Top 10 Hardest Campaigns in Total War Warhammer 3 

I tried a Skarsnik campaign and honestly was suprised on how far nasty skulkers can take you, once you hit late game its not as good but you can spread quickly

How isn't kugath here?, I mean, his starting province is horrible for him since you can't spread plagues between isles, most of the factions around him straight up counter his strengths, several of his technologies are useless because are climate or race dependant and a large amount settlements around him have mountain climate which is unstable for him

I think Nurgle is harder than any of this list, going against tough early game factions being weak yourself and really really poor. If you don't take them fast enough any of your neighbors can just steam roll you including the lizardmen you start being at war.

To be fair the tomb kings start in game 3 is far better now. More desert to expand into, more quiet place as well. Easy to sail across the map to Cathey deserts. All is good.

I think I'd put Leoun ahead of Repanse in difficulty. Spooky vampires in the south and a horde of demons with Bel'akor at its head in the north.

I’ve started a Skarnik campaign as my first foray into the Greenskins. So I didn’t know what I was doing. Headed straight for Eight Peaks. Couldn’t take it. Started a Waugh, but didn’t know how it worked. Did terribly. Wasted my Waagh, ran home after Wurrzag declared war on me. Figured I’d harass some of his settlements since he wasn’t nearby. He showed up quick. Somehow I managed to auto resolve a win. All of a sudden I’m in first place and I make my way over to take Eight Peaks. Was a lot of fun, and still very early into the campaign.

Skarsnick was probably my easiest campaign, Nasty Skulkers are probably the best greenskin unit and he reduces their upkeep by half.

I'm surprized nakai is seen to be soo hard he's my favorite lord in the game to play and I like to play him when I don't want to try :P I actually have more problems with all the other lizard men. I'm just built incorrectly

Can't not mention the fact the Khatep lost his hierotitan too, it was what set him apart the most from the other TKs

Skarsnik is the most fun I’ve had in a campaign. Just hordes and hordes of WAAAAGH goblins. When I took Karak Eight Peaks I was also fighting the Empire. I had 6 armies and still had 2000 coin surplus per turn. Each army was a 40 stack because of waaaagh and I was demolishing everything.

Skarsnik is probably one of the funnest hard campaigns to play. You're in no hurry to reclaim Karak 8-Peaks, unlike Bealgar. Yeah, you've got dirt cheap goblins, but you also got GOOD goblins, like night goblin fanatics that will devastate armies in the early game with their abilities, and you can afford multiple armies, and most of them you're gonna use to goad your enemy into attacking your weaker ones so you can ambush with your main. Skarsnik is all about ambushing and it's a pure goblin experience, more so than Grom the Pouch. And it's GLORIOUS.

Repanse, Skarsnik & Markus... sorry Col, but if you find it difficult, then you have a gameplay issue. Repanse confederate so fast the other Bretonnian lords, and get a huge territory very fast. Skarsnik has countless units, with one of the stronguest of the game in terms of quality/price (goblins...) and it's very easy to overwhelm the ennemies, and Markus has the best of all the imperials armies with his hunters, and a very easy position at the begining.

Eltharion's campaign is difficult but there's nothing stopping you from just disbanding eltharions army at the start and focusing solely on yvresse. It's much easier this way but I like to spam influence onto skarbrand and make him my friend and then make him declare war on all my enemies :)

Skarsnik used to be difficult with his starting position in WH2 and the instant full stacks from clan angrund. Now he is a good and balanced campaign. Easy to eliminate the dwarfs in 15 turns

Don’t know about that cylostra placing 😅 She’s definitely not the best, but she’s also not tied to her starting location. I used to abandon the starting area, invest in her pirate ship, and sail/raid the donut which made it easy enough. Admittedly, it’s been awhile and maybe game mechanics have changed, but Saltspire is just stuck at sartosa

I remember first picking up Repanse, she stood out to me from the other Bretonnians, and she's still one of my favourite campaigns. Brutal if you're new to the game.

Wha? Nakai is one of the simplest campaigns!

Kairos campaing is should have been here i mean you need to deal with oxiotle and teclis.

I tried all the campaigns on this list, but Manfred is still the only run I've ever abandoned out of frustration, not boredom. His main gimmick revolves around the Books of Nagash and taking Castle Drakenhof, both of which are near impossible since every single faction that you encounter will declare war on you, even on Normal, so you end up having to fight every single turn just to keep your provinces. This means you can spend 50 turns not getting a single bit closer to your goal, and even if you could afford to send a top-tier army to get a book or Drakenhof, you wouldn't be able to force march since you'd end up losing the army to attrition. It really is funny how they finally fixed the Lustriabowl, only to replace it with the Arabybowl instead.

I see Skarsnik's propaganda that goblins are poor in combat has spread far and wide. Many an opponent has confidently pursued what appears to be a small scouting force of goblins only to realise their terminal mistake when they're ambushed by a 5000 strong Goblin horde that was lying in wait for them the whole time.

i always found marcus as one of the easier campaings especially with early steam tacks and grenade cav

The one thing about these campaigns is that they are short term lost long term gain campaigns. If you survive the early game you will take over if you wish in the late game which is extremely rewarding.

I love playing wolf hart. The constant feeling of fighting for survival against lizardmen and skaven is so fun, really feels like a proper empire experience; fighting for you life.

It's funny how individuals may vary, I love Nakai. He basically takes all the pressure off maintaining your empire and just lets you focus entirely on offensive wars.

The problem with Boris's campaign and how you described it is...that's playing it the way CA WANTS you to. The "correct" way to play it is to just immediately ditch the wastes and take down the Norscans to the south. It makes everything so much better than trying to play around orange territory that causes attrition to everything except your LL. Plus if you're lucky/willing to do some civil warring, you can take Praag and unlock part of the tech tree.

I actually found Nakai even easier in TWW3, and his mortal empires campaign was fine imo... Nakai can get his short victory in about 20 turns or so. And the kroxigor spam is so adorable and fun.

The whole point of Boris is playing Doom Guy and solo the Chaos wastes... But, if you don´t wanna do that, simply turn around in the first few turns and go conquer Norsca. You will be able to secure an alliance with Kraka Drakk, take out Throgg before he becomes a threat and secure the MotherLand before returning to your true target in the campaing. Now with proper support.

Skarsnik is very fun tho in my opinion, he is a bit goofy but especially the fanatic goblins are pretty good

Played Skarsnik a month ago and was one of the best greenskin campaigns ive ever done. I took out Thorgrim as quick as possible and then focused on Ungrim and the campaign became unbelievable easy by turn 30ish

I like Eltharion’s start. Some of these are meant to be hard, and some are hard because of bad game design or weak factions. Eltharion’s is well designed and a powerful faction with an intentionally difficult start.

i found boris really fun with how much harder it can be too reach the point of snowballing, enemy's on all sides so long as you stay in your original location. focusing entirely painting the upper chaos wastes cyan (i think it was cyan) before even thinking of expanding down. it was such fun experience i also unintentional took out archion with in the first 30 turns or so which made it quite a bit easier nakai was the first faction i played at release. it did have a sorta hard start with how slow it is to gain units. you really needed too avoid losing anything early on but by the time you take half of Cathay. the snowballing starts. its an interesting play style and ones that takes given that your focus is entirely on your army's and defending your vassal but it can be boring fast

kislev is op in any starting spot just because of their kossars. easily carries you through 50 turns if you can micro them well in late game

Lyoness and Skarsnik are probably two of my favorite campaigns to play. Skarsnik with goblins in early game is crazy good and his economy is great. Late game you should have Karak Eight Peaks so you are good to go but honestly even without that Skarsnik buffs his goblins enough to make them really good. And Lyoness is just badass 1lord doomstack, she crushes spooky skelies no problem.

Number 5, 4 and 3 all become much easier campaigns when you manual resolve all your early battles for 15-20 turns. For example, Nakai's first battle in manual resolve can be done with very low casualties, especially after they changed it to a major settlement. By starting on the front of the castle, walking down the left side to the farthest gate, breaking through and simply walking around the outskirts of the city into the main capture point to take it and defend it and if you play it well you can probably win the battle with no casualties. It's a bit cheesey I suppose but it works.

Nakai was one of my more fun runs recently to be fair compared to the other Lizardmen anyway, conquering the coast, allying Cathay and taking the sea lanes over with three army stacks to save and confederate lustria from the rats, empire and bretonnia. He has way way more freedom than ANY of the other lizardmen Legendary Lords, he can wander north into the chaos wastes and be Lore friendly by bashing chaos or take the sea lane to the dark elves to help Mazda or the sea lanes to Lustria to help there. Some tweaks to how his AI cities work would be all he needs in my opinion. Seriously though I spawned in two AI armies and both decided to go on a pointless walk through Cathay, without military access, pissing them all off and having all of China declare war on them and subsequently me while I was in Lustria, safe to say though thats more an AI thing than specifically a Nakai thing but some rework to his cities and less reliance economically on this rando faction that *literally cannot build armies* would be ideal.

i've played most of the campaigns so far and i gotta say khalida is the one that gives me the most trouble, every time i finally take out the vampires and f'in thorek shows up with 2 full stacks of dwarves and just steamrolls me

Honestly I'm surprised you didn't put Skrolk on here, his start's brutal, stuck between Tehainhuain and Gor-Rok, with Dwarves to the west and a minor lizardmen faction to the east. Skrolk doesn't even get plagues yet so he can't even weaken them up.

Played Skarsnik after the video. One of the most fun total War campaigns that I held for a while.

Surprisingly I did amazing for my first Skrag playthrough/First ever successful playthrough. I mean it was on normal mode and I was running the ogre-haul mod which changes things a bit but still. Conquered the whole coast, had non-aggression pact to all my most alarming neighbors and just kinda rode the costal port train to economical superemacy.

Markus and Repanse might be difficult campaigns but they by far are the most fun campaigns I've played and the ones I've done the most runs of

With Cylostra direfin i feel like i got the most close battles that i ever have constantly early on Like 2-3 units out of the 20 remaining at the end it was rough but a pretty fun challenge Also you mentioned that her not having lore of vampires is a downside, but lore of the deep is really strong as well so it doesn't hurt too much

To get a wonderful campaign with Wulfhart, once I got all the settlements of Txanxla I went for the Bretonnians there so I had a good starting territory. Then I allied with Yuan Bo and went for the demons just south, the vampire coast on the east and slowly build forces to go for the Pestilens Clan who took all southern Lustria, and after that I went for the dark elves. Took me some time as they were spread out on the sountern and western coast but eventually I had all of Lustria for myself, I then went north for Mazdamundi and the campaign victory as well as east to invade Araby and Khemri

Great video! Only disagreement is Eltharion, if you start with a sea encounter in the badlands his campaign is easy and ramps up to be the strongest High Elf faction by far. Level 5 with 12k on turn 1? Influence galore, unique title bonus lvl 15, armor piercing ranged units, best climate choices, central on map, best starting hero, proximity to Nagashizaar all make him OP

Tzarina Katerin can get difficult because you're constantly dealing with threats from all sides, even goddamn Rasputin Man Kostaltyn, so you basically need to spam basic kossars until you build up enough devotion and growth to get the really good units.

Repanse does have some allies in Nehekhara now. Volkmar and Thorek are both pretty close. Its a neat little triumvirate of Ordertide. Same for Wulfhart with Alberic. Albeit Id argue his start is worse than ever, because he IS your only friend in the entire continent. (You can try and save dwarf minor faction in the mountains, but unlikely.) All Lizardmen are hostile, and so are the baddies of Lustria. For more friends, you have to cross the ocean and trade with Ulthuan, just dont expect much help from them. Any invasions for Lustria only come lategame, if HE even survive. One good thing about Wulfhart now is that the random spawning armies via hostility can be permanently overcome. Somewhat surprised Karl and Kugath didnt make the list. Lot of people seem to agree theyre amongst the hardest. Karl certainly has a trying start, but as soon as you get lategame artillery, youre sorted against everyone. You should be able to make do until then. Id say about Boris kinda what you did. Try and kill Archaon, then just abandon the Wastes, help save Kislev, then return later. Agreed with Ogres, Vcoast and TK who made the list. Id say since they only ever had one DLC and very little touch-ups they do feel sucky for early game overall.

I played a Wulfhart campaign and I will not deny its a hard campaign, and I had a rough start but once I got rolling, I steam rolled everyone except Kairos. But it’s chaos, they’ll always be strong to humans. I may give myself the challenge of Eltharian though, since I’m looking for a new LL to play as

I think Aranessa is fun, but god damn is the unit replenishment tricky af. I'm at turn 40 something and all I've done is waiting for the hp bar to fill up and waiting for recruitment. Only at number 11 of pirate list, with like 4 pirate coves and only 2 treasures found. Lords and heroes are at like level 7-8, all with skills on unit replenishment. I don't mind slow burn but the thing is everyone has conquered a province while Aranessa has only managed to barely reach that one treasure at the edge of the map without significant progress.

can't believe you'd do cilostra dirty like that. she's actually my favorite of the coast LL's. She has strong spells, her summonable Knight unit is very nice to have in the back pocket, and physical resist is still quite useful.

That whirling in rags soundtrack over ur ad was a nice surprise

I have to disagree with Nakai being a bad campain. Sure, Lokhir can give you a hard time in the early game, but besides that Nakai's campain was the most fun i've had in a while.

howdy there partner I just got this game a few days it was on the front page of steam and saw you could play as humanoid rat people so I knew I had to get it I dont know anything about warhammer or the total war series but been having a blast playing the game and binge watching your videos keep up the work

As a new player, I didn’t mind the Nakai campaign. Had fun

Playing as KF for the first time since Wh2. Everywhere I go I find new enemies in place of the ones I've just defeated. Khazrak was replaced by the Forest Goblins who were in turn replaced by the Norscans. Confederating Gelt brought me in contact with the Disciples of the Maw and Wurrzag. Waging war on Vlad brought Drycha and Bonerattlaz who were joined eventually by Skarsnik who exchanged Karak Eight Peaks for Karaz-a-Karaz. In this playthrough I am lucky Grom is constantly buisy with the Barrow Legion and Marienburg otherwise I'd have to wage war on him too and march across the Grey Mountains. For my non-agression pacts with the Dwarves I was rewarded with a declaration of war by Durthu. Clearly greenskins and undead are not as bad for Athel Loren as Humans. There is also red taint of Khorne all over the Southern Badlands. Oh and don't forget Festus the rightful Kurfurst of Hochland! Luckily I knew better to deal with him right away. Karl haven't been in Reikland for the past 50 turns and I am stuck to endless stacks of un-shielded spearmen and archers. No pistoliers, no knights, no cannons, not even crossbows... There is no time, there is no money, there is no one to march them from across the Empire to the frontier. A constant action with no pause. I think I'll do a High Elf dounut racing after that one and then try Get off my lawn Settra.

I don’t think Markus is that bad as you can ally Rakarth easily. He hates everyone you hate more than he hates you. Then you can stab him in the back to take all of Lustria. The only issues in the campaign is Kairos, as he is with anybody near him, and the Dark Elves to the north who don’t care if Rakarth is your buddy.

Honestly, Nakai should just get the beastman treatment but in reverse, building temple cities like herdstones across the map that benefit order races and prevent corruption of any type from being spread. Add unit caps and remove upkeep from units and increase building costs tenfold to compesate. the defenders get basic armies that you improve via your tech tree. So they would run an all skink army, then you unlock your second army and they get better skinks, third army unlocks saurus, and so on.

Me over here who tried Nakai on normal difficulty for my first ever campaign and absolutely stomped everything

I really had fun with Repanse and Markus! Also enjoyed my second playthrough with a lightly-modded Nakai a lot better than vanilla. Can't stand playing ogres - they just seem to be worse in battle all round than you'd expect and they desperately need some more LLs/mechanics.

Boris is for sure rough in IE but is pretty fun in ROC.

I wasnt expexting nakai idk what i did when i first played him but he was one of my easiest most snowballed strength campains that i needed no thought to dominate with

Boris is the hardest, isolated in the chaos wastes against enemies from all sides. Even if you retreat and try to rebuild in krak drak (or whatever you speel it), it is still hard because norsca and Chaos Dwarfs still surrounds you

Markus Wulfhart maybe difficult to do but remember this. “Have a little faith.”

Eltharion is just crazy. Usually, what happens is.. orcs fight you cuz u have -60 on orc relation, then u have ogres that can snowball from the north, vampires east, and skarbrand south.. and idk if I'm just unlucky, but beastmen herd also wants some of the pie

Boris is actually pretty easy if you don't play him as intended. Take your first settlement, recruit a full stack of Kossars, abandon your settlement and march off to wherever it is you wish you started at. All the Kislev factions love you and you don't have to play the dumb supporters game so you can confederate quickly. I played Boris recently and I migrated to Khazid Irkulaz where Azhag starts, kicked him out, and had Katarin confederated on turn 25 and Kostaltyn on turn 31. Easy stuff if it goes right.

Boris, Repanse and Belegar are three of my favourite campaigns because I don't get to steamroll as fast as I usually do.

Boris is really fun, if you manage to push through east to cathey

So is this just “Skill ussue the list”? Yes, yes it is. Also not very honest here, I feel. For example no mention of Eltharion’s starting diemma of selling Tor Yvresse. Or the fact that Khatep starts close to Sisters of Twilight and Grombrindal who make for incredible allies and will absolutely carry you. Or the fact that Skarsnik not only makes goblins incredibly cheap, but also buffs them massively and nasty skulkers are one of the best units in the game. Oh yeah, and Nakai campaign “Right Click The Adventure” sure is hard, here I agree, of course. Insane content here.

Honestly, I'd argue thatKarl Franz has a hard go of it; The whole imperial system makes it hard to expand, The elector counts are horribly uncooperative at the best of times (and that's when they're not actively trying to murder each other), you have Festus, Skarbrand, Sometimes brettonia, Norscans, Vampires, Orcs and probably a dozen other threats all actively fucking with you, and Reikland is just really shitty to try and defend because of how big it is.

I remember you saying in a prior video how people disagree with your lists. I get why.. but thank you for making total war Content! WE ALL LOVE THIS NICHE GAMe. I won't even try to understand how it is that many of these factions you listed were my easiest playthroughs. And your list on easy factions mirrors this sentiment... idk

A bit disagree for the eltharion the grim... 1. Eltharion himself really strong even from beginning so he can manage with minimal unit in the Badlands until the main settlement at Ulthuan ready to provide him stronger unit. 2. His lord power that cut building garrison building time really helpful managing in the early. Even very helpful holding settlement from rebel longer. 3. In my opinion, HIGHELF has the strongest early, easy to recruit unit, its SPEARMEN and ARCHER. You can recruit them JUST from the main settlement building, so for the first 30-40 turn, you can still manage to survive with them while building your economic building at home. 4. The JAIL is really powerful... you can block any faction strongest hero, lock him inside for good, then wipe their territories, and it can be done from beginning. 5. The orc in the homeland, will eventually be taken care of, either by ourself or by Tyrion. (though i prefer by ourself since early orc really easy to be dealt with using SPEARMEN and ARCHER)

I think that the hardest campaign in the game is obviously Skrolk. Starts in Lustria close to gor rok, tehenhahuin, alberic, luthor and he as a reduce unkeep on one of the baddest unit of the skaven roaster.

Kairos is kind of hard at start with that doom slayer lizard on ur left while you still dealing with slaanesh, also that elf on top every time wants some money from you for not killing you, can be a hard campaign for inexperienced player like i was when started with him

Belagar Reponse Eltharion Skragg Are 4 of my fav campaigns I agree with the rest. But would have added Morathi Tiq taq to Khaleeda Crone and or throt I also play on legendary/very hard for reference. Might just be where my interest lay and where im willing to put the effort in with my attention.

They should make naki like oxelot let him teleport around the map doing missions fighting ppl while his vassal defends “his” lands Let his vassal make armies but out it in technology like you research a tech and they get to make 1 army research another tech they get to make a second army etc

For Belegar i blame his %250 lord upkeep bug for his painful eco start. If they ever fix it it ll be much smoother.

I guessed the reworked nakai, because He can win his first battle on auto, I played him, and built tons of armies with him and was dominating the game, on HARD, so if he wasn't updated, idk what you are on about

I really enjoy Marcus, it's a great challenge and fun :)

Boris Ursussy is a tough early game and very easy late game. Kislev is one of those factions if you rush their late game infantry most of their problems are solved since almost every unit is hybrid range and melee and not being horrible at either.

Skarsnik used to be really hard before greenskin rework but he is really not that bad now. He can recruit a lot of unit now so just recruit two full stacks of Goblin, then when you have your first whaaaaag send your 80 units take Karaz-a-Karak then Karak height peaks.

Skarsnik is the strongest greenskin and greenskins are really good. Just make twice as much armies and u win every fight. 40%(+9% with lord skills) less wage per goblin means u can have 2 armies moving together. Research is really good, it buffs goblins pretty good. 2x Goblin Lords with 30 Nasty skullers +8 Goblin archers are very strong. The only problem is that u have too recurit 38 units first.

I think Repanse is pretty easy. With boris you go south and take out the yellow norscans. You will get some kislev "friendlies" and dwarfs near by. Marcus has 2 friendlies not far away in bretonnia and new world colonies.

Belegar can easily steamroll his way to Eight Peaks due to dwarf armor being hard to crack in early game. Then you roll in cash once you get Eight Peaks. Kairos has it pretty rough against Teclis and Oxyotl, making for a hard start. Ku'gath has a really bad starting province. Karl Franz has it really tough midgame due to Vlad, Festus and Azhag killing off Electors like flies. Finally, Imrik can get a deathball rolling, but with Chaos Dwarf and their fire immunity stalking about his starting province, it can get out of hand quickly.

I expected to see Lokir Fellheart. Maybe its just me but I got wrecked just trying to establish myself in a few provinces. I started well, bullying the Cathay faction but I got declared on by the skaven and lizardmen to the south and all the surrounding factions within a couple turns i tried to fight them off but was just outflanked and out numbered. I decided the jump ship to the other side of the world coast but its locked down by Hexoatl who was snowballing to 20 provinces. The only option was to turn on a weak potential dark elf ally and got declared on by Hexoatl anyway. It was a relentless game.

playing as Eltharion rn and haven’t even expanded outside Ulthuan bc beastmen, dark elves and pirates wiped all high eleven facts so i had to take over the continent

Wait, how do you get Skrag? I’ve been missing one cutscene for the ogers but never knew how to unlock it.

Hell yeah, brother.

If you go south with Boris and take Praag right off the bat it makes his start way easier. If you get lucky you can get an early confederation with Katarin.

Not going to lie that bear pun with Boris had me cringing hard😂

Dunno what you're talking about, goblins are fucking op. With Skarsnik you can just abandon your starting town and rush towards the badlands, then bully and confederate all the other Orcs. Goblins suck in siege, but they absolutely demolish anything in normal battles, especially against Orcs and Dwarves. Orcs have shitty settlements, so they can be taken, though taking K8P is tough.

I would say Louen is also actually hard now. Between Be'lakor, kemmler, grom, mousillon and wulfrik, you're gonna have a hard time.

Eltharion might have the hardest start for the Asur but its a fun challenge playing Donut politics and dealing with N'kari on one hand and fully embracing the Bad lands thunderdome on the other (highly recomand allying with Kroq'gar he's saved my ass on multiple occassions) the dual start is incredibly fun and fairly unique (only other LL that does this is Malus, though Imrik and Rakarth can also go dual location aswell via confederating their homelands) and i honestly love the dual starts cause it almost like sorting out two campaigns at once and thing more factions need methods to get this to happen

I have seen Cylostra somehow absolutely devour every faction near her. I have no idea how or why but she somehow almost soloed the Druchii and was fighting Grombrindal and the Wood Elf Twins when I got there with my Helves.

The only one I disagree on is probably Nakai. He's really not that bad, just gotta focus on the green-colored settlements, get a few heroes quick to enable more replenishment, and don't tank your income too hard with Saurus spam. Skinks will work just fine at the beginning. I just tried him on H/H and haven't had to do any manual fights in 20 turns so far, aside from that first one.

I think CD might need to replay a few of these campaigns. Skarsnik isn't hard as such, you just have to embrace the gobbo spam. Belly isn't hard either, just kill Ikit and Aranessa early and spam rangers, then move east with some sense of purpose and kick out the Greenies as you go. Repanse isn't really hard because she's mostly facing TK and as a Bret faction, there's really no reason why she's not always backed up by more lords. And Nakai is such a pleasant stroll of a campaign at the moment. Eltharion, sure, that can get hard if you play it wrong but I don't reckon it's really all that hard to find the right balance. Meanwhile, Imrik's campaign is actually pretty hard, potentially. There's just so many hostiles, so little income, and while Imrik's stack can probably handle just about anything, it can't be everywhere at once. The campaign can so easily devolve into a game of whack-a-mole where making headway is next to impossible because every faction around you is taking turns. Kugath's campaign, man, I don't even want to talk about it. It's just horrible. Daniel the Build-A-Daemon's campaign? Not super hard in terms of surviving the AI but freakishly hard in terms of actually staying interested long enough to win the campaign. It's just wrong in every way. Even the recent respec change doesn't help that much. Upside, Daniel can effectively respec his tech tree. Downside, there's only a handful of skills in the tree that aren't "lord's army" and most of the "lord's army" stuff is crap. The Karl and Gelt campaigns, too, are worth mentioning. Wulfhart just has to murder everything, which is doable. Same applies to Volkmar. Not the best legendary lord but Empire is good enough that killing everything isn't unfeasible. But Karl and Gelt have to deal with that ridiculous imperial authority mess, and if the AI-controlled elector count factions get themselves wiped out then that's no good either. And then there's the Kairos and Teclis situation. Both of them have campaigns with rich opportunities to mess up. Teclis has to eliminate Kairos or suffer every freaking use of changing of the ways that occurs. Which means wading into the chaos wastes very early in the game with very early game units. Not fun. And Kairos likewise has to eliminate both Teclis and Oxy without getting side-swiped by the neighbors and while using mostly blue horrors and an underleveled Kairos. Lastly, Hellebrond. Her faction effects are terrible and she's not really offering enough personally to make up for it. The DE system isn't exactly loaded with slaves these days and you need an increasing amount to avoid some pretty nasty penalties. And all the while, you can struggle through in the certain knowledge that you'd get a much better Hellebrond experience if you simply confederated her while playing as a different LL. Same applies to a lesser extent to Malus, but at least he's an absolute beast.

This List is just wrong. First place Markus? His campgain is the second easiest for the empire, because you do not have to deal with the authority (which is pretty hard compared with 2 because you have way more enemies now). You have an early Bretonnian ally and you do not have to high tier buildings to get high tier units and you are able to get a strong army early on (or just just him with a marksman doomstack and get a second normal army).

As a guy who likes plaing Skaven, Ikkits campain is both the most fun thing ever, and so fucking annoying that I want to claw my own eyes out. I know that Skaven are supposed to be disliked by literally everyone and every thing, but jesus christ the ammount of random factions declaring war on me is unbearable. "I just need to wipe out one enemy faction and I'm good to... Oh now two enemy factions, I'm sure I can... There are four now, maybe... Nevermind there are ten people burning my lawn... And they all suddently allied over their common hatred for me... That's nice"

Behold, the Legions of Chaos. The Dark elves beat me to death by turn 40.

I just achieved Long Victory with Nakai on Legendary difficulty and it was fun, fast turns and rather easy! I wonder why you think he should even be on that list??

Man, skarsnik have one of the easiest campaings ive ever played, borys is also very strong and i had no trouble at his campaing at all

I had to make sure that this is for game3 and not game2. For me, IE Markus is easy even on Vh/Vh(I don’t like L). You are against skaven nowon turn 1, not lizard beasts. Same with belegar. Just don’t auto for the first province or so. Markus can easily get high tier units. Get grenade launchers and cannons first. Grenade launcher is your pseudo aoe wizard, you eliminate practically all infantry threat without wom cost. Cannons for sieges. That’s on turn 6 or somewhere close. Belegar has dwarf armor. Your armies are practically invincible early game. I just rush 8peaks. Steamroll from there. Emo elf can also be easy. Just disband the dessert army and play as usual. take out nkari on the donut. MY top 3 hardest are Franz, Imrik, and kugath.

Repanse is honestly not hard at all and I would consider it kind of easy. I feel bad for anyone that struggles as her. You get access to a full province within the first few turns and almost immediately confederate with the nearby Bretonnians right after. Within the first 10 turns you already own several cities. Battles are also ridiculously easy as the game is very generous with auto resolve if you just spam your armies with cavalry. Repanse herself is also INSANELY tanky and amazing in combat. You can also focus your settlements on farms for access to fire arrow bowmen. The tomb kings are quite easy to deal with as they usually fill their armies with skeletons, so you cav can absolutely crush them. Also, Repanse’s skill tree is quite good and is perfectly tailored for your starting position. Henri le Massif is also a beast. She is honestly the easiest Bretonnian faction and one of the easier starts in the game.