Right, third attempt got me a technical win of the campaign on Vortex, all I gotta do is murder clan Moulder, which should be a cakewalk and an exercise in wasting time since I pretty got my doomstack (and it's fairly diverse but leaning heavily on stag knigths, hawk riders and assorted missile units with a few dragons and heroes thrown in). Final battle thing was fairly easy, wasn't clear cut at first as the skaven kinda bumrush your but once I got some spells and abilities off they crumbled fairly easily. Then the chaos comes in and it's even more of a joke. Fun bit of info, 4 hawk riders using their volley ability on a snared chaos lord/sorcerer on a dragon is enough to chunk some 90% of it's hp and instantly rout the poor bastard.
I'm guessing you could easily push the hawk riders further into broken if you ran more of them in combination with a few more heroes to provide the extra snares.
Anyways, I'm still not entirely sold on the WE what with their lack of proper siege stuff and kinda lackluster options in terms of unit variety (they do get a bit of everything but it feels so meh compared to pretty much every other faction, tho I guess that's because they haven't really had proper updates until now).
Also also, further thoughts on the forge stuff, pretty eh, you get most of the stuff fairly quickly and until they implement the rework I'd say only a single option is really viable in the long term, even if it does offer weaker rewards.
Also also also, is it just me or is Ariel kinda bloody overloaded in terms of skills/abilities/kit in general. Like, I get she's supposed to be a legendary hero and super special and powerful but she gets so much shit to choose from as well as being able to do so much in terms of magic and active skills that every other hero of the faction looks rather shit, like the poor wayfinder dudes which have barely enough skillpoints to take up the full 40 points.
Anyways anyways, on to the real meat of the DLC, the big bad glutton rat, super stoked to play around with the mutation stuff.