Editing Total War: WARHAMMER (section)

==TWW1 memes==
* [[Creed|'''VLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!''']] - The long awaited Fantasy equivalent of '''[[Creed|CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!]]'''. [[Vlad von Carstein]] had gained the ability to allow [[Rape|vanguard development (aka:putting a unit wherever you want on the map except for the enemy's deployment zone, right outside of it is just fine though) for his whole army]], closing in the gap between the enemy and his own army. Considering Vampire Counts have no ranged units in the game, this can be hilariously overpowered. Tretch has since joined in on the action.
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File:VLAAD2.jpg|[[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan]] now regrets that he didn't call Vlad for a party during the Bretonnia Civil War.
File:VLAAAD1.jpg| Vlad fixing the end times from the word go
File:VLAAD3.jpg| Easy, they said. Lots of sacrifices, they said.
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* '''Alejandro, [[Grombrindal|'''El Enano Blanco''']]''' - Apparently if you use 'Cataph's Southern Realms' mod, the name of [[Grombrindal]] would be changed to Alejandro. Suffice to say, this created a good amount of lol and [[Wat|wat]] along with a small amount of [[Skub]] and turned him into the first Mexican dwarf. Unfortunately, the mod creator fixed this issue, but the memory of Alejandro will live on! Viva! Much later, when Bretonnia was released, the mod caused the Fay Enchantress to be renamed to... Morales.
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File:Alejandro 3.png|Pretty much.
File:Alejandro 4.jpg|The evident.
File:Alejandro 1.jpg|"Loyal brothers, play the trumpets! Wear the sombreros!! ¡Vamos a la carga!!!"
File:Morales.png|The [[Spiritual Liege]] of Estalia.
File:The green card.jpg|Ramirez, the Green Card.
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* '''"This is going in the book"''' - A phrase that refers to the [[Book of Grudges]] of the Dwarfs, also known as the Dammaz Kron, which was a meme in itself already, [[Extra Heresy|(so double memes I guess)]]. With the integration of a wider audience and the constant reference to it in the Dwarf campaign, this phrase had become another way of saying 'fuck you' in a humorous way.
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* '''"Summon the Elector Counts!" (Also known to Anti-Empire factions as [[Heresy|"Summon the Elector Cunts")]]''' - [[Karl Franz]]'s dialogue in general is delightfully hammy and has made him a source of more memes than any Imperial since [[Indrick Boreale]]. "This action does not have my consent!" is also popular for when something [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|grudge-inducing]] happens.
** '''Karl Franz in General''': Due to being the most frequently chosen legendary lord in the standard campaign Karl Franz' voice lines have basically become burnt into the brains of the fandom. More or less every single phrase out of Franz's mouth, every single face he makes, and every single pose he takes has become a meme of some degree of popularity. Not since soulstorm has a Warhammer related video game had so many memes and jokes attached to a single character; but while the jokes concerning Indrick Boreale and Fieravious Carron were very much made to mock them for sounding like idiots (and in Carron's case, not just that but also being the worst Khornate of all time and a hilariously whiny baby when losing); the memes and jokes about Karl Franz are all quite affectionate, at worst making a few gay jokes due to how lines like "I must see to my men" can be taken out of context but otherwise portraying him as a scenery chewing badass.

* '''Surtha Ek, the Everchariot''' - The leader of the [[Warriors of Chaos|Varg Tribe]]. Thanks to AI quirks, he invariably fills his army with increasing numbers of chariots to the point that it's entirely possible for him to decide to attack a fortified Dwarf city with an army entirely made of chariots that can do nothing but ride back and forth until they're full of enough lead to give up and die, then try again later after giving up and leaving to get more chariots. While Archaon waits until your campaign is already half over before he starts his rampage, Surtha Ek [[gets shit done]], ravaging Kislev and the northern coast of the Empire with a seemingly endless supply of cavalry archers and chariots for most of the game and may eventually work his way southwards into Orc and Dwarf territory. Many players have cursed the name "Surtha Ek". Famous quotes shared with his Skaeling bro include: [[Khorne|"CEASE!" and "THAT WOULD INCUR MY WRATH"]] [[Tzeentch|"BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION!"]]. Possibly one of the many Chaos Lords that succeeded in becoming a daemon prince after the end time (or gets his shit handed by Archaon during the unification). As of the Norsca DLC, he'll start with a chariot mount. Sadly, with the Norsca update, Surtha Ek received new voice lines, which while good, lack the absolute HAM of the stock Chaos Lord lines.
** As of the Mortal Empires campaign, Surtha Ek has gotten himself a Girlfriend: The High Elf Princess that acts as the Faction Leader for Tyranoc had been renamed into "Surthara Bel-Kec" and Tiranoc in Warhammer Lore is well known for it's charioteers, though Surthara doesn't have a chariot as mount option (yet). Although she does always get a trait that buffs chariots in her army (though she can also get a secondary trait that negates those buffs, stupidly enough)
*** Now with the release of the Tomb Kings, Surtha won't ever be hanging his head up tight as the Tomb Kings get NINE chariots in a unit. That's like 3 TIMES the chariots other factions can have. It won't be long to see Settra riding his chariots with his other massive, yet superior chariot armies in Norsca, forever taunting Surtha Ek's inferiority. And should Settra defeat the Everchariot, he gets the special "Surtha Wrecked" trait, further buffing his chariot spam. "ARE YOU A GOD?!" Yes, Surtha, he is.
**** However, If Surtha wins, he gets the “Settra the Perishable trait... but also... something much darker. +100% damage... to ALL CHARIOTS. If Surtha wins against Settra somehow, the entirety of the Northern Old world is pretty much forfeit.

*'''Felman Ingersson''' - The leader of the [[Warriors of Chaos|Skaeling Tribe]]. Like his Varg brother, he raids the Empire's shit. Unlike him however, he operates in the lower southern part like Nordland, Middenland and the Marienburg. Like Surtha, Skaeling also gets shit done with his own chariots, marauder horsemen spam, forcing empire players to buy halberdier and missile units like archer and handgunner. This may actually be a good thing since it'll weaken both Middenland and Nordland enough that they would want to confederate you (Therefore unlocking Boris Todbringer), for the Empire's northern brother are a bunch of Ulric worshiping, Empire hating dicks that gives you a [[that guy|-20 diplomatic relations whenever that felt like it]]. Sometimes they came to Marienburg for those delicious mermaid booties. Since most Empire player rely on Marienburg's port as an early game goldmine, they may sometimes find themselves getting doubled by [[rape|2 or 3 armies of Skaeling doom stack.]] Famous quotes shared with his Varg bro include: [[Khorne|"CEASE!" and "THAT WOULD INCUR MY WRATH"]]. Possibly one of the many Chaos Lords that succeeded in becoming a daemon prince after the end time (or gets his shit handed by Archaon during the unification). Sadly, with the Norsca update, Felmar Ingersson received new voice lines, which while good, lack the absolute HAM of the stock Chaos Lord lines.
**As of the current state of the 2nd games with the Norsca presence on the map of Mortal Empires, the Skaeling Tribe has been moved to the Albion region with Wulfrik the Wanderer taking up the spotlight for raiding southern Empire and he will do it as soon as possible in the early game, even raiding [[Bretonnia|Louen Leoncoeur]] for fun. If Wulfrik survives to the late game, he will either spam Norscan Champion or Mammoth at the unfortunate Empire player/AI, so expect port settlements razed near the Norsca sea region.
***Speaking of the Skaeling Tribe at the Albion, region they can now have some stable income for there are 3 settlements in the region, but they'll have to deal with Nakai the Wanderer......which isn't a threat to them, ironically since AI horde faction get themselves killed very fast early game and Nakai doesn't respawn like the [[Beastmen]] do. But if Nakai is played by an experienced player, he will no doubt use the Skaelings as dish towel and then proceed to conquer the entirety of Norsca thanks to Nakai's vassal faction that has no need for region suitability.
****Skaeling also appear on the top right Albion region of the vortex campaign. At least they get to have some juicy elf slaughtering and raiding actions, or the complete opposite that is facing the wrath of Tyrion or Malekith.

* Franzer Division - In the lore of Warhammer Fantasy, Leonardo of Miragliano only managed to produce twelve Steam Tanks in his lifetime, and only eight remained in operational service by the time Karl Franz became Elector Count. No such limits exist in the campaign, making it entirely possible (funds permitting) to have a army composed of a General and 19 Steam Tanks, followed by another such army for 38 Steam Tanks performing a blitzkrieg across the Old World. Panzer+Franz=Franzer, hence the meme.
[[File:FranzerDivision.png|thumb|The Franzer Division, ready to blitzkrieg an unfortunate Giant.]]

*''' [[cheese|Empire Space Marine]]''' - When it comes to auto resolve in every Total War game, the winning meter bar can sometimes be hilariously broken. In this game, you can win almost every auto resolve in Empire Campaign by fully stacking your general with units of Free Company Militia. FCM is, you know, the weak and inexperienced man and woman, sell-swords mercenaries who can barely fight? Yet hilariously, they won in every auto resolve against any units. A Greenskin army with an Arachnarok in it? Dead. Any chaos armies? Dead. Surtha Ek and his bullshit chariots spam? Dead. And since FCM often fight with a sword in one hand, a gun in other, it is very similar to how Space Marines wield their weapon, hence how FCM can be known as [[Stormcast Eternals|Sigmar's invincible warriors, for they shall know no fear]].

* '''Kislev.''' - For a long time the faction of Kislev ''literally'' did not have any other voice lines to say in response to being selected for, or doing diplomatic actions with them, aside from a (naturally, heavily-accented) statement of "Kislev.". So of course, people are liable to just post that at the mere mention of Kislev. Eventually CA gave them unique voice lines when performing diplomacy but not when selected on the diplomacy screen to keep the meme. Now that Kislev has all but been confirmed for game 3, it's really started to kick up on the subreddit. Even CA has played into it, as the first thing said in the trailer showcasing Kislev is literally just "Kislev."
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* '''[[Doomstack]]''' - Playing with the "Doom" splattered all over Warhammer settings, these notorious near-uniform armies of the same type were infamous for making it easier for the player to steamroll enemy armies. Okoii has many examples of rather amusing doomstacks, some of which were otherwise-weaker units strengthened by buffs, skills, and bonuses into a nightmare.
** One example of a doomstack is an army of [[Sisters of Avelorn]].

* '''Tree Hitler''' - Nickname given to Durthu, because on top of [[RAGE|spectacularly pissed off and hateful diplomacy dialogue]], Durthu would not only militarize and become powerful quickly, he had a tendency to invade [[Bretonnia|Not-France]] typically wiping them and the Empire out fairly quickly, before setting sights on the Dwarfs and proceeding to attack the rest of the non-evil Old World. Instead of being an isolationist tree, Durthu became an aggressive dictator, destroying half of the Old World before the Warriors of Chaos even showed up, which made them seem like the paltry relief force to the tree devastation, but instead of fighting each other, they would often form a non-aggression pact and even ally with each other due to the diplomacy bonuses this genocide provides. (Warriors of Chaos start at war with almost everyone) It is perhaps accurate to lore, as Durthu is one of the last ancient Treemen, hates anything not from Athel Loren and is [[Grimdark|tormented by forest spirits reminding him that he has failed to protect the forest and his friends from the outside world]].

* '''Mel Gibson''' - Aka [[Kurnous|Orion]]. As you can see on his poster in the wood elves section, his face is totally-not modeled after Mel Gibson.

* '''Smile / Say Cheese!''' - Due to the <strike>radiant and inspiring grin</strike> <strike>ARROGANT MAN THING SMIRK-SNEER</strike> smile on Karl Franz in the TWW1 cinematic for the Empire, photoshoping/using transparencies/"deepfaking"/face warping all characters to have smiles like his has become popular.
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Image:Harkon.jpg|Of course it would have to be Harkon to make it an in-game thing.
Image:Fleet Captain Smile.jpg|Actually from the Vampire Coast teaser.
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Image:Actually Less Scary.png|EVERY DAY WE FALL FURTHER FROM MORK'S GREEN LIGHT.
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*'''Where is Krell?''' another "Finding Nemo" related meme. It originates from one of the Legendary Lords, Heinrich Kemmler, who in the lore travels with Krell, a former chaos champion turned into a Wight King. In the game Krell was initially absent, so Kemmler would occasionally shout "Where is Krell?" Thankfully CA patched him in later.

*'''Dawi from another Hold''' - A common diplomatic prompt that friendly Dwarf factions use with one another, delivered in the typical amount of ham you would expect from a Warhammer game. Because of the easy quotable nature of this line, it has become a meme unto itself. Typically a poster posts something vaguely Dwarf-like image with the quote, and then other anons respond with the rest of the line, namely - "Tis a great day." Due to the relatively static nature of Dwarfs across different fantasy settings and the hammy response that Dwarfs use regardless of setting this meme feels appropriate, if you post a Dawi from Warhammer, a Dawi Zharr, or even a viking or any vaguely bearded and armoured shape.

*'''Archaon, The Neverchosen''' - Archaon, the chosen of the 4 Chaos Gods. The unifier of the northern Chaos warbands. The one who was tasked to destroy the Warhammer world, and eventually succeeded. Surely this man must be one of the most powerful Lords in the entire game! Well... not originally. The term originates from a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOEFL_hCLAs youtube video], which based on some truth. In terms of multiplayer he used to really suck ass. He had decent stats, but was WAY too expensive for what he brought to the table. This has unfortunately lead to poor Archaon to receive the name "The Neverchosen" in the multiplayer scene. It especially sucks for the poor Neverchosen since all the other Chaos Legendary Lords were so much better picks. He did eventually get a huge price cut and large buffs, so now you'll see him relatively often in competitive tournaments (though Kholek and Sarthoreal are still considered better picks), but the reputation seems to have stuck regardless. With TWW3 revealing its customisable Daemon Prince LL this meme became even more relevant, as pretty much almost everyone now thinks that [[God-Slayer]] is far more interesting than Archaon, pretty much downplaying poor guy to a level of [[Failbaddon]].

*'''Will someone please help the Beastmen!?'''- The Beastmen campaign has been... subpar for arguably longer than every other race in the game other than Warriors of Chaos. While most game 1 factions were decent before game 2 and simply suffered from power creep before their updates, Beastmen have almost always been crap on the campaign map. From copy-pasted and heavily dated mechanics, to a slew of iconic units that are missing, they're just a mess to play right now. Their unfortunate situation has led to plentiful memes including shitposts on reddit, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0va_jOlAtXk&list=PLtAC49COdLjkSz_AlBa0GOFTYrL-W24qk| a running series of Skarsnik laughing at Khazrak] and... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSnDQjEquGA| Whatever the fuck this is.] With The Silence and The Fury, Beastmen will be getting many of their missing units and a revamp, meaning hopefully they won't be the laughing stock of the game anymore.

*'''Helman Ghorst'''- The very definition of "so bad it's good". An unknown character with only scraps of lore, Ghorst was nonetheless picked as the first DLC Legendary Lord for the Vampire Counts, stepping over a whole host of massively popular Vampire characters like the Bloodline Progenitors (Neferata, Aborash...) or Konrad von Carstein. That of course pissed off a lot of fans, but it was only the beginning. Because Ghorst not only had absolutely dogshite charisma, but he also was one of the worst characters in the game, and remained terrible for a ''long'' time (though to be fair, the faction/army bonuses he gave were pretty great). Having literally nothing going for him, neither crunch nor fluff, paradoxically turned him into an endearing meme, with people cheering whenever they saw hagard Ghorst waddling on his Corpse Cart trying to pick fights he was sure to lose. Even though he has become a pretty decent character over the years (being a good option in some matchups as a cheap Mortis Engine), he remains popular as an ironic icon of the community.

*'''The Ordertide'''- You know how in Warhammer Lore most of the order factions are forced to constantly fight on the defensive? Forced to eternally defend themselves against the forces of Chaos and Destruction, barely able to keep their civilization kicking? Yeah, that wasn't the case in this game up until the Warden and the Paunch came out. Due to the fact that they confederate very easily, generally have very little serious opposition in their home territories, and are natural allies to most other good guys factions, you tended to get alliance blobs across the map that dominated the world by the time Chaos actually shows up. This REALLY sucks if you enjoy playing the bad guy factions, because eventually you will reach the point where once you declare war on one faction, you're fighting all of them as they send never ending stacks at you. CA acknowledged this problem for the Warden and the Paunch and effectively countered it by buffing the everloving shit out of orcs, who will now mercilessly pound both the Dwarfs and the Empire into the dirt basically every single game. This is also not helped by the release of the Twisted and the Twilight, introducing two more factions that tend to align against order and a single faction which will smack in the middle of all the Dark Elves in the world.
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File:Ordertide -2.jpg|thumb|Captain Roth has way more friends this time!
File:6z5ikupj33641.jpg|thumb|Accurate representation of the current state of the campaign by the time Chaos rolls around.
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