characters, and the distinctive likeness thereof, are either or , and/or Games I'd say that you really need something in the melee range, because AI doomstacks are gonna push something through. Skaven: Weapons teams (mostly rattling guns) with Plague Priests for summons LM: Lore of Life Slan and Ancient Stegadons (the long range ones) TK: Scorpions GS: No doomstack just spam multiple Nasty Skulker armies Norsca: War Mammoths Warriors: Shaggoths BM: Minotaurs Request scorched body textures, and fire death effects. An engineer or 2 (army-wide bonus to ranged damage, ammo, and reload), 1-2 plague priests (to summon clanrats in the way), and a whole bunch of ranged units. You dont want to waste ammunition shooting their trash units. In total we raised $32,000 for Johns Hopkins. Creative Assembly, the Creative As Mistress of the Deep, Cylostra Direfin's very presence increases the loyalty of new recruits while also reducing the upkeep and recruitment costs for Mournguls and Syreens faction-wide. Valve Corporation. Taking 2 turns to recruit one unit, a full stack of Shades with Greatswords is terrifying to face. My main stack is: Ikit Engineer Plague priest 4 plague claws 2 warpstone cannons 4 ratling guns 1 jezzails 5 slaves. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Only sack settlement that are only Tier 1 or Tier 2 since you'll have to start at Tier 1 anyway. Use them to focus down the enemy ranged units, lord, heroes, and large entities. Smells like cheese over hereMy doom stacks are usually balanced mixes of infantry, a couple of monster infantry units, cavalry, and a couple of monsters/artillery, all of them of the highest possoble tier.I never went full star dragons, for example. @MinMaxRex thank you for you replies! This way you can avoid heavy calvary armies. So unless youre finishing off a long, tedious campaign, give yourself at least a slight challenge! If they manage to engage in melee combat, the Shades default melee stat of 40, and high armor-piercing/anti-infantry damage will make short work of them. Hierotitans are too slow, and will get decimated by armor-piercing ranged fire. I usually go this, Ikit Claw (doomwheel mount) Engineer Plague Priest (plague furnace mount) 3x Jezzails 3x Ratling guns 2x Poison wind mortars 4x Plagueclaw catapults 5x Doomwheel. Assembly logo, Total War and the Total War logo are either registered trade marks or True LM doomstack is hero spam because you can hire lvl 40 heroes with enough star chambers, but you can only get skink chiefs from minor settlements. Once that happens, spawn Clan rats under their artillery and move your lord closer to your lines. Creative Assembly, the Creative I'd take 1 packmaster per stack for replenish action and scavenger post moulder dlc.Warpfire throwers and death globes do incredibly well in autoresolve for some reason so if you want to fast forward your campaign just spam throwers in the earlygame with some siege attacker and some warpstone hoarder heroes and autoresolve away.I like playing goofy stuff as Ikit like warpgrinder spam (who do surprisingly well with all the workshop buffs) since the optimal way to play him is kind of the same as with vanilla Skaven but just way more OP tho. When you can afford another doomstack, you'll have a high level general all ready to go to lead them. Lord (Ikkit or a Warlock Engineer on Doomwheel are your best options), 1-2x Plague Priests (mainly for emergency summons, though all their spells are incredibly good). You use Ikit and Plague priest summons+menace from below to lock down your enemies while everything else just completly obliterates everything on fire at will. So you can legit get enemies to immediately route from the battlefield. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Isn't the Skryre Doomstack something like. Tomb Kings dont have a doomstack option to be honest, as the number of constructs they can recruit is limited to how many of their respective buildings you have. If you want to cast plague magic you have plague priests and they're just as good at it. Plus, this second stack lets you level up a second warlock engineer! Plague Priests are used for summoning additional rat units to help keep the enemy at bay. Developed by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA. D. Deathmaster Snikch; L. Lord Skrolk; Q. Queek Headtaker; T. Throt the Unclean; Tretch Craventail; Categories Categories: . Sporting 18-19 of the same unit, with a lord to buff them, makes doomstacks extremely potent. For more information please read our FAQs here. 3 Plagueclaw Catapults. This item will only be visible in searches to you, your friends, and admins. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Doomstacks are armies that ignore immersion and cohesiveness, favoring raw power instead. The buffs stack. #funny #closedcaptions Our members. My army composition wasnt bad but I dont have a lot of room to mess around given the threat. The summons are there only for delaying the enemy thus giving time for your weapons to destroy the enemies. Use ambush and lightning strike to fight armies one at a time so you aren't overwhelmed and don't run out of ammo during a battle. No matter the difficulty youre playing on, at some point you get tired of manually fighting battles and micro-managing dozens of units. With Count Noctilus as your Lord, you can reduce the Necrofexs Colossus doomstack to almost zero upkeep! If not who would I give the sword of khaine too? Also, maybe with the exception of Ikit himself, make sure your lords go into the red line asap after you got the +30% ambush chance from the blue tree. Enemy artillery is to be ignored, it wont do anything. Tip: If you have the mod "No Degradation - Persistent Summons" on, turn it off before you start a Dwarves campaign. I'm curious whether you would change up forge items from what you recommend above to something different for your engineers to max out their offensive capabilities. rights reserved. This strategy stun-locks the charged unit, so you can deal damage without taking anything in return. I love the dwarves and have probably played ten ME campaigns. Here is my design for the doomstack: Ikit Engineer hero 2x Warp Lightning canons 2x jazzaels 2x hellpit abominations 1-2x doomwheels 4-5x ratling guns 5-6x stormvermin with halberds 0-1 assassin hero 0-1 of the new guys with the drills 0-1 bombards No faction has greater unit variety than the Skaven. The AI will often get confused and inefficiently manage their formation, giving your Shades more time to whittle down their army. Also playing mortal empires, is it better to use Ikit Claw as a doom flayer is khaine sword instead of his quest weapon from daemon? Apr 13, 2023 22:12 . 4 Ratling Guns. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Ratling Guns and artillery work best with some meatshield. 2 Doomwheels [I use these as distractions/ cleaning up fleeing lords] 2 Ogres. If you really want to cheese this, LegendofTotalWar showed how to farm a rebellion over and over. Warhammer, the Warhammer logo, GW, Games Every Norsca campaign should have a doomstack of War Mammoths leading the way! Valve Corporation. Privacy Policy. If you do aim for a doomstack, Khemrian Warsphinxes are by far the best and easiest to get for the Tomb Kings. 27 ETREmpire 2 yr. ago Ya they're insane. Discussions, strategies, stories, crude cave-drawings, and more for Medieval 2, Empire, Shogun 2, Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Britannia, Warhammer, Three Kingdoms and others. I seem to be stuck at low levels with them (trying to get my workshop to rank 3 and cant get a warlock to level 15. A subreddit for the Total War strategy game series, made by Creative Assembly. I do not like stormvermin, or an infantry front line of any kind. With Skyre I always make sure to use the absurd range on the Jezzails to snipe enemy warlords/heros/monster before they can touch my frontline, the Stormvermin are there to screen against cavalry and other fast units and the 2 different weapon teams are there to lie down an evergrowing field of death in front of my army. Although theyre technically artillery, Steam Tanks are actually great front-line units, with the Unbreakable trait so they never rout, and the ability to cause terror and rout enemy units. [counters random calvary] 1 Warpstone grinder. Causing fear and terror will further bolster their ranking as the best Norsca unit in the game. Thanks for taking the time to write a guide. Then your LL and a Plague mage. Also, I'm trying to figure out once all of the Dwarven LLs are confederated what the optimal runes to give to each of them once you have access to all of them in the forge. I usually tell my Jezzails to snipe lords/heroes, everything else does whatever it wants, its important to have the engineer close to the artillery ofc. and our 3 Mortars. Personally I think it is probably the best weapon team doomstack for Skaven (where you might sometimes switchout some plagueclaws for Warp lightning canons depending on the enemy you are up against and the terrain you will be fighting in) To compare it in terms of effectiveness to your stack -3 extra mortors is way way way overkill. Press J to jump to the feed. Use them to repeatedly charge enemy ranged units so that they are occupied with running away and not shooting. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. My standard doomstack for clan skryre is something like this: slaves, doomwheels, doomflayers and weapon teams of your choice. Vampire Counts are all about lords and heroes. Whe fighting Brettonia it never hurts to bring a couple units of warp grinders, (with the first workshop upgrade) they absolutely annihilate enemy cavalry and on top of that they are great support units all-around. All rights reserved. They are not really having a Doomstack. 3 Jezzarails. Empire: Steam Tanks Few armies will empty your coffers like 19 Steam Tanks, but they're one of the most fun doomstacks you can play in Warhammer 2. probably just a bunch of skirmishers/skirmish cav if you were trying to win a field battle bloodlessly and feel decent about doing it without wasting a ton of money, As a Skaven boi this army comes to mind as one of the most wacky ones to field, my doom stack HE tyrion (sword of khaine not necessary but a nice add on). It is not their job to reak in a lot of kills, their job is to make sure the enemy doesn't get any kills. This is my usual stack. Are the doomwheels used to engage the ennemy and make them blob in the same fashion as steam tanks? For more information, please see our With summons and the insane dmg/slow debuff of the rattling gunners nothing should make it to your lines. Great speed and offensive stats, with high armor-piercing damage and animations that knock entire units off their feet. @Sumdaga continued - I think those were the ones you only get 1 of, so I'm curious if the cap is raised so you could put one on each LL. Also how does a stack like this one hold up against multiple armies? All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Almost every VC army is a stack of skeletons, backed up by a vampire lord to cast death spells and rack up thousands of kills. registered trade marks or trade marks of SEGA Holdings Co., Ltd. or its affiliates. Ratling Guns, Warplock Jezzails, Plagueclaw Catapults, and Warp Lightning Cannons are your best options. Ruh roh #? Legend of Total War here. Front line is your doomwheels/flayers/HPAs/lord intercepting enemies, making it easy to fire in with artillery and gun units. Valve Corporation. Keep doing it, unit by unit, and you can destroy whole armies without taking much damage. I'm trying to make up an excel to with all of the runes and legendary lord stats and weapon buffs to figure out what is best. Though I prefer diverse armies and anything strong in magic and/or ranged will only supplement their "doomstack" mechanic - being ambush attack. Heh, I actually JUST posted my skaven doom stack in a different thread here. But I usually try and keep 1 nuke on stand by incase I get surprised with 2 armies against 1. I recently started a legendary Ikit claw campaign and I am having a hard time deciding on the best 20 Stack to face different threats. Ensure Absolute Loyalty If you wish to survive the turbulent, cutthroat world of Skaven politics you need loyal warriors on your side. Edit VisualEditor History Talk (0) Pages in category "Skaven legendary lords" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. Skink Chiefs add additional stats, including poison attacks, to an already amazing dinosaur. Due to their mass and entity size, getting stuck in infantry blobs isnt too common. Assembly logo, Total War and the Total War logo are either registered trade marks or The enemy will blob on them, making for easy targets. for ikit claw i like about 10 ratling guns, 4 jezails, 3 covid-19 catapluts, ikit claws zap zap cannon, then ikit claw himself and a plauge priests for clan rat sommons. Once a certain agreement over any doomstack is reached, I will include it in this list, as an overview for other players.To kick things of, I'll start with a Clan Skryre doomstack:Grey Seer of Plague5 Plague Priests5 Ratling guns4 Plagueclaw catapults4 Warplock jezzails1 Poison wind mortarsPlease submit your own doomstack suggestion for any faction you're familiar with. Put them on the flanks of your main army and just use them to bury any flanking cavalry units in literally thousands of bodies. 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