And they also have some good artillery, like the Greatcannons and Helstorm Rockets, that can do pretty great damage before the enemy army even gets to your frontline. They also have some really good cavalry in the Reiksguard, outriders, and Demigryph Knights. Crossbowmen are fine missile damage, and Handgunners can do good armor piercing missile damage. Spearmen make a fairly good frontline when paired with Greatswords and Halberdiers. Taking marienburg also means you'll probably have to deal with Rakarth and Norsca fairy early.Īs far as army composition goes, they're a fairly well rounded roster. You can deploy your troops right next to where the enemy is, get the Knights charging the rear where the artillery is as that's the most dangerous units.ĭon't go for marienburg too early! Yes the port is good income but you really need it at tier 3 to be worth while so let the AI Build it to Tier 4 before taking it. Having him around, no matter what school he's from, really makes things easier. The battle for bloodpine woods is pretty easy, do it early to get the wizard levelling up early.
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Then confederate them slowly when you've built up a good power base.īuild all of reikland up to tier 3 as quickly as possible and concentrate in economy and growth buildings once you've got a full 20 stack for franz.
Don't confederate just because it's offered, you're much better off farming a load of imperial authority by rejecting the confederations and let the AI build up all the settlements/deal with chaos invasion for you. If they do it via low fealty then that's something you can't really avoid.īuild up as much imperial authority as you can. I could go on but hopefully that helps, and playing on normal will be forgiving enough until you really get the hang of things.FOR SIGMAR!ĭon't directly declare war on other elector counts. It has Nuln which is the empires headquarters for artillery it has a great landmark building that buffs artillery. If they do that’s great it’s easy to wipe them out and that gives you two full neighboring provinces in the early game. One more little tip for whatever reason Wisseland to your direct south does not like you and I’ve even had them declare war on me before. Eradicating the vampires should be ur top priority, and preparing for the likelihood of Grimgor taking over the badlands and becoming the REAL end times threat of your campaign.Īlso as you acquire new provinces in the empire you need to manually appoint lords as elector counts to gain access to the special empire troops that each province has like the carroburg great swords or emperors wrath steam tank, and so on. The vampires will bum rush Stirland and Averland so you will need to get involved, and that’s another way of gaining IA is returning lost cities to the electors (you also lose IA whenever elector counts lose cities). It is a cash cow but it draws the attention of Norsca to you.leave it and let Marienburg mess with them. Norsca and sometimes even Rakarth like to come sniffing around, and for your first time I’d suggest leaving Marienburg alone. Once you’ve secured Reikland I always leave a huntsman general in that fort nearby and a few extra units.until that fort gets to tier3 it needs a little help with the orc invasions.īuild walls on all ur minor settlements in Reikland so you don’t have to babysit them. If you don’t have the necessary imperial authority(IA) to confederate then don’t, I like this in the early game because the AI builds up those cities on their dime not yours. Imperial Authority is important so is prestige so save that up.