What faction do you advice for a noob player?

[Arzon]

I played a lot of Shogun 2 recently but i've been told that War II is totally different because every faction has it's own mechanics.

[Frequent Weaver]

The standard advice is that you start with High Elves with Tyrion as your legendary lord. The HE are probably the easiest faction to play when learning TW:WH mechanics, and they're most like more conventional forces you used in Shogun.

[Darth Wadewilson]

Start as Tyrion. Best faction to learn the game basics and mechanics.

[chickabumpbump]

Or Empire, because they have everything other than monsters.

You will be forced to use micro management, they have cannons to protect, heroes with spells and abilities to use when available, skirmishers and Cav to flank and harass with.

Dwarves are good but they are a sit still faction, solid wall of shields and guns, so you wont really learn much.

Theres a youtuber called Zerkovich who has good videos on faction guides.

[Dagoth Brain Made Of Tired]

Archaon Warrior of Chaos Destroying settlements is fun

[Lenny]

Lizardmen is nice as well. Pretty straight forward, chock and awe. And dinosaurs! 😁

[Arzon]

And guys, sorry for this ot question but, in a coop campaign, if i've a dlc hero (ec. lizardman) that my friend don't have, can i still use that hero?

[Djobi]

Originally posted by Tamatoa:

And guys, sorry for this ot question but, in a coop campaign, if i've a dlc hero (ec. lizardman) that my friend don't have, can i still use that hero?

Yes !

[Edifier]

High Elves that says starting difficulty on easy or Medium.

Wood Elves are also a good start. Mainly because you only really need to care about your main building. Then you can mess around with your main army. They are also strong in Auto resolve.
The settlements basically never revolt and it doesn't hurt you much when you lose one.
But it's a DLC so you might not have them.


Certain Dwarf factions are pretty nice for beginners. Generally all but the Belegar one because he gets 50% extra upkeep on his units until he has a certain settlement.
You can focus on gold buildings and start up your economy and later focus on growth for your settlements.

A thing to keep in mind too. Ranged are superior to melee in mass. So try to keep more ranged units than melee one.
Be aggressive in the start to factions you can wipe out in a turn or two to take them over. It helps a lot. But do it against factions that are not on your side.

[Bagnana]

I'm assuming you only have the base game. I would start out with either the High Elves or Lizardmen. Lizardmen have most of their strongest units without DLC but a more difficult economy, High Elves are easier to play but many of their really strong units are unlocked with DLCs.

Skaven play very differently and the strongest of their roster is not included with the base game.

Dark Elves are high elves but their economy is more work to manage and they play a little differently.

[johntitor88]

ogres

[Milk4Khorneflakes]

Originally posted by chickabumpbump:

Or Empire

Not anymore. Not in Warhammer II where Marcus Wulfhart campaign is challenging in itself, and Empire proper is complicated with "Summon the elector Counts"

[Ashley]

High elves are one of the better campaign factions especially Tyrion. Strong options in nearly every department besides artillery but at least they have access to it. With nearly the whole of Ulthuan being 200% friendly to you making it so you can conquer who you want on the island and confed the rest with next to zero issues.

Though they do have a few legendary lords that get harder depending on how far away they are from Ulthuan.

[Barser]

Tyrion or mazdamundi

[Frequent Weaver]

Originally posted by Barser:

Tyrion or mazdamundi

I'm curious why you would suggest Mazdamundi over Gor-Rok, who is super tanky, gets a discount on saurus units, and starts with Kroak. I don't think of Mazdamundi as being hard, but I feel like Gor-Rok has an easier start.

[Darth Wadewilson]

Originally posted by FrequentWeaver:

Originally posted by Barser:

Tyrion or mazdamundi

I'm curious why you would suggest Mazdamundi over Gor-Rok, who is super tanky, gets a discount on saurus units, and starts with Kroak. I don't think of Mazdamundi as being hard, but I feel like Gor-Rok has an easier start.

Yep.
Everything mazda can offer (heavy magic, huge capital with a gold resource, hip name) kroak beats and raise to the next level. Plus you got gor rok.