Malekith or Malus???

[Craz(Y)een]

Ok ive not played much of the Dark Elfs but going to here soon, and i want to know between these 2 who would be more fun, powerful, can win battles easy and all in all?
I like how Malekith is the leader in a way and is very powerful and everything but start off...seems weak to me in a way, where Malus start off with not only a place on one side of the map but is on another side to take more and starts with a black ark.
So who yall pick and why??

[Xaia]

Malekith sounds like what you are looking for I'm just not a fan of his stupid mask-helmet and generic bad guy attitude.

[Tsatrik]

Malekith is easier. He has stronger campaign,army buffs and he's a very good fighting lord. Plus it's quite easy to confederate with him.

Malus has a very annoying potion mechanic you will need to get used to. He has weaker army/campaign buffs,but as far i played DE he is stronger in combat purely thanks to Tzarkan. If leveled up,he can quite easy delete multiple armies by himself. You can also start in hag graef as malus,just simply replace the lord in Hag Graef with malus,and go on from there.

[Trevalon]

What I am Huckleberry said.

Malekith overall is the better hero, especially cause his campaign buffs are much better and as he said hes a good fighter either way.

Malus is an absolute beast in fighting. My last game with him I had him fully leveled with the Sword of Kaine...lets just say he was wiping entire armies of fully upgraded troops by himself. Like he was literally unstoppable...

But his potion mechanic is annoying IMO and generally not a fun gameplay mechanic.

That being said, playing him in battles was super fun...

[Rokso]

Malekith also starts with an alliance with Malus.
So you'll be able to confederate him pretty quickly.
Ending up with a best of both worlds.

Malus is at his strongest when you are not directly playing his faction. Since you don't deal with his potion he always has Tzarkan available.

[Diggy G]

Malekith campaign is by far the best DE experience, just confed the other LL's and you're good. Absolutely no need to bother with the Malus one (or any of the other other DE's for that matter), they're all uninspired trash.

[Darth Wadewilson]

Malekith.

Malus is probably the best killing machine out there in the battles. Even without tzarkan ability he is formidable. With the ability he can solo any amount of enemies. But campaign debuffs are so bad its not worth it.

[Lack of Stuff]

Start with Malekith, confed Malus. This way you don't have to deal with his stupid potion mechanic.