Vlad von Carstein is invincible?

[Ohio9]

I just had a crazy battle where I took on level 29 Vlad von Carstein with a Level 23 Karl Franz. I easily nuked von Carstein's army, but then he turned out to be literally invincible. His hp just would not stay down. He'd lose like a tiny sliver of hp and then it would instantly replenish. He single handedly killed Franz and then routed my entire army by himself.

And this was when his army was in marching formation, on top of all that.

Seriously, what's up with that? a single lord is just totally unkillable? I've never seen that happen before. And I was only playing on hard difficulty, so it's not like the difficulty was making him too OP. Guess I'll just have to auto-resolve this. Talk about infuriating.

[Amereth]

I don't know. Normally a simple unit of handgunners wipe the floor with him.

do tell me you have handgunners...

[Ohio9]

Of course I have handgunners. Those of one of the main reasons I like to play as empire.

It did nothing. His HP just kept popping back up.

[Ninjafroggie]

one man doomstacks are a thing, though seeing the AI use one is new. You need to look at WHY you arent hurting him....is his melee defence or armor super high? Use guns. Is his physical resist super high? Use magic. Pause the battle and take a look at all the little modifiers he's got to see what's going on. In reality you probably are hurting him, but only a little bit, and his regen is just keeping up with what little damage you are doing.

For him to not die even though youve destroyed his entire army means he's counting for a big chunk of that army's combat power, because normally you would have hit the army losses point by then and he would just crumble. Are you using any mods?

[Total Overkill]

Doesnt Vlad have 3 or 4 different ways to heal in combat?

[Ohio9]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

one man doomstacks are a thing, though seeing the AI use one is new. You need to look at WHY you arent hurting him....is his melee defence or armor super high? Use guns. Is his physical resist super high? Use magic. Pause the battle and take a look at all the little modifiers he's got to see what's going on. In reality you probably are hurting him, but only a little bit, and his regen is just keeping up with what little damage you are doing.

For him to not die even though youve destroyed his entire army means he's counting for a big chunk of that army's combat power, because normally you would have hit the army losses point by then and he would just crumble. Are you using any mods?

Basically his hp would not go below 6,200. As soon as it got down to that point, it instantly replenished.

No I don't use mods. I tried hitting him with everything I had. Guns, arrows, swords, all of it, he just laughed it off. Admittedly I didn't use magic, since I didn't have any spell casters in the army. But come on, that really shouldn't be necessary when it's just one guy.

And of course, when I hit auto-resolve, I easily curb-stomped the enemy. But I don't like to use auto-resolve for full 20 stack v 20 stack battles, and in this case I really should not have had to.

[yuzhonglu]

There's a bug where his healing cap is 100x normal instead of 100% of normal. The coder forgot to add in the % sign.

[Ohio9]

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

There's a bug where his healing cap is 100x normal instead of 100% of normal. The coder forgot to add in the % sign.

Well that would certainly explain this. And to think I waited all the way up this month to start playing the game because I figured that would be enough time to fix these kinds of issues.

[Truen]

Originally posted by Ohio9:

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

There's a bug where his healing cap is 100x normal instead of 100% of normal. The coder forgot to add in the % sign.

Well that would certainly explain this. And to think I waited all the way up this month to start playing the game because I figured that would be enough time to fix these kinds of issues.

Yah, it's still in BETA --but I feel you. Personally, I don't even like WH3 that much b/c the world map feels way too smashed together. Being able to have armies city-hop from one settlement to another every turn took something away from the campaign map in a way that's hard to define. I much prefer WH2's campaign map.

[Amereth]

Originally posted by Ohio9:

Of course I have handgunners. Those of one of the main reasons I like to play as empire.

It did nothing. His HP just kept popping back up.

Ok. He is level 29 too with a high ward save.



I think the best way to deal with him in your conditions would be to kite him, clear his army and keep kiting him until he crumbles.

Ideally you want to stick someone on him to make him run in circle. Wizard on a horse is normally my choice for that stuff.


Once you are done with his army he should slowly crumble. Once he crumble just shoot him with every handgunners/cannons/Hellblasters that you have.

He doesn't regenerate forever since he will reach his cap at some point but this might take a while.

[Amereth]

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

There's a bug where his healing cap is 100x normal instead of 100% of normal. The coder forgot to add in the % sign.

Did that bug come back ?


pretty sure they fixed that after IE.

[Aradner]

Vlad, Malus and Sigvald are the trinity of ridoculous invincible bastards. You basically need to have armor piercing missiles if you want any hope killing them. Or be Khorne in melee

[RamboRusina]

Generally speaking kill his army first to make morale win that much easier. Create open space with clear LoS for handgunners and engage him there. Bonus points if you got fire to combat his regen. Most of the time he crumbles from morale loss rather than actual battle.

[Pervy]

Originally posted by Truen:

Originally posted by Ohio9:

Well that would certainly explain this. And to think I waited all the way up this month to start playing the game because I figured that would be enough time to fix these kinds of issues.

Yah, it's still in BETA --but I feel you. Personally, I don't even like WH3 that much b/c the world map feels way too smashed together. Being able to have armies city-hop from one settlement to another every turn took something away from the campaign map in a way that's hard to define. I much prefer WH2's campaign map.

IE is not in Beta.

[Ohio9]

Originally posted by Aradner:

Vlad, Malus and Sigvald are the trinity of ridoculous invincible bastards. You basically need to have armor piercing missiles if you want any hope killing them. Or be Khorne in melee

But I did have them and it didn't help one bit

[stun]

Vlad's hp pool is far from infinite, you could just work it down.
Used to be you could see the numbers but they removed that for some reason.

Autoresolve barely takes abilities into account, might as well just break out the cheatmods if that's what it takes for you to win on hard