Playing as the Dwarves, and ridding the world of the Greenskin scum.
Highly recommend the stout folk, by the way. Their economy is beastly. I've got 3k per turn in profit with two and a half full stacks. This is letting me develop provinces pretty quickly.
Their infantry, ranged infantry and artillery is bonkers. You can hold off an endless tide for a long, long time even with your basic troops. The Miners are a bit questionable, though, and suffer enormous casualties quickly. Still, magic resistance, armour that hovers between 80-100 for
un-upgraded, first tier line infantry and high morale (leadership) means that your infantry wall is made of cast iron (or mithril). Their tech tree, by the way, is easily the most developed/extensive and features every sort of upgrade imaginable, from income to, to legendary lord/lord/hero, to every troop type, diplomacy, anti-Chaos/Vampire influence etc. A
lot of techs, here.
Finally, even their basic ranged troops are able to deal with, say, Goblin infantry in hand to hand, and can at least hold tougher infantry long enough for support to arrive. It's a nice change of pace from ranged infantry being the squishiest dudes around.
All that said, the lack of cavalry really hurts (ain't no historical Total War cavalry flanking going on in this bitch) and many of your advantages depend on circumstances (i.e. having half of your army consist of ranged units is not a good thing when the battlefield is completely flat and the enemy rushes across to hug your line, which they do immediately).
Also, seeing Grimgor Ironhide with two full stacks making eyes at one of your settlements is a puckering experience. Especially when he's already unlocked Gitsnik, the scum.
(My poor Longbeards...
)
