Total War: Warhammer II – Brief Description of Each Faction

This guide will give you a brief description of each faction from both Warhammer I and Warhammer II.

Other TWW2 Guides:

• Vampire Counts Hints & Tips.
• Lizardmen Guide.
• Skaven Guide.

The Empire

Strengths

• Flexible unit roster that has a tool for nearly every situation 
• Powerful Artillery options 
• Access to 6 lores of magic (7 if you count Balthasar Gelt) 
• Defensive focused, but can go aggressive if needed 

Weaknesses

• Lacks any defining Strengths 
• Very few Monstrous units 
• Lack of psychological damage (fear and terror) 

Dwarfs

Strengths

• Extremely durable Infantry, with high armour and melee defense values 
• Powerful Artillery and Missle Infantry options 
• Poweful support and melee focused Lords 
• Innate racial magic resistance 
• High leadership 

Weaknesses

• Most units have extremely low speed values 
• Vunerable to Cavalry, Chariots, and (ironically) Artillery 
• No access to any of the Lores of Magic 

Greenskins

Strengths

• Diverse unit roster 
• Very aggressive, but can be defensive when needed 
• Excel at pummeling front lines into powder 
• Strong magic buffs 
• Superior numbers 

Weaknesses

• Rather low Leadership 
• Army is dependent on the Lord’s survival 

Vampire Counts

Strengths

• Powerful Lords and Heroes 
• Units will never rout 
• Every unit in their roster causes fear (and sometimes terror as well) 
• Powerful selection of magic 
• Wide array of fast Monsters, including several flying units 
• Aggressive unit roster 

Weaknesses

• Relatively slow Infantry 
• Units take additional damage when leadership breaks 
• Army is dependent on the Lord’s survival 
• Monsters are relatively squishy 
• NO MISSLE OPTIONS

Chaos Warriors

Strengths

• Only one Artillery unit, but can be manually shot for devestating damage 
• Wide selection of highly armoured Infantry, Cavalry, and Monsters 
• Wide variety of elite units that can cause devestating damage if kept alive 
• Aggressive unit roster 

Weaknesses

• Access to only one, very expensive artillery unit that is suceptible to other Artillery 
• Very expensive unit roster 
• Armies tend to be smaller due to high unit costs 
• Monsters are fast, but Infantry is rather slow 
• Lack of effective missle options

Beastmen

Strengths

• Powerful Lords and Heroes 
• Powerful Monsters 
• Immunity to Psychology while Leadership is up 
• Very fast and aggressive unit roster (Seriously, these guys are quicker than they look. Don’t underestimate them.) 

Weaknesses

• Lightly armoured unit roster 
• Rather lackluster leadership 
• Army is dependent on the Lord’s survival 

Wood Elves

Strengths

• Most diverse and poweful roster of Missle Infantry and Missle Cavalry in the game 
• Fast Infantry and Cavalry with high melee values 
• Very durable Monsters 
• Powerful Lord abilities 
• High Leadership 

Weaknesses

• Infantry and Cavalry have low health and armour 
• Monsters are susceptible to fire damage 
• Elf Lords are relatively weak in melee

Bretonnia

Strengths

• Powerful Cavalry options, including Shock, Melee, Missle, and even Flying 
• Decent Artillery (but don’t expect much) 
• Can make front line much more durable through the Grail Relique (grants bonus leadership and immunity to psychology) 
• Fairly diverse set of Missle Infantry 

Weaknesses

• Rather poor peasant (ha) infantry that can do little more than hold the line and serve as an anvil

Norsca

IMPORTANT NOTICE: At the current state of Warhammer 2, Norsca has not yet been overhauled into its Warhammer 1 version.

Strengths

• Powerful anti large options
• Extremely aggressive
• Infantry get stronger the longer they fight
• Monster roster is incredibly diverse and has a tool for nearly every situation

Weaknesses

• No Artillery
• Infantry is mostly lightly armoured
• No Melee or Shock Cavalry

High Elves

Strengths

• Flexible unit roster with a wide variety of tools
• Highly defensive unit roster
• Air superiority due to Dragons and Phoenixes
• Bonus melee statistics while health is high 
• High Leadership

Weaknesses

• Elites are very expensive
• Armies tend to be smaller due to high unit costs
• Melee statistics drop at low health

Lizardmen

Strengths

• Monster heavy unit roster, all of which are heavily armoured 
• Powerful Lords 
• Fairly strong Leadership
• Very durable units

Weaknesses

• Units can be prone to rampaging
• Susceptible to anti large damage

Dark Elves

Strengths

• Flexible unit roster with a wide variety of tools
• High aggressive
• All Dark Elf units recieve a massive stat buff for a limited time upon reaching a certain number of kills
• High Leadership

Weaknesses

• Elites are very expensive
• Armies tend to be smaller due to high unit costs
• Dark Elf units are relatively weak until Murderous Prowess is activated

Skaven

Strengths

• Very low unit costs
• Large variety of sneaky Skirmisher Infantry
• Overwhelming numbers
• Units rout easily but regroup very quickly if left unnattended
• Powerful Artillery and Missle Infantry options 
• Debuffs focus on bringing enemies down to size

Weaknesses

• Very vunerable to psychological damage (Fear and Terror) 
• Low Leadership 
• Lightly armoured Infantry and Monsters
• No Cavalry
• Army is dependent on the Lord’s survival