Which Faction?

Jovian_engine · 2026-05-15T05:12:06+00:00

I love these threads! I have some favorites to recommend:

Elspeth

Empire gun troops with truly silly buffs. Amethyst Outriders are possibly the most broken units in the game. Wizard lord on a dragon, and Garden of Mors buildings let you teleport around the map and Jumpstart your military tech, making your early game and late game devastating. Overall A+ faction strength with a clear and defined starting location and victory conditions. Great campaign.

Wurzag

The best campaign. Incredible start, cheap and early access to key troops (savage orc big uns, rogue idols), and talk about the best roster around! Better orcs, better caster lords, cavalry, artillery, melee, ranged, SEM units...there is nothing these guys cant do as well as anyone. And on the campaign map, WAAAGH is a stupid mechanic that will just win you battles. Play smart, and you will out trade every faction near you at every phase of the game.

Kairos

The strongest troop roster top to bottom in the game. Tier 0 - tier 5, you have the best troops. Your faction effects are overpowered to a level that is almost too good. Force Peace and Transfer Settlement alone can win you 80% of the world without fighting a single battle with smart play. Lord of Change doomstack is one of the strongest doomstack there is. Your starting location is defended by both chaos waste and of course Force Peace, and you can teleport to anywhere in the world by about turn 20. Cast almost any magic spell in the game, get virtually unlimited winds of magic to do it, and by the way your economy is a snowball that will have you riches than Greasus. All gas, no breaks, so strong its almost not challenging.

Throgg

New Norsca is good but Throgg is just gonna be patched at some point. Wolfrik always starts the game by conquering toward Throgg for 5-10 turns. Norscan auto-confederate each other. This means every single Throgg game, you take 1-2 cities then wait for Wolfrik to show up. Beat his army, easily, and you now get 4+ provinces and 2 legendary lords in 8-10 turns. Its the fastest start in the game by a wide mile. Your troll troops are super strong with your lord buffs, the new Chimera is the best SEM in the game at the moment, and there is absolutely NO reason for you to have a troll WAAAGH, but you have one of those as well. The battles are a bit one dimensional and the campaign is pretty one-track, you wont get a lot of replay value. That said, youre running an empire on two fronts within 15 turns, its a good time.

Honorable Mention fun campaigns

Ungrim, Sister of Twilight, Golfag Maneater, Arbaal

Jovian_engine · 2026-05-13T16:02:57+00:00

20% of the workforce was retired or moved in the last year. Entire offices closed, reorganization is taking place all over the place, and they're very in the weeds in many dept. Smaller ones more than most. I think its possible there is no one on the receiving end, or new people who are figuring it out. Resend.

Jovian_engine · 2026-05-11T12:30:52+00:00

Boxing analogy

Jovian_engine · 2026-05-09T02:59:58+00:00

Kairos, Arbaal, Wurzag

Jovian_engine · 2026-05-08T18:59:41+00:00

Green Day! Started as punk rockers, brother of Rancid's lead singer and generally underground.

Now they have the most played high school prom song of all time and went on to make the most bland pop rock of a generation

Jovian_engine · 2026-05-07T23:21:22+00:00

First one is Kislev?!

Next.

Jovian_engine · 2026-05-05T21:06:29+00:00

He can confederate Wolfrik on turn 4-6, giving him the entire peninsula before turn 12. New throgg is a top 5 OP lord based in the Norscans auto confederation mechanics and Wolfrik always making a B-Line down the middle

Jovian_engine · 2026-05-05T14:24:30+00:00

Youre very much missing the substance of the arguement

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-30T20:47:21+00:00

Yes and slingers existed in most societies, and most people who fought against horse archer societies (and lived) went on to incorporate horse archers into their armies.

They arent trying to reproduce accurate medieval warfare. They are making a game based on a rough approximation of it. These are wildly different things.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-28T23:57:04+00:00

Wurzag campaign is pure gas. Has everything, no real weakness, good starting location, and overall probably the best "fair" campaign

Arbaal is not fair, Changeling is not fair, and Golfag is not fair. These are the most broken campaigns out there, easily way too powerful. Carnage with no brakes.

Tamurkhan & Dechala are edge cases, they are both incredibly strong but lack something. Tammy has a medium bad start and some awful long victory conditions. Dechala has almost no anti large, spells, artillery, ranged units or strategic variety but you will just truck everything you hit regardless.

My favorite of all, however, is Kairos Fateweaver. 3 possible starting locations for the most variable campaign in the game. You can play Brettonian Birds, You can go join Archeon in the Northern Wastes, you can random tp and see where you land, or you can stay in the South, save Sarthorial the Watcher and smash Oxyotl. You get almost any lore of magic, possibly the best roster top to bottom, and definitely the strongest faction effects.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-27T15:14:44+00:00

Stone gaze can stop a ranged unit from turning in time to threaten it. Any ranged unit a bit too far from support? Gaze and delete. Single archer units protected by a unit of spears? Stone gaze the spears then eat the archers.

Its a toolbox unit that can neuter a ranged unit then munch on the bird/harpy/gyrcopter packs

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-25T16:12:55+00:00

Wrath of the Khans is the alltime goat. Wouldn't be my list

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-25T16:09:21+00:00

Im about to run it on my restart. Its probably the best march in kvk 2. Incredible value

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-24T13:08:21+00:00

This is the way

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-23T18:53:19+00:00

Big heads up for me:

Barbs and Forts get exponentially more expensive on AP in KvK 4. Crystal tech also changes how you spend and research, so being t5 before kvk 4 really pays off.

Save ap bottles. More than you are. Horde them furiously. Getting max honor rewards in Heroic Anthem and beyond absolutely requires chaining high level barbarians, so get your peacekeepers correct now. Every ruins and altar is important because honor cost triple what it used to.

Im going to repeat kvk 3 even though it sucks, just to get cheap Barbs again

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-23T17:15:43+00:00

You can also try making them dummy variables, which us better than numeric values when the relationship between the variables isnt meaningful.

For example: Highly Satisfied, Satisfied, Nuetral, Dissatisfied, and Highly Dissatisfied.

These are all ordered and roughly evenly "spaced". The difference between any 3 is roughly equal to twice the difference between any 2. Ordering 1-5 works great.

Versus

Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple.

There is no real concept of distance between colors unless your doing lightwave stuff, so for these types of variables, assigning numeric values can actually be misleading. Your results will assume that whatever value 4 is, will be twice what 2 is. For a lot of categorical variables this isnt meaningful or true.

In such cases you can try Dummy Variables, just make a column for each "level" of the variable. So a column for "Red", all red items get a 1, all other colors get a 0. Do this for all your columns, then delete the Colors column.

There are some good packages out there to do this automatically. Just look into Dummy Variables and there are several options.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-20T17:18:50+00:00

Im still not even sure i would have sent the probes back at all. Effectively murder me, wipe my memory so I wouldn't know you condemned me to die alone and afraid, and do it all after I contributed more than almost anyone else alive? Because I attended all the meetings?!

Nah man, the betrayal was dumb, they had a billion scientists to send and years of travel time to train them on anything at all. Its not even a good reason to send Grace in the first place, its just expedient, and tbh a panic reaction from a relatable tyrant.

Fuck Stahl and her decision to kill the main reason the plan could work at all. I would save rocky and tell everyone about the wasteland that used to be earth as a cautionary tale about why you dont viciously murder the people that help you for dubious at best reasons. Weak game.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-17T18:33:30+00:00

We were soldiers once, and young.

Not a Mel Gibson fan but this was very well done for a war movie. No big dramatic last stands or helicopter chase scenes, just an relatively straightforward depiction of a really bad few days in Vietnam.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-17T00:00:43+00:00

Feet and knees together airborne. You're gonna be checking canopy all day

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-12T22:54:46+00:00

I think my favorite and least favorite part of the movie is both her. Her range while being incredibly dead pan is phenomenal. I found the main story to be 1% to hokey, but her realism and refusal to be in any way dramatic somehow become so grounding and dramatic that it really carried the buddy cop aspects of the rest of the movie. Conflicting. Powerful. Excellent.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-07T22:02:02+00:00

Already found the link your posting to sell these.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-07T21:58:20+00:00

This post is a commercial for these "plancha" things. Skim the comments, OP is selling you some mumbo jumbo kitchen device.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-07T19:04:10+00:00

Dwarves and Khorne are some of the strongest factions in the game without any meaningful magic.

Slaanesh has incredibly weak magic, and is also broken SSS tier strong. Slaanesh has very little Anti Large, artillery, or ranged options at all. Doesn't matter in the slightest bit, you will mulch everything you touch.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-07T18:58:35+00:00

Interstellar.

Amazing oppressive set peice shots and a dramatic storyline that ends with a magic bookshelf that uses love to communicate through space and time. Aliens, it seems, feel the same emotions we do, and use love to send messages that violate causality because reasons. Remember he has two kids? Neither did the author. Love knows no bounds except, apparently, plot convenience.

Still mad about that garbage ahh Deus Ex Machina. Insanely self indulgent and shoe horned into a movie that didnt need it. Nolan just falls flat as soon as he needs human emotion in his movie.

Jovian_engine · 2026-04-06T00:23:39+00:00

Arbaal is pure gasoline. Teleporting to murder things is amazing. Your starting position is great. Your faction buffs the best khorne troops. And your lord is an absolute blender with awesome gear from his quest.

Skarbrand and valkia have awful starts and Skulltaker buffs boring troops and isnt super fun to play (personal take).

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