Complaints and suggestions

[Pan_lotr]

I'm currently playing the game after at least 3 years and continued my old Dwarves save. I remember being hooked, loving the large scale lore-friendly battles it provides. However, playing this game after so long and looking at it from the beginning I realized that some things really bothered me. In my current campaign I've managed to leave the Orcs of the misty mountains only with Moria (I dread the balrog spawn) and I've only taken 1 region from Rhun. That's the point though, I avoided attacking Rhun because the battles are nerve breaking. They drown you in arrows where you lose even your best units (which are the best infantry in the game If I'm not mistaken) and you have no choice but to chase them around the map with your 3 (if you're lucky) dale cavalry units. Even when defending, they usually manage to brake the wall or gate and then concentrate in a small featureless ball. In the vanilla game there was the hot oil option which countered that, has this game disabled it because of abuse? Also in the vanilla the units routes much easier, I recently had a fight where I spent 4 minutes in the x6 speed chasing 2 remaining archer units from an originally full army. Are there maybe any preferences where I can tweak these? Playing without cavalry may need patience but this iron will is ridiculous...

[eugenioso]

Well that's the strength of rhun armies; solid infantry supported by good cavalry, good archers and even the choice of spamming skirmishers make their armies very balanced and powerful, not to mention their strong heavy and mid cavalry. The trick is to either avoid field battles entirely and simply march straight for the enemy settlements, where your dwarves will shine on the close melee battles, or to field a strong field army full of siege weapons and iron crossbowmen. Personally, i forfeit going against rhun in the open where your forces will get outmaneuvered time and time again, while siege battles will remove said advantage and instead force the enemy onto your most powerful melee units.

[regnak999]

Having completed a Dwarf campaign recently I say you have to have catapults, preferably more than one in each army fighting Rhun. Also some ballistics to shoot their war machines. Their missile units don't like getting firebombed

[julianj99]

I imagine it must be hard playing without cavalry. As dwarves you have military access to Dale - in the Rhovanian provinces to the south you can hire Rhovanian riders mercs, who are excellent cav. Might be worth sending a general down there to obtain some.