Drazhoath the Ashen Immortal Empires Campaign Review

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[gijskramer]

Thing to note . You can get heaps o gold on turn 3 or 4 by having a very small army attack the caravans that stop at your capital. The garrison should help

[JacksonINC]

Hands down my favourite lord to date, such a fun campaign

[Pemmont]

My go-to ally as Drazhoath was Greasus. A fairly powerful faction who kept the eastern flank secure for a good while, and was a good ally against Grimgor.
Did eventually drag me into a couple of wars in Cathay, but totally worth it for that secure flank early game!

Also, yes! I'm currently at turn 140 and *still* want to play more. Easily the most engaging campaign I've played in a long while.

[Ors]

Hey just a bit of a correction, Drazhoath's ability "Dark Renown" that he gets from his starting trait, only affects units with the Contempt passive and not all units so basically any Chaos Dwarf unit, hero, or bull centaurs. Not a big deal but I thought I'd point it out.

[Coeurebene]

The +15 bonus vs infantry for the Infernal guard and Ironsworns is massive, it makes them not only tanky but also very good at dealing damage.

[mr_clean]

Something that helped me on this campaign is how factory settlements are apparently very valuable to the AI in diplomacy. They give like 50 points of “economic value” in the deal balance. I traded a couple factories in the mountains of mourn to Zhao Ming and now he’s my best friend.

[rottentreatz]

Previous, my favorite lord to play was Heinrich Kemmler because of his reduced wind of death cost and Krell. That being said, I really enjoy Drazoath. He is fun to play, even with the difficult start.

[newsngames]

Nice! Love how you're going through what to do as well as provide details of the lords, etc. Keep it up

[okonkwojones]

I feel like A guide to their economy/tech and settlement progression would be really helpful
Because I kinda struggle, I didn’t realize how much a top tier building can shift its buffs.
There’s lots of little details and techs hidden In weird trees, or really important ones gated by useless blockers, that I’m probably overlooking a ton of interlocking mechanics.

[Jak]

Thanks for the great video! If you're ever thinking of new video ideas, I would be interested in hearing you talking about your late game army compositions for each faction. I often find myself hunting through your streams to see what kind of armies you build at different stages of the campaign, so would be nice to see this condensed into short videos like these, especially since doomstacks are less optimal in WH3.

[RedReVenge]

Love the channel!

Been playing Drazhoath as a THIS IS TOTAL WAR campaign and it’s crazy fun/stressful. Definitely recommend it!

[SiodogRehane]

Small suggestion for Imrik. In my 10 tries to see consistency I checked you can rush the orks and go straight for Imrik. You end up north of the dwarfs last settlement+army while Imrik is amassing force to attack him and get the province. Get close to that settlement and ambush next to your non-corrupt brothers. They will help you fight the knife-ears as neutral alliance and common enemy. Then you can wipe the dwarfs to get the settlement yourself and autoresolve every elf settlement from Imrik, he will not have time to build his army even in legendary

[AHeckman]

I can’t wait to try out Drazoath! I’ve been enjoying my Zhatan campaign, but feel like a harder start might make things very interesting

[are]

no doubt, Drazhoath is by far the best legendary lord in WH3. Amazing in battlefield, amazing commander and amazing faction leader

[PenguinWithInternetAccess]

Currently almost done with my Drazhoath campaign (my first Hard/Hard campaign I'll actually get long victory lol) and it is quite fun, I did manage to get a good alliance with greasus by gifting him two settlements taken from grimgor (at least before betraying him like a true skaven fan yes-yes) but i'd say the difficulty very much varies on when Thorgrim finally declares war on you

[moussamalak]

Thank you for pointing out the difference between outpost and factories regarding minor battles. I honestly was struggling where to put my factories, I thought they all needed to be the same in every province lol

[alexc]

I did Drazhoath’s quest battle just now and holy moly can this lord perform on the battlefield. I kinda felt like I was playing as Teclis, flying around casting devastating spells nonstop while also having lots of bombardment abilities as if I had a dark elf Black Ark in range.

[male_maid]

i find that keeping bitter bay and turning it into a factory works really well. with t3 walls it will auto resolve any scaven rebellions give you an occasional source of free labour and battle money.

[JackNev]

I really enjoyed him on hard, Tretch, Imrik, the Ogres to the south and east, Ghorst, etc. all declared war on me and made the campaign pretty challenging, but it felt like they all declared like 1 or 2 turns later than they would have on legendary (what it feels like to me anyway) meaning i had a fighting chance to keep on squishing one to get to another! Was very fun putting out all these fires and securing my expansion in the early campaign and then being able to launch invasions of the rest of the badlands and the world's edge mountains was very satisfying! Overall one of the best WH3 campaigns I've played!

[hawcon]

Had a blast playing Drazhoath on legendary as my first chorf campaign. My strategy was:
1) After the initial orc battles, took out the tiny ogre clan to the south and befriend Kugath + Goldtooth. This made my eastern border safe.
2) Around turn 10-15, waited for Imrik to move against Tretch, then sniped his capital as his army was to the north. Took them both out shortly after.
3) The rest of the campaign I spent mostly fighting the dwarfs to the west, while keeping Grimgor in check to the north, and later on the vampires, ogres and soon Cathay in check to the east.