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Total War: Warhammer 3 - The Masque: The Best Slaanesh Immortal Empires Campaign?This video discusses the Masque of Slaanesh campaign in Total War: Warhammer 3's Immortal Empires, highlighting its strengths, strategies, and unique mechanics. It emphasizes the faction's focus on demonic units, the importance of dances, and the potential for strategic alliances with unlikely factions like Khorne. The guide also covers victory conditions, DLC recommendations, and research priorities.
1. 🎭 The Masque: A Demon-Focused Slaanesh Campaign
- ✅ The Masque excels as a demon-focused campaign, unlike mortal-focused alternatives.
- ✅ Benefits include global and local recruitment reduction for Slaanesh demonettes and exalted demonettes.
- ✅ Lord effects and skill lines enhance demon units with physical resistance, upkeep reduction, charmed attacks, melee attack bonuses, charge bonuses, and vigor loss reduction for demonic cavalry and chariots.
- ✅ Infantry speed and frenzy bonuses further boost demonette effectiveness.
- ✅ The Masque's army composition can heavily rely on demonettes due to these buffs.
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1. 🎭 The Masque: A Demon-Focused Slaanesh Campaign
- ✅ The Masque excels as a demon-focused campaign, unlike mortal-focused alternatives.
- ✅ Benefits include global and local recruitment reduction for Slaanesh demonettes and exalted demonettes.
- ✅ Lord effects and skill lines enhance demon units with physical resistance, upkeep reduction, charmed attacks, melee attack bonuses, charge bonuses, and vigor loss reduction for demonic cavalry and chariots.
- ✅ Infantry speed and frenzy bonuses further boost demonette effectiveness.
- ✅ The Masque's army composition can heavily rely on demonettes due to these buffs.
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2. 🗺️ Starting Location, Expansion, and Victory Conditions
- ✅ The Masque starts with control over the Blood Hole.
- ✅ The player can expand to control the Jungles of Green Mist and then target Marcus Wulfhart.
- ✅ An ambush strategy is suggested to quickly eliminate Wulfhart's army.
- ✅ Victory conditions involve destroying Marcus Wulfhart and controlling specific provinces through direct ownership, vassals, or military allies.
- ✅ Long campaign victory requires defeating Yuan Bo, Hexoatl, and Gor-Rok.
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3. 🤝 Strategic Alliances: Vassalizing Khorne Factions
- ✅ The Masque can vassalize Skulltaker (a Khorne faction) by selling territories.
- ✅ Selling the Pillars of Unseen Constellation or a settlement from Alberic's province can secure vassalization.
- ✅ Skulltaker can then be directed to attack and occupy targets, effectively using a Khorne faction as a bulldozer.
- ⚠️ The alliance between a Slaanesh and Khorne faction is unusual but strategically advantageous.
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4. 😈 Utilizing Rakarf and Avoiding Lustria
- ✅ The Carnival of the Damned unholy manifestation allows creating a cult of Slaanesh in a target settlement.
- ✅ The Masque can use the ritual of summoning to transport their faction leader to the Golden Colossi and then sell it to Rakarf to get vassalized.
- ✅ With both Rakarf and Skulltaker as vassals, the player can avoid playing in Lustria.
- ✅ Focus can shift to the north, dealing with Yuan Bo and Hexoatl, while vassals conquer Lustria.
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5. 😈 Cults, Devotees, and Forsaken of Slaanesh
- ✅ The Masque starts with a cult in Caracazul, enabling quick access to key settlements like Karak Eight Peaks.
- ✅ Devotees are primarily gained through fighting battles.
- ✅ Building Magus of Slaanesh and devotee structures increases devotee generation.
- ✅ With the Champions of Chaos DLC, Forsaken of Slaanesh can be recruited early by adjusting building priorities.
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6. ⚔️ DLC Benefits: Champions of Chaos and Tides of Torment
- ✅ Champions of Chaos DLC is highly beneficial for Slaanesh campaigns, providing access to Chosen of Slaanesh and Forsaken units.
- ✅ Tides of Torment DLC is useful for hero options and gaining Allure, despite the demonic elements.
- ✅ The Masque can gain more Allure than other factions due to extra capacity.
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7. 💃 The Dances of Slaanesh: Abilities and Benefits
- ✅ The Masque has access to four dances: Pagent of Pain, Symphony of Excess, Burning Butchanal, and a final unlockable dance.
- ✅ Each dance provides unique benefits and abilities.
- ✅ Pagent of Pain: Combat and damage benefits at the cost of durability.
- ✅ Symphony of Excess: Debuffs enemies and improves seduction, but reduces resistance.
- ✅ Burning Butchanal: Casualty replenishment and options for ward save or armor (at the cost of speed).
- ✅ The final dance focuses on magic item drop chance and magic capabilities.
| Dance | Final Stage Effect |
|---|---|
| Burning Butchanal | Damages enemy garrison and generates devotees. |
| Symphony of Excess | Teleports enemy army to a random nearby location. |
| Pagent of Pain | Applies silence attribute and reduces enemy ammunition by 100%. |
| Final Dance | Forces an enemy army to go on a rampage, attacking everything in its path. |
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8. 🔮 Vision, Heroes, and Faction Benefits from Dances
- ✅ The Masque can win wars before arriving at a location due to vision provided by heroes and cults.
- ✅ Completing dances unlocks faction benefits like global recruitment, construction cost reduction, and increased casualty replenishment.
- ✅ Symphony of Excess provides 10% construction cost reduction and 50 growth.
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9. 📜 DLC Recommendations, Research, and Disciple Armies
- ✅ Champions of Chaos DLC is recommended for Chosen of Slaanesh.
- ✅ Tides of Torment DLC is useful regardless.
- ✅ Slaanesh factions have unique research, particularly on the first tab, focusing on tempo and devotee generation.
- ✅ Mending Devotion research provides devotees per turn for every lord performing a dance and reduces devotee upkeep for disciple armies.
- ✅ Disciple armies are expensive in devotees, and saving devotees for cults is recommended.