Faction Difficulty Ranking: (RoC)

[Zarkkill]

Over the last few weeks I have been on and off forums posting about the pros and cons of various factions in TWW3. I have finally managed to play enough of all the factions currently available in RoC to give each of them a ranking based on how difficult the initial early game is (first 50 turns) and how difficult it is to win as the faction overall. The difficulty rankings go from Very Easy to Nightmare. Very Easy signifies that there would have to be a conscious effort made by the player to somehow lose, and Nightmare signifies that it's highly unlikely anyone but the most veteran TW players can prosper.

I hope this ranking may help newer players decide what factions are feasible to play as and also to hear what people think of my rankings.



Kislev (Ice Court) - Initial (Hard) / Overall (Easy)

Nurgle - Initial (Very Hard) / Overall (Very Hard)

Khorne - Initial (Nightmare) / Overall (Hard)

Slaneesh - Initial (Easy) / Overall (Very Easy)

Tzeench - Initial (Hard) / Overall (Very Hard)

Puppets of Misrule - Initial (Very Easy) / Overall (Very Easy)

Legion of Chaos - Initial (Nightmare) / Overall (Nightmare)

The Maw - Initial (Hard) / Overall (Hard)

Goldtooth - Initial (Easy) / Overall (Hard)

Northern Provinces - Initial (Easy) / Overall (Easy)

Western Provinces - Initial (Easy) / Overall (Easy)

The Fecundites - Initial (Very Easy) / Overall (Very Easy)

Legion of the Gorequeen - Initial (Very Easy) / Overall (Very Easy)

The Ecstatic Legions - Initial (Medium) / Overall (Hard)

[Dagy47]

i just saw that "nigthmare" next to khorne and i chuckled, didnt even botherred to read the rest of the bs

[Enelith]

Wait what ... ?
Are we talking about RoC campaign ? Because, if so ...

Originally posted by Zarkkill:

and also to hear what people think of my rankings.

I disagree with those rankings (but that's my vision of things...)

Edit :
While you forgot to mention which game difficulty you've played to establish this ranking, nor how much experience you have playing the game, I have no issue with you giving us your experience feedback.
However, what bother me is you're actually thinking your opinion has to be trusted as it is, and specially by newcomers.

Like others, I'm surprised you judged Khorne to be difficult (likewise for Nurgle ~ or any RoC factions tbh...), but this only demonstrate this faction may not be suited for everyone (in this case you), depending of each playstyle.

Anyway, at least you got the guts to expose yourself here.

[identity]

You're just gonna get a lot of arguments in this thread, OP. Everyone thinks they know better.

[RamboRusina]

I've yet to see single campaign that I would consider even mediocre challenge after 50 turns on hardest difficulties when talking about single player. If you understand mechanics and how the AI works by turn 50 you're generally at spot where it's smooth sailing. For RoC specifically you can just turtle to victory on most races for easiest WH win of your life since there is nothing to encourage expanding.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Dagy47:

i just saw that "nigthmare" next to khorne and i chuckled, didnt even botherred to read the rest of the bs :WH3_greasus_rofl:

^

[BIG E.]

Originally posted by Dagy47:

i just saw that "nigthmare" next to khorne and i chuckled, didnt even botherred to read the rest of the bs :WH3_greasus_rofl:

True lol.

[Hex]

What rubbish, RoC is a joke if you play it the easiest way you can no matter what faction. Never take more than 2 provinces, hit end turn till rifts come, staamroll, hit end turn till next rifts and repeat.

It's the dumbest campaign they've ever done because expanding gets you nothing, only more enemies to fight for literally no reason since nothing except the realms matter at all.

[Torquemadada]

Vilitch doesn't have an easy start, I just played it today and got attacked by Kostaltyn around turn 15 that wiped out my vassal, and Festus two turns later and some norsca tribes decided to join the plunder !
The territory is hard to defend as it is quite vast and I have to run around many moutains to reach my cities and I don't have the money for a second army. So I'm running around winning a fight but losing a city elsewhere and not progressing at all. That's not an easy start !

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Zarkkill:

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In my opinion:

1. Khorne is easy (start and overall) in the Realms of Chaos campaign, he is harder in the Immortal Empires campaign because he is surrounded and its further between settlements.

2. All of the WoC Legendary Lords are a easy start and very easy overall.

3. Daniel has a hard start but once you get past his start he isn't anywhere near a nightmare (you can quite easily get a free god specific army for him rather early on)

[XŦĦ§¥]

Total war difficulty is only based on the player knowledge and the way he decides to play.

My campaigns always turn out to be much harder than expected, because I won't let anyone or anything dictate how I should be playing.

-As Nurgle, if you keep Tzeentch and whoever wins between Khorne or Slaanesh, on your side, it becomes a real piece of cake.
-Goldtooth has some of the most broken Auto-resolve, I won battles I couldn't win manually. The whole point of ogres is to "charge, back up, then charge again" !
-Khorne is just a blessing, you just headbutt anything, and use Blood hosts armies when you feel the need. $$$ is tight early game, that is all.
-As tzeentch, try to keep nurgle on your side, and defeat Cathay by any means possible, and it becomes a breeze...

I've just had my best and easiest campaign as Legion of chaos(2nd one), by migrating north(turn 1) and occupying Slaanesh territory.

The only race I would generally disagree with is Slaanesh, I expanded south and even with top tier units defeating Kislev was a real pain ! Once RoC was over, I never wanted to play that race again.

[Many-Named]

who still plays RoC, like seriously??

[Siodog]

Originally posted by Many-Named:

who still plays RoC, like seriously??

Why not? Chevos rule

[Torquemadada]

I still do play Roc, because I haven't finished the campaign. And like any other tryharder as Henry Cavill, I still miss my achievments.
But not with Vilitch the god of no money with multiple ennemies. Next game I'll play Festus the overlord of Covid ! Such an easy game is WW3 !!!!

I've just beaten my first campaign with Aranessa ! But she's supposed do be weak, don't know why. She's fine to me.

[Hex]

Originally posted by Rotor:

I still do play Roc, because I haven't finished the campaign. And like any other tryharder as Henry Cavill, I still miss my achievments.
But not with Vilitch the god of no money with multiple ennemies. Next game I'll play Festus the overlord of Covid ! Such an easy game is WW3 !!!!

I've just beaten my first campaign with Aranessa ! But she's supposed do be weak, don't know why. She's fine to me.

There are no really weak factions. Some just have easier time early on and certain units that make for an easy doomstack but you can absolutely paint the map with every faction rather easily.

[Zarkkill]

Originally posted by Enelith:

Wait what ... ?
Are we talking about RoC campaign ? Because, if so ...

Originally posted by Zarkkill:

and also to hear what people think of my rankings.

I disagree with those rankings (but that's my vision of things...)

Edit :
While you forgot to mention which game difficulty you've played to establish this ranking, nor how much experience you have playing the game, I have no issue with you giving us your experience feedback.
However, what bother me is you're actually thinking your opinion has to be trusted as it is, and specially by newcomers.

Like others, I'm surprised you judged Khorne to be difficult (likewise for Nurgle ~ or any RoC factions tbh...), but this only demonstrate this faction may not be suited for everyone (in this case you), depending of each playstyle.

Anyway, at least you got the guts to expose yourself here.

I played on Hard difficulty for all of them. I have over 1,500 hours in the TW series and over 600 in the TWW trilogy.

For the record, despite my ranking of Khorne, it was the first faction I won the short campaign with and am also very close to a long campaign victory.