Total Tactics - How To: The Checkerboard Formation | Total War: Warhammer 3

omg default formation. I never knew that was a thing. This video has greatly increased my gaming pleasure.

This formation should be great for Empire after Thrones of Decay release, where Empire part of DLC is Nuln focused, so new juicy gunpowder units.

Thanks for the checkerboard tutorials. It really elevated my gaming experience using gun units in TW.

I I've been playing for years and I was always aware that I should be doing the checkerboard or at least trying it but I couldn't figure out how to implement it without a lot of clicking around. Thank you for the concise explanation

This kind of detailed video makes me feel like you would literally be a king's ace advisor in war times

Nice video. I would add, that in a campaign with very hard battles, you will probably end up using many more shooters then you've shown. One of the ways to stop the enemy and shoot them to bits, is to use heroes and your lord to engage the enemy units and then shoot those units. Single characters are small, so friendly fire will be minimal. You can also use summoned units this way, if you have access to them. The checkerboard formation works great if you have archers (especially those that can shoot in all directions). The thing is you use only archers. The mass of arrows kills most armies before they get you, but fast armies (mostly cavalry or fast monsters) will make it. That's ok - just don't move your troops. A unit that engages one of yours will get shoot by a few of yours. If you have normal archers, you can order manually those that don't have the attacking unit in their cone of fire. The main advantage with archers is that in this formation, no more then one of your units will be engaged in melee at once, by one of the enemy ones. In a line, 2 can be hit at once by one enemy, preventing shooting.

A grand display of tactics, M'lord.

Love this series, man! Thanks

Enjoyed this video very much! I think I’ll enjoy a deep dive on the other formations too if you get around doing those :)

Very informative and very interesting! Thank you so much 🙂

Nice video. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to give this a try.

Keep up with the keybinds and small explanations. I've dumped so much time into this game with very little research and I'm learning alot on top of the checkerboard itself.

He's back! its been a while. I'm excited to see the return!

I really like your videos about formations !

Turning off the default formation setting in settings is a game changer. These videos in general are game changers for me! But they're also so interesting because I get to see real life tactics in practice! Thank you!

Thank you! I needed this

Loving the Tactics videos! I would love to see a skirmish playstyle, such as skaven or wood elves. I never know how to correctly use them

Very helpful tutorial

Thanks a lot for this video, as a new player this was really informative!

Amazing vid so helpful