 greetings and salutations and welcome back to good old lastria and I actually have a question for you all how is the audio is the audio the greatest audio of all time or is it at least perhaps the greatest audio you've heard on this channel yet I have made some upgrades to my audio system so I hope that translate well into the videos because I'm gonna start making more videos and more voiceovers and more commentary and perhaps participate in more podcasts etc so I invested in any new setup or parts of a setup at least so hopefully it it sounds that way now that being said we have to illuminate some heretics who are currently occupying kayaks who this settlement obviously belongs to the Krakenlord himself so without further ado I will just charge in right there and get a good action-oriented episode on its way boom there we go and now I see that I can't charge quite yet there is still a thing we need to do obviously we need to get Admiral Barzatar into range so he can support with our magics here so and you see here the circle that is what we have to get into position and I got a question in the last episode on what difficulty level I recommend I usually play on either very hard and I've played some campaigns on legendary and I prefer this a bit higher difficulty because that forces you to think more basically I like Total War because it is a lot of thinking it is a lot of strategy and you get punished quite quickly for it if you make strategic mistakes in in Total War so obviously it can be nice with more action-oriented games such as I don't have Skyrim or Assassin's Creed or more story-oriented games such as The Witcher but for the sake of having a strategy game where you enjoy the thinking aspect and you know you get to to think in terms of strategy and tactics I definitely prefer to play it on a bit harder so that you have to think about all the different game mechanics so for example the income of each settlement how do you optimize that and how do you optimize the public order how do you optimize your characters so basically the more things you have to think about the more fun the game becomes so yeah that is that is good indeed so yeah I like Total War because of those aspects and might say this again and I might have said it before I don't like Total War so much for the war aspect it's more the overall management of of your nation that is fun now I have ramble on enough about that let's let's fight this should obviously not be all too much of a problem they have untrained spearmen just two units of Lord and Seaguard and we have a full stack of experienced mad cunts so time to feed a kraken so we can see yet again on the units here also we have the missile advantage and they have to come to us otherwise they will just just get shot two bits so I do believe that this battle will be very very easy indeed to to say the least so and also we can see that we have the experienced advantage with you know some decent ranks on on these lads all right we are in the battle and without further ado we're just gonna start it setting these two multi-shot round because that's the best option against infantry and we're gonna locate our local fell hard right there he is always gonna go straight for their general because when you kill their general they will suffer a would rather they can't use his leadership so they will become demoralized so yeah we're just gonna keep our ranks tidy and neat and let them come at us now then there we have their general so boom ready to duelist one this looks this looks absolutely glorious we're gonna do a cool thing here absolutely aesthetic if anything now obviously I have plenty of magic things to play with and this is obviously a huge asset for for the dark elves and having this sort of combinations with a land army and a and a fleet is definitely something that you can utilize strategically if you decide to play some total war in the autumn darkness and as my man LSR commented the the other day on our video he said you can game when you have been to the gym lads and that's obviously what is up you need to go to the gym otherwise you you can't game that's the absolutely the absolute minimum to get your things have your things done and then you game as either stress relief or just because it's fun but it can never be at the expense of productive endeavors so we're gonna try to do one of these cool things again from here and then we're just gonna magnificent might get a cool thumbnail here as well there maybe glorious anyway where do you even have anything yeah they do have some some unit that needs to be that needs to be taught a lesson I'm gonna speed up this battle because it wasn't overly it wasn't overly exciting to be honest since I kind of knew beforehand that we would that we would take them and there we are victory as always and a good amount of loot and yet again as I said last episode is our guys sorry it's gonna occupy boom and weapon gained Caledron's bane how absolutely joyous and look at a lot of leveling has been done what I will do right now is as usual I'm gonna take a few turns and see what the crack is so be right back all right I am back and I have a plan so we're gonna sail out and see what this remnants of battle might contain if they contain something fun perhaps some pirates that we can steal from and this is what I yet again love with this game the aesthetics and the field to it absolutely epic after that we will head up here to bolster the jury on and the the lads up here because we have a little rebellion on our hands so we're gonna do that but first the tower of blessed dread aha attribute to the sea gods your followers have come upon two shipwrecks battle at sea places not just the guards of war but the gods of the sea as well salvage from such vicious battle is possible but the sea gods demand their tribute so only a quarter of the cardio should be taken and we're gonna go with fell cargo okay so we have a trunk of maps magic item drop chance plus 25% and campaign line of sight plus 50% more over we have an armor of silvered steel so some good stuff and I will take a few turns yet again so that we can get get to this battle so be right back and I am back so the settlement has been besieged and it's just loyal again jury on her loyalty is wavering a bit absolutely blasphemous she she has not taken the glory spill if you have taken the glory spill you are always supremely loyal and we have a research we have our technology researched driven by vengeance and that's a yeah the a bit cheaper recruitment costs so what we can do now is simply to much these lads there I suppose and either wait for them to attack us or they can attack or we can attack them yeah this is always in range so I didn't even need to move him right there right so the question remains and this is what I'm talking about in regards to strategy etc we could probably just attack them cause yeah we have our supremely experienced army of mad cons right there as we're gonna take this battle I'm just going to do the following research something fun so we have this tree to choose from and recruitment rank for dread spirits dark charge and bleak swords or ascension true battles as leadership for black arc corsairs that is what I want most of all because our main our main unit is corsairs so this is also good speed but we're gonna go with ascension true battle because leadership is always good when we want a good firm that line that does not break under the pressure so Julian you will have to oh that's a bit the one I did not expect it to be that easy to be honest so yeah balance power as usual okay we had quite the arm quite good settlement garrison so that explains what so such an easy battle so I will yet again take another turn and see what what fun things we might do alright I am back I have taken a good few turns just to get some more action into the episode and I thought we could actually declare war on these vampires these creatures of the night I'm sorry Luther Harkon this was the only reason because of action what I mean you will not you can of course attack him maybe next and then okay that was a bit of a fail it was supposed to be a spectacular charge but I suppose we can do it next and then now let us see if this is possible to attack they were and another quite easy victory we're gonna occupy these hovels and then I suppose we can go down to take a lot I might have butchered that pronunciation but you never know and also we have a good few cool things here that we can research or level up I mean so all good all good slaver those unfortunate those unfortunate captured during a scrap will serve the dread fleet one way or another casualties captured post battle plus 12% that is really good and upkeep minus 5% for all units that's an absolutely epic thing and you will be in dread expansion so that we can build fun things such as about war of cane that is definitely good stuff and we're gonna see how the people fare down here the city of dusk they are well not happy at all but I have a good few turns until they will revolt at least so I could do is actually I can march down Jordan to restore some order and see what how they will react to that the elves of citadel dusk moreover we can research something else here can't afford this one yet so we're gonna go with the speed that's also a good thing so anyway I'll take one more turn in this episode and see if we can lay siege to this fine place right here we are let us see if this is if this is doable to take axlotl look at that it actually is it is indeed I don't even need to take that but we lost to a good units unfortunately we're gonna occupy and we're gonna dedicate this place to math land we secure this province that is very nice indeed and what will we go with growth is definitely my favorite edict definitely indeed and that obviously will be our topic for a coming video regarding growth for the sake of growth I saw a really fun I don't know who commented it but it was on Twitter and he said growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell I thought that was an apt metaphor but economic growth can be good of course it can be bad if it's taken its toll on on modern earth so if you have economic growth that consists in cutting down all of these forests to make room for grace lands for cattle for example then obviously this this dinosaurs in this example will not have any place to live or like I said in a recent video regarding Oreo and their practices of buying palm oil from from companies that cut down rainforests and then the tigers and elephants and orangutans from this area will be without the home because that is now a plantation for palm oil but anyway that is at least my thoughts on what a good edict for for this is so I will call this a episode I'm just gonna build something fun woodlands hot timber log resource production and some income there and what more fun things can be built we can build a slave pen always a good idea we can all also will dark elf manners so we get some more growth and obviously same thing here we want to get this settlement to an as high level as possible then we can also build something here if we want that so that is extremely good a slavehold income from post-battle loot 20% plus for armies within the sphere of influence that is absolutely great so that's obviously the sphere of influence is this line that goes here so yeah thank you for watching and comment below glory to mathlan and deadlifts for Thor xxO boom