Total Warhammer 2 & 3- COMPLETE High Elves Campaign Guide

Complete Race Guide For High Elves (Total War: Warhammer 2 and 3)
Concise guide to help newcomers and veterans quickly learn the race and how to dominate any campaign on Legendary Difficulty!

Complete Basics Guide for Universal Campaign Mastery:

Advanced Diplomacy and Confedaration Strats:

Never Lose a Battle with my Unbeatable Campaign Formation:

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Total War: Warhammer 2 Guide
0:00 intro
00:35 Who are the High Elves?
01:02 Racial Strengths
01:58 Racial Weaknesses
03:12 Faction Overviews
04:50 Consolidating Ulthuan Effectively
5:23 Diplomatic Challenges
5:40 First Dark Elf Invasion (Morathi)
6:50 Quick Confederation Strats (Imrik and Tyrion)
7:22 Influence
8:30 Stances
9:18 Rites / Invocations
10:40 Tiers and Campaign Progression
11:12 Tier 1 – Entertainment and Minor Settlements
12:05 Tier 2 – Nobles
13:10 Tier 3 – Fire Mages and Setup for T4
14:15 Lothern Seaguard vs Sisters vs Silverin
15:50 Tier 4 – Sisters and Handmaidens
16:50 Tier 4 – Loremasters (Army Healers)
18:00 Tier 5 – Hero Cap Buildings and Research
19:04 Research
19:54 Economy and Research Buffs

Thanks for watching!

Dedicated to Jynx 19/07/21

[rvl]

Hi! One year late but this has been one of the most comprehensive and holistic guides to High Elves. Definitely looking forward to improving a lot of my previous mis-plays.

Looking forward to binging more of your content and hope you keep up this quality of videos.

[ronaldp]

Still the best High Elf guide on YouTube.

[nox]

Was playing my first TW2 campaign ever, started with Imrik. And your dragon guide helped me out a ton! I collected all the dragons and still learned a lot about playing High Elves from the vid, thanks a bunch. :)

[haldude]

Man I love your channel, I am such a huge fan of elven races and have been having fun with Warhammer recently, this content is exactly what I needed.

[zedek_]

Good stuff! I could never quite get the High Elf campaign; it didn't quite suit me. On a whim, I was going to look for a playthrough, and I found this. Thank you! Some good nuances here.

[MirridonOnslaught]

Best beginning guide i have seen for wh2. Thank you!!

[erensametkaratas]

Alith Anar's faction is better than any other high elf faction. Being able to ambush attack on its own is enough to make him the number 1 high elf faction. Yes, he starts in a relatively more difficult position, but that's only gonna be relevant for the early stages of your campaign, and even then, it's not THAT difficult.

[brokentool]

really, really great beginner guide. thank you!

[TimurKOI]

Thanks very much for your guides! From the second try I finished Tyrion campaign on a very hard difficulty. 😅

[FazFireFist]

Your guides are the best! Thank you for sharing the tips! :)

[MrYouExtra]

That was a good video! 👍 thanks for the refresher.

[Jose-urjz]

i hope you got lot more subs cos your videos are great man

[lockedon]

I always viewed the lothern sea guard as a 'national guard unit' or archery reserve/guard for archers, leaders, artillery, beasts, ect. They are just to inefficient to be used as a frontline combat unit, but in tests I've found them to be the best guards/combat rescue units or even early game reserves.

In your humble opinion, what lores of magic are the best for high elves?

[seltin]

hope to see a long walkthroug from you on this nice race, any of the strating locations would do, you have a really sothing voice ideal for campagin :)

[akarachaivaramali]

I don’t know if you will see this, but can you please tell me how to get silverin guards and sisters of averlorn?
Also, this video is the best comprehensive guide I’ve ever seen. May great fortune forever bless you good sir.

[Mactav]

Cons: "Mediocre Offensive Melee"
*sad White Lions and Swordmaster noises*

(warning: wall of text about TT, tiers, HE buildings and infantry below)

It's real shame, since on TT, high elf infantry (including their spearmen) were notorious for their high speed, high initiative, always strike first. Not to mention White Lions being same "tier" (same cost per model, both special category) as Swordmasters. Yeah, Swordmasters had higher Weapon Skill (basically MA+MD), and 2 attacks instead of one, but they had only Strength of 3 (+2 from Great Weapon) so they did 2x S5 attacks at 6 WS, meanwhile White Lions had 1x S6 attack (4 base strength + 2 from GW) at 5 WS. And while they had both the same speed, initiative, extra rank attack from Martial Prowess, toughness and both had heavy armor, White Lions also had Lion Cloak for better missile protection and Stubborn for better morale.
I'd love to see White Lions be reworked into generalist T4 heavy AP infantry with Immune to Psych and better MA and Weapon Strenght (but not better at anti-inf than swordmasters, nor better at anti-large than PG).

Right now, White Lions are just worse than swordmasters and only really have place in mutliplayer against high armor matchups (Chaos and Dwarves). Imo, the biggest issue high elf t2-3 units is the number of recruitment buildings and the weak HE economy at the start (requiring PO building).
If White Lions got buffed into a T4 heavy AP generalist infantry and the redline cav building got removed with Silver Helms being put at T3 barracks (or T3 smith) and Reavers into T2 grove next to eagles, I think it could help the early-mid game army variety of high elves quite a bit. You could get your "glitering host" units from a single barracks chain, eg.: rangers, LSG, Shadow Warriors, Silver Helms and Silverin Guard. You could also get fast light flankers from T2 grove in eagles and reavers and eventually getting to those tasty T4 White Lions and Sisters all in one chain.

And while this seems like it could put Swordmasters even further behind, I don't think so. Now you'd have your bruiser T4 White Lions and even more Tanky T5 PG for your frontline brawling, which could enable your Swordmasters to flank around and do their damage. Couple that with Resistant Prince, Resistant Handmaiden and lvl 7 redline buffs and suddenly both your WL and Swordmasters have 35% magic rest (15% from lord, 5% handmaiden, 15% red line), +15% missile resist (10% lord, 5% handmaiden) +23 MD (5 lord, 5 handmaiden, 5+8 red skill line), +8 MA & +10% WS (red skill line).
I feel having beefy T4-5 frontline units like that would imo open up quite a bit of options for HE even on VH battle difficulty that go beyond missile or Dragon spam.



Anyways, great video, though I would note that Moon Dragons are good challengers to Star Dragons despite their lower stats. Star Dragon breath is good at sniping single entities, a task that is already handled well by Sisters of Avelorn. Meanwhile Moon Dragon offers a wider AP breath, great against units of armoured elite infantry/cav, something you are bound to fight against once get into late game war with Chaos and Dark Elves.

[PaperLigers]

thanks so much for this, the warhammer ip got me into this series but its my first strategy outside of civ lol

[craftycraff]

I’ve been binge watching your content, it is top tier!

I have some questions.

I recently tried to follow your strat to confederate Caledor early, but it seems much more difficult now.
Also, what is the significance of confederating Caledor first specifically?

You advise us to gain control of the gates, but how do we get them without going to war with the other factions? Is it through confederation?

Also, your battle formation guide has helped me a lot!

Thanks in advance!

[yuandias]

Great guide! What would be a recomended army for someone who doesn't own the dlcs?

[GabriLoyonki]

Just great guide mate, are u planning in updating this kind of high elves videos for TWW3 now that we got IE? thanks mate good job