any tips for dealing with an army with the sword of khaine?

[Sundowner]

So Eltharion is looking at me with a wild glint in his eye and drool coming from the corner of his mouth whilst holding the sword of khaine and being level 40...he brought his friend alastar with him. ive been able to attrition his army down to half health and slapped alastar back to ulthan but ive heard how OP the sword can make an enemy and before i commit to taking him on was just wondering if theres anything I should know before attempting to kill him?.

Luckily eltharion is on the run and is diving head long into hostile skaven territory so maybe ill get lucky and theyll take him out for me? lol... but then they might get the sword? haha this is interesting.

[wpegg]

It's not that OP in except in the hands of the player. The main benefit it gives is a load of ward save, but that only becomes really valuable when you're leveraging other items in order to get it up into the really high levels.

On their own an AI enemy with the sword of khaine is just a tough general, you can expect him to take out 2 or 3 units, but you'll overpower him. Easiest way is to throw a load of chaff at him to confuse his targetting, then mix in your heroes to actually deal the damage.

You could also spirit leach him to death if you have that, just save all your magic for slowly ticking down his defenses. Missile attacks obviously shred anything if you have enough of them.

The key thing is to take out the army first, ideally separately, so have him chase one of your faster heroes around in circles while you army loss him, then because he's unbreakable with the sword you'll be left with just him to focus down.

[veracsthane]

fan out better. like wpegg said its not that op. if you fan out better it will only hit one unit which will hurt but not as much as if it was hitting 3 or 4.

also look at how stacked the resistance is. you might be able to have a hero heavy army that can snipe it if a spear unit is used to increase hit rate ect.

there are like 3 or 4 ways to deal with it like how legend of total war with certian saving disasters will just kite a lord

or ranged artillery/archers army lossing as fast as possible with magic.