First off welcome to this game. There's a lot to learn and good luck. I figured I'll give you a rundown. So some lore to start (very watered down, I suggest Loremaster of Sotek for more in depth discussions) Nurgle is a Chaos God. One of the big four. The others are Slaanesh, Khorne and Tzeentch. Nurgle is the god of pestilence, decay and rebirth. So think of plagues, rot and an evil version of the 'circle of life'. Ku'gath is a Great Unclean One. A Greater Daemon of Nurgle. Basically his strongest 'child' in a way. Nurgle is referred to as 'Grandfather' as he is fairly kind. He loves his followers and sees them all as family. Granted it's a more obsessive and cult like love. 'Everyone out there is against us but I love you' sort of deal. He may love you but he loves the bacteria and viruses in your body as much. All four Chaos Gods fight frequently. Engaging their forces to see who's the best at any chance. As for gameplay you picked one of the tougher factions here I'd argue. Nurgle uses Plagues that give bonuses to you/ Nurgle forces and debuffs to other factions. You use infections for these and recruitment buildings. You would have noticed with Nurgle you summon units at reduced health. You have a pool of units available and you can increase the capacity of this through Advanced Military Buildings (purple ones), technology research and skills. You get units added to the pool every time a building completes a cycle. Which is capped by the settlement tier. So for example a tier 2 settlement will cycle through the first one or two then reset. It takes a number of turns to cycle but this can be sped up with things like Plagues or spending Infections. The bonus recruitement health means the units get more HP when summoned. Otherwise they all spawn at half health. A trade off for not waiting. The units that destabalise and crumble are Daemons. Undead units also do that. Basically as creatures of magic they will start breaking down when morale breaks. A balance thing as they don't route and run away. So congrats on picking up on that detail. Nurgles roster is tanky but quiet slow with the base one. Magic is super helpful especially with healing. You focus on wearing down your opponent. Keeping your troops alive with spells and blasting them with magic that, with the passive, heals you. The Great Game mechanic is based on global corruption. So whichever Chaos God has the highest amount of their corruption. So you need X amount of Nurgle corruption spread to access those other abilities. And an event can make you ascended which gives stronger effects to the abilities. That's a very basic overview of it. There's a lot more details to it but you'll learn that by playing or looking at more detailed explanations. I didn't want to write a novel on this. Keep it up and enjoy. Also it pays to be aggressive at first with most factions. But different Legendary Lords and subfactions can change up how you play. So keep that in mind.
@jordanbrandon81 Wow, thank you for all of the info and taking the time to watch! I will definitely continue to research Nurgle as I prepare to play them further!
@toofelhoont2866 No worries, the game is absurdly large and diving in now. Most people would need a hand. You get the hang of units when you learn unit type. Like Heavy Cav, for instance. You'll learn how to work them and then get to the more nuanced tactics and uses
@@jordanbrandon81 Yes, I am definitely starting "small" and bite-sized as I approach the game, especially the combat. I appreciate your feedback and help!
I was pretty intimidated by Nurgle going into this. I know there is plenty to learn about them still, but I'm not as wary of taking that task on. Anyone around here like Nurgle?
@@CrispHigh Yeah, those plagues will take me a bit of time to learn, for sure. I'm finding it's both the mechanics and army compositions that are dictating my preferences.
First off welcome to this game. There's a lot to learn and good luck.
I figured I'll give you a rundown. So some lore to start (very watered down, I suggest Loremaster of Sotek for more in depth discussions)
Nurgle is a Chaos God. One of the big four. The others are Slaanesh, Khorne and Tzeentch. Nurgle is the god of pestilence, decay and rebirth. So think of plagues, rot and an evil version of the 'circle of life'. Ku'gath is a Great Unclean One. A Greater Daemon of Nurgle. Basically his strongest 'child' in a way.
Nurgle is referred to as 'Grandfather' as he is fairly kind. He loves his followers and sees them all as family. Granted it's a more obsessive and cult like love. 'Everyone out there is against us but I love you' sort of deal. He may love you but he loves the bacteria and viruses in your body as much.
All four Chaos Gods fight frequently. Engaging their forces to see who's the best at any chance.
As for gameplay you picked one of the tougher factions here I'd argue. Nurgle uses Plagues that give bonuses to you/ Nurgle forces and debuffs to other factions. You use infections for these and recruitment buildings.
You would have noticed with Nurgle you summon units at reduced health. You have a pool of units available and you can increase the capacity of this through Advanced Military Buildings (purple ones), technology research and skills. You get units added to the pool every time a building completes a cycle. Which is capped by the settlement tier. So for example a tier 2 settlement will cycle through the first one or two then reset. It takes a number of turns to cycle but this can be sped up with things like Plagues or spending Infections. The bonus recruitement health means the units get more HP when summoned. Otherwise they all spawn at half health. A trade off for not waiting.
The units that destabalise and crumble are Daemons. Undead units also do that. Basically as creatures of magic they will start breaking down when morale breaks. A balance thing as they don't route and run away. So congrats on picking up on that detail.
Nurgles roster is tanky but quiet slow with the base one. Magic is super helpful especially with healing. You focus on wearing down your opponent. Keeping your troops alive with spells and blasting them with magic that, with the passive, heals you.
The Great Game mechanic is based on global corruption. So whichever Chaos God has the highest amount of their corruption. So you need X amount of Nurgle corruption spread to access those other abilities. And an event can make you ascended which gives stronger effects to the abilities.
That's a very basic overview of it. There's a lot more details to it but you'll learn that by playing or looking at more detailed explanations. I didn't want to write a novel on this. Keep it up and enjoy. Also it pays to be aggressive at first with most factions. But different Legendary Lords and subfactions can change up how you play. So keep that in mind.
@jordanbrandon81 Wow, thank you for all of the info and taking the time to watch! I will definitely continue to research Nurgle as I prepare to play them further!
@toofelhoont2866 No worries, the game is absurdly large and diving in now. Most people would need a hand.
You get the hang of units when you learn unit type. Like Heavy Cav, for instance. You'll learn how to work them and then get to the more nuanced tactics and uses
@@jordanbrandon81 Yes, I am definitely starting "small" and bite-sized as I approach the game, especially the combat. I appreciate your feedback and help!
I was pretty intimidated by Nurgle going into this. I know there is plenty to learn about them still, but I'm not as wary of taking that task on. Anyone around here like Nurgle?
I stink at Nurgle just as bad as he probably smells... Did not do well the two times I tried him.
@@CrispHigh Yeah, those plagues will take me a bit of time to learn, for sure. I'm finding it's both the mechanics and army compositions that are dictating my preferences.