In terms of a more aggressive playstyle, yeah just don't piss off too many bigger factions at once. Some factions are going to have an easier time with one playstyle or the other based on their starting location. In terms of playstyle, you can either choose to be more aggressive and occupy the settlements around your trees, or be more passive and let other factions protect them for you (I can't remember whether you need an actual alliance with them or just non aggression pacts). From there, all the Lords have a focus so you can just lean into that. Otherwise, Archers should pretty well keep you going initially considering how well WE can generally pick their fights. In terms of factions, Drycha and Sisters probably just want to push to Tier 3 ASAP, where they unlock Treemen/Hawk Riders and you can mostly get by primarily building them. If you go for war - you need to get t3 asap, at this point you should have enough slots so you have infrastructure building + army buildings that you need You might skip on heroes in beginning for sake of units.Дepends on the faction and how you want to play. Other is war, but war alone is not easy with WE, so ally yourself with most beneficial race to your position/plans.

First one is preferable, you need to make sure you have military acess and then just do quests for your trees. THere are also 2 main ways to play for WE (at least for factions i played wiht) - piplomacy and war.

WE have possilby strongest units for battlefield in campagn, and also have tons of magic, but they dont expand well. But i advise you to make sre, that you dont cross over big players, like HE, empire, DE, etc, w/o total understanding what you gonna be drag into. And you can hire them from outposts, so your tree should be focused on infrastructure and ESPECIALLY, growth.Дepending on which faction you play goals might differ. I would say archers are best t1 archers in game.

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