I am fighting Chaos for the first time (playing as the Vampire Counts) and I quickly realised that they aren't push-overs like the Empire. I managed to catch one of their armies with three of mine. I expected it to be a fairly easy victory but it ended up a lot closer than I would have liked. The problem was that when my reinforcements showed up all they had with them were their lowest tier of troops. All my cavalry and monster units that weren't part of the main attacking army were held in reserve. Is there any way influence which units show up first?
Any tips for fighting Chaos in general? I am having a hell of a time because I am being attacked by the Varg, the Norscans as well as the armies of Chaos all at the same time. I have three full strength armies but the enemy are razing my provinces faster than I can pick them off. And when I do pick some of them off they are back with more full stacks while I'm dealing with the others.
I think the reinforcing armies come in by order of what they were in the campaign map, from left to right. I think, anyway.
Advice for fighting Chaos as Vampire Counts:
1. Ignore the horse skirmishers. They don't do shit to you. They're almost completely worthless and are there as a distraction. You can easily rout them with your bats if you even wanted to waste time doing that.
2. Bring lots of Blood Knights. Chaos has lots and lots of monsters. Blood Knights are like... VC's only option for dealing with them outside of a Terrorgheist. Also Blood Knights are one of the best cavalry in the game so they're great at obliterating the enemy's rear.
3. When in doubt, bring zombies. VC is all about a gigantic horde of worthless crap supported by some of the best units in the game. So just throw garbage at Chaos while you flank them with some elite units. If you're wondering what "elite units" mean for VC, it means Crypt Horrors, their heroes, Terrorgheist, Cairn Wraiths, etc.
4. You can kinda ignore all the skeletons, Grave Guard, etc. They're pretty okay against other factions but against guys like Dwarfs and Chaos who have uber-tier infantry with shittonnes of armour... you're really just better off throwing zombies at them.
5. Make liberal use of your heal spell. Use it all the time.
6. Don't get into a slugfest against Chaos. They will win. Besides, VC is all about flanking and rear charges anyway, so make good use of that. If you don't know what that means, it means throw zombies at them from the front and smash them from the rear.
7. Bats and wolves are good. Don't disregard them just because they are cheap. Since it's campaign, the bats and wolves actually become really powerful after you put some research into them. They're great for dealing with the horse skirmishers and rear charges. Chaos also has fairly weak air power, so you can use your bats to dominate the sky.
8. VC can make disposable armies pretty easily. You can throw a random lord and a few dozen cheapo units into an army and just keep suiciding them into the enemy. It really doesn't cost you all that much. Chaos can't heal too easily in VC lands so keep that in mind as you whittle them down. Also an army of cheapo units will usually just completely rip up the Varg and all those useless marauder scum.
9. VC's vampire lords, Manfred, and Vlad are easily the strongest units in the game. Make liberal use of them and feel free to throw them into insane numbers. Though if you put Manfred on his dragon mount, be aware he loses a lot of his survivability in exchange for significantly higher damage output and mobility.
10. Chaos Chosen are immune to knockback (e.g: from cavalry or your monsters). However, this means because of how the game's magic is set up, they take absurd amounts of damage from vortex spells. The Purple Sun of Xerus really, really fucks them up bad.
11. Lastly, remember you are literally an army of the dead. You have no excuse for not having enough units. You literally summon units out of the ground. Just throw zombies at your problem until it's resolved.
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