Total War: Warhammer - Legendary Lord Unique Skills

Hey what's up guys it's Oakley and we are going to be covering the various legendary lord character traits or unlockables that CA released. So it's going to be Empire, Dwarves, and Grinskins. We're going to start with Emperor Karl Franz and this is just a selection of the total that are available to everyone. So for instance Karl Franz, one of his unlocks is Deathclaw, that's to get his mount. Deadly Onslaught which gives him charge bonus, melee attack, and reduced fatigue. So Karl Franz we'll see is very much about inspiring and giving buffs to his troops. Stand your ground there it gives you increased attack, defense, and morale stats. Irrepressible means that if he you know gets wounded on the campaign map he comes back quicker. Leader of Men allows you to inspire units with your radius by being larger. And Heroic Leader is actually pretty cool it allows you to basically inspire a unit anywhere on the battlefield. So this is kind of an interesting character he's going to be tanky in combat with his unlocks and all that but also very much about leading the charge and rallying your forces. So you may see him bouncing around the battlefield kind of giving buffs and rallying going back and forth between the battle lines. Kind of mending or tending to the battle lines and then even committing himself to the fray. And that's what you'll notice from these various different character traits is that each one plays differently. So as opposed to previous Total Wars where you know main generals didn't really stick out too much now you start to see the differentiation. So just case in point let's go over Balthazar. So his first is going to be Evasion. It allows him to get increased speed and acceleration. Not sure how important that is. Arcane Conduit means that wherever he is there's going to be just generally more winds of magic. Now this could work against you depends who you're fighting against but could be very powerful if you stock your army up with a bunch of spell casters. Staff of Volans basically is a staff that you can unlock. So in here you know you can get mounts but you can also get pieces of equipment. Plague of Rust. Remember that Balthazar knows the magical lore of metal. So in this case he turns the enemy armor to rust lowering its resistance so a debuff which is sweet. Mighty Force. Balthazar applies his mastery of the magical lore of metal to increase the armor of war machines in his army. That's awesome. Get some really nice steam tanks going on with Balthazar. And then Earthing. Years of training and proper stance significantly reduces the chance of Balthazar's spells miscasting. That's the first reference I've actually seen to miscasting. Be curious to see how that works and how often it occurs. But good to also see that there's a counter to it nonetheless. So I think that's really cool. Balthazar there you can see obviously playing more to his magical abilities. Not too much in the way of buffing his friendly units. More towards himself dealing magic and making that other magical users will be more powerful. And of course the empire is going to have a lot more future legendary lords but I really like how each seems to have its own flavor. Thorgrim Grudgebear. Moving on to the dwarves here. So Obdurate. The first one means that anyone under his command is going to be more loyal to him. I'm not sure if that's just a general you know term that they threw in to represent higher morale or if loyalty of lords under you is going to be an important game mechanic. We haven't really heard about that. High King is something that he can unlock. And basically it just means he has increased charge and attack bonuses. Immunity to psychological effects. So this guy is going to be a tank in combat. Now these next couple ones are about buffing kind of your troops in your army. So the Wallbreaker means you're much better in attacking enemy defenses. Defensive Expert means that you can hold out much longer within sieges. Inquiring Mind means that you have buffs to your technology. And then Thwoppa Thwoppa right there is basically giving more armor to your gyrocopters. So the dwarves already we know are going to be super tanky and it seems like Thorgrim is going to give you the ability to make the dwarves that much tankier. With the Defensive Expert holding out forever in your dwarven crocs that seems kind of crazy. Wallbreaker I'd be interested to see how what the dwarven kind of siege equipment looks like. We haven't seen much of it. I'm assuming they're going to have battering ram and things like that. Perhaps even for other equipment that we haven't seen just yet for Wallbreakers and whatnot. And then some of the armor that you can see that he gives his gyrocopters. It's kind of like what we saw for Balthazar. Now Umgrim Ironfist. Slayer King is his first perk here. And again this is just some of his total list. But the one basically allows increased melee attack for other slayers. Dragon Slayer means that he has no fear even against the largest adversaries and other units get increased damage against large units. Deathblow his enthusiasm for battle grants. Umgrim increased attack strength and armor piercing providing his health is high enough. Hmm weird. So something that's dependent on where your health is. That's kind of cool. Miner's Instinct there you can see basically allows him to tunnel and when he does so it decreases the chance of intercepting him while he goes under. Also Lord of the Deeps means that your morale while being underground is going to be improved. So this guy being good for attack and then also maneuvering underground and then alert means that you are much less likely to be ambushed. So this guy interesting all about kind of fielding forces and giving more to their ability to move around the campaign map. Whereas Thorgrim was very much about holding your ground with the things we saw about like increased duration of you know withholding in a siege. So cool. One is more defensive one is more offensive but they still have a mix of the two. Excuse me. And you don't necessarily get all of these skills. Again you have the choice of progressing along the way. There are going to be 30 levels for the Legendary Lord characters. So it's up to you to choose which way you're going to cater your hero. Grimgor for the greenskins here. Bloodforged armor. This is something that you have to unlock. So you basically put points into getting this. You unlock the quest chain and then if you complete the quest chain then you're rewarded with the legendary armor. I'm excited to see how this stuff looks visually when it gets donned by your character. Could be cool. And then Devastating Charges. I mean a lot of these are kind of self-explanatory. But anyway it seems like he has an area of effect as he charges. The Immortals basically gives him more dudes for his bodyguard. And I like how there's a couple here. One that's called Waa which is basically. I'm just going to read it to you verbatim. Grimgor and all around him surge towards the foe in a tidal wave of violence gaining increased melee attack and morale. So all about wave attacks breaking up against the enemy and then the Waa path basically means that on the campaign map you're more likely to get into Waa stance. So Grimgor definitely about summoning huge tides of units and throwing those tides against the empire and break against them with huge waves. Raider, Looter, and Ravager means you get increased income from your warfare which is going to be key to sustaining combat abroad. It's all about raiding stances and sacking units. So Grimgor definitely about taking this fight to your offensive not only in terms of the armies penetrating enemy territory but also on the battlefield himself giving buffs to attack and things like that. We're going to see that Azog however is a little bit different because he has for example Skull Muncher so he can ride above the troops in his Wyvern. Get on with it basically gives increased charge damage for those around him which is similar to Grimgor but here it starts to get different. So the Purple Darkness. This is so cool. The next one Doom and Darkness. This hex summons the spirits of the departed massively reducing enemy morale. Spirit Leech leeches the spirit of a single enemy unit through Tainted Sorcerer. So I'm wondering if that means you can steal health from an enemy hero and you know take it and put it back to yourself. If that's the case this guy's going to be very important to shuffle him around the battlefield and really you know unleash magic to turn the tide in certain areas. Doom and Darkness. Pair that with a massive charge from your troops and you know do Doom and Darkness and the enemy is going to collapse upon that area. So cool that he's very aggressive but in the sense of magic and then Lightning Strike at the end there allows him to attack basically a group, a series of armies but you can pinpoint just one enemy force and they have to fight without reinforcement. So it's like what you had with night battles in the past and that's going to be a very very helpful thing to have especially since I assume you will be able to bring your allies. Man that could be super super powerful ganging up one at a time against enemy armies just knocking them out. So overall I'm very very excited about what they've announced. This is just a small selection of all the legendary skills. Obviously we have more to see when it comes to the Vampire Counts and also the Chaos Lords. That's going to be interesting but so far I think it's very exciting. Lots of cool depth and detail. Anyways that's it for now see you in the next one. Peace out.