Ostankya is just severely broken and OP

[Das_Daw]

Just had to end a coop campaing with a friend of mine, because Ostankya is just ridiculously powerful and pummeled the neighboring woodelfs he played. She ist just doomstacking her Akshina ambushers that win shootouts with woodelves. After successfully ambushing her, we thought we'd finally had her, but she just cursed 19/20 of his units and buffed 19/20 of her units in the pre-battle screen. (How is she able to curse enemy units in an ambush, I mean the whole point is of her being surprised?). The whole affair turned an ambush with superior forces into a crushing defeat. The curse that applies a consistent doT is just ridiculous.

I mean sure we played on legendary, but we do that on all our campains and never in tw warhammer 1,2 or 3 have we encountered such an utterly unbalanced and overpowered faction mechanic that spoils the whole starting region.

But maybe this is the tailend of the new DLC policy that the new lords are OP, so you just have to buy them. I mean other companies have made good money with this "buy the newest stuff to keep"-strategy...

[SomeGuy1]

Originally posted by Many-Named:

Originally posted by SomeGuy1:

and for how the mechanic works: ostankya is able to prepare consumable "banners" that she can put on units before battle. she can stockpile a lot of these, though honestly they're kind of slow to build up (getting 38 total should have taken 6-10 or even 15 or more turns, depending on how many charms she has unlocked from fighting the different factions). It IS strange that she was able to place them on enemy units when she was ambushed, she should only see a big "?" for the enemy units bit of that screen. Are you sure it was actually a successful ambush? Note that the battle can trigger and still be seen through, in which case it becomes a standard field battle.

ngl 10-15 turns for 38 banners seems quite short

they're single use consumables

[Filthy Pollo 🐔]

Originally posted by Fear:

trash dlc, deserved for the ones who agree to buy so little for 25 bucks wtf guys

I disagree

[capybaras are cool]

Originally posted by Fear:

trash dlc, deserved for the ones who agree to buy so little for 25 bucks wtf guys

do you even play this game? you have to play against the dlc characters regardless of whether or not youve bought them.

[JonnycXD]

Please remove AP melee, this unit is such low quality trash

[Filthy Pollo 🐔]

Originally posted by JonnycXD:

Please remove AP melee, this unit is such low quality trash

I don't understand what you are talking about

[KRAKEN]

Originally posted by Fear:

trash dlc, deserved for the ones who agree to buy so little for 25 bucks wtf guys

i bought it)))

[Voldo]

Mother Ost as AI enemy: doomstacks of ambushers (AI makes NOTHING else than those), 90% of opposing army cursed while buffs own troops, one curse or so kills 400 with mysterious explosions/direct damage if close that unit, Mother has some weird-ass ranged attack that can melt lvl 20 caster with one salvo...yeah, unfun.

[Bakeneko]

Playing as Kugath in RoC, i bumped into full stacks of Ambushers around turn 25. Not fun.

[HolyGrail]

dlc always plays like a power fantasy on release.. im guessing she also gets auto resolve bias against other ai too..

[Das_Daw]

Originally posted by Hurricane:

This is a skill issue... specially if you're 2v1ing her... I mean complain about issues with the game but this is a none issue and a personal skill failure problem...

Ofc her ap archers will beat out none ap archers... so use anti archer? I mean this thread is as bad as the imirik not dying to fire damage thread...

What are you talking about? The issue is that she is cursing 19 units with a doT to drop to 25% health whilst also buffing her own troops. Even in an ambusch scenario with full fledge attack your units life force is ebbing away more quickly than you could ever damage her buffed up troops. That is no skill issue, however people like you thinking they are superior players declaring everything a skill issue are in fact a social issue.

Seriously for every balance problem some fanboy will rush in to say "Gid Gud" lol

[Magni]

I feel the answer to Ostankya dropping a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of hexes on a field or ambush battle should be to just position your entire army as far back as possible and then retreat off the battlefield ASAP, so you officially lose the battle without actually suffering casualties and all that stuff is wasted.

Tl;dr: Pull a Tretch.

[tinywars]

It's a single player game. It's only as powerful as you want it to be. I love things being OP.

[Fauxsteel]

Originally posted by tinywars:

It's a single player game. It's only as powerful as you want it to be. I love things being OP.

Then why do you play 'strategy' games?

[huey30]

I personally think that Yuan Bo is the most OP out of the DLC lords

[Alinsar]

Something resembling balance was only in the first part of this trilogy. Then the further it went, the worse it got.
1. Make overpowered units and heroes
2. Make a cool video
3. Count the money
4. Raise the price and move on to point 1