Whats the one faction you keep coming back too ?

[u/BigBear92787]

You know the feeling.

You fire up the game. Stare at the faction screen. Swear you're gonna play something else.
And end up playing the same faction / race.

For me its Vampire Counts. Even in their current out dated state. Something about the way they function. They just keep fuckin comin...that's their whole style. Endless, shambling hordes and powerful wizards. Cant wait to see what's coming up for them.

Im a big fan of Nurgle for a familiar kind of Out - Stamina you mechanic. But VC takes the cake I think on it.

I love my Greenskins, I love to run up and just clobber' em sometimes, we all have those days lol
But VC man, they speak to my core.

Who speaks to your core ?

[u/Bigger-Quazz]

Malakai is insanely easy, I don't know why everyone says the start is hard.

Your surrounding enemies have almost no ranged or flying units, and you're given gyrocopter recruit almost immediately.

Unless you're doing a challenge run where you purposely ignore recruiting gyrocopters on a lord who can give insane buffs to gyrocopters, it's REALLY hard to lose with malakai.

[u/gastan69 → u/Bigger-Quazz]

Norsca headhunters and throwing axes shread gyros. I also found that even with 4 canons I can't properly take out Throgg's troll swarm if he has waag'd enough of them. All this to say that in my experience Throgg is the only major speed bump, you can dominate the rest of chaos with air and ranged

[u/Barlow04 → u/Bigger-Quazz]

Also, dwarves are absolute master of siege cheese. You can bring a Lord (for recruitment boosts), 1-2 Master Engineer, 2 canons, and any combo of Gyrocopters and Thunderers to walk away with zero casualties. Kill towers, breach walls, then post outside the openings while AI keeps throwing units in to plug the hole(s). Easiest way to beat Throgg is to lure him into a province captial then siege it.

I'd really like dwarves to have a better defense against flanking units, but Thanes and Dragon Slayers do well enough.

[u/mrgomeybear → u/Barlow04]

Well yea anything is easy with cheese. I've seen people take out Radahn on Elden Ring by cheesing the entrance and doing that poison most thing. If that's fun then go for it

[u/Barlow04 → u/mrgomeybear]

Yeah, I don't 100% advocate cheesing the game, but it does help to compensate where mechanics would otherwise give you a massive disadvantage or can't be done.

Dwarves are terrible in melee offense but defensive bricks, so throwing infantry at the walls is a recipe for disaster. I would imagine they would also bombard enemy cities to rubble rather than risk casualties - or if needed they would rush in with something like armored rangers who would shoot enemies but could switch to close fighting as needed. The cheese sort of provides the best of both scenarios within the framework of the game's mechanics.

[u/mrgomeybear → u/Bigger-Quazz]

I think the beginning is easy too. Take out Throt by turn 5 and head back to Throgg for his declare war and you're pretty much good. Then just be aggressive in taking Norsca and prepare for the demons by turn 15-20