Top 10 Easiest Campaigns in Total War Warhammer 3 

I’m surprised Archaon wasn’t on here with him being in a very safe area and potential vassals and allies on all directs. He is very strong in combat and recruits units easily.

I am absolutely enraged by Gor-Rok consistently. He always declares war on me for practically no reason. I didn’t even see any Lizards yet and he declared war on me.

Crazy how Karl Franz was on this list for ages, but now after IE he's one of the hardest!

In my opinion Grombrindal is just a bit too close to the Chaos Wastes to be the easiest dwarf. You're basically guaranteed to go to war with Malekith within the first 10 turns meaning you'll have to push north to take him out. This then starts a timer until, inevitably, Valkia declares war on you and starts razing all your northern settlements. Meanwhile pushing up into the Chaos Wastes is just annoying and inevitably gets you I to more wars with more chaos factions

The hardest thing about TWW3 is still finding enough space on your Hard Drive for it. x)

Gor-Rok is the best lizardman!

How in the world is there no warriors of chaos on this list. I find them to be by far the easiest, Archaon and Be’lakor in particular.

No Be'lakor? Chaos is already super strong, and the dude starts on a secluded island and has access to teleports and the ability to confederate a bunch of other super strong lords. Incredibly easy faction.

Any boredom experienced with the Fay Enchantress's campaign can easily be fixed by actually fighting a battle manually and watching the hilariously broken charge impacts of her starting Grail Guardians.

Once you get over that initial hurdle at the beginning chaos dwarfs and especially astrogath ironhand is just a steam roller that crushes pretty much everyone.

I'd disagree that Nkarii is a problem for Tyrion. I've only played him like three times but everytime I've wandered up that side of Ulthuan nkarii has been cowering in their major settlement getting bullied by both other high elf legendary lords.

Honestly I'm not sure how Ghorst didn't make #1 on here. He is literally unbeatable. His zombies can and will kill anything in the game while taking nearly zero casualties in return, so long as you're willing to AFK each battle for 40 minutes.

I personally would not recommend the dwarfs for new players While they are extremly strong and fun to play, they are also very limited in terms of tactics that they can use. I have had a few friends start playing the game, chouse dwarfs first and get bored and step away from the game until I convinced them to give it another try but with a different faction. After which i lost contact with them for a few weeks and when i finally got in touch with them again they were either suspiciously Australian, aggressively French, or cant stop eating cheese.

Nice video. Would be cool to see a video covering best factions and legendary lords for certain achievements, especially with the new achievements coming next patch 4.0

Started my first campaign yesterday, playing as Khorne and having a blast. Steamrolling while income is negative is just so much fun. Blood for the blood god

Vlad gets the edge over Isabella in my opinion, because you could loose on purpose (withdraw from battlefield) to force your defeat trait on others (to farm blood kisses or enemy defeat traits)

gor rok or ikit claw might be my first campaign start off with, the main one i wanna play is thot the unclean because of the wacky creations i can make so any noob faction with good monsters will help me out

I think Tyrion is the easiest, but I'd say that Zhatan the Black is a close second. He's super tanky, hits like a freight train and you only have two directions to worry about at first, since Cathay rarely ventures north of the wall. Take your initial region and 2/3 of the region to the East and then turtle, building and raiding the East until you can afford a second army to keep Grimgor at bay while you take your primary army and steamroll through the Puppets of Misrule. Take the 3 bastion settlements and you can raise a cheap hobgoblin army to raid Cathay at will, popping north of the wall anytime Cathay sends anything heavy to stop you. Grimgor is the hardest enemy you'll have early game and by the time Zhatan finishes him off, you'll be so powerful that nothing can stop you.

your videos are soo compact fast and informing. absolutley nice dude :-) thx

I find Ikit to be really difficult now tbh. The vampire coast from Sartosa usually explodes and declared war on turn 12

I ran a co-op campaign with a friend as Orion and I was suprised at how hard they snowball. I had like 3 confederations by turn 15 and got boosted to power level 1 for the rest of the game.

Yeh Gromby isnt in the top 10 easiest for sure. Kinda a wild take

i had a great time playing as thorgrim, your main early powerful enemy will be the crooked moon green skins only due to the giant spider but other than that you can be a mad dwarf on the loose

Loved the vid as always! Cheers from Texas!

Orion is a top bloke. His army gets like 8% unit upkeep reduction per war and his faction 4%. I just ended up declaring war on everyone and now I've got a dozen strong armies jumping around the map clapping cheeks

I also highly recommend the chaos dwarves, once you get all the artillery upgrades and Astragoth Ironhand is high enough level you can kill entire stacks with one army and take no losses.

How is Orion only number 5?!?!? By turn 6 you can easily have free upkeep for 20+ armies for the rest of the campaign! Seriously, I'm in the middle of an Orion campaign, and I basically haven't had upkeep since turn 6 with a couple small exceptions. I have 25+ armies, most of which are tree kin or better, and they're all free. How did I do this? 1. In the tech tree, after the first tech, get the one that gives you sight of all magical forests, which also puts you into contact with any faction in contact with those forests. 2. Talk to those newly discovered factions, and have them pay you to join wars against factions they're in contact with but which you aren't. You can get a lot of very useful early game cash this way, and it also puts you into lots of wars against factions very far away from you that are no threat early game. You can also check which factions will pay the most for declaring war, if a particular faction is at war with multiple factions you can talk to. And _then_ you can also declare war on the factions that just paid you! (I stayed thematic and only declared war on "evil" or otherwise high aversion factions at first, and even with that limit had no issues. Until I started either running out of them or was just conquering the whole map.) 3. Talsyn reduces upkeep for all armies by -4% for every active war you're in. The supply lines penalty on Legendary is 4% per army. Not including upkeep reductions from lord skills or tech tree, the formula for free armies is (# of wars) = (# of armies + 25). Step 2 can get you into 30+ wars on turn 6, and it's very easy to ramp that up to 40+ by turn 20, allowing for tons of free armies. I'm currently at war with over 50 factions. 4. Now your only costs are building and recruitment. With the large amount of money wood elves can get from fighting, you can easily afford to build anything/everything as soon as available, and recruit higher tier units. Talsyn went from a pretty garbage faction in TWW2 to, IMO, easily the most powerful in TWW3. Because unlike every other faction that has free upkeep, the Wood Elves don't have unit caps. Thus why I have a dozen all dragon armies. :D

I think Grimgor, Archaon and Belekor deserve mentions (arguably the easiest IMO). Archaon and Belekor are positioned to quickly collect fortresses and vassals. Grimgor can farm a very quick 100k from caravans while spamming stacks of just boyz (great when upgraded with early tech and scrap) and swarm in any direction you want. Ridiculously rich faction. Ghorst probably is the easiest of all once you get his faction-wide zombie buffs, but having to fight every battle manually because you have a stupid number of zombie stacks is beyond tedious.

Not surprised Lord Kroak, I mean Gor-Rok, got number one. He is basically a one Lizardman army. And not surprised Ikit, Rakarth, and Vlad/Isabelle were here as well. They are incredibly powerful in their respective factions. But I was surprised by the Fay Enchantress, considering how weak Bretonnia tends to be portrayed as in TWW as a whole.

I feel like Zhao Ming is super easy AFTER you wipe out clan Eshin. Once they are gone you pretty much steamroll all of Cathay's regions. Then you only have to worry about two entrances to the region since getting through the Bastion is basically impossible later in the game for AI. Super easy to defend. Really gives you that Isolationist feel Cathay is known for.

Funny 0:03 you alrdy made the campaing harder for youself because you occupied Tobaro instead of farming food by sacking and potential under empire expansion.

Beastmen, any chaos warrior are also a walk in the park. And Malus Darkblade, if you're willing to manually resolve every battle. (and I use the word "battle" loosely here ;-) )

Great list! No need for cyberbullying today.

New #1, The Decievers. It's impossible to lose without purposely trying as hard as you can to fail.

What mod do you use for the campaign map? It looks really good!

'Clap their pasty cheeks like nobodies business' is arguably my favorite RU-vid line ever 😂

Assolutamente fantastico anche il video 🎉❤

Amazed with how many of these i disagree with but no matter, still a neat video and well presented.

Warriors of chaos are hilariously overpowered. Archaon is the best by a good margin, and Vilitch requires a little bit of spell casting a finesse sure, but other than that literally every single one of them are incredible fighters, have the amazing new war and system, and put up dark fortresses which are just unkillable to the AI, all while not having to protect a giant empire and swarming the map with vassals.

Orion is one of my favorite characters to play as and definitely one of the easiest for the fact that you can declare war on tons of factions all over the map to gain favor with factions near you and lower your upkeep cost until your units are free. Then you have make an unlimited number of free armies to wipe everything.

Pretty sure jade court would be added onto the list now, start is so good that i was asked if i was bored after taking both cathay and lustria by turn 70, while still making 60k off trade alone

Just started a gor rok campaign last night. By the time I dealt with the skaven, the vampire coast had taken over the dwarves and souther cape and declared war on me. I'm so far behind I don't know what to do xD

Typical Gor-Rok conquering whole Lustria by turn 20

Count Noculus is almost impossible to lose as

Great video for a noob like me, thanks!

Was 100% expecting #1 spot to be Ghorst. Buy zombies, blob, profit.

vlad is much better than isabella as lord. his lord ability sync so great with the entire unit roster and magic. you kill ranged-based armies much easier with vlad's ability + melee rush

Rakarth being able to recruit monsters is cool and all but it would help if he had an easy way to heal them to keep the snowball rolling...

But the game told me Karl Franz was the easiest beginner campaign? What could possibly go wrong?!

No bel'akor? He's even easier than gor-rok. The hardest part of his campaign is dealing with Wulfric's mammoths, but by turn 10 the campaign is GG

1:31 You can play good guy Wurrzag pretty easily, he’s almost completely surrounded by evil factions.

Rakarth starting down I. Lustria is awesome

Grombrindal is not easy imo, his main enemy is Malekith, one of the strongest factions in the game and he usually declare war after very few turns and Khatep usually declare war too.

I REALLY do not think that the Fay Enchantress, or Grombrindal should be included in this list. They both actually have quite difficult starts, that are hard to take advantage of. Grombrindal's difficulty is almost entirely determined by if Exiles of Nehek want to be friends or not, and if Nagarythe survives early on. If they both like you its quite a breeze, if not I'd say its one of the hardest campaigns. Fay Enchantress is also tricky, for pushing into Estalia, facing two factions that have underway stance, while you get attritioned down. If you can rush and take the last Estalian city early, avoid any Wood Elf wars and blitz the herdstone its a breeze from there.

I disagree with Mao Ying at the least from a first time players perspective that literally just finished her IE campaign on Very Hard. -After you finish off your initial enemy, you immediately have to begin playing whack a mole with Clan Eshin who recruits approximately 5-6 stacks of trash that just runs around razing/occupying settlements via the Underway stance. -While your solving the Clan Eshin problem, Lokir Fellheart is just running a train on every faction in the area not led by a Legendary Lord and raiding your shit leading to annoyingly frequent rebellions until he also inevitably declares war on you. -SURPRISE! Vilitch the Curseling, who declared war on you in like turn 3 and hasn't been heard from since, has *WALKED AROUND THE GREAT BASTION* and is blowing up all of your starting cities while your solving the Lokir Fellheart problem on the east side of Cathay. -DOUBLE SURPRISE! Nakai the Wanderer and his vassal have shown up after you've got done wrestling Lokir and are dealing with your Vilitch infestation to instantly declare war on you for some reason. Don't get me wrong, once you get done running around with your hair on fire and confederate your surrounding factions your an economical powerhouse. Mao Ying is absolutely a shit show for a first timer that you have to juggle or it spirals pretty fast though.

I would have voted Tyrion, but Lord Kroak IS an army killer. Plus dinos. Tyrion does it for me because of a very easy faction to master (in campaign), a neigh-unkillable lord and perhaps the easiest campaign starts in the game.

Which admittedly, which admittedly

time stamps needed homie!!!!

What is the background music from the beginning from? I swear I recognize it from somewhere

I gotta disagree on Ikit. If you take the vamps out super early, all the surrounding factions just declare on you sooner. Your starting army is strong, but you're boned if you lose any ratlings or jezzails and can't replace them right away.

I feel like Grombrindal is a bit harder as there are no allies and enemies on all fronts and not alot of suitable climate settlements around. Thorek and Thorgrimm are easier imo

Oxytl not being here is robbery he only has one direction to go and has outrageous buffs for chameleon skinks

As a new player, definitely not Settra lmao i learned the hard way, thanks Skarbrand and Vlad at turn 16.

Calling grombrindal a easy start is wild with valkyar, malekith, taurox etc right at the doorstep 😅

My recent skaven campaign was such a rediculous experience. Just rattling guns and skaven slaves. It's breaks auto resolve. Edit (Doom stacks of anything I guess breaks it.)

definitely not the case on grombrindal if your playing a H2H campaign early Malekith or Valkya will hurt his feelings qq

the only problem i've with this list, is that it is mainly for new players, not new to TW my first one was Empire and somehow loved the series i still don't know how I liked Empire. Shogun 2 has been the main game for me even with newer titles like Rome 2 but never tried out warhammer 3 until recently and I can tell you 8 out of 10 in this list require WH 1, 2 or dlc for the the previous 2 titles. Only Fae and the white dragon of Cathay are playable if you are rly new to the series.

YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN IN THE FOBIDDEN WORKSHOP?! i've been passing on using poisoned wind mortars cuz i didnt know you could buff them im such an idiot.

Everytime I play Cathay, the North, the AI on the bastion will lose gates starting around turn 5. Fellhart will take Celestial Loyalists by turn 15-20. The Death master Skaven will take all the south, and be really messing up the other Cathay Legendary Lord, so anytime I play, I HAVE to go to war with all of the other Cathay factions to take their lands, and the gates. Not once has the Cathay AI won a battle not against themselves when I play one of them, and they get steamroller. So I can't do diplomacy and try and get confederations.

How do you get poison wind globaders is ikit claws campaign?

Malus Darkblade? His possession causes negligible downsides that are easily circumvented and he's easily the most op lord in the game.

I do agree with Lizardmen in general being number one. However, I would argue that Nakai is actually an easier campaign than Gor Rok. Sure, as of writing this comment, Nakai still can not recruit Kroxigor units without use of the Community Bug Fix mod, which will be fixed in 4.0 hopefully, but looking past that his campaign gets very easy very quickly. The early game is definitely harder as Nakai compared to Gor Rok, not arguing that, but with CA adding the ability for every Lizardman faction to acquire Lord Kroak at some point in the campaign that's not really a huge selling point in favor of Gor Rok. On top of that, the buffs Nakai gets throughout his campaign are absolutely busted. When you have all the temples you need built, you can doomstack pretty much any unit, that isn't a Skink unit or Temple Guard, except Blessed Chameleon Skinks, which you can literally spawn at your hearts content as Nakai. Not only those though, you can also spawn Blessed Saurus Warriors (Shields) which are some of the strongest front line units in the game, simply because of their Perfect Vigour and very good stats. Along with a lot of other very strong, spawnable-at-will blessed units at his disposal, and his Faction Mechanic that buffs a large amount of his roster, Nakai is easily the strongest Lizardman lord in the game right now in terms of unit strength. None of the Lizardmen lords are really powerhouses by themselves, compared to some other lords at least, but I would argue that Nakai is probably the closest you can get to a one man Doomstack Lizardman lord. With him being able to get Unbreakable through his skill tree, up to 50% permanent Ward Save, if I remember that correctly, as well as Perfect Vigour without ever getting the Sword of Khaine, Nakai can easily take down mid game armies by himself. The only thing he really needs to be a one man Doomstack is regeneration of some sort. Sadly, the only way to get him natural regeneration is by getting Isabella's defeat trait, which you can only get if the end game crisis is the Vampire one, or someone in multiplayer decided to play Isabella. But even without that, you just need a Skink Oracle in your army to keep him healed up. Plus you do not need to bother with settlement management, which really drops the skill requirement through the floor. As long as the player takes a quick look at the horde buildings for Nakai and newly recruited lords, there's very little they can do wrong when it comes to building. And on top of ALL of that, achieving the Short Game Victory lets you move across the world to Lustria, giving you early access to confederations with two other legendary Lizardmen lord and one minor Lord, should they survive the Skaven onslaught.

Kroq-Gar used to be one of the easiest Lords but been a long while since I played the game.

I’ve not watched the video yet but teclis has to be here his campaign now is ridiculously easy

Good stuff

Every time i play fey i get completely dumpstered. Beastmen come up and get pinced between grom and ikit/Morgrug

It's not Warhammer 3 it's Immortal Empires.

I mean to be honest who wouldn't want to be dominated by isabella

Honorable mentions? Archaon and Vilitch from me.

Ghorst, Archaon, and Orion is the real list.

Skarbrand was my first campaign I did good

I must be garbage because the bottom 5 I struggle with 😂

Turned the speed down to .75 and it sounds less rushed and more understandable lol.

Gor-Rok campaign has a huge problem, your foes will be kiting you on the map, if you get triggered by that like me i don't recommend his campaign.

For me Tyrion will always be top 2 and since WH3 Archaon is top 1 :) the is no option to loose playing as Archaon

what works you say is the hardest campaign on legendary atm?

Anybody know what happens if you pick Vlad and Isabella in multiplayer? I can't get a consistent answer online. So only answer if you have actually played it in WH3 and seen what it does not what you think or assume it does.

no way putting a dark elf on the list. They got armor piercing, super useful on the early game so far from like all the dwarves. they melee infantry is crap until tier 3 and even black ark corsairs (the mid tier good stuff) its terrible against high elfs, i play valkia just for the fun of dunking on them with basic marauders. And the combination of having close beast man and nuclear skaven plus a super weak legendary lord at a low level, fay is a noob dream isnt it? But the rest i agree, nothing too stressful, cathay and high elves are rich, isolated and with good stuff amazing legendary lords, i would add taurox and valkia, what they have in common, they both dinner malekith.

I really don't think dwarfs are easy at all. They are quite simple, and their units are strong, however, they have NO source of replenishment, and their units are quite expensive, so re-recruiting after battle isn't very effective either. Your enemies show upp at your doorsep with full armies every 2 turn, while you have to wait 7 turns after a rough phyrric victory (with no unit losses mind you). You need to play every battle to minimize losses. Definitely not easy or noob-friendly.

I'd argue Oxyotl is alot easier than goroq, none of the dwarves have a 'easy' campaign especially not grimmy since withing turn 20 the entire might of the dark elf army will be marching to take your pathetic growth and replenishing army--- Dwarves also struggle way too much with grudges and money to make them 'fun' you need access to iconic buildings to get particular resources so you can utilize their Runes similar to Tomb Kings-- it takes FOREVER. And dah prophet over grom is just madness. You CAN actually lose battles with dah phrophet especially when you're new and don't understand things like miscast, winds of magic, and dueling. Dah prophet duels poorly , can be easily sniped by units and doesn't trade with artillery or ranged troops well. So you have to really be careful that he doesn't get sniped before u start raging down magic to help your pathetic, savage orcs...... Mean while grom regenerates, has insane buffs to his entire campaign and in battle, starts mounted and can go about anywhere--- flying lords can avoid him but he's overall a good balance

Thing you forgot with Orion is you can easily get multiple free armies by just declaring wars

Step 1: Pick Wurrzag Step 2: Get Savage Big Un’s Step 3: Profit I still prefer Grimgor over all the other Greenskins but Wurrzag is so damn fun with a doomstack of Savage Big Un’s that are so much better than they have any right to be lol

I am abhored that zhao ming isnt on this list, hes also surounded by allys and litterly handed cathey on a silver plate. I managed to conquere cathey by turn 35 multible times, hes that easy

im a lizard and you cant say nothing

Gotta disagree on the Vampires, Mannfred has a seriously easy start. Isabella and Vlad always have a messy start and attacked from all sides typically. Tyron is super easy starting.

I would have said Ghorst is easier than Isabella. He can make zombies tankier than about anything Nurgle can use.

Ok no, I think you may be talking about easiest campaigns in normal mode. Grombrindal is repeatedly listed as a difficult to very difficult campaign in Legendary and VH battles. Not only to DE have armour piercing missiles from turn 1 and will spam them to counter you, but Grombrindal has no allies around him (it's possible to get an alliance with the tomb kings if you do it extremely early). Then Grombrindal is a war machine, true, but in Legendary he will still not be able to be the wrecking ball he is on normal. No way Grombrindal is one of the easiest campaigns in Legendary.

By campaign you mean Immortal Empire?

I'm surprised he chose wurzagg instead on grimgor

As a Miao Ying player, I just let Ziao Ming confederate everyone then the Great Bastion becomes his problem and I can ignore it for the rest of my playthrough.