Best/Worst mounts?

[Red Purger]

In your opinion, what are the best and worst mounts in the game for lords/heroes?
Personally I hate chariots, and any time one of my characters gets one I just take them off it. They get bogged down too heavily and require too much micro.
For the best, mammoths/Warsphinx/Stegadon, and IMO my personal favorite mount in the game is Count Noctilus' Necrofex Colossus mount.

[Darklight]

Anything that flies that usually can be applied generally across the board. High-Elf dragons, eagles, Empire mounts. That apply to both Lord's and Heroes. Nothing gives somebody more utility, especially mages than a good flying mount IMO.

[Aleera]

Generic horses if you're using a melee lord.

Anything else does wonders, heck, I love melee lords / heroes on a chariot.

[path2power]

The Vampire Coast Crabs barely do anything other add more hp to lords.
Only exception is Cylostra's Leviathan, which is giant and causes terror.

Corpse Carts for Necromancers are quickly replaced by the balefire versions.

I'm not sold that the armor increase at the cost of speed is worth it for the clockwork horses. Cold Ones work for Masters becuase I usually want them to stay in melee anyway, but Engineers are better for shooting.

[Havean]

Originally posted by Rianne:

Generic horses if you're using a melee lord.

Anything else does wonders, heck, I love melee lords / heroes on a chariot.

Agreed. Horses slow down the Lord's attack, makes them a bigger target and they easily get bogged down. Just keep them on foot.

[Gundalf]

Nothing beats a Throne with a four Dwarfpowerengine.

[Ashley]

Woah hey now at least horses are a very original mount and not overused unlike Kislevs bear mounts

[CrUsHeR]

Originally posted by Red Purger:

Personally I hate chariots

Beastmen characters are outstanding on chariots.

Some of them get like... 150 and more charge bonus on their chariot. Causes terror, too.
And then you can accelerate with Foe Seeker + Pendant of Slaanesh.

So where ever you send them, lines will break almost instantly.

[Enelith]

Originally posted by CrUsHeR:

Originally posted by Red Purger:

Personally I hate chariots

Beastmen characters are outstanding on chariots.

Some of them get like... 150 and more charge bonus on their chariot. Causes terror, too.
And then you can accelerate with Foe Seeker + Pendant of Slaanesh.

So where ever you send them, lines will break almost instantly.

He didn't say they're bad.
He said he's not good at microing them, thus he prefers other easier to handle mounts.

[Adamsevs]

Worst mount is the crab for Vcoast lords and heroes, exception for Gunnery wight & female Admirals who have ranged attacks as the crab allows them to shoot from a higher ground, up the head of the zombies.

Horses are fine, Tyrion on a his is not weak at all.
Chariots it depends, Khazrak on his chariots smash without any need of micro, same for exalted hero of nurgle or norscan lords, but the high elves ones are a waste yeah

[Pönnukaka]

Originally posted by Adamsevs:

Worst mount is the crab for Vcoast lords and heroes, exception for Gunnery wight & female Admirals who have ranged attacks as the crab allows them to shoot from a higher ground, up the head of the zombies.

Horses are fine, Tyrion on a his is not weak at all.
Chariots it depends, Khazrak on his chariots smash without any need of micro, same for exalted hero of nurgle or norscan lords, but the high elves ones are a waste yeah

I would dare say that crab unit and mount is one of the worst units in the whole game. Bad animation, easy to hit, horrible hit registrations and it's slow. I would never agree it's good for any character. It messes up shooting animation as well, even if they technically have higher elevation, so it's worse, since animation isn't working as smooth and I remember it being bugged at one point.

[Yannir]

Originally posted by Adamsevs:

Worst mount is the crab for Vcoast lords and heroes, exception for Gunnery wight & female Admirals who have ranged attacks as the crab allows them to shoot from a higher ground, up the head of the zombies.

Horses are fine, Tyrion on a his is not weak at all.
Chariots it depends, Khazrak on his chariots smash without any need of micro, same for exalted hero of nurgle or norscan lords, but the high elves ones are a waste yeah

I guess you've never done the bumpercars Crushing Noble doomstack with the HE? Try it out sometime. It's a bit annoying to recruit if you don't have enough saved characters with the Crushing trait but it's really fun when you get it going.

[Adamsevs]

Originally posted by Pönnukaka:

Originally posted by Adamsevs:

Worst mount is the crab for Vcoast lords and heroes, exception for Gunnery wight & female Admirals who have ranged attacks as the crab allows them to shoot from a higher ground, up the head of the zombies.

Horses are fine, Tyrion on a his is not weak at all.
Chariots it depends, Khazrak on his chariots smash without any need of micro, same for exalted hero of nurgle or norscan lords, but the high elves ones are a waste yeah

I would dare say that crab unit and mount is one of the worst units in the whole game. Bad animation, easy to hit, horrible hit registrations and it's slow. I would never agree it's good for any character. It messes up shooting animation as well, even if they technically have higher elevation, so it's worse, since animation isn't working as smooth and I remember it being bugged at one point.

I always had good outcomes with gunnery wights and female admiral on them, damage wise and accuracy wise it's good to me unless there have been a big change in the last months.
The crab gunners have a big nemesis thought : strong flying units since crabs are big and not speedy enough to escape them, you better shoot them down before they meet your characters or you will loose them very quick, and enemies guns too of course.

Originally posted by Yannir:

Originally posted by Adamsevs:

Worst mount is the crab for Vcoast lords and heroes, exception for Gunnery wight & female Admirals who have ranged attacks as the crab allows them to shoot from a higher ground, up the head of the zombies.

Horses are fine, Tyrion on a his is not weak at all.
Chariots it depends, Khazrak on his chariots smash without any need of micro, same for exalted hero of nurgle or norscan lords, but the high elves ones are a waste yeah

I guess you've never done the bumpercars Crushing Noble doomstack with the HE? Try it out sometime. It's a bit annoying to recruit if you don't have enough saved characters with the Crushing trait but it's really fun when you get it going.

I never tried this indeed, i never really plays doomstacks or very rarely
I just watched a crushing noble doomstack out of curiosity, it destroys enemies for sure i give you that, but isn't just a display of how the trait is strong rather than the chariots themselves ?
Regardless it was fun to watch hehe

[l_pha]

Depends on the lord/hero. If it's a melee lord keep them on foot or on a monster. If it's a squishy caster or ranged lord/hero always keep them on a mount or monster so they can run around the field sniping or casting and to run away from threats

[ope84]

The Sphynx is probably the best mount imho, haven't tried the steam tank mount for the engineer lord

[Peskyfletch]

Best mount is necrofex