Faction Strength and Weaknesses for Multiplayer

A list detailing simple strengths and weaknesses of the faction you wish to play in multiplayer or the one your enemy chooses.
Update Patch 5.0.0

Take this list with a Grain of Salt as the Unit Count won't be updated and is mostly bloated due to Lord and Hero variations.

Overview

This Guide should mainly help you with Multiplayer and does not focus on the Campaign.

This guide will count the Units of each army and mention strengths and weaknesses when playing against them. Some Factions may seem to have a lot more units due to me counting all Lords, Hereos and Regiments of Renown.

Please leave suggestions and corrections when you notice them.

Beastmen

Unit Count 50

STRENGHTS
-High Speed
-Amazing Rush Faction
-Strong Monsters
-Good Cavalry
-No Forest Penalty

WEAKNESSES
-Lowish Leadershiep
-Lack Ranged
-Lack of Armour

Not necessarily the most unique or strongest faction but still lots of fun.

Bretonia

Unit Count: 45

STRENGHTS
-Lots of Cavalry
-Great Lords (Fay, Louen)
-Cheap Infantry
-Some Air Superiority

WEAKNESSES
-Low leadership throughout the army
-Micro Intensive
-♥♥♥♥♥♥ Infantry

If you're good with Cavalry then this faction might be for you.

Cathay

Unit Count: 31+

STRENGHTS
-Harmony
-Great Range/Defensive Options

WEAKNESSES
-Harmony
-Small roster
-Some fragile flyers

Unless you're going for specific strategies you should maybe choose another Faction.

Daemons of Chaos

Unit Count: 62+

STRENGHTS
- Very Powerful Monsters
- Very Large and Versatile Roster
- Lots of Lore of Magic Choices

WEAKNESSES
- Not the best necessarily the best Ranged options
- Your entire army is Daemonic and a lot of options are rather expensive.

Dark Elves

Unit Count: 62

STRENGHTS
-Powerful Damage and Range
-Variety in Units and Monsters
-Nice Flanking options

WEAKNESSES
-Expensive
-Not the best Range

Dwarfs

Unit Count: 48

STRENGHTS
-Very Cost Effective
-High amount of Armor
-High Leadership
-magic ressistance

WEAKNESSES
-Predictable Playstyle/Can be easily abused
-No real Cavalry
-Slow Units

The battle is mostly decided before it even begins, make sure you have a strategy before playing against/with Dwarfs.

the Empire

Unit Count: 59

STRENGHTS
-Good Lord Options
-Very Versatile Roster and Playstyle
-lots of spellcasting options
-Manny Artillery options

WEAKNESSES
-Master of Nothing
-No real Monsters except Karl Franz

Playing with or against this faction often includes the exploit of anothers weaknesses.

Greenskins

Unit Count: 65

STRENGHTS
-Well priced Units
-Great Skirmishers
-Flexible
-Numbers

WEAKNESSES
-lack of flying units
-Mediocre ranged units

High Elves

Unit Count: 69 nice

STRENGHTS
-Powerful Spellcasters
-Rather Flexible
-One of the best Ranged Units
-Dragons

WEAKNESSES
-Expensive
-Struggle against Rush

A strong faction which will usually bring less men then any other faction to the fight.

Khorne

Unit Count: 43+

STRENGHTS
-Very Strong Melee Units
-Expensive Units
-Good Ressistances and options between physical and magical damage
-Great Monsters
-Cultist of Khorne is great for summoning Bloodletters

WEAKNESSES
-Pretty much no Ranged Options
-No Magic

Kislev

Unit Count: 33+

STRENGHTS
-Hybrid Units
-Lots of Ranged
-Bears

WEAKNESSES
-Roster could be bigger
-No Great Magic tbh
-No Flying Options

Barely any options within this Army

Lizardmen

Unit Count: 71

STRENGHTS
-Great Monsters
-Many Playstyles
-Amazing Legendary Lords
-Huge Roster
-Endurance and Healing

WEAKNESSES
-Lack in Ranged options as it's either Skirmishers or Artillery Beasts.
-somewhat Expensive

Norsca

Unit Count: 42

STRENGHTS
-Great Rush Faction
-Good Monstrous Units
-Much Speed
-Rage

WEAKNESSES
-3 Lord Options
-Predictable and Limited Playstyle
-Tiny Roster

Nurgle

Unit Count: 47+

STRENGHTS
- Poison Damage
- Extremely Tanky
- strong but limited lore of magic

WEAKNESSES
- Quite Slow
- little to no ranged options
- lots of large hitboxes
- Lack Anti-Large

Ogre Kingdoms

Unit Count: 37+

STRENGHTS
-Suprising good Ranged Options
-Great Mass

WEAKNESSES
-Expensive
-Weak to Ranged
-Anti-Large will hurt them
-No Flying Units

Mostly rely on their Gnoblars to have a functioning Army.

Skaven

Unit Count: 68

STRENGHTS
-Nasty Ranged Units
-Huge Roster
-Wide range of monsters
-Massive Numbers
-Cheap

WEAKNESSES
-Low Leadership
-Lack Flying

Slaanesh

Unit Count: 45+

STRENGHTS
-Very Fast
-High Damage
-Sexy Chariots

WEAKNESSES
-Micro Intensive
-Expensive
-No proper Ranged

Tomb Kings

Unit Count: 40

STRENGHTS
-Great Constructs
-Nice Ranged
-Some good Cavalry
-Crumble

WEAKNESSES
-few Frontline Options
-Lack Good Flying
-Low Leadership

Tzeentch

Unit Count: 45+

STRENGHTS
-Barriers
-Lots of Flying Units
-Cavalry and Flamers are Remarkable
-Good Magic

WEAKNESSES
-Lack Anti-Infantry
-Doesn't like being rushed/preassured.

Generally don't use Artillery against Tzeentch as their Barriers can save them quite well. Be fast and aggressive against Tzeentch.

Vampire Coast

Unit Count: 49

STRENGHTS
-Powerful and also Cheap Range
-Very good Lords
-Cheap Onion Units which crumble

WEAKNESSES
-Roster has lot of weak units
-Predictable
-Slow

Vampire Count

Unit Count: 50

STRENGHTS
-Powerful Healing
-Crumbling
-Cool Magic

WEAKNESSES
-No Ranged Options
-Slow and Predictable
-Lack anti large

Warriors of Chaos

Unit Count: 67++ Base units

STRENGHTS
-Great Legendary Lords
-Great Rush Faction
-Contains the very best Infantry.
-Very Modifiable/Customizable

WEAKNESSES
-Limited Ranged Options
-Unit Customization can become very expensive very quickly.

Wood Elves

Unit Count: 54

STRENGHTS
-Great Ranged
-Very Mobile
-Strong Variety
-Forest Warriors
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WEAKNESSES
-Squishy
-No Artillery

Chaos Dwarfs

SHORT?! (But chaos and they have lots of fun tools like Hobgoblins and Goblin Laborers)

[[*UNITY*]_ james]

Update for Chaos Dwarfs and SoC?

[Verl]

Yeah this guide was made before the WoC DLC was announced. Updating it rn,

[Thrakerzod]

wow. this certainly needs a remake
lack of anti large for Tzeentch? not after they ended up being the Halberd warrior faction
few legendary lords for WoC? now they have the highest number in the game

[Verl]

Considering Land Battles have been added I might either make a new list or just turn it into singleplayer, since that is what everyone pretty much plays.

[DerRitter]

Onion infantry

[Verl]

It will be updated once they come out

[j.yellow28]

warriors of chaos might get rework when they become availble aswell as some other factions for balance so this isnt the best