Impossible to beat the vortex battle in the vortex campaign

[RandomPlayer]

EDIT : Solved, I beat Malekith.

Hi,

I'm playing on hard difficulty with HE as my 1st campaign on TW WH2 and i didn't know anything about the vortex battle.

I'm fighting Malekith with Tyrion as LL and I struggle to destroy Malekith's army which is very, very powerful compared to mine.

My army consists in :
- Tyrion 29
- 6 Phoenix guards
- 5 Hoeth swordmen
- 2 Lothern guards
- 1 dragon prince
- 2 Bolt throwers
- 3 star dragons

I tried different compositions to face Malekith and did more than 10 tries to fight but well, I lose every time.

I really don't know what to do right now concerning this fight ... I didn't even want to do it, I wanted to conquer, that's all.

Is there any way to beat Malekith or, at least, to skip this battle ?

pic of Malekith troops : https://imgur.com/Aaqhdy7

Thanks and have fun

EDIT :
I play right now with :
Tyrion
6 PG
3 SM
6 lothern sea guards
3 SD
1 DP

[Elitewrecker PT]

You don't get the abilities in this battle.

[The1stBowist]

I got the healing and the explosion ability after defeating the first wave. I just fought the battle yesterday.

[Cacomistle]

Publicado originalmente por The1stBowist:

I got the healing and the explosion ability after defeating the first wave. I just fought the battle yesterday.

He's not fighting the same battle. Hes fighting the battle to knock dark elves out of the vortex race after they completed it. Not the battle to win the game after he completed it.

[The1stBowist]

Ahh, okay. In my campain no other race made it to the 4th ritual.

[*! Akster !*]

Pretty much soloed using malekiths spells and the vortex special spells, no idea what the problem is.

If the enemy did the ritual before you I would consider that campaign already lost because you must have messed up so, so badly, many, many, many, many times to have somehow let someone else perform the ritual. You should have performed the ritual and/or defeated all of the ritual enemies by around turn 100-130.

Just spam an army of 20 star dragons? Should be incredibly easy at your point in the game unless you kept to the first tutorial province and just pressed skip turn 300 times without doing anything.

[Kaelus Von Sestiaf]

Publicado originalmente por *! Akster !*:

and the vortex special spells, no idea what the problem is.

Wrong battle. He didn't complete the last ritual, an enemy race completed the last ritual.

[Cacomistle]

Publicado originalmente por *! Akster !*:

Pretty much soloed using malekiths spells and the vortex special spells, no idea what the problem is.

If the enemy did the ritual before you I would consider that campaign already lost because you must have messed up so, so badly, many, many, many, many times to have somehow let someone else perform the ritual. You should have performed the ritual and/or defeated all of the ritual enemies by around turn 100-130.

Just spam an army of 20 star dragons? Should be incredibly easy at your point in the game unless you kept to the first tutorial province and just pressed skip turn 300 times without doing anything.

You don't have to mess up really bad to have let someone else do the ritual. You just have to not really care about the victory conditions.

I tend to stop playing campaigns at the point they're already won, but it tended to be around turn 80 or so I'd have basically wiped 1 faction out of the race and was on my way to wiping out a second. But that means theres a 3rd faction probably across the entire map still trying to complete the vortex. If I for example didn't want to sail all the way back across the world to go kill queek or kroq gar after taking naggarond on high elves, it would be pretty easy for them to go complete the vortex while I'm killing hexoatl and possibly pestilens (or perhaps I might have sailed down and taken all of that island, but then pestilens won the vortex race while I was finishing them and ulthuan off).

You really have to actively stop them. Which I could go ahead and claim is easy, but thats because I have hundreds of hours on the game and have played multiple previous total war titles, and played many rts games before that. But it seems kind of ridiculous to just assume that the OP has several hundred hours on the game and is so good at the game that he needs to make 20-30 mistakes before the campaign even gets slightly in jeapordy.

However I will say 18 star dragons, life caster, and tyrion (ideally with sword of khaine) would be incredibly easy to win the fight with.