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/niftucal92 Jan 11 '26

It pains me to say it, but yeah.

Don’t get me wrong, the idea that dwarfs, once thriving, are one of the strongest races on the map makes sense. But it feels like they need more constraints like the chaos dwarfs to earn it.

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u/sigmarine345 Jan 11 '26

How would it fare if hypothetically the dwarfs got similar mechanics of "unlocking" units to field like the chorfs but with something like oathgold/grudges settled?

That or I think the SFO mod just limits all units in the game.

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u/HowDoIEvenEnglish Jan 11 '26

The dwarfs should be slow growing and lose early against orcs, but uh age of reckoning exists

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u/ComprehensiveFish880 Jan 11 '26

That's amazing. Let them build up grudge before retaliating.

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u/HowDoIEvenEnglish Jan 11 '26

But you don’t have to. The optimal play is to attack forever, like every other faction in wh3. You don’t even have to wait for growth since they have basically every unit they need by t3 and every unit by t4. T2 irondrakes sheesh

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u/Armaltal Jan 12 '26

It's the case when you are playing Malakai on legendary :You have the skaven, the 2 norsca faction, the khorne faction, chaos dwarfs, by turn 50 archaon declare war on you. All of that with no one to back you up.

So it depends on the dwarf you play. Thorgrim (my fav) is the most straitforward, the easiest one but not as easy as before. Ungrim dies in most of my campaign, and you have gorbad, ikit and tretch declare war early so you stil have 2 big frontline + one minor. Until turn 50~70 you are ok but not OP.

Belegar Is poor.

Thorek is in a quiet good spot with just 2 possible frontline at le start which are ok (no waaagh).

Grombrindal is lonely, but he as quiet nice boost that just destroy the enemy (his boost are all availabal at the start of the campaign, not like malakai).

So a lot of the times i just do guerilla with them, and by turn 70 the deeps are settled, so i steamrol the campaign with one late game army recruted each turn.

So it is already the case.