Any tips to play as Tomb King (Khalida)?

[Evierial]

I recently finished vortex campaign as High Elves and now on the next as Tomb Kings. For Khalida, I have been struggling to push conquests any further than starting province. The Lizardmen just outlast me even I won battles everytime, they usually survive with more than 50% health while 1-2 of my skelly died. All I can do is draw them out of garrison, beat them, go back my province, replenish my troop, repeat.

Khalida starting troops don't help much either. Necro Knight (Cavalry) is weak against spear unit and chasing archer that can fire while moving is a pain too. Stalker (Vanguard), this one I'm not sure how to use them (really), only move to the flank and shoot the rear, still not good at melee as well.

[sergiomorozov]

You should obtain a Casket of Souls as soon as possible.

You should also have skeleton archers.

Lizardmen are bad at defending walled settlements (they have no true ranged), so do not lure them out, besiege and shoot them over the walls.

And of course, wait for a second army and drown lizards in the endless stream of bones.

[A.Pot]

As Khalida, remember that Archers are your best friends. Her Lord traits makes it clear that archers get quite a buff so use those guys as much as possible.

[Mardagg]

Originally posted by al_potenciano:

As Khalida, remember that Archers are your best friends. Her Lord traits makes it clear that archers get quite a buff so use those guys as much as possible.

this +1.
Khalida can get huge buffs on missile troops including some of them also apply to casket of soul.
You already start with poison on every troop in her army, which is quite nice.

The start isnt easy with her as the sentinels of Xeti can field quite strong armies for early game and usually push towards khalida with their main forces and not towards Teclis.
I usally end up luring the main army from them into an ambush near one of my cities so that the garrison helps with the fight and I get replenishment right after the battle. After beating the main army this way you can conquer the last city of your starting province. Stay there , let Teclis finish the job. Next target usually should be cult of sotek. This one is an easy expansion war usually since they got a hard time vs all the other factions around there and should be weakened when you arrive there.

After that I usually go for clan pestilence, which can also be quite tough on legendary.
If you can beat clan pestilence the Khalida campaign usually becomes quite a cakewalk afterwards.

Also with Khailda I would recommend not using canopic jars to get the better generals for 200 jars each. You should aim for the 10k gold /800 canopic jar army +1 thing and only should start spending the jars after you got that.

[Aisha]

I do not know what mardagg is speaking about . Khalida starting province is no where near lustria where pestilence, sentinels of xeti are. I have no idea why u should even hoard 10k gold for a general where clearly you will not be earning much gold.Always get the 6th general for excess chariots to make early game easy. So the idea is to take the first two provinces as quickly as possible and ambush Kroq-Gar starting army at the second settlement of the second proivnce. After that the game becames easier. Khalida is a great duelist however against Kroq-gar use the tier 3 infantry u get along with Khalida. Necro knights should be used as chariots-cycle charge the lizards to break their leadership. It is easy and very much doable but i suggest that the lizards be killed before they starting getting dinos and tier 3-tier 4 armies.

[Andrewbh2003]

Originally posted by Aisha:

I do not know what mardagg is speaking about . Khalida starting province is no where near lustria where pestilence, sentinels of xeti are. I have no idea why u should even hoard 10k gold for a general where clearly you will not be earning much gold.Always get the 6th general for excess chariots to make early game easy. So the idea is to take the first two provinces as quickly as possible and ambush Kroq-Gar starting army at the second settlement of the second proivnce. After that the game becames easier. Khalida is a great duelist however against Kroq-gar use the tier 3 infantry u get along with Khalida. Necro knights should be used as chariots-cycle charge the lizards to break their leadership. It is easy and very much doable but i suggest that the lizards be killed before they starting getting dinos and tier 3-tier 4 armies.

there talking about the vortex campaign lol

mortal empires khalida starts in lybaras

but in vortex lybaras is not on the vortex map so she starts in lustria near teclis and skrolk guys try and spot the guy who never plays vortex

[Mardagg]

Originally posted by Aisha:

I do not know what mardagg is speaking about . Khalida starting province is no where near lustria where pestilence, sentinels of xeti are. I have no idea why u should even hoard 10k gold for a general where clearly you will not be earning much gold.Always get the 6th general for excess chariots to make early game easy. So the idea is to take the first two provinces as quickly as possible and ambush Kroq-Gar starting army at the second settlement of the second proivnce. After that the game becames easier. Khalida is a great duelist however against Kroq-gar use the tier 3 infantry u get along with Khalida. Necro knights should be used as chariots-cycle charge the lizards to break their leadership. It is easy and very much doable but i suggest that the lizards be killed before they starting getting dinos and tier 3-tier 4 armies.

Khalida on Vortex Legendary is much more difficult than on Mortal Empires.
The Problem with the vortex start location is that Teclis often got pretty big problems as soon as Clan Skryre declares war on him (usually around turn 30), which could lead to Khalida facing an enemy there as well. From my experience , you will need 4 or more armies asap to be able to wage war vs skryre and pestilence at once. Best way to do it fast is to spend 10k (or 8k , not exactly renember) and the canopic jars in addition to research.

I do find that money isnt that big of a problem for khalida compared to the other TK´s, probably because you are constantly at war right from the start...and for Khalida this is the only way to play it right on legendary imo (compared to other TK`s that can afford to sit still and do nothing for quite some time).