Zhao Ming Immortal Empires Campaign Review

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[Erik_Dz]

for melee ogre units, Zhao Ming's Lord trait also works. Ending up at 75% reduced upkeep. It is a weird thing for a Legendary Lord to have such a substantial buff to units from another faction. He gets cheaper Ogres than the ogre factions can get.

[TheAlienpope]

This campaign has to be one of the most fun campaigns I've played early to mid game. Quite a few strong factions around you. Skaven, dark elves, vampires, greenskins and chaos. Challenging, fun and rewarding.

[fatwe]

My favorite thing about him is that he's like the black sheep of the family. Very honorable and intelligent but seen as eccentric and a bit of a weirdo. Probably from all that warpstone exposure.

[Lark]

It was funny that you said that Ghorst will probably declare war on you because in my Sisters of Twilight campaign, I went to day my tree from Ghorst and found out that he and Zhao Ming were military allies. I took care of Ghorst quickly enough, but then I had to deal with Zhao Ming's Empire for a while.

[xlopossum]

This part of the map is so different and I love it. Its like... Asia.

[SpectrumSO]

Surprised you said that Ghorst would declare. From Ghorst's perspective Zhao Ming was a stable ally, and from the outside they looked like they had a good relationship. Only having -10 aversion between them is wild.

[montsaint-michel]

To be fair, everyone sends caravan to drakenhof, and nobody gives that sword to some nobody. Miao Ying also has regeneration.

[danielszabo]

You didn't mention desert armour, desert weapons and iron strength. Those skills are unique to him and give some reasonable buffs to his army, especially melee units. Also, I think he might be strongest 1 man doomstack in the game, you can get 76% ward save as Zhao Ming plus he has regeneration.

[kennethward]

The main upside to Zhao is you can leave the north provinces to defend the constant Kurgan warband invasions and just focus on removing lothir/skaven and then kill ghorst

As miao ying it was annoying have to spend resources to ensure I hold the gates on legendary, her start takes longer

[ÄrjagenAi]

Playing this campaign right now. Finfished 40 settlements at turn 30 vh/vh. This campaign is the easiest one so far. Good chances to confederate

[catnipnapkin]

I'm currently 139 turns into my Miao Ying IE campaign, and around turn 50 I confederated Zhao and him and his army have so far performed a lot better at keeping invaders at bay, and taking over the Ogre territories (now vampire counts lol).

[less]

Might be different now, but he was the only one i finshed the main campaign with. Basically turtled to the win and slowly confederated the rest of cathay and just had armies spread out to close rifts.

His economy is just so strong

[TuffLP]

0:55 For me Ghorst was my best friend as Zhao Ming. Zombie bro holding the West while i beat up Snikch and Lokhir.

[EveloGrave]

Zhao Ming is so much easier than Meow meow. The extra armor even on VH/VH allows him to just auto resolve all battles to conquer the entire of Cathay by like turn 30-40.

[mrh]

When I played this campaign I got the mortis engine item (Catalytic Kiln I think) from the very first battle. Sent Zhao Ming off by himself with the alchemist to boost movement range immediately after dealing with Snitch and one-man steam-rolled everything in his path, without even really putting effort into making him a one-man doomstack.

[melle]

In both Cathayan campaigns I've had Grimgor come over to wreck the Ogres and walk over them. I like the buffer that the the big neighbours give so sometimes I send over a decent stack of something to help defend/reconquer their lands.

[vaskil]

As always, a great video with a solid breakdown. Honestly, I think Zhao has some kinda underwhelming faction effects. As Miao Ying, I discovered Cathay can become an economic powerhouse quite easily, so Zhao's bonus for the caravans is just a nice addition more than a must have. I had no idea about getting ogre mercenaries outside of an alliance and rarely would use them, so that 50% reduction in upkeep would be wasted for me. The +15 armor for melee units is quite good but not nearly as good as Miao's bonuses for ranged units, as Cathay seems to rely more on ranged units.

[LBDA]

Finally, I waited so long for this campaign review

[nogsan]

Funny thing with this campaign, I got an event where all Cathay improved relations, we all became allies and declared war together. Problem is all enemies attacked me only.

[cohortConnor]

Zhao Ming should have -50% upkeep for melee units just like his sister gets for ranged units.