipe that I got towards the end giving "monstrous disease" gives them +8 leadership and "Immune to psychology" (which prevents fear, terror, and several other leadership-reducing effects from being used against them) when they're above 50% HP. This combined with Grom and the River Troll Hag Hero both being very good at increasing the leadership of units around them as well as their high level due to killing so many enemies gets them up to something like ~80 effective leadership in battle - which is damn good for monstrous infantry. I might start using my second channel to do a quick breakdown of all the buffs, debuffs, and strategies I used after each campaign. I think it makes more sense to go over it all at once because otherwise, it's hard to see how it all works together over the course of an entire campaign.
I love warhammer 3 so much, but the pathfinding makes battles so frustrating. I hate ordering a unit to attack through a gate and they decide to line up conga-style and walk to their deaths 1 by 1 through the enemy gates.
He is, but he has access to 2 troll units instead of the 4 that Grom has (including the river troll hag hero). Also, the different cauldron buffs are more interesting than basic, static buffs imo. I also have a couple challenges for Norsca that I'm going to try eventually.
16:44 This kind of thing happened to me too in my Mors campaign. The auto resolve predicted that I would lose the battle. But for some reason, if I purchased exactly 8 menace belows (not more or less than that), the auto resolve predicted that I would get a pyric victory.
Trolls are seriously underrated. Of course, they are better if you back them up with infantry, but aside from their leadership, they have some genuinely high stats for monstrous infantry.
Point about lightning strike autoresolve - lightning strike makes your army tired, this sometimes causes worse outcome with LS than without (16:43). But in this case... interesting autoresolve at best.
A troll legendary lord for the Greenskins would have been cool. But I guess they were worried he would turn out too much like Throgg. But yeah, always do enjoy Grom, he's great with gobbos and trolls.
walk five feet to get to my destination? nah man, I need my cardio... really working on my figure so imma just go all the way around the map. -river troll hag at 7 minutes
18:45 The reason why all of those orc factions get wiped out so much faster than the average minor faction is because of the orc confederation mechanic. All of the smaller ones are “destroyed” by the legendary lord factions.
Crazy that they added so much great stuff to Warhammer 3 like the much needed diplomacy rework, then completely bungled unit pathing in sieges even worse than in Warhammer 2. Getting units to attack barricades without going all the way around sometimes makes me want to pull my hair out.
I haven't touched WH:III in half a year now, your run sort of resembles what you end up doing with ye 'ol Ghorst. Spam zombies in 20+ armies and swarm the world. impossible to kill :'D
Ok I if you had the same number of troll variations with a certain chaos affiliated troll king, then ya would have chosen them. I accept that. BUT if ya want a harder challenge then ya gonna have to go with ya boi Throgg.
fun fact: grom is uniquely good as a chariot since hes the only lord who can attack while moving,other than collision damage,since he hits with his axe while hes being driven
I wish settra would get this so bad, all lords on chariots should. But Settra for sure.
He should be standard to how chariots work.
And archaon should be standard how cavalry work since he actually can attack routing enemies instead of knocking them down.
I doubt CA will do it.
But I hope the community will do it in 1-2 years maybe
Beastmen can do it too
@@loowick4074 They sorta patched this in recently by removing the artificial limit on how many units can attack during a pursuit. Used to be like 40%, now every unit can do it. Charge/pursuit AI could still use some better logic and unit cohesion, but still a huge improvement.
Well, Grom did eat a troll meat, which due to the meat's regenerate properties, has grown grom to his enormous size. So, Grom's body mass is probably at least 50% troll.
Probably more since he is a goblin
Is there any mention that the regenerative properties of troll meat have introduced anatomical differences that just eating food in the same pace as the meat is regenerating can't replicate?
If for example he was eating eggs to get that big and kept eating them at the same pace as just regenerating troll meat does, would you say he's 50% egg?
As I have understood it, it's not anything special in troll meat that changed him. It was just gross overconsumption of food that most, if not all other goblins could not replicate
It could be that brute forcing food inside of him would be too slow and he could not reach the same immensity by consuming food the regular way
Of course if you count the content of others stomach as part of them then yeah, Grom might be 50% troll
Although it's always the same piece of troll meat inside of him so it could be seen as a more intrinsic part of Grom than regular eating where the contents change
What would happen to ogres when they eat raw troll meat? Their gut might just be too powerful and overpower the meat
Maybe skaven could tinker themselves or pets to not need to be fed since they make them have a gut that create a perfect equilibrium with raw troll meat
@@tominieminen66 you might be overhinking it
@@tominieminen66 I think it's unique to grom at least that he grew that big because he has an iron stomach because if the same thing was done to other goblins they would just pop like balloons
@@Korkhik I strongly disagree sir, we have to "beat the meat" mystery
Grom is an honorary troll because the River Troll Hag he starts off with is definitely his wife, he married into the family. This challenge run is just the family reunion, and the rest of the world trying to deal with it.
And every member of the family is played by Eddie Murphy.
He also ate a chunk of ever healing troll flesh and has became part troll due to his insane resilience
"I'm grom. Dat's my wife, and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dat's my cousin and dats my
When Grom didn't want to walk up a hill, I felt that.
We all felt that.
grom just wants to take a scenic route
Step 1 aquire units
Step 2 aquire bonk
Step 3 bonk
He truly is a master tactician
Explanation for the weird auto resolve with lighting strike: You start with reduced vigour which really hurts the army. And since all the enemy units were puny humies facing both was better for auto resolve
There is always a catch but that's the best way to keep Lightning Strike from being too good
Imagine if Trolls with Javelins or throwing rocks were a thing. DOOMSTACK.
ranged Trolls who'd throw literal logs would be so much fun
@@depalodor
Yes.
They already have one, its just led by Wurzagg
@@hawkticus_history_corner
I know of Wuzzag's unkillable stone Trolls. Giving trolls a missile attack would just make them even better.
@@semi-useful5178 oh it would be hilarious
I have a few ideas:
Brettonian Peasant only
Ghobblar only as Ogres
Horrors of Tzeench only
Air units only (whatever faction)
Zombie only (vamp counts)
Marauders onlv (Norsca)
Hold up. Bretonia only peasants sounds really interesting...
Isn't horrors only just how you play Tzeentch normally?
@@angryspearmen3614 I am interested on how he will do it, also it is very doable
Peasant revolution!
@@C00kiesAplenty Yea, but typically you would support them with other units like flamers and magic, also a few monsters
Fun fact, the trolls do a special kind of damage to enemy units. Emotional damage.
quick comment, if you want to doomstack the trolls, confed wurzzag as quickly as possible, his 25% phys resist for trolls is massive along side the buffs from groms cauldron, at that point they are legit too stupid to die. love your content.
Then add lizardmen wagggh effect
Fun fact: Grom is so corpulent that he can no longer see his own legs, but that’s okay - he’s also grown powerful enough in Greenskin society that he can have others see his legs for him!
Should have tried it with the ‘Trolls for the Troll King’ mod for Throgg. Provides more Troll hero types,and a bunch of new troll units.
Please do this
and troll accessories
Just by watching how you play, I've improved how I play extensively. I used to get almost wiped out on like turn 40. Now I'm on about turn 80 as lizard men and I'm doing the soul tornado campaign on Warhammer 2 I thank you for the funny content and the indirect pointers for a player that's only been playing for 2 weeks. You have my gratitude endlessly
Cringe
Next series: Only nurgling
Kugath: Ha ha ha!
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Laught in the troll king of norca using ice troll with a great unclean one as a way to have imortal trolls 🧌
Interested*
@@desolane900 Thanks. No amount of automated spellcheck can save me from myself lol.
@@BrilliantStupidity I gotchu homie
now this looks like its gonna be fun
EDIT: i think you should do more close ups of whats happening cus whithout being able to see the fights properly every challenge looks the same
sorry if i sound picky
Aw dude, watching your TWW shenanigans is just so satisfying
16:40 when you use lightning strike, your units automatically start the fight with exhausted vigor, basically making their stats worse, mainly :
-30% melee attack and charge bonus, -10% melee def and damage , -25% armor and -15% speed
you should do slayer only, it sounds fun, and also infinite unbreakable armies makes the ai cry at night
That sounds fun but hard. Every time I play slayers they deal shit tons of damage and then die immediately.
@@jacobburch7555Lore-accurate Slayers be like:
Trolls: Oi grom, how ya get so fat?
Grom: I just ate some trol...uhhh, I eat a lot of McDamsels.
Really love these videos, a campaign idea I had fun with was Nakai Kroxigor only, I got to a point where I was destroying the entire armies of chaos the turn they spawned in WH2
hardest one by far, peasants only (Bretonnia)
I remember that Ovn lost factions campaign mods let you play as Ugma the River Troll chief, a unique (and very funny) campaign in which you have 9 different types of trolls units to use, plus some goblins cannon fodder which can literally be given to the trolls as food to restore their health. Very cool campaign, it's a blast.
the reason for the auto resolve at 16:48 is because youre units begin the battle exhausted with lightning strike or tired, but that plays into the auto resolve measure meant since its a heavy debuff something like 20 percent across the board
but great video love your content brother !
YES! I was so excited for the new video!
I really appreciate how you zoom into some details that you are talking about. It makes it much easier to see and follow along.
Thanks! Personally, I mostly watch TH-cam on my phone, so I try to make everything at least somewhat mobile-friendly. I find that with basic Total Warhammer footage, it's impossible to read most of the text on a small screen. Also, there is so much on the screen at once that I'm hoping it makes it more accessible to newer players who might not know where to look.
Your edits make these episodes so enjoyable to watch, and the content is top notch to begin with! Great job!
When 33 trolls and one troll-identifying goblin can take an entire walled city...
Warhammer proudly waving the trans-species flag lmao
Found you back when you started your all guns Imperial campaign, really enjoying the total war videos. Your current content is incredibly high quality for how small of a channel you are, you have good, intelligent commentary with engaging explanations of some of your strategies. One thing I think you should employ is maybe discussing some more aspects of the game that you’re exploiting such as how you’re addressing the trolls low leadership for newer players like myself. I’ll watch regardless since I enjoy the content but it might attract people who are brand new to total war as well. Regardless, keep up the good work!
The "Waagh monga" effect from having high reputation (which is the currency used to declare a WAAAGH. Gained mainly by razing settlements and winning battles) gives the Greenskins gives a flat +10 leadership factionwide.
On top of that, the recipe that I got towards the end giving "monstrous disease" gives them +8 leadership and "Immune to psychology" (which prevents fear, terror, and several other leadership-reducing effects from being used against them) when they're above 50% HP. This combined with Grom and the River Troll Hag Hero both being very good at increasing the leadership of units around them as well as their high level due to killing so many enemies gets them up to something like ~80 effective leadership in battle - which is damn good for monstrous infantry.
I might start using my second channel to do a quick breakdown of all the buffs, debuffs, and strategies I used after each campaign. I think it makes more sense to go over it all at once because otherwise, it's hard to see how it all works together over the course of an entire campaign.
@@BrilliantStupidity appreciated, that sounds like a good idea to get some more views/likes!
I love warhammer 3 so much, but the pathfinding makes battles so frustrating. I hate ordering a unit to attack through a gate and they decide to line up conga-style and walk to their deaths 1 by 1 through the enemy gates.
Surprised you didn't try an all troll army with Throgg, since he is a troll.
He is, but he has access to 2 troll units instead of the 4 that Grom has (including the river troll hag hero). Also, the different cauldron buffs are more interesting than basic, static buffs imo. I also have a couple challenges for Norsca that I'm going to try eventually.
Lightning strike makes your units enter to battle with tired vigour, that's why the auto resolve changed like that
But... against twice as many enemies?
@@BrilliantStupidity 5 peasant units vs 2 mid-tier units + hero + lord isn't exactly equal
The second you said Teamwork in the promo I had to laugh.
There is NO teamwork WHATSOEVER
Congrats on the Sponsor! Love the channel my man
Holy crap it's the norwegian military!!!
"It's just a hill.."
But that troll has short legs definitely that guy is struggling :D
Just picked up "The Warden & The Paunch" to also give it a go with only Trolls! Appreciate your work on this one!
16:44 This kind of thing happened to me too in my Mors campaign. The auto resolve predicted that I would lose the battle. But for some reason, if I purchased exactly 8 menace belows (not more or less than that), the auto resolve predicted that I would get a pyric victory.
BrilliantStupidty: “We do a little trolling”
this is like a nature documentary of trolls, an invasive species
I really love your videos, you are a great TH-camr with a brilliant narrating voice
Thanks! I try my best lol.
Custom/alternative long victory: Ulthuan. All of it.
Been trying to get into Warhammer myself, your videos help a lot man! Keep it up!
Who would've thought that Trolls have tactics too outside the internet.
Huh, kinda figured this was gonna be a Throgg campaign, but Grom also makes sense. River Trolls and Stone Trolls are nuts.
wooo lets go, this is what weve been waiting for, this is the highlight of my weekend
i know nothing about tw:wh3 but i loved getting this video in my feed just for the sheer oddity of the challenge.
cant wait to see where this series goes! :D
I love the video it's cool to have such a switch up from the previous challenge now having the tougher but more expensive armies!😁
Eyyy I'm doing a Grom campaign now too. His start is tough, but once you sack your way through the elves you have an insane war chest
Loving seeing your channel grow so nice to see another Warhammer 3 TH-camr
Yes finaly this video came. Can't wait for the rest of the campaign.
When Gobbo has more claim of the title "Troll King" than the actual Troll King. Makes sense to me.
Trolls are seriously underrated. Of course, they are better if you back them up with infantry, but aside from their leadership, they have some genuinely high stats for monstrous infantry.
dude i found ur channel when u first started the goblin only campaign and have been addicted to ur channel since
Every time you release a video I am legally obliged to binge watch your other ONLY series.
Grom decides to do a LARGE amount of trolling.
Step three: hit the bad guys with clubs, until they stop being guys 😂
he did a bit of trolling
Throgg should have access to all trolls units.
maybe he will when norsca gets a rework
Imagine being some peasent who laid low a troll and you see it's *still* regenerating even after it got knocked down.
Not playing the Troll challenge as the TROLL KING?!
That's heresy,
Point about lightning strike autoresolve - lightning strike makes your army tired, this sometimes causes worse outcome with LS than without (16:43). But in this case... interesting autoresolve at best.
This challenge is perfectly suited for the name of your channel !
if I remember correctly isn't Grom a goblin that was forced to eat troll meat, survived and grow to big size.
Love these videos bro was getting scared you were gonna stop uploading
Yesssss I love these warhammer challenge videos
It's not just a bit now, it's a lot of trollin'
Another great video mate can't wait to see the next episodes!
I love your campaign videos, and I also love to make troll stacks with tons of unbreakable due to stunty ale.
A troll legendary lord for the Greenskins would have been cool. But I guess they were worried he would turn out too much like Throgg.
But yeah, always do enjoy Grom, he's great with gobbos and trolls.
I don't think there's any lore of a troll leading a greenskin horde
Maaaaaan i wish i knew the game like the back of my hand like you do that would be so good hahaha
walk five feet to get to my destination? nah man, I need my cardio... really working on my figure so imma just go all the way around the map.
-river troll hag at 7 minutes
Thought you'd be Throgg... but grom makes sense too.
>Troll only
>No playing Throgg
RIP Throgg he deserved better (and/or more love in total war warhammer/table top)
Next series; Only marauder slaneesh
As always, love the video CaptainSparklez.
These videos are great!!! The music fighting Brionne😂
Trolling your way to the top! 😂
This was a very fun video I hope you continue it.
You can solo with Grom for a hot minute.
bro i have been waiting for this
I'd piss my pants and run at the sight of a troll in battle lol
18:45 The reason why all of those orc factions get wiped out so much faster than the average minor faction is because of the orc confederation mechanic. All of the smaller ones are “destroyed” by the legendary lord factions.
This guy do be trolling :D
Crazy that they added so much great stuff to Warhammer 3 like the much needed diplomacy rework, then completely bungled unit pathing in sieges even worse than in Warhammer 2. Getting units to attack barricades without going all the way around sometimes makes me want to pull my hair out.
I haven't touched WH:III in half a year now, your run sort of resembles what you end up doing with ye 'ol Ghorst. Spam zombies in 20+ armies and swarm the world. impossible to kill :'D
Trolls just have big TH-cam energy
Ive got your next one, Terradon Riders and Ripperdactyls
Throgg:"am i a stranger to you?"
Ok I if you had the same number of troll variations with a certain chaos affiliated troll king, then ya would have chosen them. I accept that. BUT if ya want a harder challenge then ya gonna have to go with ya boi Throgg.
I mean..they are trolls.. ( 6:29 )
Could do Dwarves with only miners next
this motivated me to start a Vampire Coast playthrough with no gunpowder. only beast units. we'll see how it goes.
Solo unit only? Like giants hero’s and norsca stuff. Love the content btw ❤
Been checking everyday for when this series was going to drop lol. Can’t wait for some project zomboid
Will you get ice trolls from norsca with the outpost system?
I will try - haven't had a chance yet though.
OOOHHH SHIT A NEW VIDEO!!!!!
Those poor poor Bretonnians amd their amazing leadership never stood a chance
i love this music..and it fits perfectly for the dumb troll challenge xD
Hats off, this was unexpected