Reason to start as Vlad?!?

[Migromul]

I think, there is none.

What has Vlad as faction-advantage, which Isabella aslo don't have?
- 10% more campaign-map reach

What has Isabella?
- 3 more (potential) Vampires
- +25% weapon-strength for them (yes, this is a factiion-effect)

Does enybody realy consider 10% more campaign-reach better than 3 more Vampires who also have more strength in EVERY Army (not only Isabellas)?

What comes more:
- Isabella only has one relative easy Quest (you can even place your uniits... that's very rare in Quest-battles.) while Vlad has two. So if you take him as hero instead, you get 2 epic artifacts, while isabella gets only one.

As for startiing uniits, this might be debatable....
- Vlad starts wiith 3 cursed ones (is this the english name for this red Fighter-unit? I play German. And in German it's called "Verfluchter"), while Isabella starts only with 2
- Vlad starts additional with a Bloodknight-unit (That's T5... But cavalery) Whiile isabella starts with a Varghulf (A T4 unit but single-enttiity. I prefer that, over every cavalery to be honest...) and a tomb-ghul (if that's the english name... ("Gruftghul")
- So the starting units of Vlad are slightly better - at least on paper (3 T3 +1 T5 unit vs. 2 T3, one T2 and one T4 unit). BUT: you also start with a Vampire (in both cases. And THIS gets +25% weopon strhength ON A BASIS. So, it seems Isabella is still better! But perhaps you can take another aproach with Vlad instaad, and use this vampire as campaign-agent...

And of course, you need to be able to afford those additioinal 3 Vampires. But the enhanced battle-performance alone is way better than 10% more campaign-reach imho.

So, anyone here, who prefers Vlad as factioin-leader none the less and if so, why? That would interest me..

This thread can - of course - also be answered in German.

[Jack Greedy]

What do You think about Manfred von Carstein?

[Josh]

Because it's Vlad...

[t]

I take Vlad for aesthetic and lore reasons. Isabella should have always just been a legendary hero, but this was in Warhammer 1 before legendary heroes were implemented.