Khatep Immortal Empires Campaign Review

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[LegendofTotalWar]

*Hey guys this video is late today because it was stuck rendering for like 10 hours longer than usual*

[isthianlyon]

I hate to correct Legend, but the Sandstorm Vortex is not random. Every time I cast this spell it immediately heads for my healthiest infantry unit.

You can still make use of this, just cast the sandstorm where it has to go through the enemy to get to you. It'll carve a straight line towards you, worry not.

[vahlen]

It still annoys me to no end that CA has castrated the starting armies of so many LLs. I somewhat get why they took Settra's Sphinx away, but Khatep's Hierotitan was what made his early game so interesting.

[TheBaralinChannel]

For some reason I just really get along with Khatep. His weird, lonely start, trying to reconnect with Settra etc. It works out nicely. Not the easiest lord to work out but I also just really like him as a wizard and as an artillery Lord. Not that many of those in the game. Cheers.

[andrewtobias]

Haven’t finished the video, but just a heads up, the -25% cost for mortuary cult items does not seem to work past the first purchase for dynasties (source: ElichTV’s stream).

[Erik_Dz]

Good thing to note for early Khatep, because his faction effect is also +2 lichpriests, you can immediately recruit 2 more on turn 1. Having 3 different lichpriests, with bonus experience gained, right away is very powerful.

[ShadowdaleA]

You can also cycle all the tomb king heroes every turn till you get the ones you want. I always made every Tomb Prince "trustworthy" giving them diplomatic bonuses. Ended up straight vassalizing Malakith and Helebrond. Even Alarielle was open to being a vassal by trading her a settlement, which was strange. But now Khatep leads the High Elves, and the Dark Elves.

[Kinperor]

Some advices I can give for Khatep:

1. The Lich capacity is (IMO) a bit more important than it might sound, because you can get all those Lich Priest right away, put them in Khatep's army, level them fast due to Khatep's trait and unlock the Canopic Jar skill with any lich priest that you manage to unlock.
2. I recommend rushing the Herald Empowered research at the far right of the Tomb King research tree, as it accelerates Global Recruitment AND give you an additional army. The only "downside" is that you need to spend a lot of jars, but as mentioned before you can get the Canopic Jar rolling early for liches in Khatep's army, and you can get a reliable amount of jars from fighting.
3. The neighboring book of Nagash in the rogue army is NOT easy to get, don't even plan around getting it with only basic units, I think only Legend could manage that fight in early game.

[jacobsampsonis]

It'd be cool if khatep had some extra objective /mission for returning to nehekarah kind of like belegar or skarsnik for eight peaks

[MasterJMG]

Who thought the White Dwarf would be the most useful ally to a lonely skelly boi

[Tec]

Khatep loosing his hierotitan makes me hate his start in tw3

[nogsan]

I had fun with this campaign, the Casket mount helped me a lot. As you said, Grombrindal was my best friend (kill Valkia quick PLEASE) and Sister somehow accepted me.
The problem was when I found a book of Nagash that revealed the High Elves who immediatelly decided to send every force against me for no reason other than killing Malekith an his friends.
Can't trust the knife ears.

[MegaNever]

The Liche Priest capacity and his personal +xp for heroes definitely leans towards recruiting them early, and getting them leveled up through his army, so when you do get more army capacity, you already have more powerful mages to help get them off the ground.

[leodoe]

Khatep is probably one of the hardest and grindiest campaign i ever done in legendary and i've done many painful campaigns ( kugath, imrik )

90 % of north america is basicaly orange so you get huge penalties that will significantly slow your empire progression with repercussions even in late game weither or not you do well and be proactive, especialy painful since despite get buffed in tww3, TK eco is still very slow at the beginning so extra time for buildings is very painful for TK.

The map is full of mountains with shit line of sight, narrow corridors and you take so much time to go travel from settlement to another, making you very vulnerable to harrassement.

Nobody likes you and WILL declare war on you sooner or later facing very potent ennemies and/or powerful counter of TK. Grombrimgal will be smashed before turn 30 by Valkia and/or Malekith and as soon as you reach minor ogres at north east, MAlekith will def focus on you hard despite being at war with Valkia thanks to AI bias.

Kathep faction sucks at dealing vs single entities early ( i recommend taking death lich priest turn 1 ) you can basicaly get wiped by orcs lords if you let them stonk and is super vulnerable to disrupt effect like vortexes and winds spells or invocations and Malekith have busted magic spam + valkia will spam fire shit that will decimate your armies by the time you'll face her.

You must also prepare for a war vs high elves because they always end to unify the donuts and by that time, their eco stonk hard and their roster is basicaly stronger than yours. Tyrion and Alarielle will spam armies making Normandy landings pathetic and declare war on you with dragons and other OP shits so you better get lots of ushabtis and anti large before 70-80 ish. To give you an insight, no less than 12 armies (alarielle+tyrion), including a doomstack of 6 stellar dragons + 3 other dragons were near my coast before they declared war on me and it was turn 7x.

You must play total annihilation and cannot spare Malekith or Alith anar because Alith anar is likely to betray you anyway and Malekith will tunnel vision on you no matter how dire his position is, if you want get rid of valkia it will be also pain, with full of red territories, attrition and Valkia being OP, with -3 turn to respawn and turning into basicaly a flying Vlad 2.0 with better roster.

Also lot of beastmen will pop, Taurox will probably full corrupt a zone and Morathi will lurk to attack you from south if you dont erase her.

I mean unlike Imrik who have at least braindead roster and its pretty easy when you get rid of tretch and chaos dwarf and stabilise your start, Khatep is constant struggle to survive with diminished eco, attacks from everywhere and armies mostly composed of trashs facing elves or chaos warriors.

[andrerodon]

I won't lie, I miss the "later fuckers!" - but I understand. Thanks for being you and I hope all is well. Sorry to hear about that theft - some ppl just suck sometimes... proud of you for looking on the bright side and glad your true valuables (family including pets) are ok.

[playwars]

Holy shit you can bypass the army limit for tomb kings ? Yeah, damn, that's broken as hell. Honestly, I've only seen broken stuff from that 'save lord' feature. It seems to have brought a giant pile of exploits. Does anyone...actually use it for its intended purpose ? I never really found a use for it, period, so I'm genuinely curious.

[SGProductions]

If you want to not have problems with the wood elves, join one of their wars and/or cap a settlement you don't want and give it to them for non aggression, money and other treaties.

[ShadowdaleA]

As an artillery lord I would also highly suggest going full red/blue lines and not getting any magic whatsoever. Only use his bound spells, and get another caster to be the real wizard. If he's near the front lines, hes gonna get focused down.

Final tip is you can swap between all your researches till they go to 1 and not finish them. Doing that, you complete the TK tech tree around 120-150 turns in.

[thorgrimgrudgebearer]

As someone who has found love for the Tomb Kings in IE, I have found the challenge of the campaign lasts a little longer than other races where you are unstoppable at turn 50. Still run out of steam way sooner that ME, CA needs to do something. I can 'finish' two campaigns in a day if I want to.

[raynightshade]

Don't let this distract you form the fact that Khatep STOLE Khalida Snakes