How to proceed with Rakarth after 1st province?

[ApathicAlpaca]

So I am at a total loss about Rakarth (Dark Elf Beastmaster).
He is incredibly powerful when taking his first province because of beast mechanic. But then I am left with the choice where to go next.

North is no option because they are friendly dark elves and a good buffer against orcs further north.

East is Tzeentch who are reasonably neutral and not likely to attack me soon.

South I cannot go because ALWAYS there is tomb king sitting in his province capital with a full stack and insane garrison plus siege area of effect skills that decimate me.


How do you proceed??
Should I try and get military access with tomb king and go for the dwarves? However they too just sit their in province capital, there is no way I can ever get through that with just one stack. And your economy SUCKS big time in these early turns so I also cannot afford another stack to siege them.

Such great game design, AI just sitting there to block player instead of literally doing ANYTHING.

Thanks for advice...

[Defmonkey]

You mean Rakarth?... I thought you meant Ku'gath when i saw your post :)

I'm running a ku'gath campaign at moment so was about to drop suggestions. Lol

[ope84]

You have a sea lane next to you, time to go to Bali!

[Red-_-Monkey]

Take the norscan lands.

[ApathicAlpaca]

Originally posted by Red-_-Monkey:

Take the norscan lands.

How do you mean? Via sea lane?
I think Tomb King and/or dwarves will just declare war and delete my initial province as soon as I am far away, no? They are both -40 because of aversion and that's just at the start and getting worse.

[RecalledDread]

Originally posted by ApathicAlpaca:

Originally posted by Red-_-Monkey:

Take the norscan lands.

How do you mean? Via sea lane?
I think Tomb King and/or dwarves will just declare war and delete my initial province as soon as I am far away, no? They are both -40 because of aversion and that's just at the start and getting worse.

You don't have to stay in the starting area. You can always come back later once you have a better foothold elsewhere. Maybe there's an easier start for him.

[ApathicAlpaca]

Hmm, interesting idea. I might try that.
But somehow devs must have had an idea when putting him on the Turtle Isle. My only other sensible option, since it's impossible to defeat the garrisoned tomb kings or dwarves, it to strike east vs Tzeentch... I bet you a hundred bucks as soon as I go there the southern SOBs will declare war and erase me though.
This is just unfair :|

[Many-Named]

Originally posted by Defmonkey:

You mean Rakarth?... I thought you meant Ku'gath when i saw your post :)

I'm running a ku'gath campaign at moment so was about to drop suggestions. Lol

Now that's a hard one.

[ApathicAlpaca]

Sooo, I watched some video guides and finally understood how you can leave the stalemate situation that the campers in the south put you in.
Rakarth has 80% ambush chance while in a jungle so you place him on the border towards Tomb King Willy. Then declare war on him. However that alone does not lure the SOB out so you need to put another lord nearby. It seems that making him (the decoy lord) recruit any one unit acts as a kind of AI magnet and Sandy Sal will come rushing out of his precious garrison like a shot. Ambush battle is easy win but even if he RNGs and it's a normal battle you should still win (be sure to play it manually or you will probably get pyrrhic victory).
After that you can siege his city, it's too well defended to win outright.

From there you have broken the deadlock situation and can normally go down the coast. In my campaign the dwarves were busy with the Skaven, after I secured the coast line by deleting Tomb King, I took their fortress and immediately left it again to be out of range of the Lizardmen nearby who had declared war on me some turns before.

Right now at turn 47 I have a very strong alliance with the Pestilence clan skaven and we are well underway to conquer Lustria whole. There's the expedition force, Bretonnia and Vampire coast still around but none of them ALONE should be a problem. Tough luck, I am strength rank 4 and rank 6 (Tzeentch) is coming up from his lil island. This is gonna be a very nasty multi-front war.
Anything for Lustria tho. And loads of sweet adorable BEASTS!!!

[Kidnoff]

I have no problem with the Tomb King, because Skavens take everything... I really love Rakarth's gameplay, but it's hard to deal with the skavens. One of the skavens faction next to me is no.2 lol, i'm 42, I just have no chance at all... How can you be friend with that rat? I already restart 3 times, and I always get blocked by Skavens. I take everything I can very fast, but the Skavens are already too powerful... So you need to take nothing after the Tomb King, to be sure he don't hate us and be friend with him?