I finally got through the battle. To be honest, I've played the Dwarves a lot in WH 1 and 2, and they're a bit easy - so I got lazy when it came to maneuvering and target prioritization. I just needed to analyze the enemy a bit more before getting into contact with them.
Freyland wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 6:47 pm
What turn? Just trying to figure out how you got 2 armies with that many good units. Ofc, I play with mods that likely impact things.
Anyways, I think Kairos has some sort of teleportation gimmick. I've forgotten the details.
160-something.
I'm done with the Dwarves for now. I hit the short victory, but the Thorek Ironbrow Immortal Empires campaign wasn't a lot of fun after the beginning. In addition to conquering X settlements, you need to reforge 5 artifacts, and those artifacts are split into pieces and scattered in different cities. Ok, so I need to conquer those cities. The problem is that if allies take those cities first, you're screwed. You either have to attack your allies (not good, especially for Dwarves), or you need to go full military alliance with them (also not something I prefer to do - having military alliances with four or five factions means that you're perpetually at war.)
The other side of that was that by the time I was done with the five artifacts, I had factions with military alliances wrapped almost all of the way around me. There was about a thin sliver due west that wasn't completely covered by allies, and it wasn't friendly terrain. Not only did this make it fairly boring (nothing could get near my core provinces), it meant that in order to conquer the remaining settlements I had to set out into the middle of nowhere and just siege-raze-siege-raze-siege-raze. I couldn't really expand my faction anymore, and it just became a bit of a slog. I ended up stopping after the short victory, as the long victory would have just been me mowing down all of my allies.
Now I am going to give one of the other factions a try. I really want to play Empire, but they're the other faction that I've played to death. My short list, based on research:
~Kharbrand (Khorne)
~Valkia (Warriors of Chaos)
~Be'lakor (Warriors of Chaos)
~ Louis Leo (Brettonia)
~Greasus (Ogre Kingdoms)
~Icit Klaw (Skaven)
~Balthazar Gelt (Empire)
~Karl Franz (Empire) (Tough start)
~Settra (Tomb Kings)
~Luthor Harkon (Vampire Coast)
~Aranessa Saltspite (Vampire Coast)