The looming excitement that might be TW warhammer II

I played 30 turns of Kazhrak yesterday, I like the Beastmen so far.

 

Turn 120 with the Beastmen now, and still having fun.
The humans make this almost too easy, fighting Chaos and each other instead of me.

 

I just finished my Khazrak campaign (long) in turn 180.
That was fun!

Next up: Dwarves I think. Have never played them.

 

Let's go dawi!

 

I indeed startet a Thorek campaign.
If you play Mortal Empires you start down in the south near Kroq-gar and the Tomb Kings.
You can also play on the Vortex map, then you start in Lustria.

Edit: Thorek, not Thorgrimm. Corrected.

I might have made an error and chose the Mortal Empires map. Grimgor confederated everyone and their mother already, throwing stack after stack at multiple settlements, and I lack the speed to fight on two fronts. Losing territory and the Lizardmen are a bit slow to help me.
Might become a short campaign.

 

Sadly I am not very good at this game, so every stack leaves me with a crippled army and all money goes into rebuilding it before the next stack.

But it seems that I am making progress. I am slooowly making my way north. The Lizardmen are great allies this time. Old Kroq is fighting the Greenskins in the east.

 

Man that was a campaign!
It took me 120 turns to finally kill the Greenskins.
After that I fought the Skaven and Hag Graef.

After 166 turns I had everything finished.
Lots of Alliances too.

Sadly some of the Dwarven units are so expensive and slow to recruit (or it takes too long to get the buildings) that I didn't have the time to ever use them. A halfway experienced Lord can buff those low tier units pretty well so they can compete.

But I am still tempted to play another Dwarf campaign to try out stuff like those Gyrocopters or Flamethrower dudes.

My stacks mostly consist of
Lord, Runesmith, and a Thain or Engineer
4-6 Warriors or Longbeards
2 artillery pieces, usually just grudge throwers
2-4 Longbeards or Miners or Giant Slayers to get some armor piercing)
5 crossbows (either version is fine)
1-2 Mournfang Cavalry do wonders for Dwarves btw.

I also really like the runes and crafting system. Feels a bit like an RPG.

 

Terradon Riders (preferably with Bolas but they can do without) pull their weight for me, except against armies with a lot of shooting since they are squishy.

But yeah I know that problem, those wood elf eagle riders for example didn't do a whole lot the last time I played them.

Meanwhile I am trying to save my old Kroq-gar campaign that I quit playing some time ago, and... gah, Greenskins messing me up again.

I might not finish that one. They keep running away in the mountains, just using the underways to get past me and destroying my settlements. I just cannot maintain that many armies and Lizardmen garrisons just don't work against them it seems.
...speaking of which... I have the feeling that Lizardmen garrisons suck anyway, compared to others. Not sure why, probably it's just me.

 

At least it's a fair treatment. A thing that cannot be said for AoS faction terrains...