How to fight Thunderbarges?

[WarheroJango]

Do they have any kind of weakness a Chaos inclined faction could exploit?

[Dreagon]

Bloodthirsters?

[Defmonkey]

Ranged and flying units. Depends how many you are going up against, that said if AI controlled they wont usually be maxed with all the benefits so shouldnt be too bad.

[DarkFenix]

"Chaos inclined faction" is about as vague as it's possible to be, there's so much variation there.

[identity]

Strong melee flying units.

[StrangestEcho]

They're large and have almost no melee defense, so flying units will wreck them in melee, and they're quite vulnerable to armor piercing missile damage. In campaign play they're only a threat in large numbers, which almost never happens.

[YungShun]

Flying melee units like bale taurus or any dragon can beat them one on one.

Characters with flying mount, like Khargan the Crazed on chaos dragon, are also good choice.

Don't let your land units get close to them.

[JustSmile]

Flying melee monsters and massed range. The latter does not work against you since your own barges get 70% ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ missile resistance, but it's good enough against AI barges.

Absolutely nothing else works.

They're magnificent.

[Cryten]

They also do not auto resolve that well, so its quite possible to just pass on the battle.

[KTVindicare]

Originally posted by Cryten:

They also do not auto resolve that well, so its quite possible to just pass on the battle.

Unfortunately I've found this to be the best and least headache inducing option for most battles. Unless you have multiple Exalted Heroes on Manticores in your army, there's not really much point trying to fight the Thunderbarges. I suppose you could use Chaos Helcannons if the AI ignores them, or if you have enough Tzeetch gifted units. But most other Chaos flying units will get bodied by them, or else get shot out of the sky trying to chase them.

[IonizedMercury]

Originally posted by WarheroJango:

Do they have any kind of weakness a Chaos inclined faction could exploit?

Press the autoresolve button. The AI is exceptionally weak to it.