The White Tigress Begins The Hunt! | Total War: Warhammer 3 - Bhashiva Episode 1

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Hello everyone and welcome to Fable Haven to War Warhammer 3. Bashiva the White Tiger has arrived in patch 8.0, bringing with her a slew of changes for Grand Cafe. However, this will be my first time doing a Grand Cafe campaign, so I won't really be able to point out the changes to you, but I hope we can enjoy them together. The keen eye amongst you may have also noticed I am using the victory condition overhaul mod and the absolute goat already has conditions for Bashiva. So you're playing around with some special victory conditions and uh seeing what there is to see. If you are as excited as I am for a brand new Total War series, oh why not like the video and subscribe if you aren't. So as mentioned, this is my first time playing Grand Cafe. I do have a faint idea of how they work just because I've slaughtered them so many times, but uh we'll work out any kinks along the way. And of course, Bashiva is rather unique in Grand Cafe. Her whole story is that she leads the exiled tiger men of Ind. They were uh falling under Zinch's grasp and decided to go away.

[00:01:09]And the iron dragon Xiaoing offered them refuge in Shangyang. And ever since they have kind of been not servants, but they've been under.

[00:01:18]Jamming's been their overlord would be the best way to put it. Starting army, she begins with the ironclaw tiger warriors. These are tier four. This is a crazy starting army. Uh these are the anti-large tigermen. Then some tiger warriors. They're tier 2 anti-infantry.

[00:01:34]I would say buzz saws, but we'll see how buzz saw they get. We begin with two jade warrior halbirds and two jade warrior crossbows. She is a lord of Shangyang. She can maintain a limited number of lords and cathan units. She is the leader of the tiger court which improves settlement infrastructure and tiger warrior units. And the armies of Shangyang allows access to cathan units and army improvements. So there'll be limitations. I've actually been playing a lot of factions like this recently.

[00:01:58]Huh. Diplomatic relations plus 60 with the western provinces. That of course is Xiaoing. I believe we cannot declare war on Xiaoming which will be interesting. We have an upkeep of minus 15% for all tiger warrior units. This is of course our overall faction effect. The lord effects. Rashiva grants plus 10% casual punishment rate for all tiger warrior units in her army. Plus eight melee attack and melee defense during ambushes for her lord's army and plus 10% for lord's army just in general which is great because cay units are pretty infamously slow. and she has the white tiger which in an area around her she provides eight leadership in five melee attack to any fellow tiger warriors. We begin in the mountains of Mourn, right next to the western provinces, which means we'll be fighting ogres, my lord.

[00:02:48]And uh well, without further ado, oh well, let's check all our settings.

[00:02:53]Double check double check them. We'll be playing on very hard, very hard. This is my preferred difficulty. Big fan of it.

[00:03:00]Uh we have se lanes, the manufacturing potential, AI strength, and threat assessment. Yes. Yes. Yes. We have the endgame scenarios turned on. I don't know if we'll do the ultimate crisis, but it's there if we want to stick around, have some extra fun. Because we are using VCO, this triggers after the completion of two routes instead of after long victory, which is just fine and dandy by me. I do not want battle realism mode on. Thank you.

[00:03:22]No, looks good to me.

[00:03:27]Let's hop in and begin. Uh-oh. By my eternal oath, I stand with Cath.

[00:03:36]>> Yes, we shall stand with Cath in my very first Grand Cath campaign. Here we go.

[00:03:47]>> The Cathan desert is unforgiving.

[00:03:54]Yet to the Tiger warriors, it is home.

[00:04:01]For generations, the frontier beyond the mountains of heaven has sheltered them from Sich's schemes.

[00:04:12]Guided there by the living prophecy of the white tiger.

[00:04:21]Now chaos waxes strong once more and the Shiva rises against its tide.

[00:04:31]A mercenary lord of Shang Yang poised between her oath and a mandate of reckoning against the powers of ruin.

[00:04:42]The desert tigress leads into the gathering dark.

[00:04:49]That right there was thumbnail material.

[00:04:53]>> Hunt with me, Tiger warriors.

[00:04:57]Through honor, we persevere.

[00:05:02]>> Honor, the path to victory. As the forces of chaos swell once more, the White Tiger arises to meet them in battle.

[00:05:10]Patrolling Grand Cath's western frontiers, Bashiva leads her company of tiger warriors in service to Xiao Ming, whose iron favor affords her the myriad marshall boons of the armies of Shangyang. More than just flesh and steel are needed to face chaos. However, the Tiger warriors core beliefs and customs rooted in their Tiger court hold the key to advancing many aspects of the warrior culture. To benefit from its powers, Bashiva must reclaim the priceless relics of her people scattered throughout the world. bolstering herself in the struggle against the ruinous powers that scheme against her defeat an army belonging to the blood guzzlers. Okay.

[00:05:52]All righty. So, >> here's Bashiva. We begin with a claw speaker.

[00:05:58]This is a new type of mage added to >> protecting my people.

[00:06:03]>> Yes, protect them. A new type of spellcaster added to the Cathan roster.

[00:06:07]So all the other Cathans can get him as well. I believe that they give access to the lore of beast, the lore of shadow, and the lore of life, which was something that was lacking previously for the Cathans.

[00:06:23]I see why this is built here, but it goes up one tier higher. Ashifa, Ashiva, Ashiva.

[00:06:34]Why? Why?

[00:06:37]Reduce growth. Wait, what? Reduce control but increase growth.

[00:06:41]Seems like an awful building.

[00:06:44]Huh.

[00:06:47]Now, see, this looks like a good building.

[00:06:52]We definitely want growth, don't we? I mean, money is good, too, but I think we want growth.

[00:06:56]I'm feeling the growth. All right, so the silent blade.

[00:07:00]>> Our quest is to slay this fool. We'll take a look at all our buttons in a minute.

[00:07:04]Let's get into the fun part, shall we?

[00:07:07]It is law, I have been told, we must fight the first battle. Although through uh my adventures with >> the illustrious space wizard, I've learned just how poorly the auto resolve thinks of the ogre bones. Probably could have autoed this, but that's okay. No big deal. All is well. So, let's take a look at our new unit, shall we? Bashiva, who does have Vanguard deployments, is a monstrosity of an assassin. Honestly, she can fight pretty much everything.

[00:07:38]She just has insane starting sex. Stats.

[00:07:42]Stacks. Her starting stack is pretty good as well, but stats with magical and flaming attacks, 65 melee attack, not too shabby. 50 melee defense, 500 weapon strength, most of which is armor piercing with a bonus for infantry of 20. Yeah, she's going to she's going to slaughter. We do start with the hidden huntress as well. This is a targeted debuff that reduces speed and melee defense. This can be used on anything.

[00:08:06]Usually, this sort of ability is only for heroes or lords or what have you.

[00:08:10]>> Here is the claw speaker.

[00:08:13]>> He is a spellcaster from the lore of beasts. There is a special thing about the lore of beast claw speakers, but we won't get it for a while. All the Tiger warriors have this ferocious ambush thing which when charging it gives them bonus charge speed speed and charge bonus as well as devastating flanker which is insane. The entities with this attribute double their charge bonus when attacking the rear or flank of an entity. Of course, it's not a big deal for a single entity. But then we have our tiger warriors who also have this trait. They're dual axes.

[00:08:43]So it'll be 70 charge bonus on a infantry unit. And I believe these are truly infantry units. Yeah, they're small. They're not monstrous infantry.

[00:08:53]>> And then we have the tier four boys.

[00:08:56]These are going to be carrying us for a while. So, let's not get them killed, shall we? They have some very fancy weapons. Very impressive. And uh yeah, the jade warrior halbirds and jade wear crossmen, I believe, are unchanged pretty much.

[00:09:12]>> I can tell you that they will be very helpful.

[00:09:15]>> I don't think we're going to need to micro this much.

[00:09:19]But just in case, >> just in case from the shadows.

[00:09:31]>> So I think we're going to be using our crossbow mostly if we were being patient. Uh >> by >> I would just like you know gun them down.

[00:09:42]>> Boogies are warriors. Of course we begin with Viss's vile form which will be pretty good. You have a great target for it.

[00:09:50]>> I mean, >> Bashiva is a good target for it, but uh >> nothing will stop us.

[00:09:55]>> I >> was thinking more along the lines of these guys.

[00:10:01]>> Defenders of Cathol.

[00:10:05]>> The tiger warrior should do very well >> against the doggos.

[00:10:12]>> We're going to go ahead and hidden hunters this guy. me strength.

[00:10:16]>> And we're going to see if we can get our iron warriors in here as well.

[00:10:20]>> Guide us by ancestors, >> which we can.

[00:10:23]>> They don't have a lot of mass though, so they can't really push through the ogres. But, uh, that's not a fight the ogres are going to enjoy.

[00:10:30]Listen, you guys get in the brawl in the thick of things. That is my screenshot button, not the remove the UI button.

[00:10:42]Look at him. Chop, chop, chop, chop. And that's fair and balanced. But Shiva just disappears.

[00:10:49]>> Yes. Teleportation has never been overpowered ever.

[00:10:55]>> Jim is actually losing this right now.

[00:10:59]>> Let's switch targets, shall we?

[00:11:02]>> We have our Howards in here and everything.

[00:11:06]>> This will be a nice uh flankeroo. You guys are off in Narnia because you kept chasing which is fine.

[00:11:13]>> The Shiva is not too bothered.

[00:11:16]>> He's having fun, you know. I'm getting punched a little bit, but having fun >> again. I think tactically speaking.

[00:11:24]Oh, I took quite a beating from this guy. We probably should just pepper them with the crossbows and bathe them into attacking us, but that's all right. You know, that's okay. It was just a first battle showcase. Nothing to try hard.

[00:11:40]Decisive victory.

[00:11:43]We'll take a little bit of replenishment. We got some iron favor.

[00:11:49]To serve as a lord of Shangyang is a sworn duty that permits no negligence beneath the exacting gaze of the Iron Dragon. Many ages after your people's fateful crossing from beyond the mountains of heaven, the Tiger warriors have grown to proudly call the Empire's western frontier their home and a hunting ground fit for your vigil as the White Tiger. Yet that sacred duty bears terrible burden. For yours is a prophetic charge that awakens only in times of great peril. Now such peril gathers upon the horizon, and your claw speakers warn a violent turmoil in the elemental winds. At their behest, you must seek out the long-lost artifacts of your people scattered throughout the world. To lead the Tiger warriors to victory, you must occupy Mark settlements containing relics.

[00:12:41]Is Blood Peak one such location? It is.

[00:12:44]Okay.

[00:12:46]You have the potion of toughness. That's actually a fantastic find. Ogres, my lord. Yes.

[00:12:54]>> And the scroll of leeching will go to our claw speaker.

[00:12:57]Shiva does have our own unique tree up here, but I believe everything else is rather to be as expected.

[00:13:04]Great >> claw beaker.

[00:13:09]>> I will probably use it maybe. No.

[00:13:14]Unlikely.

[00:13:16]Unlikely.

[00:13:16]>> My blades are sharp.

[00:13:19]>> So, now that we've had a good old brewhaha kurick here, I mean, this is a settlement battle, isn't it?

[00:13:25]All right, let's have a bigger bruhaha.

[00:13:29]Now, one thing we haven't discussed yet because it doesn't affect the tiger warrior. So, my >> is with me >> caring is limited. Cafe has the harmony mechanic which has seen some changes. For those of you who know what it is, >> there's harmony in combat, which is this little thing, yin and yang. The ranged characters are Yin and the melee characters are Yang. I think about that for a second. But when they're nearby, they gain bonuses.

[00:14:04]We get up, let's see, with Yang, we can get up to plus eight leadership, plus eight melee defense, and plus eight melee attack. So, they really want to kind of be in a formation where the range are benefiting from Yang nearby for reload speed and leadership, and where the melee are benefiting from Yang.

[00:14:24]They really going to start cutting lawn as I record. Yes. Yes, they are.

[00:14:30]>> Can always count on my neighbors. It's all right.

[00:14:33]>> Thoughts in harmony.

[00:14:34]>> Everything will be fine. I hope.

[00:14:37]Oh, yeah. But that mechanic does not apply to us. However, we will be using Cathan units because there are just not enough Tiger warriors to go around.

[00:14:46]>> And uh yeah, hopefully I can make a good showcase of it in this particular battle.

[00:14:52]Pounce from the shadows >> because we are going to do a seed.

[00:14:58]>> We might even go on a little bit of an adventure because the tiger warriors are pretty magnificently fast. See >> 48 speed >> is at 57. She is a fast lady.

[00:15:12]>> It is my duty. So, we can send them on a bit of a a scouting mission, if you will.

[00:15:20]>> Over yonderance.

[00:15:23]>> And these basic ogres are not going to have a good time trying to punch through Jade Warriors.

[00:15:30]>> So, we can try and like bait them in and just light them down >> within >> with the crossbow.

[00:15:37]>> Slowly, gently.

[00:15:42]>> This is how a life is taken. Of course, because the tiger warriors are not monstrous.

[00:15:51]>> I believe the cyber saber tests are monstrous for large. They are okay.

[00:15:57]>> Our ancestors ancestors >> attack in unison. The tiger warriors will be able to fight these little spear shite bags pretty easily, >> which is normally something they, you know, monsters infantry may struggle with or at least get, you know, take a little bit of damage for doing.

[00:16:18]>> We're going to try and shoot up and over into the knob flingers.

[00:16:21]>> Perhaps a little bit of overkill, but they are flingers. You know, they'll fling >> the warrior's big weakness is they're not very heavily armored. So, >> nothing but helpless.

[00:16:31]>> They uh They could take a bit of a pounding from >> any level of range.

[00:16:38]>> Unyielding hunters.

[00:16:40]>> This is going to be a gnarly charge.

[00:16:42]>> We're on the flank. We are on the hunt.

[00:16:48]>> Warrior.

[00:16:50]>> Um, >> can you guys get around anywhere?

[00:16:55]>> I might just send these guys onto onto Narnia.

[00:16:57]>> Ready to pounce.

[00:16:59]>> They might go on an adventure themselves.

[00:17:02]Can you reach this? I think you can.

[00:17:04]Yeah, look at that.

[00:17:06]>> Beautiful. Beautiful damage. Some armor.

[00:17:09]Those are the tier four boys.

[00:17:13]>> I said they will be critical to our success in the immediate future.

[00:17:18]>> I think we'll bring the crossbows in now.

[00:17:21]>> More harmonious harmony.

[00:17:24]>> Unfortunately, they have built walls, so we're going to have to have a word. WHERE ARE YOUR CROSSBOWS >> with them? I mean, if you guys if you want to line up for the shooting gallery, I'm cool with that.

[00:17:36]>> Whatever is required.

[00:17:38]>> Yeah, I'm chilling.

[00:17:39]>> Stone and steel.

[00:17:42]>> All right, Bashiva.

[00:17:45]>> How we doing?

[00:17:49]>> As mentioned, the Tiger warriors are a little swift, >> so >> they should be able to meander their way over there.

[00:18:00]Looks as though the ogre tyrant has gotten the right idea. Is ready to flee.

[00:18:06]Skitter leap. Wait, wrong character.

[00:18:10]I was just say that jokingly, but then I realized the Skitterter Leaper in this game.

[00:18:17]Scaven. I imagine I'm not going to have a good time against the Scaven.

[00:18:22]We'll be fine.

[00:18:28]We have broken the barricade.

[00:18:32]I'm excited for guns.

[00:18:35]What's better than kitty cats? Kitty cats reinforced by lead.

[00:18:41]>> All right, we have the ogre tyrant coming in. We will capture this without him.

[00:18:45]>> Please go with me.

[00:18:48]>> I want to get the charge here though.

[00:18:51]>> I mean, yeah, sure. Whatever.

[00:18:55]Everyone just pounce.

[00:18:57]>> Literally literally pounce.

[00:19:02]>> Okay. Well, we have this under control, I think.

[00:19:10]>> Just a matter of uh not losing important units, you know.

[00:19:15]Believe you got in range with this finally. And that is a camp destroyed.

[00:19:19]Hopefully with minimal losses.

[00:19:22]Decisive. Decisive victory.

[00:19:25]We shall replenish because I'm not sure if we're in our domain still. Oh, we are. Yeah, that's fine.

[00:19:31]It is fine. The astromancer spy glass.

[00:19:34]Very nice. We'll have plenty of them.

[00:19:36]>> Sha >> in time.

[00:19:39]>> We have somewhere to be.

[00:19:41]>> Now then, now that we have done our first battles, cleared the way. Oh, you replenish. That's nice.

[00:19:48]Let us see what we're working with.

[00:19:51]So, we do have some uh recruitments.

[00:19:54]Get more tiger warriors. Xiao Ming support. So, this is I'm assuming our favor mechanic >> does not fail.

[00:20:04]>> It appears we have to go to the army of Shangyang panel, which is somewhere.

[00:20:09]I think we need at least 200 iron favor.

[00:20:12]Okay, we're getting there. On the way with relics, the Ivory Road. This panel displays your caravans. They can be sent along the ivory road from cafe to the west. If a caravan reaches its destination, you will receive a large reward. The caravans you can dispatch are displayed here. You can see its level and the number of units that will protect it. You can decide how much cargo the caravan should take west. The more cargo, the greater the rewards you will receive if it reaches its destination.

[00:20:39]All caravans start here. The lines leaving this point represent the different routes a caravan can take. As the game progresses, dangers will be displayed besides these lines.

[00:20:49]Now chart your route, the route your caravan should take. You can alter the route even after it has been dispatched and so react to perils along the way. It will move after ending your turn. Oh, you can move it.

[00:21:03]There is a destination node. If your caravan arrives here, you will receive the reward beside it. Click this node to plot its route there. After choosing your initial route, click the dispatch button to send the caravan and return to the campaign map. Remember to return and check on the progress of your caravans.

[00:21:19]This is basically the the silk road thing, the ivory road.

[00:21:27]However, it's a little bit different because I believe we are not sending the caravan itself. We are guarding the caravan whereas the cathan send the actual caravan.

[00:21:39]So, Von here is an earthly character. His caravan army has additional peasant units. That doesn't sound overly helpful. Or we have the gunpowder enthusiast. Now we're talking. This lord's caravan army has additional gunpowder units and missile strength for iron hill gunners, crane gunners, grand cannons, and fire rain rockets. Yes, please. And thank you.

[00:22:02]So, where shall we go? I would like to Yep, there we go. Send as much as we can. I love the caravan mechanic. I am a Dowizar enjoyer.

[00:22:14]And so that's all well and good. Why? Uh what seems to be the problem. Can I only go here? Oh, we're going way over. Okay, got it. So, we can It looks like we can get treasure or the iron favor. I think we want iron favor.

[00:22:35]If we select Karasa Karank, we appear to be going south, which I think is better because we're at war over here.

[00:22:43]Uh so south seems fine to me to carazakarak we will fully dispatch.

[00:22:53]I think that's fine. This is a five turn journey. Let's go visit the da.

[00:23:00]This route will only yield iron favor in return for your protection. We do wish to score this caravan. Yes.

[00:23:07]Iron favor I believe is a pretty important mechanic but we'll get to that when we get to that doubt >> first here is the skill tree. This has been from my understanding or the research recent me uh like completely reworked. As mentioned, yin and yang is important in combat, but it was also a huge part of cafe expansion. And that was kind of translated into this province bit because you can start like over here in the yin tree or over here in the yang part of the tree.

[00:23:37]I mean, this just seems good.

[00:23:41]campaign movement range plus 5% for Yang characters. I don't believe Bashiva is either Yin or Yang.

[00:23:50]Oh, I am a huge missile in short. Wait, we're not affected by any of this right now. Oh, Tiger Wars are down here. Okay.

[00:24:01]Oh, so the leadership is for the Yang, but all melee infantry get melee attack, which would include our buoyos. I typically enjoy getting economic stuff going first because, you know, building.

[00:24:20]Uh, however, I think I want to start with at least this. If we can buff our tiger warriors like right away, I think we should try.

[00:24:32]Also, in the Throg multiplayer campaign, I started with military stuff and I really enjoyed it. So, >> we'll just do that. Okay, now for our friendships. Who wants to be our friends?

[00:24:45]>> I don't think we want to befriend the Denter Lords. I think they're our enemies.

[00:24:49]>> I Let's hear what you agreed.

[00:24:52]>> I'm not saying that we have to be subservient in every meaningful way to Xiaoing, but I am saying that we are heavily incentivized to do so. So if he doesn't like somebody, we don't like them. Also, >> magistrate, >> I believe we can confederate Meowying Xiaoing sister, but we cannot confederate Xiaoing. He's the one in charge. On top of that, I am pretty sure we cannot declare war on him >> ever. We're little uh kitty cat.

[00:25:27]So yeah, that's that >> good. We're on the way.

[00:25:40]>> I was surprised to see this pack is only $5, but when you think about it, not a whole lot was added. But I like to think I'm not sure if this is correct. Maybe this is being too generous, but I often think of the free content as also part of the purchase because if they weren't doing a DLC, they wouldn't also be doing, you know, the free content update with it, which is the big changes to Cath, which again, I can't really point out because I I don't know. But, uh, if you want to share some of the changes that come to Cath or things you notice that are missing, feel free, let me know. Oh, speaking of missing, the cathons have the wooing compass, which is a mechanic over here, but we have the tiger cord instead. So, and once we get a relic, we'll be able to open it.

[00:26:23]>> I should be right about now.

[00:26:25]>> Salvation booty. Bonking that booty.

[00:26:32]>> Sink your teeth in.

[00:26:34]>> We shall occupy. Oh, I have to loot and occ. No, I don't.

[00:26:38]>> Get out of >> the tiger court. The elders of the tiger warriors. I don't think I meant to click that. Tiger Court is now available. It can be accessed here. The Tiger Court allows the Tiger warriors to enhance their units, buildings, and other aspects of their campaign. The Tiger Court's powers are divided into the pan the panels three pillars dedicated to Camo, the White Tiger, and the Thousand Gods. Selecting a pillar's banner allows you to devote a relic to it. Camo is the the first white tiger.

[00:27:07]Each Tiger Court pillar has five levels of devotion. Each time a relic is devoted to a pillar, devotion level increases, strengthening the tiger court's impact. Current and potential effects are detailed by the lists and tool tips viewed on the right side of the panel. Relics can be spread across multiple pillars or focused on a single pillar's benefits.

[00:27:25]Reaching level three devotion for a pillar unlocks powerful oaths access via the central octagonal icon. Oaths grant unique campaign abilities for tiger lords and other significant effects, but only one oath can be active at once. and has a cool down period once deactivated.

[00:27:42]Campaign abilities can be viewed above the character info panel when Bashiva or a sai lord is selected.

[00:27:48]Okay.

[00:27:50]Stalk for all tiger warrior units and iron reinforcements. Oh, being able to spawn an ironclaw tiger warrior sounds fair and balanced. Just what I like.

[00:28:00]Enables the campaign ability white tiger's grace for Bashiva and Sai lords.

[00:28:04]Target own army in the local region. All units gain passive regeneration.

[00:28:09]Oh, okay. Yeah, that's that's good. So, again, Camal is the first white tiger.

[00:28:17]He was kind of like the inspiration for leading his people. They follow his discipline to this day. So, this is armor piercing weapon and missile damage for all Tiger warriors and then charge bonus.

[00:28:31]And the number seems to go up as we go into I wonder what is this orange value.

[00:28:37]Ambush chance plus 10% of unknown territory. Speed during ambushes when known territory.

[00:28:42]More bonuses.

[00:28:45]Court developments. Teachings of Camal.

[00:28:47]Oaths.

[00:28:48]Improve building chain. The teachings of Camo. Units recruited in the province receive permanent stat bonuses. Oh, hire leadership and then gang units can hire a melee attack and union hire melee defense.

[00:29:00]Doesn't affect your own unit. Your units you've had, right?

[00:29:04]Okay. The prophecy of the white tiger.

[00:29:08]Oh, wait. Is Kamal the he was like a deity, I thought. H whatever. A thousand gods is what end is. It's called the land of a thousand gods.

[00:29:20]Um so the white tiger gives a leadership vigor loss reduction for all tiger warriors. That's very good. Then allegiance points. This could be good.

[00:29:28]Actually, this might be really good. The prophecy of the white tiger and people prophecy of the white tiger. Tiger warrior reinforcements will join all non-siege battles fought within the region.

[00:29:39]Uh army will have more tiger warriors for Yang and for Yin they'll have more stalkers.

[00:29:44]That seems kind of whatever.

[00:29:51]You know the al the allegiance stuff could be really good.

[00:30:00]Oh, is this the same?

[00:30:03]And then the way of a thou of thousand gods, physical defense for a tight.

[00:30:07]Well, that seems what I'm thinking what I'm doing. And melee defense, global recruitment capacity, global recruitment capacity reduction.

[00:30:15]Uh, when no enemy characters are present in the region, your armies in the region are hidden for all fa foreign factions.

[00:30:21]Yang recruitment time in region is reduced. Yin production of trade resources increased. Interesting.

[00:30:27]I think this one is calling to me. This one might be better later, but I think we're going the way of a thousand gods.

[00:30:34]>> Never forget our history.

[00:30:37]>> So, uh, this will help out our relatively squishy dragon warriors.

[00:30:44]Legade amulet. Nice.

[00:30:47]We have done all of this. Now we must own a province.

[00:30:53]Life will be swell. Cool. Our capital building. We have this here for reasons.

[00:31:00]The gate master unlock complete stage two within the armies of Shangyang. Okay, we're getting there.

[00:31:07]>> Desert Tigress.

[00:31:09]>> We are getting there. Uh I definitely want the potion of toughness for free instead.

[00:31:16]I think because Bashiva is such a monster already, we'll grab the red tree that buffs the tiger warriors, which appears to be this one.

[00:31:27]Unyielding.

[00:31:33]I'm going to want Eastern fires too someday.

[00:31:37]I'm not I don't have much experience.

[00:31:39]Again, this is my first time really playing Cafe A, but I'm not a huge fan of their cavalry, what I've seen slashexperience.

[00:31:48]Maybe someone can uh point me in the right direction.

[00:31:50]>> The forest wind.

[00:31:53]But uh yeah, that's how I feel.

[00:31:59]>> I'll do my duty.

[00:32:04]Beautiful.

[00:32:07]>> More tiger warriors. I will have a legion of them. You shall see. Okay, so here's the harmony bonus.

[00:32:15]I Holy crap. Control is out of control.

[00:32:19]I have no idea what to do with this recruitment costs.

[00:32:29]This might be better casualty replenishment rate. I think we're going for the white tiger standard here. So, plus one yang, whatever the heck that means.

[00:32:42]>> We're going to learn together, >> right? quick.

[00:32:48]So, we are on our way.

[00:32:51]Our uh little boy is in near the great hall of Grecus. We are chilling with Greas.

[00:32:58]>> Watch and learn.

[00:33:00]>> Do you have Yes. So, we kind of Well, we need to be level eight at least, but I learned from the Chaos Dwarf campaign to kind of rush hidden stores so we can replenish in foreign territory. That's going to be mass important. point.

[00:33:15]>> Now, my understanding with >> Bashiva and her relationship with >> well, not the Scaven, but the ogres is that she >> of the divine >> hates the ogres.

[00:33:27]>> Good day.

[00:33:28]>> Good day.

[00:33:28]>> Compact.

[00:33:30]>> However, >> celestial general, >> if >> general, >> it is ever necessary, >> she will work with them >> as like a fellow mercenary. But she will not enjoy it.

[00:33:46]>> That is my understanding.

[00:33:48]>> For action, >> so we'll see. Maybe Greas will be our friend. As much of a friend as he can be.

[00:33:57]I'm going to delete the um the peasant building here. Probably should have done it this turn, but whatever. It's close enough.

[00:34:05]Ironically, throwing peasants at ogre bulls is a decent way to deal with them.

[00:34:13]The peasant spearman will just poke down the ogre bulls, especially if you can keep a range near them. There's actually a really easy way.

[00:34:23]While resting in an inn, the caravan master is approached by a stranger claiming to be a famed adventurer who wishes to join the caravan's retinue.

[00:34:30]You'll protect and fight, but his services come at a price. This is a class speaker of shadows. Yes, I will take a spellcaster.

[00:34:38]The fage you have ordained for the first recovered relic sits ill with some, but all find solless in your reclaimed heritage. Hope is not lost while the white tiger leads the tribe beneath the gaze of their savior God. Through meditative communion, strained by the turmoil of ruin upon the elemental winds, Kamal will reveal more relics for you to seek in fulfillment of your duty.

[00:35:00]Your chosen path may shape both your destiny and the balance of power in the region. For three turns, we have a 10% cabin memory range, 15% up production, and leadership for all Tiger Hoarder units.

[00:35:13]Oh, fly over.

[00:35:18]Oh, don't tempt me with a good time.

[00:35:28]>> Nothing brings me more joy than seizing Jeans.

[00:35:36]This is going to be our goal. I have a goal.

[00:35:42]I have a dream. Oh, come range and weapon strength plus 10% when attacking.

[00:35:48]>> Camo's wisdom flows through us.

[00:35:51]>> I mean, technically we have another goal which I should have looked at already.

[00:35:55]These are the victory conditions in VCO.

[00:35:58]This overrides the short victory, long victory, domination victory uh system and adds a bit more flavor to our campaign. So, I'll read these later. I don't need to read all of this now, but uh route one is prowling the slopes into maintain control of the following seven provinces either by direct ownership or through military vassels. I believe this is just going to be owning the mountains of Mour if I had to guess based on what this is called.

[00:36:27]Yep. Oh, and this little thing. So, basically, we kick out the ogres and take over everything.

[00:36:35]Nice, nice, nice passive. Maximum cargo plus 25% growth plus 25 with mountain climates.

[00:36:43]Recruitment cost max% region with mountain climates and 10% weapon strength of the faction leader. As if she needed that. And then a unique is this ancillary income from post battle loop plus% weapon strength plus 5% for all ogre units. All units in army. We're not going to have many of those. 15% for ogre mercenary units and weapon check.

[00:37:04]The route to the breaker of chains.

[00:37:09]Oh yeah.

[00:37:13]So this is own the darklands.

[00:37:19]Okay. And destroy the disciples of Hashet and the legions of Asgore. The bane of Hashut sales value of cargo tomatic with men and dwarves income from trade tariffs charge bonus defaction leader and grumbil war plate. Wowatic relations with dwarfs on an armor piece armor fizzres the master of negation which is 40% ward save.

[00:37:39]Interesting. And last but not least is the prophecy. The third one is usually the hardest. Establish at least 10 Tiger enclaves by occupying, sec, or raising a foreign or dissident settlements in path a what?

[00:37:55]Destroy chaos. Oh, that's so many people.

[00:37:59]And then there's the end of the hunt final battle.

[00:38:03]This is going to be tough.

[00:38:10]Well, I think this could actually be done. I don't know what this is.

[00:38:14]That could be very difficult.

[00:38:16]>> Swift.

[00:38:16]>> Okay. Anyway, moving on.

[00:38:20]Let's go take care of this right quick.

[00:38:24]>> They won't see me coming.

[00:38:26]>> This is our city.

[00:38:28]>> We have attained 200 iron favor.

[00:38:33]We've also gotten victory over ogres, which is fantastic. This opens up the armies of Shangyang.

[00:38:40]The disorder by winning multiple battles. Cool.

[00:38:44]And they turn to one province. Cool.

[00:38:45]Destroy the blood goers. Cool. The armies of Shangyang panel allows the use of iron favor as a means to strengthen Bashiva's armies and military buildings.

[00:38:54]It is also it also offers greater rewards from the completion of Xiaoing's goals and other objectives for Shangyang.

[00:39:02]Xiaoing's goals contain special missions to complete in return for iron favor, additional Grand Cathan units, and special items. Only one goal can be active at once with new goals, objectives, and rewards appearing periodically.

[00:39:16]Iron Favor can be spent in the Shangyang Warlord tab to purchase insignia, special equipment assigned to units via the army panel or to increase lord capacity or unit capacity for certain Cathan units. The vertical bar on the left side of the warhold tab indicates progress within the armies of Shangyang with tool tips detailing objectives for each progress stage.

[00:39:36]Progress rewards include additional insignia and boosted building effects from Shangyang supplies. Ashiva's limited lord capacity can be increased here using iron favor. The groups and individual units that may be assigned specific insignia equipment are listed here according to their battle role.

[00:39:53]Unit capacity is limited and shared across each unit group, but a group's capacity can be increased here in return for iron favor. Each unit group's specific set of insignia focuses on offensive, defensive, and wild card effects, respectively, in line with the ways of the desert tigress, the celestial emperor, and the iron dragon.

[00:40:12]Purchase insignas are equipped via the dedicated army panel button on the main campaign screen.

[00:40:18]Okay.

[00:40:21]Wow.

[00:40:22]So, we are looking at where the heck are we? Uh, we could increase our army cap, but I don't I usually don't build a second army really early.

[00:40:33]Reach the required stage to unlock. Oh, this is this. Oh, I see. So, I can already get the Celestial Emperor Insignia or the Desert Tigers one, but I can't get the Xiai.

[00:40:43]Got it. This is missile infantry.

[00:40:49]So, in order to reach the next level, before we look at all this, to reach the next level, the favored hunter, we must fulfill one Xiaoing goal, attain one additional insignia, and recruit a total of six jade warrior units. I believe we can recruit four at the moment.

[00:41:05]And there's cavalry. Again, I'm not a huge fan of cavalry.

[00:41:09]Specialist missile infantry. That's what the gunners are called. We will get guns, don't you worry. Siege artillery could be good as well. Flying monsters, the great moon bird in the social lines.

[00:41:20]Where are the crowmen?

[00:41:22]I want to play with the crowmen. Flying cavalry monster. I believe they buffed the terracotta sentinel. We'll see. And the flying war machines. They also buffed these or reworked them or something.

[00:41:35]Xiaoing's goals.

[00:41:37]Oh dear. Bound by oath. Xiaoing. Bashiva is tasked as a lord of Shangyang to enact the dragon's will. Fulfilling these mandates grants iron favor which can be spent within Shangyang's warhole to strengthen Bashiva's forces and unlock rewards bestowed by the master of the iron winds. I believe Bashiva is the third lord of Shangyang and Xiaoming is the eighth but he's like the overlord of Shangyang.

[00:42:00]So we could destroy or occupy while this girl is active. Target armies and settlements to provide plus defeated. Oh, interesting. So we would could go. Oh, wait. What?

[00:42:18]Are you almost already dead? Can I take this and let Greases finish him off?

[00:42:24]>> My tribe will tear you.

[00:42:27]>> If I don't do anything, I'm going to try this.

[00:42:33]Destroy the crossed clubs. I mean, this is kind of pointless, but Cool. Let's see.

[00:42:45]I think Greece is about to end their existence, so we'll just let them go.

[00:42:48]Okay. So, melee infantry. We do have a bunch of or a couple of the jig warbirds. We do have the crossbow. I think the crossbow is pretty good.

[00:42:59]Just like this.

[00:43:01]>> Trust is earned.

[00:43:03]>> We have two. So, we'll grab two >> freely. Um I think we'll increase the unit capacity of both.

[00:43:12]The armies of Shangyang are now available. Yes.

[00:43:17]So um we have these insignas.

[00:43:24]May I ask where they went?

[00:43:30]>> Chosen.

[00:43:34]>> I don't know.

[00:43:36]can tell you >> it's in my nature.

[00:43:39]>> The flock of doom. Am I going to be boring and just flock of doom spam?

[00:43:42]Probably on the main campaign screen.

[00:43:57]>> Desert Tigress.

[00:44:00]>> Quests skills.

[00:44:03]Yep. I have no idea where it went.

[00:44:07]Not even a clue.

[00:44:11]>> Well, anyways, >> let's break this.

[00:44:15]I do want to build that.

[00:44:18]Do I want to build that now?

[00:44:23]No.

[00:44:27]No. I think we'll build the control building.

[00:44:32]Maybe I just build another girth building cuz I'm greedy.

[00:44:39]Greed is good until it's bad.

[00:44:45]Research rates. Oh, we're definitely going with the giant dragon's edict.

[00:44:48]Control growth. Yeah, good.

[00:44:50]>> The silence blade.

[00:44:55]>> Oh, here we go. It's right here. Yes, I have insignas. And how do I how do I do so?

[00:45:09]Do we need jade warriors? We're using the tiger warriors as jade warriors. So maybe we just go for more crossbowmen.

[00:45:19]Duh.

[00:45:23]I do have insignius. Ah, it's this button.

[00:45:26]Okay, got it. So, it's kind of like um scrap from the green skins.

[00:45:40]So, you know what? We'll just bump this to six.

[00:45:45]Get two more of them. That's how we'll give our Jade warriors.

[00:45:49]>> Cool.

[00:45:50]>> Onward.

[00:45:51]>> So, we might end up killing Greases here. Uh we currently do not have any friendship with Greases. We are friends with Katakazornne which is kind of annoying. So maybe we'll make wait until Gasus kills him as well.

[00:46:03]And yeah, looking good. I think that's our turn team. I think we're going to head north and grab uh this relic and do the one thing you should never do, which is fight Grimgore.

[00:46:18]Ah, flashbacks to the Zetan multiplayer campaign. For the first 4 hours of the campaign, which is fighting Grimgore, I think Bashiva stands a much greater chance than um the poor ogre BS of Greas's gold tooth, but he would definitely be a wiser opponent.

[00:46:49]Up ahead, strewn across the road, is a crude barrier. Bandits stand upon the blockade in defiance, demanding cargo from your caravan as a tool to continue.

[00:46:58]Refuse, and they will attack. How dare you.

[00:47:04]This is supposedly a close victory, but I think I can do better because our goats are here. It's time to rain some lead. Now, I would not say that by any measure am I a skilled >> gunnery sergeant >> that I am super skilled with using >> guns.

[00:47:32]>> I love the gunpowder in this game. It brings me great joy, >> but uh I of course still have significant skill issues.

[00:47:44]However, I will do my best.

[00:47:50]>> A bloodline unbound >> spears.

[00:47:55]>> Doesn't this look so pretty? And then it's going to get ruined so quickly as to make a sound.

[00:47:59]>> Crane gunners.

[00:48:01]>> So the I believe they'll come at me.

[00:48:05]Indeed. The crane gunners are basically just >> they are basically just as um they have long range snipers. As they get into range, they'll start sniping things. The Iron Hail gunners are more like shotguns. They're not quite as shotguny as the blunder buses, but they are pretty shotguny.

[00:48:35]>> So, the cran gunners are currently shooting at the lord. That's not a bad idea. But I am worried about these one.

[00:48:41]>> If damage is going to come, it's going to be from the maneaters.

[00:48:48]>> Oh, you don't have any magic at the moment.

[00:48:50]>> Ready to hunt.

[00:48:52]>> That's unfortunate.

[00:48:54]The Sai is the generic tiger warrior lord and I believe he is an anti-large specialist.

[00:49:01]>> Defenders of >> this is flock of doom. Brother, now die.

[00:49:11]>> Oh, get out of the way.

[00:49:13]>> Just let him blast >> heavenly creatures.

[00:49:19]>> And honestly, I just want to keep gunning them, you know.

[00:49:23]>> We'll see if these Iron Hail gunners will shoot. They might not shoot into the gun, the Tiger men. We'll see.

[00:49:34]I think we're doing just about as much friendly fire as we are.

[00:49:36]>> WE SERVE THE dragons >> as we are not.

[00:49:44]>> We'll just I mean we bodied the lord >> so that's good.

[00:49:54]>> Have these spears back here in case they were needed. But I mean yeah we just gunn down the lord. GG. We did a bit a bunch of friendly fire on the psych warriors, but overall I think did great.

[00:50:06]I think I learned two valuable lessons there. Ah, 2% is not a lot.

[00:50:13]>> A sai would not be bad. I would like a sai.

[00:50:19]That count? It did. Hey, gaming the system. The cross gloves were confederated. Of course, as the ogres, confederation just means he Greece has bonked the lord and all ogre.

[00:50:32]Got the engineer's napsack. Not helpful for us. Yeah, the sai destroyed them.

[00:50:38]Demolished them.

[00:50:42]Super happy about that.

[00:50:45]Now, this is El Capital, so might not be a bad idea to get some money in here.

[00:51:06]Great.

[00:51:08]How do I Here we go. So harmony. Many buildings are either yin or yang align. Levels of yin and yang contribute to an overall harmony level for each province. So we currently have a yang building.

[00:51:28]The current effects increase construction cost and minus one control but in reduced recruitment costs, increased rank of recruitment and plus five research rate. If we get harmony camp range plus 10% for own army starting their turn in this province 25% reduce upkeep for armies in local province and increase income from all buildings local province plus 15%. So I think harmony is ideal but we could push Yang for research rate. I'm totally not against that. I love research.

[00:51:58]There's a new goal for Xiaoing.

[00:52:02]Um celestial dragon guard.

[00:52:07]Why? Why didn't you say so?

[00:52:11]I will take them on. I was going there anyway. Don't tell him that >> I destroyed the building that's letting me recruit this.

[00:52:25]Make >> swift and lethal.

[00:52:29]>> Ah, see I thought I That's fine. I lead us to salvage.

[00:52:38]>> See all this just, you know, learning learning moment.

[00:52:42]>> We'll just walk this way.

[00:52:43]>> We'll build the building. We'll take a turn. No big deal.

[00:52:47]>> White tiger of Shangyang.

[00:52:51]Fight.

[00:52:52]>> No big deal.

[00:52:53]>> Prove yourself worthy.

[00:52:56]>> I'm totally fine. We're chilling. I'll just build it back.

[00:53:02]Have a laugh.

[00:53:04]Aha. Fade a silly. It's okay. I'm used to it.

[00:53:11]I've done many sillies.

[00:53:15]We've been on the channel for a while.

[00:53:17]You'll probably recognize this as tired fab.

[00:53:22]He is notorious for his boo boos, but hopefully his flaws remain insignificant, and his weakened inhibition allows for much yapping of the entertainment value. The caravan stumbles upon a patrol of allies that have been lost for some time. The guides can show them a way back to friendly regions, although this will cause a short delay in getting the caravan to its assassination. We can add three peasant long spearmen or we can add plus two jade warrior crossbows.

[00:53:55]We will take the crossbows because they're just so much better. The dark orgs have been destroyed.

[00:54:01]>> Foes >> evaporated.

[00:54:03]Nothing remains.

[00:54:07]>> Ready.

[00:54:08]>> We will head to the border of our domain and then we shall get >> lead us to victory. two we need for our and one more for our quest and unomas.

[00:54:19]These will be very helpful in the hours to come.

[00:54:23]>> We are being pinged.

[00:54:27]It looks like we have two of everything here. I might as well spend this now to get a new lord type. We could even build another lord and just start stowing peasants on him to see if he'll help us out.

[00:54:40]So, if we get a Cathan Lord, they have the Yang or Yin. I don't know about the heroes. So, we could actually balance this out immediately by getting a hero of Yin, but we could get a shoin lord.

[00:55:00]These are the spellcasters.

[00:55:05]They have the dragon blood within them.

[00:55:10]the social general and of course there's the tiger warrior so why which I feel like I should get first just because this is what we are doing frenzy heck yeah absolutely avi >> join me >> in fact we could even just have him like walk with us >> our enemies will tremble >> like we don't even need him to have an army just having a tiger warrior Hawaii hitting especially if they have the of the ogre variety could be good. Okay, I see if my um my curv lord got experience. I think he did, didn't he? I would think so.

[00:55:58]Oh, also the auto resolve in this game is a calculation. So if you have a reinforcement, even if it's just one tiger warrior. So why the calculation is pushed ever so slightly in your favor. We are at a time limit for this iron favor.

[00:56:19]Playing as cath. Complete a caravan's journey. Oh, we got the yang reflection.

[00:56:26]Caravan has been completed. Completed the caravan led by Prrenitz. sold its wares in Karazakarak 535 iron favor.

[00:56:35]You'll now begin the return journey to your capital. The demand for trade goods in Kazak is now reduced but will increase steadily over time.

[00:56:42]And we got the anchor chain. A talisman worn upon a thick chain that imbuses wearer with the courage of every high king of ever peak. Granting ITP at plus six melee defense and plus 15% >> is res.

[00:57:03]>> That is for you.

[00:57:05]>> Hello. Our mercenary is leveled up. We shall get the hidden stores. Now the question is I kind of want to make him a good combatant. If he can be durable, if he can fight the good fight, life is small. But we could also just increase his uh sale value or capacity capacitor, you know, or maybe let's get at least the first level wayfinders. is minus 50%. Level three is only 75%.

[00:57:45]We'll get at least one point in that.

[00:57:46]Sure. I can't imagine an ambush event is ideal in any imaginable way. I just lost a bunch of income. I'm not sure why. We'll check on that. We have a two-turn return to the capital, so I think we shall recruit a second.

[00:58:09]Those are tiger stalkers.

[00:58:12]A second caravan. It shall be this grizzled veteran. Raja because I am an impatient man.

[00:58:22]We shall full cell full send it.

[00:58:25]Kazakarak is saded for now. We could visit the vampires.

[00:58:30]That seems like a choice.

[00:58:34]I think we shall get some funds. We have very low income right now. So, if we can get a nice treasury of five grand, visiting the Dowi once again, I believe I don't want to fight into a war.

[00:58:50]Yeah, going north is a huge threat to us.

[00:58:56]I mean, we could go to We just could maybe we just go to Merittens. No, I need money. Let's go.

[00:59:02]Catch me, buddy.

[00:59:04]>> Desert Tigers.

[00:59:10]>> Didn't I just have like a legion of money?

[00:59:12]>> Tiger fears nothing.

[00:59:14]>> I had like a grand.

[00:59:20]I wonder what happened.

[00:59:23]>> Hello.

[00:59:23]>> I can't let any challenge.

[00:59:25]>> I said no.

[00:59:27]>> Okay, you can say no.

[00:59:31]That's totally fine.

[00:59:34]>> I'm going to take your little city.

[00:59:38]>> Decisive victory.

[00:59:41]>> You ain't no tyrant.

[00:59:43]>> Oh, I you'll find that I am quite the tyrant.

[00:59:45]>> Cam's chosen.

[00:59:48]>> We have claimed a new relic and we have finished unyielding. So, our pretty much all of our melee units, we gained plus six melee attack and plus six melee defense. That is fantastic. So until we start getting guns, bang bang, and the like, I think we'll go down the combat line. We shall replenish with you. Good job.

[01:00:09]>> None shun the tigress's coin >> for Basha.

[01:00:14]>> I don't think I care about We're back to a thousand. What happened? Mika, guns.

[01:00:23]Guns.

[01:00:25]>> I am Cabau's fury.

[01:00:31]Now, we'll grab a couple peasants for our boy.

[01:00:35]>> They'll find something to do.

[01:00:38]>> So, we are unaffected by the Wooing War compass. We don't There is The Wooing Gore Compass is also a unit, but we don't have any of those. We going to have them for a while, and that's not important. Okay, cool. So, Shall we go this way?

[01:01:02]Because we're getting guns.

[01:01:06]I'm down for guns.

[01:01:10]>> Anything to help my kin prosper.

[01:01:13]>> I feel like it's uh lore accurate.

[01:01:16]That's If we're going to have this guy to sit around, I probably should have gotten lord with a harmonious thing, shouldn't I? It's fine. Blades are sharp.

[01:01:27]I was going to say there's probably lore accurates for Bashiva to just kind of be vibing vibing in a military tree.

[01:01:36]Oh yeah, I got confused.

[01:01:41]I confused this tree with this tree. The peasants.

[01:01:46]Okay.

[01:01:54]All righty.

[01:02:01]I mean, do we just active when there are no enemy lords or heroes? Oh, yeah. That's right. In the tiger cord thing. I mean, growth is good. We're starting from the bottom. We got to build up.

[01:02:17]Started from the bottom now.

[01:02:22]We will get these soon. I promise soon.

[01:02:27]We are completing our task. We have one not tell me.

[01:02:33]We are rettime. Was it five turns to pick up the quest? Oh well. We have gotten to the second tier. We are now favorite hunter which unlocks stage two insignas.

[01:02:43]Uh oh. Some of these were stage two.

[01:02:46]Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[01:02:48]And the dragon armory building also unlocks the Shangyang improvements for the Jade Armory building chain. That was the uh the one building we're looking at not two seconds ago. So Iron Reaper, we must attain additional insignas, six of them. We must fight and win battles against Chaos, Zinch, Corn, Nurggo/ Warriors of Chaos, Chaos Dwarfs, or Scaven. Okay, we must maintain a total of eight units of the following type.

[01:03:12]The iron hail gunners, crane gunners, or grand cannons. also counting our boys in the mercenary outfit. Cool. And we have a pillar upgrade. I was quite happy with the tier one of the way of a thousand gods. I don't particularly care about way two, but if we keep Oh, you spoil me.

[01:03:35]Replenishment in foreign territory.

[01:03:39]Oh, this could be really powerful. We could silence spellcasters. Could be. I don't think it's really relevant right now.

[01:03:50]So, it was different. It just wasn't changing earlier.

[01:03:54]I still think this is insane.

[01:03:59]Literally granting regeneration to all units in an army.

[01:04:05]She's a 50% penalty to camp. So she can like [ __ ] someone's movement. I see.

[01:04:12]Can push camp at move range with camo.

[01:04:14]Okay.

[01:04:16]I mean I think I am down to go for this. This this makes me excited.

[01:04:30]Man this is a good oath too.

[01:04:34]Let's go for white tiger.

[01:04:36]get replenishment or excuse me regeneration. That is disgusting.

[01:04:44]And vigor loss reduction is also pretty powerful.

[01:04:47]And we'll gain more allegiance.

[01:04:48]Currently not relevant.

[01:04:50]>> Strike together.

[01:04:51]>> But um >> time >> it will be an answer.

[01:04:54]>> Maybe we could let you just like be the bull work.

[01:04:56]>> And what can the d agree?

[01:04:58]>> Maybe we could keep him alive.

[01:05:00]>> Child.

[01:05:01]>> I cave >> windshaper.

[01:05:07]Uh, can we not confederate Meowyang?

[01:05:11]That would make sense. But I have mixed feelings on I lead us to salvation.

[01:05:20]>> Yeah. Two turns. If I gone for that one thing and reduced the Oh, that was level three, wasn't it?

[01:05:26]>> I have mixed feelings on having some restrictions.

[01:05:30]>> Fear my roar.

[01:05:33]>> If we can get peasant bowman, that would be good. whatever uh restrictions on like how Bashiva can interact with Xiaoing. I am very much a sandbox enjoyer. That's why I've always loved like the Mortal Empires, the Immortal Empires and the Mortal Empires before it. Always a big fan.

[01:05:52]So, the fact that my sandbox has a a giant X around it for do not do is a little upsetting.

[01:06:00]However, I think I can get over it.

[01:06:04]As long as they don't make this a thing.

[01:06:10]Before the caravan are felled trees, a blockade to prevent the caravan's progress. Bandits appear demanding a toll. Part of the cargo pit to remove the barrier. They look ready for a fight. Why have we seen this before?

[01:06:23]Fight them. Decisive victory.

[01:06:27]These are the stalkers that we haven't seen before. They are skirmishers, so they have a range weapon to throw.

[01:06:32]That's 10% of punishment. I'll take it.

[01:06:35]I imagine that um it's very favored by the honor result. The veil of titans is an unusual location. Their new quest, all things in balance. Construct three buildings that contribute to the harmony. All right, what is our neutral location? The Grail Night Grave. Here lies one of the virtuous few who quested long for the grail at the lady's blessed behest. Gather here and partake of his goodness to gain plus two control minus and corruption and win control synmor for characters in this region to gain a trait associated with this location. Our garrison is also crunk graay and grail knights.

[01:07:20]Cool.

[01:07:27]Unit experience gain per turn plus 75 plus 75 including garrisons, armies and province. Wow, interesting.

[01:07:38]I think if we have the chance, I should switch this and this.

[01:07:44]>> My Qatara for action. This is going to be a chunking battle.

[01:07:51]>> We could go for the ambush.

[01:07:57]>> Let's see if she had any special stances.

[01:07:59]>> Move with the wind.

[01:08:00]>> We could go for the good old ambush.

[01:08:06]>> Shadow.

[01:08:08]>> We are full HP.

[01:08:12]Maybe I can like bait them into attacking me.

[01:08:15]>> Fight with honor.

[01:08:17]prowling my territory.

[01:08:20]>> If he goes this way though, I'm just so sad.

[01:08:24]>> Watch and learn.

[01:08:26]>> Ah, >> everything for the victory.

[01:08:32]>> Everything for the victory. I agree.

[01:08:35]>> You can all learn from me.

[01:08:39]I am Camal's fury.

[01:08:43]>> We'll get one craftsman. Some more peasants.

[01:08:47]>> I never lose.

[01:08:48]>> Is it definitely a temporary army for our boy?

[01:08:50]>> You know what? Let's just do it. Let's have a big old bruha.

[01:08:55]>> A puric victory.

[01:08:58]Losing only a tiger warrior. I am tempted to take it.

[01:09:04]So, try remember how this works. Would we just get into a battle with this guy or will we have him in the garrison? I think it I think it's him in the garrison.

[01:09:28]H I mean, let's have a big brawl, shall we?

[01:09:41]I have a bad feeling about this. I think the auto resolve is giving us a lot of love here, but um let's go one step further. Oh, I didn't put insignas on you. It's fine.

[01:09:52]Ah, no. They're coming in as reinforcement, so it's double.

[01:09:56]I mean, there's some good about this and some bad. Our army of primarily tiger warriors >> would like to have the charge, >> but so would his army of primarily ogres.

[01:10:16]So what we can do, >> we serve the dragons.

[01:10:26]>> Go assassinate this guy and everyone else can come get in position for this >> from the shadows. I guess we can bring this guy with him, >> too.

[01:10:38]Claws are sharp.

[01:10:40]>> And we'll do a little bit of debuff.

[01:10:44]>> A few wasted seconds, but that's okay.

[01:10:46]Bashiva should body this Pay Master. The Pay Masters are decent fighters, >> but like this is what Bashiva is for, you know?

[01:10:55]I wonder if that attack connected or missed.

[01:11:01]Don't forget she also has a potion of toughness. I'd rather not really use it here, but you know, we can come on Bivo. How you doing? Oh, she is crumping.

[01:11:13]I mean, you know, a little bit of cheating from the spellcaster, but >> we might as well just, you know, a little bit of a more cheating.

[01:11:23]>> 100 armor, 62 melee attack. She's a little tired right now. winded and say five weapon strength is not too shabby.

[01:11:31]>> Here come our ironclaw tiger warriors who will get a fat charge.

[01:11:36]>> Have 50 seconds left. I'm a little worried about this. They are faster in Bashiva stack which is nice.

[01:11:45]>> I mean these guys should just destroy this guy.

[01:11:49]That's what they're there for.

[01:11:51]>> We summon the wind.

[01:11:54]We shall await reinforcements.

[01:11:57]So yeah, we won't get any of our tiger charge, >> but um the nbars won't get to become flingers and the ogres won't get any of their ogre charge.

[01:12:05]>> So there is pro and con to this.

[01:12:09]>> We'll have the jade warriors go wherever they're needed.

[01:12:12]>> And then these guys will be able to fire into wherever they're needed as well.

[01:12:16]This guy's just gone.

[01:12:18]>> Once he runs off the map, he will apply the lord died leadership debuff. Here we go.

[01:12:27]>> Let >> the battle begin.

[01:12:30]>> Fast and deadly.

[01:12:31]>> You're both going to go right onto him.

[01:12:37]>> Okay.

[01:12:40]>> In theory, >> this is a fight we win.

[01:12:45]>> Especially with the current magic we've got. We do need to get on these guys, though.

[01:12:49]Iron claws >> like really badly.

[01:12:54]>> Crossbows.

[01:12:55]>> It really doesn't matter what these guys fire into.

[01:12:57]>> We just need to shut down the ranged assets >> in search of >> like enough that uh >> stalking my quarry.

[01:13:05]>> It might even be worth to have these just go >> this AoE is cool.

[01:13:13]Yeah, the Tiger warriors are not uh they're not meant to be front lines.

[01:13:21]>> They might have a hard time here actually.

[01:13:24]>> I hope not, but they might.

[01:13:25]>> Jade warriors with infinite pride.

[01:13:30]>> Infinite pride. Infinite >> Shiva. Don't get caught up on them. You got to fight this stuff.

[01:13:41]>> This will actually be a very good um of heavenly creatures.

[01:13:46]>> Warrior crossbows.

[01:13:49]>> Hey, we're doing a lot of good damage.

[01:13:51]We're taking a bit of a beating, but we're doing good.

[01:13:57]There's no shame in taking a beating as long as you're beating back.

[01:14:00]>> WE SERVE THE DRAGONS.

[01:14:02]>> GOOD. We're breaking them. We're breaking them. We're breaking them.

[01:14:04]We're breaking them. We're breaking the white tiger.

[01:14:08]>> Goodus the dragon.

[01:14:09]>> Good. Good. Good. Good.

[01:14:12]Good, good, good, good, good, good, good.

[01:14:18]>> Yeah, they put up a good fight.

[01:14:21]>> Our tiger warriors, that is.

[01:14:23]>> The magic went a long way as well. Like getting flock of doom before this fight was clutch.

[01:14:30]Okay, GG.

[01:14:33]That guy's running off still. He never actually made it off for the leadership break. Wow. I tried to plan that and everything.

[01:14:40]Good hustle, gentlemen.

[01:14:42]>> I must honor our ancestor.

[01:14:44]>> 13% replenishment is disgustingly good.

[01:14:48]>> Across the scarred fields and broken settlements along the ivory road, the scent of blood carries far beyond the mortal realm. With slaughter sustained by ceaseless conflict, the hosts of corn stir, spurred by an unknown hand. Where blades have already tasted flesh, the air is heavy with rage.

[01:15:13]Ah, why is Korn here?

[01:15:19]This isn't corn's territory.

[01:15:23]Wind harmony.

[01:15:25]Nah, hard to hit. Let's go. Claws.

[01:15:27]>> Combat. Combat. Combat.

[01:15:32]Here's our boy ready.

[01:15:40]This is still a close victory.

[01:15:43]I tried so hard and got so far.

[01:15:49]But in the end, I did it once. I can do it again, can't I? I sure can.

[01:16:00]You know what else I should have done? I should have put on the insignas. I could have done that, but I forgot.

[01:16:09]>> All right.

[01:16:11]>> Well, I think the sensible thing to do would be to try >> and have the try for a flankeroo. A bit of a a fat flank here.

[01:16:28]All hail Bashiva.

[01:16:31]>> All hail Bashiva indeed. Someone knows what's up.

[01:16:36]>> Let's go for a bit of a flank.

[01:16:40]>> This will be our uh front line. We'll move up with this.

[01:16:47]>> As you have the aggressors, they're going to make us move up.

[01:16:49]>> Then Shiva and these tiger warriors are going to be uh the flankeroo.

[01:16:56]We have an iron and a hammer and an anvil.

[01:17:01]>> These are the anvil.

[01:17:04]>> And then our ranged assets are going to hold Hold on here. Everyone's chilling.

[01:17:12]>> Shiva is well hidden.

[01:17:15]>> They're moving aggressively.

[01:17:19]They're going to regret it.

[01:17:20]>> Jade crossbows.

[01:17:26]Crossbow.

[01:17:27]>> The jade warrior halbirds are heavily armored enough.

[01:17:31]>> A bloodline unbound demands.

[01:17:37]>> Vast and deadly.

[01:17:39]>> Shatter nothing stop us.

[01:17:45]>> CLAW SPEAKER.

[01:17:47]>> Thoughts in harmony.

[01:17:49]>> I guess we're just going to try and shoot down the knoblars.

[01:17:54]Like you can shoot this, you can shoot this.

[01:17:58]>> They are wisely trying to avoid the you go here.

[01:18:02]>> Go here.

[01:18:03]>> Okay.

[01:18:04]>> So much for this flank.

[01:18:08]That there you here. I >> mean, I appreciate you coming into this, Mr. uh foolish boy.

[01:18:17]>> I mean, they're winning this.

[01:18:20]>> Doesn't feel like it with me.

[01:18:22]Okay. No, that's too far away. We need to keep shutting this down.

[01:18:25]>> Warrior crossbow by dragon.

[01:18:28]>> Okay.

[01:18:32]>> You can do this. I believe in you.

[01:18:34]>> Okay, let's bring these guys to break that.

[01:18:38]>> Doing well. Good. Good. Good. Good.

[01:18:40]Good. Good. Good.

[01:18:42]>> Everyone is fighting semi ideal battles.

[01:18:45]>> Nothing will stop us warriors. This is a bit of an unfortunate situation, but like >> all things considered, >> I think it's fine.

[01:19:03]>> Okay, that's a little overkill.

[01:19:06]>> Not really necessary, but Shiva's off in bloody Narnia.

[01:19:10]>> Should come back though.

[01:19:15]Oh, >> warrior crossbows.

[01:19:20]>> Dogos.

[01:19:26]>> You know what?

[01:19:27]>> Just fine.

[01:19:29]>> There's going to be quite an extensive break here in a second, I think.

[01:19:37]>> Because their lord is dead and the ogres, well, >> the ply ogres don't like that. Have a photography, Bashiva. You guys break this. Shiva's going to go hunt that and we're going to get our crap together.

[01:19:51]You know, >> witness.

[01:19:54]>> You're going here. You guys are going to go check this stuff. You're going to go into this stuff. In fact, you guys just run them down. They're trappers. It's fine.

[01:20:01]>> No one cares about trappers.

[01:20:03]>> Once we drop some magic, it'll be good.

[01:20:05]>> Chaos has no in time.

[01:20:12]Sure.

[01:20:15]I hunt.

[01:20:18]>> Was she going to make her way over here?

[01:20:19]No.

[01:20:19]>> Ready to pounce.

[01:20:20]>> She got a little distracted. You know what? I can't blame her.

[01:20:25]>> Nothing but helpless quarry.

[01:20:28]>> You sees helpless quarry nearby. She's going to go get him. And that's GG.

[01:20:34]>> Not quite as flawless as I was planning, but hey, we didn't lose a target. Where did we AI?

[01:20:41]>> GG. Anyway, boss.

[01:20:46]>> This is mine.

[01:20:49]The mountain eaters have been >> destroyed.

[01:20:53]I'd rather have growth here, but I'm okay with that.

[01:20:58]>> Chosen.

[01:20:59]>> Now, we have a celestial dragon guard.

[01:21:02]You might be asking, what's a celestial dragon guard, fabe? That is the elite infantry of Cathictory.

[01:21:08]>> Like as tippy top as it gets.

[01:21:12]I kind of wish I could get melee defense here, but I'll take melee attack.

[01:21:16]>> Claw speaker.

[01:21:18]>> Would you like to always connect with your damage? Yes. Yes, I would. Thank you.

[01:21:23]>> Step forth if you dare.

[01:21:26]>> So, the Tiger Court, we don't have any new relics.

[01:21:30]We have a new Xiao Ming mission.

[01:21:33]Eliminate Greasesus Gold Tooth.

[01:21:40]What if I want to try and be his friend for a little bit? Okay, so the timer is the mission. So, this will refresh in one turn. I think we'll just hold off on that then.

[01:21:49]It's not like we need to hold one every turn, right?

[01:21:52]>> We can chill for a second.

[01:21:54]>> The dagger warrior.

[01:21:55]>> Guns are coming in next turn.

[01:21:57]>> It tigers.

[01:21:59]>> Cool. So, what we're going to do, I'm assuming melee infantry includes our boy So, the halbirds are notoriously durable. However, also notoriously not very killy. So, what if we get some killy buttons for our our halbirds?

[01:22:21]>> The iron dragon.

[01:22:22]>> Also, I definitely should have done this.

[01:22:32]And then you guys, Killy.

[01:22:37]So, we're going from 46 melee defense and 70 armor.

[01:22:46]Are we losing? Oh, just melee defense.

[01:22:47]Losing four melee defense for six melee attack and three armor piercing damage.

[01:22:50]That seems worth it to me.

[01:22:53]These guys are not affected by this.

[01:22:58]Oh, is it because it'd be too good?

[01:23:08]It's very possible. All right. Well, we have a bonus one. That's fine.

[01:23:12]And because we're going to start getting guns. I mean, we might as well grab one more of these. Then we have guns.

[01:23:20]Love guns. Violence. It's always the answer. Why would I go for a reduced reload reduction time? We're going for more reload reduction.

[01:23:30]Nice.

[01:23:31]I want four. Four is good.

[01:23:35]So, we got some money for getting some additional insignas. Now, we need to fight and win battles against chaos. And then we must maintain guns. And don't worry, I will have plenty of them.

[01:23:45]>> The silent >> Avirage will do me a favor and get a bunch of them. In fact, we'll even change this. Yes. Yo. M. It's not really worth it, is it?

[01:23:57]Yeah, sure.

[01:23:59]>> Swift and lethal.

[01:24:04]>> I think I should go deeper into Yang and just abuse this, but I'm going to lose a lot of control.

[01:24:10]I need control for this special uh special thingy.

[01:24:16]Rail guardian sight.

[01:24:20]Okay, my blade.

[01:24:21]>> How do I get control of this freaking faction? I think we're good team.

[01:24:25]Think we're in. I mean, we can check our diplomacy situation.

[01:24:27]>> Darkness comes.

[01:24:29]>> I don't think you want to deal with rebel or with vampire filth.

[01:24:33]>> I think we're okay to deal with you.

[01:24:35]>> May your ancestors agreed.

[01:24:37]>> It is time.

[01:24:38]>> I >> my goat. If you're going to be friends with uh >> my lord, then I shall be friends with you.

[01:24:49]>> Long may. It looks like we are going to be able to get a defensive attack with him soon.

[01:24:57]So, we have four turns left on our journey. Wow. Really? Four? What have I been doing? Nothing. End the turn. Four turns left on the journey. Our first guy is going to come back any minute now. As in this turn, but we don't have a second caravan slot to send him out. So, we'll just have to wait until our new guy returns.

[01:25:16]And he's coming back with a boatload of cash, which is nice. I like that.

[01:25:20]Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

[01:25:22]That's the wayhuh. I like it. I believe if we remain in a zone with low control, a province with low control for a while will gain bonuses to control locally.

[01:25:36]I believe intercept corn's forces before they reach full strength. Oh.

[01:25:44]Should I read this? Order as demanded by the Iron Dragon has been restored. But at far too great a cost. The quelling of troubles will not be the final act in the blood soaked devastation rot across the wasteland. Dire news reaches you.

[01:25:59]Driven by a malign will and fed by the relentless slaughter in the region. The warpwworn wastes have been torn into a ghastly wound. A breach around which your stalkers have scouted the prowling of multihorned redskinned demons. It appeared without warning or reason. But there is no time for scrutiny. You must cauterize this incursion with your Qatara, lest the skull hungry havoc of corn be unleashed upon your lands.

[01:26:29]Ooh, my unique weapon comes from uh killing greenkins. I'm down.

[01:26:35]Long has the white tiger and her retinue been in service to Grand Cath. So long, in fact, that much of her personal armory are awards and gifts bestowed by the dragons themselves. If the iron dragon himself saves the greatest gifts for those who serve him personally, such as the ornate set of Qatara of his renowned collection, known as the blades of Shangyang, they eternally burn, seemingly without source, with power granted by the iron dragon's strange alchemy. The flame's ferocity is mirror in the nature of the tiger warriors, but it will not be granted to their great leader until that ferocity is proven once more against those seeking to provoke disharmony across land.

[01:27:19]So this button makes her imbue flammable, which gives weakness to fire, which she does fire damage.

[01:27:28]Kill a thousand enemies in battle. Am I going to be reading quests forever? News reaches you of a plan by celestial authorities to increase the deployment of the emperor's loyal troops across all Grand Cath's holdings. It is a response to recent uprisings in the Heartland, prompting other dragons to also increase their marshall influence everywhere the Celestial Emperor holds sway. It is certain, however, that such increased military activity will not be conducive to your own ambitions in the region. The risk of jurisdictional squables with other dragons could also risk all your progress made until now. A show of strength would be the best course of action to let the powers of Grand Cath know that their military needs here are met. Slaughter, the iron dragon sends another.

[01:28:14]That is of course Taoyan the merciless.

[01:28:22]>> Camo's wisdom to us.

[01:28:26]That is the legendary hero.

[01:28:30]Let's see. Eliminate Grim Gore Iron Hide. We get a Jet Lion if we destroy Goldtooth. But I think Goldtooth is going to have to live for now. I'm going to take on this foolish endeavor of destroying Grimgore.

[01:28:48]Okay.

[01:28:50]>> White Tiger of Shangyang.

[01:28:53]>> I can't quite reach this. Isn't that so infuriating?

[01:28:56]>> Watch and learn.

[01:28:59]>> I can recruit exactly four Iron Hail gunners.

[01:29:09]Yes.

[01:29:12]Yes.

[01:29:16]Seems good.

[01:29:16]>> I live for battle.

[01:29:21]Battle.

[01:29:23]Okay. We can grow in two turns. We're doing fine. Life is swell. We moved there. We've moved there. We've done this. We've done that. We've read all these quests.

[01:29:31]>> How is our friends? I hope you perish in the flames.

[01:29:35]>> I trust our dealings will bear fruit.

[01:29:37]>> You want two grand for a friendship, Balthazar? That is unacceptable.

[01:29:41]>> The nation calls.

[01:29:43]>> He is slowly improving just because we get along with Xiaoing.

[01:29:48]fire >> as we grow stronger. He doesn't want a defensive pack, but he's close to a military pack.

[01:29:55]>> Interesting. I'm going to hold off on this.

[01:29:57]>> Ready?

[01:29:58]>> Because I'm pretty sure Greases is about to grease all over his face.

[01:30:05]I want to move this so I'm not building it. You understand?

[01:30:10]Also, if we go to war with Greas, then neither the north or the south will really be safe from my uh caravanning.

[01:30:22]I mean, I'm about to declare war on Grimgore. There is not much greater folly. The only benefit, and I do mean only benefit, is that Bashiva is really good at killing green skin. like she is almost pretty much specifically made for it.

[01:30:46]Pathfinders have scouted ahead and discovered an ambush is being set. There is a branching road that will veer us away from danger, but delay the caravan's arrival. The other option is to take the caravan along the original route, repel the ambushers, and arrive on time.

[01:31:02]So, I can avoid the danger for one grand and I shall.

[01:31:06]Um, just kidding. I'm going to kill them all. Ooh.

[01:31:14]Well, hopefully. All right. This is our first time using the Tiger Warrior Stalkers.

[01:31:21]>> These are skirmisher.

[01:31:23]>> So, they have some um Oh, there's a name for this. Ptorian, let's say. I don't know. This is special precursor precursor ammunition. They only have two shots of it, so we're gonna have to make it count.

[01:31:39]And um yeah, other than that, they're just kind of like generalist fighters.

[01:31:42]They don't have any bonuses or any specifics. They do have very low armor, so we want to keep them out of harm's way. If you know, if the opportunity presents itself, we can have them like run down the hill and brawl it out.

[01:31:57]My big hope is that Raja here's >> crushes the faithful >> the front line. We have seen >> what a tiger warrior saw can do.

[01:32:13]>> Unfortunately, our only ranged assets are these little peasant archers.

[01:32:17]They're not great, but they will still pepper the very low defenses of the knoblars and the saber-tooth tigers.

[01:32:30]So, these guys are going to come downhill. They're going to get their little ambush going.

[01:32:35]>> They are stalkers. So, as long as we remain outside of 70 range, we should be fine.

[01:32:46]>> Bash deer.

[01:32:51]>> I didn't get the charge off. My bad. But we should uh absolutely destroy >> dragon here.

[01:32:59]>> So you go here, >> go here.

[01:33:02]>> Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Yeah, this is a no-brainer. Tiger warrior will destroy this guy, which is so good for us. He's just going to body him. Tiger warriors have Oh, great fishy. They keep coming.

[01:33:16]>> There's a little bit. My bad. I uh forgot these guys a little bit, but they're coming in with their fat charge from the rear. the dreaded pencil formation. No big deal. It's fine.

[01:33:28]Uh we're losing.

[01:33:30]>> Tiger warriors.

[01:33:31]>> Let's get a bit of a surround going.

[01:33:34]>> Looks like we have broke most of the infantry, >> if not all of it.

[01:33:39]>> We have broke it all.

[01:33:42]>> We took a little bit more of a pounding than we needed to, but um no, >> it's fine.

[01:33:50]Okay.

[01:33:57]Get the spearman to inundate here a little bit.

[01:34:03]Oh, GG.

[01:34:06]A little slow on the reaction, but um hey, they got in, didn't they?

[01:34:11]Unfortunately, Raja took a bit of a pounding, but we'll take that 9% replenishment and move on with our lives.

[01:34:18]Uh-oh. Katakazorn has been destroyed. No wonder they wanted a military alliance.

[01:34:26]We've covered the site of a treasured relic of psych wars, Merbidans. Reclaim it to strengthen the pillar of people's faith and determination. So, we are going not to Mittens, but I guess we can go there next.

[01:34:36]Hopefully, we can do that before we declare war on Grecus or Greases declares war on us rather.

[01:34:44]I wonder why our military access was >> was canceled. What could have been the reason? Young >> defeat the following lord's army in battle.

[01:34:57]Oh, cool. Can I >> see if we can double team him?

[01:35:05]>> This will mean the team is tired, but uh it's fine.

[01:35:13]>> Yes, let's blast them.

[01:35:18]And I mean, sure, go ahead.

[01:35:21]>> The silent >> triple teaming a triple team. And it's still just in what should I fight? Corn. Let's do it.

[01:35:32]Let's fight. Let's battle corn. This is actually a kind of spooky army.

[01:35:39]>> Not sure if this was wise, but um we do have our reinforcers coming in in a minute and 11 seconds. And from here, a minute and 12 seconds. So, we can kind of deploy over here and see how they react. They might do nothing.

[01:35:53]>> Uh, they might come at me with a furing a raging boner. We'll see.

[01:35:57]>> These are the Celestial Dragon Guard.

[01:35:59]Again, this is kind of like the Giga Elite Infantry of Cath. They've never had a super killy faction.

[01:36:07]Like, their big damage has always come from kind of like the Empire, their guns.

[01:36:12]But unlike the Empire, they do have a few monsters here and there >> that know how to party >> should have given the insignia.

[01:36:25]That's fine. But um >> warriors, >> we'll see. We'll kind of spread out here and, >> you know, play around this. See where we go. See what Korn's up to.

[01:36:38]>> K does have an artillery piece, which is very strange. Of course, the skull cannon.

[01:36:45]I think it's going to try and blast us if it gets the opportunity. It might pull Biva back. I don't want her to get caught or anything.

[01:36:52]>> I forgot you. Sorry, bud.

[01:36:56]>> Claws are sharp.

[01:37:00]>> Because the tiger warrior are true infantry, uh, they will not be penalized for fighting in the trees, unlike some of Horn's monstrosities and mounted critters like you. We basically want these guys just stalking Eddie here.

[01:37:19]>> Eddie >> immediately >> warriors in >> I want these guys to come back.

[01:37:28]>> Yeah, we don't mind fighting in the trees. There are penalties for everyone else.

[01:37:32]>> Claws claws.

[01:37:36]Uh, I mean, I don't think all the crossbows should be on it, but the crossbows are definitely going to want to shoot >> these guys >> on you.

[01:37:51]We can have one of these guys help out as well.

[01:37:53]>> Warrior.

[01:37:54]>> Okay, here are some of our bonuses.

[01:38:05]Oh [ __ ] Okay, I grabbed a lot of units.

[01:38:10]>> I'm not sure if they were all the correct units.

[01:38:14]>> We also broke >> or you know, we're beating Eddie up real good, >> which >> is fantastic.

[01:38:22]>> Commands me.

[01:38:23]>> Uh, some of these are going to be really hard to kill. Some of them are going to be fine.

[01:38:27]>> Tiger warriors.

[01:38:28]>> We might have the tiger warriors to chase him down and bring back these guys for this >> warrior. Let's get some of our shooty.

[01:38:33]Well, >> now we do have a few problems here.

[01:38:42]>> A few problems known as bring these guys to a new group.

[01:38:47]Going uh exalted blood letters.

[01:38:50]They are going to hurts.

[01:38:53]>> Looks like Eddie is going down just fine.

[01:38:56]We have our block of doom invested moments. Horn of course is resistant to magic. This is how he rolls, >> but this should still do good damage.

[01:39:08]>> Okay, we're shooting in real good.

[01:39:14]>> I don't know who is taking the brunt here, but we want to put this on you so you don't die.

[01:39:19]>> You're more important than everyone else. Ashiva's coming in in the rear with the gear.

[01:39:24]unbound.

[01:39:25]>> These things are annoying, but we will we will poke them down with spears eventually.

[01:39:31]>> Especially these dragons are halirds are >> just >> spears with armor piercing.

[01:39:41]>> These guys are not dying.

[01:39:44]>> How's this going?

[01:39:47]Well, it looks like >> the skull cannon gets to shoot pretty much to its heart's content.

[01:39:57]This guy has done almost no damage to us, which is nice.

[01:40:01]Little surprising honestly, but nice.

[01:40:06]>> Put that back on him.

[01:40:08]>> Shiva is coming in. He'll once again drop the flock of doom.

[01:40:13]>> It's just free damage. There's not much to think about here.

[01:40:16]>> ATTACK IN UNISON. GO.

[01:40:20]>> OKAY.

[01:40:22]>> I have no idea if we're actually shooting stuff. I'd like to think we are.

[01:40:26]>> Order, >> but on snow levels, you uh it could be difficult to see >> immediately.

[01:40:31]>> Okay, >> let's keep going. The guns are almost in range. My iron hail gunners. My glorious iron hail gunners. Bial Dragon Guard having overextended, >> but their durability just speaks for itself.

[01:40:47]>> Doing so well against exalted bloodthirst, letters, excuse me, letters. The thirsters are big old dragons, demons. They actually do very well against a blood thirstster, but they still get their asses pumped.

[01:40:58]Did you feel like I didn't get to shoot anything?

[01:41:04]And a few dragon warriors got close.

[01:41:06]Tiger warriors, dragons on the mind. But um yeah, looks good.

[01:41:13]GG. Corn defeated.

[01:41:18]A decisive victory.

[01:41:22]Like 11% for punishment is nice. I would like the XP though, so we'll take that.

[01:41:30]>> And also executing corn makes sense.

[01:41:35]Devote relics in the tiger courts. We're getting there.

[01:41:38]This could also be thumbnail. A heavy silence hung over the grand hall of Shangyang. Broken only by the sharp click of claws on polished marble.

[01:41:48]Before the iron dragon's throne, Bashiva, the white tigress, paced relentlessly, her tail flicking through the air like a knife.

[01:41:57]There a plague, my lord dragon. Ashiva snarled, her claws slid free from her paws, swiping at the air as if to cut the throat of some unseen foe. They raid our caravans, devour the peasants, and make a mockery of your rule. Give me the iron host. Let me sweep at the western passes clean and leave their bones for the vultures."

[01:42:20]Xiao Ming reclined upon his throne, swirling a vial of glowing, volatile liquid. He chuckled, a deep resonant sound. You see only the appetite, little tigress. You do not see the utility.

[01:42:34]Utility? She challenged, her eyes flashing. They are mindless glutton, a pack of They are blunt instruments, Xiaoing interjected. A hungry beast is easily steered if you hold the meat. Why spend Cathan lives to purge the mountains when silver and slaughter can purchase a wall of flesh to hurl at the chaos wastess? The question is not whether they are beasts for Shiva. The question is whether we are strong enough to hold their leash.

[01:43:08]I know the answer to that. It's no.

[01:43:14]So we can get purge the ogres. The white tigers is a right. Savages cannot be trusted with the defense of the Celestial Empire. Sound the war drums.

[01:43:20]We march upon the mountains, which reduces relations with the ogre kingdoms and gives leadership plus five and bonus for large plus 10 when fighting ogres.

[01:43:30]Action leader. Oh, if that was everyone, I'd be ready for the slaughter. Or we could pacify them, granting weapon strength and missile strength for all ogre kingdom units, including mercenaries. We reduce our maximum cargo, but we gain to medical kingdoms. Honestly, I think I'm right.

[01:43:49]Sorry, my lord. Not sorry.

[01:43:56]>> We have our first and best crowman unit.

[01:44:02]>> Oh, look at those stats.

[01:44:03]>> None shun the tigress's coin.

[01:44:07]>> Those things are disgusting. I can't reach it. I know you can't reach it.

[01:44:11]Tiger of Shangyang.

[01:44:15]>> Do I have an insignia for you?

[01:44:17]>> Guides me.

[01:44:22]>> Confidence is no small prize.

[01:44:26]>> So the crossbowmen >> are you very useful.

[01:44:34]>> They are very useful because they can shoot up and over at things. The guns run into significant problems with line of sight. However, the guns are significantly cooler.

[01:44:46]>> Tigris, >> is that worth the costs?

[01:44:50]>> I know not.

[01:44:53]>> I know not. I know that it's bloody hot in Mar.

[01:44:59]I mean, we want health and we want harm.

[01:45:02]They're both very good. I guess we'll just get health.

[01:45:05]>> Claw speaker. As the claw speaker, we get to pick. Do we get to pick? Yes. So, the claw speakers have mantras.

[01:45:16]And I believe the easiest one is the one that just gives me healing.

[01:45:27]Is it this one? No, it's Fizerus.

[01:45:32]Hey, am I going to be boring and do that? You bet your butt I am giving a nonlifecaster basically regrowth.

[01:45:44]Is very good. I don't I don't think I need to explain how good that is.

[01:45:48]>> I fight with honor.

[01:45:50]>> This is our saw who I think is going to get the same treatment as Bashiva because we want him to have a legion of tiger warriors. We just don't have the economy to support it right now. My Qatara yearn for action.

[01:46:05]>> Okay, question.

[01:46:08]Do we bring the world to peace or do we push the boundaries of what could be?

[01:46:21]Given that my control is plummeting fast, I think we want to keep all things perfectly balanced, as they should be, and then build this in. Push it even farther towards Yang.

[01:46:47]We're going to have to get some tech for freaking control. I don't just don't know where it is. It's in here somewhere, I'm sure.

[01:47:00]I could do this. I learned about this in my last play through.

[01:47:04]Oh, yeah. That that actually is probably very good.

[01:47:11]Yeah. So, we want to go That's actually pretty easy. We just grab yin healing, which is whatever. And then we go Yinflow plus one is not a lot. I got to be honest.

[01:47:30]Cool. So, we probably want to Yeah, we'll focus on the growth thing. So, we'll finish our tech, whatever we're getting now. Targeting ranges.

[01:47:41]Nope.

[01:47:44]>> Knowledge is We don't need that right now.

[01:47:49]Okay.

[01:47:49]>> Ready for the >> So, you are perfectly balanced.

[01:47:56]>> Oh, is this what was messing with my economy?

[01:47:59]While my armies are in a perfectly balanced realm, I have reduced upkeep.

[01:48:02]That is probably what it is.

[01:48:04]>> Beware.

[01:48:05]>> That will do it.

[01:48:08]>> What?

[01:48:12]>> I will set aside my studies for a moment to heal.

[01:48:14]>> All right.

[01:48:15]>> Thank you.

[01:48:16]I >> I'll make that back in time. But also importantly, >> by having a trader game with him, we are improving in relations and it will probably naturally go into a non-aggression fight.

[01:48:28]>> I would love to get a full-blown alliance with my goat, Balthazar. Guilt. I love guilt.

[01:48:36]>> He is my boy, my goat, and I will hear no slander against him.

[01:48:44]None whatsoever.

[01:48:47]So, now that I've made the ogre kingdoms mad at me, I think war only depends on whether Greases has another opponent or not.

[01:48:56]If he attacks Helman, >> you are unworthy of my >> Oh, well, it was inevitable.

[01:49:09]I didn't declare war on Grimgore and break the channel's rule. He declared war on me. And I'm just defending myself. Decisive victory.

[01:49:19]>> They won't see me coming.

[01:49:22]>> Look at all my experience gain brick.

[01:49:28]>> The end.

[01:49:30]>> Why won't you die?

[01:49:34]>> Are you just demonic reforging over and over again? Is that what this is?

[01:49:42]They had to nerf that, didn't they?

[01:49:44]Like, it was really strong.

[01:49:49]>> While resting at an inn, the caravan master is approached by a stranger claiming to be a famed adventurer who wishes to join the caravan's renew. A hunter? Yeah. Okay.

[01:50:00]These guys are kind of My experience with them is that they're kind of pathetic.

[01:50:05]I mean, you know, you can stick them on a giant large thing and just whoosh. This is fun. But um once they level up, they get to ride a thunder tusk. And that's when that is when they become worth it.

[01:50:19]>> Protecting my people.

[01:50:20]>> And here is the match invigoration. This will add a battle healing cap plus 10% to our army and 5% cash replenishment rate as well as the mantra invigoration granting healing and vigor reduction to a tiger war unit.

[01:50:33]It's not strict >> regrowth, >> but it is basically >> regrowth hunting.

[01:50:43]>> Make camo proud.

[01:50:48]>> So, the center of Wein is going to grant leadership to nearby allies and reduce the leadership of nearby enemies.

[01:50:57]Think I should put this on the big boy.

[01:50:59]In a perfect world, these guys hold the front line and the Tiger warriors do the >> sink your teeth in >> the flanking and bonking.

[01:51:11]>> Camo's chosen.

[01:51:12]>> We of course do not live in a perfect world, so who knows what's going to happen.

[01:51:20]>> Okay, >> there is wisdom in this.

[01:51:24]>> There's wisdom >> desert. So Shiva has entered a not perfectly balanced area and thus gained upkeep.

[01:51:32]>> Now we move into a perfectly balanced area and gain a ridiculously amount >> the glor of upkeep reduction.

[01:51:39]>> Okay. Yeah. No fair and balance.

[01:51:42]>> Oh, I didn't change this back.

[01:51:44]Forgetting >> I can and I will.

[01:51:48]>> That's why I don't do that very often.

[01:51:49]You know what? I might as well just build this now.

[01:51:53]We can move it much much later when the time comes.

[01:51:58]Uh, for now, I mean, you can hang out here, I guess, >> with our lives.

[01:52:04]>> Fear my ro.

[01:52:07]>> Is this army going to be peasants?

[01:52:12]>> I mean, we can hold on to this for now.

[01:52:14]What's going on?

[01:52:21]Yes.

[01:52:24]I will destroy him. My lord, give me time.

[01:52:29]>> We for >> Oh, these are the the buttons himself.

[01:52:34]>> Global cooldown upon activation two turns. So, this only is applied for one turn.

[01:52:41]>> All units game regeneration. That just seems that seems unfair.

[01:52:48]Rashiva have more movement. I don't think she did. Bashiva is heading towards Karakra. Avirage will remain the uh mobile defense force. I suppose if Grimgore comes from the the west, then he shall descend south to defend our territory because we don't have any of the defensive structures built up yet.

[01:53:12]And I got to be honest, we probably won't for a while. Always build walls is a good strategy, but that's a later thing.

[01:53:23]Much later. Canal is with me.

[01:53:25]>> Our astromancers shamble as if unliving, dazed and unresponsive. We have an astromancer. When they can rouse themselves to speak, they report a pounding pressure behind their temples and indescribable shifting colors to the edges of their vision. Worse, this malaze now spreads to others.

[01:53:44]Minus 80% construction cost for Yang buildings faction wide for three turns.

[01:53:49]Sure, we'll try.

[01:53:53]Yeah, look. Control for Avirage.

[01:53:57]Our caravan has arrived. We're ready to rock and roll. We have gotten the star metal plate. That is insane. In the membrane, >> the silent blade.

[01:54:09]>> We must grow our forces, which is happening.

[01:54:12]>> I yearn for action. So, this gives 10 armor, 15 melee defense, 10% missile resist, and a minus 8 melee attack aura around us. Minus 8 is significant. So much so that they nerfed it from the uh the Dowi pirates that had that.

[01:54:30]I think we're going to merge these together and get a better chest piece.

[01:54:33]The armor of fortune, not too shabby.

[01:54:36]>> Savage grace. Our claw speaker has gotten more durable, better.

[01:54:47]>> Good. More hidden stores and then we'll get one in wayfinder to reduce our chance of crit of being ambushed by 50%.

[01:54:56]>> And then we're never getting another point in it again.

[01:54:59]There is no action of Grimgaw.

[01:55:01]>> We have something to be. Ah, I have found the foul villain >> shadows.

[01:55:10]We should hide here territory.

[01:55:13]>> Oh, this is scary.

[01:55:14]>> Think now.

[01:55:17]>> Oh, this is scary.

[01:55:18]>> I live for battle.

[01:55:20]>> Avarage, I'd need you to stay close. I might need your assistance in the great battle for our lives. Yinflow, five growth action wide and one control. One control is not a lot, but I will take it.

[01:55:32]I will do my best with it.

[01:55:37]Is there So we have there are two different types of garrisons.

[01:55:44]One yin, one yang. Of course, naturally.

[01:55:46]Why the freak not? So if yang reduces control, do you think yin increases it?

[01:55:55]I'm definitely not just thinking about how to get more. Probably these buildings we should make.

[01:56:02]I'm complaining about not having control while not building the control building.

[01:56:05]I mean, that's kind of silly, you know.

[01:56:12]What's up, bud? You know, I'm still doing your other quest, right? Oh, I want that.

[01:56:17]Capture Kak. Sure. We'll kill Grimgore, then we'll capture his city of Carrick.

[01:56:22]I make it sound so easy, don't I?

[01:56:25]Gravity scores available. We are ready to rock and roll.

[01:56:32]So, we don't want to go through Grimgore's territory.

[01:56:38]That makes this a little more difficult.

[01:56:41]We do. Ah, yes. We want to go to our midens.

[01:56:45]It is unfortunate that it's only 3,300 gold, but um there's a relic here which Oh, it's been captured by the ogres, which makes it mandatory.

[01:56:59]There is no choice. The choice has been made for me.

[01:57:03]>> You grow close, my friends.

[01:57:05]>> Storm, >> then.

[01:57:08]>> Oh, those are the mutisen gifts.

[01:57:09]>> Favored daughter.

[01:57:12]>> How are you doing? You're working.

[01:57:15]>> It is time.

[01:57:16]>> So, blacksmith >> Xiaoing gets confederated by Meowying, which probably isn't going to happen.

[01:57:24]That >> that is usually not how that goes.

[01:57:28]the fire in those blades.

[01:57:30]>> Also, I'm trying to bait Grimgore into attacking cuz look, there's this juicy Avarrage character. He runs in, he gets ambushed by Bashiva. Boom. GG. It's over.

[01:57:40]>> Or he sees through my petty ambush because there's only 50% chance. He attacks me and I get to deal with two stacks and Grimgore.

[01:57:52]The good news is that most of my army bonks most of his army.

[01:58:00]Okay, he saw me. There are however an annoying amount of snotting pump wagons.

[01:58:11]All righty. All righty. All righty. Grab Gore. Why do you have a barrier already?

[01:58:16]O.

[01:58:20]Yikes.

[01:58:23]All right, Grimgore, let's sit up. This will be our climactic battle, ending the day.

[01:58:34]Bashiva V. Grimgore.

[01:58:37]All right, so we're in the snow. His reinforcements arrive in a minute 57.

[01:58:43]Mine arrive in a minute 9.

[01:58:46]I think it is best for everyone if we wait for them.

[01:58:55]>> Best for everyone involved.

[01:58:58]So, we shall deploy as if we are doing such a thing.

[01:59:05]>> We'll see if I can crossbows.

[01:59:11]So, what worries me besides Grimgore? It's mostly Grimgore is with me.

[01:59:21]>> Do I dare do something really silly?

[01:59:25]>> So, Bashiva could be deployed behind enemy lines to take out the the deep diver catapult. The doomed diver catapults, but then she won't be in the bruhaha. So, I think instead she can be deployed off to the side so she can do whatever she wants. Okay, we're going to move back towards our deployments, which is in an okay position. We kind of set up here on the hill, go from there. We have the Empress's Crowman. These guys are going to do so much work, it's not even funny, or I'm going to get them killed by over relying on them. I haven't decided which I think is going to happen yet, >> but we'll go with that.

[02:00:04]We will be deploying >> seeking cafe >> kind of over here something like this for >> okay so they are going to wait for their reinforcements so we can speed this up and uh go from there.

[02:00:21]The empress crowman are so powerful because well they're flying so they can get some juicy flanks. They have pretty good damage output. Nice charge bonus, decent stats, magic damage, and we have the Nang Gal grenades. So, this is just a barrage of grenades that they drop from overhead. So, if we can get into a nice formation and get the enemy to clump up on us and whatnot.

[02:00:46]Let's uh take control of the situation for a second.

[02:00:49]>> You know, get the enemy to clump up on us. Uh we can drop the fat grenades.

[02:00:56]>> Hold on. We need more control over this.

[02:00:58]So you two >> and you two.

[02:01:05]>> Did you say warrior crossbows in your go your hail gunner?

[02:01:09]>> The gunners are going to be very important >> as are these.

[02:01:14]>> So you might say fab shitty spearmen.

[02:01:16]>> Yes they are. They are shitty spearmen.

[02:01:20]>> But never discount the power of a shitty spearman unit.

[02:01:27]They can do great things for you.

[02:01:31]They can be sacrifices. They can be roadblocks. They can do a lot for you.

[02:01:37]As for the guns, um, we're going to try and have them up a hill so they can shoot like kind of up and over our own infantry.

[02:01:45]I don't know if there is a like downhill charge bonus. I know in some total war there are, but find out.

[02:01:55]The enemy is still pretty far away. We don't want to tire out our crowmen, but um we could have them go break the doom diver catapult before coming to us.

[02:02:04]It is right here. I suspect, you know, again, dangerous thing to do that the AI is going to leave.

[02:02:17]I think they're going for a false around here, but they're not really going to find it.

[02:02:23]Guys over here.

[02:02:27]Oh dear, look at this massive horrific W coming our way.

[02:02:37]Things have gone well because they've kind of they went full wide and have really split up their army.

[02:02:46]So, it's really helped us out. Fact, the black orcs are here.

[02:02:50]Maybe we'll just blast them. Let's not ruin our formation too much, though.

[02:02:56]>> But, um, I see you.

[02:03:01]>> We don't want to drop the grenades until it's time.

[02:03:10]>> And >> trust me, we'll know when the time is.

[02:03:11]>> The celestial faithful Oh, we're getting a full surround. Okay, >> might. Nothing will stop us.

[02:03:22]>> Okay, >> this is fine.

[02:03:27]>> He says uncertain. All right, the Doom Diver is alone.

[02:03:33]Please don't shoot my crows.

[02:03:38]Crows are out.

[02:03:40]We do have a lot of archery going on, but that's okay. your warrior.

[02:03:47]>> They won't be able to get back to the Doom Diver, so we're just going in on it. There's is a fat surround. I have never seen a surround so fat in my life.

[02:03:54]Well, that's not true. I think I have, but uh >> it looks like they're going to just come in from the trees as well. So, we don't want to be part of this.

[02:04:06]>> I hunger >> too much.

[02:04:13]first spell. Easy peasy.

[02:04:17]>> J's coming in for Bob.

[02:04:23]>> We're going to do some shooting here.

[02:04:27]>> The squigs are in.

[02:04:29]>> Squigs are large. They are warbeasts.

[02:04:34]>> The gunners going to be shooting into the trees here, which isn't ideal, but they will, you know.

[02:04:40]I guess we should be able to fight this.

[02:04:41]She's here.

[02:04:42]>> She's here. It's here. Let's go.

[02:04:46]>> Okay, >> we're going to get our warriors inundated with the spears. That's not something they've been able to do.

[02:04:54]>> The crows have crumped and then took taken a lot of unnecessary damage.

[02:05:01]>> Iron, >> we're going to try and iron hail these black orcs.

[02:05:05]>> We're even going to get some spears going. Okay, let's get these tiger warriors >> doing stuff.

[02:05:14]>> Grimgore has found Bashiva >> with ease.

[02:05:17]>> How do I help?

[02:05:20]>> Pulling back >> with speed, not haste.

[02:05:27]>> Okay, let's get these guys in.

[02:05:29]>> We're going to need help here. Oh [ __ ] the W.

[02:05:33]>> The W.

[02:05:38]I just don't have the bodies. Okay, >> the crows are in.

[02:05:44]We're looking for the bomb. This is going to be a great bomb spot right here.

[02:05:48]>> Crows have suffered a lot.

[02:05:53]>> Roing the field.

[02:05:54]>> Claw speaker is getting its ass whooped.

[02:05:56]>> Wii bo.

[02:05:59]No barrier. Chaos has no hold. Chaos has no hold. You heard it here first.

[02:06:09]Okay, this is a continuous bombardment, I think. Yep.

[02:06:18]Need to go help. Need to go help forces getting run over.

[02:06:22]>> We cannot really lose the claw speaker right now.

[02:06:25]>> Don't overcast them. Just here.

[02:06:29]All right. So why is dying >> unpadded feet?

[02:06:34]>> I'm overcasting. I said I shouldn't.

[02:06:37]>> But we are. We're going to try and help the gunners here.

[02:06:40]>> The backline is so unbelievably compromised.

[02:06:43]But Bashiva is kicking Grimgore's ass.

[02:06:48]>> Okay, the whole backline is just over.

[02:06:51]>> It's like so over it's not even funny.

[02:06:54]Voice of Kamo where Kabo commands >> my heart.

[02:07:03]>> We are >> trying to get going here. The guns are so over. The crowmen are so over.

[02:07:11]>> Bastion.

[02:07:12]>> The only thing going well is the battle here. Grimgore is dead.

[02:07:20]>> It is not a sentence I thought I'd be able to say.

[02:07:23]might.

[02:07:24]>> We're going to pull these guys back to try and fight things that they're good against.

[02:07:27]>> Claws are >> Please, Mashiva, kill him. He has 250 HP. You can do it.

[02:07:33]>> We're going to pull these back as well.

[02:07:36]>> Like the guns are just so compromised.

[02:07:40]>> Guides.

[02:07:41]>> We're going to do another cast over here.

[02:07:43]>> Uh, no.

[02:07:44]>> Not haste.

[02:07:46]>> This is a cluster. [ __ ] a half.

[02:07:48]>> Stalking prey.

[02:07:50]Come on.

[02:07:52]>> The whole backline is just dead.

[02:07:55]>> Guess I got overrun pretty hard.

[02:07:57]>> I cannot lose the claw speaker.

[02:08:03]>> Oh, shoot. Talking mushrooms.

[02:08:04]>> Jade warriors.

[02:08:06]>> Yes, Jade Warriors. In fact, let's just try and pull the jades back. Good job, >> Bashiva.

[02:08:16]Basha.

[02:08:17]>> Okay, Bashiva did her job.

[02:08:19]has anything else in its job.

[02:08:22]>> We have held >> and the tiger warriors have returned from their vacation.

[02:08:29]>> The greenkins do not enjoy losing their lord.

[02:08:34]>> Crossbows.

[02:08:37]>> Our whole line is collapsed though.

[02:08:42]I >> feel like you should be able to get a W if uh Lord's dead.

[02:08:48]Run.

[02:08:49]>> Oh dear. That's a full wipe basically.

[02:08:54]>> I mean, we killed Grimgore.

[02:08:56]>> Basha.

[02:08:58]>> And Bashiva is doing stuff, but the war is overwhelming.

[02:09:03]>> Our fight is over.

[02:09:07]>> The war.

[02:09:12]>> Has claimed victory.

[02:09:17]Others will call this valiant or even courageous, but it is still a defeat.

[02:09:24]We have lost.

[02:09:28]Wow. The uh the Tiger warriors could not.

[02:09:34]No, I can't run.

[02:09:36]I tried to Okay, this didn't help.

[02:09:41]I tried to pull back to the garrison for help. Um, there is no help.

[02:09:55]It's actually almost more painful that Grimgore died because he got a full new lord here.

[02:10:04]Also, these black orcs took no damage from the whole fight.

[02:10:08]Well, round two.

[02:10:13]All right. So, his deployments or his reinforce are over here. Mine are over here. Mine are not really helpful. We are in a very advantageous position, but if we're all being honest, what's going to happen is this popers are just going to go around and then they're going to run over my rear like they did previously. I didn't think I could be so outflanked. I was very outflanked.

[02:10:36]Tiger warrior.

[02:10:39]>> So, you know those things that we can't lose, >> we're going to lose them.

[02:10:48]This does not bode well.

[02:10:55]>> I have to push this on himself.

[02:10:57]>> Okay. Stay light on your feet. They cannot kill what they cannot.

[02:11:04]>> So, I'm the aggressor. He's the aggressor. I wish he would come at me, but he's going to wait for his things, and this is going to be the end. They're just going to spirit le me to death.

[02:11:15]It's so over.

[02:11:17]Oh, we're going to lose everything.

[02:11:25]I do have the second army. Like they didn't get to do anything in that battle. They just got ran over, man. This sucks.

[02:11:40]The only way this goes well, who can you heal next? Just heal Bashiva, I guess.

[02:11:49]Uh, the only way this results in anything but a loss is if they try and funnel in here and I can hold them off, which seems very unlikely considering what's coming at me. But, I mean, you know, stranger things have happened, I guess.

[02:12:10]Like, maybe they just all bundle up and I get the fattest >> defenders of C Whatever is required, >> all of you hear me.

[02:12:23]>> I get to spam the absolutely fattest >> block of doom, which I mean >> age has not withered me.

[02:12:32]>> You know, they're they're kind of clumping right now. They are doing some flanking, but not a lot of it.

[02:12:38]>> The moment I came out, the spiritle chit, >> I hate you.

[02:12:42]>> Stalking prey.

[02:12:46]Hello.

[02:12:47]>> There's miscast damage, too. Okay, we're getting in the fog.

[02:12:51]We will be able to heal us.

[02:12:55]>> Unpadded feet.

[02:12:56]>> TEST MY FIERY BLADES.

[02:13:00]>> TIGER WARRIORS.

[02:13:02]>> TOO SLOW, CHAMPION.

[02:13:04]>> I mean, Bob's about to die, so I think we're okay.

[02:13:08]>> Just going to heal oursel here.

[02:13:11]>> All right, >> into the trolls. We shall pop the trolls with this.

[02:13:18]>> We're going to go this way.

[02:13:22]>> Let's get to work, boys.

[02:13:25]>> We must hold >> the >> I don't believe you can miscast basic magic.

[02:13:37]>> Okay, we're going to have to get you guys back here.

[02:13:40]>> That was a big mistake I made in the previous fight. I didn't have the The spearmen fighting the right people tiger warriors might >> like Bashiva's good at killing >> the wind.

[02:13:55]>> I'm not going to overcast this. I'd love to. Don't get me Don't get it wrong.

[02:13:59]Don't get it twisted. I would love nothing more than to overcast this.

[02:14:02]>> We march as one blood, >> but I must stay hidden.

[02:14:12]Keep it secret. keep it safe. You know, >> we're going to try and kill this little lord thing >> and then we're probably have to pull back. I have 80 seconds on >> heels. We're going to inundate the front line with these peasant spearmen. We're coming over here >> believe in you kind of. What does this do?

[02:14:38]I guess if there's a troll. Where's the weaver troll? Hag. Oh, she's so far away. Never mind.

[02:14:46]>> I'm not even sure what's what we're supposed to be shooting into. Like, is we should be shooting trolls, scary things, or just front line. Tear him up.

[02:14:54]>> Shea, come on. Kill it.

[02:14:57]>> Don't let it run.

[02:15:00]>> Okay, he just he just Wait, hold on.

[02:15:08]We serve the >> uh uh uh come back. Come back. Come back.

[02:15:12]>> Forward.

[02:15:13]I sto >> Holy [ __ ] We're about to win.

[02:15:20]>> With speed, not haste.

[02:15:23]>> Hello, Storm.

[02:15:26]>> Oh, >> we did it. [ __ ] you, Grimgore.

[02:15:32]I turned the odds against you.

[02:15:35]Ready.

[02:15:37]>> Never surrender.

[02:15:39]Never give up.

[02:15:42]>> Only in victory >> do you serve the iron dragon.

[02:15:52]>> The one situation I said in which we would win is the one situation that happens.

[02:15:56]>> Victory is my birthight.

[02:16:01]>> Interesting.

[02:16:03]Heroic victory.

[02:16:08]Ah, the lore of beasts.

[02:16:12]>> Give thanks to Camo.

[02:16:15]>> Give thanks to Kamau. My ambush was foiled, my forces broken, but victory was achieved.

[02:16:27]The patient hunter gets the prey.

[02:16:32]I just remembered that. It was like a That's from Dawn of War, the the tow um I don't remember what it was called.

[02:16:44]Anyway, we killed a bunch of people for uh the iron dragon to send another. We have eliminated a Grimgore for a bunch of iron favor and we get a little bit of a soup.

[02:16:53]Quest battle for we must capture 650 battle captives.

[02:16:58]It looks like we've already done that.

[02:17:02]Taoyan, a hated name amongst the dragons armies, has been cited nearby. The one known as the merciless, is infamous for having taken an unspeakably ruthless approach against the rebelling children of Yin Kai, which saw her fall foul of the Imperial commanders serving alongside her. Despite fulfilling her duty, Tawan was ultimately exiled, not only from Grand Cath's military ruling class, but from the central provinces entirely. The trident punctured bodies of notable enemy agents appearing of late back up your scouts reports that Taoan is on intelligence gathering operations in the region. Reputation for getting results tells you it may be beneficial to put aside any other preconceptions of her and join forces.

[02:17:43]Thus, gathering intelligence of our own may lead us to her or if we gather the right intelligence, lead her to us.

[02:17:54]Oh yeah. An ogre's falling. So we have our first quest battle which gives the heaven's gate. This is an ancillary I think or talisman. Repunishes 5% campaign movement range after winning a battle. 10% ward save. Enemy hero actions reduced by 10% and heaven's gates. This is a literal teleport.

[02:18:13]I want to know the moment I heard about this. Can I teleport over walls? If yes, this is the best item in the game.

[02:18:26]But I'll read it later. Oh yeah, there's Seang. I totally forgot about him.

[02:18:32]Yeah. From an unknown vantage point, a legendary Colossus gazes over the Eastern Empire, paying close attention to the dragon's trials and tribulations.

[02:18:42]It is said that whatever war is waged righteously in the celestial's eyes, the one known as the heavenly bowman leaps across the very mountains to aid those who display adeptness and marksmanship on the field of battle. Thus, those who fight skillfully for the greater good of Grand Cath need not wait long to meet the greatest of her towering sentinels.

[02:19:05]The anime Mecca.

[02:19:10]>> Um, okay. So, I didn't meet the requirements of Talyang.

[02:19:16]All things in balance. We'll get to that. We're on the way to that. We Oh, a second one. That's nice. Wonder if it stacks. I guess when we end the turn, we'll get Pan.

[02:19:29]But >> I never lose.

[02:19:31]>> We must claim our revenge first, mustn't we?

[02:19:36]Ooh.

[02:19:42]Do we dare go iron disciplinarian?

[02:19:47]I usually don't.

[02:19:53]I got to be honest, I have been very impressed by the Jade Warrior crossbows.

[02:19:58]You know, normally I want to go straight for the the bang bang bang bang bang bang bang, but these guys have done very well.

[02:20:08]I am impressed.

[02:20:15]We'll see.

[02:20:18]I'm a little jaded by how poorly that the battle went with my guns, but that's entirely on that's on me. We have unlocked Bashiva's unique tree.

[02:20:28]The desert tigress replenishes 25% campaign damage after winning a battle.

[02:20:32]Reduce wound recovery and reduce the cool down of ferocious ambusher. Oh yeah, I forgot this has a cool down.

[02:20:38]Sure. And let's see what we got now. So the hidden huntress upgrades hidden huntress. How so?

[02:20:47]Ah, it is armor as well. Okay, which replaces the hidden hunters and become unspottable. Justice, not vengeance.

[02:20:55]Increases captured casualties post battle. Leadership and melee attack when fighting kingdoms, warriors of chaos, demons of chaos, corn, sherkl, and slanesh, but not chaos dwarfs.

[02:21:10]Deadly and graceful grants bizres to basha 15% 10% for all tiger warriors.

[02:21:15]And she causes fear and tiger warriors cost fear. That's probably right what we're getting right now. And head of the tiger court. Well, maybe we're getting this maximum number of caravans plus one. Allegiance points gained plus 8% for alliance with empire, high elves, gizv, bretonia, dwarf, and cathan factions. And plus two allied recruitment.

[02:21:31]Um, because we're fighting, let's get deadly graceful. And then we're probably going to get ahead of the tiger court cuz I want more caravans.

[02:21:39]>> Punish troops. Yes, please. And thank you. And then flock of doom. Thank you, flock of doom. You pretty much won that for me by yourself, my goat.

[02:21:47]>> Now we want to go to the Tiger Courts.

[02:21:49]Not Tiger Court. We want to go to the armies of Shangyang and got this talisman of preservation is fantastic.

[02:22:00]>> And we are going to get our revenge >> for the victory.

[02:22:06]>> What was this RO? The bandits of the silver road. I see. first of all.

[02:22:12]>> Congratulations.

[02:22:13]>> It is a shame that I killed the Empress Crowman. Uh they are very powerful if you don't forget about them.

[02:22:19]>> But uh like most flyers, they are kind of frail >> brother.

[02:22:23]>> My bad.

[02:22:25]My bad.

[02:22:28]>> They won't see me coming.

[02:22:32]>> Lady Talian.

[02:22:33]>> Ah, there she is.

[02:22:38]Lady Talian.

[02:22:40]White Tiger of Shangyan.

[02:22:43]>> So she comes with the Tyrants Talon.

[02:22:45]Increases her action by 10% plus eight melee attack plus 25% weapon strength plus five bonus for Slarge and the Tyrants Talon which is an imbument that inflicts brutal wound. It's a new thing for her. Whenever she hits somebody, they will lose six melee defense and bleed out for 8 to 16 damage per second for 10 seconds. Not that impressive, but um can really add up. Also gives her a nice little damage boost. There she is.

[02:23:09]nice and glorious.

[02:23:11]She is also an anti-large fighter. She doesn't have a mount, which is a little strange, but um yeah, she'll just be a nice foot character for us holding the front line down with our celestial dragon guard >> soldiers.

[02:23:23]>> And since I just lost a unit, >> wisdom in this, >> there's room for her.

[02:23:29]>> Claw speaker, >> divine empathy. Gam range plus 10%.

[02:23:33]Sure, why not? I would love to go straight for Kak Vrag, but we will return to our domain to heal.

[02:23:42]>> Fear my roar.

[02:23:44]>> Yes, fear your roar.

[02:23:45]>> All learn from me. I seek only the best.

[02:23:50]>> In time, he will have a proper army. I assure you.

[02:23:54]>> Fight with >> this is only a temporary measure.

[02:23:58]>> Now we make camp.

[02:24:01]>> Oh, they are expensive to retrieve fully.

[02:24:05]I assure you this is but a temporary measure.

[02:24:09]We shall send out next turn the Raja Caravana. I could make another one, but we'll hold off. We'll hold off.

[02:24:16]Or will we? You know what? I don't think we will.

[02:24:20]This earthly character is going to have to find somebody else because we are now celestially blessed. We deal with the range. The longma riders are okay. I will make it. I will take the great longma riders. So, uh, celestially blessed my boy.

[02:24:36]Take your fat stacks of cash. I would prefer you not go north, but we could be a little frisky.

[02:24:42]Give it a shot.

[02:24:46]Where does this take us?

[02:24:50]We kind of dodge the trouble, I think, if we go through this path to gnome.

[02:24:57]Could visit outdorf. Outdorf or no?

[02:25:02]Let's get some more favor. I mean, I have plenty of it right now, but let's get more of it because I'm sure I'm going to spend it in a heartbeat once the time comes, like, you know, artillery or just expanding my cap.

[02:25:18]Cool.

[02:25:20]We're two away from that. I need one more iron hail gunner. We'll get it.

[02:25:24]Don't you worry. All right. Well, my friends, I'm going to keep playing if I don't stop right now. So, >> that was it for today. I hope that you enjoyed what a baller first episode.

[02:25:35]This has been a lot of fun. Uh, fighting Grimgore is always kind of a tossup if you ask me. But, um, hey, I think that was really exciting. Probably could have done better that first battle getting I didn't expect to get so wrapped that I should have. It's literally just two green skin stacks coming at me. But hey, lessons learned. Grimgore slain. Oh, I don't know what title I got. I didn't see that.

[02:25:59]Surely I got one for killing Grimgore.

[02:26:08]I was cheated. Is this because I lost technically even though I killed him?

[02:26:15]Well, we'll get it. Thanks for watching.

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