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[Teneb]

I had a bad time during my Bretonnia run. Mostly because I prefer flanking infantry for, well, flanking, and monsters for charging.

In the end I just made full stacks of Knights of the Realm and charged everyone in their unchivalrous faces.

[umiman]

In MP, most people use Battle Pilgrims as their front line troops. They're not very good but have tonnes of morale.

[Tack]

Yeah, personally still super dirty about empire flaggelants.
Unbreakable and frenzy and DR when losing = Rude

[Teneb]

In MP, most people use Battle Pilgrims as their front line troops. They're not very good but have tonnes of morale.

You mean infinite morale?

[Digital Hellhound]

I went pretty micro-heavy on my Bretonnia run. If wielding only cavalry: split your forces in 3-4 groups, bait, harass and split enemy while hit-n-running constantly. The AI is pretty easy to mess with. If wielding infantry too, do all you can to keep the enemy from actually reaching them, hammer-and-anvil if this fails. Foot Squires and Battle Pilgrims are good enough infantry, melee heroes very valuable there. Flying units are great and sneaky but more fragile than you might expect. Trebuchets are lovely too.

I dunno if this is the ideal Bretonnian tactic, but it worked. Except against Wood Elves. If you play Bretonnia, you will learn to hate their poncy tree-loving faces as much as I do.

[Teneb]

I found that wood elves never, ever leave Athel Loren when I play any of the Bretonnian factions. Why? I don't know, but I can be at war with them for over a hundred turns and leave my cities empty and they won't leave their magic forest.

Fuck trying to actually fight them as Bretonnia in their home though.

[thvaz]

I went pretty micro-heavy on my Bretonnia run. If wielding only cavalry: split your forces in 3-4 groups, bait, harass and split enemy while hit-n-running constantly. The AI is pretty easy to mess with. If wielding infantry too, do all you can to keep the enemy from actually reaching them, hammer-and-anvil if this fails. Foot Squires and Battle Pilgrims are good enough infantry, melee heroes very valuable there. Flying units are great and sneaky but more fragile than you might expect. Trebuchets are lovely too.

I dunno if this is the ideal Bretonnian tactic, but it worked. Except against Wood Elves. If you play Bretonnia, you will learn to hate their poncy tree-loving faces as much as I do.

Wood Elves are Brettonia counter. They just destroy Brettonia armies.

[Digital Hellhound]

I found that wood elves never, ever leave Athel Loren when I play any of the Bretonnian factions. Why? I don't know, but I can be at war with them for over a hundred turns and leave my cities empty and they won't leave their magic forest.

Fuck trying to actually fight them as Bretonnia in their home though.

My experience of WEs is usually them burning the entirety of Bretonnia to the ground. My first go as Bordeaux ended at their hands. Second time (as regular Bretonnia), I invaded when they gave the slightest excuse. Still took like three different invasions and a lot of lost men. Razed Athel Loren looks pretty nifty when it's racked up full Chaos corruption by the endgame, btw.

[Tack]

I tended to blow through wood elves. They don't really have reliable cavalry archers, so I just knight the heck out of them. They tend to take Glade guard over spears, and whenever they do take spears they can't hold up to peasants.

... plus they're weighted awfully in auto-resolve so I could just palm it all off.

[Mech#4]

There's some great events in this game, the little things entertain me so much.

I just had an event while playing as Skaven that a scribe had written and copied thousands of papers with an image of a naked, beardless Dwarf and posted them all over the Under-Empire. All the Clanrats are laughing at the image of "Nudey No-Beard" and my armies get a +16 Leadership vs Dwarfs for 4 turns.

[Teneb]

The Workshop is now open.

And already work is being done to allow us to plunder explore the New World as the Southern Realms.

(And grab this if you want to play as Malekith. Otherwise Morathi will ruin everything with her corruption when you confederate)

[Tack]

WOAH WOAH WOAH.
Morahi's capital has her anti-corruption landmark.
Mods are unnecessary cheapening.

[Teneb]

WOAH WOAH WOAH.
Morahi's capital has her anti-corruption landmark.
Mods are unnecessary cheapening.

The problem is not Morathi corrupting. It's when you confederate with her as Malekith. She keeps spreading corruption despite the fact that Malekith's boys don't have resistance to it. The mod only works for Malekith.

[Majestic7]

I don't even always bother confederating. In my game as Teclis, I preferred having Lothern run around fighting angst elves by themselves. Taking control of them had been just too much trouble...

[Tack]

WOAH WOAH WOAH.
Morahi's capital has her anti-corruption landmark.
Mods are unnecessary cheapening.

The problem is not Morathi corrupting. It's when you confederate with her as Malekith. She keeps spreading corruption despite the fact that Malekith's boys don't have resistance to it. The mod only works for Malekith.

It's 5 chaos. Bad, but not instantly attrition -causing.
And when you confederate you get the landmark so no public order penalties.