The Lady says no more cavalry. Only Peasants.
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- Louen can't use his cavalry. Can we win a Total War Warhammer 3 campaign with ONLY Peasants? Let's find out.
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I can only imagine the sheer amount of coconuts clapping together as the Bretonnian Foot Cavalry charge into battle
Imagine doing the calculation to figure out how many african pigeons you need to carry said amount of coconuts, it's all very heretical.
"Why are we even marching for 'King' Louen? I didn't vote for em"
@@therealdoomsage Isn't it African or European Swallow?
@@saintpres4ge533 Damn it I remembered the wrong birb.
Better get out some gin and put the fear of god back into ol' camp hippo.
Ni
5 years on and AI lords still fly into your entire army by themselves.
In the same Volkmar campaign N'kari and Belakor committed suicide by 18 steam tanks to the face while their armies walked slowly
Kind of a good job considering the sheer numbe of stacks you have to deal with -_-
Would be more doable with either Fey Enchantress or Repanse, since Fey Enchantress has life magic and +10 peasants, and Repanse has a bunch of buffs for Peasants.
You can definitely do this with Repanse, I have done myself in TWW2 just for fun
No reason putting lipstick on a pig
If you want a no cavalry campaign with Bretonnia just train paladins and dismount them
There's a difference between 'no cav' and 'only peasant'
I like that the undead Mousillon Lord realized the Damsel weighed the same as duck, good on him for being so well versed in the ways of science.
Reminds me of the reverse Brettonia "challenge" ie mounted peasants and foot knights. In other words Foot Squires(since you can no longer dismount knights) and both types of Mounted Yeoman. And maybe Trebuchets and Grail Reliquary since they don't pick either side.
But you decided to go even further.
trebs and grails count toward the peasant economy. Or they did in tw2
AI pays top dollar for even the crappiest of settlements, it's always worth keeping them early to trade
I can usually get a defensive agreement out of it. Keeps the east somewhat protected
Not always, sometimes giving the settlement has negative value (meaning you have to _pay them_ to take it)
@@akaviri5 very rare.If you build a baracks then its value skyrockets
@@akaviri5 Generally only true if you've a) only just taken it b) have no upgrades in it at all c) its damaged - Otherwise, whack a barracks in it and increase that real estate baby
I actually have tried that a couple of times now. Two main differences though. I allow for peasant horses, and I play on the lower difficulties (mainly because I am terrible 😆). Glad to see I am not the only masochist out there. Thanks for the entertaining video!
The largest problem is that high difficulties lowers your leadership overall. Peasants already have terrible leadership, so they'll even run at the sight of an uncommon butterfly flying past.
@@DaReaperZ Absolutely. A grail relique often helps too, but I 100% agree, leadership is a huge issue.
@@marcus3457 Yeah the peasants are basically grail reliquae/knight/nearby lord addicts. Without that, they just won't fight very long ^^
@@DaReaperZbro even with lords near them they will still be fcking cowards. If one routs, all of them fcking routs, which is a huge problem in choke point battles against enemies with monsters, which happened to me just this morning
well i mean, they are peasants. why would they have good discipline? it is really a shame we can not upgrade units into higher tier units by experience.@@Brother_O4TS
"While the northern lands of Brettonia are engulfed in the flames of war, the Fey enchantress looks towards it and thinks 'Cute, King Louen is trying to get my attention again with this Bonfire, how drol.' and went on minding her own business."
Seriously though, I think adding a Reliquiry Grail or two to your troops would've actually helped in this weird challenge (so would Trebuchets :x )
Trebuchets are operated by peasants, just saying...
20:36
That last auto-resolve battle at L'Anguille... literally every last man and woman in the garrison died, leaving only the lord, Arnaud Gaskey to tell the tale. Truly, the most lore-accurate Brettonian siege I've ever seen.
On another note, I don't think this challenge is really possible. You made it to turn 58, still in that little corner of Brettonia, but come end-game when every enemy army has high tier units, and you're stuck with armies of early-game chaff, I don't think there's a way to win.
If you know you're going to be recruiting for at least two turns, it can be more efficient to recruit some units through global recruitment pool. One turn units will take two turns, so if you build up your local recruitment to say 6 units (if you can recruit 3 units per turn and theyre all 1 turn units) this should equate to 2 total turns. If you then also recruit 3 through recruitment, they will be on 2 turns as well. You will then have 9 units over two turns instead of 9 over 3.
This is only occasionally useful.
It’s worth noting this is only really useful if you just need raw bodies as stacking global recruitment with local recruitment the global units do not receive building bonuses to recruit experience. This only really happens in the late game as that’s when the bonuses start appearing but it can be the difference between recruitment at experience 2 and experience 4. Still worth paying attention to especially if you’re using a general with T2 redline skills that only apply to units rank7+
It's great for Tomb Kings early on, or whenever you get a new army.
Grab the quicker infantry via global, as you get whatever specialty units local and fresh.
No real drawback for Tomb Kings, since they're not paying for it, and the units you're grabbing probably don't care about chevrons
It's also handy any time you're recruiting elite units that take 2+ turns to recruit base. Local recruit the vets that take longer, and global recruit the 1 turn units so that when the 2 turn elite units finish you also get some 1 turn units done as well.
I feel like you chose the hardest option, this can definitely be done with Repanse as I have done a campaign like this with her in TWW2. But then she gets quite a few buffs quite early on for peasants and also not quite as many enemies that will declare war on you right at the start.
I real meaning of Bretonnian manpower!
This kind of campaign is a nightmarish meme, but is hilarious to watch. Thank you for this Zerkovich, this was amazing.
Re: 1:45
I both love and hate the way TWWH changed battle reinforcing to only require mutual enemies instead of an alliance agreement.
I didnt even know they finally changed it but love it
Easily the best of these videos. Too many videos are youtubers pretending to up against it but this really showed off that it was a tough challenge that you managed to slowly learn and defeat.
I get the complaints about the anti player bias but honestly it made the video far better than watching you roll over everyone in one go.
I love these, thank you for your suffering
Super impressed by your creativity of the uploads these past weeks. The Napoleon/Dschingis Khan videos were great
I feel you man. Even with full cavalry, it takes me ages to permanently establish bretonnina in Albion. The attrition combined with constant nordic attacks and very low replenishment means you have to invest a ton of money and turns before it's safe and has decent public order.
Those first 2 tries is like 75% of my Brettonian games.
These videos you are making are fun to watch. I don’t really have a good suggestion for another idea, but they are really fun to watch you attempt.
brilliant stupidity did a more in depth series on this a few months ago and it was actually really good
I like these Challenges, using ONLY this unit or that tactic.
Very entertaining 😊
Dude I love your videos, this with the Lady and the one with the game developer
😂🤣🤣😂
And of course the rest, you have such a great humour😂🤣🤣😂
Ze Lady doing a limmy blehm was truly haunting
Do this with Cathy
Cathay peasants are good tho 😅
Grand Cathay without missiles 🏹 units it would be a meme challenge enough, but you have still strong options.
An alternative version would be a "realistic vs fantasy" challenge where you only use real historical units, so not magic, flying units or monsters.
I've done it with just peasants as Cathay and it is shockingly easy to paint the map with Cathay peasants I think I had 20 stacks by turn 80 of nothing but peasants spears archers and peasants cav and 3 grouped together stacks of those you can pretty much walk around and wipe the map in groups of 3-4 peasants stacks
Amazing intro mate, you're my first pick for the warhammer irl series lady of the lake!
Ghosts using ladders was hilarious. I did wonder then where exactly they carry and hide them on the way to the wall?
2:04 "positive mental attitude" instant crit fail hahaha that was gold
The Vanaheimlings may raid and pillage in the winter, yet these are no strangers to our land!
Love this series. How about Greenskin-only Chorfs?
You can... don't do this on legendary, but.. you can, you will lose a part of yourself in the attempt, but you can...
Tip for that orc settlement, sell it to marienberg so you get a friendly on your right... and a few coins for the trouble.
hmm very interesting. I've flirted with the idea of using a mostly peasant army. they even have a trait you can get for doing so. Any reason you didn't swap out for Poison arrow Peasants as soon as possible? that would have helped matters. Also when i go with a peasant heavy army i almost always use a caster for buffs
3.30m do not do this. Do not just waste raze like this. Take the settlement and immediately sell it to the closes non waring neighbor for 3k or so. It is a great way to built relations early and has surprising paydays.
That intro.
specifically that lick :D
Grom da paunches opinion of peasants
"BIT SCRAWNY BUT THEY'LL DO!"
he said gleefully as he chucked them in the pot
That tongue thing at the start 😂😂😂
Hilarious idea. I'd love to see something like goblins only orks
With grom its pretty powerful
@@sagittariusa9012 I was thinking like grimgor with only goblins because if he wanted an easier game he could have played fey enchantress peasant only.
@@camelliasinensistea9410 He also could play Zombies only without Ghorst :)
I think Repanse would be a better fit for a peasant-only run.
Pity she's surrounded by...well, the things she's surrounded by. (Mummies!)
i didnt expect hearing you swear in my language in the first 30 seconds of the video. A surprise but a welcome one.
I didn't realize the extent of Zerkovitch's masochism until this video. :D
I think you are making life harder for you in most cases by autoresolving as mutch as you do in these challenges, the amount of units that you are losing completely is staggering and you are losing a lot of experience. Yes, in some cases you are going to lose more/lose the battle if you fight manually, but losing multiple unis (or even half a unit) to small enemy garrison is not a good tactic when you can fight and have far less casualties. More tedious? Of course it can be, but it is way more efficient, especially if you put some limitations on yourself.
Also, as for the changes for bretonnia, the new grail relique is way stronger than before thanks to the melee attack buff, so in a peasant only run you should have used more of them instead of just one in the main army; as you can see even in any pvp fight, having grail reliques mixed with all the peasants makes the bret frontline a lot stronger.
That said, i appreciate that you did not hide the failed attempts as many would have.
Maybe you could try a monster only with the lizardmen or norsca? Or only skavenslaves spam for the ultimate vermintide?
Arent mounted yeomen peasents? The horse archers can kite the whole vampires, norsca, and Shadow Legion rosters (at least until late game)
woah is that my playstyle as Bretonnia?
Just because you dont like having a province that is not fully occupied doesnt mean you have to raze, you can also occupy and sell off to nearest faction you want as friends
Next up: Lords only challenge :)
I remember I played one campaign and by the end of it my peasants had over 150 armor lol
Loving these ones mate
7:17 You know you can fight the battle and win even if the auto says you'll lose right...? Why are you trusting the auto that much? Louen can pretty much solo that army.
On his mount it would be more likely, Louen on foot would still sort of struggle. Still though, that battle should be winnable.
Nice one! Thx, was rly funny
You have a pretty heavy foot army, I go like 4 spears and archer cheese with arty, and keep armies 2 on one, Dwarf allies replace the melee but funny video.
Only an account with 200k subscribers could drop this banger
“I sure hope this will make Grom not declare war on me for the time being”
And it is at this moment Zerkovich forgot something important. Grom is a Greenskin.
Just when the fun never starts 😂
Wood elves archer only xd
As a "boring" player myself who goes safe and turtling this was highly enjoyable for a change
You know what I think is missing in total war Warhammer 3?
Heavy armoured, highly trained militias from medieval 2. Like the feared Genoes/pavise crossbow men militia. Cost efficient, yet heavy armoured, large shield and crossbow that packed a punch.
Cataph Southern Realms mod has bunch of these guys.
That first settlement you razed, would it not have been a better move to trade it to Marienberg for some cash?
Just wondering, could you do another chaos dwarf campaign but the only melee unit you can use is your lord, laborers and ranged units, and by ranged I mean blunderbusses and such, no artys 😈
3:19 should have occupied, built a barracks, then sold to a neighbour.
didnt know thats what the lady of the lake looked like...
This was pretty damn funny.
“FML” 😂 You just love torturing yourself, don’t you
"WonDErfUll FuN!!!" 🤣🤪
You should have recruited nothing but Pox Archers at the start. Checkerboard pox archers are a force to be reckoned with, especially against vampire units and greenskins.
BrilliantStupidity did an entire abridged let's play of this challenge.
I've been trying out a similar set up where I only use Brettonia's realistic units, so nofantasy elements... It's quite difficult...
that lady part get me :DDD
"Bellend-kor" 😂
Never realised The Lady was a Vindalovian!
I find these non-standard trials quite entertaining! Which battle difficulty did you use?
Following allied AI to stand near settlements they are attacking to help "reinforce" (win the fights for them) during the fights is always fun, even if the AI likely doesn't bother liking me more for doing it, but watching the enemy do it is definitely frustrating.
do it again but with different Brettonnian characters
By ze Laydee!
Comedy on higher lvl. :)
How do you get enemy heroes to just stand/fly in place like a muffuger and get shot? Whenever I try, they just keep going forward till they smash my line.
Brettonia after the glorious revolution. Coming to you irl soon...
Fay Enchantress would have given you less of a headache xD
I know this is a year ago and you'll never see this. But.
You mentioned razing settlements and letting the ai take them. Honestly, the Ai will usually not complete their provinces and do not prioritize settling ruined settlements.
Instead! Loot and Occupy these settlements. Get your end turn of replenishment in the settlement, then sell it off to the nearby faction for either free cash or diplo. It makes you allies, and strengthens them at the same time!
I get some Deja Vu here, but i guess last time was not peasants only
I was surprised to see not like him finding The Communist Manifesto or something while walking in the forest.
not using repanse for this is pure zerk
Nice video Zerk
Next challenge, Skavenslaves only
This is some extreme self torture, are you ok man?
Self torture for our entertainment! Also serf torture?
I cried just thinking about trying this myself.
That's a tough challenge why don't you allow yourself to at least recruit Paladins, to provide some strength, you did excellent not sure if this would work against later game armies?
Tough campaign.... but at 15:20 Leon is on a mount. But I guess its way to hard with him on foot.
Obviously we have Repanse for boosting the peasants but wouldn’t it be cool having. Hedge Knight Lord type that can give massive bonuses to peasants to their anti large & armour piercing?
That way you’ve got a cheap alternative to knights
0:13
was that a Red Dwarf reference?
Interesting challenge. It must have been beyond boring to play lol
I wanted to make this challenge. But only peasants, not all peasant units
Wow, amazing you could do that with peasants only. You could have taken peasant-manned trebs too.
Late comment, but I did infact see mounted lords towards the end of the video :P (Just nitpicking for the fun of it, this challenge looks and sounds so frustrating as is lmao)
I think you should redone campaign without unique faction mechanic with ogre kingdoms.
Weirdly enough... This video was named "Can Bretonnia survive using ONLY PEASANTS" 5 days ago when it launched... Are you feeling okay, Zerkovich? 😂
You could've sold the settlement to marienburg
Yes, because I do it every time I play Fay Enchantress.
Didn't know you got medieval 3 early access
Hey zerkovich do you still do multiplayer battles?
full province is not the best only because it gives u -10 to diplomacy for being a bigger faction.