Do Dark elves suck?

[HighKnightsHemplar]

I feel the mechanics should be more like chaos dwarves and tankier units maybe? idk not my fave faction but one of them. first warhammer i painted was a vintage Druchii army. I play with mods mostly but with or without dark elf mods, they kinda suck it feels like

[fenlander]

Dark Elves have one of the strongest economies in the game. Their armies are well rounded I find and can outlast some of the toughest opponents out there. It all depends on how you play them. If you charge in your Doom Warlocks and leave them sitting there, then yes they will die.
Rank and file troops mid to late game are still good enough to hold a front line and with support from Shades at the rear the enemy will melt fast.

I am currently playing Morathi in campaign single player IE, and although she has a really tough starting location once she has resolved the problems near her; not a lot can stop her. My only issue and its the same no matter what faction I play as is Wood Elves. I really dislike fighting them, due to speed of troops and they can all fire whilst moving.

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

No, if not for just one reason: SHADES

[BIG E.]

Dark elves are extremely powerful.

Build up your black arks and get a lot of shades, shades are one of the hardest hitting ranged units in the entire game. Shades hit so hard even taking a single volley from one of them can cost you half a units health.

[Jimmy]

Origineel geplaatst door Prigozhin:

No, if not for just one reason: SHADES

yeah, shades are ridiculously overpowered against the retarded AI. Makes legendary feel no different than easy

[Aleera]

Origineel geplaatst door Jimmy:

Origineel geplaatst door Prigozhin:

No, if not for just one reason: SHADES

yeah, shades are ridiculously overpowered against the retarded AI. Makes legendary feel no different than easy

That's because legendary does nothing to change combat other then enforce battle realism mode.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Origineel geplaatst door Jimmy:

Makes legendary feel no different than easy

Legendary is a campaign difficulty. There is no battle difficulty named legendary.

Heck you can play a legendary campaign but use easy battle difficulty. So maybe its indeed set to easy for ya :D

[dano1871]

just played as dark elves started out good then the beastman race just annhilated me like i didn't do any damage lol i had way more units and they just steamrolled me so bad.

[Falaris]

Origineel geplaatst door dano1871:

just played as dark elves started out good then the beastman race just annhilated me like i didn't do any damage lol i had way more units and they just steamrolled me so bad.

Uh... you lost? Against AI beastmen? As dark elves?

How?

Does the AI actually manage to play beastmen after more than one battle after the update or something? I guess that must be it. In that case, congratulations.

What army comp did you use?

Also, congratulations, I didn't know DE's had necromancers.

[Ashley]

I'm guessing Taurox

[Josh]

Well I've taken on multiple High Elf armies at one time, one including Tyrion just with Malus by himself. They don't suck.

[StrangestEcho]

Origineel geplaatst door dano1871:

just played as dark elves started out good then the beastman race just annhilated me like i didn't do any damage lol i had way more units and they just steamrolled me so bad.

Definitely a skill issue. They're not as strong as in WH2, but Dark Elves are still in the top 10 for strongest races in the game. They have a great economy and Dark Shards/Shades are very cost effective.

[Ciaran Zagami]

Yeah they suck

[StrangestEcho]

Origineel geplaatst door Ciaran Zagami:

Yeah they suck

No, they're a solid race. They just aren't blatantly OP like WH2.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3430706207

[DasaKamov]

Origineel geplaatst door Falaris:

Uh... you lost? Against AI beastmen? As dark elves?

How?

Since this thread died nearly two years ago, clearly the Beastmen allied with the Vampire Counts.

EDIT: Wait, you already mentioned thread-necromancy. ;b

[dano1871]

Origineel geplaatst door Falaris:

Origineel geplaatst door dano1871:

just played as dark elves started out good then the beastman race just annhilated me like i didn't do any damage lol i had way more units and they just steamrolled me so bad.

Uh... you lost? Against AI beastmen? As dark elves?

How?

Does the AI actually manage to play beastmen after more than one battle after the update or something? I guess that must be it. In that case, congratulations.

What army comp did you use?

Also, congratulations, I didn't know DE's had necromancers.

thanks for the reply, My bad about beastmen it was actually Mother Ostankya, Kislev faction. Yeah so I took out the first 4 bases to control the region ad DE and I was doing pretty good at the combat. Flanking and what not and doing damage spells. But then this Mother takes over a base of mine and I counter attack. I had more units then her but wow the crazy spells and snow leapards and spider just demoloshed me. And it seemed to me that my ranged attacks didn't have the same damage as they did on the dark elves i fought in the beginning. Not sure about a necromancer I had that hot chick sorcerer as my leader. But yeah it probably is just a skill issue with me. Think i'm going to try on easy but pretty fun game so far i did enjoy it. I might just need to find a faction that suits my play style I think. Thanks again for the comments I hope to do better on my next run :)