Your favourite race/class and why ?

[Lord Haart]

Hi,

I wondered what race and class people like to play.

I know there are many combinations, but what do you like ?


I'm a bit boring with this I go Human Dread or Warlord.

Tbh I have hardly played the other classes and races, what am I missing ?




Would love to hear your opinons.



Thx in advance for your time and thought.

[Jonathan Hunt]

I like Human Dreadnought and Warlord)

[Lord Haart]

Ur naughty.

[pipo.p]

The eternal question. Do you have the extensions? Any race/class combination takes a new savor when you play with specializations. I'm not sure if this will be enough to not get bored the same as you get bored with the combinations you play with, but you could try. I mean, if your play style revolves around base units, or even around some class units, then you'll find that the game has the same flavor, except for (minor) racial variations. I believe that the key is to build a play style around skills (both from class and specialization), and play units as they complement this choice. It's kind of "RP", and perhaps not good for being OP, but I find that more challenge is better to not getting bored.

For exemple, I find it hard to take Partisan and actually play it. Or Chaos Magic, and actually use the spells on each battle (besides the obvious debuff spell).

[Fay]

It's been several months since I played but I do recall liking both the least conventional races (tigran and frostling) and the most "human" ones (humans and high elves). Honourable mention to goblins because goblins are just a bit cute and silly.

As for classes I think I played a lot of theocrat but sorcerer and necromancer are also pretty fun. (they all are but you get what I mean)

[Move2Bastyon]

Pure fav race has to be the Frostlings, I just love trying to work out ways to freeze things, love that mechanic so much

And fav class has to be Necromancer, just because of Ghoul Curse, just so powerful and lets you get any unit from the game into your army that you normally can't get. And then with the reanimate stuff, it's hard not to love that.

Also really like the Draconians for their healing and the Dwarves for their tankiness. And I like the Sorcerers for all the powerful spells and floating units and the Warlords for their Warbreeds.

But really I just love the variety in this game, every match always feels new and different like playing a brand new game each time. Very refreshing. Game doesn't get as boring as most games do after playing so much.

I've kind of grown to love all races and classes for their own flavour now.

[frank327]

I really like races that are more melee focused like Humans and Draconians although I like goblins as well for their unique style. I tend to lose too many units in combat anyways and with goblins I don't feel so bad about that.

For classes I tend to pick up combinations that make sense Lore wise and are strong as well like human dreadnought, Draconian fire sorceror and goblin warlord.

[sinobas]

I like the Druid class with the Tigran race, because of how powerful the Dire bear gets. In one game I just kept leveling them up and they had like 140 hps per piece, they inflict panic with every attack, do massive amounts of damage....

Elves are great too with the racial upgrade that grants 10 cp per great temple, and longbowmen/hunters are a great early game unit.

[jaersavo]

I like to combine stuff. Frostling dread for this reason is great. Get your ice queen next to a few units, chill them, make frost nova and then roll in your frost tank. Insane damage.
Or goblin necro. Blight doctor uses weaken, then comes your stinky scout and let's goul the hell out of units.
Tigran rogue with backstabing and increased movement is also a lot of fun.
Really have to force myself playing other races/classes to discover new stuff. I discovered that the frost tank exists after like playing this game for 700hours.
The amount every one of us wants to list up shows how great a game this is.

[Gladen]

Halfling Dreadnought. With Grey guard master and expander. The quick expansion is insane with good economy and combined with suppress nature makes them immune to any terrain effect. Then Party prototype being a machine support to rest of units and fireworks makes them real fun to play.

[Dunadd]

Elves are my favourite race as i love archery. Elf rogue and elf druid are my two favourites in the unmodded game. Elf rogues get to recruit bards - which are half decent archers as well as their other abilities - most importantly boosting army morale to increase the number of critical hits your units do in combat, and make morale less bad in disliked terrain.

Elf druids get spells that boost elves (normally low) city growth rate and their Long strider empire upgrade makes all archers and support units move much faster on the campaign map and in battles. They get a strategic spell that reduces the morale penalties for terrain too. And their 40% blight damage protection skill for their armies reduces elves vulnerability to blight damage.

Theocrat is a very nice class with crusader infantry, and flying elite infantry, plus an empire upgrade that gives all your support units healing, the Slayer's doubt spell which slows and reduces the morale of enemy units so they do less damage and your ranged troops can often take them out before they get into melee. And if you take Creation specialisations with it gets the Bane of The Unnatural spell which makes all your units do massively more damage against undead, summoned and magical origin units.

But tbh if you've not got the main expansions and installed all the mods that work with them, that's probably what you're missing most - e.g Empire Building Mod adds new racial skills that heroes of that race can get (including tier 2 elf archers), new buildings and new units for each race, and new mystical city upgrades that you can build if you clear locations in a city's zone of control ; there are other mods that add a tonne of units for every race and every class (biggest is Chivalrous Intentions, but there are several others including New Arsenal (which adds tier 3 elf rangers) - and they're mostly compatible with one another and Empire Building mod). There are mods that add new items.

There are mods that let you recruit class units from inns, or let you recruit more units from inns as well.

Whatever race or class you play you'll end up with a much bigger choice of unit types to recruit and to fight against with mods.

There's a version of the Enhanced Garrison mod that's compatible with EBM too - it lets you summon garrison units as a free action, one for each type of building you have in a city (e.g if you have an archery range it lets you summon a unit of tier 1 archers if the city is attacked).

There's a mod adding mounted support units. There's one adding lots of new mounts (including dragons).

There's even the Deluxe Specialisation Combination mod which lets you take more specialisations - and make custom AI leaders that have more too.

[sandman25dcsss]

Orc theocrat. Tireless crusaders, curse from support for conversion, no problem with "do I want melee or range" - of course melee since there are no decent ranged units, orc problems (lack of healing, low resists) are solved. Theocrat is the most fun class, it has both evolution and conversion.

[Vvv]

For me it's the humans because knights are the best imo. I just love their glorious look. Other than that humans are quite versatile in their gameplay.

[Krec]

I like the Cats. Fast , Bleed , Pounce , Prowlers with nets , Tigers Chariots really nasty on small maps.

[jaersavo]

The Chivalrious intentions mod put a completly new light on this. I enjoyed Frostling Sorcerer a lot. The physical damage resistance of the northern light. Freeze ability of many units.
My next game will be with human necromancer, just for Dullahan I would already want to play this combination.
I've seen some suicidal Goblins, which I also really like