God, you can't even get knowledgable lords since you only get Treemen lords. This despite the fact that spamming life magic to heal treemen units is probably your best non-elf army.
Also razing is getting really annoying since it removes all your movement and leaves you in enemy territory unable to replenish. Wood Elves should really get some ability to heal in the heathland if its razed, or just ability to encamp at 0 movement or something. Despite this razing is definitely the right way to go, way more tree health quickly and you stay small so no one fucking attacks you. If I was using archer spam and therefore not having my army ground down to half strength every battle in melee it'd be incredibly easy to just continually raze->hide in ambush off the path->raze when they come back.
Incidentally, I think I might have found some cheese:
If this can stack then getting 4 of these bad boys (I think the cap for -resistance is -100%) and then doing dryads/treemen/zoats would be pretty good. Plus you'd have 4 shadow magic casters spamming double damage penumbral and pit of shades. Heck even Melkoth's might melt things (though it doesn't say it does magic damage).
Of course if you want to use elves then you can use freaking hagbane tip glade guard with this, which could very well be as or more powerful than waywatchers. For a tier 1 unit.
Unfortunately heroes can't get -5 local enemy leadership, sad that you can't stack that for the 0 starting enemy leadership cheese.
It depends. If Orion confederated you're in for a fight.
If not, then all you need to do is confederate Durthu, take the two stacks he's going to have, walk over to Orion, declare one, put one army in ambush, the other army as bait, ambush his army and march on King's glade with two stacks. Repeat for the rest of Athel Loran. That's how I did it.
How do you confederate Durthu?