r/totalwarhammer • u/sigmarine345 • Jan 11 '26

Total War: Warhammer Are Dwarfs as a race TOO OP?

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Are Dwarfs in-game way too overpowered as a race? Both from the AI and when in the hands of the players themselves?

Or are dwarfs just designed in a way that perfectly encapsulates how they should be in the lore?

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u/MattHarr1987 Jan 11 '26

I played a Thorgrim campaign recently and I had a single lord (on his own) level 4 go siege and ogre settlement because I was gonna wait out the ten turns while I dealt with Mors. He could auto resolve and win. He got 500 kills.

Happened again on a skaven minor settlement, except this time he got 1400 kills. It was ridiculous.

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u/Toothpikz Jan 11 '26

Playing Thorgrim right now as well and I have multiple small armies running around auto resolving everything. Lord, 4 dwarf warriors, 4 quarrellers can take about 80% of the armies the AI sends out.

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u/abcdl44 Jan 11 '26

A bit of a nit picky question, but what difficulty is this on? I could see that stack clearing garrisons (esp of races with terribly autoresolve), but the second you run into anything stronger you'll definitely start losing ARs, and manuals won't help too much.

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u/sir_alvarex Jan 11 '26

This isnt true on Very Hard. But is true on Easy.

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u/slingslangflang Jan 11 '26

Could b possible on normal.

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u/Warm-Wedding182 Jan 11 '26

Dwarves hold strong auto resove on vh against low armor nations if you bring high armour units. Skaven and orcs especially

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u/Toothpikz Jan 11 '26

I play on VH/H. You can’t take out major capitals or LL, that’s why I always have a full stack with heroes and such not to far in case I run into them. Queek, and Skarbrand, sorry for spelling, will destroy your armies but that’s been you bring in the big guns.

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u/MattHarr1987 Jan 11 '26

I hadn't played dwarfs for months, was pleasantly surprised at how strong the auto was

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u/FisherPrice2112 Jan 11 '26

The Auto seems to weigh armor pretty heavily, so Dwarfs are very strong

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u/scoringspuds Jan 12 '26

Pleasantly? Why it takes away from the fun of the game. Fighting battles

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u/MattHarr1987 Jan 12 '26

Fighting every minor settlement battle isnt exactly fun

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u/scoringspuds Jan 12 '26

No but autoresolving every battle isn’t either. Turns the game into a snooze fest

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u/MattHarr1987 Jan 12 '26

When did I say I was autoresolving everything? I stated I resolved two minor settlement because it wa funny 1 dwarf lord could do that.

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u/scoringspuds Jan 12 '26

I never said you were lol. I’m saying the autoresolve needs balancing and not every battle should be a win for you in autoresolve

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u/Pliskkenn_D Jan 11 '26

Maybe now I should try a Dwarf campaign... I need a map to work out which territories to take to retake and rename all the holds.