Astragoth Ironhand Immortal Empires Campaign Review 

Astragoths influence bonus does affect his towers but it's weird to me that he's got nothing else special on his towers

With Astragoth & Zhatan: YOU HAVE TO TAKE OUT THE BIG GREEN MEANIE GRIMGOR. He will steamroll you otherwise. The guy is insane. He even got a buffed start in 3.0.

I agree. I enjoy Draz most. Over 70 turns now and it's still fun. But I did start with 20 turns with Astragoth to learn to mechanics. He is cool and his mobility scooter isn't bad at all!

I did my first Chad campaign with Grandpa Mobility Scooter and it was pretty rough in the first 20 turns but when you take out Grimgor, it’s pretty much smooth sailing from there although many minor factions would declare war on you. Raiding zhar nagarrund with Overseers and 19 goblin sla- laborers also helps a lot for raking in labor. Also love his Quest which are actually reference to members of the Wild Bunch outlaws. ASTRAGOTH ZOOOLAHOOOO!

His conclave influence boost is strange. When I do the Dictat to increase conclave influence it gives 12 instead of 10. His boost may actually be 20%

I found the way that works best for me was: Turn 1 recruited a taurus, then destroyed it's building to get magma cannons, I then conquered the 2 ogre settlements to the east whilst recruiting a second army, exchanged the settlements for military access and a defensive alliance with Kholek. Kholek starts fighting Grimgor. I go around via zhar Nagrund picking up hobgoblin and magma cannons from other army, then conquer Grimgor's settlements back to Kholek.

Honestly, I've noticed that astrogoth is somehow being underrated. I've played more than a few campaigns with him at legendary difficulty vh battles; and he's SO fucking strong on the battlefield. I've played as skarbrand and as vlad, and neither of them felt as oppressive as astrogoth has had after turn 5. Wherever you send this man the assignment will be completed.

Astragoth, for me, was kind of a challenging start. Everyone around me declared on me and I had attacks coming from all cardinal directions. Astragoth himself was an unstoppable nightmare but a single army can't defend all sides and I didn't have enough money for more armies. Even Norsca wanted a piece of me in the beginning. The worst was Grimgor and Greasus joining forces to kill me, while keeping Azhag and Lamia at bay on the other side.

I think it's a missed opportunity that none of the chaos dwarf lords get a war machine mount

This was my first Chorf-campaign: I beelined straight for Grimgor after beating the Slaves of Zharr. Once Grimgor was gone it was fun-fun sandbox-time. Having your northern frontier being surrounded by somewhat friendly factions is a huge boon.

Thanks for the vid Legend, Astragoth is my favorite lore character, so this guide will help me keep old grandpa alive a bit longer.

Something to note is that drazoath’s defeat trait is insanely strong to farm, 10% settlement income factionwide if the lord is on the map. Because the chorfs don’t have supply lines, you can end up making thousands upon thousands of gpt from this. So in my opinion, play astragoth, farm draz’s trait for like 100 turns (he should also eventually get 1 turn wound time), then confederate when you’re ready to spam out kdaii destroyers in the super late game.

I really like that the chorfs have a lot of factionwide abilities, really buffing their small population and not throwing valuable soldiers away Also every time Ive played recently kholek walks through astragoths area and curbstomps the northern skaven so you are even more safe since he kinda likes you

Astragoth gains more influence per tower than Zhatan and Drazoath, instead of the extra research and replenishment rate. You can take seats faster than anyone else playing as Astragoth.

After a couple of campaigns with Astragoth, I fell like he has the best faction and starting area. That global extra public order just can't be overlooked in his faction, and while the other guy gets more research speed, I don't think it compares with the increased influence that Astragoth gets. Your objective is to reach the top of the tower ASAP to get the confederations rolling. His starting Area is also incredibly safe. At the north you have the tower in a choke point, which covers chaos marauders. You don't really need it as no one up there is going to mess with you unless Kislev starts Rocking and comes Knocking. To the south you have a province with the vampires in the capital, which isn't very hard to deal with, which makes you have another tower in the other chockepoint, this time covering against the winner between the Slayer King and the VampirORK. Both hate you, but they hate themselves more, so while one lives, you're safe. In fact, hope that the Slayer wins, as he hates the vampires more than you. So anyway, as long as you get a garrison building there, you're covered. The rest of the province is in the hands of a minor skaven faction iirc, anyway you can get those provinces easy, getting your south covered by another chorf faction. Now, your main threat, is Grimgor. I highly recommend you deal with him asap. You can either deal with him before going to the second province or free it having beeing recruiting another army. Anyway I recommend demolishing the bull ogre building on first turn and use those weapon materials to build yourself an artillery building. The magma cannon is a Godsent and probably your only chance at beating Grimgor. Anyway, don't be like me, who let him maximise his yellow skills, and then was incapable to stop him. Like seriously, he gets to the point of one man doomstacking gobbo armies. Gobbos buffed by the Legendary Hero. And two hit killing all heroes and lords. He gets obscene, don't let him grow. And allways bring blunderbusses to fight him. Also gobbo archers. They do lots of flame damage quickly, and can destroy, completely annihilate troll units with low armour. I vanguard deployed them in firing range, three units per troll unit, and they never reached melee, dying to the first salvo. I can agree that Drazoath's campaign is probably more interesting in how hard it is and all that, but Astragoth is simply stronger, in basically all the levels that matter. Not to mention he's completely busted as a warrior, in battle, being able to mop the floor with absolutely anything that faces him, except Grimgor.

There is a chance for grimgor to waagh with 4 stacks a few turns after you get astragoths first province secure. Its a prime campaign for disaster battles when all u have is a stack amd a half with no way to deal with grimgors 50+ units.

I think he has one of the best starts of the CD because he can build towers to the North, East and South of his starting point very quickly allowing for good defence and growth. Plus, once levelled up as you mentioned, his magic becomes so Op..

really appreciate these videos, u should do a optimal turn 20 showcase for every lord too just a idea. but love the series

Thanks for the video

Once you took out Grimgore it's a nice idea to start recruiting cheap armies at Black Fang and raid the chorf capital. Gives like 400-500 labour per army. Also caravans sometimes pass Black Fang so it's an insane farming spot.

I love the Chaos Dwarfs!

Note - Drycha gives +15% ward save for Tree Kin, so this feature isn't unique to Astragoth

Astragoth was my first Chorf campaign too, but I flowed a bit differently. I never actually went after Grimgor myself until way later - my first major ally was Kholek, and he took and vassalized all the norsca factions to my north and northeast pretty quickly, building up quite a power base to contest Grimgor, who mostly focused on the surrounding ogres instead of me. When he finally did try launching an invasion, I was at least defensive allies with all the other Chorf factions, and we dogpiled him from all directions right away (even Ghorst opportunistically tried invading from the south, but by the time my southern-sweeping army met him, I just continued my momentum and started taking his gains). I actually ended up focusing on the west and southwest, taking out Ahzog and the dwarfs. Funny hiccup is that Wargrove of Woe was in the middle of invading Ahzog at the same time, so I had to fight off Drycha to claim the province, and since she kept sending armies over, I had to march over and burn her forest down to put an end to them for a little peace (leaving her last settlement to Kislev to finish off). Another weird hiccup is running into a hostile rogue army called the Monstrosities, after I took Karaz-a-Karak, which is a pain in the ass, as it consists of 10 Beastlords and a ton of high-tier monsters, and is duplicating itself (now there are three of them!). Barely fended it off as I built an emergency army and rushed Karaz-a-Karak to tier 5 with a garrison building, and rushed a secondary army over just in time. Mors was barely holding his own, as I did ally with him too, but Kroq-gar has marched his way that far north now, so that's another impending threat... I will say, Astragoth's conclave influence gain is great, as I can take 2/3'ds of the conclave seats for great bonuses. Another thing not mentioned to note about Astragoth, is he has Wallbreaker, so he can punch holes in the side of settlement defenses and march an army through really quickly, and combined with the conclave tower bonus of starting any siege battle with broken wall sections and Gorduz's ability to make all Hobgoblins have stalk and vanguard, garrison walls have very little effect against you...

If astragoth gains the conclave dominance technology for +2 conclave influence would that make it +5 instead whereas the others would only get +3?

Hi Legend ! Nice review as always ! Please make a chaos dwarfes unit roster tier list!

Funny that Astragoth has 10% research rate as a faction mechanic and Drazhoath the Ashen can get 10% research rate in his talent tree.

my fav outta the three, hes just so freaking fast boiiiiii

Definitely emphasize taking out Grimgor - during my Astragoth run I cleared first province and then smashed the vamps to the south quickly, but then ended up in wars with Skarsnik in the southwest, Imrik in the south, Grim in the southeast, and Kholek in the east. It made for a very tough campaign (VH/VH) - I personally found that defensive structures were pretty expensive for what you get for the chorfs too, and couldn't be relied on to hold a side long enough to knock out one of those enemies. That's actually the main benefit of the Backstabber - use him to create a cheap hob army that you can shore up a flank's defenses long enough to send Astra to burn out some enemies.

I really enjoy playing the Dawi Zharr. Their artillery is deveststing, their Warriors are tough and the Bull cavelry is like a hot knife through butter.

Astrogoth also gets fire lore passive, which makes quite the difference

As soon as I saw that my man runs around with Krang mech legs I knew he would be my favorite of the three.

I find going down to Silver Pinnacle early with a satellite lord lets you clap out 3-4 caravans for free and use all the free labour to boost your starting province significantly. Also leaving a single lord at Uzkulak to sally out to take caravans with the garrison gives you even more. Delays your expansionism a bit but sets you up with a really strong base province by like, turn 10

Great vid as always Legend! Would you think its possible to make a vid updating campaign review of all the lords starting locations effected by the the release of Chaos Dwarf? Someone like Imrik or Grimgor for instance :)

Astragoth's towers should give like -2% recruit cost reduction or something.

You posted this right after ironhand kicked my teeth in. He basically solod my army after all his gobos ran away.

watching legend dealing with the new sticky pop up ui is hilarious

I quite preferred the Helhammer over Firestorm because it doesn't have the option of moving over your own troops... also that it does a ton of damage and becomes dirt cheap. Also the Bull Centaurs with Astragoth are amazing, I did the Realm of Chaos final battle with Astragoth and the entire first phase was just these guys riding around and destroying all the miner units that popped up and the rest of my army was just sitting back chilling. Things more hairy when the demons started spawning because they would get bogged down and bombarded.

I agree with this. I enjoy Drazhoath the most, I'm about 130 turns in and I have half the world under my control. It's really enjoyable! Astragoth is second, I enjoy his appearance, his VA and how he plays too.

He spreads fast in game. I was playing Grimgor and he was huge. I took all his lands of course but still controls a huge amount of land

Bull centaurs are one of the best doomstacks in the game right now

Love these videos! Are you gonna do one for Boris? I hadn't seen one but I might be blind

Azhag left me alone in my Astragoth campaign, he tends to make a lot of enemies and doesn't spam out as many armies as Grimgor does. Actually found this to be a pretty comfy campaign if you take out Grimgor early and befriend Kholek and Greasus, which is very achievable through joining their wars and getting agreements with them, especially since Astragoth can boost relations with Chaos and Ogre factions. Then you can pretty much just focus on the Darklands and taking on 1-2 factions at a time which you're very well equipped to handle.

I guess it doesn't really matter once you're some turns in anyway, but I feel Astrogoth has a start with a lot of potential. His starting settlement has Iron, and getting to tier 3 is super easy. He starts with Renders and a Taur'ruk hero which is awesome, he starts with the Render building built, and since you can't recruit more units from it without getting more armaments you can demolish it on turn 1, and use the armaments you're refunded to build the artillery building, which means real early magma cannons. Then on the last building slot you add the Chaos Dwarf recruitment building, and a few turns later you got an army with Renders, Magma Cannons, a Castellan and more blunderbussy. Oh and Astrogoth himself, who's a beast. Of course all of this evens out as it progresses, but it's a great and fun start anyhow. Renders is sort of a mid-game unit I feel with the other Chaos Dwarf lords, one you can get either by focusing on it and missing out on other stuff, or get once you've got the wizards, artillery and so on going. Starting with 1 dual weapon variant means you can ignore ever getting another until its time for doomstack number 2, and instead get everything else sorted real quick. And getting the armaments flowing is easier with Astrogoth with the Iron in his capital, meaning you'll get to all the fun stuff quicker(-ish at least? Haven't played too much of the others I do admit, I'm at 1 trial run and 1 actual campaign with Drazhoath and 3 campaigns at turn 90-ish with Astrogoth) Drazhoath probably has a higher potential overall, but Astrogoths start and subsequent frequent power spikes makes it a really fun campaign. And the major settlement to the east and south both have gems, which is crucial to a healthy overflowing Chaos Dwarf economy. And his army paint scheme is black, which looks fuckin' amazing. Oh and he's so cute movin' his li'l ol' boots across the campaign map, especially when you speed up your factions movement to Fast specifically in the campaign map camera settings.

Didn't have much luck with Drazhoath, yet since as soon as I defeat the ogres to the east I meet grimgor and kholek, and things go south quickly, with both declaring, and then the norscans and archaeon piling in from the north, stretching my forces thin... might try out Zathan to get a better grasp on how to play CD's more efficiently, and then come back to this. Or btter play Drazoath and confederate Astragoth.

I've been playing Astragoth so far and been having fun. The bull centaurs are quiet good. The lack of a set bonus does look like an oversight.

I don't know if it's because I just rushed getting seats in the tower and unlocking the next tiers or if his bonus helped a lot, but as Astrogoth on legendary I was able to reach the final tier of the tower without ever having a seat usurped because they seem to go for empty seats in the highest tier available. I was playing very aggressively and had a lot of towers too even if they were tier 2 or 3 there was a lot of value to doing that so the way I played might've also been why I had so much influence to throw around.

Thorgrim: Short?

I'd love to see you remake your older guides to 10 minutes by the way!

Best part of this campaign is the location. Little tip, turn 3 go east and take the ogre settlement. Sell it to kolek's vassal for quick gold and 2 new trade partners. From there deal with grimgore quickly before the southern vamps and orcs attack your province or go wipe out the south first.

Don't think this is the best CD faction, but Astragoth is my favourite LL. He has access to Ash Storm and Kindleflame for incredible amounts of flame weakness. A great combo that I used for the final battle was to have Astrogoth run around by himself, get the enemy blobbed up on him and cast Ash Storm on them which allowed my Dreadquakes (which had Flaming Attack from the Banner of Eternal Flame) to delete entire units in one shot while tanky Astrogoth took minimal damage.

The item quests you get from short campaign victory I think vastly make up for any set bonus for his initial quest items he might be missing.

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Do you have any inclination to go back and redo some of the earlier reviews in this series? I think about 10 videos in, you got the format nailed on these videos. If I go back and want to see the Ku’gath for example, all you really had to say was it’s a slow defensive campaign. I’d be interested to see how you tackle the start, especially with the chords next door now and Imrik West and Cathay to the East.

Just a protip, on turn 5 there are a shitton of Cathay convoys that all cluster near the Silver Pinnacle. You can defeat all of them on the same turn and get 20k+ gold as well as a bunch of xp. This is way easier than taking on Grimgor - and honestly there's a good chance that Kholek will deal with Grimgor for you. Azhag is more of a threat to Astragoth than Grimgor is.

"you're free to disagree with that if you....don't agree" 😂😂

Any plans on doing a video about the Chaos Dwarfs in general? Talking about their units and mechanics in detail and what not.

What I recommend is almost exactly what Legend says, although it may slightly differ on your difficulty: Rush Grimgor, it MIGHT be fine to just leave him at one settlement (depending on difficulty), especially if you get an Non-aggression pact/Defensive alliance with Kholek's faction to see if they expand south. This gives you an opportunity to let Kholek and Grimgor fight one another while you can keep raiding with weak armies. Any outside threat is just going to run into Grimgor and/or Kholek. Reason I say this is because an occassional goblin army from Grimgor and even an XP-starved Grimgor who has fallen behind because you razed most of his early settlements isn't going to give you much trouble, but his frequent attacks might make him a good source of XP for you. That said, this is a bit of an ideal situation and the Kholek situation might play out differently, so, getting rid of Grimgor entirely might be a better option on higher difficulties. It's up to you. In the mean time you could resolve issues near the Volary (you might end up taking out Vilitch and he might be somewhat easy to scare into a peace treaty). Use your weak armies to keep raiding enemies on that side of the map. Then focus your main army/armies with good units towards Azhag. Claiming Silver Pinnacle helps because you may funnel Azhag/Dwarfs enemy on that side. Make sure to make it a tower and try to build it up with reasonable priority., so you can start pushing south. You really don't have a need to rush South and can just take your time defending your own lands and slowly expanding, making sure you prioritize building up cheap raiding armies early on so you can keep up Labour intake. Midgame is when you can start expanding more aggressively and snowball powerful armies that the AI is just not going to be able to deal with due to all the buffs you're going to be able to stack on it as CD. I don't consider Astragoth's spells much of a priority. The diplomacy one and the blue/red lines are definitely good to get early to get that extra manageability in diplomacy as well as get the most out of your unit performance. After that I would prioritise his spells.

One thing to note about taking out Azhag is that it does leave you open to Ungrim, Vlad, Drycha, Empire, and Kislev. They are probably going to go after you if they see you.

For his item which provides 30% physical resistance. I have used the item that gives him barrier and regen and wiped out 40 units of dwarves. You have to be careful with calvary but he is the perfect one man doomstack to dwarves and you don't even need him to be that strong. The damage that reduces the barrier affects the passive ability.

Personally I didn’t have an issue with grimgor but the Broken hands rushed me by turn 5 with two full stacks which was... interesting to deal with

Can you do an overall review of chaos dwarves and your thought of the DLC in genereal?

One thing you have to be really careful about with Astragoth in my opinion is that he is a melee lord without a mount, so his mass isn`t great but he is WAY faster compared to Chaos Dwarfen infantery. You need to be careful not to get him ahead of the army to much and getting caught. He is tanky and can do alot of dmg as well, but getting out of a fight isn`t always easy depending on what spells you might have for example. I agree on your ranking. I think Astragoth has very good traits and a very good skilltree that makes him unique, and he is propably the fastest to confederate other factions in the conclave mechanic. His starting position also isn`t bad. While playing him I rarely had to fight multiple fronts unless I wanted to, because not that many actually declared war on me, the north is kind of secured if you don´t attack them, you have one chaos dwarf faction below you after killing your starting enemy. Killing Grimgor after that does secure you a position where you can more or less decide where to attack then. However, in comparison I also think that the Ashen is stronger overall. His traits and skills are really damn strong. But then again, confederating the other legendary lord in both cases is pretty good since they both have very good skilltrees even outside their faction bonuses. Besides the Black... he is really way worse then these two

I still think Astragoth is better as a LL, but I agree on the faction being weaker (actually, 5% per tower is huge) The biggest advantage of Astragoth is something I think Legend glossed over, that is, he has both the Lore of Fire Passive and the Ash Storm spell from Lore of Hashut. This is the Chaos Dwarf wombo combo that absolutely deletes anything that dares stand in that Ash Storm, as they suddenly take like 45% extra damage from everything, which is huge. Then Astragoth smacks them in the face, making them flammable, we are now at 70% fire weakness on whatever he fights in the storm. At that point, 2 Blunderbusses will delete a Dread Saurian in like 3 volleys (actual number(I think)). And while he's spamming Hell Hammer, HIS ENTIRE ARMY IS DEALING EXTRA DAMAGE (except for Bull Centaurs, sadly). The fact he brings the Chorf combo, Kindling (or whatever the lore of fire passive is called), and the storm in a compact package with 5000 mass and 60 speed with insane resistances makes him absolutely insane. Most importantly, you save on characters, not requiring any other spellcasters in his army, further amplified by the Greater Arcane Conduit.

I might be the one who goes north first. Main reason because I like getting a military alliance with Archaon asap.

This guy got the Huey legs from MGSV

Still missing the Boris Ursus campaign. :)

Hi legend….can u please make a video on the best war machines / artillery of chaos dwarves ?

I found him the easiest so far. Kill the Orks for the first province, go north take that coastal province away from the weak Norsca, then go south again kill more Orks and the Silver Pinnacle, then go into the worl edge mountains to take over Azhags and the Slayer Kings territories. Kholek loves me straight away and took out Grimgor for me. He makes a good ally. I only had to deviate from my mountain conquest once to take out the Sabre Skins and Grimgors capital. Archaon later on also wants to become my best friend.

How do you Buff the wind of Magic cost for the hell hammer out of 3? Maybe with some ítems or traits from the convoys?

My last Draz campaign, Grimgor had 3 settlement and in the gutters when i finally reached him. I found that who do what and how well is very much a coin flip, which is cool. Will i face dwarfs or greenskin from the west and so on.

I am not an expert, but public order was the biggest problem for me when playing chords, and it slowed down my expansion the most, and the conclave seats are really good as well (even if few of them are bugged). Because of that it feels to me that while Drazhoath is better LL, I feel like Disciples of Hashut are the best starting faction

he is one of most easy to get 90 ward+physical resistance in game and still get double hunger regen via item his personal item is insane, it ramp up to 30% physical resistance really fast and make Zhatan's armor look like trash

I wonder if Legend forgot about Boris campaign review or he will do it after Chaos Dwarf Also, overcasted Hell hammer with all reduductions is 4 WoM, not 5

I don't think there's another legendary lord that provides more than 15% ward save for any unit but I know that a generic lord provides 20% ward save for one unit : Ancient Treeman (including Durthu, so technically a LL does it too) provide 20% ward save for Treekins

Yeah.

I think a tier video for “state of the race” would be fun. Review where each race stands after this last release. Rank them on how fun and fleshed out the campaigns are. I think skaven would be the top faction as they have a lot of variety and lots of different starting locations/enemies. Then a race like Dark Elves might be at the bottom as they can flat out suck to play

What are the 3 defeat traits for the chaos lords I hadn’t seen those yet

Not sure why I thought of this, but how about being able to view an ai vs ai battle. Then it would be possible to further suggest fixes for their behavior.

Me when no Boris.

I had a bug pop up in my Astragoth campaign. The long victory wont trigger because it says I don't own Zarr Naggrond eventhough I've confederated all the other factions. Anyone else run into this?

I don't mind him not having a set bonus but still strange. You seem to end up with a ridiculous amount of epic items in his campaign due to caravans, relic hunting and victory conditions so it affects mid to early late game mostly. Depends when you get the items I suppose

did you know that if gnoblasr is climbing ledders they climb slower if yuo are zoomed inon them then if you are zoomed out

is it normal that the other legendary lords of the chaos dwarves if confederated and then killed in battle are gone for good? like no respawn

Okay i looked all comments but did not find any clue, here is my question now: How to get flames of azgorh down to 5 winds of magic? i only got it down to 7 (with the unique skill line and -10% from research) what do i miss? please tell me

Could slightly update or redo Lokhir, I ask because the video was great but pretty much focused on the slave trait for the faction, really nothing about him or what to do

I like how you call it a trick start, as if CA actually planned on tricking the player, when in reality they probably just really didn't think it through or simply didn't give a shit.

livestream of Astragoth when? lol

I just asked Archaon and Kholek for help

I got some bug, my Astragoth name now Malofex ironhand

Please move me back to the Silver Road. I enjoyed being rich and hate being poor.

I'm having more trouble defeating Valkia the bloody to my North than I did with Grimgor Ironhide as Valkia has vasilised the Norsca tribes to fight with her and I have let her get too strong.

Anyone else in here having major issues with the gunner units just fucking not firing, even with seemingly great line of sights?> Happened to me mulitple times, just happened in a battle of three khemri armies versus two of my beat up ones, had between the two of the 12-14 fireglaives and blunderbusses and their infantry literally walked right up to my line, dudes never fired a fucking shot

I dont know if this is just for Astragoths, but metal chaos dwarves sorcerers are bugged, instead of -10% of wind of magic for metal spells this is a flat -10 which makes most of the spells free ! juste insane...

Dev works hard on a feature Legend "that's crap that's useless don't worry about it" 😂😂

is it just me or everytime i dont play as him the Slaves of Zaar end up conquering all of the badlands and the mountains?

Astragoth hits a brick wall at the midgame, you have only enemies down south and to the west AND east. Be ready to field at least 3 armies which can deal with Greenskins, Dwarfs, Ogres, Cathay and Skaven. You can negotiate with Tretch, but usually he hates you for your relations with Drazhoath.

astragoth gets one extra influnce per tower

It bugs me that he doesn't enhance K'Daai units, given his selection video and trailer actions.

He seemed underwhelming until I found out Bull Centaurs are actually stronger than Minotaurs. Using them with artillery behind is best of both worlds. You can smack almost every other faction with ease. Astragoth by himself is similar to Vilitch. You can send him in the middle of army and spam fire storm with ash storm that decreases fire spell resistance and wipe most of enemy melee infantry. I was never under 1k kills after every battle.

Pretty easy starter campaign - your entire north is all friendly chaos factions. West/West greenskins, dwarves, vampires, bretonnians are too busy fighting among themselves. Only the Bretonnians ever declared war on me in the first 50 turns. So it's just you vs Grimgor pretty much.