Crypt Horror Show Build (Total War: Warhammer Battle #196)

Hey, what's up guys? It's Oakley and I figured I'd show you a little build that I've been using as of late for the vampires call it Crip Horseshoe and Basically as the leader you want to choose Manfred von Carstein Just because he is kind of the strongest of the leaders take a barded nightmare here rather than zombie dragon Yes, zombie dragon makes you strong, but it makes you vulnerable up in the air with no place to land So definitely bring you know a way to stay on the ground I do take a banshee with this build because it has ethereal and it causes terror. So this allows you to Take out key units that can't really do the correct type of damage against you Then I bring four zombies with two skeleton spearmen. Those are to hold the flanks I have a couple kind of light infantry there then the heavier hitting grave guard with great weapons And then here's kind of the core hitting force for Crypt whores with a black coach here, which is anti-infantry causes terror in combination Those can tear through ranks of the enemy. So I'm gonna be releasing a couple different videos staggered over time All of them kind of using this build but in different scenarios in this one in particular I'm just gonna kind of go over the deployment All of the battle does go in kind of a different way than I would typically use this build In terms of the deployment. This is how I usually do it So I send my skeletons up or sorry zombies up through the front then I put skeletons on either flank I put my heroes and kind of special single-character units in the center and I'll go over the kind of what the strategy is after that I put these two kind of functional infantry units down in the center to help support and the center is supposed to be flexible To go either way then I have kind of my reserves in the back So the grave guard and then the crypt whores in the way way back Just so they stay out of range of enemy spells and missiles and and what have you So the main strategy here is you have your zombie front and they're mainly supposed to move up slowly But surely creep their way up and close the distance on the enemy You push left and right on the flanks with these spearmen to hold back and then you have this center group of heroes that can You know go to reinforce and they kind of function as your sweepers and they help push out and secure the flank positions for you ultimately, the goal of this build is to activate your reserves and Especially bringing these crypt whores on the flank where they can be super effective Then once you've kind of secured the flanks and have closed to range You're gonna have troops here here and here and then at that point This is where you were You know You would go ahead and spring your trap from the center from the flanks and kind of do an all-out Surround so it does take multiple steps One is gonna be the first step is gonna be sweeping the flanks with a slow push two is gonna be sending your Heroes to swat back enemy charges on either flank Slash exploit gaps and then third phase is gonna be to move in with your crypt whores Around the flanks and crush anything that's been tied down at that point so what you're gonna see in this battle is an opponent who deploys far away and has Well, he's the Empire He's gonna have a bunch of these demigriff Knights So I don't necessarily get the chance to do the tactics that I just explained here But I want to show the versatility at least of this build. I Will like I said have a couple follow-up videos where I show this build in action Now the reason I bring crip whores is because they are some of the most cost-effective Monster units in the game. They only cost about I think it's 800 apiece. I'm something that and they stand You know stand their ground and do a lot of damage for a long long time I've seen some people try and spam them completely and I do believe that they can beat a complete demigriff spam So they're definitely very strong. So for this build, I just wanted to bring four, you know Four of the same units is not considered overpowered. So just wanted to bring their their their slight Openness to bear but not to the point where it was overwhelming So when I was here, you can see a little bit of the strategy in action as I start pushing forward I activate my hero units in the center and they're gonna be sent to the left to push back the enemy That's trying to hold the flank here Moving forward with Manfred is gonna be important What you want to try and do is if you have hefty targets like this Casting fate of Juna to try and take out those units Although you have to do you have to remain wary of enemy spellcasters You may try and snipe you which is exactly why I kept Manfred on a mount So that I can retreat him at a moment's notice Now these three heroes are very good. They're very versatile. So the Banshee is gonna be very good in this position She's quick. She's fast and she's a ethereal So she really doesn't take that much damage from the crypt wars. The black coach is there in case I have to deal with Infantry and so it has anti-infantry buffs Meanwhile Manfred is just gonna stay close He's gonna cycle and the black coach is just gonna be here to move around You can see it already took some hits so as Manfred don't be afraid to you know regain some of your Winds of magic and also use some rejuvenation on your heroes in the front so that can keep you up and running on the right I'm also being charged So at this point this is where you want to you know Use the zombies to absorb charges and try and close in on them with some of your other support units So for instance here This is why I had the skeleton spearman on that flank and then I'm now moving forward with my crypt wars on either flank again To help with the sweeping maneuver now. I'm starting to get pulled a little bit out of position here So I'm gonna try and reform just a bit But all the while my main force is slowly creeping forward and that's the point of the zombies Are sorry the vampire counts is that you need to creep your army forward do it's very slow And so most of the time you'll notice I'm just spending my time here sniping enemy forces up close Slowly pushing and securing my flanks making sure that when I do take hit from cannons And whatnot that I can go ahead and heal it with my hero So now my opponent who wanted to kite with his demigriff Knights has kind of seen himself push back rather Significantly and I've gotten some nice exchanges So I'm gonna start to reform a bit crypt wars are gonna start to push on the flanks It's kind of up to you to judge when you push up the crypt wars They're very important to push up the flanks. But again moving them to aggressively can expose them to attack So now we've arrived kind of at the end of phase one which was to secure the flanks and close ground So now we're gonna move into phase two, which is when you can start your assault So I've reformed kind of into the main formation had in the beginning again Keeping the chump blocks of the zombies in the front moving the skeleton spearmen around the flanks And then the heroes returning to the center once again, so they can remain flexible in their positioning Crypt wars may be a little bit too far ahead What I like to do is keep them front and center just so they can you know If need be they can pivot to one side and mass I think pre deploying them to the flanks and sometimes be Too premature your opponent could for instance shift all the demigriff Knights to one side and you know Counteract you pretty pretty handedly and it makes it so that you can't really reshuffle them So that's why I like to keep them usually in the center as a strategic reserve but seeing how in this case my opponent did form up in a Somewhat of a ball in a knot here atop the hill that I could at least bear to move around the flanks On the left there. You saw my opponent trying to sally out with some Demis and this is where I reacted with two of my heroes and that caused him to rethink his options You can see my banshee still there at full strength Moving forward my rear lines and now the crypt wars can commit to the flanks It's important not to commit certain heroes in certain situations So here I'm obviously sending in the banshee first and the black coach has no need to be in that action So he's gonna go ahead and retreat So if you're playing with this build always mind you what the use of everything is the banshee is actually pretty good against almost anything I would generally try and use her to blunt enemy charges and attack units that don't have the ability to deal damage to ethereal forces What we're gonna do here is I've spotted a swordsman unit And so the black coach as anti infantry is gonna come in and sweep into that from the flank Now typically what you want to do with your black coach is keep microing it land a strike like there and pull out immediately But because I'm microing elsewhere, I'm not gonna be able to pull it out in time That is a problem that I'm having right here. And so it's actually gonna get charged by great sword So I really need to pull it out of there Carl France is coming in as well. So you should pop your abilities I'm gonna pop the ability that gives you me more attack probably should have popped the one that gives me more damage resistance But I figured I wanted to do as much damage as possible knowing that it will probably die So I'm having to micro kind of a lot Manfred comes in here. You want to move him in a support character? So move them into these tight-knit blobs pop that ability and then do the you know Pop everything on these blobs to make sure you get as cost-effective as possible Bit of Juna again just to get rid of unit blobs And I'm gonna start to push in the center on this flank to crypt Horus fighting a demigriff Knight cost effective wise Yes, the Demi's will take out one of my creepers, but they cost about half So pretty happy with that exchange and I have of course skeleton spearman's on either flank to help support the center Meanwhile is being tied down by my zombies and then I noticed that there are great swords pushing down the center so I'm gonna pull out and wait to bring in my Great weapons on this flank that made sure that Demi's got isolated before I fought them. So that flank should be secured Now here don't take engagement Engagements, you don't need to you saw I pulled away from that great sword now that it's outnumbered It's gonna go ahead and retreat and that's exactly what I wanted to do. Anyways, I didn't want to needlessly lose a unit So what I'm gonna do at this point is Actually raise some undead here that you really want to be using man for very actively to get the best bang for your buck Be-popping spells all the time So if you run into a case where you know I just have two units moving up here and I really want to tie down this entire force So the easiest way to do that is going to be to pop zombies and then what Manfred could do is actually pull out of that position Having popped the zombies and go ahead and recommit on another point We're gonna go ahead and do that front lines are charging grave guards are pulling into the center and the left now I beat those Demi's so looks like the flanks are being ones This is pushing on phase three where I'm fighting on both flanks, and I'm gonna commit to an attack down the center You want to definitely? Babysit Manfred if he goes down your entire army is liable to collapse and so you can see call friends here Starting to disengage so you can try and go after Manfred so what I'm gonna have to do is pull him out of here fall back to my grave guard units Deathclaw went right after my Banshee pop some abilities and so my Banshee is gonna be routing But look how many units she's tied down. That is why I bring that Banshee super helpful Meanwhile you can see on that flank. I'm winning out against some swordsmen Demi's are routing and in the center. I'm wrapping around those grave guard again using Manfred to come close to troops pop abilities And then disengage from hero fights. I would say don't get into hero fights as the vampire counts. It's very very dangerous One of the things that could have gone wrong is notice how Manfred is being chased here if he was on a mounted unit there Would be no way to get away from Deathclaw you have no range units as the vampire count So there's no way to support unless you do bring your own flying units, but I very much prefer having your heroes on horseback Now I'm closing in for the final assault down the center so as this build was mentioned before I mean, it's it's called the crypt horror show, but in this map my crypt in this engagement my crypt Crypt ghoul or sorry Crypt horrors have basically been blunted They've been wasted in charges against Demi's on either flank In most cases where I use this build they will survive to the end game And this is where you would have them flanking around hitting the opponents in the back I'll have more videos in the future where I do manage to pull that type of playoff But I figured I'd show at least a different type of engagement for this video to show a bit of the flexibility of the build Manfred at this point should not be static He should be used as a one-man hammer and anvil force to free up your units and really keep the zombies going Or keep your your greens I'm stumbling over my words. Keep your vamp your vampire count forces going you want to be strategically knocking out units here and they're getting critical mass and just freeing up the horde of Undead to keep going about keeping about healthy healthy levels making sure to pop the ability that Ups the winds of magic, so it's definitely a micro intensive build, but it's a very fun when I found and Then use this buff as well pretty routinely Make sure your forces are operating at top condition and then here finally at the end I'm gonna commit myself to a fight against call France, but only only at the very end and So there you go pulled off a pure victory. So this build is fun It's relatively balanced and it doesn't rely too much on an excessive amount of crypt whores it doesn't rely on an abuse of Spirit leech and stuff like that. So overall, I think it's a fair fun and balanced vampire counts build that does prove to be pretty Sustainable, although in this battle the crypt whores did not really show off their skill and overall I didn't get that many kills But still it proves its worth and like I said, I'll have more videos in the future fighting against different races So you can see how you can tailor it to different battles. Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed stay tuned for more. See ya