How do you defeat the Vampires in Immortal Empires, once they've triggered their end game?

[Archangel]

At a certain point in the Immortal Empires campaign, the Vampire Counts all start fighting for control over whatever it is they think is their legacy, and a whole bunch of Vampire armies pop up at different locations on the campaign map.

They apparently can't be defeated. You fight them...kill them all...and then the armies just retreat, and replenish their ranks, only for you to have to fight them again. I'm confused about what the point of this is. Eventually, they just grind you down and kill you...and there is no way to stop them.

What is the point? How do you actually take their armies off the field, when defeating them, doesn't actually defeat them? I get that they're "undead"...but how do you actually kill them? Or is this just a wall, that you hit, and can't pass? It's frustrating and completely unfair.

What is the solution?

[John Cena]

have you tried taking their settlements?

[Yoda32001]

defeat the army twice in the same turn.

[Sevrojin]

fight a army 2 times and you kill it off regardless the automatic Resurrection.

also by the sounds of it you are talking about the endgame crisis. its ment to be hard just eliminate the armies 1 by one and take their territory

[lethminite]

This is meant to be a final challenge, which occurs after you've already 'won' the game, to give you something to threaten you.

In particular, with the endgame crisis, you need to hold a particular settlement to stop that faction respawning for free, with 4 settlements in total.

I ended up making packs of 3 lords, and slowly marching them in encamp stance to the locations (vamp corruption), then holding that location with one of the three, while the other two swept the area for all remaining threats, until that faction was wiped out, then left two back to guard (to be safe, this was probably overkill, but i could afford it), and marched on with another group of 3 lords to the next faction's base. Rinse and repeat.

It was actually pretty tedious, but I also played it ULTRA safe, so that's partly on me.

[SBA77]

Originally posted by Archangel:

At a certain point in the Immortal Empires campaign, the Vampire Counts all start fighting for control over whatever it is they think is their legacy, and a whole bunch of Vampire armies pop up at different locations on the campaign map.

They apparently can't be defeated. You fight them...kill them all...and then the armies just retreat, and replenish their ranks, only for you to have to fight them again. I'm confused about what the point of this is. Eventually, they just grind you down and kill you...and there is no way to stop them.

What is the point? How do you actually take their armies off the field, when defeating them, doesn't actually defeat them? I get that they're "undead"...but how do you actually kill them? Or is this just a wall, that you hit, and can't pass? It's frustrating and completely unfair.

What is the solution?

Well if the Vampires' Endgame crisis is too hard for you, you can always turn it off and turn it back on again when you have more experience defeating Vamps.

You can also just turn all the endgame crises off too. Those were only made because longtime and hardcore fans kept complaining that the endgame was boring because they snowballed to the point that nothing could challenge them anymore.

[GeoG85]

It's predictable programming. It challenges you at first, but it repeats. You know when the End Game Crisis will trigger because you set it up at the Screen Select. You know where every End Game Crisis will strike too, and can prepare accordingly. Is it gonna be A Grudge Too Far? Then start sending armies at the dwarf spawn points, in-case you have bases there that will be vulnerable. Etc, etc.

[Basarab Laiota]

hide your armies in ambush stance and try to catch them in forced march stance

[Azure]

Stakeout

[Virthuss (法國人在台灣)]

Kill the leader to break the moral of the troops and wipe them out. If he goes away, beat the army a second time to wipe the stack.
Don't let lords alive, even alone, for they can raise dead and instant create stacks. Another option is to keep your lands untainted so they suffer attrition.

BTW fire attacks are super effective against regenerating units. Don't hesitate to use it or to use an artifact giving you fire dmg.

[assarhadon]

its just a vampires, its easy to kill them as any faction and doesnt matter how much times they resurect

[Rhingeim]

Rethink your armies to win battles against vampires with minimum loss and maximum damage.

Clean corruption (it's affecting their respawn mechanic.

Get their towns (or raze them).

[DaBa]

Pretty sure you do the exact same thing you do when fighting factions normally: ambush their armies (or kill them normally one by one), take their settlements, win.

[Mezore]

Campaign movement and casulties replenishment rate are the best way to get them quickly. Thankfully, they aren't too favored by auto-resolve, unlike those damn dwarfs, so you don't have to use elite army, just counter-army close to their spawn to slowly but surely put them down

[pascal.difolco]

With Ungrim getting rid of Vlad was a joke, their armies melted to Slayers and killing Vlad himself took 1 minute to Ungrim

[KillerDuck]

Lots and Lots of fire units and lore of fire users if you've got them. The vamp units don't regenerate in battle as much when they're on fire so they die faster and you take fewer losses. This will help you to have some staying power to go after each army twice a turn and kill them permanently.