Warhammer: Wood Elves - after-action report
Played one game to the end.
Vampire Queen, awoke, with 4 astral/nature/fire, sloth 3, disorder 3, luck 3
Played on Epotara with Warhammer six and conceptual balance mods against difficult AI
My capital city happened to be on a swamp, so i had financial problems in the beginning
I was attacked by Jomon early in the game. Slowly defeated him by hordes of Wild hunters/Wild riders with help of treekin, suffering heavy losses. Mummies of wild hunters, undead prophet and dust priests animated undead for me
The wild horses never routed and preferred to die honorably. So i only attacked with bigger force, and thus expanded slowly
In the middle of the Jomon war, when half of Hall of fame was mine, Arcocephale attacked me. I sent three queens of water and lots of undead and took her capital which happened to be near.
I was playing defensively, spending all gems for summoning troops and empowering ether lord. Since there was not much forest around, most of my nature gems went to faerie courts and wraith lord equipment. When Brettonia attacked me, i actively defended my territory, mostly with local defense, wraith lords and one group of flying thunderstrikes, while kokythiads helped water queens to finish Arcocephale.
Combat-useful summons, big investments in local province defense and global enchantments (gift of health, strands of arcane power) helped a lot. Without them, Brettonia would have eaten me quickly.
With no real threat besides Brettonia, big income of undead troops, gems and money, high-level summons, and since Brettonia was not using magic in combat, I captured all Brettonia territory and won game (by victory points)
Waging war in more than one direction appears to be difficult. Fighting against heavily protected and tough troops (not dying after 2 strikes of Kurnous' shard) is hard. But, defending territory is easy due to effective local defense. Playing without spies (bringing accurate military report) is dangerous and difficult
On the whole the wood race is slightly under-powered. Can be played against AI with some difficulties. I believe wood elves would not survive long enough to learn conjuration 9 in multi-player
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