*The gods of the Warhammer World:* The humans of the Old World (essentially, the stuff comparable to medieval Europe) worship a close pantheon of gods, with different ones having more or less importance in different nations. This pantheon includes Ulric (god of war, winter, and wolves), Taal (god of beasts and the wild), and Rhya (goddess of nature and life, wife to Taal), Manann (god of oceans and storms), Morr (god of death and dreams), Shallya (goddess of mercy and healing), Verena (goddess of learning, law, and wisdom), Ranald (god of trickery and deception), and Myrmidia (goddess of warfare and strategy). There are also more regional gods. In the Kingdom of Bretonnia (essentially medieval France with an Arthurian style), the Lady of the Lake is the patron goddess of their land and culture, worshipped by the knights and lords of their nation. In The Empire (basically the Holy Roman Empire circa the 15th century), Sigmar is their patron god: Sigmar Heldenhammer was the first Emperor, who united the disparate tribes under his rule and, in alliance with the Dwarfs, drove the Orks out from their lands. Fifty years later, he abdicated the throne, and is believed to have ascended to godhood. The Dwarfs don't go in for any of that. They worship their ancestors, with a selection of Ancestor Gods at the top: Grungni, the first and oldest, god of the forge, Valaya, god of hearth and home, Grimnir, god of war and vengeance, and many others. The Elves have a large and complex pair of pantheons - the Cadai (heavenly gods) and Cytherai (underworld gods) - which are worshipped differently by each nation of Elves. The main ones are Asuryan (King of the Gods), Isha (Goddess of Life), Khaine (God of War and Murder), and Kurnous (God of the Hunt), but there are a couple of dozen beyond them. The Wood Elves tend to worship Isha and Kurnous above all, while the High Elves worship Asuryan first, and the Dark Elves devote themselves to Khaine. And, of course, beyond them all... are the gods of Chaos: Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, and Slaanesh. These are the same as in 40k (though they were in Warhammer Fantasy first - their existence in 40k is one of the first times the 40k setting was retconned). *Nations of the Old World:* The first Total War Warhammer game is set primarily in The Old World. The Old World is a collection of human nations, united by a number of shared elements of culture and religion, and a number of loosely-aligned non-human cultures as well. They don’t always see eye-to-eye, but they have more in common with one another than they do with even other human nations further afield. *The Empire* The largest of the human nations of the Old World, the Empire is a collective of baronies, principalities, counties, leagues, and city-states united under the rule of an Emperor elected from amongst the rulers of these provinces. Its history stretches back two and a half thousand years, and it was founded by Sigmar Heldenhammer, a warrior-king of the era who united many of the tribes of humanity and allied with the Dwarfs of the mountains to drive the Orcs and Goblins from the land. In doing so, he became the first Emperor. Legend says that he departed the mortal world at the end of a fifty-year reign, and joined the ranks of the gods themselves, and to this day, worship of Sigmar is a significant part of the lives of people in the Empire, and the Cult of Sigmar has considerable political influence. The current Emperor, Karl-Franz I, Crown Prince of the Reikland, was elected and crowned Emperor ten years ago. In that short time, he’s proven a cunning statesman and the Empire has prospered under his rule. *Bretonnia* The Empire’s neighbour to the west, Bretonnia is a deeply traditionalist nation, regarded by some as ‘backwards’. A feudal monarchy, Bretonnia is a land famous for its noble knights and infamous for the squalor its common folk must endure. Bretonnia is a verdant land but lacks many of the technological advantages of the Empire. Within Bretonnia's borders lies the forest of Athel Loren, home to the Wood Elves, who brook no trespass into their domain. *Kislev* To the Empire’s north lies Kislev, ruled over by a succession of Tsars and Tsarinas. A frozen and harsh land has produced a hardy and stoic people, whose proximity to the great Chaos Wastes of the far north makes them a bulwark between the civilisation of the Old World and the brutal marauders of the north. (Kislev are prominently depicted in Total War: Warhammer III) *Tilea* To the Empire’s south, the city-states of Tilea are a place of intense political machinations, deep philosophy, unmatched inventiveness, and the potential for untold riches for anyone who can navigate this precarious society. Long ago, the southern Old World was ruled by the Reman Empire, centred around the Tilean city of Remas. *Estalia* To the south-west of the Empire lays the Estalian Kingdoms, a collection of small kingdoms and city-states. Estalian trade caravans are common across the Old World, and both Tilea and Estalia fund expeditions by explorers across the vast oceans to explore distant Lustria, the Southlands, and places further afield in search of riches and glory. Most in the Empire know of Estalia from tales of the Crusades, a time when warriors from the Empire, Bretonnia, and Tilea marched to help repel an invasion of Estalia from Araby, far to the south. *The Dwarf Kingdoms* The Dwarfs dwell in fortified mountain strongholds in the mountain ranges that border the nations of the Old World. These are fiercely independent, though they have allied with other nations at times (including, most famously, The Empire). They are a deeply prideful people, slow to trust and quick to anger, and they hold grudges which last for generations. Greatest amongst these is their grudge against the Greenskins - the Orc and Goblin tribes which have assailed the Dwarfholds for millennia, leading to the fall of several ancient holds, such as Karak Eight-Peaks. They also have deep grudges against the Skaven (a species of malevolent ratmen seen in Warhammer Total War II), and against the Elves (who were once allies against the Dwarfs, but the Dwarfs were tricked into thinking the Elves betrayed them, leading to a lengthy war and endless resentment between the two). *Norsca* A desolate, frozen realm between Kislev and the Chaos Wastes, the Norscans are savage barbarian raiders who sail south to plunder the lands of the more prosperous nations to their south. The Norscans worship the Dark Gods of Chaos.
Alright. So, Beastmen, Warriors of Chaos, and Norsca. Ostensibly, these are all Chaos factions. The Warriors of Chaos are, as the name suggests, the predominantly human devotees of the Chaos Gods. However, there are some non-human Chaos Warriors. That thing you assumed was a minotaur during the Warriors of Chaos trailer? That's one of the Dragon-Ogres; an ancient race of centaur-like monsters that made a pact with the Chaos Gods way back in the mists of time for immortality in exchange for servitude. They're the first creatures in Warhammer Fantasy to willingly sell their souls and devote themselves to Chaos, making them true OG Champions of Chaos. The Beastmen are, for lack of a better term, mutants. When the tides of Chaos first flooded the world, the raw uncontrolled magical energies of the world began mutating early humans and animals, creating a race of predominantly goat and cow people. All Beastmen worship Chaos, and they are Chaos worshippers to a fault, believing that civilization and technology is anathema to the natural order of things, which is all about anarchy and natural strength. They hate humanity and everything it stands for, because the Beastmen used to be higher on the food chain before the tribes of humanity organized under Sigmar and began fighting back and driving the Beastmen back into the untamed wilderness. They do not exist to protect the wilds; they seek solely to tear down everything humanity has built and reduce them to prey and potential breeding stock. Norsca is, on paper, Chaos Lite. The Norscans are those peoples who live up North at the border of the Northern Chaos Wastes. These people do what they can to survive in the north, but their proximity to Chaos has invariably lead it to influence and infiltrate their culture and society, oftem worshipping Chaos as part of their pantheon of gods. That does not make them weak, because these are people who treat Chaos as a simple and accepted part of life, and even venerate them as a positive force.
Small note the dragon-ogres did not sell the souls like the other races. They sold service to destroy the world as part of the deal and we do not know what they got. If you Would like to know more about them go check loremaster sotek had podcasts about it
@@sharklegioncain4044 Not in the sense that they literally gave up their souls, but every single dragon-ogre is bound to the service of Chaos by the deal they struck, and their entire race has been altered because of the pact. And immortality WAS part of the deal, at least in part; Tzeentch specifically promised them that they would not change or degenerate, and so the dragon-ogres could no longer die of old age and instead simply grow larger and stronger over the millennia, and all of the dragon-ogres present in the Warhammer Fantasy world are the original dragon-ogres who were alive when the deal was struck, as a side-effect of their newfound immortality is that all dragon-ogres have been rendered sterile. Age of Sigmar happens to shed a bit more light on this, as the dragon-ogres survived the End Times and helped bring about the end of the world as per their agreement with the Chaos Gods, honoring their side of the bargain and being freed from the service of Chaos. They have since regained the ability to reproduce and became one of the first races to settle the Age of Sigmar world, to the point where they established a civilization on the world even before Sigmar himself showed up, with Sigmar actually evicting them from their new home. And while the dragon-ogres don't serve Chaos anymore and actively reject it now, they've come to fill a similar niche to the Beastmen, who have also returned to Age of Sigmar and also lost their innate racial ties to Chaos, but whereas the Beastmen are still about the law of nature and the strong preying upon the weak, the dragon-ogres have come to fill the role of the race that specifically hates humanity and Sigmar for overthrowing their rightful rule of, if not the entire world, then at least the lands they settled before Sigmar's arrival, and they want to eradicate or subjugate humanity in order to reclaim their place in the world.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, especially because I've not really done a deep-dive into the lore. Weren't the Fimir one of, if not, the first races to pledge themselves to the dark gods before they eventually got discarded for the "newer, shinier toys".
@@somedudethatwatches7834 Yes, but the Dragon-Ogres are incredibly ancient, only being surpassed by the dragons, and their bargain goes back almost as far as the world itself. And the Fimir, to my recollection at least, were a more recent and failed attempt to deliberately turn an entire race into high-functioning Chaos worshippers, unlike the Beastmen, who were created by accident and have no real civilization, only a brutal tribal culture.
@@somedudethatwatches7834 ...I stand corrected. Apparently the Fimir were written before the Dragon-Ogres and are one of the few races to pre-date the arrival of the Old Ones, although it's implied that lorewise that the Dragons are the oldest race of sentient creatures on the Warhammer Fantasy world, followed by the Dragon-Ogres and Sky Titans, the precursors to the modern Giants, and the Merfolk. I keep thinking that the Fimir are a more recent thing because they really don't show up until the War of the Beards, several thousand years after the Old Ones showed up and their Lizardmen began the wars of extermination that decimated the ancient Fimir civilization. And given the Fimir are bog dwellers, and were already living in swamps before the Old Ones moved the planet closer to the sun, my guess is that the Dragon-Ogres, Sky Titans and Merfolk are much older, although by how much. But it is noted that the Fimir were Chaos worshippers before the Old Ones arrived, so that means the Dragon-Ogres probably made their pact with the Chaos Gods already and the Fimir converted either around the same time as the Dragon-Ogres or some time later.
You asked how much does the DLC cost. Unlike how Paradox Interactive handles it, the DLC is really all about if you actually want to play them or not. If you don't, no worries, the faction will still be in the game as an ally or enemy - it depends on how you. This is also dependent on which faction you intend to play as. Some of the factions like all the lords of Bretonnia are straight-up free.
Oh pleasepleaseplease, after you finish all of the game trailers and such, go take a gander at a channel named pancreasnowork. He has a video series called "do or don't", which gives a primer on the factions of fantasy and 40k. His content is highly entertaining, but has almost no react content on him
Arch is also a good loretuber. Pancreas is a little slow on his releases and he mostly focuses on individual characters, so once you’re through his library, Arch has vids on characters, settings and mechanics (he did an entire video about how to become a Chaos Champion), and he delves into both fantasy and 40K.
The dwarves cant use the winds of magic but they create their own way to use magic by trapping the winds of magic in runes and engraving it in their weapons. Also sigmars warhammer ghal maraz is created by the dwarves and gifted to sigmar and it can kill everything to the biggest chaos daemons and the smallest undead creatures😅 The green knight you see in bretonnia is technically not a ghost the green knight always shows up where the battle is almost lost and saves the day and he will just vanish after the battle is over😂
@@TheLegitWeebs yeah but the green knight also acts as a final boss for the questing knights of bretonnia, he challenges anyone who wants to sip at the blessed grail to become a grail knight and gained the blessing of the lady of the lake.
To make a few corrections: Dwarfs can actually use the Winds of Magic, they just can't channel them through themselves like everybody else and neither would the want to. Rune Magic is thus extremely ritualistic and not only requires magical ingredients but also often takes a very long time f.e. a Master Rune of Gromril takes months to make and it needs to be constantly hit with hammers in a rhythm during all that time. A single wrong strike can diffuse the rune and ruin everything. In exchange, Rune Magic is very stable and even "simple" runes can often work for ages before running out of power. Ghal Maraz is also blessed by Ulric and Smednir (one being a god of the Empire and patron of Sigmar himself and the other an Ancestor God) which is the main reason why it is so powerful against various unholy creatures as it's straight up a divine weapon instead of "just" a powerful rune weapons. The Green Knight is a ghost. In fact, he's the ghost of Gilles le Breton, the first Royarch who died during the founding of Bretonnia. That said, he's more of a guardian spirit in service of the divine and not just some cursed undead monster.
@@TheLegitWeebs Trust me, WHF loves it's Deus ex Machina characters. Grombrindal, Alith Anar, Amanar, Grimgor Ironhide (at least in the non-canon Storm of Chaos), Josef Bugman ect.
For many many years blood in video games was effectively banned in Germany. I'm not sure whether that is still the case, I haven't kept up. Previous to digital distribution, games solved this by having the German-localised version censored; Carmageddon for example replaced all the pedestrians with zombies, altering textures and changing blood colour to green. After digital distribution, some games solve this by having the base game be bloodless and releasing a DLC available everywhere but Germany (and, I assume, other jurisdictions with similar laws).
@@TheLegitWeebs Nah, they just wanted to be able to sell the game to a lower age group as well and used the dlc as a backdoor (already did that in previous games)
@@TheLegitWeebs Another reason : performance. The game is big and if your pc doesn't follow then you are most likely playing with graphics so low that it feels like your watching a video in 144p. Blood increase the load on your pc. Also, when you pay it 1 time you get it for all 3 games (as long as it is still on the same platform like steam). And finally Sigmar is the main patron gods of the human species in fantasy. He is the one who, came on earth, wielded Ghal Maraz (created by Grungni the forge god of the dwarves and main patron of their religion) and fought the Demon gods (Khorne, Slaanesh, Tzeentch, Nurgle) envoy.
I should mention that wasn't a dragon in the first clip. That was a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, a Lord of Change. The old man in the first clip was an Imperial mage trying to delve into the secrets of Chaos to find a way to level the playing field, only to become corrupted by Tzeentch, hence the blue, scaley and feathery skin. Tzeentch has strong ties to magic, especially in Warhammer Fantasy, where he is just straight up the Chaos God of Magic and Sorcery. Delving into the depths of arcane knowledge is dangerous because Tzeentch likes to leave bread crumbs all over the place, tempting mages with secret and forbidden knowledge.
So here's the thing, the reason i main Bretonnia (human knights) is because their flying cavalry is so insanely powerful. You can make it so walls and other defenses are no longer any obstacle for you. And you can stack their armor with buildings, as well as reduce upkeep with Knightly Vows. It completely changes the strategy and can allow you to take on foes that far outnumber you. It feels amazing.
@TheLegitWeebs oh yeah for sure. The Tomb Kings will always have a special place in my heart but I never expected the joy of rushing into battle without any plan as the beastmen, just putting all my points into minotaurs, and just burning settlement after settlement. Generally speaking the game does an excellent job at matching the faction with the playstyle you might expect. The game feels really dynamic. Bur I would urge you to start with 1 or 2 or mortal empires. 3 and immortal empires have really detailed sieges that are REALLY hard to navigate and it's disorienting honestly. Before 3, you didn't have to do sieges if the settlement doesn't have walls. Which made sense.
The undead armies are overpowered but suffer from Supervillain syndrome. If you can focus down the enemy leader, the army will lose the magic keeping them alive. Fighting them head on is not optimal and they will probably win. You need to alpha strike the enemy leader, and he has to keep himself defended behind a horde of undead. Battles against them play differently if you're doing it right.
So Yes all 3 games with all DLC will most likely cost more than 200 euro when not in sale. But when you buy the 3rd game you will gain access to a map containing all 3 games content in 1 game (the immortal empire campaign). Then you can buy each DLC/other 2 games depending on which faction you want to play (just the 3rd game alone give you 8 different "race" with different gameplay to play with for a total of 11 characters so you have thing to do). Each game has about the same amount of non DLC faction so all 3 would be more than 30 different campaign (at least in terms of race). You like a race like Skaven for exemple, you buy the 2nd game or one of their DLC (if you like firearm you can buy the warlock dlc for clan Skryre...). There are 2 kinds of DLC : faction DLC and lord DLC. The 1st one is costly but give you access to whole new race with different faction (like beastmen, wood elves, warrior of chaos, chaos dwarf...). The 2nd one is normally cheaper (but it tends to rise nowadays) and gives you just like 2 lord with some unit at best for 1/2 races (like for the Skarsnik and Belegar = squid + ranger...). Some lord DLC are SUPER strong and important if you want to play a race like Skryre for Skaven as it gives them unit so strong that without them it's complicated to win some matchup while others are nearly useless. Faction DLC are nearly always worth it but ONLY if you like the race/gameplay.
Probably covered, but here we go. The main factoln of humans is The Empire. With Emperor Karl Franx. The founder of the empire is Sigmar, now the empires patron god. Another human faction is Bretonia, a parody of the Arthurian legend. They are obsessed with knights and ladies. From the lowest wandering knight to the consecrated Knoght Reliquaries (the two dudes holding a horse skeleton) knighthood plays an important role in their culture. Then we have the human ally factions. Usually just the dwarfs. They lost their jewel coty Karak Eightpeaks to a cunning goblin warlord. They are big on keeping grudges and have a book dedicated to do so. Then we have the elf faction, the wood elves you saw. They are not really allied with humans as they hate the stuff they do to nature. The High eleves and dark eleves I think are ln the next game. The orks are ñrrtty much unchanged, they work as a faction with giants, goblins, squigs, hags, and such. I don't know much about them. Someone did a good explanation between chaos warriors, norsca and beastmen.
Man, those trailers looks so old. Those are the ones for Total War Warhammer 1. In TWWH2 onward they upped the quality of the DLC significantly and the trailers are so much better, and so much more hype. And they made them full of pop culture reference too. TWWH2 introduce the more "fantasy" races of the warhammer world. Two factions of Elfs (High and Dark), Lizardmen (Dinosaurs riding on bigger dinosaur, aztec themed, with lasers and destructive magic), Tomb Kings (my favourite faction ! Undead egyptians with huge machine construct, they were the inspiration for Necrons in 40K), Vampire Pirates, and last but not least : Skaven (humanoid rats, think of every negative traits possible, and apply them to this race. Paranoid, cowards, foul, dirty, backstabbers, carrier of plagues... they're the best. Also the main antagonists in Vermintide 2) And WH3 introduce Kislev (russian inspired human empire), Cathay (china inspired human empire), the Deamons of Chaos (all four faction), the Ogres and the Chaos Dwarves. While the price of all DLC combined is... a bit staggering, they're not all necessary to have, and some are free. Also, in WH3 you can play the Immortal Empire map, which is a big old sandbox map with ALL factions playable. Including the ones from WH1 and 2. You need the old games to play the old factions tho, but you can usually get both for very low price during steam sales.
Glad to know that the trailers only get better from here! Definitely gonna be waiting for a steam sale before I even attempt to pick up any of the games for sure. xD
@@TheLegitWeebs I think WH2 is the safest start at the moment. It's less demanding on the PC and is probably easy to find at low price during Steam sales. WH1... didn't age well. Mechanics and factions are old and they were updated (for free) a lot more in 2.
The vampire counts faction has a roster that makes use of everything you need. Large numbers of infantry, overwhelming and powerful cavalry, and PLENTY of monsters. The only thing they don't really have is range. The vampire counts have absolutely no missile units or artillery. (Sorry about the barrage of comments, I'm just a big fan of total war warhammer)
To answer your question about if certain races are better at fighting other certain races, not really. But you can get items and skills throughout all the campaigns that make particular armies better at fighting other races. For example, if you're the dwarves n have an army fighting n winning against the greenskins over n over, they'll develop buffs that make them stronger against the greenskins. It's kinda like they're learning more about the particular enemy they're facing throughout their victories against them. Oh and uhh.. 33:35 there are explosive squigs lmao
@@TheLegitWeebs lol luckily you only fight against them in 1 quest battle. (A battle to gain a certain piece of equipment for a specific Lord.) N I think you can recruit them as a dark elf faction in WH2 funnily enough. Point is you'll really never see them.
I was a 40k fan long before I really knew anything about Warhammer Fantasy. After playing all the Total War Warhammer games, I'm definitely a Warhammer Fantasy fan over 40k now. 40k is great but Fantasy is just so good. Locations matter, a planet gets eaten by Tyranids? Sucks I guess but not really a big deal. An Empire city like Nuln or somewhere else gets sacked? Damn thats a big fucking deal. It has stakes because its not a galaxy of places to just put random battles on. If an Empire or Dwarf or Elf city falls you feel and understand the impact because there are not an infinite amount they can just come up with. It makes the events so much more impactful. Also the struggle of basic Humans against superior foes is way better in Fantasy. Being a 40k guard with a lasgun and all the air and artillery support to help you against the Orks, that sucks. Now imagine holding a pike being charged by hundreds of Orcs and your only support is inaccurate 15th century cannons. Sigmar's Men are way harder than the Emperors men.
In the total war warhammer series, your single-entity units that you need to form an effective army consists of two categories: lords and heroes. Lords are needed to command armies and serve as individual characters for you to command. Heroes accompany lords and bolster their armies with unique abilities, stat buffs, and even providing various forms of magic to further buff your army or hammer your enemies. Other single entity units are your monstrous units. Some of them, like giants, only need one model to represent them. Others, like Minotaurs, have more numbers, but are still small in quantity compared to regular infantry.
Don’t know where to put this, so something I’d want you to watch is endless space 2 review by ssseth tzeentach, and the endless space 2 faction intros. They’re very well made, and the universe is really interesting but not well known.
I don't know if anyone has answered your question when you asked who Sigmar is. I won't get into exact detail but I'll give you the basics. Sigmar is basically the Emperor of Mankind in warhammer fantasy's universe. only he's not stuck half-dead on a throne, being forced to consume souls to live and did somehow achieved godhood. that and he didn't seem intent on conquering everything like Big E was. as far as I know, Sigmar's only goal was to unite the human clans into a single empire. also at 11:48 , that was a dragon ogre. and you were kind of close when you called Khazrak a minotaur but don't let his appearance trick you. I believe what he is is called a bestigor. minotaurs are much, much, much larger
Yes, it is expensive. And even more so when you realize that you need TWWH1 and its DLC to play their factions in TWWH 3 . But there are ways around it. For start content of dlc is quite specialized toward certain factions and factions not mentioned does not get anything. Therefor if pick faction to play from start you need only dlc or game (in case they are TWWH1 or TWWH2 base factions) which is about them. Let say you Want play as Norsca. You need only their dlc. If you don't wanna play as Beastmen you don't need any of their dlc (two in total). Unless you wanna play them all, you should be able to tell which dlc you need ,and which not. And Ai is stil playing factions you did not buy in campaign. BTW Bretonians are completely free. Both their updates were FLC. Also It helps a lot to buy them in discount or via G2A. A lot. For faction overview I recommend Zerkovich which does all factions detailed rundown, including dlc newcomers (dlc units are in dlc separated videos) and maybe Colonel Damneders which once in while rank them in their current situations.
I love the Total War franchise man! The Warhammer Total War games are not my favourite, I'm more of a historical Total War guy but I'm glad tha they decided to give Warhammer fantasy a Total War game series. It really fits the franchise. Although it did end up dividing the fanbase between historical and fantasy Total War fans but hey, at least we get great games from both camps.
Okay, so Warhammer Fantasy was made first by GW, later they made 40k in it's own universe, and Age of Sigmar canonically happens later in the fantasy timeline. The Empire led by Emperor Karl Franz is more like how HRE works then like the Roman empire, they operate like a swiss army knife and can be prepped in many ways. Also Sigmar was human and then became a god. Dwarfs led by High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer are indeed very defensive based but they also have a massive ability to have a great gun line, also they record every wrong doing against them in the Book of Grudges (Spanning multiple volumes) Chaos Warriors are exactly what it says on the can. They have alot of punch with monsters and warriors led by Arcaon the Everchosen destined to destroy the world. Greenskins led by Grimgor Ironhide charge in quick and hit hard but really need to fight our they will start fighting each other. The Vampire Counts led by Mannfred von Carstein (code name dickhead) are an army of necromancy that do not flee battle but if you kill the general i.e necromancer they army disintegrates. Beastmen led by Khazrak one-eye are nomadic chaos mutants want to send the world back to when they ruled the wilds and humans were prey. Wood Elves led by the elven demigod Orion (who dies every winter and is reborn every spring) and his wife Ariel are exactly what you think of classic elves lots of arrows and even mighty treemen and forest dragons. They Bretonia is heavily inspired by the king Arthur mythos, are led by the Royarch Louen Leoncoeur are THE cavalry in the setting with peasant footmen supporting them, they are very much elitist assholes to almost everyone. Norsca led by Wulfrick the Wanderer are chaos worshippers, before they get blessed by the Dark Gods, that are basically vikings and use the raid mechanic the most in game. I'll do this again for the other TWW reactions as a quick once over for lore and some gameplay, there are other channels like pancreasnowork that can go deeper.
"In Warhammer Fantasy Old World or something like that since GW rebranded it after releasing the Age of Sigmar stuff and destroyed the old world. Because they need their Fantasy Space Marines the Stormcast Eternals (this is only my guess for the reason and The End Times was a shit show in old fantasy)." Yeah, it's a bit more complicated then that. WHF was retired for presumable a few reasons: 1. It wasn't selling well. Due to mismanagement WHF was a complete mess. Not only did the (very unbalanced) rules encourage people to buy large amounts of models, said models where also very overpriced which made it very beginner unfriendly. Meanwhile, most of the already existing players didn't buy any of the new models, usually because they just didn't have to. Presumably, this is also one of the major reasons as to why the Stormcast Eternals where created (so GW would have something that would make them a lot of money in their new big Fantasy IP by cashing in on 40K players) though by now they're slowly moving away from that as AoS is growing. 2. GW had just come out of a massive lawsuit with ChapterHouse Studios and started renaming things as much as they could to keep a better grip on them. I don't think I have to explain why that's another reason why WHF got retired considering how much of a Fantasy Kitchen Sink it is. 3.While that's more of a theory, AoS was designed as a wargame setting unlike WHF which was designed as a D&D-like setting (especally in the beginning with stuff like "Terror Of The Lichemaster"). This meant that WHF simply had a very inflexible narrative since you couldn't actually change too much without crashing the entire setting anyway.
You definitely gotta watch all the trailers, they only get better from here. A lot of what you know of 40K lore can transfer over, especially for Chaos. Since 40K came after Fantasy a lot of things are very similar and have a fantasy equivalent
I highly recommend checking out The Grim Kleaper and Reggie. They have some great and hilarious videos on the Warhammer Total War games, kinda in the style of Sseth.
So fun fact: that wizard who gets corrupted in the trailer is somehow still not in the game. But you can play as him under Tzeentch with the Mixu's Legendary Lords mod
Bretonnia is... a faction, I supposed. They are essentially one big Arthurian legend reference with Grails, Lady of the Lake, Knights and chivalry. Their units can be boiled down to Knights and Peasants, that's really about it. They are a faction predominantly about Knights and thus being VERY Cavalry-centric, while leaving ranged combat to their peasants as they think it is beneath them (cringe behavior). Their gimmick is very blatant, and so are their strengths and weaknesses. Their Cavalries are tanky and powerful, but their ranged support are paper thin. So if you can counter their Cavalry, then it pretty much GG... Most Spear units do bonus dmg against Cavalry. And Spear units are available at Tier 1. You know what Cavalry also bad at doing? Siege battles where units are forced to funnel into choke points and climb walls. I remember in one of my earliest interaction with them, they sieged the Orcs with a full stack army while the Orcs are at half stack. They lost to the Orcs and several turns later got pushed back to their capital. Bruh.
You only need to buy dlc if you want to play as dlc factions and have access to all their units. Enemies might even have dlc units no matter what but I'm not 100% sure about that one.
Warriors of chaos: In the frozen Northern wastelands of Norsca, the barbarian tribes of the Norsii worship the gods of chaos, offering sacrifices to their chosen deity and plotting their next campaign to despoil the lands of Southern civilization. Further North are the true chaos wastes, inhabited by hordes of mutants, terrible armies of hell-forged chaos warriors, and far worse. "The gods watch, do not disgrace us." -Anonymous Norscan Marauder
There are vampiric creatures in 40k but as far as I know there are not actual undead vampires in 40k.......well there is but its not the same thing. There are Halo Devices that pretty much turn a person into an immortal creature that looks kind of like a vampire or a lich but they don't really work the same. Plus, you have the blood angels but they just get the teeth. Also, that first one is really obscure lore you'll only come about if you look into the Halo Stars which is one of the, "don't go there you idiot" regions of space where there are things that are antediluvian horrors that are not related to Chaos. But hey you can find jewelry that'll make you immortal at the cost of warping your very soul.
After you've watched all of the cinematic trailers for the 3 games, I'd recommend watching "The Beginners Lore Overview Guide to the races in Total War: Warhammer Trilogy - Warhammer Fantasy" by The Book of Choyer
One I know I’m way late on this and two I know you’re a lizardman guy, but at some point, especially with the new update and their DLC you have to play dwarfs. Their early game is kind of discouraging, sure, but weather the storm and build your settlements right and once midgame hits you will be _completely unstoppable._ Their mountain affinities and chosen settlement locations are basically impossible to attack if you’re not a Skaven, Greenskin or Chaos Dwarf so once you get them out of the picture in the early game you can just sit back and let your absolutely batshit insane economy fund basically as many armies as you please, supply lines be damned, and pack them with Thunderbarges and some of the most devastating artillery in the game.
Someone has probably already told you this, but, the Skaven, the race of rats in Warhammer Fantasy is the race that ultimately wins in the lore by strapping a literal nuke to a bunch of their units and wiping out all other races by blowing them up. Not sure if that's still canon or not, though
@@matsudoambition2509 I don't know. As I said I don't know if the Skaven nuking everybody else was still canon or not. I just remember the guy from Whatculture gaming, Gil, I think is his name, saying that on one of the older videos. So, I dunno?
It isn't canon. What did happen was that the Skaven tried to pull Morrslieb (a moon made out of pure Warpstone) closer to the world to empower their magic. Since the Skaven where not really coordinating at all though, one of them called Ikit decieded to one-up everyone by BLOWING UP THE MOON using one of his super weapons. This would have resulted in everybody dying to the various moon pieces crashing on the planet but the Lizardmen over in Lustria used their powers to destroy or redirect most of the pieces. This resulted in the destruction of Lustria and heavy loses amongst Clan Pestilence who where invading the place during that time but it did give the world a bit more time. Notably though, Ikit would use another one of his weapons to blow up Nagash's Black Pyramid and another one would later be used to destroy Karak Eightpeaks (as far as I recall).
If someone didn't mention it already, as I love the Von Carstein faction, if a big battle happens, it leaves behind mass graves that allows them to recruit even when not in a major city without the usual global debuff, the Carsteins are also incredibly powerful hero unity and their units, being undead, do not usually suffer moral breaks... the downside is that they have a pitifully low amount of ranged units.
I'm assuming the global debuff would be something like increased recruitment time or cost? Guessing that each faction has some sort of resource that they would expend when recruiting units, or even when raising them from the dead.
Check out my reaction to the trailers for Total War Warhammer 2 here: th-cam.com/video/KCuF8eg2Ekk/w-d-xo.html
*The gods of the Warhammer World:*
The humans of the Old World (essentially, the stuff comparable to medieval Europe) worship a close pantheon of gods, with different ones having more or less importance in different nations.
This pantheon includes Ulric (god of war, winter, and wolves), Taal (god of beasts and the wild), and Rhya (goddess of nature and life, wife to Taal), Manann (god of oceans and storms), Morr (god of death and dreams), Shallya (goddess of mercy and healing), Verena (goddess of learning, law, and wisdom), Ranald (god of trickery and deception), and Myrmidia (goddess of warfare and strategy).
There are also more regional gods. In the Kingdom of Bretonnia (essentially medieval France with an Arthurian style), the Lady of the Lake is the patron goddess of their land and culture, worshipped by the knights and lords of their nation. In The Empire (basically the Holy Roman Empire circa the 15th century), Sigmar is their patron god: Sigmar Heldenhammer was the first Emperor, who united the disparate tribes under his rule and, in alliance with the Dwarfs, drove the Orks out from their lands. Fifty years later, he abdicated the throne, and is believed to have ascended to godhood.
The Dwarfs don't go in for any of that. They worship their ancestors, with a selection of Ancestor Gods at the top: Grungni, the first and oldest, god of the forge, Valaya, god of hearth and home, Grimnir, god of war and vengeance, and many others.
The Elves have a large and complex pair of pantheons - the Cadai (heavenly gods) and Cytherai (underworld gods) - which are worshipped differently by each nation of Elves. The main ones are Asuryan (King of the Gods), Isha (Goddess of Life), Khaine (God of War and Murder), and Kurnous (God of the Hunt), but there are a couple of dozen beyond them. The Wood Elves tend to worship Isha and Kurnous above all, while the High Elves worship Asuryan first, and the Dark Elves devote themselves to Khaine.
And, of course, beyond them all... are the gods of Chaos: Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, and Slaanesh. These are the same as in 40k (though they were in Warhammer Fantasy first - their existence in 40k is one of the first times the 40k setting was retconned).
*Nations of the Old World:*
The first Total War Warhammer game is set primarily in The Old World. The Old World is a collection of human nations, united by a number of shared elements of culture and religion, and a number of loosely-aligned non-human cultures as well. They don’t always see eye-to-eye, but they have more in common with one another than they do with even other human nations further afield.
*The Empire*
The largest of the human nations of the Old World, the Empire is a collective of baronies, principalities, counties, leagues, and city-states united under the rule of an Emperor elected from amongst the rulers of these provinces. Its history stretches back two and a half thousand years, and it was founded by Sigmar Heldenhammer, a warrior-king of the era who united many of the tribes of humanity and allied with the Dwarfs of the mountains to drive the Orcs and Goblins from the land. In doing so, he became the first Emperor. Legend says that he departed the mortal world at the end of a fifty-year reign, and joined the ranks of the gods themselves, and to this day, worship of Sigmar is a significant part of the lives of people in the Empire, and the Cult of Sigmar has considerable political influence.
The current Emperor, Karl-Franz I, Crown Prince of the Reikland, was elected and crowned Emperor ten years ago. In that short time, he’s proven a cunning statesman and the Empire has prospered under his rule.
*Bretonnia*
The Empire’s neighbour to the west, Bretonnia is a deeply traditionalist nation, regarded by some as ‘backwards’. A feudal monarchy, Bretonnia is a land famous for its noble knights and infamous for the squalor its common folk must endure. Bretonnia is a verdant land but lacks many of the technological advantages of the Empire. Within Bretonnia's borders lies the forest of Athel Loren, home to the Wood Elves, who brook no trespass into their domain.
*Kislev*
To the Empire’s north lies Kislev, ruled over by a succession of Tsars and Tsarinas. A frozen and harsh land has produced a hardy and stoic people, whose proximity to the great Chaos Wastes of the far north makes them a bulwark between the civilisation of the Old World and the brutal marauders of the north. (Kislev are prominently depicted in Total War: Warhammer III)
*Tilea*
To the Empire’s south, the city-states of Tilea are a place of intense political machinations, deep philosophy, unmatched inventiveness, and the potential for untold riches for anyone who can navigate this precarious society. Long ago, the southern Old World was ruled by the Reman Empire, centred around the Tilean city of Remas.
*Estalia*
To the south-west of the Empire lays the Estalian Kingdoms, a collection of small kingdoms and city-states. Estalian trade caravans are common across the Old World, and both Tilea and Estalia fund expeditions by explorers across the vast oceans to explore distant Lustria, the Southlands, and places further afield in search of riches and glory. Most in the Empire know of Estalia from tales of the Crusades, a time when warriors from the Empire, Bretonnia, and Tilea marched to help repel an invasion of Estalia from Araby, far to the south.
*The Dwarf Kingdoms*
The Dwarfs dwell in fortified mountain strongholds in the mountain ranges that border the nations of the Old World. These are fiercely independent, though they have allied with other nations at times (including, most famously, The Empire). They are a deeply prideful people, slow to trust and quick to anger, and they hold grudges which last for generations. Greatest amongst these is their grudge against the Greenskins - the Orc and Goblin tribes which have assailed the Dwarfholds for millennia, leading to the fall of several ancient holds, such as Karak Eight-Peaks. They also have deep grudges against the Skaven (a species of malevolent ratmen seen in Warhammer Total War II), and against the Elves (who were once allies against the Dwarfs, but the Dwarfs were tricked into thinking the Elves betrayed them, leading to a lengthy war and endless resentment between the two).
*Norsca*
A desolate, frozen realm between Kislev and the Chaos Wastes, the Norscans are savage barbarian raiders who sail south to plunder the lands of the more prosperous nations to their south. The Norscans worship the Dark Gods of Chaos.
Appreciate the overview of the gods and nations!
man where are da boyz gork and mork?
Alright. So, Beastmen, Warriors of Chaos, and Norsca.
Ostensibly, these are all Chaos factions. The Warriors of Chaos are, as the name suggests, the predominantly human devotees of the Chaos Gods. However, there are some non-human Chaos Warriors. That thing you assumed was a minotaur during the Warriors of Chaos trailer? That's one of the Dragon-Ogres; an ancient race of centaur-like monsters that made a pact with the Chaos Gods way back in the mists of time for immortality in exchange for servitude. They're the first creatures in Warhammer Fantasy to willingly sell their souls and devote themselves to Chaos, making them true OG Champions of Chaos.
The Beastmen are, for lack of a better term, mutants. When the tides of Chaos first flooded the world, the raw uncontrolled magical energies of the world began mutating early humans and animals, creating a race of predominantly goat and cow people. All Beastmen worship Chaos, and they are Chaos worshippers to a fault, believing that civilization and technology is anathema to the natural order of things, which is all about anarchy and natural strength. They hate humanity and everything it stands for, because the Beastmen used to be higher on the food chain before the tribes of humanity organized under Sigmar and began fighting back and driving the Beastmen back into the untamed wilderness. They do not exist to protect the wilds; they seek solely to tear down everything humanity has built and reduce them to prey and potential breeding stock.
Norsca is, on paper, Chaos Lite. The Norscans are those peoples who live up North at the border of the Northern Chaos Wastes. These people do what they can to survive in the north, but their proximity to Chaos has invariably lead it to influence and infiltrate their culture and society, oftem worshipping Chaos as part of their pantheon of gods. That does not make them weak, because these are people who treat Chaos as a simple and accepted part of life, and even venerate them as a positive force.
Small note the dragon-ogres did not sell the souls like the other races. They sold service to destroy the world as part of the deal and we do not know what they got. If you Would like to know more about them go check loremaster sotek had podcasts about it
@@sharklegioncain4044 Not in the sense that they literally gave up their souls, but every single dragon-ogre is bound to the service of Chaos by the deal they struck, and their entire race has been altered because of the pact. And immortality WAS part of the deal, at least in part; Tzeentch specifically promised them that they would not change or degenerate, and so the dragon-ogres could no longer die of old age and instead simply grow larger and stronger over the millennia, and all of the dragon-ogres present in the Warhammer Fantasy world are the original dragon-ogres who were alive when the deal was struck, as a side-effect of their newfound immortality is that all dragon-ogres have been rendered sterile.
Age of Sigmar happens to shed a bit more light on this, as the dragon-ogres survived the End Times and helped bring about the end of the world as per their agreement with the Chaos Gods, honoring their side of the bargain and being freed from the service of Chaos. They have since regained the ability to reproduce and became one of the first races to settle the Age of Sigmar world, to the point where they established a civilization on the world even before Sigmar himself showed up, with Sigmar actually evicting them from their new home. And while the dragon-ogres don't serve Chaos anymore and actively reject it now, they've come to fill a similar niche to the Beastmen, who have also returned to Age of Sigmar and also lost their innate racial ties to Chaos, but whereas the Beastmen are still about the law of nature and the strong preying upon the weak, the dragon-ogres have come to fill the role of the race that specifically hates humanity and Sigmar for overthrowing their rightful rule of, if not the entire world, then at least the lands they settled before Sigmar's arrival, and they want to eradicate or subjugate humanity in order to reclaim their place in the world.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, especially because I've not really done a deep-dive into the lore. Weren't the Fimir one of, if not, the first races to pledge themselves to the dark gods before they eventually got discarded for the "newer, shinier toys".
@@somedudethatwatches7834 Yes, but the Dragon-Ogres are incredibly ancient, only being surpassed by the dragons, and their bargain goes back almost as far as the world itself. And the Fimir, to my recollection at least, were a more recent and failed attempt to deliberately turn an entire race into high-functioning Chaos worshippers, unlike the Beastmen, who were created by accident and have no real civilization, only a brutal tribal culture.
@@somedudethatwatches7834 ...I stand corrected. Apparently the Fimir were written before the Dragon-Ogres and are one of the few races to pre-date the arrival of the Old Ones, although it's implied that lorewise that the Dragons are the oldest race of sentient creatures on the Warhammer Fantasy world, followed by the Dragon-Ogres and Sky Titans, the precursors to the modern Giants, and the Merfolk.
I keep thinking that the Fimir are a more recent thing because they really don't show up until the War of the Beards, several thousand years after the Old Ones showed up and their Lizardmen began the wars of extermination that decimated the ancient Fimir civilization. And given the Fimir are bog dwellers, and were already living in swamps before the Old Ones moved the planet closer to the sun, my guess is that the Dragon-Ogres, Sky Titans and Merfolk are much older, although by how much. But it is noted that the Fimir were Chaos worshippers before the Old Ones arrived, so that means the Dragon-Ogres probably made their pact with the Chaos Gods already and the Fimir converted either around the same time as the Dragon-Ogres or some time later.
You asked how much does the DLC cost. Unlike how Paradox Interactive handles it, the DLC is really all about if you actually want to play them or not. If you don't, no worries, the faction will still be in the game as an ally or enemy - it depends on how you. This is also dependent on which faction you intend to play as. Some of the factions like all the lords of Bretonnia are straight-up free.
Oh pleasepleaseplease, after you finish all of the game trailers and such, go take a gander at a channel named pancreasnowork. He has a video series called "do or don't", which gives a primer on the factions of fantasy and 40k. His content is highly entertaining, but has almost no react content on him
Will do. Thanks for the suggestion!
Just a fair warning he is a elf simp in the biggest of ways, nothing wrong with that but just so you know he may be a bit partial towards them.
Arch is also a good loretuber. Pancreas is a little slow on his releases and he mostly focuses on individual characters, so once you’re through his library, Arch has vids on characters, settings and mechanics (he did an entire video about how to become a Chaos Champion), and he delves into both fantasy and 40K.
@@KrimzonFlygon1isn’t that the nazi who pretends to be British?
@@TheLegitWeebs and also The Book of Choyer it’s a channel that explains the lore of Warhammer Fantasy and 40k as well
The dwarves cant use the winds of magic but they create their own way to use magic by trapping the winds of magic in runes and engraving it in their weapons.
Also sigmars warhammer ghal maraz is created by the dwarves and gifted to sigmar and it can kill everything to the biggest chaos daemons and the smallest undead creatures😅
The green knight you see in bretonnia is technically not a ghost the green knight always shows up where the battle is almost lost and saves the day and he will just vanish after the battle is over😂
Wait, so your saying the humans literally have a deus ex machina? 😂
@@TheLegitWeebs yeah but the green knight also acts as a final boss for the questing knights of bretonnia, he challenges anyone who wants to sip at the blessed grail to become a grail knight and gained the blessing of the lady of the lake.
@@TheLegitWeebs *Bretonnia, there is 4 main human factions, all with their own quirks and mechanics, (playable, excluding the 2 chaos factions)
To make a few corrections:
Dwarfs can actually use the Winds of Magic, they just can't channel them through themselves like everybody else and neither would the want to. Rune Magic is thus extremely ritualistic and not only requires magical ingredients but also often takes a very long time f.e. a Master Rune of Gromril takes months to make and it needs to be constantly hit with hammers in a rhythm during all that time. A single wrong strike can diffuse the rune and ruin everything. In exchange, Rune Magic is very stable and even "simple" runes can often work for ages before running out of power.
Ghal Maraz is also blessed by Ulric and Smednir (one being a god of the Empire and patron of Sigmar himself and the other an Ancestor God) which is the main reason why it is so powerful against various unholy creatures as it's straight up a divine weapon instead of "just" a powerful rune weapons.
The Green Knight is a ghost. In fact, he's the ghost of Gilles le Breton, the first Royarch who died during the founding of Bretonnia. That said, he's more of a guardian spirit in service of the divine and not just some cursed undead monster.
@@TheLegitWeebs Trust me, WHF loves it's Deus ex Machina characters.
Grombrindal, Alith Anar, Amanar, Grimgor Ironhide (at least in the non-canon Storm of Chaos), Josef Bugman ect.
sigmar unberogen/heldenhammer is the founder of the empire and later become a god king.
For many many years blood in video games was effectively banned in Germany. I'm not sure whether that is still the case, I haven't kept up. Previous to digital distribution, games solved this by having the German-localised version censored; Carmageddon for example replaced all the pedestrians with zombies, altering textures and changing blood colour to green.
After digital distribution, some games solve this by having the base game be bloodless and releasing a DLC available everywhere but Germany (and, I assume, other jurisdictions with similar laws).
I see. Legal reasons is the cause.
You are almost 2 decades out of the loop
@@TheLegitWeebs Nah, they just wanted to be able to sell the game to a lower age group as well and used the dlc as a backdoor (already did that in previous games)
@@TheLegitWeebs Another reason : performance. The game is big and if your pc doesn't follow then you are most likely playing with graphics so low that it feels like your watching a video in 144p. Blood increase the load on your pc.
Also, when you pay it 1 time you get it for all 3 games (as long as it is still on the same platform like steam).
And finally Sigmar is the main patron gods of the human species in fantasy. He is the one who, came on earth, wielded Ghal Maraz (created by Grungni the forge god of the dwarves and main patron of their religion) and fought the Demon gods (Khorne, Slaanesh, Tzeentch, Nurgle) envoy.
I should mention that wasn't a dragon in the first clip. That was a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, a Lord of Change.
The old man in the first clip was an Imperial mage trying to delve into the secrets of Chaos to find a way to level the playing field, only to become corrupted by Tzeentch, hence the blue, scaley and feathery skin.
Tzeentch has strong ties to magic, especially in Warhammer Fantasy, where he is just straight up the Chaos God of Magic and Sorcery. Delving into the depths of arcane knowledge is dangerous because Tzeentch likes to leave bread crumbs all over the place, tempting mages with secret and forbidden knowledge.
Of course it's Tzeentch. Should've guessed from the color. Thanks for the info!
So here's the thing, the reason i main Bretonnia (human knights) is because their flying cavalry is so insanely powerful. You can make it so walls and other defenses are no longer any obstacle for you. And you can stack their armor with buildings, as well as reduce upkeep with Knightly Vows. It completely changes the strategy and can allow you to take on foes that far outnumber you. It feels amazing.
Interesting. Play style is definitely something to consider over just aesthetics.
@TheLegitWeebs oh yeah for sure. The Tomb Kings will always have a special place in my heart but I never expected the joy of rushing into battle without any plan as the beastmen, just putting all my points into minotaurs, and just burning settlement after settlement.
Generally speaking the game does an excellent job at matching the faction with the playstyle you might expect. The game feels really dynamic.
Bur I would urge you to start with 1 or 2 or mortal empires. 3 and immortal empires have really detailed sieges that are REALLY hard to navigate and it's disorienting honestly. Before 3, you didn't have to do sieges if the settlement doesn't have walls. Which made sense.
I still can't belive the brought GHORST of all things as a first undead dlc character and pitted him against Volkmar, as if some sort of a rival duo.
I heard that GW had zero faith in the game doing well, so they had CA put in Ghorst because they didn't want an important character used.
The undead armies are overpowered but suffer from Supervillain syndrome. If you can focus down the enemy leader, the army will lose the magic keeping them alive. Fighting them head on is not optimal and they will probably win. You need to alpha strike the enemy leader, and he has to keep himself defended behind a horde of undead. Battles against them play differently if you're doing it right.
So Yes all 3 games with all DLC will most likely cost more than 200 euro when not in sale.
But when you buy the 3rd game you will gain access to a map containing all 3 games content in 1 game (the immortal empire campaign).
Then you can buy each DLC/other 2 games depending on which faction you want to play (just the 3rd game alone give you 8 different "race" with different gameplay to play with for a total of 11 characters so you have thing to do). Each game has about the same amount of non DLC faction so all 3 would be more than 30 different campaign (at least in terms of race).
You like a race like Skaven for exemple, you buy the 2nd game or one of their DLC (if you like firearm you can buy the warlock dlc for clan Skryre...).
There are 2 kinds of DLC : faction DLC and lord DLC. The 1st one is costly but give you access to whole new race with different faction (like beastmen, wood elves, warrior of chaos, chaos dwarf...). The 2nd one is normally cheaper (but it tends to rise nowadays) and gives you just like 2 lord with some unit at best for 1/2 races (like for the Skarsnik and Belegar = squid + ranger...).
Some lord DLC are SUPER strong and important if you want to play a race like Skryre for Skaven as it gives them unit so strong that without them it's complicated to win some matchup while others are nearly useless.
Faction DLC are nearly always worth it but ONLY if you like the race/gameplay.
Probably covered, but here we go.
The main factoln of humans is The Empire. With Emperor Karl Franx. The founder of the empire is Sigmar, now the empires patron god.
Another human faction is Bretonia, a parody of the Arthurian legend. They are obsessed with knights and ladies. From the lowest wandering knight to the consecrated Knoght Reliquaries (the two dudes holding a horse skeleton) knighthood plays an important role in their culture.
Then we have the human ally factions. Usually just the dwarfs. They lost their jewel coty Karak Eightpeaks to a cunning goblin warlord. They are big on keeping grudges and have a book dedicated to do so.
Then we have the elf faction, the wood elves you saw. They are not really allied with humans as they hate the stuff they do to nature. The High eleves and dark eleves I think are ln the next game.
The orks are ñrrtty much unchanged, they work as a faction with giants, goblins, squigs, hags, and such. I don't know much about them.
Someone did a good explanation between chaos warriors, norsca and beastmen.
First Trailer: That is some serious Conjunctivitis the guy has at the end…😅
No way to cure that xD
Im only a few minutes in. But my favorite faction are the Tomb Kings.
They're Fantasy Undead Egyptians. Its peak aesthetic.
Really hope you keep going with trailers for game 2 and 3 too
Editing my reaction to the 2nd game right now actually. Looking forward to 3.
Man, those trailers looks so old. Those are the ones for Total War Warhammer 1. In TWWH2 onward they upped the quality of the DLC significantly and the trailers are so much better, and so much more hype. And they made them full of pop culture reference too. TWWH2 introduce the more "fantasy" races of the warhammer world. Two factions of Elfs (High and Dark), Lizardmen (Dinosaurs riding on bigger dinosaur, aztec themed, with lasers and destructive magic), Tomb Kings (my favourite faction ! Undead egyptians with huge machine construct, they were the inspiration for Necrons in 40K), Vampire Pirates, and last but not least : Skaven (humanoid rats, think of every negative traits possible, and apply them to this race. Paranoid, cowards, foul, dirty, backstabbers, carrier of plagues... they're the best. Also the main antagonists in Vermintide 2)
And WH3 introduce Kislev (russian inspired human empire), Cathay (china inspired human empire), the Deamons of Chaos (all four faction), the Ogres and the Chaos Dwarves.
While the price of all DLC combined is... a bit staggering, they're not all necessary to have, and some are free. Also, in WH3 you can play the Immortal Empire map, which is a big old sandbox map with ALL factions playable. Including the ones from WH1 and 2. You need the old games to play the old factions tho, but you can usually get both for very low price during steam sales.
Glad to know that the trailers only get better from here! Definitely gonna be waiting for a steam sale before I even attempt to pick up any of the games for sure. xD
@@TheLegitWeebs I think WH2 is the safest start at the moment. It's less demanding on the PC and is probably easy to find at low price during Steam sales. WH1... didn't age well. Mechanics and factions are old and they were updated (for free) a lot more in 2.
@ShinGetsu857 awesome. Will give it a try when I can.
@@TheLegitWeebs On a sidenote, the 3rd game is in the gamepass, if you want an not to expensive peek ^^
Archaeon the Everchosen: I WILL PROVE ONCE MORE THAT I AM THE EVERCHOSEN! FOR I AM THE ANOINTED, THE BRINGER OF WOES, THE ONE. TRUE. LORD OF CHAOS!
if you want to learn about Sigmar there is a great video about him called "Sigmar: Hero, God, Barbarian" it's funny and instructive
The vampire counts faction has a roster that makes use of everything you need. Large numbers of infantry, overwhelming and powerful cavalry, and PLENTY of monsters. The only thing they don't really have is range. The vampire counts have absolutely no missile units or artillery. (Sorry about the barrage of comments, I'm just a big fan of total war warhammer)
No need to apologize! Most of what I now know about Total War comes from the comments, so I'm always thankful for the informative comments.
the giant bird thingy is actually a greater daemon of tzeentch, not a dragon but it was quite close :)
To answer your question about if certain races are better at fighting other certain races, not really. But you can get items and skills throughout all the campaigns that make particular armies better at fighting other races.
For example, if you're the dwarves n have an army fighting n winning against the greenskins over n over, they'll develop buffs that make them stronger against the greenskins. It's kinda like they're learning more about the particular enemy they're facing throughout their victories against them.
Oh and uhh.. 33:35 there are explosive squigs lmao
There's explosive squigs?!
I'm never gonna play this game.
@@TheLegitWeebs lol luckily you only fight against them in 1 quest battle. (A battle to gain a certain piece of equipment for a specific Lord.)
N I think you can recruit them as a dark elf faction in WH2 funnily enough.
Point is you'll really never see them.
I was a 40k fan long before I really knew anything about Warhammer Fantasy. After playing all the Total War Warhammer games, I'm definitely a Warhammer Fantasy fan over 40k now. 40k is great but Fantasy is just so good. Locations matter, a planet gets eaten by Tyranids? Sucks I guess but not really a big deal. An Empire city like Nuln or somewhere else gets sacked? Damn thats a big fucking deal. It has stakes because its not a galaxy of places to just put random battles on. If an Empire or Dwarf or Elf city falls you feel and understand the impact because there are not an infinite amount they can just come up with. It makes the events so much more impactful.
Also the struggle of basic Humans against superior foes is way better in Fantasy. Being a 40k guard with a lasgun and all the air and artillery support to help you against the Orks, that sucks. Now imagine holding a pike being charged by hundreds of Orcs and your only support is inaccurate 15th century cannons. Sigmar's Men are way harder than the Emperors men.
YAY! This was awesome haha please react to the rest of them and especially the dlc trailers!
In the total war warhammer series, your single-entity units that you need to form an effective army consists of two categories: lords and heroes. Lords are needed to command armies and serve as individual characters for you to command. Heroes accompany lords and bolster their armies with unique abilities, stat buffs, and even providing various forms of magic to further buff your army or hammer your enemies. Other single entity units are your monstrous units. Some of them, like giants, only need one model to represent them. Others, like Minotaurs, have more numbers, but are still small in quantity compared to regular infantry.
"How expensive is this going to be?"
The answer, unfortunately is all the money
29:43 Defenders? Not really. The Beastmen are a Chaos faction. Their gameplay is to destroy, defile and corrupt.
Don’t know where to put this, so something I’d want you to watch is endless space 2 review by ssseth tzeentach, and the endless space 2 faction intros.
They’re very well made, and the universe is really interesting but not well known.
I don't know if anyone has answered your question when you asked who Sigmar is. I won't get into exact detail but I'll give you the basics. Sigmar is basically the Emperor of Mankind in warhammer fantasy's universe. only he's not stuck half-dead on a throne, being forced to consume souls to live and did somehow achieved godhood. that and he didn't seem intent on conquering everything like Big E was. as far as I know, Sigmar's only goal was to unite the human clans into a single empire. also at 11:48 , that was a dragon ogre. and you were kind of close when you called Khazrak a minotaur but don't let his appearance trick you. I believe what he is is called a bestigor. minotaurs are much, much, much larger
Wulrik the wanderer probably has one of my favorite quotes in warhammer. "My masters shall recive these offering, by my sword! Kill at will!"
Keep this in mind, siege battles are not quite how they are in the trailers. You can’t put artillery or any big guns on wall for example.
Yes, it is expensive.
And even more so when you realize that you need TWWH1 and its DLC to play their factions in TWWH 3 . But there are ways around it.
For start content of dlc is quite specialized toward certain factions and factions not mentioned does not get anything. Therefor if pick faction to play from start you need only dlc or game (in case they are TWWH1 or TWWH2 base factions) which is about them. Let say you Want play as Norsca. You need only their dlc. If you don't wanna play as Beastmen you don't need any of their dlc (two in total). Unless you wanna play them all, you should be able to tell which dlc you need ,and which not. And Ai is stil playing factions you did not buy in campaign.
BTW Bretonians are completely free. Both their updates were FLC.
Also It helps a lot to buy them in discount or via G2A. A lot.
For faction overview I recommend Zerkovich which does all factions detailed rundown, including dlc newcomers (dlc units are in dlc separated videos) and maybe Colonel Damneders which once in while rank them in their current situations.
I love the Total War franchise man! The Warhammer Total War games are not my favourite, I'm more of a historical Total War guy but I'm glad tha they decided to give Warhammer fantasy a Total War game series. It really fits the franchise. Although it did end up dividing the fanbase between historical and fantasy Total War fans but hey, at least we get great games from both camps.
Okay, so Warhammer Fantasy was made first by GW, later they made 40k in it's own universe, and Age of Sigmar canonically happens later in the fantasy timeline.
The Empire led by Emperor Karl Franz is more like how HRE works then like the Roman empire, they operate like a swiss army knife and can be prepped in many ways. Also Sigmar was human and then became a god.
Dwarfs led by High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer are indeed very defensive based but they also have a massive ability to have a great gun line, also they record every wrong doing against them in the Book of Grudges (Spanning multiple volumes)
Chaos Warriors are exactly what it says on the can. They have alot of punch with monsters and warriors led by Arcaon the Everchosen destined to destroy the world.
Greenskins led by Grimgor Ironhide charge in quick and hit hard but really need to fight our they will start fighting each other.
The Vampire Counts led by Mannfred von Carstein (code name dickhead) are an army of necromancy that do not flee battle but if you kill the general i.e necromancer they army disintegrates.
Beastmen led by Khazrak one-eye are nomadic chaos mutants want to send the world back to when they ruled the wilds and humans were prey.
Wood Elves led by the elven demigod Orion (who dies every winter and is reborn every spring) and his wife Ariel are exactly what you think of classic elves lots of arrows and even mighty treemen and forest dragons. They
Bretonia is heavily inspired by the king Arthur mythos, are led by the Royarch Louen Leoncoeur are THE cavalry in the setting with peasant footmen supporting them, they are very much elitist assholes to almost everyone.
Norsca led by Wulfrick the Wanderer are chaos worshippers, before they get blessed by the Dark Gods, that are basically vikings and use the raid mechanic the most in game.
I'll do this again for the other TWW reactions as a quick once over for lore and some gameplay, there are other channels like pancreasnowork that can go deeper.
Appreciate the extra context!
Lizardmen are top tier, what’s not to love about Aztec dinosaurs riding dinosaur!?!
Lol I always get hearted in comments when I'm editing the post, then yt removes the heart bc I changed the post
Lmao well here's a second heart for you. Appreciate the info!
"In Warhammer Fantasy Old World or something like that since GW rebranded it after releasing the Age of Sigmar stuff and destroyed the old world. Because they need their Fantasy Space Marines the Stormcast Eternals (this is only my guess for the reason and The End Times was a shit show in old fantasy)."
Yeah, it's a bit more complicated then that. WHF was retired for presumable a few reasons:
1. It wasn't selling well. Due to mismanagement WHF was a complete mess. Not only did the (very unbalanced) rules encourage people to buy large amounts of models, said models where also very overpriced which made it very beginner unfriendly. Meanwhile, most of the already existing players didn't buy any of the new models, usually because they just didn't have to. Presumably, this is also one of the major reasons as to why the Stormcast Eternals where created (so GW would have something that would make them a lot of money in their new big Fantasy IP by cashing in on 40K players) though by now they're slowly moving away from that as AoS is growing.
2. GW had just come out of a massive lawsuit with ChapterHouse Studios and started renaming things as much as they could to keep a better grip on them. I don't think I have to explain why that's another reason why WHF got retired considering how much of a Fantasy Kitchen Sink it is.
3.While that's more of a theory, AoS was designed as a wargame setting unlike WHF which was designed as a D&D-like setting (especally in the beginning with stuff like "Terror Of The Lichemaster"). This meant that WHF simply had a very inflexible narrative since you couldn't actually change too much without crashing the entire setting anyway.
You definitely gotta watch all the trailers, they only get better from here. A lot of what you know of 40K lore can transfer over, especially for Chaos. Since 40K came after Fantasy a lot of things are very similar and have a fantasy equivalent
Khazukan Kazakit-ha - "Look out! The Dwarfs are on the warpath!"
The Empire have goofy hats. And steam tank. And goofy hats. I love goofy hats. And aesthetics of early modern era.
I highly recommend checking out The Grim Kleaper and Reggie. They have some great and hilarious videos on the Warhammer Total War games, kinda in the style of Sseth.
Sigmar is the Fantasy version of The Emperor, he's founder of The Empire the First Emperor of Man and the God-King.
You should definitely check out Cody Bonds on lore for characters
So fun fact: that wizard who gets corrupted in the trailer is somehow still not in the game. But you can play as him under Tzeentch with the Mixu's Legendary Lords mod
Interesting to include him in the trailer and not have him in the game.
Fun fact: The bretonian Lady of the lake is in truth an elven goddess.
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Bretonnia is... a faction, I supposed. They are essentially one big Arthurian legend reference with Grails, Lady of the Lake, Knights and chivalry.
Their units can be boiled down to Knights and Peasants, that's really about it. They are a faction predominantly about Knights and thus being VERY Cavalry-centric, while leaving ranged combat to their peasants as they think it is beneath them (cringe behavior). Their gimmick is very blatant, and so are their strengths and weaknesses. Their Cavalries are tanky and powerful, but their ranged support are paper thin. So if you can counter their Cavalry, then it pretty much GG... Most Spear units do bonus dmg against Cavalry. And Spear units are available at Tier 1. You know what Cavalry also bad at doing? Siege battles where units are forced to funnel into choke points and climb walls. I remember in one of my earliest interaction with them, they sieged the Orcs with a full stack army while the Orcs are at half stack. They lost to the Orcs and several turns later got pushed back to their capital. Bruh.
I guess them losing to a half stack of orcs is just an accurate depiction of humans in a fantasy world xD
@@TheLegitWeebs And then the empire comes over and nukes the orks (not literally since only the skaven have nukes XD)
You only need to buy dlc if you want to play as dlc factions and have access to all their units. Enemies might even have dlc units no matter what but I'm not 100% sure about that one.
For the Nagash, True king of all undead!
It take hours to explain all the gods and lore to theses games especially now warhammer 3
Here's the thing. There is DLC but none of it's really needed so you can pick and choose what you want really.
Warriors of chaos: In the frozen Northern wastelands of Norsca, the barbarian tribes of the Norsii worship the gods of chaos, offering sacrifices to their chosen deity and plotting their next campaign to despoil the lands of Southern civilization. Further North are the true chaos wastes, inhabited by hordes of mutants, terrible armies of hell-forged chaos warriors, and far worse. "The gods watch, do not disgrace us." -Anonymous Norscan Marauder
i worship the true SIGMA MALE
mandaloregaming have some great videos on this game
There are vampiric creatures in 40k but as far as I know there are not actual undead vampires in 40k.......well there is but its not the same thing. There are Halo Devices that pretty much turn a person into an immortal creature that looks kind of like a vampire or a lich but they don't really work the same. Plus, you have the blood angels but they just get the teeth. Also, that first one is really obscure lore you'll only come about if you look into the Halo Stars which is one of the, "don't go there you idiot" regions of space where there are things that are antediluvian horrors that are not related to Chaos. But hey you can find jewelry that'll make you immortal at the cost of warping your very soul.
After you've watched all of the cinematic trailers for the 3 games, I'd recommend watching "The Beginners Lore Overview Guide to the races in Total War: Warhammer Trilogy - Warhammer Fantasy" by The Book of Choyer
One I know I’m way late on this and two I know you’re a lizardman guy, but at some point, especially with the new update and their DLC you have to play dwarfs. Their early game is kind of discouraging, sure, but weather the storm and build your settlements right and once midgame hits you will be _completely unstoppable._
Their mountain affinities and chosen settlement locations are basically impossible to attack if you’re not a Skaven, Greenskin or Chaos Dwarf so once you get them out of the picture in the early game you can just sit back and let your absolutely batshit insane economy fund basically as many armies as you please, supply lines be damned, and pack them with Thunderbarges and some of the most devastating artillery in the game.
Gather the boyz, we going on a waagh!
Total war warhammer 2 trailers next. They too hype :)
Your in luck, cause that video is available right now! xD
If you wanna good impression and analysis review on the tw titles, Mandalore gaming has a some pretty good ones, starting from the 2nd game
Someone has probably already told you this, but, the Skaven, the race of rats in Warhammer Fantasy is the race that ultimately wins in the lore by strapping a literal nuke to a bunch of their units and wiping out all other races by blowing them up.
Not sure if that's still canon or not, though
Huh, well I guess that would be very effective...
Wasn't the moondrop tracktor beam the cause for the worlds end after fricking Manfred messed up out of pitty?
@@matsudoambition2509 I don't know. As I said I don't know if the Skaven nuking everybody else was still canon or not. I just remember the guy from Whatculture gaming, Gil, I think is his name, saying that on one of the older videos. So, I dunno?
It isn't canon. What did happen was that the Skaven tried to pull Morrslieb (a moon made out of pure Warpstone) closer to the world to empower their magic. Since the Skaven where not really coordinating at all though, one of them called Ikit decieded to one-up everyone by BLOWING UP THE MOON using one of his super weapons. This would have resulted in everybody dying to the various moon pieces crashing on the planet but the Lizardmen over in Lustria used their powers to destroy or redirect most of the pieces. This resulted in the destruction of Lustria and heavy loses amongst Clan Pestilence who where invading the place during that time but it did give the world a bit more time. Notably though, Ikit would use another one of his weapons to blow up Nagash's Black Pyramid and another one would later be used to destroy Karak Eightpeaks (as far as I recall).
I like an playing as amain tomb kings Settra and empires Karl franz
They know no one would buy the Bretonnia DLC so they make it a free DLC
How expensive is TW:WH? It's "wait for a Steam sale" expensive.
For me, every game is a wait for a steam sale game xD
id strongly recommend looking at the game 2 material its much better than game 1
GREENEZT AND MEANEZT!
Playing carl Franz 1000 Times having all dlc dosn t meen i want play difrent faction it s meen i want purge all of them
BRETONNIA FOR LIFE!!!
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Smh Xero, you are so clueless about everything
Says the girl who didn't know what silence does in a video game
Sigmar and Karl Franz are the biggest Mary Sues in all of warhammer even worser than the ultramariens
If someone didn't mention it already, as I love the Von Carstein faction, if a big battle happens, it leaves behind mass graves that allows them to recruit even when not in a major city without the usual global debuff, the Carsteins are also incredibly powerful hero unity and their units, being undead, do not usually suffer moral breaks... the downside is that they have a pitifully low amount of ranged units.
I'm assuming the global debuff would be something like increased recruitment time or cost? Guessing that each faction has some sort of resource that they would expend when recruiting units, or even when raising them from the dead.