Total War: Warhammer III – Bretonnia Guide

Helpful Guide for Bretonnia

All credit goes to HappyMarmot!

Although Couronne is the hardest of the Bretonnian starts, the campaign is usually not that difficult.

I typically follow these steps at the beginning of a Couronne campaign:

1. Take out the starting vampire army and capture the settlement.
2. Make peace with the Red Duke and recruit units.
3. Recruit a melee lord in Couronne and recruit archers.
4. On turn 2, force march Louen so that he can attack the orcs on turn 3.
5. Recruit another melee lord in Couronne.
6. Use three lords + Urannon’s Thunderbolt + archers to easily defeat the orcs.
7. As soon as Couronne is tier 2, build a tavern and recruit Gotrek + Felix.
8. Add Felix to Louen’s army.
9. Ambush bait Kemmler out of Artois or attack the castle.
10. Destroy the Barrow Legion since they can’t hold their capital against 4 regenerating lords.
11. March back to Couronne province and declare war on the Shadow Legion.
12. Be prepared for Be’lakor’s army, which will usually sail toward the port settlement.
13. Defend the settlement until it has defensive buildings + grail shrine for a strong garrison.
14. While defending, recruit additional knights + paladins from Couronne.
15. Go after Grom, who could have a Waaagh at this point.
16. Defeat Grom easily in a settlement, ambush, or by dividing his army with good cavalry micro.

This strategy works well for me on legendary and very hard battle difficulty. I also recommend getting the Carcassonne confederation technology as soon as possible because the AI Fay is usually not that strong.

Additional Tips for General Bretonnia

• Bretonnia has no supply lines, decently strong lords, and a very strong economy.
• Consider getting 3 melee lords to support the main army very early.
• Getting Gotrek and Felix early from the tier 2 tavern is recommended.
• Bretonnian infantry might be weaker than high elves, but they are very cheap.
• Bretonnia has easy access to poison debuff from their archers, which makes a big difference in melee.
• A balanced army with 3-4 archers, 1 trebuchet (later blessed one), 3-4 spears/halberds, with the rest being cavalry/flying cavalry + heroes works well.
• Bretonnia also has the Armoury building that gives +2 armor to every unit, which stacks.
• The blessed field trebuchet is amazing, especially with manual targeting, as it does not cause friendly fire.