This Nurgle update kinda ruined the game

[Vantal]

Without fail end game is now me and at least 1-2 Nurgle factions and they dominate everything around them. They're not even fun to fight against, large units that just take ages to kill, that cloud bomb that wipes half your army with no chance at dodging it. I dunno, they suck.

[Fauxsteel]

-shrug- power creep. DLC needs to be 'good' to sell. Weak units aren't good.
Vicious cycle of DLC.

[Aleera]

Variance.

What you're experiencing is not what is universal. My current Empire, all 3 Nurgle factions are dead, without me ever seeing them. With Norsca being in control of most of the chaos wastes. Yes, that Norsca, the World walkers.

[Seraphiel]

I thought this was the case and in my first three campaigns since the DLC Nurgle was a wrecking ball every time.

Then in my last three they've been wiped out straight away so I think you are having bad luck (although they do seem more weighted to be OP than not).

[Zheppon]

thats not what happen in my game, they got wiped out on turn 10 above

[Mei]

This being right next to another post complaining about the exact opposite. Doesn't sound like a problem.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Its partly randomized, partly set.

Obviously a race/armies practical strength (For the AI) does effect how well they do in a campaign (Stuff like auto resolve power, upkeep of units, how good of a economy the race/army has and if the AI can utilize it effectively, etc)

But factions are also given a "potential" value at the start of the game that effects how much of a handicap (buffs) they get.

While there seem to be some scripted sections (for example if you play as faction X then faction Y will have more potential, or if you play on a higher difficulty every faction in general will get a higher potential value) its also partly randomized (in game A faction X may have gotten more potential then faction Y, in game B the opposite might be true even if you play the same faction).

Someone also mentioned that this potential value can change during a game depending on stuff that happens.

[Sevrojin]

theres various + and - when you pick certain factions on whom that ai will give buffs to that will make it a harder enemy.

its usually why when you play certain races certain other races seem to excel.

maybe you like playing natural nurgal enemy factions

[Kel'Thuzad]

Solution; always play AS Nurgle

On a serious note, they are a bit too powerful. I can leave all my units in a forest and take out entire armies just with a Lord and a few heroes. And it's not even a challenge. They end the battle at full health.

[Ashley]

"Ruined the game' Bit of an overstatement majority of the map is nurgle free.

[DarkFenix]

Haven't seen Nurgle dominate a single time in any campaign since the patch. Dumb thread.

[Treyen]

expecting any kind of balance in a total war campaign? silly dumbass

fo real tho, it's a toss up. In almost every game I've done since the DLC, empire and kislev steamroll the world with their homies the french and asians. Then everything remotely close to a mountain is in dawi hands. nurgle usually doesn't get anywhere, tamarkhan killed by archaeon, festus boxed in if not killed by empire, then poor dumb fatboi is boxed in by chaos dwarfs and VC until empire or regular dwarfs show up and end it.

[Fendelphi]

Never seen them as an issue. So far, they have not grown much, if at all, in strength on the campaign map.
The only thing that makes Nurgle slightly more noticable, is the presence of 2 new Legendary Lords, which increases the odds of at least one of them staying around until the mid and late game.

In my recent Skarsnik Campaign, Tamurkhan was taken out by Grimgor(AI vs AI) around turn 60, with all the other Nurgle factions being purged way before that(and not by me).

[bearfieldlee]

Dark Elves and Dwarfs often dominate each side of the map on my campaigns. Nurgle? Who?