Four at the most.ĭo not go left to right down your firing line. When setting control groups go back to front so each control group is two darkshards. It is two ranks, closely positioned behind one another, of units deployed five or six men deep and no fewer. The proper formation of a druchii darkshard battery is NOT a long thin line. So that's the first thing to address because proper employment of your Darkshards is key to victory and if you use them wrong you'll wonder what the hell everyone is talking about. Rather than every man turning slightly to his right when firing, the entire regiment wheels to be almost exactly square with their target (wasting precious shooting time), clips through the spear wall protecting them and gets pulled into a melee where they don't fire and get slaughtered before you can force them to pull back out again. The strategy then, start to finish, is similar to dwarves but a lot more murderous and a lot less durable: Get as many darkshards with shields (so they'll win or at least tie any ranged duels they undertake) as you can fesibly protect, stick a line of meatshields in front of them, put everyone on guard and laugh loudly as the oncoming army melts into so many scattered corpses.Ī widely cited complaint about total war is that missile units have no brain. While you certainly CAN go on the offensive with it, its a lot of effort and expense for less effect. The Dark Elf army plays surprisingly defensively. Until then, understand this - the solution to every problem you encounter is 'kill it with darkshards'. The long and short of the dark elf strategy guide is that darkshards are boarderline overpowered and while the sun is shining, we may as well make some hay.Įxpect their AP damage to be drastically reduced in the coming weeks as the five people who actually play multiplayer complain about balance enough to get them nerfed. You're here because you're having trouble so the first question is: Do you have enough Darkshards?

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