Distrust the Empire - This leader doesn't trust most Imperial leaders, and that has an effect on diplomatic relations.Defensive - More concerned with maintaining borders than expanding them.Quite powerful, but about the furthest thing from defensive you can get.

I for example find the skirmish armies exceedingly boring, so my playstyle is click on them with wardancers and wildwood rangers, then click around them with wild riders on their backs, then win the battle in 2 minutes. So you're not actually answering the op here, you're just kind of saying you think the faction is easy. The wood elves are one of the furthest factions in this game from that definition. Defensive armies do not give ground to the enemies. When the ai starts trying to take your territory, you just go kill them and retake your stuff back later cause outposts are worthless and cost nothing to rebuild.Ī defensive army is an army that like holds down a line, is good at defending their cities, and slowly pushes out with a bunch of unbreakable forces. And despite their idea being the whole isolationist faction and stuff, on the campaign map they're not at all defensive. Go grab lunch Thats not defensive play though. Originally posted by Falconhoof:wood elves In battle though, they can very easily just make a stack of syreens or prometheans with artillery and handguns behind, for probably the next best campaign defensive armies after dwarves. But they also cost a ton, so you sort of need income from post battle look and sacking to pay for their infrastructure. You could play them as a slow build up faction though, as their buildings give a ton of income if you build tall. But again, on the campaign map they kind of aggressively attack stuff. If you own the dlc, vampire coast is also a pretty good defensive army. Whereas dwarves and empire can get a bunch of cannons or steam tanks for empire to blow their artillery up, bolt throwers are just not as great vs other units. But they lack good artillery options, which makes it a bit more difficult to deal with ai artillery which can force them to go offensive vs heavy artillery stacks. However, if you're playing on low difficulties you don't have to deal with as much additional upkeep for additional armies, and spearmen and halberdiers are both very good defensive units for their cost.Īs people have mentioned high elves are good for defensive armies.

But they don't play that way in battles really at all.Įmpire is pretty good for playing that way in battles, but their line isn't as powerful as dwarves or high elves. Brettonia is pretty good for slow and steady expansion.

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