Choose Tyrion and Eataine
The new-player guide calls Tyrion a straightforward High Elf campaign with a balanced roster, included with Total War: Warhammer II. Select High Elves and Eataine. He is a melee commander. Spears and bows hold and shoot while he joins one chosen fight.
Warhammer II on the same storefront unlocks Tyrion and Teclis. A High Elf DLC can also open the race and its free lords. Check the locked portrait before you buy.
Hold a home before you sail
Read the starting province and the High Elf neighbours before you take a force across the sea. Tyrion's campaign is about Ulthuan as well as the next battle. A province you cannot sail back to is a second war.
Teclis begins in the Southlands. An early dilemma offers a choice to stay, return to the White Tower or try to hold both. That map is not Eataine. Learn Tyrion before you treat the twins as one plan.
Patrons of the Realms and Influence
Update 7.0 adds Patrons of the Realms for every playable High Elf faction. The panel is a map of Ulthuan. A seat of patronage needs its provincial capital owned by a High Elf faction. Any High Elf faction can spend Influence to secure and upgrade a seat. Seats can lead to confederation when the conditions on the panel are met. A faction that fights far from Ulthuan still has a reason to care who holds those capitals.
Champion of Ulthuan is Tyrion's own set of actions on a visible region or force. Those actions spend Influence, as do patronage and Intrigue at Court. Winning battles grants him Influence, so recruitment is not the only draw on the pool. Read the cost on the action before you spend it down.
Spears in front of the bows
Spearmen screen the bows. Lothern Sea Guard carry bows and spears: they shoot on the way in and can receive a charge, and a regiment stuck in melee has stopped shooting. Tyrion reinforces one part of the line or an exposed character. Chasing a broken unit off the field leaves the archers without him.
Teclis is the spellcaster lord. On Tyrion's army, magic is a hero's job once you have recruited one, with a place to stand behind the spears. Caradryan is a Legendary Hero from Aislinn's Tides of Torment. He joins an existing High Elf campaign through recruitment missions.
Other High Elf campaigns
Teclis is the other Warhammer II base-game lord, built around Secrets of the White Tower and Scrolls of Knowledge. Alarielle the Radiant is The Queen & the Crone. Eltharion is The Warden & the Paunch. Aislinn is Tides of Torment.
The new-player guide names Warhammer II, The Queen & the Crone, The Warden & the Paunch, or Aislinn from Tides of Torment as routes to High Elf free lords such as Alith Anar and Imrik. Owning Tyrion does not unlock every later High Elf lord.
Replace the screen, then look at the seats
After a battle, check casualties, Influence and whether a seat you care about is still held by a High Elf faction. Replace the spears or the Sea Guard for the job you lost before you open a war on another coast.
Zhao Ming, Thorgrim and Mannfred are the other first campaigns for Cathay, the Dwarfs and the Vampire Counts. Katarin remains the hybrid-infantry lesson in the Warhammer III base game.