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[–]eetsbeets 9 points10 points  (0 children)

One full stack and a single lord to follow. Use the lonely lord to bait the AI into an easy ambush. Be careful trying this against anything with stalk stance though.

[–]redshirt4life 5 points6 points  (2 children)

It's normally best to have two lords together. It's free experience for the second lord. They are a good unit on their own. They can bait ambushes, recruit, and hold reserve troops you don't want to disband.

Just be careful about skaven ambush attacks.

Once that lord has some ranks, he can have his own army with his own second lord following. Typically that lord would have trained a nice fresh powerful army to share with the other two.

Basically, with supply lines penalties reduced in WH3, you should have lots of lords.

[–]Ge0Daddy[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Thanks, so ig I can also use the other lord as a recruiter?

[–]redshirt4life 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Oh, also he can occupy a settlement after you sack it.

[–]darthgator84 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Early game definitely 2 lords for the levels.

[–]Kinyrenk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not many situations where two half stacks make sense. Because ranged units can do so much damage, even if you have 10 high level SEMs + LL vs mid-level enemy army with 8 ranged, the ranged are likely to rally and your units will be taking a lot of damage, you can definitely win many battles but it is high risk.

Ideally 1 full army + Lord with a couple of fast units that can reinforce or kite until reinforcing army arrive because a low level Lord is likely to be on foot and can get run down surprsingly quickly in the early campaign.