Skarbrand

[Lazzarus170882]

Any advice on how to play Skarbrand? I'm at turn 5 and already losing all my money so i can't make an army strong enough to beat the slaneshi army just south, and i'm stuck because if i leave my territory to fight on the eastern front, those slaneshi will destroy my cities. I don't know what to do.

[Carog the Fat]

I think you raze the first place make a free army and move both your main army and it to the south and take the costal town. Skarbrand is all about attacking to earn money running a deficit should only scare you if you aren't close enough to attack someone

[Darth Alpharius]

dont stop keep fighting your income gain comes from battles.

[Battle_Tyrant]

I love skarbrand.

Attack, attack and attack.

His forces can replenish while in enemy territory, most of your money will come from raiding, attacking and sacking.

[Falaris]

If you have a problem with Skarbrand, you're not attacking enough.

As Carog said, blood for the blood god gives you an extra army. Not good for income, but very good for killing the slaanesh. If you don't want to do that, just siege them a couple of turns to attirtion their forces, THEN attack when you can autoresolve without casualties, but that does take a couple of turns. (Or attack manually, if you feel confident about fighting battles.).

Note that Skarbrand has seriously good units and he's shockingly brutal himself. He can win battles that don't look too good fairly easily. His tier 2(1) chaos warriors would be tier 3 for anyone else - that's why they're so expensive. His bloodletters are also great.

Free tip: Get a chaos cultist ASAP. Their extra movement is gold.

[Ashley]

Turn 5? Skarbrand campaigns are won before that

[Kirb]

Step 1: KILL
Step 2: MAIM
Step 3: BURN

[Caramel_Clown]

You can't stop. You have to string sieges and keep razing.

[Lazzarus170882]

Thanx for all the advice, it helped a lot. I had to restart a few times to get it right but now i'm at turn 50 and it looks good. Skarbrand is indeed very powerful, even with "low" tier infantry only.

[Defmonkey]

Originally posted by Lazzarus170882:

Thanx for all the advice, it helped a lot. I had to restart a few times to get it right but now i'm at turn 50 and it looks good. Skarbrand is indeed very powerful, even with "low" tier infantry only.

Yep, he is one of the most powerful in terms of faction mechanics for WH3. Just need to destroy things and snowball, its OK to go into negative income, all of his faction benefits (growth etc) are tied to this.

[Defmonkey]

Hes also a complete wrecking ball on his own. (As he should be... lore reasons etc. etc)

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Kirb:

Step 1: KILL
Step 2: MAIM
Step 3: BURN

SANITY...is for the WEAK!

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Carog the Fat:

I think you raze the first place make a free army and move both your main army and it to the south and take the costal town. Skarbrand is all about attacking to earn money running a deficit should only scare you if you aren't close enough to attack someone

Blood hosts are not free at gamestart. You make them free through techtree.

[Defmonkey]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Originally posted by Carog the Fat:

I think you raze the first place make a free army and move both your main army and it to the south and take the costal town. Skarbrand is all about attacking to earn money running a deficit should only scare you if you aren't close enough to attack someone

Blood hosts are not free at gamestart. You make them free through techtree.

Technically no, but the mechanic is to drive your main army and the blood hosts forward and destroy as much as you can. The more you have the better as is serves your provinces that you do occupy. You don't occupy settlements unless its the first one (or capital if you prefer) in the province, you allow your passive colonization abilities to do that... destroy / raze everything else, just go kill stuff... all you need to do.

If you try to turtle: Skarbrands faction will just wither away.

[Lunos]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Originally posted by Carog the Fat:

I think you raze the first place make a free army and move both your main army and it to the south and take the costal town. Skarbrand is all about attacking to earn money running a deficit should only scare you if you aren't close enough to attack someone

Blood hosts are not free at gamestart. You make them free through techtree.

This is wrong. You make a blood host by razing the first settlement then attack Slaanesh to the south.

To OP. Make a bloodhost off the first settlement you raze and just keep attacking from there. Don't ever stop. If a bloodhost gets weak disband it and make a new one. Or use two bloodhosts. Don't worry about going into the red if you can attack right away.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Lunos:

This is wrong. You make a blood host by razing the first settlement then attack Slaanesh to the south.

What about you paying full price for blood hosts is wrong exactly?

Ya'll are talking about how to use them. I am talking about how they're not free when you start a campaign and thus respond to how the OP ends up losing money per turn.