How do u destroy the Empire??

[Sanctus Ex3rcitus]

Out of all the factions, the empire is the one i hate the most and after countless losses to them, I still quite haven't figured out how to beat them... Anyone know their counters and how to obliterate them into the orbit before their 50 cannons snipe u out from across the map? I wanna dedicate my whole entire life to destroying every empire player xD

[Wh♂♂par]

Did you consider getting counts, that way you wouldn't be countless.

[Empiro]

It really depends on what faction you are. Against empire, the important aspects are speed and agression.

The rockets are definitely the most dangerous part of Empire. You will want to take them out or close in to the infantry line so they cause friendly fire.

Stuff like vanguard deployment is super helpful. Monsters and monstrous infantry are also less vulnerable to rockets.

[A.Pot]

The key is to eliminate their ranged fire power first. Use fast moving units like cavalry, chariots, flying units and warbeasts to flank and hit those ranged units.

[JODEGAFUN]

Empire is incredible vulnerable aiganst large strong and fast single entities if those come en masse. But more important is which faction do you play?

[OwlRaider]

If you hate the empire play a faction that starts close to them and beat them up early. Vampire Counts are perfect for this, being natural enemies of the Empire and right next door. Norsca and Chaos can also work if you like that play style. Bretonnia can also work if you wish to focus on the empire but as Bretonnia you typically want to focus on other enemies. Other factions will have to go through other enemies before facing off against the Empire so by the time you reach them they're pretty strong already.

With that said, doomstacks work against the Empire just as they work against other factions. The type of doomstack will obviously depend on your faction but it will typically involve spamming a specific single entity unit or a lord spam. Of course you can go 1 man army with a suited legendary lord and the Sword of Khaine, once you have 90% ward save and regen on a strong enough lord, preferably with perfect vigor too, it will take a heck of a lot of Empire to bring you down. But that's just 1 army and only a handful of legendary lords are truly up to this task, and of them not all their factions can handle the Sword of Khaine's penalties on VH and legendary difficulties.

[Father Ribs]

Originally posted by Wh♂♂par:

Did you consider getting counts, that way you wouldn't be countless.

It might count, but I'm not sure it counts if you count Counts.

[Father Ribs]

I defeat empire by destroying their infrastructure so they can't replace those precious cannons as I cover them in huge mounds of goblin corpses.

[funkmonster7]

Depends on who you're playing. The general strategy to fighting Empire is to go straight to Altdorf in the early stages of the game and raze it to the ground.

Then go to Nuln and raze it to the ground as well.

Then go to Marienburg and yep, same thing.

Then Couronne because they will be your next pain-in-the-behind.

Then consider capturing any of these faction capitals (Altdorf, Couronne etc) if they get resettled, to prevent enemy faction leaders from respawning at random (they do that). Make sure you do the sacking/razing first, instead of capturing right away, because you need to sit around and wait for public order to settle down.

I usually chain-sack a city to level up my lords and heroes until rebels pop up, then I let the rebels take the city. Also gives me a chance to kill Karl Franz with multiple lords so they get good traits from killing him.

[Invisible]

Vampire count AI doesn't has any problems to go all way to Altdorf. Empire Military is Medicore at best. They have to use combined arms to work well, the AI is very bad to do this.

[Captainbeastfeast (Rat-ee-JiK)]

strategically destroy each faction 1 at a time and attack early before they tech up. Early empire troops are rubbish cannon fodder. Either destroy reikland before it confederates other factions or allow it to confederate all the others and then attack. The overall goal whichever approach you take is to minimise the NUMBER of different factions you fight and therefore, the quantity of troops you face and the overall number of enemy armies.

Tactically speaking, focus your attacks on destroying primarily enemy missile attacks and artillery. air support and missiles are useful for this. Then kill their cavalry as well. melee Infantry aren't much of a threat mostly and can be killed afterwards. if you are playing an undead faction or have ethereal units the empire struggles with these quite a bit as they don't have many magical attack units that can actually hurt them. They also inflict terror and fear which can wreck empire formations and morale.

If you are tired of the empire taking their land back off you then abandon the settlements that you take from them. I usually hold these settlements to recruit more troops, however.

[Eclipse]

On legendary you need to target them asap one by one. Becase if they confederate this would be easily gg. If they confederate with Bret also this would be gg for sure.