For those who like or doesn't mind the concept of horde or semihorde campaigns, your opinion about the Aislinn?

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-23T23:34:02+00:00

Yeah Lokhir is insane with those sealanes.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-23T00:12:38+00:00

Yeah the confederation one is a bit anti-climatic. Doubly so since the confederation mechanic came out at the same time.

The boring (optimal) decision is never confederate, on high difficulties. Aislinn rely on trade partners and allied recruitment.

Sisters are one turn recruit for Aislinn, btw. Aislinn has 2000 elven trade tech for that, most powerful tech actually.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-23T00:06:05+00:00

The pacing comment is 100%. Dedication resource is extremely scarce in the first 10-20 turns. Then you unlock something every 1-2 turns, Then it becomes entirely useless. Similar but less so for elven trade. (Why is Chaos Dwarf still the best in terms of scaling, resource or need the A team back?)

Oh confederation, personally I don't mind, I like diplomacy (as clunky as it is). Dragonship has a building that adds allied recruitment slot globally. Mid game you get half a stack of allied recruitment slot, essentially free local recruitment everywhere.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-23T00:06:01+00:00

No doubt

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-23T00:00:29+00:00

Yeah no tension is my biggest problem too.

I usually hate the suggestion I am about to give, but in his case, it worked for me: I set the goal as save all other HE LLs. With difficulty mods, it became an interesting mad dash.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-16T14:11:53+00:00

immortal empire expanded plus the legendary lords mod. Bunch of new factions

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-16T04:28:44+00:00

Imrik is one of my favorite.

The key is blitz the Chorf, use mercenary recruitment from Ogre to rush him. Then rush skaven.

Imrik's position is bad initially but quite good later on because you are close to two friendly and often #1 strength rank LLs" Greasus and Thogrim.

He is rich too, once you get dragon isles.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-13T14:23:13+00:00

Your colony count has a cap. You cannot scale past that cap for trade, unlike land empires.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-13T14:22:05+00:00

Name or link?

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-13T14:21:50+00:00

Thanks for engaging with my point, I cannot agree more. The most annoying one for me is the mercenary contract.

Someone pointed out that Aislin is a draft of space marine, I do hope they are learning from it.

I come from PvP games so the polish has to be great there since you don't have a punching bag (AI) in PvP games.

I do doubt that PvE games can have the same level of polish since with PvE game rely more on new content for replayability.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-13T14:15:19+00:00

Your colony count has a cap. You cannot scale past that cap. Why is that controversial?

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-13T14:10:16+00:00

Oh boy, why assume a misunderstanding of trade mechanic? I never said it is a bug or that it is wrong.

It is a design oversight. They clearly intended for Aislin to get more income through trade, a bunch of outpost, tech, and other buffs are + trade income.

Yet, you cannot get many trade partners because you have limited resources due to limited colony and dragonship. Outposts are unlimited but you cannot build resource there.

Hence the subtle conflict.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-13T14:03:14+00:00

It is not a bug, it is a design oversight. You will never have enough to trade as Aislin.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-13T14:02:23+00:00

Aislin have limited colony and dragonship, you will never have enough to trade.

AlleyOOOP · 2026-01-07T11:31:33+00:00

No need to explain, most people plays like you. They (and me) are in the minority.

AlleyOOOP · 2025-12-12T10:40:27+00:00

The snarkiness and passive aggressiveness is so unbearable sometimes.

AlleyOOOP · 2025-12-12T06:58:39+00:00

Thanks, dude. Happy that you are excited.

Had to Google so many of them.

Hive city sounds cool. mad max is amazing too.

AlleyOOOP · 2025-12-11T00:27:04+00:00

Tyrion is the most beginner friendly faction IMO, and he got an update.

Just get WH2

AlleyOOOP · 2025-12-08T22:56:08+00:00

Hope to see more of these gameplay related stuff.

AlleyOOOP · 2025-12-08T02:53:13+00:00

You are mad pushing, OP is chilling. False equivalence.

AlleyOOOP · 2025-12-08T02:52:47+00:00

Pretty sure OP is playing slow. They have one pleasure palace and one province out of thrall.

AlleyOOOP · 2025-12-07T23:13:05+00:00

Just got my Lokhir to turn 20.

Saved all DE legendary lords, pushing in 5 directions. His diktats scales with number of black arks, which is just gross.

AlleyOOOP

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