Best faction in the game?

[Origin]

what's best faction in the game, the strongest?

[BIG E.]

Originally posted by Abisha:

Originally posted by p30pl3h4t3m3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6KXY5TddwY

Hellebron set as weak, Cult of pleasure "average".
with respect of people opinion but that's just player bias.

You can play any faction and make it look like its the strongest in the game.

However lets not forget how CA gutted DE mechanics in WH3. Its basicly low budget Khorne now where you slowly lose your economy unless you fight battles every turn.

WH2 DE was extremely strong compared to this with the old slave mechanic.

Imo DE is very easy to play due to how OP shades are and the fact you can get them at tier 2. However i dont think its the "strongest" within the context of efficency.

Again it completely depends on the perspective of "strongest". If strongest means easiest to play, then i would agree DE is one of the strongest.

Idk making a strength tierlist for this many factions in general is hard and its always gonna be wrong from different perspectives. At least for campaign. For multiplayer battles there is always gonna be a objective strength tierlist that is just accurate.

[BeefyBearded]

Originally posted by Origin:

Originally posted by Celery:

The best at what?

best at mass murdering and dominating other factions

Skaven yes-yes

[Tommytools]

Originally posted by BIG E.:

However lets not forget how CA gutted DE mechanics in WH3. Its basicly low budget Khorne now where you slowly lose your economy unless you fight battles every turn.

Not if you spam assassins, as they have a 3 point skill that increases slave gain.

Edit: But CA in their infinite wisdom had the description state slave income, which to a WH2 player means something else. I just checked, they have fixed the description now, but at IE launch it was unclear that it increased the number of slaves coming in.

[{Uppies} Zaneybeast]

Originally posted by Zoie Shales:

The "best" is in the eye of the beholder, different people will say different things.

he meant to say skaven

[Hex]

Originally posted by BeefyBearded:

Originally posted by Origin:

best at mass murdering and dominating other factions

Skaven yes-yes

Skaven are terrible for fast expansion because of their food mechanics and you need DLC units or they are garbage.

Yes, you can get a T5 city faster than anyone else and get completely overpowered units fast, but after they nerfed food farming from sacking every turn it's a hassle to manage before you have the tech of passive food.

[runit73]

Karl Franz has the best War Hammer brandishing.

[BiteSizeCenter]

Exiles of Khorne are by far the strongest faction in the hands of a capable player. Their potential for rapid destruction is unmatched. Completely possible to complete a long victory in under 20 turns with Skarbrand.

Here's a screenshot of my recent legendary Skarbrand run, could've completed it a turn earlier, but I messed up and sacked a settlement that I should've occupied.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175017158

I'm no expert with them either, I've seen videos of people completing it in under 10.

[AurumHawke]

Originally posted by zefyris:

- Strongest faction is N'Kari (Slaanesh). You can quite literally conqueer the map through enslaved factions without almost lifting a finger yourself other than doing hero actions if you want to, while having still a ton of money and a ton of armies. But it is not the easiest to play, as you need to properly understand how the mechanics can enhance one another.

The single most important mechanic is Speed * Mass:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3199755138
Or high combat stats if they have the mass (without the speed, which you have).

They also have noodle horses.

[Hex]

Originally posted by BiteSizeCenter:

Exiles of Khorne are by far the strongest faction in the hands of a capable player. Their potential for rapid destruction is unmatched. Completely possible to complete a long victory in under 20 turns with Skarbrand.

Here's a screenshot of my recent legendary Skarbrand run, could've completed it a turn earlier, but I messed up and sacked a settlement that I should've occupied.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175017158

I'm no expert with them either, I've seen videos of people completing it in under 10.

The OP wasn't asking about campaign victory, but painting the map.

[Lokaror]

Ogres, My lord.

[Narldevan]

Ghosts of Pahuax faction is the best.

[TamoDogo]

Originally posted by Celery:

The best at what?

making scrambled eggs

[sigmars_disciple]

Anything extreme you can do can be very strong, even with minor factions.

You can also bring anywhere between 5 and 500 mods into the picture and change any aspect of any race in the game - although I wouldn't recommend to run 499 mods because they give more and more options (units, characters, RoRs, campaign mechanics, whatever you fancy) exclusively to the race that YOU play. Can also be fun for a campaign. If it gets too easy, raise the difficulty! <3

I've found in thousands of hours that hardly any races - no matter how cool I thought they are on campaign start - keep me engaged like the Empire or Dwarves do - probably the two most neglected races from CA's end and def not the strongest but my favs ;)

[pyremind]

Has anyone said the Brass Bull yet (beastmen)? That's kind of their shtick. Or Korn of course

[Donut]

Skarsnik with an Army of Squigs

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