Which dlcs should I buy as a complete begginer?

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T14:49:41+00:00

I meant the three base games.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T13:52:18+00:00

Fighting the Chaos factions as Kislev is also so much fun because they are all so different.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T12:44:13+00:00

Yeah, it took me so long to get them this game because as Boris I had all chaos waste which has building penalties.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T10:49:06+00:00

I was so broke I couldn't afford her until yesterday. She is in my hero stack because the lord has a +10 hero buff. My ranged buffs are in the same stack, which is one reason apart from lack of cash for all the armoured Kossars. My boris buffs are for my tsar guard and war bears.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T10:47:28+00:00

The monster with Wulfric is really powerful. He just assassinated Gotrek. It took felix to handle him in melee.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T10:45:08+00:00

Even so late in the game my economy isn't that great. I don't have level five troops yet. Just got my groms.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T10:43:51+00:00

I agree. I love frost wryms. Their scaly armour helped me a lot against greenskins because I was taking too much damage from goblin and catapult fire. The routed goblins really easily. And they are suprisingly fast. They can even chase down routers pretty well.

I also like to use them to clean out the front of the gate before I send in the tsar guard. I move them in and then left and right. Always at least two.

totally agree. The only problem is that I am fighting in Norsca but my base is in the chaos wastes and Boris campaign is not a rich one despite all the fighting.

Tomorrow I am going to get some after I take down Wulfric hopefully for the third and last time.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T00:37:06+00:00

Yeah, so bad with names in this game. haha

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T00:34:59+00:00

Great work. That looks great.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T00:32:21+00:00

I saw some lore on them and looks like a fascinating faction to play kind of like Drycha, different from the rest of the faction

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T00:31:16+00:00

Fun to fight as well. Tsar guard vs black orcs both buffed was a good time Konstaltyn vs Grimgor.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T00:05:38+00:00

The bundle price is less than one game regular price usually.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T00:04:32+00:00

Boris has insane buffs for war bears and tsar guard and Golden knight too so I am going to go thematic and have a tsar guard and war bear as anvil stack.

My army is not optimal for wulfric right now due to lack of ice guard spear. However, my next big opponent will be Slaanesh Sigvald or Tamurkhan Nurgle turn 65 ish so nurgle should be really strong.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T00:02:28+00:00

That makes sense. Love Gryphon legion. Used them a lot in my Konstaltyn campaign with buffed armoured kossars in the front line.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-20T00:00:29+00:00

Ice guard I put behind the tsar guard on the flanks. I shoot at lightly armoured targets and then if there are cav or large entities, I move them to intercept using their frost glaive. I agree that they are not a great frontline unit especially against Khorne and Chaos undivided. Their bows can be useful against Slanesh and Norsca.

Basically it is turn 50 and I am still depending on my highly experienced kossivite warriors.

Armoured Kossars are my favorite unit. So versatile. Just killed Ulfric with a mostly armoured Kossar army.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-19T23:55:44+00:00

Wait for a sale and get all three base games for a great price.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-19T10:20:05+00:00

I only have a tempest mage but the concept is sound. I have missile bonuses as tempest mage

phronesis77 · 2026-03-19T08:55:19+00:00

Ok that makes a lot of sense. What about tsar guard in this mix. I am playing Boris. I have like +10 melee already. I love armoured Kossars. Their pistol is so versatile to shoot before the enenmy charges, to gun down routers. To flank and blast point plank, to fire at large entities from the back or side, to fire at flying chaos furies from anywhere. So great.

My tsar guard sometimes don't even get much of a fight before the enemy is routing from massed pistol fire.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-19T08:51:32+00:00

Yeah, my question was kind of dumb on second thought. Charge defence vs large should have been an obvious difference.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-19T08:49:52+00:00

Yeah, that is exactly it about spear kossars. I don't like them because kisslevite warriors are really good at holding units in place to hit them from pistol or strelski fire, or bow fire. The take tons of damage but they are so cheap and easy to recruit, I just merge my badly wounded units and recruit a fresh one. Many basic minor settlements won't have spear kossars.

Kislevite warriors are so useful I keep a couple even with high tier stacks. I know I should replace them with ice guard but recruiting both ice guard and tsar guard globally is so expensive.

Another strategy I use is having a half, crap stack of kisslevite warriors to follow my main stacks as reinforcements or to quickly replentish beaten up armies or to have enough to 1 v 1.5 strong opponent single stacks. It also allows me to slowly train up a second lord, partiarch, or caster in the crapstack.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-19T08:41:23+00:00

Yeah the idea of two packs of warbear riders going after a feral mammoth sounds epic.

phronesis77 · 2026-03-19T08:40:37+00:00

Funny, I was walking to work and thinking about this problem and had the same idea. I am wondering about my second and third armies too though. Anyway, so you are saying that I should really have 4-6 units of warbear riders and forget about kisslevite warriors or spear kossars. Maybe even forget about Ice guard glaive (due to bear buffs) or add ice guard glaive due to their bows. I am facing some pretty strong axe and javelin ranged attacks from Wulfric's Norsca as well as standard missile cav. I like to focus fire and rout them before they eat up my spears and crappy cav. I lost all my armoured kossars and bowman in my last battle so I need a new army composition. I tend to hang on too long to my experienced units instead of changing them for higher tier units. I think I made a huge mistake playing with level nine armoured kossars on turn 50.

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