Advice for taking out Throgg

[grazr]

Dealing with his army isn't too much of a problem, they're not as difficult as chaos; but throgg himself and his elite mamoth just tank so much damage and his regen doesn't exactly do any favours for attrition in the end part of the battle. The chap managed to tank out 3 spearmen and a halberd unit with 2 moderately damaged crossbow units in support. Every time they got close to the killing blow, he'd route the units and regen' enough health to reset the engagement by the time my troops got their moral back.

The other annoying thing was his trolls somehow absolutely dismissed my anti-large demi-gryph knights. What was that about? A full hard-counter charge into a troll charge and they threw my cav out of the way like bowling pins and they [DG Knights] broke before they could do any real damage.

[bbolto]

Empire, huh?

- handgunners

- artillery (cannons or helblaster volley guns or a luminark)

- a fire wizard can help a lot vs. Norsca generally, surround him with halberds and then drop a Flaming Sword of Rhuin on your halberdiers, then hit Throgg with a fireball, he won't like that too much

- or if you have Balthasar, beat him down with final transmutations

- witch hunter with accusation can help

- or you can have Franz and a flying-mounted hero or two gang up on Throgg a bit, Franz with full kit can hit pretty hard, and you can just charge and withdraw and charge and withdraw

Some combination of that should help. I don't know what happened with your demigryphs but I don't know that I've ever tried using them to charge directly into charging trolls

[grazr]

I had some success actually with the luminark and a steam tank in my last engagement.

I was just surprised that level 6 and 7 great cannons didn't do a whole lot and even focusing him with triple level 6 helblasters didn't do a whole lot, so i was surprised. Fire wizards is probably a good shout, i hadn't got any in this campaign as i did so well with bright wizards in the last.

I just got pretty flustered Throgg managed to solo half an army of anti-large melee units in my previous battle even after taking all that artillery fire. But the luminark and steam tank seemed to have a serious edge on him.