I am doing my own iron barony campain but i am not quiet as far. when you did go after cor viaad how did you take there capital it a fortress which i can't smash down.

They dropped eaily enough when my orcs finally went after them. ;)

Ha ha i love how the dwarves are untouched,Orcs do tend to fall easily to the mighty dwarves.

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I wasn't very diplomatic. I mostly did a lot of stomping. I did use my agents to improve some opinions so I could make friends/allies with the other orcs and the undead. The other orcs because it was my campaign objective. The undead because I could see they were a threat to my soft underbelly. However, most of my diplomacy was at the end of a sword. It left me at war a lot.

My new campaign is a Last Man Standing starting as the tny nation of Crivia. They have seven agents to work with so I am trying to use them more for diplomatic maneuvers, increasing my favor with different nations, etc. It's not in my personal nature, but I know that trying to make my moves too quickly to gain lands with resources will cause me issues in the long run. I don't play patient well.

Haha, sounds fun :) care to give some advice?
I just bought the game, didn't really get into it, I noticed that there are two orc nations - one that likes quantity, the other likes quality (like Isengard and Mordor), but I just wonder how to handle the diplomacy since nobody likes Orcs.

Burn, mostly. One of the advantages of the Iron Barony. I expanded too rapidly at one point and had to do a lot of backtracking to balance my campaign again. Finished this campaign objective this morning. It felt good. :) I learned a lot, and I am already applying my lessons to my new campaign.

Question: do you throw first your expendable armies at the enemy before attacking with your main army?

It looks a litle how it went in my game.

FOR THE HORDE!!!