And he can eventually unlock his griffon Deathclaw which hugely increases his lethality. Emperor Karl Franz upgrades as he levels up to be one of the best fighters and/or leaders in the game. Picking your commander makes a bigger difference for The Empire than most factions, because the choices are very different. That also means you’re going to have defend a much larger core area than the Vampires against Chaos and its allies, so long-term the Empire has a harder game to play. These limits means that, unlike the Vampires, it’s hard to get all of your key buildings in one province and your military production is going to be more distributed. Because of that, this is the faction it’s easiest to forget to do research with, and you won’t have much choice early on what to research. You only unlock three techs for research at a time, by building mid- and top-tier structures in your cities. It’s also worth noting that the Empire research tree is more formalised and smaller than the Dwarfs and Vampires. You might also want to build walls around them, which will take another slot. For example, your faction capital Altdorf has a port and a unique college of wizards that you absolutely need to build. That by itself uses up four of your provincial capital’s five spare slots-and many have unique buildings on them. Always watch out for these when considering what to build-and always look at the building browser, because it’s hard to tell through the normal menu.Īlso, remember that many building chains can only be fully-upgraded in a provincial capital-so if you want top-tier units in a region, ensure you build the smith, stables, foundry and temple of sigmar only in your provincial capital. For example, Grunberg has an expensive breeding stables which heavily buffs your cavalry and missile cavalry units and also has livestock farms, which give better growth than normal wheat farms. Some towns have unique buildings, with special effects. The most efficient use of money is to just build the basic farm Of course, to upgrade them you need bigger cities, which means growth, so you’ll want to invest in farms wherever you can.

Each upgrade on them is less and less worth it, but will still pay off in 20-40 turns, so do them when you can.

The Empire, oddly, can build weaving sheds in every town which are cheap to start with and produce a steady stream of income. Instead, you need to focus on the buildings in your province. And that’s going to take some upkeep, which means you need to make money! Getting Geltĭespite his name (gold in German) and his magical control over gold, Balthasar Gelt is no help making the thousands you need each turn. Of course, to get them to join your confederation, your need to get your military strength up, which means you need to afford at least two full armies.

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