Hey there! I've been trying to help folks deal with the Legion of Chaos start in the Steam forums since IE release and thought I may as well post the comment here as well. It's a wall of text to bear with me, but it seems to have helped a bunch of people handle Malus early game since he seems to come at you with a vengeance if he's left alone. Great video btw and I hope this reaches a lot of people! Your content's been great so far. :) Wall of text: If you ignore the Nurgle trash at your starting location and force march to Black Rock (That's to the left of you across the bridge, past Bilious Cliffs) you can actually catch Malus besieging the major settlement on turn two. You get help from the garrison which is a bunch of blue horrors. Dodge dark elf army abilities until they've used them all three times and wait for your ally to engage. Then you can slowly, SLOWLY, approach and pick off the small units sent after you. Be wary of darkshards tho. Help the garrison a little but make sure they're wiped out and that you try to wipe out every routing dark elf unit, because this leads to you usually being able to wipe out the army of the Tzeentch faction you're about to fight as well.. Deal with Malus either through army losses that way or if he does transform, keep running in circles around the map. He'll eventually die from the damage the transformation does to him. You can do this without losing a single unit in your army, I usually lose like 150 units if that, and completely wiping his off the map. Then in the same turn attack Black Rock, fly in with your Lord to kill the single unit of like 40 Blue Horrors and you've got the settlement. Don't stay in it if some of Malus' army survived. They'll siege the city next turn and if you stay in it you lose a turn of replenishment. Turn 3 you attack the 1-2 Dark Elf armies in your territory and the Tzeentch army if it comes to wipe out the Dark Elf force that will land on your shores to the south of Black Rock. Afterwards go to the edge of the bridge so you replenish and recruit stuff. Turn 4 you go after the Black Ark next to Bilious Cliffs. Now you've got Malus' faction destroyed. You'll be at war with Malekith, but he doesn't show up until waaaaaay later, giving you like 80 turns or more to prepare. And he only shows up if you take Fortress of the Damned and the areas around it. If you give your Lord the first Nurgle wings and a tail with the Serpentine Tail skill, plus the Gorefeast Khorne helmet he has a double mortis engine effect and Regen. The two tzeentch arms that let you summon blue horrors and cast transmutation of lead plus the above lord equip are all you need to deal with early sieges and chaff armies. Give Throgg like 2k gold and get a point in the norsca relation skill and he'll usually leave you alone too so you can expand further west. Wall of text but I wanted to be thorough. I play on Legendary/VH and I've tested this again after the recent patch that gives every LL siege attacker, Malus STILL sieges Black Rock. The Tzeentch faction does sometimes attack his army during the end turn though but if you want you can just reload, it happens very rarely. Anyway that's all. Hope it helps someone!
@@LordForwind Yeah I can't blame you. The lack of an actual tech and decent skill tree for your LL kinda suck. I still find a lot of fun in them though since the lord is so customizable and I'm a bit of a glutton for challenge, so this starting position is perfect. :D Thank you for the reply and heart though!!
@@veldrin9180 I took heed of your advice and it's helped me a great deal. I still need to work on my macro because I ended up getting most of my minions dead in the process. But I am leaning towards a Nurgle force with my Daemon Prince so it's gonna work out for me in the end
I think those notes about items are the most important part. Getting those three passives going makes Daniel a beast. I would add that I think dedicating your first settlement to Slaanesh is optimal. Slaanesh Marauders are really good with a shield, physical resist, and + infantry damage. You can also recruit the ranged horsemen and Hellstriders from the tier one building. Both are excellent units. The Alluress hero is also fairly solid. Lastly, there is a follower that gives 15% reduced upkeep for Slaanesh Marauders and Horsemen. This will give just a slight boost to getting a second army going eventually.
I recommend u to redo this video due to Epidemius spawning where u did. That means the starting war is differend and u are therefore forced to engage with the Ursin Revivalists, or how they are called.
Ended up here because I’m on my fourth attempt as them and they just are not clicking. Too expensive and difficult to make money + slow healing + point walls to get usable units is torturous.
I wish you could assign skills and etc to different pieces of armor/parts so you can actually make cool looks without sacrificing function like being able to put gorefeast on a pair of wings or chestpiece rather than just using the same old khorne head
