Wood Elves vs Dwarves?

[Tsar Alexis]

How? No matetr what i do the frickin dwarves late game kick my wood elf butt. Any advice how to deal besides rage quit? Even auto battle is of no help as the chance of winning is like negative almost. I have the tree beard things and amber using cavalary etc but the dwarves kill...

[harleyquinrazer]

Armour piercing, how much of it do you have?

Magic attacks work less well on dwarves due to magic resistance, but there are definitely units with non-magic armour piercing attacks in the elf roster. Do you have enough of them?

Dwarves are slow and cumbersome but they'll beat equivalent elf units if it's stand and shoot until both sides run out of arrows. Clever tactics can force the dwarven units out of position to be destroyed in detail.

Unless you're playing on legendary difficulty, pause and slow-motion for real-time battles is more or less mandatory when playing the elves.

[chronobomb]

Watch some videos!

Here is the Dwarves vs Elves in MP with commentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1GHcjuujM&list=PLFJQhY3l3azZdCv_fMFI-mA2ySRRvmE21&index=164

[Tsar Alexis]

Thank you Both.

[Shandor]

Im suprised how good Hawk Riders work against them. Never noticed what difference Armorbraking does since i attacked some Chaos Chosen with the Hawk Riders and they killed them very fast.
Now i use them to get rid of the Dwarves. You just need to take care of the shooting. They are not very durable.

So my tactics is.. split the Ranged units from the melee units.. as soon there is some space between them.. my Wild Riders and Hawk Riders attack and kill all ranged units. Artillery first o/c.

My Treeman/Treekin hold the line wile my archers (Mix between Poison and Starfire) support them. change targets often with the Poison arrows because the debuff is very good against melee units. It lowers almost all vital Stats a unit needs to be good in close combat. (even armorpiercing)
As soon my Cav (Ground and air) is done with the ranged units they charge the back of the Infantry.

Thats it very much. Aviod Treekin against Armorpiercing units. If a Dwarven units breakes through your lines and attack you archers kite them around.. they are slow.

And have a Lore of Life mage. It works wonders for Treeman and Treekin. They can hold out much longer with some healing.