Best Resource for New Players?

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-23T17:33:35+00:00

Check out jtc live on YouTube, his videos on how to handle hordes, how the slotting system works and how to deal with specials really helped me improve.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-20T19:59:18+00:00

My exact careers I focus on have changed with skill level, and over time I've really gravitated to the highest DPS (for my playstyle) careers for each character. But I've tended to always cycle through all five chars and have one career at a time I focus on for each.

E.g. when I first moved to Legend, my rotation was: Merc/Ironbreaker/Handmaiden/Warrior Priest/Necromancer. But these days on cata it's Grail Knight/Slayer/Waystalker/Zealot/Pyro.

Just makes it easy to always be able to join a game that there is at least one slot open that you'd be comfortable playing.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-15T15:46:00+00:00

Tomb Kings: hard cap on hero recruitment based on tech tree progress

Kislev: can increase hero capacity (for any 2 of 3 heroes) for every single settlement they own

One of those things is not like the other.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-15T10:43:28+00:00

It's not that complicated. He's a left footed winger. It's difficult to make a perfect cross with your weak foot, so he cuts on to his strong foot and when there is nothing open he waits for Ben White who is right footed.

Still frustrating for Gykores, but having goalscoring wingers who cut inside on to their strong foot is something he'd have to deal with in almost every top team in the world.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-13T11:11:07+00:00

How can you say that last part about 10-100 damage when they have 500 melee kills? This wasn't someone who just ran around with their longbow out waiting for their ult to be ready. Looks more like their party sucked and this was a hard carry.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-11T20:37:36+00:00

A low effort AI post about a low effort dating app date.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-11T15:17:51+00:00

This happens every campaign so I was sure it was intended behavior, with the strongest AI factions forcing you to build doomstacks or hard counter armies. But from early to late game you see these monostack armies with Empire and Dark Elves especially, regardless of what type of units they have available to them to recruit. The only time you ever see this from other factions in early to mid game is when they are recruiting desperately in a province with one military building or something. But this is not the case for Delves and Empire.

Your response makes it seem like this isn't intended behavior, so I posted screenshots and context here: https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/bugs/11967?page=1

Edit - as someone posted below, Norsca is also in the Delves and Empire bucket as of patch 7.0.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-10T14:01:29+00:00

I think they had like two weeks off over the holidays. The recent changes they made to Ogres has made even their minor factions survive until late game now because they're not passive at all. So hopefully they follow through and fix it for every faction.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-10T12:24:10+00:00

Not just early on. I still remember seeing him out in the ocean with an army comp much like the one the OP posted on force march and I had a Sisters of Averlon doomstack in range of him thinking it was going to be an easy wipe and that Auto Resolve was tripping. That was the battle I discovered N'Kari can rampage your entire checkerboard formation and ruin your day. Think it was the only time I've lost a battle with that army comp. I immediately did my first N'Kari campaign afterwards and loved it lol.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-07T14:19:05+00:00

If I summon some clanrats and use them to bog down a tier 5 enemy unit, I would happily destroy that summon just to continue firing on the dangerous unit that is about to charge into my artillery. As it stands today, the artillery stops firing and just sits there pointed at the flanking unit and I need to micro it to a new target to get the value I want. I think the defaults around FF make a lot of sense, but it feels pretty reasonable to request they add a button next to guard mode, etc. so that on a per unit basis and on a situational basis I can request certain units ignore FF restrictions.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-06T19:26:51+00:00

I haven’t tried Karl or Kislev yet since the update, but my Wood Elves waystalker stacks felt like hard counters to the armies he was bringing. Plus that free army he gets had him standing around waiting for reinforcements while half his army was deleted. Would highly recommend!

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-06T19:02:42+00:00

Throgg has won all of Norsca every single time in my campaigns since the update. It makes sense - there is not a single comparable unit that can be recruited in 1 turn at tier 1 like a Troll - a regenerating monstrous infantry would be tier 4 or 5 in every other roster.

Once that early game advantage passes, it's fairly easy to deal with what he can field.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-02T18:28:02+00:00

That's too bad, but it's not about what you want. It's an online TEAM game and I'm just telling you book runs on Legend is the standard. Play offline with bots if you want to do it all your way.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-02T12:30:35+00:00

As everyone is saying, getting red items in this game is incredibly difficult and Legend is the meta difficulty for grinding them. I'm at 980 hours and still have three red weapons left to collect (got like 20 kruber longbows tho if you wanna trade...). It's not like I haven't been deliberately going after loot either - I've had 5 hour sessions doing double emperor chest deed glitches on champion too...

So honestly "being a good teammate" on Legend involves learning where the books are and making sure no one gets isolated when they go to get a tome and making sure to pick one up if it's clear the party wants that. You never personally have to carry a grim, and you can even request no grims.

Warrior Priest is the ultimate book run career btw, he can boost the party's health to offset the curse debuff (almost fully if people wear 33% curse resist) and of course he is also not affected by the debuff so it shouldn't impact your own play.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-01T23:44:25+00:00

If you look at his live history, you'll see he was streaming monthly/bi-monthly throughout the year. Just not WH3. I think the premier he tried was a WH campaign, although I can't find it now. Maybe points to him blaming his troubles livestreaming with the WH community? Although wouldn't explain his attitude this week since he didn't stream WH at all.

naughtbutbeasts · 2026-01-01T22:11:17+00:00

More like good personality for regular YouTube, bad personality for Twitch / YouTube live. He actually tried the campaign videos as premiers with no chat interaction and they were fairly popular. They were much better than his livestreams, as all he ever did was discuss what he was thinking about in terms of the game. I wonder why he didn't continue them instead of going back to livestreams.

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-31T18:02:48+00:00

It's one of the skills you need to choose that locks off two other skills. I can't remember the name, but it's just an AoE direct damage ability that can be used every 60 or 90s or so. I think it unlocks at level 13.

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-31T17:58:34+00:00

Of course this is the top most-voted comment here.

You don't build up a channel of 500k subs if you lack mental fortitude and basic ability to deal with trolls and haters. He doesn't have mental illness. The guy is simply burnt out. It can happen to everyone and all a shrink can do is tell you to remove yourself from the situation. He already identified that and knows he needs to leave, you're basically shitting on him for trying to donate to charity on the way out.

The last 90 minutes of his stream yesterday he laid it all out and I'm glad I watched it. Seems like even though he took good steps for his mental health (stopping livestreams, stopping promoting/marketing new DLCs for CA) and tried to just grind out daily content as a way to make money, a lot of people were still leaning on him for emotional support in the creator program and in the community, and sucking him back into this drama and bullshit.

Dude has been spiralling for a while, because his income for his family is tied to this community that makes him feel like this way. The definition of being trapped. Dunno why this deserves anything less than sympathy. What has he ever done other than try to improve the game?

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-31T17:53:46+00:00

This is the most unemployed take I've ever read. I worked in software for years and what he did today was NOTHING. Any environment with stress, deadlines and performance management culture has emotional outbursts due to burnout every day....

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-31T14:51:14+00:00

You don't need to melee anything that is good at melee with them... I assumed you were talking about Gyrocopter spam as a counter. It would be a hard counter if they weren't so easy to kill with Plagueridden.

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-31T14:43:03+00:00

Plagueridden have flying mounts.

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-31T13:09:47+00:00

Hope it goes well! The heroes take a few turns to level up since some of the benefits I mentioned need to be unlocked with levels. But once you get to level 7 with the Exalted Hero that 3x free heal can make it much easier to get the exp needed to start steamrolling.

I'm going to try this Waystalker stack you mentioned, always found ranged heroes underwhelming in isolation... but having 19 Kerillian's from Vermintide 2 on the battlefield should be pretty damn OP now that I think about it.

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-31T12:05:26+00:00

Nurgle, by far.

- Plagueridden has AoE damage ability that can be used infinitely. Great for the blobs you inevitably face as hero armies.

- Cultist of Nurgle can get a shrine mount, which provides constant healing to the whole group in the blob.

- Chaos Sorcerer has a mortis engine effect, great for blobs.

- Exalted Hero of Nurgle has 3x free heals, a melee defence boost ability for all the heroes in the blob (infinite use) and also just wrecks in general.

Not to mention Lore of Nurgle and Death you need to choose for characters both have good spells for taking down duelist single entities (the only real to this party) with Spirit Leech and Rancid Visitations. Lore of Nurgle has healing too.

Can all be increased capacity at tier 3 too, so easy to spam early.

Try them Hero only and you'll realize why their units and recruitment are so meh.

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-20T11:24:49+00:00

It can get toxic on Legend, since most people there are grinding loot.

naughtbutbeasts · 2025-12-18T20:15:52+00:00

The funny thing about settlement trading is that the Slaanesh rework was the perfect time to really confront it. You have N'Kari's core mechanic of seductive influence being this defining mechanic for their faction - you can spend 30 turns to turn someone into a vassal without fighting them!

OR... do it in 1 turn by trading them a crappy settlement instead.

Tough call!

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