Questions about the King of The Tombs campaign (in the Vortex part)

[Emmanuelexe]

i have a question for people who played TWW2 with the Kings of the Tomb (the egypt style faction, sorry, not sure if the name is king of the tomb). Should i conquer the most "cities" i can to get the 5 books or should i send just 1 team to get the city (and lose it later) but not conquer everything close to the cities who have the books? What strategy should i use (without spoiling in case :D, sorry for my english :'
We don't have to care of the vortex anyway, right? so we have all the time for it?....

[MELBONGO]

The books aren't in cities but are armies all across the vortex map.
And no as tomb kings you do not join the race for the vortex.

[THEDOSSBOSS]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥:

The books aren't in cities but are armies all across the vortex map.
And no as tomb kings you do not join the race for the vortex.

Well, some are connected to settlememts, there is one on the southern-most point of lustria as well as one on the pirate coast. The settlements had multiple owners before I took them but the books remained. The books are either rogue army-connected or settlement-connected.

[Blackfyre]

Lost Plataeux x1, Vultures Peak x1, The Awakening x1..so there are 3 books in settlements all quite close to your TK starting position. Just take the whole desert, and build Pyramids..good faction boost...then turn your attenion south.
There are 2 more books in the south attached to nasty 20 stacks. Hit them with a Tomb Prince (assault units) or sandstorm (rite) to weaken them and take them out, ( go for the Lord as the majority are lvl 5-9 units) at least you have a chance of them breaking.

[Nova Samurai]

Only like 3 books are in cities. You don't have to care about the vortex, but it still doesnt mean that you cant send a army or 2 to take a city that helps the races that are going for the vortex :P

As for strategy, What I did was conquer most of the desert area as you'll need building spots to increase construct unit spots. Then go for some of the books as they are far away (some in cities, most in rogue armies) and that requires atleast 2+ armies each or 1 powerful army.

[Emmanuelexe]

Oh i see for the books!
Yeah, i got the first book from the Orcs people, dat battle and i destroyed the Tom King faction on the right (i'm Settra Faction), i thought i should have did an alliance with them but i suppose not really then!
Should i conquer the whole desert?
Thanks for the info!

[RCMidas]

Since Tomb Kings cannot confederate with each other, annihilating every other faction of them in Nehekhara is advised since you have several Pyramids to construct that will provide some juicy bonuses. Then it's a case of focus on whichever book you want next. The ones that bolster commandments, heroes and army capacity should be your priority.

The Rogue Armies, ideally, should be weakened as much as possible by sandstorms and hero actions before you engage them - the Pilgrims of Myrmidia sailing around Ulthuan, however, will always be at full strength and will, uniquely for these particular Rogue Armies, be limited to autoresolve, whereas the others MUST be fought.

Vulture Mountain, being dwarf territory, is a very nasty nut to crack, you'll want to build up a strong Tomb Guard and Ushabti army for that, or just hurl about four armies of Skeletons at it all at once.

The other settlements, typically The Awakening and Lost Plateau, are much nicer places to attack, unless you let them get taken over and fortified by stronger enemies - such as the Lizardmen of Xluanhuapec or the Dwarves of Karak Zorn. This is extremely rare, however, so you won't usually need to "rush" them and just let the city fall shortly after taking it.