Is it possible to win with NO settlements?

scar brand is homeless we're gonna see if it's possible to survive a total war Warhammer 3 campaign with no settlements from turn goddamn one let's go so we begin our hobo scar brand campaign with the first order of business get that hero in there and then do something you wouldn't normally do abandon and destroy your home settlement because scar brands are free spirit he doesn't want to be chained down with commitments he wants to run free and feel the sand between his hoofs and the wind between his horns probably we take out the starting Army anyway and we are well on our way now I try to recruit a few units before the settlement is destroyed but I'm not sure what order it does things whether it'll destroy the settlement first or whether it will recruit First turns out it destroys the settlement first so you can't recruit anything no more extra units for me so it looks like I'm going through this entire campaign with just these eight units unless I get some free heroes or maybe some regiments of renown I'm not sure if I need territory for that though but here we are raising up our first settlement or technically our second settlement if you include my own and we're going to get our first Blood host Army which are going to be very important for surviving this because otherwise it's eight units for the entire campaign and that just sounds like a bad idea so these blood host armies really going to be important for hobo scar brand to stay alive and you may be thinking hey you're just going to take attrition and die with no settlements well if you stay in a camp stance you're fine to the actual Victory objectives of this campaign it's a pretty simple and free one all you got to do is win a quest battle and Sack and raise loads of places that's about it you do have to take out the seducers which the High Elves might do for you anyway pressing on with this campaign I decide to head towards the Top Notch and try to finish off their stuff as they've got a fair bit of territory around and it's ill-defended I split up my two armies as they're both pretty powerful by themselves they don't really need to take out these settlements together so I can double my output by spreading them out scarbrand is going to sack this place up gonna go for the skulls in this case just to get some skulls on the board and to be careful of money I don't want to get too much negative income I don't have a ton of money right now over this side though where there's a little bit more action I'm going to attack the first settlement we've got a pretty strong Army here we've got three Skull cannons so that's pretty nice I decided to fight this battle to try and get the best result so I can keep on rolling with this Army a little bit the Skull cannons give us some nice Mobility to harass missiles and to spread some fear about now because there is more to do over this side I'm gonna get myself another Blood host Army and then I can continue to roll on the Top Knots and of course these armies are kind of a little bit Expendable right it doesn't matter too much if they die I can get more they're gonna die after a few turns anyway so I can be a little bit more Carefree on how I use these and if I'm Auto resolving I don't have to worry about a single unit dying or anything which I really do have to with my main Army into the next turn and the Top Knots are coming at me a close defeat predicted my armies are pretty beaten up but savageok's early game are pretty easy to scare off and while I did take a barrel pounding from the damage of the Savage Orcs we were able to scare them away charging Skull cannons around like nobody's business and with that we seem to have the top notch mostly taken care of I now set my sights on malagor and his ones settlement I check if it is just the one settlement he has and I decide well this is going to be my next move I guess but as I move over my other armies I find more Top Knots two settlements to be precise so I decided to take care of those first before getting myself in another War just in case malagor is around somewhere I haven't seen him yet so we head for galburaz scarbrand makes the attack and it's actually a Siege settlement this one so I'm gonna lose a lot if I auto resolve it so gotta fight it this was a bit of a tough and awkward battle I did get a bit worried I was going to lose it at one point they had some missiles they were firing down on me I couldn't easily disrupt them eventually though I did fight my way through a lot of the army but I made it to the victory point and just captured that so I didn't have to try and take out the entire Army so I got that W and then raised it up for another Blood host Army as my other ones were on their last legs just so we could keep the momentum rolling and keep just running around sacking racing everywhere we got 16 Grand in the bank at the moment but a negative income but we should be fine for a good while as long as we can keep fighting Malaga then realizes oh shrie is a homeless scar brand is outside my settlement I better get some non-aggression quick sadly for him though that was not on the table and homeless scar brand and the boys were a common I do of course move my other armies over here so I do get the support from my blood hosts I then decide to get more skulls here though just because I feel like I should have a bunch of skulls on hand in case I need them for anything don't know didn't really think that much about it just went for skulls on this occasion with that we made malagor join the homeless Club so now he's a hobo too as I went marching on to find the last of the top notes though I ran across some French and what do we do when we see the French everybody we attack them that's right yes but oh these French think they're funny as they declare war on us first and then they attack us and I'm forced to make one of the most embarrassing decisions of my life in Retreat from the French after this though the silly French boys left themselves all alone they could have retreated here but they stood their ground and as I was going to lose a unit to water resolve I decided to fight this much like the green skins it was quite easy because we just scared them all away and we went on to take their nearby settlement where they put up about as much resistance as they did against the Germans in World War II yeah they just let us walk in and take the place pretty much all right that's my French bashing quota out the way for the date so another settlement raised another Blood host Army spawned now just to finish off the last of the French boys once we took them out they had one more settlement which again they didn't leave a Garrison in so basically free stuff for us here I decided not to get another Blood host Army though as the income is getting a little bit dire at minus a thousand at this point though we pretty much got this area wiped out of settlement so it feels like it's time to move on to some new lands which I decide Shelby Tilia as I head into the water though I'm reminded of the fact that I can't get any kind of encampment while I'm in the water so I'm going to be taking attrition from not having a settlement and I start to wonder if this was maybe a good idea I've got one of my blood host armies on ahead over there anyway these other two though still on the shore but guess who appears over the next turn to me up it's all hobo brother malagor with his full stack potentially coming at me in the water I did not like my chances here so I decided to go back on land and find a better way around for my other two armies my one blood host Tommy that was already over there though I was just going to commit to that cause and see if he could do anything maybe he could take down a settlement or two and make himself useful I should say as well at this point I was picking technologies that really helped to display style as much as possible gonna get the sounds of War for some summons in the battles that should be incredibly useful when you don't have many units on the next turn though it look like malago might be following me might be trying to get me and as he has a full stack I decided just to hightail it out of there although his army isn't too dangerous looking at it but I do have to be careful if I'm not fighting settlement battles very often and getting those new blood host armies I am going to run the risk of getting worn down over in the tillian region which is of course now aranessa controlled I do have a couple of options to attack I'm not a war with aaronessa yet but I am now so I'm gonna go after some of these settlements and try to raise them up I can get a close Victory I'll take that in Auto resolve and get myself a new blood host Army so we can maybe raise two or three settlements over this side meanwhile scar Brandon Co head north to try and find a better way across the river but hey look who's taking himself a settlement and isn't so hard this anymore it's all malagor I'm glad things are looking up for him but I'm gonna bring him back down to hobo status and take out his settlement again I did need to fight it to avoid losing units but no bother scaring off those beastmen this is a nice boost as well for me as I can get another Blood host Army here which I really do need as my one I've got with me now it's probably on its way to fizzling out so this is keeping us going we just need the occasional raise of a settlement to keep a blood army with us otherwise scar brand small army is very prone to being wiped out by some random full stack at least until we can get scarbrand more powerful and turn him into a one-man Army back over on the tillian coasts I decided to attack this walled Siege settlement here which I decide may be a little bit too much I don't want to get too beaten down from this so I decided to leave this and go off and find something else real quick but then I realized old schreser aranessa's army is right on my case maybe I can get the hell out of here but it turns out my movement range is not enough to really get away so I decided to just stick with my original plan and just attack this settlement and fight it and try to win it that way and maybe we can at least raise this before we get wiped out by aranessa and that was thankfully what I was able to do I did have to fight it but luckily zombies do crumble pretty quick even when half dead bloodletters are smashing them in the face I then decided to get another Blood Army just to try and maybe fend off baronessa or at least do some damage to her who knows what I could maybe get away with it really depended what was in the blood host Army because Aaron is his army is quite tough there's a lot of missiles in there of course but I didn't really get a fantastic Army so didn't look like I had much hope she did indeed come for me on their next turn I had a lot of blood letters I thought maybe if I could just create a nice long wide line and Surround and envelop this Army maybe I could take it out so I thought the battle tried my best unfortunately I got a bit screwed over by the positioning of my reinforcement armies one of them was off to the left which is okay but the other one is behind the enemy Army so that was just kind of three small armies that I had and they were able to just descend on each part of my Army individually and just take them all out so I didn't really stand much of a chance but we got a little bit of damage done mostly got blasted to Pieces though so that was the end of my time in Tilia aranessa said no thank you I then needed to decide where to go next I thought about britonia and all the squishy Frenchmen but it might be quite hard to get there and then I thought well just the Empire it's a similarly squishy Army that's quite easy to get through they'll probably have small Garrison settlements let's go there the promised lands as I enter the water to cross the river grabs grabs me Lord on the shore I now have to decide whether to get back out and just walk up past barrackvar or just go for it and I decide the latter I throw caution to the wind I've been scared out of the water once not again we're going forward this time if they come at us so be it we've got scarbrand this time so as long as we can stop their missiles from firing we should be fine and we roll into the next turn and what do they do oh they go for the other boys what that settlement was scratched now it's Clan engrance and it looks like Aaron s is attacking them whatever I don't care I'm moving forward getting the hell away from them as quickly as possible now at this point down to just one half dead blood host Army I feel like I need to attack another place and get another Blood host Army as there's a scragg settlement right in front of me I decide to go for that but not before checking if there's any large scrag armies over here because I don't want to declare war on him and then have him destroy me and wipe my armies out from that so I'm just gonna do this while there's seemingly nobody around get myself another Blood host Army and then hopefully push On Through To those Empire lands it's it's another battle they had to fight but it was mostly a bunch of knobs so no big deal and we get that refreshing blood host Army again feels good I feel a little bit safer now especially as this other blood host Army is about to die off I then get myself moving before any disgruntled aranessa or scragg armies appear and we finally arrive at the promised land with a nice Avalon settlement ready to take with a small Garrison no Army there lovely So in theory here if I can start to snowball and get lots of blood host armies and have lots of small settlements to attack and take out this could be pretty nasty I do have a banner for regeneration here which I'm gonna put on scar brand and one for a direct damage spell which I'm gonna put on my hero so scarbrand just got even more disgusting I bring over all my armies so that I can get a decisive Victory which I auto resolve this thing gives us the regenerational replenishment rather and another Blood host Army so things are looking like they're gonna get pretty nasty at this point I decided the best way to move through this area rather than just running straight into the middle of all these different Empire factions that might declare war on me and come and attack me all once I'm just going to skirt The Edge and try to make my way around this left side which starts by dealing with the golden order who on the next turn conveniently say we're gonna declare war on you unless you give us some money please so I say oh no please don't hurt me Mr Golden face and I give him the money with a rice smile on my face over the next turn I got offered a quest battle which made me realize hey one of my victory conditions is to do that Quest battle but I've only got an eight unit Army that I can take into a quest battle how the hell am I going to be able to do the quest battle I figure if I was gonna do it I'd probably just need to make scar brand into an absolute beast and get him to like level 14 give him loads of crazy items get him 90 Ward save and then it would probably be doable with just scar brand alone but that was all hypothetical as I didn't actually have intention to do that anyway after telling Balthazar guilt I didn't want a war with him I then went to war with him attacking his poor little Force marched Army that it stood itself right in front of my three armies I'll let you imagine how that one went we pressed on over the big river which did slow us down for return before we could get to the rest of the golden order lands there was a settlement right there for the taking and take it we did on the next turn this was a decisive Victory another nice easy blood host Army to be gained here although I could start sacking these places for a little bit more money I'm not in desperate need of money by any means rolling into the next turn though and Balthazar gelt himself showed his face I didn't think he'd be silly enough to charge into us at this point but then oh not the emperor himself oh luckily he just wants some money so that we don't go to war I'm fine with that we'll keep him off our back for now while we deal with the golden order who have decided to attack me with a stacking a bit predicted a decisive defeat I thought long and hard about this I tried to decide do I fight this or do I try to retreat and maybe hope that they can't pursue me we were a fair distance away I think maybe we can Retreat maybe I decide to try it take all three of my armies into Retreat he attacks them all hopefully he doesn't catch anyone by themselves like that but oh no oh feel like a dodged a bullet there they decide not to pursue us we're able to escape them that turn a little bit over the river but then Evelyn comes along and attacks us from the other side of the river and then I'm forced to retreat again back into goddamn guilt and luckily they don't pursue us either they happen to be on the other side of the river so they can't get across in the same turn and my God corn was on our side there we've narrowly avoided the campaign coming to an end right there I think too well a stack and a half of avaland a stacking a bit of golden order if we could have somehow survived those two attacks I don't think we would have had enough left to be able to take a settlement after that plus there's another golden order Army in that settlement there I now descend all my armies onto Belt as Arc yelp's armies though and try to get him and at least this Army wiped out we engaged them we got two fairly healthy armies two not so healthy armies but they can still run in do some stuff disrupt some missiles so we're gonna go for it as I attack the smaller Army it meant they were on the battlefield first with the other one being the reinforcements so we had time to try and destroy this small army I was keeping my blood letters back because they were nearly dead though I didn't want to lose their them from my main Army as my dogos as well just kept them out the way scar brand my hero and my chaos Warriors able to do the majority of the work here but a bit of a ball kicker for somebody here as you see our reinforcement armies our big ones are coming in next to each other so that's going to be fun could actually work in my favor maybe as I'll be able to close the distance on their missile units quickly but turns out it's just a big goddamn mess my boys come in into the back of these Empire troops they can get into some of the missiles a little bit they can cause a problem at least and Clump them up slow them down I've got some blood shrines and some Skull cannons that can charge around and disrupt a little bit so that's really helpful that was one of my more beaten up armies though so it's not that huge of a deal and that huge of a loss for me if those units get killed one of my better armies coming up the hill they've got a fair trick but once we do get there we are able to overwhelm the Empire troops break their leadership route them off the map as a lot of them are stood right next to the edge of the map so we're able to get this Victory without taking too much damage ourselves and that's good because we got a bunch more armies we may have to potentially fight there's a golden order Army in that settlement there the two Evelyn dummies might be too far away because they've got to get across the river but the remainder of this Balthazar gelt Army is still alive so I'm gonna finish that off decisive Victory again though I am going to fight it to try not to take too much damage but I'm getting to the point where I need more blood host armies as my current ones are running out of turns before they're gonna disintegrate I do try to set a little trap on the end of this turn putting two of my armies into Ambush stance to maybe catch either of these two avaland armies or maybe this Balthazar gelt golden order Army in the settlement on to the next turn and does it work do they fall for the Ambush no they don't the golden order Army comes at me doesn't fall for the Ambush only two reinforcing armies not looking good I declined that attack they attack me anyway of course I Retreat from that situation and then the dwarves come at me declaring war on me or at least threatening to declare war on me if I don't give the money and I decide you know what the dwarves are all the way over there they're probably not going to be able to bother me them at this point I decide I need to find another settlement to raise quickly so I can get another fresh blood host Army I spot carrack Hearn in the mountains so I start to head towards that with with all of my armies as the golden order Army has gone back to that settlement it's a little too hard to take a Siege settlement with a full stack in it in my current state this carrack Hearn settlement controlled by the golden order much easier to take a much easier blood host Army that doesn't cost us as much this puts us back in the game I do get an option to get an item here a five percent Ward save and for skyrand you know I'm gonna take it scar brand is starting to get pretty scary at this point and I'm beefing him up anyway I can as I come back down the hill the golden order Army has come out of its settlement foolishly but luckily for it we're not able to quite catch it so it's able to escape for now on the next turn I find that it's gone South into the fourth settlement of Fort Seoul which I don't fancy messing with when it's got a full stack in there those places can be pretty tough to take as they do have some strong cannons on the walls so I'm going to attack field dorf instead as that is a much easier take although still a Siege settlement I then of course bring all the boys along raise that up and get myself another Blood host Army another nice fresh one and I'm gonna forget about the golden order for now I'm just gonna leave him down and South and keep pushing North raising up where I can just to keep my momentum going I seem to have some issue though with the summoning that I took the technology it doesn't actually seem to be in the battles when I get in there there's nothing to allow me to summon bloodletters as there should be the right hand side icon right the little magic spell it's not there I don't know if that's a bug or maybe it's something because I don't have settlements either way it's a big Downer given the way I'm playing this would really help me out as I prepare to move north though towards the rakeland guess who comes back again it's all Golden Balls his armies are pretty standard and not really anything to worry about but their constant attacks are gonna wear me down if I'm not careful I've got to try to get away from him I'm gonna fight this one to get the best results again it's very much the same deal we're able to smash the Infantry pretty easy it's just making sure that the missiles don't blast us to Pieces trying to disrupt them as much as possible guilt's a bit of a though hiding in the air just casting his spells I'm unable to do anything about him so that's the biggest problem with this battle is he can do quite a lot of damage with that magic and there's not really anything I can do about him he doesn't really come down very often which is you know the smart thing to do when you're someone that can be be knocked out by a well-thrown cheese sandwich certainly smart of the AI to keep him in the air away from scar brand anyway but we beat the boy down sent him packing and we can keep moving forward we're starting to get some nice corruption around here now which is going to be bad for them time to get moving forward again we need more Slaughter more blood hosts we're gonna do that more armies here blah blah blah same old stuff raising them up moving on to Dot and back here I am still mostly taking blood hosts but occasionally I do take the skulls I'm trying to be careful with the money not going over maybe two grand I've got 14 Grand in the bank at the moment so we're pretty safe but still just trying to be cautious it's been working well for us so far and if you're wondering how many settlements we've taken out so far it's 16 so we're halfway to the short Victory objective We're Gonna Roll on null now which is another nice big place to take out and then we're gonna be in the right gland Carl Franz land we haven't declared war on him yet we're gonna take this place though get ourselves another Blood Army because we're probably gonna need it for taking out the wrecklands here we go I decided to make this the final test of the campaign can I take the reichland is this campaign a viable way to play so far it seems like it even though there's no good reason to play like it although it is nice not having to worry about settlement at all to be honest it's just been pure fighting I'm Gonna Leave scar brand out of this fight anyway just let my blood hosts do this one they're gonna get the decisive Victory gonna lose some boys but we're gonna get a fresh one from this anyway I wanted to let scarbrand's army replenish a little bit just in case the big man came along Carl Franz might have a full stack somewhere who knows what kind of army he'll have after this though we decide to move on Altdorf we're gonna bring all our boys over to this place it doesn't have a terribly amazing Garrison to be honest so doesn't seem like it'll be too difficult to take no Empire armies around yet at least and I'm gonna split one of my blood host armies off by itself to go and take out another settlement because it does get a really strong Army it's got a bloodthirster it's got some blood crushes and some exalted blood letters so pretty nice and I am going to go ahead and Sack a settlement here for a nice 10 grand Uber strike giving me up the gold I then decide the time is now for Altdorf and we are going to go for it only a pirick victory even though I've got quite a lot of healthy units and they're Garrison isn't anything special so I'm gonna fight it to try and get a better result to allow me to carry on to keep taking the rest of the reichland and to not get screwed by the auto resolve it was a pretty standard Siege though actually took out the Army rather than taking the victory point just found a nice place without Towers blasting me in the face constantly and this is another place that's offering a nice bit of money for the sack I could just get a blood host but for 20 grand you know I'm getting that sack I did the same at Uber's wreck as well raised that up got another Blood host Army and with that we've pretty much got the rikling done for little defense from the Empire there's only aisle heart left we'll go over and take that I'm gonna get some skulls just because I don't really know why I've got plenty of money to secure a couple more armies to be honest but I took some skulls now all I've got to do is finish off I'll heart and we will deem this campaign pretty much a success you can survive without any settlements as certain factions anyway I'm sure not any faction could pull this off but let's just finish off our heart there he is the big man's around Kyle Franz shows his face I gotta get the hell out of there he's got a full stack I can't mess around with that with one small army I realized at this point though this Army probably isn't going to be able to outrun Carl Franz so I put my other one with him and those two are gonna have to face him they won't be able to outrun him and I can prepare scar brand of my other armies to come and hopefully take Carl Franz out lest he ruin this whole campaign right here because you know my blood host armies here are pretty beaten up at this point I should have just taken one from Altdorf so I might regret that but let's see what Carl does in this next turn does he maybe go after scarbrand nope he goes after the smaller two armies as expected one of them is pretty much done for it's gonna die instantly I did try to fight this to do something I ended up just trying to get rid of the cannon that was my only goal I actually had my first Army the one that was all nearly dead it pretty much all entirely died as the reinforcements arrived so it was incredibly luckily timed that the rest of these units even got in the fight because against my first Army they just sent Cavalry over and just obliterated everything I had so it was very very close we're just about going to get rid of the cannon but probably not entirely which is a shame but there we go Carl France beats down some of our armies and just when it seems like things can't get any worse when we just happened to run into Carl friends guess who else has come back it's Golden Balls filters are still pissed from the other 19 times I smashed his face in has decided to come back for a 20th face smashing I guess it's pretty annoying when someone just swoops in and takes out pretty much your entire Kingdom huh but I guess this is what I get for not completely finishing him off there's only one thing for us he is in forced March so he is going to be a bit disadvantaged and we're gonna go for him and we're gonna smash monkey smash smash his face off of course it's much of the same again just smashing the Infantry making sure the missiles don't fire and it doesn't take long for balthazar's mediocre Army to go a running but while it was a mediocre Army it did wear us down a bit because you know it's impossible to not take damage when you fight big armies so the real question is did he wear us down enough to be able to allow Carl friends to be able to beat us up that's the question well there's only one way to find out so we're going in for the France France man this is it if we can beat Carl Franz here we pretty much got the rikling done for there's gonna be no hope for Isle heart over there thinking it's safe and Carl's Army much better than balthazars they've got Carl for starters although balthazar's magic was powerful they got some reich's guard pretty much the same in the Infantry a few extra missiles and things so we had a mighty battle Carl Took The High Ground sat on the hill used his artillery we ran up there to try and get after him tried to disrupt those missiles Carl and scarbrand had a bit of a round they threw down but even gal maraz wasn't going to save Carl in this situation scarbrand Fells him to take the Victory and that's going to be the end of the Carl friends man the Empire the reichland it's all going to scheisser and all because of a little wandering homeless man so with that out the way we will declare this a victory overall I think playing homeless is a legitimate way to play apparently although I think there's only a few factions that could probably pull this off and being able to in Camp stance at the end of your movement is really a key here the green skins can do it I think maybe the beastmen can do it scar brand obviously it saved his ass a ton here I've got him pretty beefed up at this point he's got perfect Vigor so he's going to be a super damage dealer still got plenty of damage dealing coming got an 8 Ward save now got a strength potion still got regeneration when he's in melee as well so he's turning into an absolute beast at this point and as I say I think I'd be able to do that Quest battle I got 22 settlements done so not far off doing the short Victory conditions maybe so I proved in my last video this one here that we can survive with just one settlement and now we can see that we can survive with no settlement potentially homeless is truly The Meta I hope you've enjoyed this thanks for watching thanks to all the patrons who support this channel I will see you with the future

Channel: Zerkovich

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Keywords: warhammer 3, total war, guide, tutorial, how to, tips and tricks, pro, campaign, challenge, no settlements, homeless, skarbrand

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Length: 24min 40sec (1480 seconds)

Published: Fri May 19 2023