GRAND CATHAY Army Guide - Part 1: Roster | Warhammer 3

A guide to the faction of Grand Cathay's army and how to play them. Starting by going through the roster of each unit to understand their capabilities and roles on the battlefield. Part 2 will cover the tactics and strategies to best use them! [Coming soon]

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[Zayl]

A nice thing about Wu Xing Compass is it has Yang Harmony, which means it can be parked with artillery, which have Yin harmony, and buff them a good deal.

[MollymaukT]

Hey Zerk! Sky-Junk and Lantern are showing the opposite units;)

[sim.frischh]

"Long" means "Dragon", "Ma" means "horse", so "Longma" is a "Dragonhorse"... if my little chinese knowledge is not entirely off.
Yes, definitely a Dragonhorse... looks neat.
I also really like how the cannon and missile launcher look.

[Panchito]

I was floored with the legit "Meow" Yin, took me off guard

[rhada]

The legendary guides par Master Zerk are back. Thank you bro, increased the hype by 100%

[Onyx_crowmen]

Its nice to see that unit size stat for single entity also scale weapon strength rather than only hp as it is in warhammer 2.

[owenwoodroff]

I feel like it's worth pointing out that although it's not listed anywhere the Sky-Junk does have a set of 4 Crane Gunners on it like the Sky Lantern that will fire on ground troops, I just don't think you can manually aim them? I think the Sky-Junk is simply an advanced version of the Lantern, there's not really any question that it's better overall.

[dantesparda]

I actually found that peasant units as cathay were fairly good at just being armies I could throw around and with upgrades they had decent stats so I enjoy using them quite a bit

[halo]

14:52 "and then we have warp-loc- i mean crane gunners" i laughed xD

[nikitadmitrovich]

Just bought TWW3, really enjoying your guides. Would love to see part - 2 in some form.

[badipaddress]

I love your army guides, I am happy they're back!

[josephkush]

Absolutely amazing, can't wait to see the creative mods that will also be made

[paulbridge]

Did you ever get round to making part two of this? Am new to TW Warhammer, so am enjoying your channel

[matthewcharles]

"ever seen a horse with a top knot?"
I don't know how to process this lol.

Thanks for the awesome overview vids. Which faction you doing next?

[zikarisg]

This looks like to be my go-to faction. Great guide, thanks!

[MrSafior]

Again, can't wait to see them against older factions!

[francoabad]

A Spanish tercio strategy with cathay seems to be quite effective

[AnthonyLorenzen]

Great content! Keep up the great work! Appreciate the well organized/straight forward info I can use as reference at any time!

[KeijoAmbersson]

Looking at the rosters for Cathay and Kislev just makes it more obvious how busted the elf rosters in WH2 are. Jade warrior crossbows = Darkshards, except darkshards get ton of AP damage. You need to get to the tier 5(?) celestial version to match the tier 3 Shades. At least Cathay get jezzails, so that's something.

Kislev frost guard = Sisters of Avelorn. Tier 4 Female magical archers with very good melee stats to complement their range. Except, again no AP damage for WH3 humies but AP damage for skinny gits. And since magic resistance no longer blocks magical weapon damage, the sisters are more potent than ever. Well, at least the gap between them is smaller.

As it looks like CA are halting the power creep, it means that High Elves, Dark Elves and Skaven will remain as the best rosters in campaign. And Skaven will probably still get more dlc with verminlords. The rats are fun to play tho, can't argue that. Maybe would be enough to just nerf the elf economy a bit. They can have their elite roster, just not so many armies.

[loganswalk]

Can't wait to see the match ups against Cathay like how they going to fair against the infantry munching dark elves or the artillery focused dwarves.