Rangers are good man, most tips I saw for anything under Very Hard battle difficulty was to utilize them.

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Rangers > Skavenslaves > Spearman

I've tried it, in 5 turns you can take the castle.

Now imagine him recruiting War Wagons ...

Be thankful Desert and mountains are all suitable. It's what you accept when playing as his faction.

personally, what i did was use influence to make grimgor my buddy, and then expand from caledor instead of expanding via the old world. imrik doesn't fit well with all the non-mountain climate anyway. and ulthuan is far more lucrative. if you're lucky, the dwarves win vs grimgor and then it makes even more sense to expand from caledor instead of in the old world. OH and also HIGHLY recommend getting an "exhilirated" loremaster in every army. they give a whopping +50% chance to intercept. which is huge if you end up fighting in the mountains.

@@bomjus1706 _"personally, what i did was use influence to make grimgor my buddy, and then expand from caledor instead of expanding via the old world. imrik doesn't fit well with all the non-mountain climate anyway. and ulthuan is far more lucrative."_ And what do you if Ulthuan get's overwhelmed in early game ? In my very hard x2 playthrough, that's exactly what happened : i confederated Caledor only to find myself having a mediocre army confronted to no less than four Dark Elves armies of the cult of pleasure. Meanwhile, Grimgor managed to stomproll the dwarves by turn 21 and Eshin had been on a constant offensive from the east (and that was merely a prelude). It has been the most painful playthrough i've ever played in my life... _"you literally get free full dragon stacks, Imrik with unlimited firepower AND totally op superdragons."_ 1) You don't get free full dragon stacks (free upkeep) until late game and good recruitment roll - assuming you get there. 2) Imrik doesn't have unlimited power and only reach his full melee potential around mid-game and even then, you need to back him up with a mage to make full use of his abilities. Because he's an excellent tank but only a decent crowd controller. 3) The "totally op" dragons are nerfed once they join Imrik's armies and do not have the same amount of strength they have when you fight them. Additionnaly, some of the bonuses provided by the dragons in exchange of money are so powerfull that you actively look forward NOT fighting them to have the chance to use them again (the armor piercing bonus one, especially.) Basically it mostly goes down to luck if you'll get a good run or not.

@@bomjus1706 the dwarfs are beeing slammed even by the lesser green skins factions lately. Spear goblins are wipping the floor with beards.

@@diogovieira5563 They need to Nerf how successful the green skin ai is in the campaigns specifically Grimgor. I don't think them or their units are at all op but their ai just seems to wipe the floor with every other ai every single time. It just means if you play any faction in that third of the map you spend pretty much the entire campaign fighting nothing but green skins which does get kind of repetitive.

*_Practice makes perfect._*

It's self proclaimed, but very justified.

Yes yes

prolly wait for all the dlc to be out before doing that

I couldn't, that's for sure. But I'm going to have another go at normal now I've had some tips. (Yeah, I'm not very good at this game, though I've been playing since Shogun 1).

No, there were campaigns that were nigh-impossible to do before the ordertide nerf, the worst start being definitely Malagor. Even if you survive to turn 100 and burn everything around Altdorf and Couronne (which I did, with a lot of effort), by that time the ordertide starts to consume everything and focus on you entirely. Compared to that Imrik's current start is peanuts. Yes, you'll have to kill tons of skavenslaves, and skaven lords and hero casters are pain in the ass, but you start with a fire dragon, Imrik gets a dragon, and even your fucking fire caster can get a dragon. Imrik can recruit 3 Nobles from his skill, which get chariots super early. And because you'll be fighting multiple battles every turn, they'll level up in no time. That's on top of pokemon dragons which you can catch.

Imrik is easy to win any battle around start point as long as he get to level 14, the hard part is his economy can't afford second army, and the player who play Imrik first time often being declare war by Grimgor, Snikch, and Malus before turn 30, worst situation would be being waaaagh by Grimgor. But yeah, he's not that hard since you got legendary dragons that can teleport with 0 cost and super elf Imrik, it's just how to struggle through the fight with clan Eshin after some practice.(I've played LE/VH Imrik for 8 times, and the trouble maker is always clan Eshin)

So I played this over the weekend (following Legend's guide, though only on Normal difficulty) and can confirm that as long as you wipe out Eshin as early as possible (I managed turn 6), it's fairly straightforward after that. By about turn 40 with three or four dragons in the army, Imrik's army is so strong that he really isn't ever going to lose a battle. Just need to wipe out Eshin before they spread. If you don't do that, I think this is incredibly hard.

@@ggleplussuxx4787 i actually found legendary chaos tougher than legendary malagor, the simple reason being was ambush stance. Chaos has no ambush stance so you can't hide from the ordertide but if you have decent scouting with heroes on malagor it's slightly easier, (but still very difficult) just because the ai gets confused about where you are. Chaos is such a mess on legendary (thank god for the ordertide nerf) because the ordertide would chase you everywhere and you couldn't hide. That's just my opinion though, feel free to reply and discuss.

create the supply AND the demand, legend is evolving :O

Dwarfs and Greeenskins are far from being the strongest factions, even when player controlled. They only strike you as strong in that particular scenario because their starting positions are vastly superior to Imrik's.

Suceeding here makes you feel worthy to be called... _Dragonborn_ ! *Cue Skyrim music theme*

@climax050 except the big, firebreathing flying lizard you have in your army from the start?

Beat ss'ildra tor's army and make peace to use them as shield against skeggi, tiranoc and hexoatl and go for nagarythe/ulthuan when u have walls build

@@timbson7421 without consolidating one of the richest provinces in the game?

@@LoremasterLiberaster U do it later when u can afford 2 full stacks trying to take it early means tiranoc, skeggi, hexoatl and nagarythe will swarm u and all u can do is defend and minor settlements will burn and change owner every few turns

treat hexoatl like the dwarves in this campaign and just ignore them. they have a hard time killing the rats, norsca, and humans that they are surrounded by. ambush the dark elves turn 2-3 and kill their army you can then recruit archers and wipe their settlements to secure your province. i then immediately get on a boat and sail for tiranoc. your capital defences can hold off rebellion, and you can recruit/disband armies to help you defend against the rare attack by the shadowstalker. place your main force in between tiranocs capital and secondary settlement in ambush. if they move their army from one to the other you kill it in the field, if they don't you kill and destroy the settlement they are not defending (usually the unwalled settlement they abandon). you can then sit a fair bit behind the ruins in ambush, when they move to reoccupy, you kill them for free and then siege their capital and take their capital. i then attempt to secure the gate, this will guard your flank as you move toward tyrion over the coming turns. once you take tyrions capital its just a matter of time for the rest of the island, unless you are sloppy with your defenses. you have to deal with a lot of rebellions in this campaign, due to lack of corruption on the island. i found it much easier, to only capture settlements over 40% chaos, and if they are lower than that burn them to the ground and use them as ambush traps for any enemy that wants to nuke their own forces to reoccupy to wipe out armies for free and create a buffer between your settlements and theirs. and never use the sword of kane unless you want to lose the game.

@@LoremasterLiberaster You don't need it consolidated before capital grows to t4 so you can start slave economy. Securing the southern flank to deal with Anar and rebels first is much more important. Anar is an ambusher bitch with strong units that can easily ruin your campaign if you let him. If you don't play with the "gotta grab everything" mentality, and focus on what's important, and minimizing your enemies is the most important eraly, those tough starts suddenly become much more manageable.

The really hard part about the campaign is the Skaven, but once you cleared them, the orks and the dark elves out ... the danger you are facing is balancing your finances and overextending. Once the eastern border of the map is yours you only have to defend against attacks from one direction ... more or less.

That happened to me as well. And to think some people were upset when CA removed the autoresolve bonus.

Uh huh ;)

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I'm just real fast at hearing

It's a hour long video and you said that two minutes after it was posted

@@michaelmoretti9012 time flies when youre having fun I guess

the simple answer to that is probably just ambush stance. If they've razed the bottom settlement and are stacked in the main one, then just ambush on the path, they'll head out soon to crush the greenskins or occupy the settlement, then you ambush and slaughter them. Same thing if the other army is staying behind the walls, but snitch is on the bottom settlement, kill snitch then ambush on the path from the main settlement, again they'll head out and you can slaughter them and then take out the garrison by itself.

tbh it's not that bad, sure the rangers are nice at the very start but archer spam can do very well against almost anything. The queen and the crone would probably be a bigger loss, because no more sisters of avelorn for the mid to late game.

@@sympunny8636 Legend rants about them, but the Lothern Sea Guard are actually quite decent and probably still better than most of the other races' ranged units, they even have a version with shields for the front row. Its just a cost factor and in the mid-late game heroes and generals become a lot more powerful/important.

@@Muck006 see the issue is, HE archers are already so good. They only cost 475 with an upkeep of 118. That's so efficient. In contrast, lothern seaguard require a building, and cost 750 with an upkeep of 187. The shielded variant costs 850 with an upkeep of 212. That's almost double the upkeep cost of regular archers, and they actually underperform as archers, with less range and less ammo. The crazy thing is, sisters of avelorn although they have an initial cost of 1100, have an upkeep cost of 212, exactly the same as lothern guard (shielded). The cost is just too much for what you get, it's much more efficient to go archers early, into sisters of avelorn later on. Don't get me wrong, the shield and defences are a nice to have, but they're just too expensive compared to the standard cost efficient archers, who are already amazing early game. They could fill a niche role if you were facing a lot of cavalry in the early game, but the high elves really don't tend to. If the upkeep cost on them was reduced a bit, then i'd definitely consider picking up more, or if the standard archers were nerfed a bit.,

that's just bad luck :D Maybe you were too weak (not enough units) or didn't have walls so they saw you as an easy target?

K thanks guys, also I got the dlc so I have rangers 🙃

Actually you can do that but you have to pick your battles wisely. Skaven slaves on legendary are tough to rout and reach your archer line. Cheese them using Imrik and you are good.

@@pratikmaitra8543 Yes it can work. He actually goes full archers on start with high elves, he picked rangers though because archers suck when you get ambushed, and with Eshin that can happen easily

Rangers and Archmages are DLC units from Warden and Paunch

@@carldimayuga6419 yeah. I didnt know then. I having more troubles with darkelves now then playing as high elves

It is not work that way, dude. Army gets wiped out only if it is both caught moving and lost a battle during an interception. If you are attacking them (when it's your turn) and win when they are just standing in underway stance, that's not means they will be wiped out. Legend probably wiped them manually during the battle and edited out the tedious part.

If you want to make it easier for yourself you would use 2 stacks, Imrik with nothing but his dragons, the fire mage, and optional but preferrably a life mage and Frugal Noble. Those units alone will be able to autoresolve most Orc stacks with minimal dmg. Then the 2nd stack is standard SoA+Bolt Throwers.

He'd delete them later as he expanded out.

You need the Warden & the Paunch in order to get Archmages for HE

You would use the basic archers.

i think the most important thing with marcus wulfhearts campaign is dont' try to consilidate the province that you start in, either go up or to the right, otherwise it just takes too long because of the awkward terrain.