Vlad von tips?

[Ikit Claw]

All the guides I keep finding are out of date and I can't find a good one.
Are vampires still really good? Should I just make an army of vampire hero's are did they nerf that?
I just wanna know to get a strong start so the dwarf don't beat the crap out of me

[Païtiti]

Vampire are as strong as they ever were. All strategies and tactics that used to apply to them still apply. Blob up and heal. That's it.

[Ikit Claw]

Originally posted by Païtiti:

Vampire are as strong as they ever were. All strategies and tactics that used to apply to them still apply. Blob up and heal. That's it.

Should I try to confederate the other vampire faction? Or just get rid of him?

[Païtiti]

I always try to confed. There is no disadvantage to it.

[Ikit Claw]

Originally posted by Païtiti:

I always try to confed. There is no disadvantage to it.

Ok, thanks for the help

[Ashardalon]

its easier just to kill honestly
the ai's only purpose in the game is to annoy you
they dont try to win or pretend their following lore so murder will work a lot faster, easier and cheaper

[Grumpy Old Guy]

The trick to Vlad's campaign is to take Vlad's army away and leave him with just him, izzy, the vampire hero you start with, and maybe a necromancer.

Vlad and Isabella can easily kill entire armies of empire troops by themselves, and when the AI thinks that army is super weak they will throw themselves at you instead of anything else and Vlad will just outright kill them all. Wait for the infantry to blob up and then just pit of shades them to death, or use vlad's flock of doom, or wind of death, all of that works.

Second thing is to get Templehoff down to just fort obersomething and then let their faction leader fight vlad. All you have to do is attack his settlement and then concede defeat with only vlad in the army. Vlad won't die, the templehoff leader gets his trait, and then you can kill him over and over again with another army to get free blood kisses every turn. The chance to get an item from a settlement fight is calculated per lord, not per battle, so more lords means more items and if you can farm up some black periapts those can give you infinite winds of magic.

Do the same thing to stirland and leave them with just the moot and you can use one army to sack both cities every turn for 2 blood kisses per turn. Rush the stuff that gives you +relation with the empire and there's a chance they'll leave you alone. Best thing to do is make friends with Druthu as fast as you can because you really don't want to go to war with him, he has underway, you don't.

Economy wise the best advice I can give you is to have three lords hanging around drakenhoff without an army. Cathay LOVES to send caravans right past Drakenhoff, and the gold reward for killing them goes up every army that attacks them. One guy might get 10-15k, four lords might get 50k.

[Dregora]

Vlad + Isa together are a doomstack and the beauty of it is, no army will dodge you. Quite the opposite, they'll assume you're weak and just attack you. It fixes the annoyance that armies run away from you and it's your cheap af doomstack.

They're great.

[Cynical Jester]

Fill out vlads army with good troops and create secondary armies with okay troops and back all your armies with zombie stack armies.

[sawdust3d]

Swarms of Undead with Helman Ghorst is a fun alternative path.

Blob around a Mortis Engine and heal.

You can field 20+ armies in fairly short order.

And don't bother with military buildings, only build financial support buildings and do all your recruiting by raising dead.

You have to stay aggressive and keep spreading to sustain, it's pretty fun.

But Izzy and Vlad are a blast.

[Ikit Claw]

Originally posted by Grumpy Old Guy:

The trick to Vlad's campaign is to take Vlad's army away and leave him with just him, izzy, the vampire hero you start with, and maybe a necromancer.

Vlad and Isabella can easily kill entire armies of empire troops by themselves, and when the AI thinks that army is super weak they will throw themselves at you instead of anything else and Vlad will just outright kill them all. Wait for the infantry to blob up and then just pit of shades them to death, or use vlad's flock of doom, or wind of death, all of that works.

Second thing is to get Templehoff down to just fort obersomething and then let their faction leader fight vlad. All you have to do is attack his settlement and then concede defeat with only vlad in the army. Vlad won't die, the templehoff leader gets his trait, and then you can kill him over and over again with another army to get free blood kisses every turn. The chance to get an item from a settlement fight is calculated per lord, not per battle, so more lords means more items and if you can farm up some black periapts those can give you infinite winds of magic.

Do the same thing to stirland and leave them with just the moot and you can use one army to sack both cities every turn for 2 blood kisses per turn. Rush the stuff that gives you +relation with the empire and there's a chance they'll leave you alone. Best thing to do is make friends with Druthu as fast as you can because you really don't want to go to war with him, he has underway, you don't.

Economy wise the best advice I can give you is to have three lords hanging around drakenhoff without an army. Cathay LOVES to send caravans right past Drakenhoff, and the gold reward for killing them goes up every army that attacks them. One guy might get 10-15k, four lords might get 50k.

I did it and a while later the wood elfs that I'm friends with marched into my land and murdered him.....