What's the Deal with Dwarves?

[PaulGR]

What the hell is the deal with Dwarves? I am playing as Ikit Claw and at some point I was warned that Dwarves are going berserk (no more diplomacy with them).

For the last 100 turns I have been defending non-stop against waves of Dwarves and there is absolutely no way they can sustain endless armies of 20/20 with so few settlements that they own.

I assumed that they will go full-war until defeated, yet they keep spamming more and more armies. I literally can't leave my province because if I do they will just burn me to the ground.

I am playing on Normal difficulty.

[Fryskar]

End game crisis picked dwarf, so dwarfs went amok.
If you don't want a crisis, disable it.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Crisis event. It's in the game settings.

[Many-Named]

On why you should carefully examine your settings before starting a campaign LOL

[PaulGR]

Since I am deep into Turn 180 and I've been doing so well, is there a way to make them stop this midlife crisis without starting a new game?

It's just annoying because it certainly is impossible for them to fund so many troops non-stop. It feels like cheating.

Do I have to burn them down completely (all their settlements)?

[Elitewrecker PT]

No

Yes

[PaulGR]

Originally posted by Many-Named:

On why you should carefully examine your settings before starting a campaign LOL

I mean I just started a Normal game with the Default settings. I'd be ok with them attacking until the extra armies they spawned are defeated but they just keep spamming more and more armies and it makes no sense resource-wise.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by PaulGR:

Since I am deep into Turn 180 and I've been doing so well, is there a way to make them stop this midlife crisis without starting a new game?

It's just annoying because it certainly is impossible for them to fund so many troops non-stop. It feels like cheating.

Do I have to burn them down completely (all their settlements)?

Yes, you just wipe them out and they will stop spawning, simple.

Also believe me, without those end game crisises the game gets incredibly boring in later stages of the campaign. Enjoy the difficulty while you still can, you will eventually get good enough to the point where even an end game crisis is pretty much a joke.

[Many-Named]

Originally posted by PaulGR:

Originally posted by Many-Named:

On why you should carefully examine your settings before starting a campaign LOL

I mean I just started a Normal game with the Default settings. I'd be ok with them attacking until the extra armies they spawned are defeated but they just keep spamming more and more armies and it makes no sense resource-wise.

I play on higher difficuties than normal and I often just disable it. By the time it fires off I'm usually already looking to stop the campaign thru a victory and it just turns everything into a slog, even tho the end game crisis unit composition is trash.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by PaulGR:

Originally posted by Many-Named:

On why you should carefully examine your settings before starting a campaign LOL

I mean I just started a Normal game with the Default settings. I'd be ok with them attacking until the extra armies they spawned are defeated but they just keep spamming more and more armies and it makes no sense resource-wise.

Thats basicly how the chaos invasion worked in tww1 and a part of 2. They died off very quick and became a meme.

[Fear2288]

Yeah, this is an end-game “apocalyptic” type scenario that was chosen randomly from the small list of them for your IE campaign.

They’re not gonna stop.

You have four choices:

1. Defeat them by taking or destroying the settlements it lists in your objectives menu for the scenario.

2. Hunker down and try to survive and pray that the other AI factions knock out the Dwarves or at least whichever of their settlements is closest to you so that you have some breathing room.

3. Be defeated.

4. Give up and start a new campaign.

Unfortunately, these end-game scenarios aren’t intended to be “fair” or “realistic”. They’re supposed to be lop-sided final events for you to overcome and claim ultimate victory in your campaign.

If you don’t like the concept or don’t like specific ones, you can disable all/any of them in the settings when you start a new campaign.

[The Grand Mugwump]

There's also a setting which allows you to continue having diplomacy with crisis factions. It's quite fun to make peace with them and watch them ruin someone else's day for a while.

[demoslasher]

Ill be honest, I normally just turn off end game crisis. I am not fond of any "poof here is 20 free armies" mechanics. It just turns into a grind where you take advantage of the poor AI and the next 20-30 turns are kind of derailed as you take out the random full stack armies that get summoned. It adds nothing to the game but more pointless fights. I prefer it if the game is just a little bit harder, especially on legendary, where the other faction actually earn their armies, not just have them handed to them for free

[Basarab Laiota]

you only have 1 province after 100 turns?

[jerk]

All the endgame crisis do is severely reduce the variety of enemies in the end game, switch them off

[SBA77]

Originally posted by I'm bringing the thunder.:

All the endgame crisis do is severely reduce the variety of enemies in the end game, switch them off

As if Ordertide didn't do that enough in the last game :p