18:08 That is not modded. They officially fixed the colors in the menus. :D

I think the problem is that Chaos Dwarfs feel like the gold standard of how factions should be and if theyre interweaving a lot of mechanics like trade routes, slavery, armories, and government than more interesting mechanics should be used for the rest of the factions like armory for regular dwarfs and empire as well. High elves should also get the trade routes, etc. i think people would have less of a problem if it didn't feel like cherry picking a lot of previous faction core mechanics for one very interesting faction.

33:16 the casual facereveal is just so in line with kleapers personality lol

Chaos dwarfs are some of the hardest and most confusing factions but with some of the funnest and coolest units. Recommended for more experienced players.

25:15 Actually that fits with the lore pretty well. (At least for the human chaos factions.)
Where do you think all the plate armour the Warriors of Chaos use comes from?
It's canon that like 95% of the equipment chaos uses is made by the Chaos Dwarves. They are the arsenal of Chaos.

3:15
About technological progress
Yes, kinda. Chaos dwarves are hardly constrained by standard Dwarven conservatism. The plateau-plain on which they offend, according to the lore, is one continuous industrial  plant stretching for hundreds of kilometers, in the center of which there is a tower-city with the entire dwarf population. HERE does the problem start, Chaos dwarves are extremely few in number and this greatly limits them. The kingdom of ordinary Dwarves consists of a dozen giant, densely populated Karaks. Chaos Dwarves live in one single city, which was almost completely devastated by demons 10 thousand years ago. Chaos Dwarves also have trouble with reproduction, since due to a contract with Hashut, some of them are born as mutants - bull centaurs (avatars of their God) By the way, bullcentaurs occupy quite ordinary, albeit respected, positions in their society; other chaos dwarves can quite easily sit with bullcentaurs over beer in taverns. The main problem with bullcentaurs is that their birth is guaranteed to kill women who are already rare and important to dwarven society.
Moreover, the “advancement” of most inventions of the chaos dwarves is not much ahead of the original dwarves. After all, most of their inventions are demon-possessed engines that form the basis of their guns and trains, yet they do not have the "aircraft" that ordinary dwarves have, without the need for demons. At the same time, the chaos dwarves were ahead of the normal dwarves in the field of hand weapons. They take a LOT of pride in their semi-automatic shotguns and rifles. (Hello to the Imperials who long ago invented fully automatic rifles. In the book about Tamurkhan, the Chaos dwarves, led by Drazhoat, managed to fight with the imperials and were very offended by the latter for daring to invent such an advanced weapon before them)

Chaos Dwarfs are a solid faction when it comes to industry, politics, trade, upgrades and the likes. The unique and complexly interwoven system are the polar opposite of Nakai (my beloved), where instead of fine-tuned engineering and dark magics you just throw several hundred crocodile men at your enemies. The Chorfs themselves are based off of ancient Mesopotamia, who form the inspiration for the Chaos Dwarfs' hats, beards and monsters like the Lamassu. Their blunderbusses are also notably shorter ranged than most ranged weapons of other factions, but they do a LOT of damage to the point where charging an army willy-nilly into a Chorf gunline might very well rout it immediately.

I like to imagine at the end, the dwarven capital is no more. Not because of the bombardment. Not because of the sheer amount of spells being flung around. Not because of the Techno demon raves. But because of the hobgoblins taking apart the mountain, brick by brick, rock by rock, pebble by pebble. Imagine how pissed a warhammer hammer fantasy dwarf you are if your enemy STOLE your mountain, your ancestral home, piece by piece while you are powerless to stop them.

Chaos Dwarfs dont have squigs, they are sorta "pets" from Orks, from what I know. So in that moment with squigs, where you thought it was Kleapers army, it was actually one if his enemies

Can confirm that the wide variety in flavour of "unconscionable monster" is part of the warhammer charm.

28:55
Frost Legion is RoR - unit (regiment of renown), this means that he is the only one, and you can only hire one for the entire campaign.
All such units come standard with 3 gold badges + additionally increased stats + at least one feature that makes them unique. In addition to the Frost Legion, the Immortals were mentioned - their gimmick is that they carry a pair of axes instead of standard guns - and are essentially powerful armored berserkers. In the third part of the game, in general, such units have more unique features. In previous installments, such units usually had something like stealth or frenzy.

regarding helman ghorsts buffs, remember how gor rok can regenerate 150%?
well helmans zombies can regenerate somewhere around 500-700% and at the beginning of total war 3 there was a bug that made them literally unkillable as their max regen was in the millions, on top of all the ridiculous buffs he grants them like damage mitigation, poison attacks and ignoring enemy contact effects it basically gave you a free of cost army of immortal corpses
the upside is zombies suck in auto resolve so he is not that much of a threat to players, unless another player is controlling him that is

Also the lore about Ghorst is a very tragic one, his family all died from the plague of blue roses while he was the only one immune to it, hence the name of his faction "Caravan of blue roses"

Helman Ghorst was once a man, yet that life was ripped from him by the uncaring vicissitudes of fate. The loss of his father and brothers to plague sent Ghorst into an obsessive madness; he began studying the black arts in the hope of returning his lost kith to life. Inevitably, he drew the attention of the witch hunter, Alberich von Korden, and so abandoned his home town of Templehof and fled to Vargravia, taking the corpses of his brothers and father with him, determined to find a way to return them to life through necromancy.

It was here, forsaken in a corrupted land, that he attracted the attention of Mannfred von Carstein. Rather than killing Ghorst, the Vampire Count of Sylvania revealed further dark secrets to him, transforming Helman into something beyond the grief-maddened man from Templehof. Now, he is carried through the night on a bone-ridged cart, pulled not by horses, but by the brothers he so desperately wished to save -- each a once-handsome farrier restored to a mockery of life, forced to stumble along at the head of their kin's unloving Undead host.

19:35
This is an incredibly cool mechanic. It allows you to gain access to technologically advanced units at an early stage of the game and gives you the opportunity to diversify your roster. Also, allied units do not leave you if their home faction dies, which creates a pleasant vibe.
Regarding their usefulness, a video was released on the LegendOfTotalWar channel in which one unit of allied dwarven flamethrowers saved Kislev campaign!

14:30
About friendly fire
Most ranged units try to avoid friendly fire, If allied units are in the firing line, they simply refuse to fire. However, it usually does not take "accuracy" into account. Thus, low-accuracy units (especially if they have a large AoE) can inflict a lot of damage on their own infantry if you order them to shoot at the enemy who is fighting with your infantry. Also some artillery has a tendency to hit infantry directly in front of it (Hello Imperial fire rockets - Sometimes one or two rockets from a volley tilt very strongly downward)  But the Skaven are certainly unsurpasseble at this.

Fun fact; the Chaos Dwarfs are the reason the Black Orks exist. The ork slaves were still orks and behaving as such. Barely intelligent, naturally violent, not taking crap, and attacking everyone else. This was horrible… for their profit margins of course. They weren’t being nearly as efficient as they could be. So fix the egregious issue they Chaos Dwarfs got together and did what they do best; messed with things they never should have messed with and probably would have been better leaving alone in the first place.

And they succeeded. They created the Black Orks, bigger better Orks. This is also the reason this figuratively (and probably at least once literally) blew up in their faces. For they created bigger better orks, and never once thought upgrading a race of crazed brainlets that solely exist to fight and kill could ever go wrong.

And not only did they escape under the Black Orks leadership, but in the End Times itwas by Black Ork leadership the Greenskins wiped out the entirety of the Chaos Dwarfs. And both the original rebellion and death of the Chaos Dwarfs was lead by Grimgor Iornhide himself. While this narrative was both symbolic and very engaging, in true ork fashion, Grimgor neither knew nor cared about any of it.

39:10

Endgame crisis are modifiable, you can turn some of em on or all of em off.

You can also modify how difficult they are.

Except for that the big thing about em is that all factions of that end game crisis specific race will instantly declare war on you and everbody else and all diplomacy with em stops.

No alliances with em, no trade non at all.

Also all factions of that end game race that have been wiped out will reapear at their former capital.

Thus yeah all of a sudden 10 armies can spawn in the middle of your empire if there was formerly a faction there.

Endgame crisis races:

Chaos dwarfs

Dwarfs

Wood elves

Chaos

Tomb kings (nagash)

Vampire counts

Skaven

Thats all of em I believe but could have forgotten 1.

5:12 Actually, the Cathayan caravan system is considered outdated with how much better the Chorf one is, and many people have been asking that they are updated to keep up with it, take an example, you can get sometimes 1 hero and some infantry in cathayan caravans, in chorf ones, you can build an army of monsters with random events

Ah yes! The unpaid interns faction 😂

21:08 me before building my train deck in yugioh...

WH3 is in a good spot for the most part, Immortal Empires has few options on difficulty for both Battle and campaign also what was added were End crisis strength ranging from 25% to 200%. You can toggle if you want to have diplomacy with the end game crisis also you can have The Ultimate Crisis which is all the end game Crisis's stating at the same time, and you can choose how many turn they will spawn in at from the lowest of 10 turns to a max of 500 turns and choose how many turns to warn you about the incoming Crisis. One feature i like is the ability to effect the stats of the AI's army by reducing their stats or increasing them for more difficulty or give them no buffs and leave it untouched.