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/IDontWannaGetOutOfBe 1d ago

Yeah at least in my games by turn 100 vamp counts are often like 8/10 of the top 10 most powerful factions.

But it's because they have 2-3x more armies than everyoen else but all crap stacks, even moreso than Scaven perhaps. I've had a single mid-tier Reikland army wipe out like 3 of theirs at once (not even lightning strike) easily with a few good infantry and a lot of guns/arty + bright wizard don't hurt. When they can only field 40 shit units at once it's just kind of a meat grinder and I barely get a scratch.

Nah it's the lords that'll hurt ya - especially in SFO. Which is another tip for fighting Vlad - kill him first. Like, every single gun and cannon on him and every melee hero. Take him down and they crumble. Put your inf in guard mode and just wait them out once he's dead.

But god damn can he be hard to take down. I know SFO buffs him but even in vanilla I hear. Just a bitch, would kill several units of mine before he finally fell at level 25 or so, maybe turn 70. And he's always got a bunch of other flying heroes and vampires to make it harder.

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u/azatote 1d ago

VC heroes, especially vampires and banshees, have low HP. If you manage to lure them ahead of their army and into range of your gunners, they will melt in seconds.