Started off a very hard campaign as vampire counts on Mortal Empires. about turn 165 and have about 40 settlements but the game is getting boring and tedious now.
The chaos invasion is totally broken, so much so it probably should be removed from game. It can’t get past Kislev, funny saw sarothel and kholek stack stuck and not moving. Archaon stack was sitting just by Kislev city and I settled nearby he attacked me next turn even though was green relation. Beat his arse as he attacked me when I had 3 full stacks next to each other.
Dwarfs are now down to 4 cities but can still afford 5-6 stacks of elite troops. They are attacking Gudabad with 4 of these and I am just sending Manny round the back taking their last cities, note they are even in power with me on the scale(I have 11 armies). ai must get 50k turn on very hard to afford stuff like this, Ca have gone to far with buffs these latest patches, heck even border princes with their 5 cities have 7 stacks full of gold chevron troops.
Carstein, mousalion and barrow legion Ai is broken, they just sat there start of the game with one stack and did nothing, this have been confirmed on official forums. Hence nothing keeps empire or drawfs in check in old world. I think vampire pirates have same issue too. Sartosa with one city could only afford one stack compared to border princes 7 stacks from 5 cities.
Greenskins do nothing, poor autoresolve and always get whipped by drawfs, in fact they die quicker now as Eshin hits then too. In dire need of there overhaul. Note greenskins have 3 cities, including a capital, for some reason they can only afford 1.5 armies compared to drawfs 6 with same amount of cities.
Clan Eshin must have order faction ai as they ally with drawfs early on, lol, reports on forum this happen last very often.
Lothern has 60 settlements, hence not sure I can be bothered taking them on after I wipe drawfs and empire. Lizards 30, of course they best buddies. Breatonia also have 25 cities are allied up with previous two.
Dark elves have 5 settlements left. In fact only real chaotic faction ai that’s done ok is Throgg who has most of Norse’s but not many armies. Not including Eshin as they buddies with all order factions however they may make peace soon. Also Eshin are running stacks of skaven slaves, where the elite stacks like order factions?
So having seen for myself, mortal empires is broken at moment in vanilla. Certainly at higher difficulties due to poor ai balance. Order factions seem to get massive buffs compared to chaotic factions. Plus order don’t fight each other except maybe Reikland fighting other empire states.
it was challenging at first being attacked by drawfs, Eshin, empire states couronne, tilea and border princes but after fighting so many battles manually due to poor auto resolve it’s boring as hell. Half the game units may aswell be redundant as ai don’t use them past certain point unless forced.
The arrival of chaos signaled the remaining order factions to ally. So they are all declaring war on me as I am fighting their allies. The first lizardmen stacks are turning up in the badlands.
Would only play Vortex campaign on vanilla due to these issues until Mortal Empires is fixed or play Steel Faith. Mortal Empires in current mode does not feel like a sandbox as you know what the power blocks will be before you even start.