The Age of Reckoning question

[Muspell]

I'm having a blast with the new Malakai's campaign (Very Hard), and i easily reached turn 140 using him as a horde faction, instead of trying to paint parts of the world

But

I feel like im using the new Age of Reckoning wrong, somehow.
Even when i was surrounded by enemies full of grudges on all sides i never went past the "Gorm" phase, and i got there only twice.

At turn 140 i would need to settle 28800 grudges in 10 turns to get to the final phase.
Cheating or not, the others AI Dwarven faction (that went full Ordertide) clearly didnt have so many problems as they're full of Grudge Settlers.

Did any of you have the same problem?

[Hell Muffin]

Yeah if you play Malakai tall you are going to struggle with age of reckoning more then any other dawi factions. Then again even if you play someone else its so easy for age of reckoning to get out of control. When sometimes you have 9k grudes to settle, and on the next age it went up to 30k because you met new factions.
CA said in blog post that they are working on the solution. ETA: Soon.

[KoboldUtopian]

I'm not really sure what you mean by playing him as a horde. Did you somehow not take cities?

The grudges needed does go quite high, but the amount you get from defeating enemies and taking their cities also goes up. Around turn 85 and I'm getting at least 5k per greenskin city.

[Jevenix]

I was playing on Legendary and on turn 50-60 i had to collect 58k Grudges :D. Clan Morse kicked Thorgrim's ass and some of their armies carried 6k Grudges. Settlements 2-3k each. They should put grudge limit on individual targets. But it is doable, you just need to play super Aggressive and delay confederations after you start new AOR cycle and your armies are close to deal with imminent grudges. I was Gnollengrom each time except this one.. But in the most cases it was super close and I achieved it usually on last turn..

Overall, I think current mechanic is very stressful. I enjoyed it very much but I don't want to play dwarfs again for some time now :D In my opinion Malakai is currently the strongest faction in terms of MAP expansion. I didn't use movement bugs and on turn 70 I have 226 regions and 20 strong armies. I didn't achieve this even with Lokhir...

[Muspell]

Originally posted by CoerciveUtopian:

I'm not really sure what you mean by playing him as a horde. Did you somehow not take cities?

I ended up playing so aggressively that by turn 100 i only held the provinces with the most lucrative buildings because i thought i would eventually confederate everyone else.

Since Thorgrim, Ungrim and Belegar steamrolled everything around them i never found enemy armies/settlements with more than 2k grudges on them.

[romar2008]

For all: do not use caravans - 30 turn 28k grudges!

[Admiral Von Kloosh']

Malakai turn 90 , 131k grudges for 100% wtf

[KoboldUtopian]

Originally posted by Admiral Von Kloosh':

Malakai turn 90 , 131k grudges for 100% wtf

But how much are you getting from each fight? I'm looking at at least 5k for each greenskin city and 3-5 for armies. With my 10 or so armies running around it's not that much of an issue. And of course, you're not expected to get 100 every time.