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C-zom
05/08/24 2:55:21 PM
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I just finished a long campaign victory in 80 turns with Elspeth on VH/VH. It was a total blast. Being an Empire main, I've been waiting forever for a DLC like this. All the new riflemen, the landship, the engineers -- my late game armies were basically WW2 era armored infantry columns with rocket battery artillery that /exploded into black holes./

I've narrowed down my choices to three factions I've barely played or... doing what I really want to do, and taking Gelt in his new start position for a spin.

Skarbrand seems like a lot of fun and I hear he turns into a one man doomstack in as little as 20-25 turns. However their roster seems incredibly small to me, and I do have a hard time wrapping my head around chaos factions on the campaign map. Since I rarely raze, raid, use agent powers, or teleport its hard to get all that down at once.

I noticed that Imrik kept getting annihilated in five turns by the AI in his new start position surrounded by -- checks notes -- dark elves, orcs, ogres, dwarves, chaos dwarves, and vampires. I know that he gets very OP quickly, and his dragons (with the exception of his garbage starter one) wreck entire armies. Running around the thunderdome collecting pokemon sounds awesome.

Sisters of Twilight is another very fun ranged campaign, not much to say since it's very defensive and isolationist. But building tall then holding back the end game crisis is always fun.

Gelt is now outside of the Empire, can immediately ally with two strong allies including Cathay, can get limits upwards of 60 wizards on the map, and now has access to all the tier V rare spells from the Order factions. All of them. He can melt entire armies alone with spells now, but for good measure can field any wizard type in the game too.

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havean776
05/08/24 3:02:09 PM
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All good choices. Have the Sisters Arrows been fixed form the magic accuarcy bug?

Anyway I say Imrik he has a tough start around skaven, vampires, burgle and chaos Dwarfs. Also the high Elf roster is really cool.

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C-zom
05/08/24 3:03:59 PM
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havean776 posted...
All good choices. Have the Sisters Arrows been fixed form the magic accuarcy bug?

Anyway I say Imrik he has a tough start around skaven, vampires, burgle and chaos Dwarfs. Also the high Elf roster is really cool.

They have. That volley ability the two units of starter eagles have is now ridiculous. Can kill 60-70% of darkshards in one go, each cast.

I was leaning towards him as well. He's got a brutal start though, I see him often ranked near the top most difficult campaigns in 5.0

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Dalthine
05/08/24 3:04:55 PM
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I'm bad at the game and just futz around so overall my input isn't worth much. But I'd suggest not Skarbrand since I imagine there will be a dlc for Khorne at some point that adds new units.
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C-zom
05/08/24 3:11:57 PM
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Dalthine posted...
I'm bad at the game and just futz around so overall my input isn't worth much. But I'd suggest not Skarbrand since I imagine there will be a dlc for Khorne at some point that adds new units.

Always down to give advice if you need some pointers. It's very fun once you know how to setup your early game which is the same for about 70% of the factions I'd say.

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havean776
05/08/24 3:33:27 PM
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C-zom posted...
They have. That volley ability the two units of starter eagles have is now ridiculous. Can kill 60-70% of darkshards in one go, each cast.

I was leaning towards him as well. He's got a brutal start though, I see him often ranked near the top most difficult campaigns in 5.0
Ha yes I am glad to hear they are back to power.
I need something to stop me making yet another Karl campaign.

Imrik is hard at the start but you also get the option of having a homebase on the Elf island. SO you can expand in two areas at once. His dragons are also absurd. I love them.

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C-zom
05/08/24 8:48:04 PM
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I'll need to give him another go. I claimed my starting province and was /struggling/ to get both control and income under wraps. I could barely break even with one 20 stack by turn 12. Skaven, Kugath, Chaos Dwarves and Grom declared on me in that timeframe. I found myself hiding for my life in Pigbarter grinding out wins for leveling up my lord, but I could see it becoming a losing battle economically.

I must be doing something wrong with the build order for his starting province, or expanding outwards too quickly.

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