Any accounts of successful Sorcery/Chaos games on Expert and above?

[Anskiy]

I'm curious about this, since I find this combination rather hard to get off the ground. Most of the early game spells don't synergize, outside of like Hell Hounds with repeated Phantom Warrior/Confusion casts, nor do they seem to excel at any aspect early on. Flame Blade and Resist Magic are excellent buffs, and Wall of Fire and Philosopher's Stone both make for amazing defenses, but conquering things seems tricky, as neither school provides particularly strong defenses for units or offensive spells against armies until the Rare tier. I'm particularly interested in hearing about successful games with this combination in the Warlords mod, but games on vanilla CoM 2 are fine too.

[Suppanut]

I think sorcery/chaos combo working well I mid and late game while early game would be a bit of struggle. Suitable retort and playstyle for this would be conjuror, channeler, and omniscient. Unlike other realm, sorcery creatures synergy with chaos's inner power (this true to both CoM2 and Warlord mod) so your sorcery creatures would not obsolete by late game. Both realm also full of combat intervention spells, channeler will pay you back big time after your rough early game. Sorcery spell like aether binding and Uranus' blessing and will ease chaos weakness in power economy and casting skill. Reinforce Magic will mitigate weakness of chaos channeled units against life and sorcery opponents. Omniscient will help your early and mid-game economy and prevent you from falling behind if you play city development properly

[Seravy]

I had one a very very long time ago on the highest difficulty setting, whichever it was at that time. It should be on Youtube.

It was pretty much won by a hero or few heroes conquering all of Myrror as the wizard there was weak against early game heroes. (mono-Death)
If I had to guess it was probably the Dwarf or another very tanky and high resistance hero with Chaos Channels and Soul Linker buff.

I'm not sure if it would be possible to do the same now, the hero and soul linking still exists and Wave of Despair is unlikely that early so maybe. Nomad horsebowmen were nerfed since then though.

[Anskiy]

I'm curious to try that out myself. Do you have a link to your playthrough?

[Seravy]

This seems to be it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu-7pbuHz0E

[Anskiy]

Thanks. I'll see if I can extract anything from that video series; after all, as you said, the basic blocks of your strategy are still the same, despite all the changes the game has gone through.