Do magic attacks ignore armor?

[Green Raven]

Im playing as Slyvania, and Im breaking my teath trying to take down the dwarves.

[chef]

Which magic attacks are you using? Also i believe dwarves are pretty magic resistant not sure how that actually works though.

[harleyquinrazer]

They ignore physical resistance from ethereal units. Get armour-piercing damage for dwarves. Dwarven 20 (25?)% magic resistance actually reduces the effectiveness of magic attacks against them.

Cairn Wraiths don't have a problem against dwarves because their attacks are both magical and armour piercing.

[Green Raven]

Im thinking of deploying hexwraiths

[harleyquinrazer]

Best units against the dwarves for vampires in my opinion are crypt horrors, varghulfs and cairn wraiths (magic resistance reduces some damage inflicted, but regular dwarf units don't have magic attacks so they struggle to break the wraiths down).

Dwarf units don't regenerate unless they have some kind of special banner, the heroes and lords don't seem to get regeneration either from a convenient source so flaming attacks aren't as essential as armour piercing ones.

[StarofTanuki]

If i'm playing Dwarf i have ploblem with Varghulf ,Bigbat and Cav.

If in campaign . move your lord and army to close of them , spam Zombie disable Slayer or range unit ,Charge every unit at same time .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wdIXzK9O4w

[jake.michelsson1]

You need the great weapon Grave Guard or the Cairn Wraiths. Your other infantry could give it a go if you have the regen'ing corpse cart as support (need grim and the grave dlc). The dwarves all have too high armor and leadership to lose against the crappy, early VC infantry. Regular grave guard would work vs the lower tier dwarf armies, but struggle when the longbeards /w great weapons start spamming down into Sylvania.

Besides that, cycle charging Varghulfs, Vargheists and Crypt Horrors are your best bet (I don't like the terrorgheists in campaign, too much upkeep, not to say they can't be worth it).