Easiest Faction/Race To Understand For New Players?

[Dwight Hut Pizza]

I'm relatively new to this kind of genre of games and was wondering what faction or race is the easiest one to understand that I can start off with. I've already played the game a bit to understand the basics but I would now like to actually play through a campaign. Also since I do own the first game I have the option to start with the Mortal Empires campaign if you recommend playing that first.

[yojimbo1111]

High elves are pretty much agreed to be the easiest faction to play. Missle units tend to be the most useful ones in the game for killing capacity and spearmen can hold the line and protect them from cavalry (lord, hero, 2 spearmen, 14 archers, 2 bolt throwers is my go to army early on). I find Bretonnia to be the easiest campaign to complete in general since you don't need to expand that much.

[WolfWhiteFire]

High Elves are generally considered a good race for a new player, especially playing as Tyrion. If you have the DLC, personally I think the Tomb Kings race could also be a good race for new players, since in some ways the game is simplified to an extent. The main difference with the Tomb Kings are that all their units are free to recruit and cost no maintenance, instead you have a cap amount of each unit type, increased with techs, heroes, or by building more military buildings. The reason I think they can sometimes be easier for a new player is because it is impossible to overexpand your armies and end up paying far more than you can afford in maintenance.

Your best bet is still the high elves though, the Tomb Kings tend to have harder starts since you can only have one army until turn 20 or so. If you go high elves, I would recommend Tyrion, if managing maintenance and trying to figure out when to upgrade to better units ends up being difficult, then the tomb kings would be a good alternative. Probably Settra, he is supposed to have the easiest start and can get pretty powerful later on.

As for whether to play Vortex or ME, that is mostly a matter of personal taste. Do you like having a basic campaign and a sense of direction to help you figure out what to do next? Vortex is probably the best choice, every faction has a sort of mini-campaign that, while not in-depth, could provide goals for you to pursue. High Elves, Dark Elves, Lizardmen, and Skaven follow a Vortex campaign that tends to throw large waves of enemies at you, the other factions have their own goals. Otherwise, if you prefer just regular conquest and a large map, ME is your best option, the map is much larger than the vortex map and the only goal is conquest. If you have a favorite race from the first game, you might want to consider that to start with something familiar, as all the races from the first game are present on the map.

[Dwight Hut Pizza]

Alright thanks I think I'll start off with the high elves and so that way I can have some direction I'll do the Vortex campaign first and see how I like it.

[Zoie Shales]

Yea, I'd probably recommend the high elves as a start too, normally Id be on the Skaven for how great their toys are but in early campaign they can be very tricky.

[JODEGAFUN]

Tomb Kings and Skaven are great to play, if you know the game allready. Lizards (Gor Rok, not Tehenhauin) are easy to play if you start with Gor Rok (he is the easiest now, just make a saurus spam and hunt down clan Pestilence before they start to get annoing and it is cake walk)