Best melee Lord?

[identity]

Curious what everyone thinks the best melee Lord is. That is, the one with the best skills and potential of demolishing armies singlehandedly.

I usually play pretty heavy with lords and heroes. Probably one of the main reasons I like this game so much. Even before this one, I always tried to make the general good at fighting. Shogun is probably my second favorite, but the lords are a lot squishier and have too much of an affect on morale to work well.

[Barser]

Kholek. Oh I forgot about ulfrik on a mammoth. That is probably better.

[Aenarion]

I did some testing here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/364360/discussions/0/1471969431603473010/

Durthu came out on top. Wulfrik on mammoth is about the same. I didn't test Kholek though,

[Emmental]

Kholek is better now he has armour. Back when this first came out he had 30 it was pathetic.

[Sargeist]

Vlad is at least one of the best. He can get three sources of HP regen (the hunger, bloodrinker, Carstein ring) plus he has pretty solid stats making him a really tanky melee lord.

[Raviollius]

Vlad would be the best at the job but the regen cap screws him hardcore(making it pointless to have multiple regen sources). He is still the best "general" Lord if you invest in his red tree though, due to his innate deployment skill.

As it is, Durthu/Wulfric are the best ones, unless you use a mod to remove regen cap.

[Raviollius]

Vampire Lords, because they are good casters which wear armor, shields, and kick ass/regen in melee.

[Wyvern]

Depends on a lot of factors, honestly, mount or not, cycle charge or not(even a generic empire general could terrorize a lot of the better melee lords if mounted on a gryphon+cycle charged), special abilities or not, spells or not.

But in straight up melee combat without abilities and without spells the best generic lord is going to be a tossup between the dwarf lord, orc boss and chaos lord imho, I haven't actually done any testing to confirm which it would be though.

[Ddraig Lleuad]

It depends a lot on how you level them. Kholek probably has the most potential, since with the right banners and magic items he can hit about 90% damage reduction, but setting aside probably-exploits like that and sticking to 'conventional' levelling, Durthu is probably your best bet - wood elf skills are just /better/ than those of other races. Straight out the gate or in custom battle format though, it's harder to say.

[Jork]

arc. heaon is so khool easily teh best guy cuz hes a choas campion and nice armor + fire sowrd =)

[TaurusBully]

How do you cycle charge? Just send it away to fly after the first hit and repeat ? Can that be done when other units trumple you (like, there is the Lord you cycled plus some habeldiers, for example)?

[Raviollius]

Originally posted by TaurusBully:

How do you cycle charge? Just send it away to fly after the first hit and repeat ?

Look at the stat "Charge Bonus". You add that to your melee attack/damage when you charge, it quickly goes away over fifteen seconds. Cycle charging is disengaging then recharging every 10-15 seconds to keep receiving that bonus(and causing impact damage).

Originally posted by TaurusBully:

Can that be done when other units trumple you (like, there is the Lord you cycled plus some habeldiers, for example)?

You can force-move away from clumps of units(just keep trying to move away from them) if your unit has enough mass(as in, if it's bigger/heavier than the enemies), it'll throw them to the sides. Otherwise, the best way is to not get encircled in the first place.

You can't fly if you're currently taking damage, so stuff that is faster than you and can cause damage will keep you from flying indefinitely.

[Archmystic]

grimgor is best vs multiple units
kholek/durthu/wulfric vs singles

[Кiт Максим]

vlad because i like twilight

[StarofTanuki]

In campaign now all Chaos lord but i hate Sigval most because he has small hit box which it make i can't snipe him and he also has freaking regen.

[ashbery76]

Dont know about the game but Kholek in reality would make the others ♥♥♥♥ their pants and run away.