Replenish in north as vampires?

[MIYUKI]

I am noticing that despite ruined varg nord towns and 50%+ vamp corruption in the area that my lords armies do not replenish. does the Vamp hero skill Provider allow this? is there another way? short of running back to controlled territory...

[Qinshi]

Maybe its a bug?
What you can do, is make two half armies into one. (smelting unit groups together) and use the 'raise dead' ability of your general to get new fresh units in your armie.

[Daliena]

I'm just starting out a VC campaign myself and haven't tested it, but the Channeling stance says it allows replenishment, perhaps that would work?

[Shirome Artiste]

While having >50% vampiric corruption in enemy/neutral territory prevents attrition, your armies will not replenish in territory that is not actively controlled by you OR held by an ally(Defensive/Military) AND >50% vampiric corruption is present or the faction in question is vampiric itself. Setting your army into a channeling stance AND having high enough corruption to not take attrition damage allows for (minor) replenishment.

So, in summary: Held lands
Yourself: Allows replenishment regardless of corruption.
A non-vampiric ally: Allows replenishment if Vamp Corruption > 50%, else attrition
A vampiric ally: Allows replenishment
Neutral/Razed: Does not allow replenishment, take attrition if corruption is low.
Hostile: Same as neutral.

[MIYUKI]

Originally posted by Shirome Artiste:

While having >50% vampiric corruption in enemy/neutral territory prevents attrition, your armies will not replenish in territory that is not actively controlled by you OR held by an ally(Defensive/Military) AND >50% vampiric corruption is present or the faction in question is vampiric itself. Setting your army into a channeling stance AND having high enough corruption to not take attrition damage allows for (minor) replenishment.

So, in summary: Held lands
Yourself: Allows replenishment regardless of corruption.
A non-vampiric ally: Allows replenishment if Vamp Corruption > 50%, else attrition
A vampiric ally: Allows replenishment
Neutral/Razed: Does not allow replenishment, take attrition if corruption is low.
Hostile: Same as neutral.

hmm, it is neutral as i destroyed the town. if channeling allows even a small amount of replenish ill be happy. 4 rank 9 all armies up there, can only go 3 towns in before getting near unit losing range. definitely dont want to merge amd raise dead, as the ranks are begimner level. good in an emergency tho. i am assuming the vamp heroes skills plus 15 % replenish will suffice to keep me going with only 1 turn rest between engagements.

an interesting thing ive noticed, the varg and skaeling will eventually offer you a non aggression pact if you both repeatedly kill their armies AND stay out of their territories. Feels like about 30 or 40 armies or so on VH difficulty. has happened twice, with varg shortly after chaos beaten, and once chaos ended skaeling became active and attacked me, offering peace some time after. i was watching them with a few heroes for a long time. varg and skaeling were hammering pinkskins hard but i guess varg peaced with them and went hostile with skaeling. varg got wiped out within 10 rounds. as soon as this happened the skaeling had no war target, so i guess some game mechanic forced it to war with closest target. me. i have been watching their armies crumble against mine for a while - using them to train all vamps and heroes to 30. i saw the non aggression go orange recently, but as soon as i popped a town it appears to have reset back to red. guessing the trick is to defend only and wait for then to offer peace to you.

prly another 100 turns before all my guys are lvl 30 tho. dont want to war with humans or dorfs till then. keeping dorfs happy was damn expensive but definitely worth it.