Mother Ostankya

[TargetSlayer]

What's the trick with Ostankya in 6.1 and her Kislev location? Tried a couple of times taking the initial region, but in doing so I keep attracting multiple enemies who, except for the rats, are very heavy armored with speed and artillery. Feels like a Karl Franz campaign, though Kislev was always a rough ride.

Thinking I need to grab Prague right away. They confederate with me later but by then there are two or three enemies attacking.

[Dave]

I personally have no idea what the initial circumstances of Ostankya's campaign are since I still haven't played as her. But if all else fails, field an army of the cheapest units you can find and throw them at someone as a suicide army. Overwhelming numbers are pretty good at the start of the game before the more advanced units start existing in mass. Not a fool-proof plan as I am a fool and this failed me before but it might also work too.

[dolby]

well i prefer the old location and then just teleport there...

but i would say priority number one is always kill the rats and farm the trait while you kill the first enemy.

meaning you take the first two towns ignore the last one in province and move up north to the rats...
While you build the defending army ostanka main army can easly kill everything on her own with her hag budy with range attacks and aoe spells...

[Dagy47]

Originally posted by Dave:

I Not a fool-proof plan as I am a fool and this failed me before but it might also work too.

do tell, pls amuse us

*grabs popcorn

[Dave]

Originally posted by Dagy47:

Originally posted by Dave:

I Not a fool-proof plan as I am a fool and this failed me before but it might also work too.

do tell, pls amuse us

*grabs popcorn

Fell Bats maybe weren't the best choice as a solo mass. I'd do it again though. They looked awesome.

[Cultist]

I'm in the middle of the same campaign. It can get pretty rough, but my advice is to lean into the big spiders in terms of army composition. +10 MD plus poison makes them a pretty tanky, decently cheap frontline with high AP. Cheap kossars for ranged damage, throw in a few akshinas if you want. Bears are quite good but expensive and needs micro. Snow leopards are kinda bad but cheap, frost wyrm is okay but too expensive. I think spider spam is the best early strategy.
Because a lot of her animal units are a little squishy, I find a Dark Elf-ish kite strategy works well with Mother O. Most of her units including herself are fast enough to kite efficiently and/or have Strider for even more mobility. She even has "Shades" in the Akshinas.

Try to beat down Astragoth early, Grimgor will most lilkely attack him if he gets weak enough, then leave him to his fate as you focus on Arbaal, which will probably be your biggest challenge. If you can do all this, the rest of Kislev and Malakai should be able to hold your western flank while you focus on Chaos.

[TargetSlayer]

Thanks everyone. Cultist, can you please describe your opening moves and early to mid army compositions. Do you use their hybrid gunners to help deal with the armour? Their crossbows get some kills but they are not great against these Chaos factions and their heavy armour.

Taking out the occupying faction in the starting province is straightforward. One just needs to grab that undeveloped province before the other Kislev faction does. But I keep getting Chaos factions wanting to attack me with full stacks of mostly regiment of renown units (how do they have so many so early in the game?). In my first attempt the Dwarfs provided a nice barrier between me and them. In the second they were quickly eliminated.

Still getting a handle on the new faction mechanics, which are nice. Just struggling to expand and keep settlements. Admittedly, you are placed in a terrible location with respect to all the enemies to the north. I find it odd as a Kislev faction that you have to research snow attrition.

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