Imrik Start?

[Zierus]

Why is it that after 8 turns my imrik campaign goes downhill, no matter what i do. I either get invaded by chaos dwarves or get killed by the dragons that i need to get in order to get stronger.

[FlameWar]

you know that you don't have to do the dragon battles right away? they will pop back up again after a bit

[Enelith]

Could be you also didn't start with the easiest campaign around ?

It doesn't look like you played TWWH1 / TWWH2 before, so you may need to learn more about how to play factions and tricks.
Or you could just stick to Imrik if you're really into him and learn the "hard" way stuffs.

Regardless, good luck.

[pascal.difolco]

Made an Imrik VH/VH campaign a few weeks ago
For me it worked up to turn 10/12 by immediately invading the Chorfs before they do the same on turns 6-8, then turning to Tretch.. but that was a nightmare as he had 4 armies tunneling all around vs my 2 that couldn't be everywhere at once, so they devastated my provinces
Luckily I got the Caledor confed to make me money, eventually by selling it to Tyrion!
Took me 20 turns to get rid of the Skaven pest, then I was able to consolidate and it was rather smooth thereafter, allied with the Dawi to get rid of Skarsnik and Queek, which secured my western border, then went fighting East and back southwest vs Skarbrand
Long Victory on turn 92

Used staple HE armies, Archers/Spearmen then LS plus some SoA, and the Dragons as they came every 15 turns, Dragon Princes late game, not much else except an arty piece (usually an allied one !) per army, I feel other HE infantry and cav not very good and real squishy
And was surprised as how much of a beast Imrik became quite fast, he's a doomstack by himself at level 20some, unkillable

[SomeGuy1]

so, here's what you do:
step 1) kill the minor dwarf faction you start at war with. And take their stuff. towns. One of the minor towns has a landmark that gives you early access to Dragon Princes, which normally take a tier 5 main settlement. Get a few of those in your army somewhere.
step 2) kill Tretch Craventail. And take his stuff.
step 3) kill the nearby bad peoples (like the chaos dwarf LL). And take their stuff.

for the first Dragon encounter, I typically pay it money for Influence so i can then use it when the Caledor confed dilemma pops. second and beyond I am ok with fighting. You don't have to fight them immediately. The Quest Battle will wait in your quest log. I typically am ready to go when I have a tier 3 town and a few White Lions of Chrace... plus Imrik on his dragon and the sun dragon you start with.

[Zierus]

Originally posted by Enelith:

Could be you also didn't start with the easiest campaign around ?

It doesn't look like you played TWWH1 / TWWH2 before, so you may need to learn more about how to play factions and tricks.
Or you could just stick to Imrik if you're really into him and learn the "hard" way stuffs.

Regardless, good luck.

I played plenty of warhammer 2 AND 3.

[Enelith]

Originally posted by Zierus:

Originally posted by Enelith:

Could be you also didn't start with the easiest campaign around ?

It doesn't look like you played TWWH1 / TWWH2 before, so you may need to learn more about how to play factions and tricks.
Or you could just stick to Imrik if you're really into him and learn the "hard" way stuffs.

Regardless, good luck.

I played plenty of warhammer 2 AND 3.

Didn't look all playtime you had.

[Ashley]

Originally posted by Zierus:

Originally posted by Enelith:

Could be you also didn't start with the easiest campaign around ?

It doesn't look like you played TWWH1 / TWWH2 before, so you may need to learn more about how to play factions and tricks.
Or you could just stick to Imrik if you're really into him and learn the "hard" way stuffs.

Regardless, good luck.

I played plenty of warhammer 2 AND 3.

157 and 41 isn't even 200 but i'll round up 200 since you're like 1 off is really not alot for total war warhammer considering that'd be barley enough if that to play ALL starts at least once AND win that one attempt and judging by your achievements no. 22/138 and 20/152 achievements

I'm not shaming your time but that's really not alot of time to know the in's and outs of every race and faction vs other races for this game especially for a hard start like Imrik

[Zierus]

Originally posted by Ashley:

Originally posted by Zierus:

I played plenty of warhammer 2 AND 3.

157 and 41 isn't even 200 but i'll round up 200 since you're like 1 off is really not alot for total war warhammer considering that'd be barley enough if that to play ALL starts at least once AND win that one attempt and judging by your achievements no. 22/138 and 20/152 achievements

I'm not shaming your time but that's really not alot of time to know the in's and outs of every race and faction vs other races for this game especially for a hard start like Imrik

its funny because the game recommends imrik to new players. Or generally the elven race.

[Gorgeous_Joe]

Click Settings. Click Difficulty. Select Easy. Learn and then increase difficulty once you have learned all you need to.
Or continue to post on here and get random advice from strangers who have zero idea how good you are at the game.

[pascal.difolco]

Originally posted by Gorgeous_Joe:

Click Settings. Click Difficulty. Select Easy. Learn and then increase difficulty once you have learned all you need to.
Or continue to post on here and get random advice from strangers who have zero idea how good you are at the game.

Huh ? that's the whole point of a forum.. Now he can heed to the advices or not, he's supposed to be a grown up

[Big Moustache]

The first dragon events are easy, it is the sun dragon and the forest dragon. Imrik unlock his dragon mount early, the wizard takes much longer. This gives you your starting dragon and another 3 dragons. Wait for wars, do not declare yourself. Caravan of the rose and Goldtooth are your early trading partners, the small ogre faction is free province to take. The chaos dwarf is easy repelled, Tretch is busy with dwarfs until later. Get the pigbarter ogre province and the chaos dwarf province and turtle a wile, until plague bringer declare on you

[(Steelclaw)]

Originally posted by Zierus:

its funny because the game recommends imrik to new players. Or generally the elven race.

TW:WH games recommending factions which are not actually easy to new players is a longstanding issue.

Imrik is widely known to be hard by the playerbase, though. Not the hardest - that would probably be someone like Skarsnik - but on the harder end of things.

Originally posted by Fragoos:

The first dragon events are easy, it is the sun dragon and the forest dragon

Dragon order is randomized, my good sir.

[Father Ribs]

Only Tyrion is listed as "recommended for beginners". Angry elf with spear is easy as well...but Imrik is definitely not in the same range of difficulty as those two.

[Kel'Thuzad]

Is his campaign still bugged where you don't get the option to confederate Caledor?
If it's fixed, I may try his campaign again and give you some tips.

[Logi]

Imrik is a tough campaign. The games recommendations for beginners have been bad for ages and there is so many factions now with some that are deffo much easier than others.

Easiest campaign I played was probably Belakor, collecting Chaos warrior legendary lords.