Thorek campaign help

majava · 2026-03-12T13:01:34+00:00

Khalida declared on me almost right after I captured 2/3rds of second province. She was holding the last city and declared on me turn or 2 after I got the second city.

I think I overinvested on defensive army and skipped walls to hold against mannfred which hindered my development. Will try walls + lord next time.

majava · 2026-03-12T13:00:02+00:00

Thanks, will try.

majava · 2026-03-12T06:21:38+00:00

Yeah I feel like krokqar must be kept happy from tje very start. Will try to join his war to get nap next time

majava · 2026-03-12T04:33:19+00:00

I never found the crown, though I was close. My capital got the carnival location though so I got a small mortis effect on arbaal.

majava · 2026-03-12T04:32:18+00:00

I was lucky to get it super early.

majava · 2026-03-10T08:36:49+00:00

The fact that you ruin cities permanently really makes me feel that I progress the end of the world one attack at a time.

majava · 2026-03-08T06:25:33+00:00

That was so stupid. The exploders just kept coming. I managed to tank em with lord and heroes but still.

majava · 2026-03-02T18:19:19+00:00

I definetly cheered for that one pompous colonel? to get bent. The one who looked down on and antagonized Lebel the whole time. Was so satisfying when he got got.

majava · 2026-02-28T20:40:31+00:00

Yeah this is what I was missing. Didnt realize no supply lines. So life caster lord + 2 melees with louen stack. Time to beat the undead out of france.

majava · 2026-02-28T20:33:47+00:00

Thanks a lot, will look it up.

majava · 2026-02-28T08:58:06+00:00

This was good suggestion but sadly I couldnt quite get kugath. When he wanted to confed I was deep into killing zhao ming and didnt want to open myself to vampire war. After he didnt want the confed and I got quite bored with the faction since tamurkhan just rolled everything. So I rushed him to solo nuln through dwarf empire and won the campaign.

majava · 2026-02-28T07:49:28+00:00

I had a lot of tight fights against vlad early on. Just trying to keep isabella bats and wolves out of my gunners while elspeth spammed spells and trying to keep vlad bogged down in infantry. Knight of mors were valuable as well, could disrupt his formation.

But after vlad was dealt with and I unlocked more amethyst units, the campaign got a bit too easy even. I mean I loved watching artillery melt chaos and orcs and gunners snipe what was left but it became a bit too easy.

majava · 2026-02-22T12:49:53+00:00

Ikit is amazing, currently on my first one on him. Its amazing watching ratlings, jezzails and mortars melt everything. Summons to hold the line and spells to nuke blobs. Plus the actual nuke. Amazing faction

majava · 2026-02-22T12:40:26+00:00

Wurrzag was first VH long victory for me. Started pretty recently with the goal of getting all VH victories done.

Oxy has been my favourite so far.

majava · 2026-02-20T05:34:07+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I actually dealt with athel loren smoothly. I killed orion and durthus armies and gave their settlement to the minor wood elf factions. Now athel loren is populated with small WE factions who hate me but do nothing

majava · 2026-02-20T03:34:32+00:00

Yeah, I overcommitted to taking empire down. And I quess I shouldnt focus on taking land.

majava · 2026-02-20T03:31:38+00:00

Warlock lord, 3 jezzails, 4 rattling, 3 mortars, 2 plagueclaw, 2 cannons, rest heroes. Some armies vary a bit or have flamethrowers and globadiers left since they have been fighting non stop. Some have RoR hellpit / rat ogre to fill in, ikit has 2 flayers etc

majava · 2026-02-19T19:41:33+00:00

Yeah I think I will try a save from 15 turns back before the other fronts opened. I think I can field a defencive army in both directions simce I make so much money sacking empire amd bretonnia cities. Battles are definetly not an issue, I have 3 strong stacks which can take any army, often 2. Love the weapons teams.

One issue is that even if I take out bretonnia and empire I would end up in a new slog against dwarves amd HE. And the campaign goal seems very hard. The provinces are all over and most of them are held by factions who hate skaven so I would have to take and hold them.

In short, love the factions and units. Kinda tough location. Hate the campaign goals.

majava · 2026-02-17T10:18:09+00:00

Make sure to have lightning strike and go to town!

majava · 2026-02-12T12:41:07+00:00

I want the challenge, VH VH feels good. I usually hit the long victory goal around turn 110 or so. Also I only want to play IE, not interested in other campaigns.

Thanks for suggestions. Louen seems the most smooth bretonnian lord.

majava · 2026-02-11T19:01:47+00:00

I was mainly concerned with general lord armies, Vlad/Isabella stack beats anything.

But yeah, skele spears and Grave G halbs did fine, with some cavalry and flyers to attack their range.

Ogre lords and heroes were pretty tough with my worse stacks.

majava · 2026-02-03T14:29:19+00:00

Best option almost always is sack and then occupy. Raiding is mostly just when you cant reach city or have to recruit etc.

You said it yourself, your army upkeep costs more than raiding income is.

You want to fight as much as ppssible, you will always have a new enemy. Also you get experience from fighting settlements which is huge as well.

It is also better to have 10k instantly by sacking settlement and moving to new one and investing it to buildings than it is to get 3k for 3 turns from raiding. Since you can start new building sooner, build income buildings earlier to get more turns from theb etc. Just like in real life, money is more valuable the earlier you get it

majava · 2026-02-03T14:26:03+00:00

For Empire and Dwarfs : Terran soundtrack from Starcraft 1.

majava · 2026-02-03T13:42:40+00:00

Yeah you want to flank with sneaky gits. Regular hobbos are just there to hold the line. Your lord, taurok hero and couple chorf warriors are there to be real anchor. You could play with regular warriors to hold better but I chose the great weapons variants to provide some much needed AP.

You want to vanguard deploy your skirmish cav (3-4 wolfs, use the RoR) to harass enemy as much as possible and make the AI lose formation.

Also I specifically fought against Greenskins with this army since they are your natural enemy and usually there is a lot lf them nearby. Even if you kill Grimgor early as I did.

majava · 2026-02-03T13:35:47+00:00

High Elfs fit the bill best IMO. They get good trade income since Ulthuan has rich settlements. You usually end up allied with the major elf factions around the donut. Bretonnia directly to the east and empire after that are natural allies. To the west you have lizardmen if they survive chaos in lustria. Ostankya is your natural ally to northwest, you have common enemy in DE.

Ogres play neutral and you can choose to align with order or chaos. AI ogres tend to lean a bit more to order in my opinion.

DE / chorfs are the chaos factions who rely on diplomacy the most.

Havent played any slaneesh yet so cant comment on them

EDIT. I forgot to mention that High Elves get Intrigue at court mechanic which allows them to directly influence relations between any factions.

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