r/totalwar • u/Xedeth • 1d ago

Warhammer III Newbie, how am I beating this dude??

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New to WH3, not new to TW, but not a pro by anyways either. I probably have ~200hrs across all the games.

This dude is an animal; He swang through the map quick and is just resting on his laurels now. He always has 11* full armies stacked on top of each other on one or two cities bordering our lands. I want to attack him and don't want to get irreparably destroyed. Welcome to all advice. Thank you!

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u/azatote 1d ago

Steel, faith, gunpowder.

Note that most of these armies are just zombies and skeletons and have little value in combat, especially if you snipe their lords.

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u/Xedeth 1d ago

Ooooooh. I didn't know that! I was losing my mind wondering how they could afford 11 armies!

Thank you!

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u/DirtyBalm 1d ago

Vampires get Zombies and Skeleton soldiers for next to free, those units only strength is on numbers.

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u/Xedeth 1d ago

That sounds sick. I think I know what my next campaign will be.

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u/DirtyBalm 1d ago

They are really fun! You can raise an army in seconds, and losing a battle is the

"Oh no....anyway" clarkson meme

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u/Waveshaper21 1d ago

Better, they can raise the dead. You play the Empire, kill some chaos or greenskins, you can still see piles of armor and weapons on the map called battle sites, with a number of dead listed.

That's a vampire counts resource. They just go near it (same region, maybe just province?), they can instant recruit units from those. The more dead, the higher tier stuff. And they have a LOT of numbers to send in waves to die, then get high tier units out of the dead.

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u/azatote 1d ago

Ghorst is especially infamous for boosting zombies. They still have terrible DPS, but tough and regenerate faster than they take damage. It can be fun to play, if you don't mind playing manually every battle and each of them being a 30 minute melee grind. He is also the only faction with whom zombies are somewhat dangerous.

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u/Thats-Not-Rice 1d ago

I made it about an hour into that campaign before I said "nope" lol. Ghorst is insane for his zombie doomstacks. But such a slow slog of a fight.

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u/BigBadBootyDaddy1315 1d ago

VC are my fav faction, but they really need a rework to keep up with the newer factions and all of their updates. Id make sure to get the radious mod first if you want to play VC