Just as the achievement says, kill the bodyguard Captains of a Warchief then call him out and kill him before any other Captains step up. Do this twice and the achievement should pop.
Your best bet is to kill the bodyguards of a single Warchief then kill the Warchief, if you leave too long between killing the bodyguards and killing the Warchief, other captains will step up.
If you initiate the Warchief fight and and he spawns with a Captain, that fight won't count towards the achievement.
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You should probably mention how to identify the bodyguards. It wasn't clear right away in the game so I kept messing up, and your solution doesn't give enough details either
By PrimeBigTime on 09 Apr 2018 01:08
The bodyguards are identified by the white lines from the Warchief to the Captains in the Saurons army screen
By lightchipster on 12 May 2020 15:19
Playing it from scratch offline for the 2nd time. Hopefully it works this time. Do you have to have multiple bodyguards per warcheif? The achievement description implies it's plural.
By Geezr Pleazr on 07 Apr 2023 19:05
Hi, Someone can tell me how i should do this cheevo in proper way? I must kill bodyguards before starting a warchief mission or during when i lure him out and they appear with him?
By PattrykkPL on 30 May 2023 22:35
I killed them before mission and warchiefs show up alone when i deal with them and no achievement. Same happens when bodyguards show up with warchiefs and first killed them before warchief. I dont know what im doing wrong
By PattrykkPL on 30 May 2023 22:40
I killed them before mission and warchiefs show up alone when i deal with them and no achievement. Same happens when bodyguards show up with warchiefs and first killed them before warchief. I dont know what im doing wrong
By PattrykkPL on 31 May 2023 21:05
If you kill two Warchiefs that do not have any bodyguards in the first place, you will still get this achievement.
By HolyHalfDead on 19 Aug 2017 01:12
Could this be considered missable>?
By Kanchanaburi on 01 Mar 2018 22:58
No, Orcs continually step up to kill the voids left by the ones you kill.
By WolfOfBadenoch on 11 Mar 2018 11:08
I got this in a very simple way that didn't really need me to do anything beyond what's required for the story.
There's a point late in the story where you have to brand the 5 warchiefs. I did this by dominating lower level captains, ordering them to become bodyguards of the current warchiefs, then ordering them to betray their warchief and ensuring they succeeded and took over.
Then during a very late mission where you get ambushed by a former nemesis you should have the backup of your 5 branded warchiefs. Once the battle was nearly won I dispatched the 5 warchiefs (down on the d-pad) and this achievement popped.
None of my 5 branded warchiefs had any bodyguards at the time and I don't think they ever had, but the fact that they were both prior bodyguards and warchiefs seemed to count for both parts of this achievement.
By Catatonic Nali on 31 May 2020 12:50
I've just done what HollyHalfDead stated and the achievement hasn't popped. I failed the mission a couple of times but that didn't promote any new Captains
By Diplodomcus on 22 Nov 2020 01:35
This works for killing branded warchiefs as well
By AssertiveGrub90 on 10 Jan 2021 05:09
I've tried killing the bodyguards before calling the warchief, while fighting the warchief, with different number of bodyguards 0, 1, 2 and 3, branding only bodyguards, branding only warchief, branding both, tried in the main campaign, dlc and challenges, i've deleted the savegame 2 times and started fresh, the achievement just refuses to unlock. Can you please clarify when is the first moment you can unlock this and the exact procedure? Thanks.
By Ilindur on 30 Jun 2022 23:29
It's been a while since I last played this game but if memory serves, I just killed all the bodyguard captains of the warchief and then played the mission to kill them. Did it twice and this unlocked.
Not sure why you're having so much trouble with it, have you googled to see if it's bugged?
By WolfOfBadenoch on 01 Jul 2022 16:04
I've just googled it and seems you're not the only one this has happened to. The last comment insane said they did it offline after deleting save data and starting fresh.
By WolfOfBadenoch on 01 Jul 2022 16:08
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