When you are ready to fight it, attack the sack settlement at the start of the turn on the small general then raze it on the small general which will kill his movement but allow imrik to ride off and do the dragon.

Wait at least until level 14 for the dragon fight to get Imrik his own dragon.

Otherwise this one has to wait until after dragon to buy with decent influence.

If a second is available next turn without a horrible trait recruit him and send him up as well.

Recruit one noble if they have tolerable traits at your top settlement to rally up with Imrik before the dragon fight.

Take the 2 influence skill that unlocks nobles.

Watch for when the sacking province will rebel, should be very close now.

Be sure Imrik is parked on the right side of the city to hopefully pop the dragon on your way to skaven.

If there is a second noble take that into account for the 20 stack and only recruit 4 guys (regiment of renown is one and three normals) to make the full stack.

Calc out when you will get 14 and want to fight the dragon and be sure you don’t pay for the guys longer than you have to.

Send second general back to province and recruit guys to cap out the main army on a transfer assuming noble is recruited in time for dragon (maybe turn 15 for him to get to Imrik and ready to actually do anything).

Watch for when the sacking province will rebel and go into siege mode before it does.

Build defense buildings and continue doing so until all three home provinces have max buildings.

Sack the city on Imrik and then wait until the start of next turn to pop the xp rite when its available (assuming you have not had three fights yet).

March the new lord (+hero when you can get one at turn 12) behind Imrik to rally up for shared XP.

Move all the way into the enemy territory on a march.

Recruit to 14 guys (later Hero will fill out the last spot and 3 spears 1 archers and one regiment of renown archer brought up by other lord if he can in one turn with the skill from lightning strike tree).

Recruit another lord at the last dwarf base you just took (option, check financials on this (~6 or 7 turns of xp sacking for $3,500 but later recruits nearer dragon fight can save more per turn until then).

Do not take any of the gold buildings past level 1 for the start.

Build two gold buildings one at each settlement.

Imrik does not actually need the dragons as badly as the doughnut but will if he has to face down Grimgor mega stacks. Dragon/Army buffs can come later to max out your doom stack.

Imrik skill towards sweet personal buffs (2 influence per turn one ASAP).

Upgrade second settlement for 450 gold dragon building (not main one).

Destroy both small buildings for 100 gold.

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