How to play as wood elves?

[Nanoswimz]

Durthu start.

Its 20+ turn, i still have t1 army and cant build anything since i have zero income.

Outposts is useless and dont generate income. Im just trapped in tree location, trying to catch scavens jumping like yolo here (underworld ambush not proc). I never have such autistic expirience for other factions. Is my role just sit near tree, waiting for inevitable end of the world, when normal factions get their top units? Or there is something that i miss and i can haven 10k+ income and ability to recruit more than one army? I readed some guides and they writed like wood elves is normal faction with a scalability purpose.

[Narldevan]

full tree kin, ggwp.

[Nanoswimz]

Also i have feeling my autistic elven neighborhood occupy me soon

[Aleera]

Your only source of income are towns with ports, or the big mayor trees.

Trying to hold outposts as the Woodelves serves no purpose. You're supposed to only occupy the trees.

If you picked Orion, going to war reduces your upkeep for each faction you're at war with. Go to war enough and your armies cost 0 upkeep.

Then there's the fact that one of the garrison buildings reduces upkeep for armies in the region of the tree.

Woodelves are a isolationist faction.

[raynay]

Iirc u get lots of cash for razing non hearthland settlements....so its a gamble but being in the red aint that critical for them if u maintain some aggressive momentum
and the outpost can boost growth and cash of ya nearby main citys so they are not complete useless (but yeah hard to defend)

[KoboldUtopian]

Outposts aren't useless. They keep territory away from enemies (and potential enemies). Sure, they don't make much money, but they also don't cost anything so who cares if they get attacked. Or sell them to your allies.

[CrUsHeR]

1. On the first turn, always upgrade the Yn Edri Eternos tree. This unlocks the auto-confederation with other Wood Elf factions. Prioritize the upgrades here, it has several boons like large growth to all your trees in later stages.

2. Wood Elves generate most money by razing cities. While upgrading their trees takes forever. So you don't wait for a large positive income; instead you get into war with bad people and raze all they have.

3. There is a follower to increase underway interception chance, iirc called the Hunting Hound or something. The effect should stack among all your heroes and your lord.
Generally the follower items are very useful, like a stacking leadership debuff to local enemy armies, or very long reinforcement range.

4. Wood Elves have, generally speaking, much stronger armies than other factions. So if you follow point 2 and go very aggressive against the anti-order factions, you can make a lot of friends. Means you can get a high Trade income, and you can always have an ally following you and occupying the razed cities.

[Hex]

Upgrading the big tree gives you a lot of stuff. As durthu, don't bother with elf units, focus on dryads and tree kin. Look at which units durthu buffs and lean on that. If you want to actually play with archers and use elf units, switch to orion or the sisters if you have the dlc.

[Nanoswimz]

Orion declared war on me

GG

[Hex]

Originally posted by Nanoswimz:

Orion declared war on me

GG

Durthu is a genocidal Dwarf levels of angry wood spirit, nobody likes him. :P

[KoboldUtopian]

Originally posted by Hex:

Originally posted by Nanoswimz:

Orion declared war on me

GG

Durthu is a genocidal Dwarf levels of angry wood spirit, nobody likes him. :P

Cut him a break, he's very very sad.

[AurumHawke]

Originally posted by Hex:

Originally posted by Nanoswimz:

Orion declared war on me

GG

Durthu is a genocidal Dwarf levels of angry wood spirit, nobody likes him. :P

Drycha likes Durthu. They just disagree on the timeframe of when to kick out the freeloading Asrai.
She's an Elfetarian and loves doggos, which means she's the best tree lady ever.

Only have turns for Drycha, not Durthu - wipe out Vlad by turn 5.

[Zefar]

With Wood Elves you teleport to another tree that has a faction nobody cares about and take over their tree.

Or you quickly declare war on another wood elves faction nearby that the other ones doesn't care so much about and wipe them out, take their tree and build up your forces.

[Hex]

Originally posted by Zefar:

With Wood Elves you teleport to another tree that has a faction nobody cares about and take over their tree.

Or you quickly declare war on another wood elves faction nearby that the other ones doesn't care so much about and wipe them out, take their tree and build up your forces.

Why, when the game allows you to confed with every one of them for free?

[Lady Neravin]

Originally posted by Hex:

Originally posted by Zefar:

With Wood Elves you teleport to another tree that has a faction nobody cares about and take over their tree.

Or you quickly declare war on another wood elves faction nearby that the other ones doesn't care so much about and wipe them out, take their tree and build up your forces.

Why, when the game allows you to confed with every one of them for free?

Because there is only on Bretonian faction left and you are allied with them.
But i never had problems to be fair, just painted the whole map green

[Abisha]

ah you should fight more battles.