Best Campaigns for Veteran Players Patch 5.0 - Total War: Warhammer 3 Immortal Empires 

Id say Vlad was always difficult. You have no natural allies anywhere nearby, and a whole lot of enemies. You can befriend Chaos or Greenskins, but its a tenous alliance at best the AI will seek to get out of, even if you manage to keep it for a while. Replacing Gelt for Elspeth didnt make it any easier for sure. Nor did it the fact the world opened to the east, instead of cozying up in the mountains back when it used to be the edge of the map.

Vlad as a ll is so strong that it all does'nt matter. You just have to manually fight battles.​@@Grivehn

@@Derp_Skilz He cant be in all places at once. But I agree that manually fighting (not like autoresolve leaves you another choice) vampire battles yields much better results. Him having vanguard is also huge, sadly its just him afaik.

People actually lose campaigns? 💀

Pretty much anyone starting on the Darklands does so without allies and gets it really hard, but Drazhoath is a special hell for sure. Lived it myself. Maybe Tretch is worse, because he's such a non-entity of an LL.

i've played tons of drazhoath campaigns and i generally disagree with anyone who thinks they are hard, Chaos Dwarfs are only hard for maybe the first 20 turns and then your economy starts rolling and it gets dumb how strong they are. I think a lot of peoples issues with chaos dwarfs particularly with Draz is literally grimgor. I've made it a habit of making sure he is controlled or killed ASAP regardless of who I play but Zhatan and Astragoth can do it much faster then Draz.

​@@Aisriythagreed. There are no difficult campaigns in this game tbh. It is a shame..

@@Derp_Skilzplay a minor faction

I have done that, but I have also taken them all on at once and won. It wasn't easy, but it was way more gratifying as an accompliment

@@astari24 playing whack'a mole trying to defend a coast from every possible direction with 2 armies forever doesn't seem so gratifying to me. Why make things harder for myself? the game does it already

@@SkottVFX You win the long game of chess on a harder difficulty. Maybe you are not a Total WAR Veteran like myself, but I need a challenge. Going to Ulthuan is like putting that campaign on Easy campaign/easy battle difficulty. I have done it 2-3 times and it was zero fun Playing whackamole for a bit, you should eventually be able to create a 3rd army to place pressure somewhere for them to respond or simply use a weaker, smaller 3rd army as a garrison while a strong army storms into their weakness Two very powerful moves you can use in any campaign 1) Use armies that solely operate from sacking the enemy. This will pay for their upkeep. This is a way to field an army that your infrastructure cannot sustain itself 2) Use ambush on weak regions that the enemy wants to sack. Ensure you are within reinforcement range of your town. Or just simply ambush along the border WITHIN your territory so that you replenish after the battle, but BEFORE getting back to your turn

@@astari24 Won't read all that. Instantly ignored after the "I am a veteran and you are not" comment. But sure, have fun

@@SkottVFX Take care young man. You will go far in life with that attitude.

You know what? The rework just launched. Gonna play it now 😊

Agreed and its pretty much how I did it myself. Killing those two means you pretty much wont have to worry about your south, and can expect a strong Kislev to (if the AI gods willing) aid you on the Chaos North at least. Malakai having the heroes of Gotrek, Felix, Ulrika, starting slayer hero and Garadrim is a really powerful core, and rushing the Spirit of Grungni to not disappear makes Malakai's army (whatever that army even is) pretty much unbeatable. The problem is indeed he cant be in all places at once. Your other armies will look like chumps in comparison, even though dwarfs are anything but. A good enough midgame stack can and will autoresolve most things the baddies throw at you cuz... dwarf autoresolve goes brrr. But there is not a lot of fun in that necessarily. Malakai is kinda forced between putting out fires and dealing with his adventures for a good while.

Grudge settler army, make sure you get it and you can use that as your defense army against Throgg. Make sure you get a grugni lord who hops between your starter settlement and doubles as a backup defensive army to reduce building costs. Can save a ton of money that way. And if you get a grugni thane you are doing splendid. Get all the area south of Hell Pit right off. You got time, you can wait on Azazel. Makes a great money zone for you and money is tough early going.

Tried a Kairos campaign once and the thing is... you almost don't need units, because of how strong your spellcasters are. The only challenge I've encountered was defeating Teclis, but that's only one hard battle, in most other battles enemies were half-dead already when they reached my units because of how many spellcasters Tzeentch can put in one army. I recommend 3 spellcasters per army (you will still have enough winds of magic to cast spells with them constantly), 6 pink horrors, and the rest some meat shields to protect the horrors and maybe flank the enemy. Place yourself as far from the enemy as possible, fly over the enemy with your flying casters and massacre them with spells. If they are waiting for reinforcements put a caster or two there and play vortex and bombardment spells on their spawn point. You can even put Kairos in melee for a short time with his damage reduction ability to allow enemies to blob around him and kill more of them with spells. Most of the battles I've fought had minimal unit losses, so I haven't felt weak Tzeentch replenishment at all and even with 3 spellcasters I was quite often ending a 4 minute battle with 80+ winds of magic, that's how insane their magic replenishment is.

@@dawidwozniak8196 Thank you for your answer but i was just referring to the early turns in a Kairos campaign. You can confed Sathorael early if you manage to defeat Teclis within the first 2-3 turns until he whips out Sathorael. So basically you can get 2 pretty strong Lords (Kairos + Sathorael) early which is a huge powerspike for fighting Oxyotl later.

Yeah it can be a tad ridiculous, but 140k? I've never gotten higher then 40 and only when I had vision on a lot of the world.

​​@@Costin_Gaming my fist campaign with malakai got me to more than 100k grudges by my 5th age of reckoning. With only belegar confederated and no vision over any other dwarf faction or distant allies or wars. Didn't even have knowledge over belakor or sigvaul. Dwarves are basically broken until they fix that

I played a RoC campaign with Malakai and while I definitely liked the idea, I was twice able to reach 4th level (almost maximum once), then twice 3rd lvl, and twice 2nd which is a bother. Then I chose to skip it once, and was able to finish the campaign by then. I really like the idea, but to avoid it being a huge bother, there needs to be either more time, or lower requirements or both. Or perhaps rework so lvl 2 gives you neutral bonuses.

They just hotfixed it a couple hours ago