>>736296783
Malakai.

>>736296783
I only played Warhammer 2, dark elves.

>>736296783
Vlad, every time

>>736296783
They haven't put effort into this game since the Chaos Dwarfs. It's clear to me everyone is busy working on 40k

Tomb Kings are fun

>>736300408
Thrones of Decay was great but yeah the next two felt very low effort

>>736296783
Vlad or tamurkhan

>>736296783
tzeentch because i love how their armies look and i love flamers that absolutely rape everything

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>>736296783
Skaven, ikit claw
It gets more fun when you gun down not only your own shitty troops but the enemy also

>>736296783
>Kroq Gar's dino rampage with 20 dino heroes/units
>Imrik (and his wife Mikaila) full dragon rampage
>Karl Franz uniting the Empire, its somehow harder than uniting an entire continent
>GolgFAG ManEATER being a playable rogue army and just teleport around wrecking shit
>Skarbrand soloing armies while his 2000 blood letters spectate from afar
These are mostly what I play. Did Louen Leoncoeur and 18 paladins (and a damsel) once, it was fun but tedious to build up.

>>736296783
I only play 2, and the best campaign in that is Markus Wulfhart. I'm a big fan of The Brass Bull too though, cool guy.

Ive seen some anons say they dont complete a lot of their games because they get bored; is the end game boring?

>>736296783
Oxyotl is a lot of fun

>>736296783
Anything Khorne because I’m a noob

Oxyotl, it's a little different every time.

>>736301550
Yes. The problem with end game armies is that you're so powerful you just auto resolve everything.

I wish nurgle didnt have the shittest starts, theyd be my favorite
>T and Kugath both have to eat shitty mountain provinces
>epdemius has to fight malus with plaguebearers
Anyways probably ungrim, taking the slayer host east to go fight all the crazy op dlc armies is good fun

>>736296783
Nakai bee-lining for the northern chaos wastes with a stack of powerfist kroxigors (after fisting dechala and lokhir to death) and just endlessly pushing west while punching chaos sissies so hard they explode into blood is always fun

>>736296783
the one where the AI is good

oh wait

>>736296783
Drycha and Nakai
I want to play counts/coast but doing so before the rework feels like intentionally gimping yourself

>>736296783
Tarmarkhan, he's literally a tank riding an even bigger tank. Imagine Nurgle that can steamroll, that's his faction

beastmemes>rats>chorfs

>>736302024
Skill issue. Tarmarkhan is what Archaon should be.
Epedimius is fine if you ally with Daemon Prince and non-agression with the schizo neighbor, it's Throgg that makes war with me

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

I liked
>Chaos Dwarves (Astragoth ZOOLAHOO and Zhatan ZA BRAJ. haven't played Drazh yet)
>Grom THE FAT
>Arbaal
>Throgg the troll KANG
>Kemmler
>Valkia, Archaon
I might try Greasus out at some point

>>736303559
astragoth is the most fun, but drazh has the best color sceme. satan might as well be a generic lord

>>736302473
I always dread having to face that fat fuck in the campaig map uinless I have a good bunch of ranged units

>>736296783
Leoncoeur

>>736296783
Lokhir with VCO is literally (literally) 11/10

>>736306048
Wish we could just keep the traits and LL traits. The rest is useless bloat

>>736302024
no matter what I do when playing Kugath, Imrik always comes from the north and fucks my capital or the little settlement that basically funds your whole army, and his army and Imrik himself are absolutely overtuned againt Nurgle, it's the dumbest shit ever

>>736306048
and the mod that staples him to the Blessed Dread like a Vampire Coast LL

>>736296783
Chaos Dwarves are so fucking fun

>>736303559
Greasus is fun because he doesn’t have a bullshit resource to justify his mechanics, it’s just gold. Don’t want to fight that high tier army? Just pay them 20k gold to fuck off

I liked playing Aranessa with that one Sartossa mod

>>736296783
Elspeth is probably my favorite. I also really like Skulltaker and Skrag. I had a really fun campaign with Tretch once but Skaven victory conditions are such a pain in the ass I never finished it.

>>736301968
Is this the same for both the second and 3rd game?

>>736308582
How do you play Elspeth? I get filtered by the first enemy then curb stomped by orks

>>736308582
>with Tretch
wtf

>>736296783
Alarielle because I like being a healslut not really, but she's strong and easy to use with other powerful units like Sisters and dragons, and spamming High Elf Archers is such a hassle-free early-game meta as HE

>>736296783
are these games fun? they are like heroes of might and magic right?

>>736308986
It's a total war issue desu. They dont know how to make an endgame that's challenging and not a slog.

>>736309330
not really

>>736309335
it's a grand strategy issue. nothing can stop the steamroll in motion

Armies that exist, and should:
>Space Marines
>Necrons
>Tyranids
>Imperial Guard
>Chaos Space Marines
>Tau
>Orks
>Aeldari
>Thousand Sons
>Sisters of Battle
>Drukhari

Armies that just barely justify existing:
>Adeptus Mechanicus
>Leagues of Votann
>Space Wolves
>Black Templars
>Dark Angels
>Death Guard
>World Eaters
>Emperor's Children
>Blood Angels

Armies that should exist, but don't:
>Exodites

Armies that should just be in another army/exist as detachments:
>Imperial Knights
>Imperial Agents
>Adeptus Arbites
>Grey Knights
>Deathwatch
>Chaos Daemons
>Chaos Knights
>Traitor Guard
>Harlequins
>Eldar Corsairs
>Ynnari

Armies that shouldn't exist at all and just be lore things:
>Adeptus Custodes
>Genestealer Cults

Armies that shouldn't exist, and don't:
>Dark Mechanicus

>>736300265
Yeah...Vlad is pretty fun. Unless fucking Karl and Elspeth getting fucking steroids and there are 50 full stacks sitting on your doorstep and salivating, looking at you on turn 2.
GOD I FUCKING LOVE ZOMBIE BOXES.

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>>736300408
Your words of truth are very harsh but necessary.

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>>736303140
>chaos god of war
>is portrayed as constantly sitting and seething but not doing much else
kek

It's been years and they never fixed the ladder bug during sieges. I can't wait for 40k to be a buggy disaster.

>>736309330
There's lots of cheesing and trying to turn your Lord/Hero units into raid bosses, yes. I very much prefer this over HoMM's broken AI snowballing and the whole rush-to-get-the-Armageddon-spell meta.

>>736309330
They are great and there is a fuckton of absolutely amazing mods. I'd say it's like homm3+warcraft 3.
Try it. During sales it's pretty cheap.

>>736309725
aren't they finally removing ass ladders in Medieval 3?

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>>736296783
>malakai
and not even close. calling in close air support every battle is so much fun

>>736309530
wrong game blud :skull:

>>736309530
>Armies that shouldn't exist, and don't:
>>Dark Mechanicus
That exists though. Just not in the main game.

>>736309797
>>736309814
thanks anons! i'll pick it up on a sale

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>>736309725
>>736309815
Yes. Ass ladders are gonna be removed (unknown when). I thought that they were going to remove them with 7.0 but they didn't for some retarded reason. Mod is the king for now.
Guess they need bigger team because basically they're working on two hugeass games simultaneously (tww3 & W40k).

>>736310083
>they didn't for some retarded reason
ai just walks up to your walls, can't deploy ladders, doesn't understand what's happening and just stands there

>>736309530
are you dumb or what

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>unpoked
>unlicked
>undabbed

>>736308996
I remember having a hard time against Greenskins at one point, then I just spammed Free Militia Company in a checkerboard formation and was impressed at how well they held up against them. Also you really should rush to get Bright Wizards ASAP as Empire.

>>736296783
Empire is the best way to play for maximum stress, as fits the theme of the game where you're out numbered and outmatched but still destroy your enemies.
Vampires #2 best for that feel

>>736296783
I have 1000 hours across Bretonnian lords and different Bretonnian mods.

>>736312837
That's a lot, asshole!

>>736309725
That's because they use engine from fucking Empire and nobody still working there knows how this piece of spaghetti functions.
It's Archeotech now.
They apparently use a new engine now, that will deliver a new host of bugs

AI should not have access to immortality

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Chaos dwarfs, they have great lords, great infantry and meat shields, great flying units, excellent artillery/missile units/cavalry + off map mortar ability you can build on provinces + many map/economic and battle buffs you can obtain on the council of zhar

Nurgle, WoC (Nurgle), Norsca, Dwarves, Chaos Dwarves

>>736313883
WoC (slaanesh) is fun, Sigvald is kino taking over Canada, but Azazel taking on Norsca and becoming a hero is pretty fun

>>736309530
bot broke

>>736309335
With the format the game has it's really hard to build a challenging endgame that isn't just the AI spamming dozens of stacks of high tier units. You can't buff the AI's stats because people think it's unfair. You can't give the AI a huge empire because it's likely to step on the player's toes (like the current Black Pyramid/Chorf ones popping up in the middle of your empire with your units half a continent away). And difficulty-wise you have to somehow accomodate all players in the extremely broad spectrum between dipshit Timmy yelling "I want to play tall!" and powergamer Johnny who's minmaxed and snowballed his way up to 100 settlements and 30 armies by turn 50. There's not really any good solution. Warhammer 2 tended to result in an AI ordertide/chaostide which could be challenging if the #2 power was hostile to you, but nobody liked having to slog through Malekith's 80 settlement empire he spent the entire game building up in his inhospitable shithole of a region.

>>736296783
Vamp Counts
>but that's just a campaign about starting a steamroller and never stopping
I don't care, I like it when I kill lots of people and then raise higher tier units from the wasteland I made.

>>736314496
The endgame as it stands is literally less scales than the normal AI at this point. I get alerted of the endgame army, I watch the 12 or 16 or whatever number of stacks spawn, and then I see the armies that exist on that land just annihilate them. I've seen Wurrzag turn 1-3 annihilate the Black Pyramid endgame crisis twice now. He had two fucking armies that just happened to be in the area and just bounced between the stacks.

>>736296783
Why does all the Warhammer Total War games run like garbage?

>>736301015
Hes very fun I prefer Throtts Frankenstein Lab

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>>736296783
I didn't really get into 3 but when I played 2 I almost always ended up playing Vlad, vamp cunts are way too much fun. Towards the end I also tried gimmicky stuff like Bretonnia only using lords and no units in the armies, Tyrion that can only trade and not declare war, vampire counts that align with the empire etc.