The AI will be attacking you more since they will think you have no armies but then you'll be ambushing them with an extra army from the garrison. Put armies to Ambush stance next to your cities if you can't handle large invading stacks. Also for Elector Counts, you don't have to have the Lord on the map to reap the benefits, just make sure that you have lord that you can call your Elector Count. I pretty much ignored specific troop research until later, with the exceptions of state issued infantry armor and artillery because: Hell Storm Rocket Batteries are big dick energy.įaction Mechanics: Try to keep at least 1000 prestige in the bank for Imperial Authority events. Mix in Purges and Ambassadors when they're relevant. Continuous Production and Manorialism are both hella good imo. Research: Tithe Rebates > Local Militia > Assembly Line > Engineers' Guild was my start. Research the relevant diplomacy tech if you have extra scratch to make it easier. Also Dwarfs and Eataine are GOD TIER military allies. Most human (Empire, Brets, Southern realms), dwarf and HE factions you'll want a trade agreement with. Be willing to give gifts if you can make back the money via trade. Wissenburg - Let them secede then take everything.ĭiplomacy: try to get trade agreements with factions you want good relations with.

Commence cake walking when Drakenhof's Goldmine is yours. I had two armies, one covering the Moot and threatening Western Sylvania while the other pushed to Drakenhof. Was able to take Castle Drakenhof pretty early on this way. Basically the pattern goes: Wait for their stack > Take it out honorably or *cough* corner camping *cough* > take their next town > Repeat. When Averland falls to VC, take it and turtle. Work to secure military access with Stirland which they'll probably agree to once VC start pushing their poop in. It's kind of hard, but when you take them out the campaign becomes a cake walk. The Vampire Counts (the one I chose) - Hella risky option because of how overextended you are while doing it. Marienburg - Cool cash cow but Norsca will discover you when you take it, so I didn't do this one until after VC. Personally I killed off the faction by taking out his army and razing the town, as I wasn't going to be in a position to deal with rebellions. Pretty low risk but requires an opportunity unless you want to go head to head with his arachnarok. You will have to deal with all of them eventually.Ĭrooked Moons - Skarsnik's town is a good choice if he's away battling dwarves. So here you have options and they all have pros and cons. Take Helmgart now if you haven't already. If they're left on one settlement they'll probably leave you alone, since they're surrounded by enemies.

By this time Massif Orcal will take a peace treaty with you. Once you take out the stack, walk through Marienburg and raze the Greenskin town there.

Most of the time the stack goes through the Helmgart mountain pass, but once in a blue moon they'll go through Marienburg. You can choose to take Helmgart or not.Īfter you finish this, you'll have a Greenskin stack from Massif Orcal knocking on your door. Teleport Karl Franz to do that ambush mission so you don't lose momentum and get your wizard into the army. You'll get a scenario battle after taking Grunburg. Take out all the secessionists and secure Reikland, do it fast and don't stop. Actually just finished this campaign last night and restarted a couple of times to get it right.

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