Dwarves Ambush an Elf Column Third Age Total War Battle 180

Yo, what's up guys, this is Oakley and this is gonna be some third age mod I am playing as the dwarves and we're here We have laid ambush to an elvish army that was moving up through the forest So we're gonna carve up their pretty little faces the dwarves here charging forward We're gonna be setting upon the elves Like I said in this nice ambush position a bunch of warriors coming at them We're gonna teach these pretty boys a lesson and the dwarves I haven't played with them too much, but they are super cool units The dwarf iron crossman are brutal. The warriors are obviously highly armored and very very strong as well So the first charge is coming forward from the elves. They're sending for their initial L Darwin way Lancers which are very very good calorie but against the numbers of dwarves that I have a mass against them This ambush is going to be excellently prepared to deal with this Catapults are great coming in So the elves basically launched a foray against me to hold me back and they have a lot to try and keep the dwarves at bay But it is not gonna be working. We're charging forward with fury. You can see the crossbow shots charging back at the elves They mean while I have this nice formation back here Before the Eldar in way Archers very elite troops some more units here so you can see on the far left a lot of dwarves Rushing forward so he has a line of Eldar in way spearmen swordsmen and then these elite archers and back a catapult right there and then some Cav doing hammer and anvils. Meanwhile, what do I have here? I have halberd men in the front One unit on you know this flank here and on the central position mostly to beat back the elven charges Which seems to work splendidly so they can form up That's gonna be keeping them at bay and then I have dwarven warriors charging forward so three groups of them and then massing Behind these units are gonna be some iron crossbowmen So basically these fodder units are just charging up to give me More time to move forward crossmen are gonna be doing the real damage in the back. These are gonna be my veteran troops dwarven halberd men in The back here. I have some axe men of Erebor These are the really elite troops iron guards here and then these troops which are some of my favorite Dragonslayers of Ered Mithran and in the back the guards of Khazad-dûm So this is the core of my force moving up. The main one is gonna be pressing the initial assault Halberd men somewhat charging forward Some of my dudes here getting close into combat, but getting shredded On this flank. We've had a little bit more success My dwarven warriors have been countercharged by the elves. We're gonna be going to town on my guys pretty easily with the cavalry in the back for support Although I brought a kind of a spam dwarf force with a lot of these cheap guys So you can see here are gonna be eating up tons and tons of fire But that's fine It's all gonna be buying me time to chip away at my enemy The elves are notoriously low in numbers so I can chip away at them with these iron crossbowmen really take out huge swaths of troops The enemy is gonna be counter sallying with smiths of Eregion Super strong and they're like I told you just cutting away at my guys More cavalry charging forward and so it looks like my first wave is gonna be beaten back pretty handily Although I am forcing back the Eldar wind Eldar wind Let me get this right Eldar in way I keep forgetting how to pronounce it Archers are gonna be falling back what that means is more time for me to push forward and I actually had an additional ambush over here That my opponent was not expecting you charge forward with them Spearman and what I unleashed on him was a couple more Iron cross of enforces and I have more axmen so the ambush was complete So these cross when are firing away straight into this elvish flank can actually watch as we get Some more volleys and in the front. I have some of these minor units very very Basically the lowest tier dwarves that you can have but this is fine They're on the flank and they're gonna be forcing the elves back so there comes that one flanking force Cross one in the back firing so all this chaos happening meanwhile the bulk of the elite force is slowly drawing closer and closer and This is the type of approach the dwarves want something where they're not getting you know swarmed artillery and archer fire the elves want to keep you at bay, but they're forced to you know deal with my Almost cannon fodder clan warriors and dwarf warriors on this front, so yeah the elves are cleaning my guys I mean look at the corpse field here mostly gonna be dwarven warriors But they're doing their their oath sworn duties now finally these guys are gonna be turning their gaze to my troops But again shots being wasted on these dwarf miners who are soaking up these shots like bosses In the center here where the Knights of Eregion Smiths of Eregion have committed they are gonna be destroying my heavy infantry Dwarven warriors how the deers are nowhere to be seen looks like he has another Smiths of Eregion gonna be charging in When he gets a point-blank shot with the catapult. It's actually gonna be getting a lot of oh my god Double shot takes out almost all of my unit it instantly routes archer fire coming in Smiths of Eregion Beating me back so it looks like the enemy has stabilized archer is not in the best position like I was saying But he's stabilized this front You can hear some of the horns blaring my guys are forming up Waiting for the initial clash to to be done with my iron crossman are still healthy They've been chip away at forces and the dwarven miners still running just kind of interference plays basically And yet right here You see those point-blank shots. I'm getting into these guys the miners just sent to intercept these guys with pickaxes Dwarves are gonna get chopped a little teeny tiny bits But it is those slight moments. That's gonna buy me enough time to reload You can see the enemy Lancers are coming in to try and put an end to this But with these guys caught in the flank, I'm taking down so many of those numbers So here comes some Lancers They're gonna be cleaning that up, but finally actually the artillery is gonna be turning its Its gaze over to my troops here haven't taken any losses just yet, but those shots are gonna be Increasingly brutal actually one of my guys seemingly going down here, so we're gonna have to deploy soon So my guys are gonna start marching out. These are the elite troops so every shot that he hits here is gonna actually Be pretty devastating But at least it's just chipping away one dude here and there so here comes the real Hammer stroke of the dwarven force rolling up the elves are gonna continue to clean up the rest of my guys Smiths of Eregion, you know only a fool could lose this battle, so they're gonna be doing really well On this front I'm continuing to throw and look at these miners. Just proving their resilience these guys were destroyed earlier But they're gonna come back and be fearless in this assault That was a bad shot at least it's just into the halberd men. Oh volt gardens are Volt wardens are pretty strong But at least it's not some of my dudes back here And then also I've got still some reserves over here these iron crossbowmen have been firing non-stop into the flank They're kind of giving me supporting fire for my main column of troops to move up which is getting hammered by artillery So I got to accelerate the pace, but I got more troops waiting to move up on the flank here if things go sour So like I was telling you this is a total ambush of the elvish force They're not able to retreat or drop in the position. They want and now here comes the mast fire See the shots that do hit do actually start taking out my guns my guys pretty handily. This is the This is the withering fire that I was hoping to avoid and it looks like we've done just that So now we're gonna break into a sprint if you could even call a We're gonna run a sprint How about meant to block the initial blows volt volt wardens gonna be going against the Smiths of region? It looks like some friendly fire underway there, so not great Axeman of airborne just walking up nonchalantly Their position here, and I think I'm gonna tell them to charge forward So they're gonna join the fight in the center meanwhile however Dragon slayers now are gonna charge into a sprint we can watch actually some of my men as they run across here all along the front who just want to Know it looks like that hit got a couple of my guys here comes the deadly assault Across the dwarven the elven main lines Spearmen formed up deep and they're gonna counter charge me, so this is the fight We've been waiting for elite troops against elite troops my iron guard not taking even a loss in that Until the catapult comes in and here Knights Smiths of region at 73 my dragon slayers at 113 looks like only the first rank is Gonna charge It looks like I have brutal charge damage right there, so I did lose a couple dudes But he did as well just going to show how strong these dragon slayers are When I actually killed the enemy general so that is very good, but at the same time I think yeah In this a close. I found the artillery is super brutal on close range And so it's gonna start picking away my high-value units Which is why as I was saying I wanted to save them to the end Over on this one however my axmen of Erebor have with their expert charge Destroy the enemy force here, but look at these archers unleashing of my guys I must have taken out a dozen of my axmen Sort of be reforming The shots coming in barely missing the elves not having much left still some Lancers left in the fight They're gonna be charging into my Iron guard who seem to be doing pretty well It's mr.. Reggie and doing well Dragon slayers yes, they're elite, but against the Smiths of Reggie It's really hard to beat these guys with some of the best armor in the lore But he is holding strong however. This is where I get my final Surrounding Dwarven force so like I said those guys were on the extreme flank my opponent had seen some Crossman But he had not seen the additional To Dwarven axmen units that I'm pulling around the flank the cross women are gonna be now pulling forward waddling into position Right above this entire formation and look at everything they get to see this is what they're gonna have you know open season on And I finally cleaned up This flank here, so we're gonna be collapsing in on the center This catapult crew is gonna start doing some fantastic Shots, I just wanted to share this with you because it's gonna be absolutely freaking hilarious when it starts firing at me So make sure you watch where this shot goes My guys are lining up on top of the hill Starting to get some shots off into the Knights of Reggie and doing a lot of damage, but watch this artillery So no you did not see that incorrectly that shot went straight up So these dudes definitely doing some interesting Artillery calculations my Crossman are unfazed by that they're gonna continue to fire We saw that shot that just came in that was a shot from the artillery so somehow the straight up and down Shots that these guys are doing is gonna land right in and amongst my men so that was pretty funny to see Waiting into this action a little bit more tepidly They're another one of those shots coming in like a mortar strike destroyed my units I have never seen up there goes another one you saw that smoke trail So I've never seen artillery shoot like that And I think just because of the way the arc of fireworks Because it goes so high and comes back down it actually ends up being super accurate because the arc of fire is so high That it can pinpoint the accuracy with its landing as opposed to shots which are you know at a distance arcing it can overshoot or under shoot because of the time that this has to go up and down the Delta in the landing area is much much much reduced, so I thought that was a really interesting gimmick I mean, it's tearing my guys apart. I'm not sure if they're gonna get another shot off Before the action is over no looks like my Vault wardens are gonna be pushing back this force more elves this time. It's gonna be the elder in way archers None too shabby in terms of combat, but they would much rather be firing away at my guys But that is it they are basically slaughtered so the remainder of the Elite nobles of the elven army is gonna army is gonna be going down the Lancers being taken out by these Guards of Khazad-dûm looking so freaking beautiful They have these face masks on the models in this game are absolutely stunning and so cool And we're just waiting into the thick of this taking these guys out the Lancers being very very strong My guy is really not taking any damage in this fight Up top We've been able to clean up the remainder. This is the last you know a couple units from the smiths of Region Able to take them out with basic Axeman after well that was you know I say that after you see the the dragon slayers being Destroyed the crossman firing into that so it takes a lot to take out these smiths of Region and still it says the balance of Forces is evenly matched So that's interesting down in the main line his archers are going against the vault wardens Had they been able to get around the side or even step back and shoot my guys They would have probably won But the odds are turning in my favor the catapult seems to be repositioning and it wants to get off some more of those miracle shots But I have my cross woman gonna be seeking retribution against those guys firing point-blank into them So I don't think they're gonna get off another volley Yeah, looks like they're not even reloading and finally the smiths of Region fighting to the death So these guys are gonna definitely get their money's worth Let's watch some of this clash Just watching some of those animations so cool Looks like he's trying to get another miracle shot. We will see if you get a couple more of these off Brutal just Spiked those shots right into this look how much damage that did so catapults today being Opie as hell and then there goes the crew they're gonna be running off But not without doing a tremendous amount of damage to high-value dudes so good good on them They're gonna try and get out of there, but my cross been are not gonna Let him have it we're gonna be picking apart these elves looks like the entire crew is going down. There's one Looks like there may be one who lives to tell the tale Of the Dwarven fury and the ambush that was done to these guys I'm hoping we get the last volley so there's no survivors and this goes down as a fairy tale a Story told to the elven children of the massacre of the elves It looks like one guy is gonna. Go ahead and tell this tale. Yep. He's gonna get away with his life the rest of them Definitely going down So that's it there remember the general went down everyone was killed except for that one artillery crewman But he's gonna tell the other elves about what he learned this day on how to aim catapult so perhaps in the next battle They'll be having a whole army filled with catapults We'll see in any case the odds were definitely in my favor number wise look how many dudes I brought like I said I brought a spam Dwarf army with a lot of low-value units just to soak up the enemy Fire he had 825 men and look how many guys he killed 1,500 men were killed so he nearly evened up the odds on me Doing really you know that goes to show how good the elven forces are And if you want to go up against something you need something to soak up their fire So I think I found a nice little combo here definitely saving the elite troops to the end paid off So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this little scenario. I thought it was really cool very interesting map and Yeah, hope you guys enjoyed. Thanks so much for watching peace out or actually Before we do that. Let's go ahead and show the battle statistics. I'm curious to see Who got the most kills? Looks like everyone getting decent amount of kills iron guard doing well Dragon slayers with 25, but I think it was mostly the Crossbowman where they at yeah crossman 106 57 33 so doing really good and actually the halberd men surprisingly getting A lot of kills there. Oh, no. Sorry. That's casualty sustained So yeah iron crossman still doing really well halberd men doing really well and overall I didn't really get that many kills on any one unit. I just used you know just sheer number of guys throwing at the the opponent Anyways, that's it for me. Hope you guys enjoyed see the next one peace out