How to get rid of Chaos?

[MetaliCator]

So I've realized a few things when it comes to Chaos.

1. Once the Chaos army starts it's invasion event, all settlements have +(Number) of Chaos on their land.

2. Even if the Chaos army is not attacking, as long as 'Chaos' lingers around within local province it will grow.

3. Chaos as the 'affliction/attrition' is hard to get rid off of your province, and it can take a lot of turns before you completely cleanse the lands of it.

A few things I've noticed to counter it is the following.

1. Some buildings (e.g Empire) tend to have 'Vampiric' & 'Chaos' Reduction buffs.

2. Followers and Banners, can some times give you 'Local Province' reduction passive buffs that reduce 'Vampiric' & 'Chaos' (In local province).

3. Skills give the 'Lord' or 'Hero' a passive ability to fight off attrition's, depending on the level of the skill you got a (%) of reduction. (As long as the lord is within the province that is corrupted.

4. Some 'Epic' (Purple) Items that can be equipped by the 'Lord' or 'Hero' have reduction as well.


I may have forgotten some, honestly I can't even tell because I've been looking around on the internet and in-game for other ways how to fight off these corruption's and I'm super confused right now.

I have them all probably. Skills? Yes. Items? Yes. Followers & Banners? Yes. Building? Yes.

I have on a single lord at least +20 'Vampiric' & 'Chaos' Reduction and when I station him on my main city (Settlement) I still see (+1) or (+2) Chaos instead of (-1) or (-2). Currently ...somehow despite my 'Lord' having +20 Reduction is sitting on my capital and the settlement has +5 'Vampiric'. But at least I know how to get rid of 'Vampiric', simply eliminate the Vampires, I've done that before and it worked, but with Chaos... I'm at a loss.

I've defeated the Chaos lord and all his raid's, but somehow he still keeps coming back as if he is immortal, but he is not the problem I'm having. The problem I'm having is getting rid of 'Chaos' on my lands, by the time I manage to get it all gone the Chaos lord makes another raid, and 'Boom' where back to square one.

I know the Chaos lord is in the game to keep you on your toes, so people don't get to comfortable in-case they start thinking they have the best army, but in all honesty the Chaos army isn't even an issue anymore to me ...it's that 'Chaos' spreading on my lands.

The internet has some "Solution" from back in 2016/2017 but everyone says 'Defeat the Chaos Lord'. I've killed the guy twice, I even invaded his lands in the North and made sure he wouldn't bother me down South, once I leave him alone he comes back though.

Any ideas guys? because I'm lost.

[Neptune Towers]

It's been a while since I played, but the way corruption works is based on percentages. In WH1, a province can have three modifiers: Untainted, Chaos corruption and Vampiric corruption. Let's take a simple situation, where let's say a province has +1 Chaos corruption and +9 Untainted due to various sources. These add up to a total of 10 points, out of which 1 is Chaos corruption. This means the province will sit at 10% total Chaos corruption. If you lose points in Untainted and/or gain points in Chaos corruption, the percentage will increase in favor of Chaos. For example, if you sat at +5 Untainted and +5 Chaos corruption, you'd have a total of 50% corruption in that region.

The way you generally address corruption is through buildings that provide cleansing (like temples), commandments, technologies (if available) and agents/lords with the right skills. Obviously, as long as there is a source of corruption in your territory you can never fully get rid of it, but you can minimize its effects.

To defeat Chaos, I think you need to kill all of their armies either simultaneously or in a short amount of time, before the wounded lord gets to recover. They get a few waves of guaranteed reinforcements, but I don't remember the specifics. Generally, once Archaon has showed up, if you kill all their armies within something like 5 turns of each other, they should be gone forever.

[KOS]

Kill chaos heroes, chaos lords and destroy the chaos faction.
Get untainted bonuses from building, heroes and lords, colonize chaos ruins.

https://totalwarwarhammer.fandom.com/wiki/Corruption

https://totalwarwarhammer.fandom.com/wiki/Chaos_Invasion

[MetaliCator]

Originally posted by Throne of Rats:

It's been a while since I played, but the way corruption works is based on percentages. In WH1, a province can have three modifiers: Untainted, Chaos corruption and Vampiric corruption. Let's take a simple situation, where let's say a province has +1 Chaos corruption and +9 Untainted due to various sources. These add up to a total of 10 points, out of which 1 is Chaos corruption. This means the province will sit at 10% total Chaos corruption. If you lose points in Untainted and/or gain points in Chaos corruption, the percentage will increase in favor of Chaos. For example, if you sat at +5 Untainted and +5 Chaos corruption, you'd have a total of 50% corruption in that region.

The way you generally address corruption is through buildings that provide cleansing (like temples), commandments, technologies (if available) and agents/lords with the right skills. Obviously, as long as there is a source of corruption in your territory you can never fully get rid of it, but you can minimize its effects.

To defeat Chaos, I think you need to kill all of their armies either simultaneously or in a short amount of time, before the wounded lord gets to recover. They get a few waves of guaranteed reinforcements, but I don't remember the specifics. Generally, once Archaon has showed up, if you kill all their armies within something like 5 turns of each other, they should be gone forever.

Did all that, I literally killed them all to the point there where no more Chaos Lords on the map, then I cornered them on the North for a few turns to make sure no more would come down South. The moment I left the North, 3-4 turns later I get the event message that the Chaos warriors are invading again.

Have you actually managed to completely wipe them out for good?

If yes, does the 'Chaos' attrition stop existing on the map with the extermination of the Chaos army?

[Neptune Towers]

Originally posted by MetaliCator:

Did all that, I literally killed them all to the point there where no more Chaos Lords on the map, then I cornered them on the North for a few turns to make sure no more would come down South. The moment I left the North, 3-4 turns later I get the event message that the Chaos warriors are invading again.

Have you actually managed to completely wipe them out for good?

If yes, does the 'Chaos' attrition stop existing on the map with the extermination of the Chaos army?

Like I said, they get one or more waves of reinforcements even if you wipe them out completely, but I don't remember the exact rules. In any case, it's a finite number of reinforcements. Near the last waves they will spawn with their legendary lords and with a faction of beastmen called the Warherd of Chaos. Once you wipe them out for good, you will no longer suffer from global chaos corruption. It can still be present from regular beastmen or norscan tribes though.

[Neptune Towers]

Lol. The "pillar with a ring on top" is just a Chaos army in the Encamp stance. They probably still had a lord roaming up there or whatever.

[KOS]

Originally posted by MetaliCator:

I figured it out two days ago.

So I'm going to answer my own Question... which is a first for me, just in case anyone out there is having the same issue with Chaos.

So you need to take out all the Chaos armies, and then in the North there is something like a pillar with a floating ring on top, eliminate the enemies protecting it and the Chaos armies stop coming.

What's weird is that I've been to the North before, and I didn't see that thing there before.

It's not a settlement, it was like ...a moving building that contains an army?

We answered your question but you don't listen nor read links i gave.
That is the skin of chaos army when they encamp to recruit.

[MetaliCator]

Originally posted by KOS:

Originally posted by MetaliCator:

I figured it out two days ago.

So I'm going to answer my own Question... which is a first for me, just in case anyone out there is having the same issue with Chaos.

So you need to take out all the Chaos armies, and then in the North there is something like a pillar with a floating ring on top, eliminate the enemies protecting it and the Chaos armies stop coming.

What's weird is that I've been to the North before, and I didn't see that thing there before.

It's not a settlement, it was like ...a moving building that contains an army?

We answered your question but you don't listen nor read links i gave.
That is the skin of chaos army when they encamp to recruit.

Honestly, I did read your comment, I even checked both links on the same day you wrote it. I didn't answer back to you, simply because after testing everything I could, after reading as much as possible, I still couldn't figure it out.

Where in any of the link's you sent me does it say that 'Chaos' lords transform into (buildings) pillars with a floating ring on top of them?

I may have completely missed that part, but after reading it again, I still don't see it.

I appreciate the help, don't get me wrong. But you can't claim I didn't read your comment as if I'm ignoring you.

Like I said before, someone said to take out all Chaos Lords. I was 99.9% I did take them out, I had armies all over the place searching for them, I even camped on the North with two armies to make sure, and I still couldn't see a single one. The map isn't that big when you have 8-9 armies scattered all over the map.

After a few days and many rounds later, I spotted this building thing which I've never seen before, I had no idea what it was, I clicked my army and simply told them to attack it not knowing what it was, I saw the Chaos army defending it and assumed it was some kind of event...

After I killed that army, I got the message 'The Chaos armies have been eliminated' and I realised I finally took them out.

[MetaliCator]

Originally posted by Throne of Rats:

Lol. The "pillar with a ring on top" is just a Chaos army in the Encamp stance. They probably still had a lord roaming up there or whatever.

Apparently so, I'm just new to the game and didn't know they could transform into buildings.

I didn't even know they do that to start recruiting until you just said that, so thanks for that.

[KOS]

Originally posted by Throne of Rats:

To defeat Chaos, I think you need to kill all of their armies

Originally posted by KOS:

destroy the chaos faction.

From https://totalwarwarhammer.fandom.com/wiki/Chaos_Invasion

"Overview
The invasion can be very destructive. The factions who attack are mostly hordes or similar factions, so they tend to raze a lot of settlements. Additionally, there is a global +2 Chaos Corruption during the invasion. "

And if you click on "hordes" you even get a nice screenshot showing you what it looks like :

https://totalwarwarhammer.fandom.com/wiki/Horde

https://totalwarwarhammer.fandom.com/wiki/Horde?file=Hordeencamp.jpg

But yeah nobody answered your question...

[RCMidas]

You know how when other races go into encamp stance they sprout fences and fires around them? Chaos goes the extra mile and turns into the Eye of Sauron. Plus it'll still have their name floating overhead like a giant fiery beacon saying "Kill me"...