00:03Hello everybody and welcome to our Dark Elves Battle Let's Play.
00:07This Let's Play is a direct continuation of yesterday's video,
00:10where we left off with Malekith sieging the High Elf settlement of Karn Thel
00:14in order to disrupt their ritual.
00:17Before we get into the battle, I wanted to show off the amazing landscape of this battlefield
00:21and some of the High Elf architecture.
00:24The settlement battles feel a lot more alive in Total War Warhammer 2.
00:27As you can see, the battlefield is littered with High Elf army camps, farms, houses and roads
00:32that lead directly into the settlement itself, which is right at the back of the Defenders.
00:37As well as that, graphical updates to lighting, reflections and anti-aliasing
00:41help really bring the environments to life.
00:52In the deployment phase now, here we have the Witch King himself, Malekith,
00:56standing smugly eyeing his prize.
00:59On his left we have three units of Witch Elves, a fast-paced, lightly armoured, high damage dealing unit.
01:06Considering their vulnerability, I've placed two units of Blackguard of Naggarond behind them,
01:10the most expensive infantry unit for the Dark Elves.
01:16Of course we have our tank of the battlefield, our War Hydra, such a cute little thing.
01:21And onwards now to the Blue Swords, these are low-tier infantry, but can hold their own in a fight
01:25and soak up missiles at an acceptable rate.
01:30Next we have the Black Ark Corsairs, which we recruited from the Black Ark itself.
01:34With their Sea Dragon Cloaks, they have very high armor, even without a shield.
01:38Behind them we have the Shades, a sneaky and vicious unit that are mainly missile-focused,
01:42but decent melee combatants.
01:44The Dark Shards with shields are much weaker than the Shades, but will sustain enemy fire much longer,
01:48so I have them guarding the Reaper Bolt Thrower.
01:52Lastly we have our K-Knight Assassin, whom as many people correctly pointed out in yesterday's video
01:56is a male, as there are no female K-Knight Assassins in the lore.
02:00Alright, now let's get ready for battle.
02:02I'll be cutting between cinematic replay footage and regular gameplay to give you guys a close-up
02:06look of the units and an idea of the gameplay.
02:09For most of the cinematic shots, I'll try to be quiet and let you guys enjoy the atmosphere.
02:13And on that note, let's begin.
02:15Now a quick reminder is that we have a Black Ark reinforcing us in this battle which gives
02:19us additional bombardment support, so we're going to try and clump up the overwhelming numbers
02:23of the High Elves to call down that support on them.
02:32As well as that, when we kill a certain amount of enemies, we'll get our murderous prowess effect
02:37army-wired, which will increase our attack and charge by 25% and give smaller increases
02:42to leadership and missiles.
02:44So the basic plan is to devastate as much as possible early on to buff all of our troops
02:48to achieve maximum damage output.
03:02I had to pull my Witch Elves back and let the Black Guard take over as they were about
03:05to get charged by some anti-infantry cavalry, just about managed to pull out of that one.
03:10The War Hydra is in the thick of the combat now.
03:12I'll need to give it some space so it can use its Fiery Breath ability.
03:22Little bit of friendly fire with the Reaper throws there, but it's a necessary sacrifice.
03:26The enemy Moondragon is targeting my Witch Elves.
03:32Damn, that pretty much wiped out the unit completely.
03:40We'll get our Shades to focus on the Illyrian Reaver Archers, which have flanked me.
03:44They should be able to take them down pretty easily at this range.
04:12Just got my Hydra out of the main combat now, so we'll look to target some of these archers
04:16that are peppering me from a distance.
04:32Something I forgot to show off are my Dark Riders.
04:34I've kept them hidden in the forest to engage some rogue missile units, so we'll send them
04:37after them now.
04:47Alright, looks like we've got a clump of troops on the left.
04:49Let's call down all three types of bombardment.
04:52The bombardments range from high splash to high concentrated fire, but I like to just use
04:56all three at once.
05:02Nice, that's pushed us over the edge for murderous prowess.
05:05This should turn the tables.
05:20Okay, looks like the Moondragon is just about finished.
05:23It's broken and trying to get away.
05:24I'm going to switch our bullthrows to anti-large and target it to see if we can take it down.
05:30Our cavalry has actually gotten a bit bogged down now with those archers, and we're constantly
05:34being fired on, so it's not looking too good for them.
05:53Looks like the Moondragon has taken off.
05:55Don't think it'll be coming back though.
05:58Let's start using some of Malekith's spells.
06:00We'll use Chill Wind on this line of archers to scatter them.
06:08Interestingly, now you can actually rotate wind spells, so that makes them much more effective.
06:14Our cavalry is just freed up now, so we'll take a look for a new target to send them into.
06:18I think the battle is starting to turn in our favor.
06:21This clump of troops is still pretty big on our left, so let's throw down the Blade Wind Vortex
06:25to get them up out of here.
06:50Nice, that pretty much took them all out.
06:52We just have a few straggler units to deal with now.
06:57The Lothar and Seaguard are great in melee too, so we'll need to take them out and their
07:00Lord if we want to route their army.
07:06We'll get our bullthrows to fire on the archers too.
07:08It looks like I forgot to put them on guard mode, so we'll have to redirect their fire.
07:39Just surrounded their princess now.
07:41So we'll debuff her and hopefully take her down.
07:44Also, this is a perfect group to use our War Hydra on again.
08:09Their Lord and Eagle are just about to route.
08:11Let's see if we can hit any more units with bombardments.
08:14The AI are actually pretty adept at moving away from these spells.
08:17I've noticed if they are defending and sitting on a hill or something, toggling a spell on
08:21them will get them to move away from it and then back in formation.
08:24It's frustrating for us, but it's a cool feature for the AI.
08:32Alright, looks like we're done here.
08:33Carn Thel will be raised to the ground and the Ritual put to bed.
08:49Nice, a victory.
08:51Let's have one more Hydra Breath just for good measure.
08:55Alright, that's it for the video everyone.
08:57I hope you've enjoyed this series of videos surrounding the Dark Elves this week.
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