What's the best faction?

[Wetherspoons]

About to start a new game, having real trouble with what faction to play as.

In your eyes, what's the best faction? (Including all DLC)

[Darktemp213]

Wood Elves. They are absolutely great in terms of flexibility. Tree Kin alone can withstand so much damage and fight off 3 stacks of melee infantry (even armor-piercing ones) which leaves you more room for more archery to whittle down the advancing army).

My favorite ability of the Wood Elves (or Argwyn) is that they have only 4 major cities (40 slots in total) and the rest are just outposts. This gives you so much flexibility in attacking and raiding. Especially in the late game as these outposts serve as both lookout and minor buffs (I went for the 1% for 30 outposts by the time I finished my Ultimate Objective) (That stacks up to 30% bonus in missile dmg! Imagine that!)

Another lovable ability of Wood Elves is that during the late game, if you have unlocked the replenishment buff + 5% buff from the skill tree, you can practically fight stacks of enemies every turn with almost full hp units! That's ludicrious! Especially since most of the units are heavily centered on ranged dmg. Most of the replenishment will be your front line tanking infrantry (Think 3 Treekins defending your flanks with 2 or 3 stacks of Eternal Guards or Dryads defending your center + your hero + Brainchwrath while having the backline supported with a mixture of Starfire shafts (armor piercing) + Poison tips (poison... debilitating poison!) literally eradicating stacks of enemies as you focus fire down key targets (giants | grave guards | Vargulfs | etc...)

If you love to micromanage your army, Wood Elves is for you.

[StarofTanuki]

Dwarf
- very strong economies
- alot of alliance
- best infantry ingame
- alot of arty
- very annoy Gyrocopter
- far from wood elf and Chaos
- easy to play

but honestly it's depend on player

[Sagranda]

Beastmen.
Their horde system is actually a good one (unlike Chaos) and their unit roster is just awesome.
Though that's mostly because of the Minotaurs, Gorebulls and Cygors.
It is a real sight to see Minotaurs and Gorebulls charging into the enemy, hacking away everything that stands in their path.

Or you go the Morghur path and create a Cthulhu empire of tentacle spawns.

The only annoying thing is that the WEs will chase you over the whole map.


I would have said Chaos though if they had a horde system more similar to that of the Beastmen.
Chaos LLs are just awesome (at least Kholek and Archeon) and their unit roster is probably the strongest all around.
It's not seldom that you fight two stacks of enemies and are able to come out on top.
I also have fun being the enemy of everyone and maw down all those goody-goody-sparkle-pants.



After those two come the Vampire Counts in my book.
They have an overall cool theme and a fun unit roster.
Mannfred and Vlad are also kind of one man armies.

[StrangeAK47]

whichever i'm playing as....
most fun.. greenskinz

[Adore]

Wood Elves with their playstyle.
Beastmen/Chaos for their aggressive gameplay, they dont have any cities to defend, only themselves and its actually cool.
Vampire Counts just because I like undead things in any game.

[I would luck me]

Well, I failed with the Vampire Counts on my first run. My second run was the Empire and I beat that campaign with ease. Just kept in my area and got good with other humans to combine our factions.

[Black Hammer]

Empire and VC.

Wood Elves have a goofy economy that's either crap or OP, depending on how you go about it.
Dwarves are boring, since they have basically one playstyle.
Chaos is too bland a roster.
Beastmen are fun, but less fun than Empire or VC.

Greenskins are also lots of fun, but a bit on the easy side when it comes to the campaign. Basically once you finish conquering the Badlands, your economy (and thus military) are strong enough to roll over the rest of the map.

[Melodious]

For campaign Dwarfs and Greenskins are probably the easiest to get into. Empire are very versatile.

[Green Raven]

Empire isnt neccasseraly the easiest faction, but it is the most vanilla. You start with a city and an army and expand, 4x style.
Its core army is well rounded and familier: Spearman up front, Crossbows in back, Morters provide artillery support, Knights deliver powerful charges to enemy flanks.
Its economy is stable, it has good diplomatic relations with Dwarf and Bretton factions, it can confederate with other Empire factions easily.

Later in the game, you get a huge selection of magic schools to experiment with, and some really cool toys like Steam Tanks and Demigryph Knights. Its definitly a good faction to learn game mechanichs from.

One piece of advice...make building garrison and wall structures a priority. It will save you a lot of grief.

[Green Raven]

My personal favorite faction was the Beastmen. Your essentialy Chaos Commandos, operating in the shadows to support Archaons decisive push.

[Infinite5Void]

I think the vampire counts or the dwarfs even tho the dwarfs how no cav and are slow they have a good economy.

[EnStorEn]

Dwarves, easily.

[drazan]

greenskin

never care about public order! just let revolts and riots happen... they are free fightiness, free exp for your armies and you get money when you beat them

so without caring for public order you can go full income buildings
a minor town should have walls (garrison building) an income building and a building that reduces corruption

you really can't go wrong with greenskin, just keep fighting fight evreything, everytime.. don't be scared to fight on too many fronts, you want it that way! rank up your heroes and lords (goblin big bosses, love them!! they are one if not THE best assassins out there perhaps together with witch hunters

and then there is the greenskin support hoho! da big WAAAGH! lore has among the best supportive spells

[Matthias]

Just playing dwarfs for the first time, but I'll say the orcs disgust me so much, on every conceivable level (e.g. spider archers, squid-humpers etc), I can't imagine even wanting to play them.
In Dawn of War they are fine...

[StrangeAK47]

i think orcs are the most entertaining to play, best animations and alot of management