The BEST Support Spell No One Uses - Cathay vs Tzeentch // Total War: WARHAMMER 3 Land Battle

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[UnreasonableOpinions]

It's a potent spell, but pretty expensive in WoM. I tend to only use it on the Shugengan unless there's a really obvious target, because being a hybrid lord without mega-stats makes people try and snipe them in combat with fire-and-forget units, so they don't notice the buff drop and the Shugengan shred the attackers.

[Son_of_Mandalore]

Finally decided to become a member... It's about time as I love the channel.

Any chance of a wood elf match smashing literally any other faction. I miss matches with my fave faction 😁😬

[mcthunderclap]

I am so confused on how the Cathay player managed to win the SEM fight. @4:30 He dives the exalted lord of change (who's sitting around 65-70%hp + protoss shield) with his Shugengan lord with only Jade Shield active and cotm on the exalted lord. The Tzeentch player respons almost instantly pulling his Soul Grinder into the fight. The Cathay player after a bit brings in his remaining Longma's who fly in but never actually make it into combat. By this point; the Shugengan lord has managed to already take the exalted lord to 40% or so while also having to deal with the Soul Grinder. The 3 then fight it out for another couple seconds or so and the Shugengan lord manages to straight kill the Exalted Lord of change in the 1v2 in this time. A few Jade lancers join in, but by the tiime they make contact the exalted lord of change is already crumbling.

Also the Shugengan lord getting almost 3k damage value with no damage spells is pretty insane.

[thegreatbookofgrudges]

4:41 no that was might of heaven and earth spell effect

[precipitousnix]

Speaking of underrated, part of the credit in this battle has to go to the Lore of Heavens passive on the Astromancer, going off alongside Curse of the Midnight Wind. It's been buffed to the point where I've considered it as a reasonable option for going up against heavy Tzeentch air.

Might of Heaven and Earth is close to being good; the uptime per WoM is just not quite good enough for how impactful the effect is, especially in Domination where it's often harder to make an overall impact with a single-target buff. Outside of Longma and the Shugengan themself, there's also a bit of a lack of good candidates on Cathay's roster that can make strong plays with it by going after high-value targets. The fact that there's no way to somehow cast it on one of the dragon LLs is a little funny to me.

Also, can I just say that I enjoy the implementation of the Shugengan and Ice Witch lords compared to the generic caster lords from WH1/2? They're more sensibly priced for their base stats in all their forms, they have at least a couple of interesting traits or abilities to work with, and their unique animations give them a lot of flavour and weight as lord-level characters. I hope they're the new standard that CA uses to go back and take a pass at some of the big ol' stinkers like the Goblin Great Shaman (450 gold base on foot with the worst statline in the entire game???), the Spellweaver (the fact that CA passed up the only chance to have a hybrid archer/caster lord is wild to me), the Prophetess, etc, that either just kind of suck or are needlessly boring and indistinct.

[Son_of_Mandalore]

Coops bringing once again... Time for a "Combat with Coops" YouTube channel???