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The first time that happened I doubled my territory and suddenly had 5 complete provinces instead of 2. But in mid-game I had so much favor with my dwarven neighbors that they joined my "confederation", which is a fancy term of saying that they simply handed over all their settlements and troops to me. At first neighboring dwarf tribes were more of a nuisance, as there is no diplomacy option of trading settlements, and I ended up having a lot of half provinces. That also includes race-specific diplomacy, with other dwarf tribes being naturally more favorable to you in diplomacy than humans, elves, vampires, or orcs. Which in practice hilariously makes the dwarven archers better than the elven ones, as your dwarven archers are still alive and kicking once they got attacked by the light cavalry that ran around your front line.Ĭompared to other Total War games I have played, I appreciate the larger variety of Total War: Warhammer regarding troops and race-specific features. And except for the slayer troops, the dwarven troops are all well armored and frequently have shields. They earn the most gold in a game where gold is frequently the scarcest resource. Other than being slow, the dwarves were in fact a good choice for starters. With dwarves being slow and no fast travel except for some quest battles, I just gave up with a lesson learned and restarted. And at one point I had both my large armies in the south when I was attacked from two different sides in the north. What ultimately killed me was the fact that you need a lot of provinces to pay the upkeep of even a single large army, so you end up having few armies even if you already have a large territory.
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the advisor said that it might be advisable to lay siege instead of attacking at the first enemy settlement, which turned out to be a complete waste of time).
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However that first game was far from easy for a beginner, because the tutorial isn't great and sometimes even misled me (e.g. Given that lack of expertise I started the first game with the one race marked as being easy, the dwarves, and selected easy difficulty level. Again according to Steam the only Total War game I played more than this is Empire: Total War for 65 hours. This is from the point of view of somebody who like strategy games, but isn't a great Total War fan. Time enough to have formed an opinion, although obviously I haven't seen everything yet. I bought Total War: Warhammer in a half-price sale and have played it for 16 hours, according to Steam.