This was glorious, a little tip though, you can just send your steam tank in, instead of other units in order to clump up all the enemy, it's extremely hard to kill and since it's a single unit it wont be hit by most of the rockets.
Seeing how armor works in this game and the fact that steam tanks can be healed by life wizards, I'd say that's probably the best way to occupy the enemy for ages. Even better is the fact that Gelt provides an additional 10 armor with his passive ability, getting you that much closer to the sweet spot of 200.
There is basically no Faction as good as the Empire in terms of Artillery Edit: Guys i get it im wrong. Please stop kicking my dead body and comment something else than the same thing over and over again. Thanks.
Yes, this is true. There are better factions in the game to utterly cheese artillery: namely Lizardmen. Stegodons may be monsters, but they're also artillery, and it is a legit build that can wipe out multiple consecutive stacks battle after battle after battle. Helstorm Rocket Battery spam though is so easily countered by flying entities, cav, and monsters that's kind of sad. Granted, against infantry, Helstorm Rocket Batteries will delete infantry, no contest. But yeah, cheese Stegos, Necrofix Colossi, and other monster builds instead, you'll have an easier time.
The ultimate faction for stacking ranged buffs is likely the Huntmaster's Expedition. You lose out on the 10 % buff from Gelt and the 10 % from Wissenland as well as the 5 % for killing Wulfhart himself, but you gain access to a Dwarven master engineer and Wood Elf waywatcher which more than make up for that. Between Hawk Eyed, Entrenchment, Ballistics Calibration, Extra Powder, the master engineer's ability tree and a huntsman general, you can hit missile dps numbers in excess of 4000 with the Hellblaster Volley Guns and well over 14000 for the Templehof Luminark. And that's without counting the Bright Wizard. On another note, firing a 14000 dp10 Luminark shot at Luthor Harkon only to deal less than 400 damage makes you appreciate just how much magic resistance that lord is able to stack.
@@JRefumee Depends on whether the AI gets those heroes per default? Idk if that happens at a set level or number of turns? Also I wrote this over a year ago lol
@@SpiceCh I know right, that video is so old. I love to rewatch spiffs videos. Yes, Wulfhart starts with all 4 heroes at once. It's kinda hard as lizardmen to get rid of him. I just dont know if he will get the items and special skills for them.
Well... That one actually wouldn't be ambiguous in Reikspiel (assuming that if not stated otherwise, it's just german and generally speaking it really is). Because an organ as in body part is still an Organ in german, an organ as in musical instrument however would be an Orgel...
@@thespiffingbrit the historical name was Катюша (Katyoosha) which is female diminutive name from Катя (Katya and it's basically slavic analogy for Kate). Fun thing your way of pronounce it (Katyooshka) is totally legit too, but makes the name even more diminutive and intimate, lol.
@@АртёмАнатольевич-с2в thats perfect then, nothing is quite as intimate as sending a hard hot shaft into your opposite where it penetrates deep into quivering flesh and explodes spraying hot flames causing significant emotional events of such intensity that they can be felt by everyone in the vicinity. Yes, I totally just lewded a rocket battery....
@Spiffing Brit: The biggest exploit is recruiting a hero stack for Lizardmen (with the trait Pompous) or Beastman (with trait Nurgles stink), as they lower enemy leadership to zero, if you have enough. That means the enemy will rout the moment they enter combat. Its hilarious
@@madman-wv1wm Wasn't Morghur who had the -8 enemy leadership? But yes, Beastmen are easier, as they get -5 not the -4 the lizardmen get, but Lizardmen get Dinomounts so they can easily defeat unbreakable armies as well
I just surround a fire slann and two skink priests with temple guards and literally nuke the other army with comets and fire tornados. With all the winds of magic skill buffs I can wipe out half of two whole stacks doing this. The enemy ai sometimes breaks and flees in the first five minutes of this.
@@morschesholz8572 You do realize that's how you get the imperial spiff co hitmen enhanced with Yorkshire gold tea bust into your home, torture into surrender and turn you into a slave for the empire of spiff co?
I find giving my Helstorms creative liberty tends to go better than microing them. Also, something I found out right before my PC tried to strangle me: If you use the Laboratory, you can get over 280,000 troops on a single battlefield. They're Skaven, of course.
"We're not min-maxing, we're just maxing." Is the perfectly balanced saying u can use to inpress anyone. If any pres candidate uses this line i will be obligated to vote for them.
Yeah. Right. This army doesn't work out that well. It will die against the first skaven ambush that comes along. Also Mammoths. Also Necrofex Collosi. Also Primeaval glory armies. The only reason why this works is probably because you're in the empire and there's neither big monsters nor rats close by.
1:10 Actually they are more based on the Korean "Hwacha", which is a form of rocket artillery. This artillery was very effective against the Japanese in the Imjin wars (1592-98) because of their dense formations.
Since these imperial names are for some reason 80 % german, I'm gonna translate a few: Pfeildorf = "Arrow"-Village Wissenland = Knowledge-Land Waldenhof = Forest court Drakenhof = Draken court Mordheim = Murder home Nagenhof = nibble/gnaw court (nagen is a verb and because no other "Hof" has a verb in front of it, I'm not sure they meant that) Schwarzhafen = Black Port/Harbour/Haven Grenzstadt = border city (They took the word for the whole category of cities near borders and made it this towns name. Creative) Steingart = Stoneguard OR Stonegarden (I'm not sure which it is) Rudiger Volkmann = Rudiger Peopleman Eben von Liebwitz = Eben of Love-Joke (but the meaning is probably "well-spiritet joke" or "kind joke", would make more sense) Ian Todbringer = Ian Deathbringer All the "...Burgs" = [something]-Keep Kemperbad = Kemper bath And Essen is a real city in germany.
And Wissenburg is a real city too, it just isn't german anymore since some... unfriendly events in European History *cough*. It's called "Wissembourg" today and is in Lothringia.
Latter half of the game, you sound like you’ve actually been playing 20 hrs nonstop. Voice gets all husky like you need water, sunlight and rest... Thanks for the dedication to producing the content we love
@@agent374a especially such dangerous and volatile information as this- imagine how many innocent people were murdered for the sake of the all-mighty kill count thanks to him? Oh, the humanity!
I am glad he didnt pulled his name into this mess... Going to war with your elector counts, Legendary lord level 15 on turn 36... Come on. I know he isnt playing for maximum efficiency, just to show off a concept and for shits and giggles... But damn it hurts to watch :(
I hope spiff returns to this game one more time before tww3 drops. I would love to see him load up a stack of dwarves with trollhammers and engineers. Short, powerful stumpy boys running like Olympic track stars and shooting shoulder mounted nukes is very spicy.
The two empire doom stacks were Steam Tank doom stack and Beast wizard doom stack (for their mount). Steam Tank is far more expensive but easier to spam than having 19 high level hero's
Neh, Legend said in today's stream he had no interest in making a video to counter Spiff, and that his previous thing was more about just to show how broken Spiff could really Break things.
Nothing Is Here :D yeah Legend wants Spiff to seek his expertise before releasing any vid on tww2 - Legends arrogance level is starting to be somewhere between Tynan S and Todd H... :D
Deathsdayoff person indeed - about this Spiff video i agree and also noticed while watching. Still Legend did not just say he could help Spiff cheese further. But clearly request Spiff to consult Legend each time. Like legendary difficulty is the main diff people play on. I play TWW in legendary half of the time and when I unlock a legendary diff achievement usually less than 5% have it...
I have a strong urge to flip a table every time I hear that idiotic quote. Apparently, all wars are the same, and always have been. It's almost as if Todd didn't quite think that one through... oh wait.
I love this genre of game, and I would actually love to see Spiff play it unedited. a big ol' 8 hour video or however long it takes to pull this stuff off.
Pretty much. It's why I like mods that limit both you and the AI so you can't just doomstack everything and win. Doom stacking single entities or high end missile units/cav units is pretty much unbeatable. Steam tanks, star dragons, stegadons and necrofex I would say could never feasibly be beaten even if the ai had 4 full stacks.
@@Iceman96051 Depends on unit sizes. Single entity units are very strong in Small unit size battles, but practically useless in Huge. In Huge, I have seen peasant mobs kill dragons with a death of a thousand cuts, while on Small, the same dragon can destroy and rout the same peasants in seconds. It is the same reason why Doomcannons became memes. On Huge/Large, they are your cookie cutter artillery; functional, but not exactly broken. On Small, they can one-shot elite units due to their tracking and the explosion radius being large enough to hit three quarters of the models in a unit. Have three of them in your army, have them each fire off three salvos before the lines meet, and you have pretty much halved the enemy army. It's nuts.
or Lord Kroak! I have fallen madly in love with Lord Kroak, I have an army of Gor Rok, Lord Kroak, 2 skink chiefs on stegadons and a scar veteran on a carnosaur. They are unstoppable
No joke, I was literally taking my 4th sip of tea when you said the hallucinogens should be kicking in lol got a good laugh about of that!! Great video as always!!!!
Even funnier because we all know the natural healing properties of tea, powerful as all things Tea are, would just laugh at and nullify such pathetic attempts at corrupting perfectly good tea. No poison nor contamination shall ever find a foothold upon the bastion of health and strength that is tea.
@@ggu0rck955 A lot of their background lore is heavily inspired by (or straight ripped out of) the legends of King Arthur and/or nie knights. Things like the Green Knight, Lady of the Lake, quests for Grail and so on. And as those legends originate mostly from England, well...
@@wojciechkowalski8061 well actually a lot of french authors contributed to the arthurian legend, especially Chretien de Troyes, who introduced the characters of the lady of the lake, lancelot and percival.
Jim Adler The high elves literally say “for king and country”. While not being the only example, I’d say they are the English. Brettonia is not England and France it’s the Bretons + France.
"This cheese is achievable in ever difficulty" Yeah sure when lizardmen surround you with 2 stacks of rank 9 dinosaurs on legendary we 'll see how will that artillery work
It will take a really really long time for Balthasar to reach lizardsmen at that pace in legendary and any monster army or even a few stacks of infantry is able to defeat it. There is a limitation on ammo.
I've been playing since WH1 came out, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that 90% of my campaigns have been as Empire. Right now I'm waiting for Immortal Empires to come out for WH3 so that I can ...play as the Empire!
The black crag AI clearly exploited...I'm assuming he's playing unmodded and somehow they beat the dwarves? When do the orcs ever beat the dwarves? They can't win in auto-resolve against them even when outnumbering them 3:1....
One thing I've always hated about Total war is the amount of micro. If they could make like a setting (think like formations and speed options at the bottom of the screen) to auto attack appropriate enemies within a radius around the unit (similar to how skirmish troops firing arcs look), that would make a world of difference, hell you can even make a bunch of new tech to go along with it, improving their targeting and increasing their radius. It could also be balance in a way that it will only trigger if they have no orders (move/attack) and will return to their original position once their are not more enemies in range.
this is basically how the opening of Gate the anime went, massive charges of swordsmen and cavalry against entrenched tanks, machineguns, and artillery pieces
Everyone: Kat. Spiff: Kat. Everyone: Yuu. Spiff: Yuu. Everyone: Sha. Spiff: Sha. Everyone: Katyusha. Spiff: *proceed to activating Spelling Trade which could make someone mispelled something and call it a day. The bonuses provide the User has 100% Buff to mispelled some word, while the opposite faction's brain cell will get Debuff such as: ・Agility -75% ・Vision -90% ・Attack -200% ・Honour -85% ・Armour -42% ・Luck -99% ・Poison: Target Deals 43 damage per 2 sec. Lasting 30 second. ・Confusion: Target can't attack for a turn ・Fraud Wraith: all Buff from target immediately cleansed and applied to user. Can be countered with Yorkshire Gold Tea.
19:35 "Of course I can never lose my true favorites, my sweet, sweet Irish boys of RT and CallMeKevin." Is JackSepticEye not there because he's always talking about how much he loves his "delicious dirty bean water"? =P
The Spiffing Brit, it appears that RT is very onboard for a co-op of sorts considering some of his comments on both you videos as well as his own content. I’d really like to see a collaboration or even public chat between some of my favourite youtubers!
*_You do realize that you could rewrite characters' names?_* _No _*_Reanu Keeves?_*_ No 100 _*_Stat Man?_*_ No _*_Big Ron?_* _May your tea turn stale, good sir._
"The Knights of the Evcrlasting Light are champions of iusticc and lost causes, but are perhaps even better for being a cursed order. Foul occurrences and ill luck plagued the brotherhood, but they will not speak openly of any curse nor will they speculate on how it came to be." -- Uniform & Heraldry of the Empire. Neil Hodgson & Jeremy Vetok. p62. "Knights of the Everlasting Light". Games-Workshop. Yo, just wanna say, good job choosing the right guys for the job. Keep it up.
If you use the Mixu Legendary Lords mod, you can have like 12 Empire LLs, and one of them is Elspeth von Draken, the Dark Lady of Nuln... Who has some pretty good artillery upgrades on her own.
cool to see you just making a whacky build and not actually exploiting, i liked this video a lot. I also just got into the warhammer campaigns, used to only do custom battles/multiplayer im still on warhammer 1
Spiff, for the love of the Queen, there's no second "k" in Katyusha. It's the cutsie name for Katya, which itself is the cutsie name for... Yekaterina?
try playing as Tiqtaq'to with all fireleech bolas an 1-2 chameleon skinks. You can bring their upkeep very close to zero and buff their attack and ammo. I do this all the time on legendary an dwin the majority of my battles without a single death.
Something i would like to add to Ian Todbringers name is, that Todbringer means the Same as Deathbringer from an german Perspective. Which is interesting, because it lets his name sound less stupid.
*"Welcome to Estalia gentlemen. I will not lie, the chances of your survival are small. Some may even turn against your friends as living corpses, but you have my word that I will use my arcane gifts to ensure your bodies are given unto Morr's Garden. This is the greatest reward, more than even gold, for the fate of your soul is an eternal concern. Now come, follow me. Strike down the undead that rise against us, allow me to find this eldritch amulet. I ask not for my own selfish studies, but for the good of the Empire!"*
This remind me of Tiberian Sun's NOD Artillery (they thankfully got fixed in firestorm). High damage, pretty fast attack speed, ridiculous range, the artillery themselves had pretty decent hp and pretty fast movement speed and the buggy mess was... because of the programming, the shells had homing, so you could try to avoid all you want but they would always hit. Have 5 of them and your entire base was save against any AI attack.
Todbringer might actually have Germanic roots from “tot”- the German word for death, which effectively would be Ian, Bringer of Death. Kind of a badass moniker
dude, it is literally a german word. "Tod" is the noun death in German. "tot" would be the adjective "dead". "Bring" is the same in English as it is in German, as well as the noun "Bringer". And as German has compound words, "Todbringer" is literally a legit German word that means "Death-Bringer".
in the lore, he is a pretty though guy which stand with his city against beastmen or chaos and never fall, he is a sort of alpha+ chad with balls of titanium so big they can be 40 pounds canonball.
“... scientifically verified to increase your charisma stats by 14000%”... I appreciate the buff, but I don’t think it’s going to help me; 14000% * 0 is still 0
I don't exactly remember introduction in Brothers of Karamazov which explained these naming courses. What I remember at least "Dimitri" went to "Mitka" or "Mitja". Was there "Mitenka" somewhere between? Aleksei got Aljuska, I don't remember if there was others. I don't remember which Ivanovits got. Is there some exact rules and are they different with men and women?
20:00 "hallucinahenic pills will increase your desire to like the video by..." Ha!! Jokes on you, I allready watched and liked this video months ago! And now I'm just rewatching it for no reason!! Wait a minute...
Beefing up your artillery to the max and then not showing them in action is a gigantic tease. Now I gotta do this shit all by myself for three days, just to satisfy this. Thanks, Spiff
You can get Gelt as a different elector by playing as Boris and having Balthazar declare independence - murderhobo him and then summon him later as a lord - the fact he left the empire means he doesn't have his old seat
Disappointed there wasn't a comment about the Heinz Bros "beansing it"
I feel like there's a joke here but I can't quite ketchup with it 🤔
@@DudeInOhio85 Well that's because you are running be heinz.
Dragon’s Dogma?
@@DudeInOhio85 if you cant ketchup with that then your joke just didnt have the mustard...
These puns need to be incinerated by the sun immediately
This was glorious, a little tip though, you can just send your steam tank in, instead of other units in order to clump up all the enemy, it's extremely hard to kill and since it's a single unit it wont be hit by most of the rockets.
Joe Farah use the emperor’s wrath tank for that sexy steam burst
The Spiffing Brit I love sending super sexy scorching steam out to sear souls that surround it
Meme tanks doomstack = best empire doomstack
Just the little steamy tank tip.
Seeing how armor works in this game and the fact that steam tanks can be healed by life wizards, I'd say that's probably the best way to occupy the enemy for ages. Even better is the fact that Gelt provides an additional 10 armor with his passive ability, getting you that much closer to the sweet spot of 200.
"Todbringer" is german for "Bringer of Death"
Todd Howard Bringer
@@thegreatlordshaxx1869 he's certainly doing a good job of killing his company
FUKCKING TODY
Where is your Todd now? Muhahahahaha
He werfs todden
Van Von Volkvan Van has to be a character going forward, he seems perfectly balanced
I hope he drives a ford fiesta too
The funniest name I've seen in this game was a vampire coast hero named Dick Butters
@@nhunka44 I saw one named Dick Half-Mast 😂😂
@@alexc5243 it must be a euphemism for a semi-erect penis 😅
I like how Volkmar the Grimm is so neglected, Spiffing doesn't have the DLC downloaded
Was wondering if anyone else had noticed that...
I love how all the Citys of the Empire have German Names and Spiff is unable to spell them
First thought: German Empire conquering the world with artillery (and maybe steam tanks)... business as usual
Lord Shaxx gimme my NF 😔
@@ItsDrMeme lol no
Typical Britbong. He also probably writes color as colour!
The Great Lord Shaxx :(
Next up on Legend of Total War's channel: "The Spiffing Brit Chose the Wrong Faction to Cheese Artillery"
There is basically no Faction as good as the Empire in terms of Artillery
Edit: Guys i get it im wrong. Please stop kicking my dead body and comment something else than the same thing over and over again. Thanks.
deygotwingsnow fujimorapantsu you are wrong, for spiff cannot be wrong
Spiffing sends disaster file to Legend. Legend saves it but now Spiffing has to buy all the DLCs.
@@thegreatlordshaxx1869 thats a grudging
Yes, this is true. There are better factions in the game to utterly cheese artillery: namely Lizardmen. Stegodons may be monsters, but they're also artillery, and it is a legit build that can wipe out multiple consecutive stacks battle after battle after battle. Helstorm Rocket Battery spam though is so easily countered by flying entities, cav, and monsters that's kind of sad. Granted, against infantry, Helstorm Rocket Batteries will delete infantry, no contest. But yeah, cheese Stegos, Necrofix Colossi, and other monster builds instead, you'll have an easier time.
"We're not min-maxing, we're just maxing!" yeah I'm sold
I feel like Spiffing just figured out how to play Tau in Fantasy
Spiffing would never. He hates the xenos.
I mean he said he was sacrificing soldiers for the greater good
Forget Triptide, now we have infinitide
Silence xenos filth!
@@colemanwalsh7477 FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!
The ultimate faction for stacking ranged buffs is likely the Huntmaster's Expedition. You lose out on the 10 % buff from Gelt and the 10 % from Wissenland as well as the 5 % for killing Wulfhart himself, but you gain access to a Dwarven master engineer and Wood Elf waywatcher which more than make up for that.
Between Hawk Eyed, Entrenchment, Ballistics Calibration, Extra Powder, the master engineer's ability tree and a huntsman general, you can hit missile dps numbers in excess of 4000 with the Hellblaster Volley Guns and well over 14000 for the Templehof Luminark. And that's without counting the Bright Wizard.
On another note, firing a 14000 dp10 Luminark shot at Luthor Harkon only to deal less than 400 damage makes you appreciate just how much magic resistance that lord is able to stack.
Or you confederate him as Gelt. Then you also get the Wood Elf and the Dwarf.
@@JRefumee Depends on whether the AI gets those heroes per default? Idk if that happens at a set level or number of turns? Also I wrote this over a year ago lol
@@SpiceCh I know right, that video is so old. I love to rewatch spiffs videos.
Yes, Wulfhart starts with all 4 heroes at once. It's kinda hard as lizardmen to get rid of him. I just dont know if he will get the items and special skills for them.
@@SpiceCh I know it is an old comment, but it seems the Wulfart AI get the heroes in WH3 IE. Hope this helps.
"They call it 'Sigmar's Organ!"... No, as in a musical organ, Dummkopf!"
Well... That one actually wouldn't be ambiguous in Reikspiel (assuming that if not stated otherwise, it's just german and generally speaking it really is). Because an organ as in body part is still an Organ in german, an organ as in musical instrument however would be an Orgel...
@@darthplagueis13 There are references in lore to "Sigmar's hammer"
The weapon is actually called stalins organ in german
German squad
Sigmars Skin Flute
"Katyushka"
You have deal 5 points of spiritual damage to me every time you say that
@@thespiffingbrit the historical name was Катюша (Katyoosha) which is female diminutive name from Катя (Katya and it's basically slavic analogy for Kate). Fun thing your way of pronounce it (Katyooshka) is totally legit too, but makes the name even more diminutive and intimate, lol.
@@АртёмАнатольевич-с2в thats perfect then, nothing is quite as intimate as sending a hard hot shaft into your opposite where it penetrates deep into quivering flesh and explodes spraying hot flames causing significant emotional events of such intensity that they can be felt by everyone in the vicinity.
Yes, I totally just lewded a rocket battery....
@@Colonel_Overkill i demand an anthropomorphism of a katyusha
@@Colonel_Overkill surely there are already a gijinka of a katyusha out there
@@Colonel_Overkill wow i just nutted, best description of total Warhammer artillery use...
@Spiffing Brit: The biggest exploit is recruiting a hero stack for Lizardmen (with the trait Pompous) or Beastman (with trait Nurgles stink), as they lower enemy leadership to zero, if you have enough. That means the enemy will rout the moment they enter combat. Its hilarious
Julian Schumann literally just commented about this, I believe it works better with the beast men particularly kazrak one eye
@@madman-wv1wm Wasn't Morghur who had the -8 enemy leadership?
But yes, Beastmen are easier, as they get -5 not the -4 the lizardmen get, but Lizardmen get Dinomounts so they can easily defeat unbreakable armies as well
Sorry, it should have been Malagor the dark omen with the -8
But one has to consider that you can spam starchambers as lizardmen, meaning you can recruit the heroes at level 25 with only 4 provinces
I just surround a fire slann and two skink priests with temple guards and literally nuke the other army with comets and fire tornados. With all the winds of magic skill buffs I can wipe out half of two whole stacks doing this. The enemy ai sometimes breaks and flees in the first five minutes of this.
“We’re gonna crank it up to Normal”
And unit scale from Small to Ultra
Just did everything
I was half expecting him to go: "Now that we're sponsored by Yorkshire Tea, the Empire's efficency goes up by another 35% for each cup I consume."
vote for Spiffing Brit making "Kenshi is a PERFECTLY BALANCED game" :)
@@thespiffingbrit welp, it never hurts to try...
@@thespiffingbrit then we shall throw the tea in the sea!
@@morschesholz8572 You do realize that's how you get the imperial spiff co hitmen enhanced with Yorkshire gold tea bust into your home, torture into surrender and turn you into a slave for the empire of spiff co?
Spiff has said at least twice before that he has one
@@zameliz well if it helps the empire
"Why are they both called Heinz?" Says the one of three Toms in the Yogscast. xD
At least I know of three, there might be more. :shrug:
The Tomscast
The Spiffing Brit are the toms cloning themselves?! Will ttt ever be safe again?!
they are the Heinzelmännchen.
The Spiffing Brit Dragon’s Dogma?
@@thespiffingbrit Petition for a Tomscast segment on the next jingle jam with all the toms in one place for one streamgavaganza.
I find giving my Helstorms creative liberty tends to go better than microing them. Also, something I found out right before my PC tried to strangle me: If you use the Laboratory, you can get over 280,000 troops on a single battlefield. They're Skaven, of course.
"We're not min-maxing, we're just maxing."
Is the perfectly balanced saying u can use to inpress anyone.
If any pres candidate uses this line i will be obligated to vote for them.
Sadly, neither did, and that’s what concerns me. How can we trust any candidate who isn’t just maxing?
PewDiePie: *WhAt Is AlTiLaRy OnLy?*
Spiffing Brit: *Casually altillery only in his video without thinking about it*
ISP artillery only 😎
I always knew @@thespiffingbrit was for the empire cause duh.
The Artillery Only challenge is back.
*^ISORROWPRODUCTIONS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION^*
Yeah. Right. This army doesn't work out that well. It will die against the first skaven ambush that comes along. Also Mammoths. Also Necrofex Collosi. Also Primeaval glory armies. The only reason why this works is probably because you're in the empire and there's neither big monsters nor rats close by.
1:10 Actually they are more based on the Korean "Hwacha", which is a form of rocket artillery. This artillery was very effective against the Japanese in the Imjin wars (1592-98) because of their dense formations.
Since these imperial names are for some reason 80 % german, I'm gonna translate a few:
Pfeildorf = "Arrow"-Village
Wissenland = Knowledge-Land
Waldenhof = Forest court
Drakenhof = Draken court
Mordheim = Murder home
Nagenhof = nibble/gnaw court (nagen is a verb and because no other "Hof" has a verb in front of it, I'm not sure they meant that)
Schwarzhafen = Black Port/Harbour/Haven
Grenzstadt = border city (They took the word for the whole category of cities near borders and made it this towns name. Creative)
Steingart = Stoneguard OR Stonegarden (I'm not sure which it is)
Rudiger Volkmann = Rudiger Peopleman
Eben von Liebwitz = Eben of Love-Joke (but the meaning is probably "well-spiritet joke" or "kind joke", would make more sense)
Ian Todbringer = Ian Deathbringer
All the "...Burgs" = [something]-Keep
Kemperbad = Kemper bath
And Essen is a real city in germany.
And Wissenburg is a real city too, it just isn't german anymore since some... unfriendly events in European History *cough*.
It's called "Wissembourg" today and is in Lothringia.
I like how he's swooning of the all the damage boosts and kind of just forgets that DPS is also influence by rate of fire until right near the end.
Latter half of the game, you sound like you’ve actually been playing 20 hrs nonstop. Voice gets all husky like you need water, sunlight and rest...
Thanks for the dedication to producing the content we love
26:13 Spiffing, artificially inflating his kill count by slaughtering his own men, what a glorious exploit ;P
aCtuAlLy the game doesn't count friendly fire, in the entities kill counter
@@agent374a... It most assuredly does.
@@CharalamposKoundourakis It does not, and just to be 100% I just loaded up the game and tested it.. Maybe check before you spread misinformation
@@agent374a especially such dangerous and volatile information as this- imagine how many innocent people were murdered for the sake of the all-mighty kill count thanks to him? Oh, the humanity!
he is a bit like Bill Lumbergh
from Office Space. "yea great, they are fighting to the last, they are doing a fantastic job"
I was really dissapointed The Spiffing Brit didnt mention the king of the cheeze aka legendoftotalwar.
I am glad he didnt pulled his name into this mess... Going to war with your elector counts, Legendary lord level 15 on turn 36... Come on.
I know he isnt playing for maximum efficiency, just to show off a concept and for shits and giggles... But damn it hurts to watch :(
I hope spiff returns to this game one more time before tww3 drops. I would love to see him load up a stack of dwarves with trollhammers and engineers. Short, powerful stumpy boys running like Olympic track stars and shooting shoulder mounted nukes is very spicy.
he posted a coment on the game trailer so most likely he will
"dwarves"
That's goin' in the book
18:20 "Todbringer" = "Deathbringer" in german.
“Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.”
I WILL NOT LIE, THE CHANCES OF YOUR SURVIVAL ARE SMALL
Legend of total war just did a Empire doomstack series (i did not watch it yet cause i dont have time) maybe he will refute your cheese again.
Yea but Spiffing Brit are more eloquence and entertaining.
I like Legend but i mostly watched him for battles
The two empire doom stacks were Steam Tank doom stack and Beast wizard doom stack (for their mount). Steam Tank is far more expensive but easier to spam than having 19 high level hero's
Neh, Legend said in today's stream he had no interest in making a video to counter Spiff, and that his previous thing was more about just to show how broken Spiff could really Break things.
Nothing Is Here :D yeah Legend wants Spiff to seek his expertise before releasing any vid on tww2 - Legends arrogance level is starting to be somewhere between Tynan S and Todd H... :D
Deathsdayoff person indeed - about this Spiff video i agree and also noticed while watching. Still Legend did not just say he could help Spiff cheese further. But clearly request Spiff to consult Legend each time. Like legendary difficulty is the main diff people play on. I play TWW in legendary half of the time and when I unlock a legendary diff achievement usually less than 5% have it...
I love these. Though I wish I could have seen how everything combined turned out.
Spiff: [sips tea] War... War never changes... [sips tea]
death note epic chip moment engaged
I have a strong urge to flip a table every time I hear that idiotic quote.
Apparently, all wars are the same, and always have been. It's almost as if Todd didn't quite think that one through... oh wait.
war 1 side or more getting its soldiers killed every war in existance so basicly never realy changed
I love this genre of game, and I would actually love to see Spiff play it unedited. a big ol' 8 hour video or however long it takes to pull this stuff off.
If artillery is ineffective.
You're not using enough artillery.
Facts
What people don’t realize is that this is actually how the game was meant to be played. They designed it so you can make almost anything super OP.
Pretty much. It's why I like mods that limit both you and the AI so you can't just doomstack everything and win. Doom stacking single entities or high end missile units/cav units is pretty much unbeatable. Steam tanks, star dragons, stegadons and necrofex I would say could never feasibly be beaten even if the ai had 4 full stacks.
En- tities hehe 😉
@@Iceman96051 Depends on unit sizes. Single entity units are very strong in Small unit size battles, but practically useless in Huge. In Huge, I have seen peasant mobs kill dragons with a death of a thousand cuts, while on Small, the same dragon can destroy and rout the same peasants in seconds.
It is the same reason why Doomcannons became memes. On Huge/Large, they are your cookie cutter artillery; functional, but not exactly broken. On Small, they can one-shot elite units due to their tracking and the explosion radius being large enough to hit three quarters of the models in a unit. Have three of them in your army, have them each fire off three salvos before the lines meet, and you have pretty much halved the enemy army. It's nuts.
Bretonnia super peasant mobs (with Blacksmiths all across the maps) kind of exemplify this.
@@tarnyowl6068 2nd funniest crap i've seen
"Who wants to play the lizardmen"
Only the men of culture will understand the greatness of obliterating your enemies with dinosaurs
that meta is prehistoric
Oh yeah, it's stegadon doomstack time 😎
or Lord Kroak! I have fallen madly in love with Lord Kroak, I have an army of Gor Rok, Lord Kroak, 2 skink chiefs on stegadons and a scar veteran on a carnosaur. They are unstoppable
BOK BOK
Scynati I was using him today against skaven and most battles he had like 800+ kills
And me here expecting that he would recommend Legend of Total War.
No joke, I was literally taking my 4th sip of tea when you said the hallucinogens should be kicking in lol got a good laugh about of that!! Great video as always!!!!
Even funnier because we all know the natural healing properties of tea, powerful as all things Tea are, would just laugh at and nullify such pathetic attempts at corrupting perfectly good tea. No poison nor contamination shall ever find a foothold upon the bastion of health and strength that is tea.
@@dragonknight951 explain saltwater
@@marley7868 If saltwater is ruining your tea then you just aren't using the right Tea.
I cant expell baltazar as a count from his region to get the regional bonus of Wissenland
he is locked now it seems
Bertonnia, when you mix France with England. The most unholy of combinations.
Excuse me ? I don't see the english part in bretonnia
@@ggu0rck955 the whole lady of the lake comes from the english folklore
@@ggu0rck955 A lot of their background lore is heavily inspired by (or straight ripped out of) the legends of King Arthur and/or nie knights. Things like the Green Knight, Lady of the Lake, quests for Grail and so on. And as those legends originate mostly from England, well...
@@wojciechkowalski8061 well actually a lot of french authors contributed to the arthurian legend, especially Chretien de Troyes, who introduced the characters of the lady of the lake, lancelot and percival.
Jim Adler The high elves literally say “for king and country”. While not being the only example, I’d say they are the English. Brettonia is not England and France it’s the Bretons + France.
"This cheese is achievable in ever difficulty"
Yeah sure when lizardmen surround you with 2 stacks of rank 9 dinosaurs on legendary we 'll see how will that artillery work
It will take a really really long time for Balthasar to reach lizardsmen at that pace in legendary and any monster army or even a few stacks of infantry is able to defeat it. There is a limitation on ammo.
Well they have dinosaur with ballista on it's back. Good luck defeat that doom stack 15 of them and 5 agents on their mounts
just handgunners or huntsmen or helblaster volley guns and you’re good
hellblaster volley guns
@@quanguctranngo7871 ranged cavalry stack beats monster artillery stack, or cheese magic and wizards
24:02 Baldrick: It's a cunning plan my lord.
😂
"We are only max-ing."
And relaxing.
I've been playing since WH1 came out, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that 90% of my campaigns have been as Empire. Right now I'm waiting for Immortal Empires to come out for WH3 so that I can ...play as the Empire!
Same!!!
24:55 You could say they went "though the fire and the flames".
0 views 52 likes perfectly balanced
we can link to like buttons only we dont need to see tea lord we know its good
Like it first, then watch it
@@pineycolada3075 the almioghty tea time lord says we actually have likede it in future then returned to now to watch
Let me rephrase it
Total War Is A PERFECTLY BALANCED Series with NO EXPLOITS
The black crag AI clearly exploited...I'm assuming he's playing unmodded and somehow they beat the dwarves? When do the orcs ever beat the dwarves? They can't win in auto-resolve against them even when outnumbering them 3:1....
@@feddyvonwigglestein3481 to be fair in my game the orcs normaly steamroll the badlands
its not an exploit if you play on higer then normal difficulty
One thing I've always hated about Total war is the amount of micro. If they could make like a setting (think like formations and speed options at the bottom of the screen) to auto attack appropriate enemies within a radius around the unit (similar to how skirmish troops firing arcs look), that would make a world of difference, hell you can even make a bunch of new tech to go along with it, improving their targeting and increasing their radius. It could also be balance in a way that it will only trigger if they have no orders (move/attack) and will return to their original position once their are not more enemies in range.
this is basically how the opening of Gate the anime went, massive charges of swordsmen and cavalry against entrenched tanks, machineguns, and artillery pieces
Good to see a fellow man of class and culture!
Lizardmen have the best artilery, as their warmachines tend to eat enemy soldiers. Omnomnom...
when you think you have a chance at "first!" but youtube gives you the notice 20seconds to late
Lol yeah xD
@@thespiffingbrit aaaaaw
20 seconds late!? Lucky! I got the notification 14 minutes late! Stupid youtube, I can't even expres my love for Spiff on time because of him... 😢
Imagine not getting notified while you have rang the bell
What about me?
27:14 "spearmen defending the rear" So...rearmen ? ill show myself out
Everyone: Kat.
Spiff: Kat.
Everyone: Yuu.
Spiff: Yuu.
Everyone: Sha.
Spiff: Sha.
Everyone: Katyusha.
Spiff: *proceed to activating Spelling Trade which could make someone mispelled something and call it a day.
The bonuses provide the User has 100% Buff to mispelled some word, while the opposite faction's brain cell will get Debuff such as:
・Agility -75%
・Vision -90%
・Attack -200%
・Honour -85%
・Armour -42%
・Luck -99%
・Poison: Target Deals 43 damage per 2 sec. Lasting 30 second.
・Confusion: Target can't attack for a turn
・Fraud Wraith: all Buff from target immediately cleansed and applied to user.
Can be countered with Yorkshire Gold Tea.
19:35 "Of course I can never lose my true favorites, my sweet, sweet Irish boys of RT and CallMeKevin."
Is JackSepticEye not there because he's always talking about how much he loves his "delicious dirty bean water"? =P
I'm just wondering why CallMeKevin is there in the first place.
@@Tuulos Why's that? Kevin is Irish too, and an entertaining TH-camr with a pretty sizeable channel.
The Spiffing Brit, it appears that RT is very onboard for a co-op of sorts considering some of his comments on both you videos as well as his own content. I’d really like to see a collaboration or even public chat between some of my favourite youtubers!
*_You do realize that you could rewrite characters' names?_*
_No _*_Reanu Keeves?_*_ No 100 _*_Stat Man?_*_ No _*_Big Ron?_*
_May your tea turn stale, good sir._
You cannot rename legendary lords
Do you honestly believe that any of them were as powerful as the legendary Reanu Keeves or 100 stat man?
14:57 presumably one loves beans, and the other tomato based liquids.
"The Knights of the Evcrlasting Light are champions of iusticc and lost causes, but are perhaps even better for being a cursed order. Foul occurrences and ill luck plagued the brotherhood, but they will not speak openly of any curse nor will they speculate on how it came to be." -- Uniform & Heraldry of the Empire. Neil Hodgson & Jeremy Vetok. p62. "Knights of the Everlasting Light". Games-Workshop.
Yo, just wanna say, good job choosing the right guys for the job. Keep it up.
If you use the Mixu Legendary Lords mod, you can have like 12 Empire LLs, and one of them is Elspeth von Draken, the Dark Lady of Nuln... Who has some pretty good artillery upgrades on her own.
I'm still upset that u arent actually a stick man with a top hat and a monocle
Spiff and kevin need to do a dont starve playthrough itd be hilarious😂
I recommend a certain Sseth, think youll like him.
My favourite african warlord and hentai connoisseur.
He already mentioned sseth in his Starsector video
@@whizthesugoi perfect.
Spiff enjoys RT and Kevin, my day has been made.
cool to see you just making a whacky build and not actually exploiting, i liked this video a lot. I also just got into the warhammer campaigns, used to only do custom battles/multiplayer im still on warhammer 1
I would love if spiff would find exploit in life
Bloody loved it!
Still waiting until I can afford a new PC so I can enjoy this amazing game :D
Spiff, for the love of the Queen, there's no second "k" in Katyusha.
It's the cutsie name for Katya, which itself is the cutsie name for... Yekaterina?
i watched his Company of Heroes video right before this one, what are the odds of hearing him pronounce Katyusha wrong so many times in one day
Didn't know missile dmg was for artillery. Thought it was only for ranged units like gun and bow units. Thanks for the info!
try playing as Tiqtaq'to with all fireleech bolas an 1-2 chameleon skinks. You can bring their upkeep very close to zero and buff their attack and ammo. I do this all the time on legendary an dwin the majority of my battles without a single death.
"just as well with everything in my army"
*your infantry just sitting there kicking rocks*
"Dudes in Yellow"
Yes the dreaded Banana Army is here
Something i would like to add to Ian Todbringers name is, that Todbringer means the Same as Deathbringer from an german Perspective. Which is interesting, because it lets his name sound less stupid.
Would be spelt Todtbringer right?
Without a „t“
*"Welcome to Estalia gentlemen. I will not lie, the chances of your survival are small. Some may even turn against your friends as living corpses, but you have my word that I will use my arcane gifts to ensure your bodies are given unto Morr's Garden. This is the greatest reward, more than even gold, for the fate of your soul is an eternal concern. Now come, follow me. Strike down the undead that rise against us, allow me to find this eldritch amulet. I ask not for my own selfish studies, but for the good of the Empire!"*
This remind me of Tiberian Sun's NOD Artillery (they thankfully got fixed in firestorm). High damage, pretty fast attack speed, ridiculous range, the artillery themselves had pretty decent hp and pretty fast movement speed and the buggy mess was... because of the programming, the shells had homing, so you could try to avoid all you want but they would always hit. Have 5 of them and your entire base was save against any AI attack.
"Rain artillery on my own men's positions" *Happy Krieg sounds
Todbringer might actually have Germanic roots from “tot”- the German word for death, which effectively would be Ian, Bringer of Death. Kind of a badass moniker
dude, it is literally a german word. "Tod" is the noun death in German. "tot" would be the adjective "dead". "Bring" is the same in English as it is in German, as well as the noun "Bringer". And as German has compound words, "Todbringer" is literally a legit German word that means "Death-Bringer".
@@bernhardmeysel well there you go haha just went off what I remembered from HS German
in the lore, he is a pretty though guy which stand with his city against beastmen or chaos and never fall, he is a sort of alpha+ chad with balls of titanium so big they can be 40 pounds canonball.
A youtube ad interrupted Spiff's interruption and it makes me mad.
Thanks for the channel recommendations, I'd only seen one of them before.
I smell the burning death it's called Spiffing Fire!! But where is your Queen she should be in this game.
Funnily enough Baltazars starting village "Pfeildorf" means "Missilevillage" in german :D
"Arrowvillage" if anything. German word for Rockets and Missiles is "Rakete"
"Katuska" lol 😂, it's Katyusa Spiff!
it hurts
Katyusha
I recommend watching " The Empire Experience"
by "Robertus Maximus"
I ordered some Yorkshire tea because of your video's; my first taste will be tonight as it's showing delivered.
“... scientifically verified to increase your charisma stats by 14000%”... I appreciate the buff, but I don’t think it’s going to help me; 14000% * 0 is still 0
oh look, it's me
I felt that.
before watched anything i will say, sir spiff should learn about doomstacks by legend
1:30 It is “Katyusha”! Gentle for Katarina in Russian.
Like Lizy for Elisabeth
Your Russian disappoints me, Spiff
I don't exactly remember introduction in Brothers of Karamazov which explained these naming courses. What I remember at least "Dimitri" went to "Mitka" or "Mitja". Was there "Mitenka" somewhere between? Aleksei got Aljuska, I don't remember if there was others. I don't remember which Ivanovits got. Is there some exact rules and are they different with men and women?
3:39 Thats german and means something like "Arrow Village" ^^
But, he pronounced "Wissenland" right, at least :3
I went up against that Artillery for the first time a few days ago, I was sitting there saying "Why does the enemy have MLRS Artillery"
This is great! My next campaign is set. Thank you for taking the time to make this
00:29 unique means one of a kind; something can't be very unique!
It also means not many are like it, even more rare is very unique
One of a kind is what you speak of
@@guythat779 no it doesn't.
@@tomastomasi975 as ppl use it, it is at least in a big sample
Was going to comment this. What would the queen think of such butchering of her language!?
@@guythat779 people say a lot of stuff, doesn't mean they are correct.
"Todbringer" actually means "Bringer of Death" and is a quiet epic name. Just sayin'
20:00 "hallucinahenic pills will increase your desire to like the video by..."
Ha!! Jokes on you, I allready watched and liked this video months ago! And now I'm just rewatching it for no reason!!
Wait a minute...
Beefing up your artillery to the max and then not showing them in action is a gigantic tease. Now I gotta do this shit all by myself for three days, just to satisfy this. Thanks, Spiff
You can get Gelt as a different elector by playing as Boris and having Balthazar declare independence - murderhobo him and then summon him later as a lord - the fact he left the empire means he doesn't have his old seat
This is one of my favorite games of all time and I'd love to see you cover more exploits.
18:17 Ian Todbringer (german name) =Ian Deathgiver (english Translator name)
Death bringer*
@@FelipePetersBerchielli Stimmt. Habe mich geirrt. Passiert den besten ^^.
@@mikydicy2565 stimmt
"My fave TH-cam streamers" misses
LegendofTotalWar - "aM i A jOkE tO yOu?"
ugh.........
The names kill me every time and the ford fiesta bit, my god so good.
Absolutely smashing stuff. Loving the Warhammer content!!
"the men whose job is to last a really long time" That should be the job of all men. But alas, the world isn't perfect
we last pretty long when we are nervous
A+
"Oh this is exciting" Now if that wasn't Lucifer Morningstar I'll never put milk in my tea again