High Elves inTotal War: Warhammer 3are the most beginner-friendly faction to play in Immortal Empires. The bulk of their units are conventional warriors that don’t require specific mastery of tactics to use, but are monstrously effective. As a faction, the High Elves have access to some of the strongest ranged units in the game.
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In Immortal Empires, High Elf legendary lords can have starting locations all over the map, giving you a varied play experience depending on your choice. This also means the threats you face as High Elves can widely vary from Daemons, to Dark elves, or Greenskins, to name a few. You need units that are consistently good against all these threats to prevail. Here are the very best options for the High Elf faction, when tacklingthe game’s many challenging battles.
10Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers
While their stats don’t measure up to artillery from other factions like the Empire or the Dwarves, Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers are the only artillery option open to the high elves. Through that fact alone, the Eagle Claw earns a necessary spot in your army. They’re also your only ranged option with an anti-large bonus.
Infantry are also good targets for the Eagle Claw. While it is your only artillery piece, its ammunition options can be swapped at any point with a click of a button to a multi-shot variant with anti-infantry bonuses. Despite its versatility, its output in field battles isn’t as good as that of your ranged infantry, but it works better in sieges.
9Swordmasters of Hoeth
Swordmasters of Hoeth are some of the best melee infantry in the game. As a great sword unit, they boast high weapon strength and armor piercing damage. They also manage to alleviate a great weapon unit’s biggest weakness by having the ability to deflect arrows. The Swordmasters are able to block 20% of incoming small arms fire, doing wonders for their survivability. Once they get into combat, other infantry are at a disadvantage thanks to the Swordmasters’ anti-infantry bonus. With high armor and melee attack, the Swordmasters of Hoeth deal out a lot of damage while mitigating it for themselves. They’re not as mobile as some of the other High Elf options, however.
8Ellyrian Reaver Archers
High Elves have one horse archer unit for their faction, in the Ellyrian Reaver Archers. As horse archers go, the reavers are some of the best in Immortal Empires. They’re very accessible, available at tier two alongside their melee focused mirror unit. The archer variant is far superior in your army.
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They can fire whilst moving, and have decent range provided by their bows. Their speed is a good 90, and they have some armor just in case they start to receive return fire. They have identical offensive stats as their melee variant, except for charge bonus, so you can run down fleeing troops effectively with them too. Note that they can be very fragile and must be carefully managed on the battlefield.
The bog-standard Archer unit for High Elves can be recruited from any settlement building. It’s extremely accessible anywhere you hold territory, and quick to join you from global recruitment. These two factors make it useful, but there’s much more to them than that. For effectively being a tier zero unit, one without a dedicated recruitment building, these Archers can be hugely damaging for their value. Compared to other factions’ archers, High Elf Archers fight at a tier two level. They also outrange most other ranged units, so, right from the start, you’ll be hitting them before they can hit you.
6Tiranoc Chariots
Tiranoc Chariots are the best skirmisher units for the High Elves. As missile chariots, their high mass and speed help keep them moving even when hostile forces reach them. You can use them to divide enemy forces and harass their flanks, all from a safe distance. The chariots have special bows that fire three projectiles instead of one. This gives the Tiranoc Chariots higher missile damage, while also making their attacks magical for circumventing resistances. While they do have a good store of ammunition, they are somewhat durable, and have anti-infantry bonuses in melee in case they run out.
5Lothern Sea Guard
The Lothern Sea Guard is a hybrid unit that wields both bows and spears. While their range is slightly inferior to that of your dedicated archer units, they still outrange most enemy ranged units you’ll come up against. Since they’re a spear unit, they also have charge defense against large enemies, which makes them a perfect archer unit against cavalry. In addition to their good stats, the Lothern Sea Guard are also very convenient. As their name would suggest, they can be recruited from ports once they reach tier three. Given that ports are an important source of income in Immortal Empires, you want as many as possible. The more ports you have, the faster you may recruit the Lothern Sea Guard into your army.
4Knights Of Tor Gaval
Completely unique to the High Elves Tor Yvrisse faction, the Knights of Tor Gaval are powerful monstrous cavalry with the power of flight. While the unit is only made up of four griffin-riding knights, it has a huge health pool that puts other monsters to shame. Friendly units near them even gain a boost to their leadership.
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Statwise, the Knights of Tor Gaval boast very high damage, and most of it is armor-piercing, meaning that infantry entities generally do not have the health to survive a hit from them. They’re also fast and armored, making them a strong vanguard for your forces. Their only downsides come down to logistics: they’re hard to recruit and expensive when you do.
3Sisters Of Avelorn
Sisters of Avelorn are the prime High Elf archer units. At your earliest opportunity, you want them in your army; they’re the only archers you need once you have them. They surpass their fellows in ranged output, and can fight in melee decently if needed. They mixthe series' potent magicwith archery. The Sisters of Avelorn are your only archers with armor piercing damage. Their bows are also enchanted to give both magical and fire damage, meaning that only shields can really protect against their arrows. Units that rely on physical resistance or regeneration will face a rude awakening under a volley of the sisters’ arrows.
2Arcane Phoenix
The Arcane Phoenix is a fast flying monster for High Elf armies that can be almost impossible to take down with the right support. For their general utility, they have inborn resistances against physical attacks and fire, while their own attacks burn with arcane fire. They also have a bound spell which allows them to create vortexes to damage and delay enemy troops. What makes them even better is that their resistances can rise to ridiculous levels, upwards of 50% with the right army. They also gain a 10% damage reduction if your magic reserve is 15 or above. If the phoenix does fall to low health, it still has a fifty-fifty shot of regaining a quarter of its HP.
1Star Dragon
As the strongest dragon unit for High Elves, the only thing that can hold them back is cost. If your economy in Immortal Empires is strong enough, you should be fielding these dragons as opposed to any others. What the Start Dragons lose in speed they make up for withraw monstrous power. The Star Dragon’s health pool is massive, with over 9000 HP enemies have to get through before it goes down. Like all Dragons, the Star dDagon has an explosive breath weapon it can use at range to attack before it charges. It’s an extremely tanky monster with high attack stats to make sure it deals a ton of damage before it retreats, if it ever needs to.
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