Okay I misunderstood you. I thought you were deploying almost exclusively to your BZ with Chaos, in which case I could not fathom how you were winning games. Investing heavily into your KZ and QZ early and then working the BZ makes a lot more sense and fits with my own experiences.

"I am the Prince of Dorne. Men seek my favor."

dormouse said:

Yeah I merely meant that it seems useless for Chaos or Orks (and probably the other 2 also) to invest in a lot of 'defensively placed' units. It just denies attack force.

That isn't precisely true though. Chaos doesn't require a lot of units in the BZ because it's ability to corrupt your opponents units. A small force without a lot of power can totally hammer away at an opponent with a well defended zone and leave the capitol burning.

Empire likewise does not need to necessarily deploy heavily into the BZ because of their ability to move around units to whatever will give them the best strategic advantage. I should also point out that with counterstrike, they can do a really good job or destroying units while remaining defensive allowing a smaller deployment in the BZ to wreck some havoc (especially when helped by Forced March and Judgment of Verena).

"I am the Prince of Dorne. Men seek my favor."

Hmmm atm corrupting helps but it rarely locks down the enemy defences entirely.
Hence I prefer to do as much damage as quickly as possible. Hence I focus on battlefield armies to quickly overwhelm zones.
 

dormouse said:

Well I've only played 5 or so games + 1 using the draft rules.
But Chaos can work against Dwarves. To know wether they have problems i'll need to play with that setup more.
Which seems likely as my brother is leaning towards Dwarves while I'll be a Chaos (and DE) player for sure.

Orcs vs Chaos... I have a feeling atm the Orcs have the advantage. Chaos is offensive with a hint of subtlety, Orcs are just great in offence. Their support cards simply rock within the knockdown archetype build. And I always found knockdown one of the nastiest archetypes in any deck. Simply because there is more room for 'error' or rather it is easier to make less errors. And atm the potential for mass power token output seems very high with the Orcs.