I like most factions except the Beastmen, Dark Elves and maybe Warriors of Chaos but my favs are the Skaven and Vampire Coast. I like them both for their comical personalities, their unit designs and the hilarity of being a giant douche to everyone in the campaign as part of their playstyle. For Skaven specifically, I like their versatility but still appreciate that they have clear weaknesses and I love that every unit is themed towards a specific clan. For the Vampire Coast, I just love pirate/nautical themes and their huge artillery focus meant that siege battles are generally more explosive than usual. Both factions also have my fav lords: Queek Headtaker and Luthor Harkon.
Rise of the Tomb Kings is by far the best DLC to this date. Favorite Faction is a hard one. From gameplay its most likely the Empire Expedition in Lustria. Otherwise its a tough call between Dwarfs and High Elves. I enjoy the artstyle and the possibilities it grants when drawing them. Beastmen also fit into this.
The campaigns are too simple and the goals too boring. I'm not a fan of the DLC. Likes the challenge more missing from them because money doesn't matter
Yeah. It's not even close IMO. Rise of the Tomb Kings brought a fully featured faction, a totally unique playstyle, and a great campaign. TK remains the most fun faction to play in campaign for me to this day, thanks to their unique recruitment mechanics and how fun the books of Nagash are to gether.
I love the Dawi. They remind me a little of the ppl in the village I grew up in. Lots of grumbling bearded men drinking beer and remembering the "good old times". But always up for celebrating and having a good time when in combination with some music :)
Gruetzsensen the old guard of Napoleonic France were sometimes known as “the Grumblers” for the same reason. old experienced men remembering the “good old times” while being sturdy and hard. they would probably get along nicely with the Dawi and the people in your village!
The Skaven are my favorite faction as they're so fun! Looking from a high-level they have some of the best and craziest artillery and ranged firepower, some form of magic for every occasion (Warp lightning being my favorite spell), endless swarms of infantry, fun LL's and campaign mechanics (Ikit and Snikch more so), and in general their thematic appeal is just nailing it on so many levels with their various clans and sneaky Skaven ways. If anyone hasn't tried them yet, I highly recommend it!
My favorite faction? That's a tough one. I like the dwarves, because of their durability and cannons. You can rely on them to be there until the end, even against bad odds. Also they get good technological advancements and a lot of money per turn during campaigns, if you build your buildings right. I like the lizardmen, because they are also very durable, but they have a bit more flanking power than the dwarves. Their monster units give you extra power to push through enemy lines and take down high value targets more easily. Their geomantic-web is cool thing and it can boost your cities during the end game. I like the skaven, because they have almost everything. If you play Skryre, you can put enemies full of holes before they get to your defensive lines. Bombard them with artillery and mortars also. If you play Eshin, you can be very sneaky with your troops. Send a diversion to enemy gates and send a small tactical unit from the other side of their castle to capture the city center. The only thing that they lack is good infantry, but that's to be expected. I really like the greenskins. Grom was awesome when he came into play and I would say that his cauldron makes the faction borderline OP. Just give your shitty goblin archer explosive arrows and blow enemies into little red blobs. Grom makes the goblis to be good and reliable tanks, so it's why I like him. I have a sort of hate/love relationship with the Empire. I've never learned to appreciate their infantry, but I really like the Markus Wulfhart campaign. To be a hunter in Lustria and hunt big lizards. Also their more zealous aspect is awesome. Just take The Grim and full stack of flagellants into the field, and you'll have a blast. What's more fun than bunch of religious zealots, am I right? I like the vampire coast, because of their free-spirited take on the campaign. You can sail the seas and raid the coast line as much as you like. Just started the Vampire Coast campaign and it's a blast. Also the beastmen are cool. Just take Khazrak and have -95% upkeep for bestigores. It's awesome. They have good infantry, AWESOME monsters (minotaurs for every ocasion) and good speed. I really like most of the factions in the game.
The vampire counts are my favorite, I just like their campaign mechanics and units. Just spam zombis and skellets mix in some heroes, some vargheists and terror wolves form a line of death, let the enemy take u head on..see how your skelles „die“ and boom! Kill half the enemy army with magic and clear the rest with your monsters. Thier campaign buffs are HUGE and just let your zombis die in battle gives your hero 3?% more life and after doing that enough times just recruite hightier units out of nowhere. When u have vlad van carstein legendary campaign is even easier with vanguard deployment. Just take care of the draves early on and u will finish the campaign as easy as eating a pizza.
i love dawi. theres just something beautiful about seeing your enemies get blown to gibbly bits before ever reaching your nearly unbreakable shield wall. Similarly, the V.coast is a very close second only behind because i love dwarves in rpgs and i dislike undead factions in general. Queen Bess is a sight to behold, though.
Favorite Faction? Skaven easily. At first i wasnt interested but once digged a little into the history of the race it picked my curiosity. I really love all the wicked machinery and horrible creations at their disposal, i find the early game of overwhelming your enemy really fun. I love how despite the skaven being a cowardly race you have this lords that each one breaks with the mold of what one might think an skaven should be . From Queeks insual bravery, Skorlks pestilent devotion, Ikits mad genius to Snikchs composed demeanor......oh yeah Trencht also exists I had a lot of fun creating "thematic" armies for each lord during my clan Skryre campaing. Lastly i love the spectacle of light that ensues when the whole skaven death-kill machinery gets in motion. i recently was watching a reaplay: 4 skaven armies v High elves armies. Having Snikch, Queek, Ikit and Trencht on my side. Loads of sisters of avalon, Ratling guns and Jezzelz......it was carnage. Just seing that much chaos is really fun. All that said, as someone who plays camaping only i have to say, whomever puted the "have 50% corruption on all you owned regions" as a victory condition, can rot in hell. DLC? thats hard. Warlock and the prophet added really good units to the skaven army and while i like Ikit i love Snikdchs concepts much more. Shadow and the Blade added a new area to map, wich is always welcome, mortars are a good adition and playing clan eshin can be really fun. But then is the warden and the paunch. I liked greenskin but their rough edges always disuaded me from finishing a campaing. With that one they fixed a lot of problems i had with the greenskins and they introduced Grom. Not only i really liked the concept of Grom when i heard of it way before dlc, but i also find it real fun. His cauldron helps you boost gobbos to insane degrees and Grom can be made an imortal chariot of death. So in the end i have to go with the Warden and the Paunch (despite the MANY bugs that it has brought) edit 7:00 preach
Beastmen are my fav. Love the guerrilla fighting/horde aspect even if it has a lot of problems. Also first to have an ambush attack stance, which skaven and alith has now, but I still feel it is most thematic on beastmen. Objectively, one of the top 3 worst dlc especially for price, but I had it for at least 3 years so what ever at that point. Just want the updates
Beastmen are my favorite faction because they fit to my game style ( hit hard and fast), but the campaign is really challenging. I often offer 1v1 duels on multiplayer battles ( i win 90% of the time).
Greenskins are easy my favorite faction. Just the fact that they dont trade, raid, raze and love a good scrap is so much fun instead of managing your empire every time. They are very versatile in battle and campaign. Simply WAAAGH!
i wish we had a greenskin faction that used the horde mechanic. I love Horde factions because they inspire you to go wherever you feel like and makes every campaign with them start a bit different if youd like
I have two favorite factions that I just can't chose over, it also that they are somewhat similar their battle playstyle if not their campaign and late game units. The High Elves and The Empire. I love High Elves because I love efficiency and they can be efficient and look good doing it, no wander their so pompous. With the newest DLC they now have all basic lores of magic which will give them the magical advantage no matter what, Their Cavalry are no joke and when the hit a weakened enemy that are wounded from their superior range of arrows, oof. And of course, arguably the most powerful units in their roster, DRAGONS, I always love dragons and I'll always will! Then there is The Empire The largest and most powerful of all the human kingdoms. Like the Elves, The Empire is about efficiency, if in a different manner. The humans will always have a physical disadvantage to most other races but they make up for it with ingenuity and undying courage which I can respect greatly. From the Dwarves they've learned the wonders of Gunpowder, but unlike the Dwarves who hate change The Empire engineers are willing to try all sorts of crazy things with the stuff including freaking tanks! From the Elves they've mastered the lores of magic, and though they can't control it as well as the Elves, they still have a wide selection to chose from to give them the advantage on any battlefield. And good Sigmar, the Cavalry, Demi-griff Knights are by far my favorite unit in the game, they are just as badass as they look! And both Factions do require a bit of kingdom management to put them at their greatest efficiency and I do enjoy my fair share of management, though I will say that I don't mind the Orc's lack of it. ^^
My favorite multiplay faction is the Warriors of Chaos. I just generally love their army, mostly aggressive with the overall best infantry in the game and incredible monster. As well as having the option for a more defensive army with hell cannons and skirmish cav. Sarthorael being the best lord (in my opinion) also doesn't hurt. That 50% missile resist on an unbreakable large unit that can cast magic is amazing. The fact that it's lore of metal makes it even better because plague of rust really synergizes with a lot of the units in the chaos roster. Why bring chosen great weapons that will die to missile fire when you can bring chosen axe and shield and just cast plague of rust on their target? Plague of rust also gives you a really good reason to pick chaos knights over dragon ogres.
my favorite faction is the vampire counts. the campaign of managing corruption in your provinces and being able to raise a huge horde to defend against an attacker is just too much fun. in battle, the counts can't use any ranged so being able to flank and keep an anvil steady for the monster hammer brings a lot of fun in battle, also being able to resurrect your units is fun too.
Empire, as my heart is always with men. But I also love what a beast army I have with my Baltazar Gelt melting enemies hellfire rockets and shredding them with handgunners shots. Devastating damage. Faith, Steel and Gunpowder. Second are Lizardmen. They are on good side, they are brave and give melee hardtime to all this chaos flith lorewise. Love them visually as I like dinos (who doesn't). And from gameplay, they seem to get strognly covered every battle aspect, even artillery. So good stoic and quite damaging frontline, amazing stalky poisoning chameleon skinks that are very hard to counter, gigantic dinosauruses breaking enemy lines, greatest magic users and fckn Mazdamundi. All is part of he plan. (They also rekt orcs, Zerki)
Design wise my favorite faction is Lizard-men, all their units look awesome and they get big stompy dinosaurs. But i have had a lot of fun with Vampire Coast, maybe even more so than the lizard-men. Just sailing around and being a general nuisance to the other factions.
honestly my favorite are the vampire count, i love the mechanic about them, how they work and how they struggle with out range unit, the best dlc ofc was the one with volkmar :), and ofc i love all the lore about them since i knew this game! aaand i love the thematic of blood knights and his "mods" of unmount blood knights
The lizards are kinda charming to me because while not perfect they seem to treat their tiny races pretty decently. There are some mechanics primarily from the tabletop game where they kinda just feel better having their little skink buddies around. In most other cases in fantasy (dragons with their kobolds or orcs and their goblins etc) the big guys don't care what happens to the little guys in a scrap or what have you. Thus I thought the big skink priest sounded like a good idea to play since I like the little guys so much too. But 3x more expensive saurus units reeeeeeally hurts. Time for a front line of all javelin cohorts to at least lob poison at them before getting steamrolled.
Cult of Sotek is honestly my favourite faction, they play so different than normal. Skirming is fun and effective. I honestly never recruited a single saurus on vh, except some emergency blessed saurus for last minute oh shit recruitment.
Used to be the empire but recently it’s moved to the dark elves. They’re a more offensively focused faction then the empire and high elves which I really enjoy. Their murderous intent is also a really fun mechanic! It always feels good when I see those purple rings. Not to mention the voice lines! Attacking especially! Love hearing “massacre them!” And “HACK CUT!” Especially. It makes me feel like I’m about to devastate the enemy even when that isn’t the case.
High elves definitely are one of the best factions for sure in my opinion of course it is base game and not DLC. The best DLC in my opinion was The Prophet and The Warlock for its amazing skaven weapon teams and my favorite campaign, Clan Skyre
My favorite are the tomb kings i just loves their lore and aesthetic. I always have been an undead main. But the Tomb kings hold a special part in my heart.
The thing I like the most about Warhammer, is how all factions are cool, how I like them all in their own way. Yet, my allegiance goes to the Witch King, my lord Malekith. When I first started painting, we had 3 army books, dark elves, bretonians and orks. The 6th edition cover for the dark elf army book was so cool that I instantly fell in love with it. So I started delving into their lore. I've always liked elves in general, and while the aesthetic of the high elves is nice, very elven, after knowing how they where treacherous selfish bastards, I can't stand them. It's their fault for not recognizing the true king that the civil war happened and the ancient glory of the elves declined. Actually it hasn't been until Eltharion that I have played a high elf campaign, all the other LL disgust me, especially having to hear Tyrion say "I'm the heir of Aenarion" every time I go to faction select starting a new campaign. No you're not, you're a disgrace like all of your kind.
Wood elf is my favorite, speed, skirmish, hard hitting but squishy, they require so much finesse. Best DLC Vampire Coast, it had everything from the start. No new unit were added and they do not need it. Contrary to Skaven that require a lot of new unit to be playable.
the only thing skaven "needed" was The Warlock so they got some awesome weapons teams so the faction had a bit more diversity then "throw a lotta rats at the softies, yes yes". The Faction as a whole nowadays is very well fleshed out and plays pretty well. Wood elves of course only have their high range archers which is almost equal'd by High Elves and they get forest spirits which Averlorn has access to. Wood elves definitely need love
Great pick of DLC. I use Skarsnik a lot. I'm a small dude, so I love to play a tiny little badass. High elves win it for my favorite race, Nagarythe in particular, and it is really in thanks to 40k's Eldar, which I was first introduced to. When I learned about Fantasy I was so entertained by how the Eldar kind of seemed like a marriage of the High Elf and Dark Elf lore in Fantasy. And what cemented my love for the High Elves was the Shadow King novel. Alith Anar is by far my favorite Character in fantasy. Love the Shadow Warriors. But each race, and each faction within is just great.
Don't forget that Angrund starts with grudge on Karak Eight Peaks which will make your life hell if you let it grow in severity (which is inevitable unless you somehow rush it). Combine this with the new waaagh and Skarsnik is easily more comfortable to play. Anyway favorite LL/faction - Thorgrim, favorite dlc - nukerats.
Vampire Coast. They're like an actually badass version of Pirates of the Caribbean. I watched their announcement trailer like 6 times in a row when they first uploaded it.
lol at the high elf spearmen that randomly have a whip in their hands out of nowhere 2:00 . CA REALLY needs to fix that kind of jankness as it looks super unpolished.
@@Sajxi If you're happy with game which visually look like total war Troy then good for you. I'm not as easily satisfied as you however. Bugs like this can easily cut you from the immersion.
The hardest campaign is a legendary/very hard Khatep-Mortal-Empires campaign. It combines a very weak early-game-faction, with a terrible starting position and tough enemies.
I like playing High Elf campaigns so that I can plan out the most advantageous alliances. Being able to see everyone I trade with also allows me to keep tabs on who is still alive and who is getting completely overrun by skaven or greenskins.
I dont have Tomb Kings,Chaos or Vampire Coast but from the ones I do have I would say my favorite faction is Norsca. Mostly bc I love there monsters. Skin wolves are horrifyingly fast and mammoths are well mammoths. Frost Trolls are really cool too.
Hardest campaign: 1 Markus Wulfhart You don't have all tour rooster available from the start, you start right away against three early game factions that are hard to kill, hard hitting and both at the same time. Lizardmen, Vampire coast and Savage orks. The more you conquer. The more debuff and malus you get, and the ai units get substantial weapon strength buff the more you progress. If you play on very hard, when you reach the max threshold. Savage ork tribe are impossible to fight in melee. You have basically no ally. Apart from the new world colonies there is no friendly faces around you. 2 Belegar Ironhammer Absurdly high upkeep for all your units You are surrounded by enemies. The grudge mechanic will be a constant thorn on your shoes. The fact that you don't have Karak eight peaks is a constant grudge, if you linger to much far from eight peaks you will start to endure severe public order penalties. 3 Malus Darkblade The campaign is hard because of the possession mechanic. No matter on which side of the possession meters you are, you will be struck with substantial debuff. Either to Malus' states or to your replenishment rate. You are also really far from any allies despite to be military allies with Nagarond. 4 Skarsnik Cannot recruit any orks until he gets to Karak eight peaks. Surrounded by enemies with no allies in sight. Literally as his back against the order tide. 5 Tehenauin Cannot recruit Saurus units until he as unlocked his final prophecy. He can only rely on skinks as the backbone of his army. The reason he is lower on the list is because he can easily find allies nearby is starting position and that his enemies are not really that impressive at the start of his campaign. Special mention ( Chaos and Beastmen but mostly because their campaign suck and are boring to death )
I love playing Belegar so it's the King and the Warlord. It's just much more interesting to play when you have a very hard start and some dream goal to achieve.
Lizardmen are my favorite base army w/o any dlc. They are pretty well rounded and strong on all fronts. They also have some really fun spellcasting. After dlc it has to be skaven though. They just get so much and are so unique.
Skaven is my favourite faction mainly because of Ikit Claw (obviously). Nothing is more fun than summoning a million clan rats to bog down your enemies while your artillery and weapons teams turn them into Swiss cheese.
Lizardmen, because when I was new to the game my friend played Dwarfs and I could never beat him with any faction I tried ... that is until Nakai entered the scene and after I watched some guides on UA-cam of how not to suck. Next thing ya know I started winning more and now I have warm fuzzy feelings while playing lizardmen. Also they're a Faction of dinosaurs that ride other dinosaurs that's pretty cool :)
I have 2 favourites the first is the vampires because there is nothing more satisfying than using worthless meat shields like zombies and dropping a wind of death, you can just watch the enemy evaporate. The 2nd is the lizardmen because of the dinos. Watching a carnasor a steggadon and the shredder of lustria fight is a sight to behold.
Also the most important thing about the King and the Warlord is that it completely changed the DLC policy for Warhammer 2. Every Lord Pack after that is highly based on the King and the Warlord.
My favorite DLC is Blood for the Blood God! - Said by nobody ever. Except maybe some CA executives. Anyhow, this will be long and campaign focused. Seriously, its gotta be Vampire Coast. CA was already on the right track after TK dlc, and Vcoast is like them, but more fun. Making coves, challenging the pirates for shanties, digging for treasure. Sure, most of these dont really fit into the usual Total War stick, but still, many fun mechanics. Only shame they cant confed and one has to resort to modding to have the best pirates under his fleet. As for favorite races, there are a lot I can say I personally like for some reason or another. Favorite has to go to High Elves overall. As a long standing mmo player, I can make most of my characters as heroes or lords, and thats a roleplay opportunity that never gets old for me. Aesthetically they are pleasing, their armies can go multiple ways, and they have the most and the best dragons. Financially also one of the most op factions, and being on the middle, they can go anywhere, even if they are sorta locked taking Naggaroth first. Easy n1. Silver medal can go to dark elves. They are everything I can say about high elves, just somewhat worse. They will never be my favorite faction combat wise - DPS is just not as good as tanking in this game, but they are more than good enough. Aesthetically they are also pleasing, albeit for a different reason than high elves. Bronze is probably Skaven at this point. Honestly, they are fun now. Even Rictus would be lowkey more enjoyable than some WH1 factions, but of course the fun is where rat Grievous and master Splinter are. Those contracts and workshop, god so op and so fun at the same time. Watching nukes go off, using Warp Lightning like 100 times per battle, or WW2 weaponry shredding medieval/ancient era units never gets old. Going off the rails and turning the tide, the only faction I cant enjoy atm whatsoever is Beastmen. Outdated and few mechanics, the worst aesthetics in Warhammer fantasy - I find mindless brutes trope infinitely boring. The time needed to have a Cygor- Minotaur army, the most fun one can have is just too much to put up with all the other crap. Following them upwards gotta be Norsca. Pretty much the same, except they are Vikings so thats a bonus point. Not having walls or not occupying every settlement hurts them immensely. And instead of raiding the humans, the Ordertide raiding you doesnt help either. Their army roster is very balanced - and fairly uneffective - until mammoths. After mammoths, they become boring. The third worst faction, who would have thought, Chaos. Vanilla Chaos is terrible. I understand they'll get a lot of new stuff in WH3, but they are the butt of the joke for years. Funnily enough, using mods- such as SFO, Shawmuscle's or Chaos Dwarves, their campaign instantly jumps to one of the best. Next tier consists of Bretonnia and Wood Elves. I had two crappy Bretonnia campaigns so far, and they were the 1st and only faction I tried in Warhammer 1. Playing them was so meh, I dropped the game and forgot about it for years. Doesnt help that how horses work in TWWH is infinitely worse compared to old titles. Sure, flying cavalry is fun, but they got no other saving grace in my eyes whatsoever. They are the most op AI faction and you always go up against them lategame, their enemies are few and easy to defeat, and once you confeded everyone from tech, the campaign is basically won. Wood Elves - I actually havent played all the way through yet. They are elves, yes, and I love elves, and dont mind the nature aesthetics. Having no siege whatsoever is something I cant get behind though. Their garrisons are good for nothing, and amber is annoying obviously. Nice that Waywatchers eliminate a unit in two volleys, but to have a decent army needs way more preparation than a just as op archer army with either dark elves or high elves. At this point, I'll probably divide it to two more tiers. Lower tier: Dwarves, Greenskins, Tomb Kings, Vampire Counts Higher tier: Vampire Coast, Lizardmen, Empire In both of these tiers, I like all of the races and its easy to have fun in their campaigns. No serious drawbacks, Im down to play them pretty much whenever. Greenskins I disliked for very long, mainly for their aesthetics. I basically hate orcs in nearly every fantasy. They got no redeeming qualities, and they are pretty much always irredeemable bad guys. Goblins I never cared for either. - Luckily in WH fantasy, they got a fun element and with newest dlc, and some prievous SFO mechanics, that saved them for me. Grom is legit fun, and I cant really say an LL I dislike anymore on their roster. The newest dlc definitely upped them in my eyes. Prievous they would have been below Chaos on my list. Vampire Counts by all standards shouldnt be enjoyable - no ranged or siege for someone like me who loves cheesing them. Their underdog status and magics save them, though. If you go Vampire Count you know all you'll ever fight will be Ordertide. But given that you are the player, you can play Vcount optimally, not like a retarded five year old known as Vcount AI. Felling Elector Counts and Dwarf Kingdoms one by one can be really satisfying. Dwarves. They are honestly really fun in vacuum. The only thing I hate about dwarves is their fanbase. Sure, they got no magics basically. But hey, thats fine! The literal turtle race where you watch your enemies burn and get shot to pieces while you do nothing. And they can crank out multiple lategame armies pretty easy once you're through the initial Greentide. The grudge mechanic - although at some points a bit annoying, is really nice for a petty player who keeps his own grudges against the AI. Im such a player. And Tomb Kings. I honestly half-regret putting them into a lower tier, because they have got the BEST looking monsters in the game. Their early game is shit though. You need to spam skeleton crapstacks, and wait around a LOT of turns, which on higher difficulties mean that AI gets to tier5 while you sit around and do jackshit. But I honestly like the playstyle of turtling, preparing and then striking out with an unstoppable armada. They are the race to do that with. Once you get to constructs, its kinda like mammoth stacks except fun because of variety. Free armies are also dope obviously. TK is a faction I love lorewise, aeesthatically and ingame, they just got this one glaring drawback, which is of course makes them more balanced and thats not a bad thing. Finally silver tier. I cant honestly rank them, so will just go by alphabet. Empire. The most basic, easiest and yet one of the most engaging factions - most people surely can agree on this. Mixu mods are a definite MUST for Empire. Elector Counts get to be their own persons, instead of copypaste Captain guy for the lot of them. Apart from mods. They have possibly the largest roster in the game. Sure, their infantry isnt tanky. But they excel at heavy cavalry, gunpowder and magic. Lorewise they are a clear underdog - and if you play Empire, you sometimes feel that way which is nice. Sadly the AI is one of the most overpowered bullshit ever put in a Total War game with the Empire rework. Franz having 80 provinces after that many turns and 20 armies is just unfun to see, or to face. Anyhow, obviously the most thought out race in the setting - understandably. You can do anything, you can go anywhere and you can have the army you want. And thats fun. Lizardmen love factor is mainly 'dinosaurs riding dinosaurs." Impossible to not love that premise. Armywise - Their melee is awesome. Their ranged/siege is decent at this point. Their magics also, they got the best lores of magic with their slanns. One of their weak points are their Lords - combat wise Mazda and Kroq are 10/10 but the rest... Tehen can be nice at high level, at least. Their heroes can be all put on dinos though, thats a massive good point. And obviously- dinos. The best thing about them. Dinos with orbital strikes, dinos larger than dragons, dinos spitting fire. The more the merrier. And the one I started with up there somehow ended up last: Vampire Coast. As stated earlier, I find them extremely fun because of mechanics. Apart from that, they also have an underdog feel, because they are basically worse Vampires. Yes, they have ranged and thats the best about them - also their monsters are better than Vcounts. But their corruption spread is crap, and so is their melee. Depth Guard were nerfed to oblivion thanks to pvp. Almost feels a waste to recruit them since. Crabs and freakin ships on legs are obviously the saving grace in their armies. With the possibility to either heal them, or dish out wind of death, or maybe other destructive magics. The main drawing power of Vcoasts is that you can go anywhere - best did with Noctilus obviously - or just sit around and raid. Something Norsca actually cant do despite it should be their stick. Special mention to Southern Realms, the best race mod out there. SFO also has decent reworks. and finally OvN is an ambitious project, and its nice to see all the tertiary races. Sadly the mods are fairly unstable at this point, so you cant really play them for their mechanics or well-rounded rosters. As a submod - like Chaos Dwarves to Chaos, or Amazons to Lizardmen - its a pretty good thing to shake things up, though. Anyhow, if anybody read this all through, thank you. Have fun in the game!
Definately Dark elves. Collected the minis and the look is super cool and characters are even cooler. Did like the Queen and the Crone DLC but just because I love Hellebron and her story. Also really like the sisters of slaughter which is a nice go to pick in many thematic campaigns. Surprised I couldn't spot anyone saying DE on the comments with a quick look-see. Pirates, raiding, slave, massive arcs, strong magic and unending hatred, what is there not to love =).
I really love Dawi, Greenskins and Tomb Kings! Dawi for lore, look, tactics, Belegar campaign. Greenskins for lore, look and KRUMPIN. Tomb Kings are awesome because unique campaign mechanics, fantastic style and great lore.
My favorite fraction are the High Elves, because of the Dragons. I love playing Elves in general, because I can identify with the values they resemble. Deep thinkers, who are connected to nature. I also like the Wood Elves and Lizardmen. I am also female, so maybe that plays a role too. Oh and I like the Empire. As I am German I kinda like that it feels a bit close to home. The strategy aspect is important for all fractions regardless and I feel all fractions need some learning. In the end it doesn't matter as long as you know what to do. Thanks to you I understand the game much much better now and I really appreciate your videos! (you sometimes even throw a german word in there which makes me happy :D) Thanks so much :D
Vampire Coast are my fav faction and dlc. The playstyle on the Campaign Map is very unique and a ranged focused army with alot of skillcap involed inside the battle. Really dig the "More Powder" Perk for all their ranged units. Altough auto resolve can be a b*tch sometimes. Deck Gunners are easily my all time favo unit, melting literally everything, even good shield units
my favorite faction is the lizard-men cuz i have a reptilian brain with god level reflexes and don't like tactics and strategy. favorite army comp is 19 units of carnasaur( love dem T rexes) with krokgar on gridlock and 1 unit of infantry(every show needs an audience). Its like a lottery u either do very well or very bad.
Vampire Coast are my favortie. I love Gunpowder units in Total War games, and where I saw there is faction that is specializes in them and happen to be undead pirates. That was my absolute must have. Necrofex Colossus is by far my favortie unit in game.
Guvenoren here, my picks for favorite DLC's in TW:WH1 or 2 would be first The Vampire Coast DLC. The faction itself is so interesting, but I criticized it heavily for adding a naval faction without naval battles. Secretly, one of my most favorite DLC's has to be Grim and the Grave. Since I like the two characters and I got Flagellants.
Vampire coast for their vortex campaign, and allowing me to rock those full on ranged armies. It was glorious. Shame there weren't any naval battles, but a nice and memorable final battle. Prophet and the warlock dlc was fantastic as well. Big brain ikit claw and his rattling gunners
Beastmen are mostly my pity-favorite above anything else. I haven't played a campaign yet as the following races: Empire, Bretonnia, High Elves, & Vampire Coast. Therefore my experience is somewhat limited but I definitely enjoy the Greenskins very much, it would probably have to be them but Vampire Counts close second.
my favorite factions in order is 1.Skaven why I love them the mischievous play style like establish Under Empires in enemy territory and you have to plan your attack for you cannot go head to head yes yes 2.Greenskins Waaaagh!!! is the best I can say. Brutal with the Orcs and Cunning with the Goblins the best of both worlds Waaaagh!!! 3.Vampire Counts I love to control the medieval Undead armies on the battlefield but it still feels something is lacking in the campaign the Vampire Count Faction just do not feel evil enough for my taste I wish we could establish vampire cults or cabals in enemy territory 4.Beastmen love how they feel but need help! help!!
My favorite is the Empire. Pike and shot is my game (although in this case it's halberds instead of pikes) and the fact that I have a solution to just shy of every problem I could come across.
The skaven because i love their weapon and their playstile and All other races are things man-things elf-things dead-things and they set their own security over All other things and the skaven hade elfs just like me and i love rats they are one og the coolest animals on earth
my favorite dlc is the shadow of the blade, which transports to skaven as best body and back units too, or best heroes in the game, for me or the high reaper and is also my favorite faction for artillery and ranged attack units like snipers
I love the dwarfs because I just prefer a more defensive play style without all that many micro intensive units. No cavalry to worry about, no monsters, just infantry and artillery for the most part, and some of the best infantry in the game at that. Campaign wise, I enjoy building tall rather than wide, and the Karaza-Karak start is one of the best for that because you've got Karaza-Karak, Black Crag and Karak-Eight Peaks all right next to each other.
Imrik has taken the crown for the most difficult campaign from Skarsnik since the new mechanics and Skarsnik's new skills made him just that much easier. Still probably the second hardest campaign in the game. Then Belegar as third, Markus as fourth and Arkhan as fifth. The last 2 are kinda debatable as Wulfrik, Tretch and Lokhir are pretty difficult as well.
My favorite faction is the High Elves because I love dichotomies. I love that a setting so brutal and bleak like Warhammer has these beautiful and graceful warriors in the Asur. Not only do they serve as a dichotomy to the setting as a whole, but also to themselves- they wear hearts and rainbow patterns all over their armor but they are also capable of fucking you up and getting blood soaked at the same time. My love for dichotomies is also why the forces of Slaanesh is my second favorite faction, the dichotomy of lust, love making (or "love making,") beauty, and reproduction contrasts greatly with the death and destruction of war. Third is vampires, because I love the idea of humans being jealous of other races for their longevity and seeking unholy means to attain long life. The honorably mention faction goes to the Dark Elves, having elf knights on raptors is metal as hell. My favorite characters from each faction are Tyrion, Sigvald, Abhorash, and Malekith. White lions are my favorite unit of all time, it was the first time I saw elves in heavy armor using heavy weapons and it opened my eyes to elves that weren't stereotypical light archers. It's a damn shame how underwhelming they are in WH:TW.
the grim and the paunch is my favorite dlc. I love GS as a race, and i love the new waaagh mechanic + Rogue Idols. Second race that i love are the lizardmen
Skaven because of weapon team, especially warplock jezzails. A lot of people like ratling and i can see why, but the snipers are definitely the strongest in my experience.
Hardest campain? I'd have to go with Marcus Wolfhart. Fighting lizardmen is bad enough, but you have to fight all of them at once to get your supplies at a decent rate.
I think Arkhan the black's campaign atm is seriously hard. My favorite dlc is the prophet and the warlock. My favorite faction is vampire counts. Well it is right now, in 3 hours it could be dwarfes, another 3 hours could be Norsca.
My favourite race: Highelves Played them in Tabletop Warhammer (before Gameworkshop got greedy ...... ) And its basically the same as for Total War: Good troops with fighting skill High variety to choose from Good magic Beautiful woman \(°.°\( -Glasscanons And i may lack experience but i think the Teclis campaign is hard. Small territory, vampiric corruption, Skaven hiding nearby, Darkelves and Lizardmen that might not be aggressiv against Teclis but conquer territory fast.
I only started playing TW:W1 a few weeks ago, coming from the "realistic" total war games. I want to play a couple of races in the first game and then check out the second one. So far, I love the undead and the greenskins. The orcs are so different to handle with their infighting forcing you to always be offensive or risk attrition, and the undead always call to me in pretty much every setting so here (Vampire Counts) they were awesome as well. The fact you have no ranged units and have to rush the enemy is also unique, pretty cool experience so far.
TW:W2 has a lot of nice quality of life improvements like end turn reminders for unmoved hero's or building upgrades (which you can freely enable or disable)and lord/heroes go from being strong to straight up insane. Also I think all the original tw1 races (orc/empire/dwarf/vampire/brit) have been reworked and will play with some new mechanics for each.
@@AchmedtheHealer Yesh ive been told to play in 2 with the races of 1. I just want to finish my current greenskins campaign first. And oh those achievements in 1, I guess they will forever remain incomplete jaja
High Elves! Simply because I played them also in the tabletop-game. Also they are sort of the leading faction, when it's about stoping the end of the world. Who if not Teclis and/or Tyrion should stop Archaon and the chaos? Besides that I like the Vampires, and - a little bit behind: Khemri, Lizardmen, Bretonia.. There is not really any faction, that I really dislike.
Yes, Greenskins usually employ one of two intricate tactics: Scream WAAAAAAGH and charge the enemy, or Charge the enemy while screaming WAAAAAAAAGH. Most people do not understand the significant subtle differences of those two tactics.
Green skins is my favorite faction cause they have a lot of infantry, and i'm a Big fan of infantry heavy build, and also cause i'm lovin' grimgor and board boys(any types)
Favorite factions would have to be Skaven and Dwarfs. Skaven have their own corruption and a unique hidden building mechanic, and Dwarfs are just so damn sturdy and I loooove their accents. They are both strong in ranged and artillery and that's what I like most in Total War.
Funny how this turned into a "favorite factions" discussion in the comments. Mine's probably Lizardmen. I love their aesthetic and aggressive play-style. When I first played them I was used to very passive, missile heavy armies, so Lizardmen really pulled me out of my comfort zone and got me to try new ways of playing the game.
My favorite dlc is hunter and the beast because it introduces markus wulfhart. He isnt some blessed king, immortal elf or giant monster. Hes just a regular dude with a bow who cares about his men. Plus SIGMAR
I had over a thousand hours in both TWW titles combined, and Clan Skyre... was like a fresh start for me. So much unique mechanics, so much unique units and my favourite legendary lord... ah just great. As a Skaven player, this was like an unrealized dream for me DLC, until the Clan Eshin addition which was really good. Let's skip Rictus... because it sucked beyond meassure.
@@sanzero651 well in my last skaven campaign i finally confed with skrolk and was kinda done, then when i wanted to start my next campaign some days after i saw thretch in the pick and realized i totally forgot him lol. seems like i have to go back
I've liked the Lizardmen most since the days before this glorious game came out. I was absolutely pumped when I heard of it and still am to this day that CA decided to mash up two of my favorite games of all times.
My favorites faction is for sure skaven and vampire count for their lore and mechanics of battle but the harder campaign I did was the chaos and norsca for sure I spent so much time painfull hours with them but had epic battle with
My favourite faction is the Lizardmen, 1 because DINOSAURSSSSSS, 2 because I love their playstyle and 3 BIG BOI DINOSAURS (& co), really I like all about them except Lustria (cause I fought there too many times and got burnt out) and the Totally-Not-Africa continent that was essentially decimated in the Mortal Empires map (where I mostly like to play). As for the hardest campaigns to me it's probably the Skaven and Tomb Kings but mostly because I genuinely don't like their playstyles in battles, both have infantry that is pretty bad while I generally prefer infantry lines that I can essentially forget about somewhat and it will still do fine, and I especially don't like the skaven because they flee and come back a lot and I hate having to deal with that while the Tomb Kings' infantry I found to die super quickly. Vampire Pirates would be there if it wasn't for the fact that I actually enjoyed playing them much more. Before Nakai I also like Norsca's campaign because I could confederate quickly and then just go wreck havoc everywhere but after playing Nakai in Mortal Empires, seeing how easily I could decimate those Norscans early on with like less than 20 casualties despite being outnumbered 3 to 1... idk it does look kinda scary.
Skaven because I love playing ww1 when others are playing medieval
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Well, dwarves and Empire humans are quite close.
@@skywillfindyou but do they have nukes
I have never related to a statement more
@@ozzylepunknown551 nukes would be ww2, not wwi
The Tomb Kings DLC was really good.
Before TK nerfs
@@indrickboreale7381 i still think they are a really good faction
Its my favourite
I like most factions except the Beastmen, Dark Elves and maybe Warriors of Chaos but my favs are the Skaven and Vampire Coast. I like them both for their comical personalities, their unit designs and the hilarity of being a giant douche to everyone in the campaign as part of their playstyle. For Skaven specifically, I like their versatility but still appreciate that they have clear weaknesses and I love that every unit is themed towards a specific clan. For the Vampire Coast, I just love pirate/nautical themes and their huge artillery focus meant that siege battles are generally more explosive than usual. Both factions also have my fav lords: Queek Headtaker and Luthor Harkon.
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Rise of the Tomb Kings is by far the best DLC to this date.
Favorite Faction is a hard one. From gameplay its most likely the Empire Expedition in Lustria. Otherwise its a tough call between Dwarfs and High Elves. I enjoy the artstyle and the possibilities it grants when drawing them. Beastmen also fit into this.
The campaigns are too simple and the goals too boring. I'm not a fan of the DLC. Likes the challenge more missing from them because money doesn't matter
Yeah. It's not even close IMO. Rise of the Tomb Kings brought a fully featured faction, a totally unique playstyle, and a great campaign. TK remains the most fun faction to play in campaign for me to this day, thanks to their unique recruitment mechanics and how fun the books of Nagash are to gether.
Nah, never.
I love the Dawi. They remind me a little of the ppl in the village I grew up in. Lots of grumbling bearded men drinking beer and remembering the "good old times". But always up for celebrating and having a good time when in combination with some music :)
@@thedude2131 Nah, the ppl were really nice. But they loved the grumbling.
Gruetzsensen the old guard of Napoleonic France were sometimes known as “the Grumblers” for the same reason. old experienced men remembering the “good old times” while being sturdy and hard.
they would probably get along nicely with the Dawi and the people in your village!
*Bardin singing*
Did you grow up in the shire? :O
The Skaven are my favorite faction as they're so fun! Looking from a high-level they have some of the best and craziest artillery and ranged firepower, some form of magic for every occasion (Warp lightning being my favorite spell), endless swarms of infantry, fun LL's and campaign mechanics (Ikit and Snikch more so), and in general their thematic appeal is just nailing it on so many levels with their various clans and sneaky Skaven ways.
If anyone hasn't tried them yet, I highly recommend it!
"Armor piercing skirmish cav', which is quite rare" **laugh in Outriders**
if only they could fire when they are being pursued, rip outriders
My favorite faction? That's a tough one. I like the dwarves, because of their durability and cannons. You can rely on them to be there until the end, even against bad odds. Also they get good technological advancements and a lot of money per turn during campaigns, if you build your buildings right.
I like the lizardmen, because they are also very durable, but they have a bit more flanking power than the dwarves. Their monster units give you extra power to push through enemy lines and take down high value targets more easily. Their geomantic-web is cool thing and it can boost your cities during the end game.
I like the skaven, because they have almost everything. If you play Skryre, you can put enemies full of holes before they get to your defensive lines. Bombard them with artillery and mortars also. If you play Eshin, you can be very sneaky with your troops. Send a diversion to enemy gates and send a small tactical unit from the other side of their castle to capture the city center. The only thing that they lack is good infantry, but that's to be expected.
I really like the greenskins. Grom was awesome when he came into play and I would say that his cauldron makes the faction borderline OP. Just give your shitty goblin archer explosive arrows and blow enemies into little red blobs. Grom makes the goblis to be good and reliable tanks, so it's why I like him.
I have a sort of hate/love relationship with the Empire. I've never learned to appreciate their infantry, but I really like the Markus Wulfhart campaign. To be a hunter in Lustria and hunt big lizards. Also their more zealous aspect is awesome. Just take The Grim and full stack of flagellants into the field, and you'll have a blast. What's more fun than bunch of religious zealots, am I right?
I like the vampire coast, because of their free-spirited take on the campaign. You can sail the seas and raid the coast line as much as you like. Just started the Vampire Coast campaign and it's a blast.
Also the beastmen are cool. Just take Khazrak and have -95% upkeep for bestigores. It's awesome. They have good infantry, AWESOME monsters (minotaurs for every ocasion) and good speed.
I really like most of the factions in the game.
And if this trend with DLCs continue, I would bet that the next DLC is for Clan Moulder and some dwarven faction. Maybe Bugman?
No chaos or norsca because they're so vanilla they suck.
The vampire counts are my favorite, I just like their campaign mechanics and units. Just spam zombis and skellets mix in some heroes, some vargheists and terror wolves form a line of death, let the enemy take u head on..see how your skelles „die“ and boom! Kill half the enemy army with magic and clear the rest with your monsters. Thier campaign buffs are HUGE and just let your zombis die in battle gives your hero 3?% more life and after doing that enough times just recruite hightier units out of nowhere. When u have vlad van carstein legendary campaign is even easier with vanguard deployment. Just take care of the draves early on and u will finish the campaign as easy as eating a pizza.
VC aren't a DLC.
BDNeon well thats right but does this have to do with my statement?
@@funpunkerle You literally replied to a video called "What's my FAVOURITE *DLC*?"
@@BDNeon did u watched the video or did u just read the title? xD
i love dawi. theres just something beautiful about seeing your enemies get blown to gibbly bits before ever reaching your nearly unbreakable shield wall. Similarly, the V.coast is a very close second only behind because i love dwarves in rpgs and i dislike undead factions in general. Queen Bess is a sight to behold, though.
Favorite Faction?
Skaven easily. At first i wasnt interested but once digged a little into the history of the race it picked my curiosity. I really love all the wicked machinery and horrible creations at their disposal, i find the early game of overwhelming your enemy really fun.
I love how despite the skaven being a cowardly race you have this lords that each one breaks with the mold of what one might think an skaven should be . From Queeks insual bravery, Skorlks pestilent devotion, Ikits mad genius to Snikchs composed demeanor......oh yeah Trencht also exists
I had a lot of fun creating "thematic" armies for each lord during my clan Skryre campaing.
Lastly i love the spectacle of light that ensues when the whole skaven death-kill machinery gets in motion.
i recently was watching a reaplay: 4 skaven armies v High elves armies. Having Snikch, Queek, Ikit and Trencht on my side.
Loads of sisters of avalon, Ratling guns and Jezzelz......it was carnage. Just seing that much chaos is really fun.
All that said, as someone who plays camaping only i have to say, whomever puted the "have 50% corruption on all you owned regions" as a victory condition, can rot in hell.
DLC?
thats hard. Warlock and the prophet added really good units to the skaven army and while i like Ikit i love Snikdchs concepts much more. Shadow and the Blade added a new area to map, wich is always welcome, mortars are a good adition and playing clan eshin can be really fun.
But then is the warden and the paunch. I liked greenskin but their rough edges always disuaded me from finishing a campaing. With that one they fixed a lot of problems i had with the greenskins and they introduced Grom. Not only i really liked the concept of Grom when i heard of it way before dlc, but i also find it real fun. His cauldron helps you boost gobbos to insane degrees and Grom can be made an imortal chariot of death.
So in the end i have to go with the Warden and the Paunch (despite the MANY bugs that it has brought)
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Beastmen are my fav. Love the guerrilla fighting/horde aspect even if it has a lot of problems. Also first to have an ambush attack stance, which skaven and alith has now, but I still feel it is most thematic on beastmen.
Objectively, one of the top 3 worst dlc especially for price, but I had it for at least 3 years so what ever at that point. Just want the updates
Beastmen are my favorite faction because they fit to my game style ( hit hard and fast), but the campaign is really challenging.
I often offer 1v1 duels on multiplayer battles ( i win 90% of the time).
Beastmen in SFO are more fun though.
Greenskins are easy my favorite faction. Just the fact that they dont trade, raid, raze and love a good scrap is so much fun instead of managing your empire every time. They are very versatile in battle and campaign. Simply WAAAGH!
i wish we had a greenskin faction that used the horde mechanic. I love Horde factions because they inspire you to go wherever you feel like and makes every campaign with them start a bit different if youd like
I have two favorite factions that I just can't chose over, it also that they are somewhat similar their battle playstyle if not their campaign and late game units.
The High Elves and The Empire.
I love High Elves because I love efficiency and they can be efficient and look good doing it, no wander their so pompous.
With the newest DLC they now have all basic lores of magic which will give them the magical advantage no matter what, Their Cavalry are no joke and when the hit a weakened enemy that are wounded from their superior range of arrows, oof. And of course, arguably the most powerful units in their roster, DRAGONS, I always love dragons and I'll always will!
Then there is The Empire The largest and most powerful of all the human kingdoms.
Like the Elves, The Empire is about efficiency, if in a different manner. The humans will always have a physical disadvantage to most other races but they make up for it with ingenuity and undying courage which I can respect greatly. From the Dwarves they've learned the wonders of Gunpowder, but unlike the Dwarves who hate change The Empire engineers are willing to try all sorts of crazy things with the stuff including freaking tanks! From the Elves they've mastered the lores of magic, and though they can't control it as well as the Elves, they still have a wide selection to chose from to give them the advantage on any battlefield.
And good Sigmar, the Cavalry, Demi-griff Knights are by far my favorite unit in the game, they are just as badass as they look!
And both Factions do require a bit of kingdom management to put them at their greatest efficiency and I do enjoy my fair share of management, though I will say that I don't mind the Orc's lack of it. ^^
My favorite multiplay faction is the Warriors of Chaos. I just generally love their army, mostly aggressive with the overall best infantry in the game and incredible monster. As well as having the option for a more defensive army with hell cannons and skirmish cav.
Sarthorael being the best lord (in my opinion) also doesn't hurt. That 50% missile resist on an unbreakable large unit that can cast magic is amazing. The fact that it's lore of metal makes it even better because plague of rust really synergizes with a lot of the units in the chaos roster. Why bring chosen great weapons that will die to missile fire when you can bring chosen axe and shield and just cast plague of rust on their target? Plague of rust also gives you a really good reason to pick chaos knights over dragon ogres.
my favorite faction is the vampire counts. the campaign of managing corruption in your provinces and being able to raise a huge horde to defend against an attacker is just too much fun. in battle, the counts can't use any ranged so being able to flank and keep an anvil steady for the monster hammer brings a lot of fun in battle, also being able to resurrect your units is fun too.
Empire, as my heart is always with men. But I also love what a beast army I have with my Baltazar Gelt melting enemies hellfire rockets and shredding them with handgunners shots. Devastating damage. Faith, Steel and Gunpowder.
Second are Lizardmen. They are on good side, they are brave and give melee hardtime to all this chaos flith lorewise. Love them visually as I like dinos (who doesn't). And from gameplay, they seem to get strognly covered every battle aspect, even artillery. So good stoic and quite damaging frontline, amazing stalky poisoning chameleon skinks that are very hard to counter, gigantic dinosauruses breaking enemy lines, greatest magic users and fckn Mazdamundi. All is part of he plan. (They also rekt orcs, Zerki)
Design wise my favorite faction is Lizard-men, all their units look awesome and they get big stompy dinosaurs.
But i have had a lot of fun with Vampire Coast, maybe even more so than the lizard-men. Just sailing around and being a general nuisance to the other factions.
The Empire never gets old, so I guess that counts?
GS are very much my favourite faction. I like how, in a setting where everyone is being so serious they are just trying to have some fun.
honestly my favorite are the vampire count, i love the mechanic about them, how they work and how they struggle with out range unit, the best dlc ofc was the one with volkmar :), and ofc i love all the lore about them since i knew this game! aaand i love the thematic of blood knights and his "mods" of unmount blood knights
The lizards are kinda charming to me because while not perfect they seem to treat their tiny races pretty decently. There are some mechanics primarily from the tabletop game where they kinda just feel better having their little skink buddies around. In most other cases in fantasy (dragons with their kobolds or orcs and their goblins etc) the big guys don't care what happens to the little guys in a scrap or what have you.
Thus I thought the big skink priest sounded like a good idea to play since I like the little guys so much too. But 3x more expensive saurus units reeeeeeally hurts. Time for a front line of all javelin cohorts to at least lob poison at them before getting steamrolled.
Cult of Sotek is honestly my favourite faction, they play so different than normal. Skirming is fun and effective. I honestly never recruited a single saurus on vh, except some emergency blessed saurus for last minute oh shit recruitment.
Used to be the empire but recently it’s moved to the dark elves. They’re a more offensively focused faction then the empire and high elves which I really enjoy. Their murderous intent is also a really fun mechanic! It always feels good when I see those purple rings. Not to mention the voice lines! Attacking especially! Love hearing “massacre them!” And “HACK CUT!” Especially. It makes me feel like I’m about to devastate the enemy even when that isn’t the case.
“Have You Heard of the High Elves?”
Love ‘em mostly for their aesthetic, Staunch Line of Spears, lots of magic, and DRAGONS.
High elves definitely are one of the best factions for sure in my opinion of course it is base game and not DLC. The best DLC in my opinion was The Prophet and The Warlock for its amazing skaven weapon teams and my favorite campaign, Clan Skyre
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My favorite are the tomb kings i just loves their lore and aesthetic. I always have been an undead main. But the Tomb kings hold a special part in my heart.
Same, such a good faction
I'll have so much fun when I can finally play this game. Great videos, learning a lot.
Druchii. The momentum they build up from expanding during a campaign is a rush like no other. The Asur can go to Slaanesh for all I care.
The thing I like the most about Warhammer, is how all factions are cool, how I like them all in their own way.
Yet, my allegiance goes to the Witch King, my lord Malekith. When I first started painting, we had 3 army books, dark elves, bretonians and orks. The 6th edition cover for the dark elf army book was so cool that I instantly fell in love with it. So I started delving into their lore. I've always liked elves in general, and while the aesthetic of the high elves is nice, very elven, after knowing how they where treacherous selfish bastards, I can't stand them. It's their fault for not recognizing the true king that the civil war happened and the ancient glory of the elves declined. Actually it hasn't been until Eltharion that I have played a high elf campaign, all the other LL disgust me, especially having to hear Tyrion say "I'm the heir of Aenarion" every time I go to faction select starting a new campaign. No you're not, you're a disgrace like all of your kind.
Wood elf is my favorite, speed, skirmish, hard hitting but squishy, they require so much finesse. Best DLC Vampire Coast, it had everything from the start. No new unit were added and they do not need it. Contrary to Skaven that require a lot of new unit to be playable.
the only thing skaven "needed" was The Warlock so they got some awesome weapons teams so the faction had a bit more diversity then "throw a lotta rats at the softies, yes yes". The Faction as a whole nowadays is very well fleshed out and plays pretty well. Wood elves of course only have their high range archers which is almost equal'd by High Elves and they get forest spirits which Averlorn has access to. Wood elves definitely need love
@@zacharyjackson1829 True should had written "required" instead
For Bretonnia! FOR ZE LADY! I gotta say Bretonnia and Empire for me.
Great pick of DLC. I use Skarsnik a lot. I'm a small dude, so I love to play a tiny little badass. High elves win it for my favorite race, Nagarythe in particular, and it is really in thanks to 40k's Eldar, which I was first introduced to. When I learned about Fantasy I was so entertained by how the Eldar kind of seemed like a marriage of the High Elf and Dark Elf lore in Fantasy. And what cemented my love for the High Elves was the Shadow King novel. Alith Anar is by far my favorite Character in fantasy. Love the Shadow Warriors. But each race, and each faction within is just great.
Don't forget that Angrund starts with grudge on Karak Eight Peaks which will make your life hell if you let it grow in severity (which is inevitable unless you somehow rush it). Combine this with the new waaagh and Skarsnik is easily more comfortable to play. Anyway favorite LL/faction - Thorgrim, favorite dlc - nukerats.
Vampire Coast. They're like an actually badass version of Pirates of the Caribbean. I watched their announcement trailer like 6 times in a row when they first uploaded it.
lol at the high elf spearmen that randomly have a whip in their hands out of nowhere 2:00 . CA REALLY needs to fix that kind of jankness as it looks super unpolished.
It's honestly not a big deal and players are rarely if ever zoomed in that much
@@dogperson432 Ok mister goodenough
@@misterhyde408 Alright, mister NeverSatisfied.
@@Sajxi If you're happy with game which visually look like total war Troy then good for you.
I'm not as easily satisfied as you however. Bugs like this can easily cut you from the immersion.
@@dogperson432 CA don't read youtuber's youtube comments. Don't need to lick their boots here.
The hardest campaign is a legendary/very hard Khatep-Mortal-Empires campaign. It combines a very weak early-game-faction, with a terrible starting position and tough enemies.
I like playing High Elf campaigns so that I can plan out the most advantageous alliances. Being able to see everyone I trade with also allows me to keep tabs on who is still alive and who is getting completely overrun by skaven or greenskins.
I dont have Tomb Kings,Chaos or Vampire Coast but from the ones I do have I would say my favorite faction is Norsca. Mostly bc I love there monsters. Skin wolves are horrifyingly fast and mammoths are well mammoths. Frost Trolls are really cool too.
Hardest campaign:
1 Markus Wulfhart
You don't have all tour rooster available from the start,
you start right away against three early game factions that are hard to kill, hard hitting and both at the same time. Lizardmen, Vampire coast and Savage orks.
The more you conquer. The more debuff and malus you get, and the ai units get substantial weapon strength buff the more you progress. If you play on very hard, when you reach the max threshold. Savage ork tribe are impossible to fight in melee.
You have basically no ally. Apart from the new world colonies there is no friendly faces around you.
2 Belegar Ironhammer
Absurdly high upkeep for all your units
You are surrounded by enemies.
The grudge mechanic will be a constant thorn on your shoes. The fact that you don't have Karak eight peaks is a constant grudge, if you linger to much far from eight peaks you will start to endure severe public order penalties.
3 Malus Darkblade
The campaign is hard because of the possession mechanic. No matter on which side of the possession meters you are, you will be struck with substantial debuff. Either to Malus' states or to your replenishment rate.
You are also really far from any allies despite to be military allies with Nagarond.
4 Skarsnik
Cannot recruit any orks until he gets to Karak eight peaks.
Surrounded by enemies with no allies in sight. Literally as his back against the order tide.
5 Tehenauin
Cannot recruit Saurus units until he as unlocked his final prophecy.
He can only rely on skinks as the backbone of his army.
The reason he is lower on the list is because he can easily find allies nearby is starting position and that his enemies are not really that impressive at the start of his campaign.
Special mention ( Chaos and Beastmen but mostly because their campaign suck and are boring to death )
I love playing Belegar so it's the King and the Warlord. It's just much more interesting to play when you have a very hard start and some dream goal to achieve.
Lizardmen are my favorite base army w/o any dlc. They are pretty well rounded and strong on all fronts. They also have some really fun spellcasting. After dlc it has to be skaven though. They just get so much and are so unique.
Skaven is my favourite faction mainly because of Ikit Claw (obviously). Nothing is more fun than summoning a million clan rats to bog down your enemies while your artillery and weapons teams turn them into Swiss cheese.
*the Grumbling Guard and Rusty Arrers*: Are we a joke to you?
Warden and the Paunch has definitely been my favorite
Love painting the map grey with Vampire Counts.
Highelves, especially Avelorn
1000% agreed with u. I have replayed these two camps the most.
Lizardmen, because when I was new to the game my friend played Dwarfs and I could never beat him with any faction I tried ... that is until Nakai entered the scene and after I watched some guides on UA-cam of how not to suck. Next thing ya know I started winning more and now I have warm fuzzy feelings while playing lizardmen. Also they're a Faction of dinosaurs that ride other dinosaurs that's pretty cool :)
the reason I like lizardmen because well the dinosaurs and I really like Nakai and basically the lizardmen are just so cool
I have 2 favourites the first is the vampires because there is nothing more satisfying than using worthless meat shields like zombies and dropping a wind of death, you can just watch the enemy evaporate.
The 2nd is the lizardmen because of the dinos. Watching a carnasor a steggadon and the shredder of lustria fight is a sight to behold.
Also the most important thing about the King and the Warlord is that it completely changed the DLC policy for Warhammer 2. Every Lord Pack after that is highly based on the King and the Warlord.
My fav Faction?
ASUR!
My favorite DLC is Blood for the Blood God! - Said by nobody ever. Except maybe some CA executives. Anyhow, this will be long and campaign focused.
Seriously, its gotta be Vampire Coast. CA was already on the right track after TK dlc, and Vcoast is like them, but more fun. Making coves, challenging the pirates for shanties, digging for treasure. Sure, most of these dont really fit into the usual Total War stick, but still, many fun mechanics. Only shame they cant confed and one has to resort to modding to have the best pirates under his fleet.
As for favorite races, there are a lot I can say I personally like for some reason or another. Favorite has to go to High Elves overall. As a long standing mmo player, I can make most of my characters as heroes or lords, and thats a roleplay opportunity that never gets old for me. Aesthetically they are pleasing, their armies can go multiple ways, and they have the most and the best dragons. Financially also one of the most op factions, and being on the middle, they can go anywhere, even if they are sorta locked taking Naggaroth first. Easy n1.
Silver medal can go to dark elves. They are everything I can say about high elves, just somewhat worse. They will never be my favorite faction combat wise - DPS is just not as good as tanking in this game, but they are more than good enough. Aesthetically they are also pleasing, albeit for a different reason than high elves.
Bronze is probably Skaven at this point. Honestly, they are fun now. Even Rictus would be lowkey more enjoyable than some WH1 factions, but of course the fun is where rat Grievous and master Splinter are. Those contracts and workshop, god so op and so fun at the same time. Watching nukes go off, using Warp Lightning like 100 times per battle, or WW2 weaponry shredding medieval/ancient era units never gets old.
Going off the rails and turning the tide, the only faction I cant enjoy atm whatsoever is Beastmen. Outdated and few mechanics, the worst aesthetics in Warhammer fantasy - I find mindless brutes trope infinitely boring. The time needed to have a Cygor- Minotaur army, the most fun one can have is just too much to put up with all the other crap.
Following them upwards gotta be Norsca. Pretty much the same, except they are Vikings so thats a bonus point. Not having walls or not occupying every settlement hurts them immensely. And instead of raiding the humans, the Ordertide raiding you doesnt help either. Their army roster is very balanced - and fairly uneffective - until mammoths. After mammoths, they become boring.
The third worst faction, who would have thought, Chaos. Vanilla Chaos is terrible. I understand they'll get a lot of new stuff in WH3, but they are the butt of the joke for years. Funnily enough, using mods- such as SFO, Shawmuscle's or Chaos Dwarves, their campaign instantly jumps to one of the best.
Next tier consists of Bretonnia and Wood Elves. I had two crappy Bretonnia campaigns so far, and they were the 1st and only faction I tried in Warhammer 1. Playing them was so meh, I dropped the game and forgot about it for years. Doesnt help that how horses work in TWWH is infinitely worse compared to old titles. Sure, flying cavalry is fun, but they got no other saving grace in my eyes whatsoever. They are the most op AI faction and you always go up against them lategame, their enemies are few and easy to defeat, and once you confeded everyone from tech, the campaign is basically won.
Wood Elves - I actually havent played all the way through yet. They are elves, yes, and I love elves, and dont mind the nature aesthetics. Having no siege whatsoever is something I cant get behind though. Their garrisons are good for nothing, and amber is annoying obviously. Nice that Waywatchers eliminate a unit in two volleys, but to have a decent army needs way more preparation than a just as op archer army with either dark elves or high elves.
At this point, I'll probably divide it to two more tiers. Lower tier: Dwarves, Greenskins, Tomb Kings, Vampire Counts
Higher tier: Vampire Coast, Lizardmen, Empire
In both of these tiers, I like all of the races and its easy to have fun in their campaigns. No serious drawbacks, Im down to play them pretty much whenever.
Greenskins I disliked for very long, mainly for their aesthetics. I basically hate orcs in nearly every fantasy. They got no redeeming qualities, and they are pretty much always irredeemable bad guys. Goblins I never cared for either. - Luckily in WH fantasy, they got a fun element and with newest dlc, and some prievous SFO mechanics, that saved them for me. Grom is legit fun, and I cant really say an LL I dislike anymore on their roster. The newest dlc definitely upped them in my eyes. Prievous they would have been below Chaos on my list.
Vampire Counts by all standards shouldnt be enjoyable - no ranged or siege for someone like me who loves cheesing them. Their underdog status and magics save them, though. If you go Vampire Count you know all you'll ever fight will be Ordertide. But given that you are the player, you can play Vcount optimally, not like a retarded five year old known as Vcount AI. Felling Elector Counts and Dwarf Kingdoms one by one can be really satisfying.
Dwarves. They are honestly really fun in vacuum. The only thing I hate about dwarves is their fanbase. Sure, they got no magics basically. But hey, thats fine! The literal turtle race where you watch your enemies burn and get shot to pieces while you do nothing. And they can crank out multiple lategame armies pretty easy once you're through the initial Greentide. The grudge mechanic - although at some points a bit annoying, is really nice for a petty player who keeps his own grudges against the AI. Im such a player.
And Tomb Kings. I honestly half-regret putting them into a lower tier, because they have got the BEST looking monsters in the game. Their early game is shit though. You need to spam skeleton crapstacks, and wait around a LOT of turns, which on higher difficulties mean that AI gets to tier5 while you sit around and do jackshit. But I honestly like the playstyle of turtling, preparing and then striking out with an unstoppable armada. They are the race to do that with. Once you get to constructs, its kinda like mammoth stacks except fun because of variety. Free armies are also dope obviously. TK is a faction I love lorewise, aeesthatically and ingame, they just got this one glaring drawback, which is of course makes them more balanced and thats not a bad thing.
Finally silver tier. I cant honestly rank them, so will just go by alphabet.
Empire. The most basic, easiest and yet one of the most engaging factions - most people surely can agree on this. Mixu mods are a definite MUST for Empire. Elector Counts get to be their own persons, instead of copypaste Captain guy for the lot of them. Apart from mods. They have possibly the largest roster in the game. Sure, their infantry isnt tanky. But they excel at heavy cavalry, gunpowder and magic. Lorewise they are a clear underdog - and if you play Empire, you sometimes feel that way which is nice. Sadly the AI is one of the most overpowered bullshit ever put in a Total War game with the Empire rework. Franz having 80 provinces after that many turns and 20 armies is just unfun to see, or to face. Anyhow, obviously the most thought out race in the setting - understandably. You can do anything, you can go anywhere and you can have the army you want. And thats fun.
Lizardmen love factor is mainly 'dinosaurs riding dinosaurs." Impossible to not love that premise. Armywise - Their melee is awesome. Their ranged/siege is decent at this point. Their magics also, they got the best lores of magic with their slanns. One of their weak points are their Lords - combat wise Mazda and Kroq are 10/10 but the rest... Tehen can be nice at high level, at least. Their heroes can be all put on dinos though, thats a massive good point. And obviously- dinos. The best thing about them. Dinos with orbital strikes, dinos larger than dragons, dinos spitting fire. The more the merrier.
And the one I started with up there somehow ended up last: Vampire Coast. As stated earlier, I find them extremely fun because of mechanics. Apart from that, they also have an underdog feel, because they are basically worse Vampires. Yes, they have ranged and thats the best about them - also their monsters are better than Vcounts. But their corruption spread is crap, and so is their melee. Depth Guard were nerfed to oblivion thanks to pvp. Almost feels a waste to recruit them since. Crabs and freakin ships on legs are obviously the saving grace in their armies. With the possibility to either heal them, or dish out wind of death, or maybe other destructive magics. The main drawing power of Vcoasts is that you can go anywhere - best did with Noctilus obviously - or just sit around and raid. Something Norsca actually cant do despite it should be their stick.
Special mention to Southern Realms, the best race mod out there. SFO also has decent reworks. and finally OvN is an ambitious project, and its nice to see all the tertiary races. Sadly the mods are fairly unstable at this point, so you cant really play them for their mechanics or well-rounded rosters. As a submod - like Chaos Dwarves to Chaos, or Amazons to Lizardmen - its a pretty good thing to shake things up, though.
Anyhow, if anybody read this all through, thank you. Have fun in the game!
Vampire Counts, purely for thematic reasons. Necromancy is always my go-to in any game that reasonably allows it, and I've always liked vampires.
my favorite is the EMPIRE, because the possibilities are endless and its just fun to see the enemy cut down by helstorms
Definately Dark elves. Collected the minis and the look is super cool and characters are even cooler. Did like the Queen and the Crone DLC but just because I love Hellebron and her story. Also really like the sisters of slaughter which is a nice go to pick in many thematic campaigns. Surprised I couldn't spot anyone saying DE on the comments with a quick look-see. Pirates, raiding, slave, massive arcs, strong magic and unending hatred, what is there not to love =).
I really love Dawi, Greenskins and Tomb Kings! Dawi for lore, look, tactics, Belegar campaign. Greenskins for lore, look and KRUMPIN. Tomb Kings are awesome because unique campaign mechanics, fantastic style and great lore.
The demon DLC because I love The Malus Darkblade Novels
My favorite fraction are the High Elves, because of the Dragons. I love playing Elves in general, because I can identify with the values they resemble. Deep thinkers, who are connected to nature. I also like the Wood Elves and Lizardmen. I am also female, so maybe that plays a role too. Oh and I like the Empire. As I am German I kinda like that it feels a bit close to home. The strategy aspect is important for all fractions regardless and I feel all fractions need some learning. In the end it doesn't matter as long as you know what to do. Thanks to you I understand the game much much better now and I really appreciate your videos! (you sometimes even throw a german word in there which makes me happy :D) Thanks so much :D
Vampire Coast are my fav faction and dlc. The playstyle on the Campaign Map is very unique and a ranged focused army with alot of skillcap involed inside the battle.
Really dig the "More Powder" Perk for all their ranged units.
Altough auto resolve can be a b*tch sometimes.
Deck Gunners are easily my all time favo unit, melting literally everything, even good shield units
my favorite faction is the lizard-men cuz i have a reptilian brain with god level reflexes and don't like tactics and strategy. favorite army comp is 19 units of carnasaur( love dem T rexes) with krokgar on gridlock and 1 unit of infantry(every show needs an audience). Its like a lottery u either do very well or very bad.
I love Ikit claw, settra, count noctilus and malus/malekith. I also like the Vampire count and the tomb kings in general.
Vampire Coast are my favortie. I love Gunpowder units in Total War games, and where I saw there is faction that is specializes in them and happen to be undead pirates. That was my absolute must have. Necrofex Colossus is by far my favortie unit in game.
Guvenoren here, my picks for favorite DLC's in TW:WH1 or 2 would be first The Vampire Coast DLC. The faction itself is so interesting, but I criticized it heavily for adding a naval faction without naval battles.
Secretly, one of my most favorite DLC's has to be Grim and the Grave. Since I like the two characters and I got Flagellants.
Vampire coast for their vortex campaign, and allowing me to rock those full on ranged armies. It was glorious. Shame there weren't any naval battles, but a nice and memorable final battle.
Prophet and the warlock dlc was fantastic as well. Big brain ikit claw and his rattling gunners
Beastmen are mostly my pity-favorite above anything else. I haven't played a campaign yet as the following races: Empire, Bretonnia, High Elves, & Vampire Coast. Therefore my experience is somewhat limited but I definitely enjoy the Greenskins very much, it would probably have to be them but Vampire Counts close second.
my favorite factions in order is 1.Skaven why I love them the mischievous play style like establish Under Empires in enemy territory and you have to plan your attack for you cannot go head to head yes yes 2.Greenskins Waaaagh!!! is the best I can say. Brutal with the Orcs and Cunning with the Goblins the best of both worlds Waaaagh!!! 3.Vampire Counts I love to control the medieval Undead armies on the battlefield but it still feels something is lacking in the campaign the Vampire Count Faction just do not feel evil enough for my taste I wish we could establish vampire cults or cabals in enemy territory 4.Beastmen love how they feel but need help! help!!
My favorite is the Empire. Pike and shot is my game (although in this case it's halberds instead of pikes) and the fact that I have a solution to just shy of every problem I could come across.
The skaven because i love their weapon and their playstile and All other races are things man-things elf-things dead-things and they set their own security over All other things and the skaven hade elfs just like me and i love rats they are one og the coolest animals on earth
My buddy and I play Dwarfs and Greenskins respectively. We enjoy being the snippiest alliance when we play together.
my favorite dlc is the shadow of the blade, which transports to skaven as best body and back units too, or best heroes in the game, for me or the high reaper and is also my favorite faction for artillery and ranged attack units like snipers
I agree, this is still my favourite dlc. Tomb kings was also nice, but your first loves you never forget
I love the dwarfs because I just prefer a more defensive play style without all that many micro intensive units. No cavalry to worry about, no monsters, just infantry and artillery for the most part, and some of the best infantry in the game at that. Campaign wise, I enjoy building tall rather than wide, and the Karaza-Karak start is one of the best for that because you've got Karaza-Karak, Black Crag and Karak-Eight Peaks all right next to each other.
For me, gotta be Vampire Coast, I've always favored gun lines in Total War games, and Vampire Coast bring the firepower in spades.
So true man, it go through many dlc but they still strong no changing in power
2:02 Those spearmen have whips!
I love that the last patch fixed K&W factions, where all three K8P factions now properly attempt to take their throne.
Imrik has taken the crown for the most difficult campaign from Skarsnik since the new mechanics and Skarsnik's new skills made him just that much easier. Still probably the second hardest campaign in the game. Then Belegar as third, Markus as fourth and Arkhan as fifth. The last 2 are kinda debatable as Wulfrik, Tretch and Lokhir are pretty difficult as well.
My favorite faction is The Lizard men. I love all of that armor and all of the dinosaur units. It's just fun to chase down Scaven with a T-Rex lol
My favorite faction is the High Elves because I love dichotomies. I love that a setting so brutal and bleak like Warhammer has these beautiful and graceful warriors in the Asur. Not only do they serve as a dichotomy to the setting as a whole, but also to themselves- they wear hearts and rainbow patterns all over their armor but they are also capable of fucking you up and getting blood soaked at the same time. My love for dichotomies is also why the forces of Slaanesh is my second favorite faction, the dichotomy of lust, love making (or "love making,") beauty, and reproduction contrasts greatly with the death and destruction of war. Third is vampires, because I love the idea of humans being jealous of other races for their longevity and seeking unholy means to attain long life. The honorably mention faction goes to the Dark Elves, having elf knights on raptors is metal as hell. My favorite characters from each faction are Tyrion, Sigvald, Abhorash, and Malekith. White lions are my favorite unit of all time, it was the first time I saw elves in heavy armor using heavy weapons and it opened my eyes to elves that weren't stereotypical light archers. It's a damn shame how underwhelming they are in WH:TW.
Yeah, it would seem the game favours ranged units at least in higher difficulties. I guess I'm just that much more into melee myself.
the grim and the paunch is my favorite dlc. I love GS as a race, and i love the new waaagh mechanic + Rogue Idols. Second race that i love are the lizardmen
Skaven because of weapon team, especially warplock jezzails. A lot of people like ratling and i can see why, but the snipers are definitely the strongest in my experience.
Hardest campain? I'd have to go with Marcus Wolfhart. Fighting lizardmen is bad enough, but you have to fight all of them at once to get your supplies at a decent rate.
I think Arkhan the black's campaign atm is seriously hard. My favorite dlc is the prophet and the warlock. My favorite faction is vampire counts. Well it is right now, in 3 hours it could be dwarfes, another 3 hours could be Norsca.
My favourite race: Highelves
Played them in Tabletop Warhammer (before Gameworkshop got greedy ...... )
And its basically the same as for Total War:
Good troops with fighting skill
High variety to choose from
Good magic
Beautiful woman \(°.°\(
-Glasscanons
And i may lack experience but i think the Teclis campaign is hard.
Small territory, vampiric corruption, Skaven hiding nearby, Darkelves and Lizardmen that might not be aggressiv against Teclis but conquer territory fast.
The empire is my favourite faction. I really like diplomacy and being able to instantly recruit strong troops in campaign.
I only started playing TW:W1 a few weeks ago, coming from the "realistic" total war games. I want to play a couple of races in the first game and then check out the second one. So far, I love the undead and the greenskins. The orcs are so different to handle with their infighting forcing you to always be offensive or risk attrition, and the undead always call to me in pretty much every setting so here (Vampire Counts) they were awesome as well. The fact you have no ranged units and have to rush the enemy is also unique, pretty cool experience so far.
TW:W2 has a lot of nice quality of life improvements like end turn reminders for unmoved hero's or building upgrades (which you can freely enable or disable)and lord/heroes go from being strong to straight up insane. Also I think all the original tw1 races (orc/empire/dwarf/vampire/brit) have been reworked and will play with some new mechanics for each.
@@AchmedtheHealer Yesh ive been told to play in 2 with the races of 1. I just want to finish my current greenskins campaign first. And oh those achievements in 1, I guess they will forever remain incomplete jaja
High Elves! Simply because I played them also in the tabletop-game. Also they are sort of the leading faction, when it's about stoping the end of the world. Who if not Teclis and/or Tyrion should stop Archaon and the chaos?
Besides that I like the Vampires, and - a little bit behind: Khemri, Lizardmen, Bretonia..
There is not really any faction, that I really dislike.
Yes, Greenskins usually employ one of two intricate tactics:
Scream WAAAAAAGH and charge the enemy, or
Charge the enemy while screaming WAAAAAAAAGH.
Most people do not understand the significant subtle differences of those two tactics.
Green skins is my favorite faction cause they have a lot of infantry, and i'm a Big fan of infantry heavy build, and also cause i'm lovin' grimgor and board boys(any types)
Tomb Kings because Settra is daddy af
Favorite factions would have to be Skaven and Dwarfs. Skaven have their own corruption and a unique hidden building mechanic, and Dwarfs are just so damn sturdy and I loooove their accents. They are both strong in ranged and artillery and that's what I like most in Total War.
Funny how this turned into a "favorite factions" discussion in the comments.
Mine's probably Lizardmen. I love their aesthetic and aggressive play-style. When I first played them I was used to very passive, missile heavy armies, so Lizardmen really pulled me out of my comfort zone and got me to try new ways of playing the game.
My favorite dlc is hunter and the beast because it introduces markus wulfhart. He isnt some blessed king, immortal elf or giant monster. Hes just a regular dude with a bow who cares about his men. Plus SIGMAR
I just like dinosaurs
Skaven without The Phrofet and The Warlock arent Skaven...
I had over a thousand hours in both TWW titles combined, and Clan Skyre... was like a fresh start for me.
So much unique mechanics, so much unique units and my favourite legendary lord... ah just great.
As a Skaven player, this was like an unrealized dream for me DLC, until the Clan Eshin addition which was really good.
Let's skip Rictus... because it sucked beyond meassure.
@@sanzero651 well in my last skaven campaign i finally confed with skrolk and was kinda done, then when i wanted to start my next campaign some days after i saw thretch in the pick and realized i totally forgot him lol. seems like i have to go back
Prophet* You weren't even close. If English is your first language for shame. Otherwise kudos for trying.
Dammn getting sponsored by CA? good joob dude!
I've liked the Lizardmen most since the days before this glorious game came out. I was absolutely pumped when I heard of it and still am to this day that CA decided to mash up two of my favorite games of all times.
My favorites faction is for sure skaven and vampire count for their lore and mechanics of battle but the harder campaign I did was the chaos and norsca for sure I spent so much time painfull hours with them but had epic battle with
Norsca for warhammer 1, fleshed out the northern marauders a little more, for 2 is a tie between alith anar and malus darkblade.
My favourite faction is the Lizardmen, 1 because DINOSAURSSSSSS, 2 because I love their playstyle and 3 BIG BOI DINOSAURS (& co), really I like all about them except Lustria (cause I fought there too many times and got burnt out) and the Totally-Not-Africa continent that was essentially decimated in the Mortal Empires map (where I mostly like to play). As for the hardest campaigns to me it's probably the Skaven and Tomb Kings but mostly because I genuinely don't like their playstyles in battles, both have infantry that is pretty bad while I generally prefer infantry lines that I can essentially forget about somewhat and it will still do fine, and I especially don't like the skaven because they flee and come back a lot and I hate having to deal with that while the Tomb Kings' infantry I found to die super quickly. Vampire Pirates would be there if it wasn't for the fact that I actually enjoyed playing them much more. Before Nakai I also like Norsca's campaign because I could confederate quickly and then just go wreck havoc everywhere but after playing Nakai in Mortal Empires, seeing how easily I could decimate those Norscans early on with like less than 20 casualties despite being outnumbered 3 to 1... idk it does look kinda scary.
Really astonishing that Gobbla can eat anything at all considering how he's continuously biting his own tongue in half.