As the title says.
I'd observed in my Empire & VC campaigns (On H & VH each) that the dwarves were been massacred all the time. I'd posted about that as well and was told that it's mostly luck of the draw about Confederations so I didn't mind it then. But my next Chaos campaign also had the dwarves wiped out in record time.
I loaded up a H/H Dwarf campaign for myself.
It's 60 turns in my second campaigjn (1st was a rage-quit after 50 turns) and I just can't make out how to handle these guys. Their units are crap, they seem to be wearing paper armour, and they run at the first sign of trouble. The Orks are OP for their cost; I haven't lost a single battle yet with them either with Multiplayer or the Custom battle AI. Dwarven artillery is horrible; the artillery tactics that chewed up enemy armies in my Empire campaign do nothing here. Thorgrim is level 20 and has enough buffs to light up half the battlefield like a christmas tree but unarmoured, inexperienced orks still cut through my battle line like cake. Upkeep is excruciating. And then there's the problem of cavalry; I can't even kill half of the routers and they come back good as new, better than new with the experience, in a single turn. My allies seem to be in a race to commit suicide the fastest. In the end, I'm simply getting overwhelmed by all the Waaghs.
I find that H dwarfs is tougher, far more tougher than VH Empire, Chaos, and VC.
Plese advice. This campaign isn't challenging. It's just irritating.
My Tactics:- Warrior line. Crossbows. Artillery. No flankers because I never have the numbers but when I can manage it- miners. Upkeep never allows for better units except for a longbeard or two.
My Strategy:- Turtle mostly. I take Silver Road and start fending off all the Orks coming along raiding. They chew through everything less than Level 3 defence and are faster than me so I have to babysit settlements to grow them. Within a short time, Zhufbar is wiped out by VCs and Orks and I'm attacking from both sides. I grind down all attackers, expand, turtle again, the process repeats.
Then Grimgor confederates everything and Waaghs wipe me out.