I don't do replenish tech as I quickly build a temple for a priest hero that gives replenishment. After that I go blue line for lighting strike and Quartermaster. I go route marcher then 4 points red, also take +5MD aura at the top and first yellow skillpoint for 5MD for Franz.
#KARL FRANZ FULL#
Its tempting to go blue line but you want to invest 3 points in tech improving Swordmen MA+MD with this aggressive playstyle else you have issues with early Ork full stacks. Only spend excess prestige you always need 1k (later I keep 2k in reserve) and 2k gold at the start of the turn for events.Īfter that I went kill Skarsnik, then Vampires, then Brettonia (early to peace and trade with main faction but kill the southern factions when you are done in the east its nice green territory and you can jump to Ulthuan from there which is nice and green as well). Spent lots of prestige to improve nordland opinion 4 times to get trade agreement. I capped Marienburg province and razed the orc settlement to the west next. At some point you need to go back to Altdorf to deal with a rebellion. You have to deal with them but with constant battles leveling up and wizard you should be able to. There will probably be a 20 stack of orc boys coming from the direction of Marienburg after you take Eilhart or even before.
#KARL FRANZ UPGRADE#
If you wait they upgrade it and taking it becomes a pain. This is your best chance to take the fort as you just wiped their army in Ubersreik. Don't go Eilhart even if it may be tempting. Merge some swordsmen and replace them with new swordsmen so you can recruit 3 units even if your already full stack.Īttack Helmgard Fort on turn 5 or 6 depending on situation. Your army will probably be very depleted if so then this turn its replenishing. There should be an about equal size army (incl garrison) now sitting in Ubersreik.ĭefeat that with your new wizard and superior use of ranged while killing his ranged with your Reiksguard. Move new Wizard into army and recruit 3 units you should have 17 units now. Win the battle with not many losses it is possible with Ambush. You should have 13 units now you can teleport to the quest battle that just popped up and that gives a Battle Wizard. Move to the border between the two forests southwest of Altdorf in direction of Ubersreik. Sack it for some extra replenishment then occupy it the same turn and repair buildings.
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Its probably the slightly better approach but there are some unknowns for me and I know the strat I used here to work regarding Helmgart so I leave it.Ĭapture Grunburg. Your regen will improve a bit though for being inside the city but you also take more casualties. You can't sack it then though for the extra regen as that leaves no movement to capture it after sacking.
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Always recruit Swordsmen and some ranged (archers first, later crossbow), go for 40-50% ranged and 50-60% melee.Įdit: alternatively take Grunburg on turn 1 after the first battle. Move back over border and recruit 3 units. Use Karl to fight soldiers and gunners to kill lord to minimize casualties.
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Make sure you wipe as many units as possible by boxing the enemy in with your ranged units from the side and coming with cav from behind. Always demand gold when you see green options. You can get 900 gold from Kislev and a few hundred gold from some other factions for the deals. After my regular campaign I tried this 2 more times just the first 6 turns just to see if this is reliable and it always worked for me the way I posted it here:
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So I thought I'd share my thoughts on the current one as some peoples have problems with Greenskins or Secessionists since they got the Helmgart Fort.
#KARL FRANZ PATCH#
I played a Karl Franz campaign on about every patch since ME. Guide for Legendary Karl Franz ME start Hunter&Beast DLC patch.