Total War Warhammer 2 Loyalty

Vampire Coast are a really easy faction, you can play like a Horde with your Shipbuilding Lords sailing around the ocean sacking and establishing pirate coves in settlements while recruiting units on top of being able to Raise Dead like the Vampire Counts; or you can occupy settlements and build an empire just like most other factions; or do a bit of both. They can be a really quick, fun and focused campaign or a cover the world in undeath marathon, up to you.

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How To Win

I beat Luthor Harkon’s campaign on Very Hard soon after the Vampire Coast DLC was released. Today, the day this guide is being originally posted, is the day I beat Noctilus’ campaign on Legendary. Here are some key things I want you to know:

Loyalty: -2 for Grey Seer recruits. +2 for 'The Menace Below' Scope Source. TWW2 DB is a Database for the Total War: WARHAMMER II strategy game. Dark Elf Lords have varying devotion to the leader of their faction, known as loyalty. You can check how loyal a Lord is on their character info panel on the bottom left – this is shown in a measure of 0-10 – 10 being the most loyal and 0 the least. If a Lord reaches 0 loyalty, they. The 4 Legendary Admiral from Technology (top right) are Immortal and Perfectly Loyal (and have shipbuilding like your Legendary Lord). Regular Admirals will spawn with a random amount of Loyalty, you can see the range before you recruit them. The Middle Post-Battle Victory option reward Loyalty at the cost of 50 Infamy. 3月 (2) 2月 (1) 1月 (2) 2019 (21) 12月 (4) 9月 (3) 8月 (1) 5月 (3) 4月 (4) High Elves 各リーダーの特性 - Total War: WARHAMMER II; Lizardmen 各リーダーの特性 Sacrifices to Sotekについて - Tot. Second tournament of strongest monsters with monsters from new DLC. Total War Warhammer 2 First Monsters Duels tournament - Let’.

Business Casual Sauron created an excellent 3-part guide here titled “Count Noctilus Skill Guide for Necrofex Colossus Armies (Legendary Difficulty Approved)”. Go read it for a lot of useful tips, like using a Gunnery Wight to resupply your Queen Bess.

If you want to win a Legendary Campaign easily, play as Noctilus. Galleon’s Graveyard is a super-fortress that you will really have to “defecate the bed” to lose. Research the Tech that gives 10% Physical Resistance to Necrofex Colossus, and max the Red Line skill that gives 10% Physical Resistance and +8 Melee Defense to Necrofex. Get Noctilus on his Necrofex and give him 19 Necrofex and you can practically roll your face over your keyboard to win.

To win, you must go beat an enemy fleet to get the Star-Harpoon, then gain enough Infamy to spawn 3 enemy fleets that each possess a Sea Shanty that will magically imbue the harpoon so that it can kill Amanar. I “think” the 1st Sea Shanty Admiral spawns at 8,000 Infamy, 2nd at 14,000, and 3rd at 24,000 (the max); but see for yourself as you can hover your mouse over the top middle area of the screen that shows your Infamy Ranking; the Admirals with a green icon next to them are the Sea Shanty Admirals.

Be prepared for these spawns, as once a Sea Shanty Admiral spawns, he will head to Galleon’s Graveyard to attack it.

Once you reach 24,000 Infamy and get the 3rd and Final Sea Shanty, then you can fight the final battle, which will be against A LOT of Dark Elves with some Vampire Coast units mixed in. You definitely want to fight this battle with a Doomstack (19 Necrofex Colossus is good). Win the battle and you win the campaign.

You can play the Vampire Coast like a horde, going around sacking and then establishing pirate coves in every port settlement (you can Sack then Establish Pirate Cove on the SAME TURN). Or you can play them like a normal faction, conquering and building up settlements until you have an empire. Or you can mix both, conquering 1 continent while sacking and pirate coving the coasts of the other continents.

Once you establish a pirate cove, you then have 4 building options. Ignore the Vampiric Corruption one, I’ve never used it, the other 3 options are far more needed. If you want to recruit Lords at higher levels, or if you want to play with LOTS of Mourngul Haunter heroes, you want to build the +1 Lord Rank/+1 Hero capacity coves. You only want to build the 50% income cove in the best Major Settlements like Lothern, Naggarond, Marienburg, Altdorf, etc, basically only in cities that make 2,000 gold or more and are well-defended so they do not get constantly sacked or razed. Everywhere else, build the +200 gold per turn and +3% research cove building.

I’m gonna put this here for future reference, Vampire Admirals are Lords, and Vampire Captains are Heroes.

Essential Tips

Reminder

Sea Shanty Admirals will beeline to Galleon’s Graveyard, while your defenses will probably be good enough to win, I personally would not risk it, and I would make sure you have a plan to defend your home base once the enemy spawns.

Avoid Hero Downtime When Treasure Hunting

If you go treasure hunting with a hero and press the dig for treasure button, whether you succeed or fail that will end that hero’s movement for that turn. And here is the thing that will make most people hate treasure hunting; let’s say you fail the dig because your hero was not quite in the right spot but you realize where the hero is supposed to dig so no worries you will get it on the next turn. On the next turn when you move your hero, you won’t be able to dig because the dig for treasure button will be greyed out; so if you fail at a dig it will cost you 3 turns of that hero’s time. FRUSTRATING! However, here is the tip that will make your heart leap for joy: Once your hero has digged for treasure, that same turn order your hero to move somewhere. Your hero will not move and you should see the red line indicating your hero is out of movement, BUT, it will RESET the Dig for Treasure Button, so on the very next turn if you should want to dig for treasure again, you will be able to! You’re welcome.

Offices require an Admiral to have at least 5 Loyalty to fill them besides the Level requirement, BUT, this loyalty requirement only applies if the Admiral is active on the campaign map; if you disband the Admiral to your Lord Pool then the Admiral can be placed in the office even they have 4 or less Loyalty.

Loyalty

The 4 Legendary Admiral from Technology (top right) are Immortal and Perfectly Loyal (and have shipbuilding like your Legendary Lord). Regular Admirals will spawn with a random amount of Loyalty, you can see the range before you recruit them. The Middle Post-Battle Victory option reward Loyalty at the cost of 50 Infamy. If you do not want to spend Infamy increasing loyalty, regular Admirals also have traits that reward increased Loyalty if a specific action is done. The Admiral Trait “Plunderer” is the best Trait because Raiding and Sacking are easy actions to fulfill the requirment. Second best would be “Murderer” because defeating an enemy lord is another common action you can do.

Removing troops, items or followers from an Admiral has a chance to decrease their loyalty. However, there is a Rite that not only gives a 50% chance to increase Loyalty each turn, but it will prevent a decrease in loyalty. So if you need to remove troops or items and/or disband an Admiral, use that Rite and let the Rite work for 4-5 turns to get the Admiral’s Loyalty as high as possible, then while the Rite is still active do what you gotta do.

Establishing Pirate Coves

Vampire Captain heroes can “Establish Pirate Coves” in a settlment for a hefty sum of gold, However, once one (1) of your Captain heroes performs this action against a settlement, a 15 turn timer starts that increases the cost of establishing a pirate cove for ALL of your Captains, and THAT captain cannot establish another cove for 15 turns. Now, according to Reddit posters you can use other Captains to establish coves if you can endure the increased cost, for example you could recruit a Captain hero from your Legendary Lord and have the Captain establish the cove and then disband that Captain and recruit another Captain for the next settlement. I didn’t try it in my campaign, but you can definitely give it a shot and report here.

When you conquer a COASTAL settlement (one that has a port) with an army, you have the option to Establish Pirate Cove for half the money you would have received from sacking the settlement. BUT, you can sack the settlement first, and then Establish Pirate Cove that same turn, which is almost always the better option. Sack, then Establish Pirate Cove, then move on.

Research Order

Important Tip – Recruit Heroes with the “Lore Keeper” Trait, gives +10% research rate and -10% construction cost which stacks.

Important Note – If you want to complete a campaign quickly by reaching 24,000 Infamy ASAP, play as Noctilus, follow the below steps to Step 3 because you want Level 10 Admirals that you can disband to fill Offices and you want Immunity to Ocean Attrition, but then don’t research either the Legendary Admirals or + 5 Hero Rank, instead research the tech that gives Physical Resistance to Necrofex Colossus, and go from there.

1) Bottom right tech tree, research the opening 3 turn tech then research the tech that gives the “Ships Carpenter” follower who reduces shipbuilding costs by 50%. 10,000 gold shipbuildings will only cost you 5,000, this will save you boatloads of gold, particularly if you are going for a long campaign where you recruit all 4 of the Legendary Admirals each with their own ship.

2) Top left tech tree, research the 3 turn tech, then research the +5 Lord Rank tech. Once you have this, Lords will be recruited at Level 6, which means you can fill the Offices that require Rank 5 Admirals. If you thought and acted ahead and established 4 pirate coves and built the +1 Lord Rank Cove in all 4, you will be able to recruit Rank 10 Admirals, thereby allowing you to fill any of the Offices.

Note – Offices require 5 Loyalty to fill. However, this only applies if the Admiral is active on the map. If you recruit a Level 10 Admiral who has 4 loyalty and then disband them, you can still fill the Offices with that Admiral.
3) Research the tech that gives you immunity to Storm & Reef Attrition and which allows you to research the Legendary Admirals (the 4 skills at the top right). The Legendary Admirals are already Immortal and perfectly Loyal and they have shipbuilding just like your Legendary Lord. They do cost 2000 infamy each to recruit however, so take that into consideration.

4) Research the +5 Hero Rank tech.

5) Research as you will from here depending on what strategy you are pursuing. You want to get the 10% Physical Resistance for Necrofex Colossus for when you go Necrofex Doomstack should you choose to.

Treasure Hunting

You do not have to do any Treasure Hunting at all if you hate it, you can without digging for treasure even once. What you need to know though is:

I think the maximum you can have a one time is 6, so if there is a treasure hunt in a part of the map you have no intention of sending any heroes or armies to ever, you can safely abandon that treasure hunt.

The message alerting you will tell you what the potential reward is, whether it is a meagre or great reward, and you can cancel ones you don’t find worth it.

The meagre treasure hunts reward 1,000 gold. I’ve seen 2,500. The great rewards can reward 5000 gold AND 150 Infamy.

So, the treasure hunts are totally unnecessary, but, if you want to rank up your infamy ASAP, and make some coin doing it, you may want to recruit a bunch of heroes and send them to each part of the map to be within a reasonable distance should a treasure hunt spawn in their general area.

How Do I Find The Treasure?

If you look closely at the details of the map, you will start to notice details like skulls in the sides of mountains, large creatures amongst the trees in Lustria (creatures are Fauna, plants are Flora), red-colored oasis in the desert to the SE of Khemri. Whenever you get a treasure hunt, click the magnifying glass so that it zooms to the area and then start looking for something that matches the riddle.

If you get “between two peaks…” in Lustria, you need to move a hero between two volcanoes in the west mountains of Lustria.

There is a hunt right above this location where you have to position your hero on the east side of the volcano right up next to where a crack in the volcano reveals a pool of lava.

If you get the “it has no mouth or lips but its mouth will never close” look for where the river exists into the ocean and dig there.

If you get “red oasis within sight of Khemri” there is a red oasis to the SE of Khemri

If you get “eyes that peer emptily” and the location is in the mountains of The Southlands near Kroq-Gar’s start (where Arachnos greenskins start), there are actually 2 skulls in that mountain and each have a treasure hunt with different text.

If you get a “fauna” text then look for a creature amongst the trees.

If you get a “markings on the ground” text then look for a clearing with a white symbol etched into the ground.

If the text says “Isha’s Tears” look for a waterfall or a pool of water.

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Basically attention to what the riddle says and what is on the map when the magnifying glass zooms you to the location, and don’t be afraid to rotate your camera for a better view, then get your hero as close as you can to what you believe to be the spot and dig.

Intro

You want to infect the world? New to Skaven? Interested in what this faction has to offer? In this guide i will briefly explain some of the Skaven features and share some tips about this faction to help you along your way.
Skaven are a hard race to play since the lizard-things... will surely pose a great threat early on and during multiplayer battles (basically everything thats bigger than a rat). The Skaven armies consist of cheap cannon fodder and low quality units for increased quantity. Their armies can use tunnels in the campaign and have a higher chance to ambush enemy armies on the campaign map. Skaven might not win a 20/20 battle unless you keep your eyes glued to the screen and use everything you have available to you. Otherwise just go 2 vs 1 in the campaign.
So how can we win with the Skaven? This guide will show you some things about the Skaven that might not have been apperant at first!

Campaign Basics

The Skaven are short and live underground like dwarves. This is shown in some aspects of the game mechanics such as using ruins as settlements and tunneling under the ground just to resurface somewhere else later.
The Skaven settlements are camouflaged to all other races on the campaign map and other factions might confuse them with ruins. You can obviously take advantage of this mechanic by having a camouflaged settlement and leaving it undefended or having a strong Skaven army ready inside to strike at any non-skaven army that passes by, thus having the benefit of a supporting garrison as reïnforcement. Skaven can also colonize a ruin starting at tier 3 at the cost of a lot of food.
For Skaven, having the surprise and sheer amount of troops is key to victory! However, having too many armies and settlements can pose a problem with food (less leadership/growth/happiness). Another trait that the Skaven have is spreading their corruption, but more on that below in this section.
Food:
Eat eat eat. Food is a precious resource for Skaven since they have a high metabolism. You will run into problems if you don't counter this issue right away. The hud on the campaign map gives information on how much food your growing empire has. If this falls below the 41% threshold you will get negative penalties that will affect your armies as well as your settlements.
Food is hard to aquire by building food related buildings, you need a resource for that in order to build that specific building and they're rare and far from your starting position. The main way of collecting food while playing as the Skaven is aquired mainly through battling the other races, even rival Skaven clans, or raiding regions.
You are meant to loot settlements and eat your victims, devouring the world is the will of the Great Horned Rat after all. This makes the Skaven a very expansionist and hard to play faction since you will need to continually battle the other races for food if you have more settlements and army's. However having too many settlements and armies might give you a hard time to collect enough food if there are no enemies in the vicinity to feast on.
Each army consumes 1 food per turn and so does each settlement. So as a wise rat you need to think how you want to expand, what settlements you want to conquer and how many armies you want to field. Think about what the benefits are of holding a region(s) compared to the food loss you will get.
The exploitative planning commandment only holds +2 food per region while most regions have 3 settlements or more which whill have a total of -1 food per region if you use the commandment. The commandment will be used a lot during the campaign to prevent your faction from starving in the mid to late game.
Here you can see me having 11 settlements and 4 armies, each draining 1 food. Because i have 1 other buildings that produce food and i'm not doing anything like raiding or battling, this will lower my overal food supply by -5 each turn. I have a rite activated and the commandments i'm using on the regions make sure it wont drain more. If i go out and win battles it will replenish my food supply. You will be doing this a lot.

Top Tip: The amount stored is dependant on the amount of settlements you have.

Skaven corruption:
Adding to the existing corruptions, we have the Skaven corruption added to the mix. This corruption is unique in the sense that it has a drawback for the Skaven on the campaign map but a boon in battles where corruption is very high!
Here are some pros and cons for having a high Skaven corruption in a region belonging to you or the enemy.
Pros:

More uses for the Menace Below ability during battle.
Lowering public order of rival factions if it spreads there.

Cons:

Lowering your own public order where corruption is high.

Skaven Rites

In this section i will explain some basics of the skaven rites they can perform on the campaign map. It focusses on aiding the destruction of enemy settlements and helping your own faction getting the upper hand in the struggle for supremacy.
Since Skaven love spreading disease and despair they certainly have some interesting rites for use:
The Scheme of DOOOOM:
You can use this scheme whenever you researched a few technologies. Once the rite has been 'purchased' with currency you can use this special Skaven engineer to cause an earthquake at an enemy settlement, damaging their buildings and collapsing walls so your army doesn't need to wait anymore to build siegetowers and battering rams!
The engineer appears like a regular hero at your capital and when you use it on an enemy settlement it will die and never come back again till you perform the rite again when the cooldown is over.
The Pestilent Scheme:
The pestilence scheme works like the scheme of DOOOOOOM. BUT this one spawns a priest that can spread the pleague to a settlement and any nearby armies that are in the vicinity. This makes sieging an enemy settlement a cakewalk once enough enemy units have died within the walls! Ofcourse the priest dies when you use it like the Scheme of DOOOOM!
Becarefull that you keep your units away while the pleague is in effect or else they will be infected too!
The Thirteenth Scheme:
Using this scheme grants a diplomacy boost towards fellow Skaven and a loyalty boost for lords. This scheme is best used when you're about to attack or are defending against enemies since the mors clanstone ability grants +40% armour piercing when you use it during battle and will boost your hero succes chance and provide a negative enemy hero success chance.
The Dominating Scheme:
This will be one of the first schemes you will use since it is pretty handy for rapid expansion of your faction. It will provide benefits to food, growth, public order and recruitment cost.

Skaven Loyalty

This section will focus on the loyalty system that the Skaven have.
You will start with your lord on the campaign map. This one will be unaffected by the loyalty system since this rat is your faction leader. The recruited lords from the campaign map all have an indicator of how high their loyalty will be when you recruit them. The max loyalty a lord can have is 10 and the minimum is 1. Having the lord loyalty drop to 0 will result in a rebellion which will ruin your campaign if you gave him really powerfull units like rat ogres or hell pit abominations.
When your lord has low loyalty consider doing the following things:

Win battles
Recruit more units
Complete missions

This will raise your lords loyalty and will prevent a rebellion from happening. Having a high loyalty ensures that your lords won't rebel any time soon when you lose a battle or two.

Skaven Units: Infantry

This section will provide a general understanding of skaven units. Most Skaven units have 2 passive abilities! These are important as you will use it often in battle.

When leadership is low they will have a 12% speed buff for retreating safely.
When their hitpoints are above 50% it will result in a defense buff +8 and a leadership buff of +6 and a speed penalty of -12%

Skaven slave units:
These units are basically the tier below tier 1. The worst of the worst you can field and only usefull as cannon fodder and swarming the enemy. Not much good can be told about these slaves since they are only good at dying and holding the enemy in place. They have the trait expendable. This means no one other than these units will suffer a leadership penalty when one unit routs.
Clanrats:
These rats are the main units you will use during the campaign, they are cheap compared to the other factions units in the same tier. These are your beginning units you will use to expand further into the campaign. The units are pretty good at what they are meant to do (also being meatshields). My suggestion would be to get the shielded versions since they can block some missile attacks.
Plague Monks:
This is your anti infantry unit. They are pretty good at flanking the enemy and causing casualties. Beware though, they have less armour and melee defense.
Death Runners
A great flanking unit using concealment bombs to get in close and finish the job your main units cant. they have armour piercing damage and cause -50% armour against the unit they attack. Great for dealing with heavily armed enemy units, but also vulnerable.
Stormvermin
Your higher tier infantry. Stormvermin are good for holding the line and dealing with higher tier enemy units. The halbert version excels at taking down enemy cavalry and big units. Usually placed at the flanks or at the back (in reserve).
Plague Monk Censer Bearers
The plague monk censer bearers are great at lowering the enemy morale. This unit causes a -10 leadership debuff and emphasises on dealing damage from the flanks or rear to make the enemy rout.

Skaven Units: Missile

Skavenslave Slingers
A good starting unit for peppering the enemy with stones while your melee infantry holds the enemy down. This is the unit you will use most in the early game.
Night Runners
A decent melee combatant and skirmish unit, mainly used to harass the enemy and quickly retreat. This unit can be used as melee infantry, but has less armour than clanrats. Oh and they also fire on the move!
Poison Wind Globadiers
These missle units excel at standing behind the main combat line and hurling poison towards enemies. Their effectiveness increases when throwing them at larger enemies, dealing more damage to them than regular enemy infantry. These are your solution to those pesky lizard-things.
Warpfire Thrower
The warpfire thrower, throws..fire. It bbq's enemies with ease and causes a morale debuff of -8 for 10 seconds when enemies are burnt. This unit is great for flanking and killing off infantry while your clanrats or slaves are holding the enemy units down.
Gutter Runners
These are better than the night runners since they have snare nets to slow down faster units constantly and have the stalk ability which conceals them in any terrain (the enemy won't know what hit them!). They also fire on the move and are used as skirmishers/harassers in battle. The gutter runners are mostly used to pick off more precious units since they can flank easily without being seen from afar. They are not so good at hitting heavily armoured infantry with their missles however.
Death Globe Bombardiers
This is the bigger brother of the poison wind. The death globes are more lethal and are usefull against high concentrations of enemy units. Large groups will lose hitpoints quickly when pinned down and hit with these babies. They also have armour piercing which means they can be used against heavy infantry as well, but are less potent against big units since they have lost the bonus vs large ability that do poison wind globadiers do have.

Skaven Units: Monsters

Rat Ogres
These big rats will decimate anyone before them. They have armour piercing damage and have a high initial damage considering they have the frenzy trait when the leadership is high within the unit. These units are very versatile and can be used to smash through the middle, sides or rear of the enemy army. Make sure you get these as soon as you can. Becareful of missle and spears though!
Hell Pit Abomination
Vulnerable against fire, but regenerates! When it dies it has a chance to spawn skavenslave spears or regain some hitpoints. This one is best used against large units like cavalry and other monsters since it has a bonus against large. It causes fear and terror, making it a very powerfull monster.

Skaven Units: Artillery and Warmachines

Plagueclaw Catapult
The catapult gives the skaven an edge over anti infantry at longe range. The catapult gives the plagueclaw contagion to anyone hit by the plague infested boulder, giving them a leadership penalty of -10. After some testing they tend to hit accurately and rack up kills against enemy infantry after you hold down the enemy with your Skaven units. Just make sure the enemy clumps up.
Warp Lightning Cannon

This big boy is a beast in its own right. The warp lightning cannon is a cannon designed to take down the big monsters that come right at you. Boasting a very large range of 430, it outclasses all the artillery pieces of the other races in terms of range. This is my favorite piece of equiment to field so far since skaven really need to fend of the bigger beasts fast, because most troops will have a hard time dealing with them.
Doomwheel
This wheel brings doom right to your enemy...on wheels! This piece is classified as a chariot and should be used as such. Going for only the infantry, dealing heavy damage with its automatic bolt throwers in front and sides. Since it's armoured, the enemy will have a hard time taking care of this chariot when you smash it into their lines, bring it back and smash it in again. Giving them a run for their money.

Legendary Lord: Queek Headtaker

Faction effects
Queek steals a percentage of xp earned by other lords. This is a very good skill for a faction leader to have since Queek will be strong in the early and mid game when you have 1 or 2 additional lords fighting for your faction. Make sure to be winning battles frequently with other lords as well so Queek can reap the rewards and level up faster than other legendary lords.
There will be a -2 loyalty debuff for your factions grey seers so try to avoid recruiting any of those lords in the early game if you seem to be losing battles and are new to the Skaven.
Lord effects
Melee attack +10 and weapon strength +10% against dwarves and greenskins. This gives you an indicator which factions to attack more, but you will see them rarely in the campaign early on.
Upkeep -50% for stormvermin and clanrat units. This is a really nice addition to this lord. This means you can recruit more stronger units to make up the bulk of his army.
+2 uses for the 'Menace Below' ability. This makes Queek again, a very offensive character.
Queek has several unique abilities you can upgrade during the campaign:
Extremely distrustfull:

+15% chance of wounding agressors
Leadership: +8 (Lord's army)

Rend & Slaughter:

Leadership: +8 (self)
Passive ability: Frenzy

Make Examples!:

Loyalty: warlord recruits +2 and -2 for greyseers
Leadership aura size: +20%
Aura leadership effect: +5
Attribute: Causes Fear

Life is very cheap (fully upgraded):

Casualty replenishment +20% (Lord's army)
Upkeep: -10% for Clanrat units (all forces)
Armour: +10 for Skavenslaves and Clanrats (Lord's army)
Unit experience: +4 for Skavenslaves and Clanrat unit recruits (Lord's army)

Crimson Guard (fully upgraded):

Unit experience: +4 for Stormvermin unit recruits (Lord's army)
Recruitment duration: -1 turn for Stormvermin units (all provinces)

Violent rise to power (fully upgraded):

Public order +2 (all provinces)
Enemy hero succes chance: -20%
Hero action success chance: +12%
Ambush success chance: +25%
Wound recovery time: -1

Skaven Hero's

In this section i will briefly point out what different hero's do in the campaign.
Assassin
What cannot be solved by potions and subterfuge by afar will be solved by deadly twin blades up close. These are your loyal rat ninja. They are dedicated hero killers in battle.
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Will replenish troops in the host army.
Constant Local Effect
Will reduce enemy regions happiness or increase it for your own region.
Target

Settlement: Will assault the garisson.
Hero: Will attempt to assasinate an enemy hero.
Army: Will assault a unit in the enemy army.

Warlock Engineer
The Skaven engineer is the artificerof Skaven society, blending arcane sorceries with technology in an insane and mind boggling mix. They wield the power of ruin in battle. They function as a mage.
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Embedding this hero will give your army a campaign movement bonus.
Constant Local Effect
The constant local effect of having this agent in your region is that it will boost the income by a certain amount.
Target

Settlement: Will steal technology, resulting in a 25% boost to research rate.
Hero: Will wound an enemy hero for a set amount of turns.
Army: Will hamper the movement of an enemy army.

Pestilent priest
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Increases the chance to find a magic item by 15% after winning a battle.

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Constant Local Effect

Will increase the spread of corruption in a local region.

Target

Settlement: Will damage the enemy walls of the target settlement.
Hero: Will attempt to wound an enemy hero.
Army: Will hinder the replenishment of the enemy army.

Opening Moves

If you were smart to untick the intro option then after choosing your starting lord of clan Mors, you will be viewing a little intro video. After that you will get a guided tour of your surroundings. Fear not! The elf-things are actually pretty weak compared to the lizard-things you will have to face to the east.
You will get a mission to take a settlement of the 'Fortress of Dawn' elf faction. You know what to do don't you? Kill the elf-things (capture them for food after) and recruit some more units once you move more left along your border so you can strike the settlement on your next turn. Recruit Skavenslaves or clanrats, but i would go with clanrats since they are a cheap replaceable frontline unit (-50% upkeep). Put a point in route marcher. End your turn and wait.
Try to get a non aggression pact with Zlatlan. Now go and take the settlement starting at lvl 2 and repair the docks. You need to build up your gold income after all. After this your mission will be complete and you will have some money and warpstone. Keep an eye out for those missions if you want to gain an edge in the campaign. Build a ratling warrens for replenishment or the Taskmaster's platform (unlocks a technology tree later on when you upgrade it).

Smal Tip: Keep capturing enemies at the post battle screen for lots of food so you can colonize ruins at higher levels.
Medium Tip: You can auto merge units with ctrl+m or use the encamp stance to regain unit health quickly in the field.
Big Tip: Clan Moulder will ally against you with the elves if you appear weak! Traitors.

Colonize the ruin (or search it if you feel lucky, to complete the mission and gain extra cash) and defend your own territory for now and replenish your troops. By now you should have an army of 18 units strong, mostly filled with clanrat troops. After recruiting some more units you can recruit a lord of your choosing and build up a second army. Using the expansionist planning commandment you should have unlocked the first Rite 'The Dominating Scheme'. This rite will help you grow more quickly if you have money. Try to spend as much points as possible in queeks unique ability tree since it will give you powerfull bonusses (see his lord page for more information).
In the next few turns the Fortress of Dawn faction might want to have some beef with you, destroy their navy when it tries to conquer one of your settlements and bring the fight to them if you feel like it. Or continue on to the east since they are weak anyway and won't attack in some time, your second army can hold them off if its strong enough.

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Your next conquest should be the 'Jungle of the Gods' province since the Caverns of Sotek has a warpstone bonus. You need warpstone to win the vortex campaign. Continue to expand south-east, ignoring the other Clans non aggression pact, since they are your stepping stone to greatness anyway. They will probably lay siege to the elven settlement if they have reached it faster (and they will fail making it a perfect opportunity to kill their last army). If you go to war to defeat their army, you will be at war with another clan further to the east. Since they have a stupid defensive pact..and it won't save them yes-yes.
No matter! They will be overrun by the lizardmen in a few turns. Wait, build your army, maybe even a third one if both are full and prepare to take clan Moulders settlement and erase them from the southern lands. This will open up a quest battle! Take the quest whenever you can and earn the warp-shard armor that comes with it. You will need it in the battles to come. After this is done continue to expand east, taking all the settlements if you wish. Build a clan armoury when you can to open up the technology tree, or an assassins hideout to unlock an agent and completing a mission.
The Avenue of Gold will have a gold mine to increase your income. The Last Defenders will have the food resource you need to build a food related building. I won't spoil too much as to where to find it but now you know what faction has the first food related building plot. They can prove a real challenge. You were advancing to the east anyway so good luck with that. I suggest doing the battles yourself instead of auto resolving them.
Further east, between the mountain lies the warpstone resource site on the starting landmass held by the wood elve-things/lizard-things (depending on your playthrough, wood-elves are a bítch). Holding these two resource sites will slowly inch you towards victory till you are brave enough to venture beyond the southern lands. The final ritual resource site lies north where the vampires are. They shouldn't pose a big threat.

Hint: There is a second resource site north west from your starting position

This should conclude your opening moves to get you started. After this you will probably leave the landmass with 1 or 2 armies to search for more ritual resource sites in the west.
I wish to part with you all with some pieces of advice:

Try to build siege engines when you can for additional firepower.
Protect your ritual sites when you conduct your ritual.
Never start the rituals when you're out of movement points.
Try to protect your capital when you are doing a ritual. The enemy mostly converges there.

Hint on where to find a ritual resource site on the other landmass

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