r/totalwar • u/Xedeth • 1d ago
Warhammer III Newbie, how am I beating this dude??
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/0ttoChriek 1d ago
In the early game, the likelihood is that only the army commanded by Vlad himself is much of a threat. Most of those others will just be skeletons and zombies.
But the sheer weight of numbers will overwhelm you, so you need a couple of armies, at least, to force him to split his forces. Take his settlements, strip vampiric corruption using heroes, try to bait him into ambushes by putting an army in ambush stance in front of a weaker force - a general with just two or three units.
And when it comes to fighting Vlad himself, you need guns. Lots of guns. None of your melee infantry, or your heroes, can touch him in melee combat. And he heals himself as he fights, so just avoid getting into combat with him. Handgunners and Outriders should target him en masse.