Strongest Faction

[warrickbartley]

Yes i know they all have their strong and weak points, but i mean, you know if you had to pick one to defend your kingdom with, no matter what, which one would have the best chance of beating most other factions,
I ask because playing as the Dark Elves , my faves, im having a tough time beating most other factions ,, unless i have a decent advantage, but in an even fight, 9 times out of ten i lose,
So im considering trying out a new one to see if i can do any better,
i have watched tactic and battle guides , but still struggle, maybe the DEs are just too hard for me. im only kind of an average player, any ideas.... thanks

[Bisbas]

The dreadfleet is the most powerfull in my experience. Just begin with the High elves and very soon you can make necrofex doomstacks. No one will stand a chance. Count noctilus gets a building that makes him able to make necrofex anywhere and only on 1 turn, he also can make like 18 at a time... I just had like 8 or 9 Gull stacks and conquered the world easy mode.

[fgalkin]

Originally posted by warrickbartley:

Yes i know they all have their strong and weak points, but i mean, you know if you had to pick one to defend your kingdom with, no matter what, which one would have the best chance of beating most other factions,
I ask because playing as the Dark Elves , my faves, im having a tough time beating most other factions ,, unless i have a decent advantage, but in an even fight, 9 times out of ten i lose,
So im considering trying out a new one to see if i can do any better,
i have watched tactic and battle guides , but still struggle, maybe the DEs are just too hard for me. im only kind of an average player, any ideas.... thanks

The Dark Elves, along with the High Elves ARE the strongest factions. Your economy means you can outnumber everyone else, you have some of the strongest units (Shades, Executioners, etc), and one of the bet Legendary Lords in the game.

[Hieronymous]

Dark elves are glass cannons so once you get enough experience or you tube time, the day will come when you switch from losing to winning and never look back.

A faction like the dwarves or Lizardmen might be more forgiving.

[warrickbartley]

oh right maybe i should explain its not so much the Mortal empire campaige
Its more when im playing a multiplayer battle, or just a custom battle , i can struggle,
yeah i know i can just out number the other factions in ME , but thanks for the feedback

[Mr Nothing]

Old World: ''We got continent shifting transcendent frogs with Jurassic Park on steroids for an army, giant colossal murderstomp F-Off demons, Dwarfs too angry to give up on making sure your entire species is extinct over looking at them the wrong way, trillions of murderous sociopatic psychotic insane crazy steampunk monster rats, Dracula, Imhotep, Karl Franz, boring elves, edgy boring elves, a Supreme Patriarch, an entire army of berserk satanic monster goatmen, and demon vikings!''

Bretonnia: ''We have peasants''


Bretonnia is obviously the most cuberstomp op army. Go with Bretonnia always, Ally with Bretonnia always.

[yuzhonglu]

Ironically, it's Bretonnia. Those paladins that you can mass. And infinite armies.

[Mr Nothing]

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

Ironically, it's Bretonnia. Those paladins that you can mass. And infinite armies.

Preach

[SpiffyGonzales]

Best for offense is easily Bretonnia in campaign, easily skaven in multiplayer
Best for defense is Easily dwarfs in campaign, easily Skaven in multiplayer.

[Hieronymous]

Bretonnia is the strongest in the sense that they have a good start position with few real dangers to face. Other than this geographic accident, they are a weak faction and a weaker concept.

[Wyvern]

DE generally require a pretty aggressive playstyle, but id consider them one of the easiest factions to learn and certainly one of the strongest ones in the game. As for who's strongest? That's highly debatable. Empire, Skaven, Lizards and probably Dark Elves and Tomb Kings are all very strong, but just about every faction has a competitive shot in nearly every matchup provided the player knows whattheyre doing.

[KellyR]

Originally posted by Wyvern:

DE generally require a pretty aggressive playstyle, but id consider them one of the easiest factions to learn and certainly one of the strongest ones in the game. As for who's strongest? That's highly debatable. Empire, Skaven, Lizards and probably Dark Elves and Tomb Kings are all very strong, but just about every faction has a competitive shot in nearly every matchup provided the player knows whattheyre doing.

Skaven and VCoast beat everything else. Once you've played with Ratling Gunners with 3 Warlock Engineers, or VCoast's handgunners, everything else feels anemic.

[SpiffyGonzales]

Originally posted by Hieronymous:

Bretonnia is the strongest in the sense that they have a good start position with few real dangers to face. Other than this geographic accident, they are a weak faction and a weaker concept.

XD HOW DO YOU ALWAYS FIND ME???

[Wh♂♂par]

They replied before you. Of course they will see your future reply sometime.

[Wyvern]

Originally posted by KellyR:

Originally posted by Wyvern:

DE generally require a pretty aggressive playstyle, but id consider them one of the easiest factions to learn and certainly one of the strongest ones in the game. As for who's strongest? That's highly debatable. Empire, Skaven, Lizards and probably Dark Elves and Tomb Kings are all very strong, but just about every faction has a competitive shot in nearly every matchup provided the player knows whattheyre doing.

Skaven and VCoast beat everything else. Once you've played with Ratling Gunners with 3 Warlock Engineers, or VCoast's handgunners, everything else feels anemic.

Op said hes focused on mp battles, in which case skaven have plenty of issues, and voast has some massive downsides and tough matchups(basically anybody with decent mid range is a bad matchup). Campaigns all over the place, and theres a good variety of crazy good builds, skryre troops, necrofex blobs, wood elves with sacrificial grounde etc

[Happy]

Considered doing a co-op? use the strengths of not 1, but 2 races combined to see if that helps?