How to Build Dark Elf Armies | Total War Warhammer 2 

Dual weapons shades are superior simply because of the one turn recruit time, the difference in melee potential is negligible.

Thanks again for making this videos, man. Super quality, helpful and makes me want to try these armies out again. I'm glad they are such a hit with your community also.

In my opinion i would drop a couple infantry units in favour of more dark shards then that should suit you until late game where you can use a late game army, the “mid game” army is too expensive and not very effective

I've had a love for Warhammer since I was 8 but playing any of it has always been quite a challenge especially fantasy.

Legend would disapprove

Shades are literally better in melee than dreadspears or black ark corsairs so why would you even get them when you could have the extra ranged firepower? The difference in upkeep is negligible.

For campaign you only need enough first line to slow them down

On normal difficulty, yeah, this works fine, but not on very hard. You should specify that. The issue is that things that work well on very hard work even better on normal. Every dark elf army should be a wizard, all of the AP ranged you can find, and enough monsters to break through anything that you can't kill with your ranged unit. Sorry, man, but this just isn't a great guide for tryhards. It's a fun guide. It's very fun, and this is how I build my armies, but not bc I want to do well

Are some of these DLC units? The bloodwrack shrine are a unit I've never seen before.

0:35 you should mentioned the DARk ELVES units has lower HP than other fractions.

In every one of my mortal empires campaign, the Cult of Pleasure roflstomps the high elves, then send invasion after invasion across the ocean to attack my Bretonnian lands.

I prefer a dedicated 12 Shade, 6 Hydra stack. Hydras can draw _most_ aggro, but the Shades can handle themselves perfectly well in melee. Leaving room for a fire wizard and a lord (or hero). Limited variety means maxed out army buffs. Ultra-lategame I might replace Hydras with Masters. Heroes with the 'Spiteful' trait buff the whole army a little bit each, and they can get a name of power that lets them regenerate. Whereas generic lords can get a name of power for +range on their Shades, and a Beastmaster lord can buff Hydras.

This series is awesome. Can we get vampire coast?

The misinformation in this guys videos is truly spectacular

yo i know this is like a year later, but what would u replace bloodwrack medusas with?

i have a question, i was thinking of going mostly melée infantry and cav, would this work in a normal campaign? i know i know i can basically just mass dual weapons shades and kill pretty much anything, but that wouldn't be as fun i don't think. in any case the units i was contemplating taking would be some bleakswords as cheap frontline fodder, and 1 set of black guards on each flank to deal with either tanking or dealing with monsters or cav and 1 pair of dreadspears to delay attacks so that my black guards can come and possibly help if necessary for my 2-3 darkshards just to put some extra dps into the frontline or whatever else and have 1 pair of witch elves to come around to flank the frontline in from the back to get that surround and more dps into the frontline where as i would now have a bunch of cav for the rest of the units, like dark riders and/or cold one knights and cold one dread knights which would be mostly there to either disrupt their ranged units or their monsters from participating or taking them out and also as a way to chase down and kill routing enemies or to demoralize the frontline with charges from the back. i'm really curious as to what you all think, i've heard that cold one knights and dread knights are horrible because of primal instinct, but i think they could still serve a good enough purpose if there's just enough of them so they can bail each other out just in case. but yeah basically setting up an ambush/flank with cav and having an ok melée infantry force that wants to go in and surround and cause massive casualties to crumple their frontline in order to assist the cav later to clean up the backline and as they do that the cav can chase down some fleeing enemies to reduce rallying units from coming back to cause more deaths to my allready fragile army. you could say a bit of Shock and Awe just to increase the ability to kill and save as many of my units from dying.

im waiting for vampire coast

Nice

Hydras erry day. Hail Hydra!

Needs more Free the Morathi mod action.

damn, I am waiting for the vampire coast, I was hoping it was next. I am sick of afking for the first 100 turns until I can get mass necrofex.

You must be playing on normal battle difficulty because the melee units would get melted in melee combat due to ai cheats. You should mention that this only meant for normal difficulty. You're gonna mess newbies up if they want to play on the higher difficulties.

ironicly there cav is bad cause in 40k they worship slanesh and there whole strat is "fast as fuck boiiiii"

For the Dawi!!! (I love seen Empire be destroyed ....hate this faction)

who can afford your midgame army?

Not using scourgerunners is blasphemy

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Watch legend of total war Best units for dark elf.

All your video should be: How NOT play *insert race" on legendary difficulty. Some of your comp are just terribile

This faction looks so ridiculous, it's the ugliest faction in the game