How can I recruit more heroes for Tomb Kings in campaign?

[Shadow Aimai]

I have exhausted all the hero slots available through research, and now find myself struggling trying to defend my lands with barely 8 armies while the Empire and Bretonnia swarm me with armies and heroes like the vermin they are.

Still holding strong my ground, I just wish I could push further without leaving my lands undefended.

[Gresh]

Do you mean hero units like Tomb Princes, Liche Priests, and Necrotects, or do you mean additional Lords to lead armies?

With heroes you're stuck at the cap.

You can unlock more armies (lord recruitment) from the Mortuary Cult menu with money and canopic jars.

[Shadow Aimai]

Yeah, I was hoping to unlock more armies a bit faster with their canopic jar hoarding talents and deal with the enemy agents.

Having to gather 1600 jars for another army when each victory only gives me 30 jars each is murderous.

[HazardHawk]

I dont THINK I have this modded, but forgive me if I do and dont remember.

Canopic jars come from everywhere. It is even a king and hero ability which should be enabled as soon as it is available as an option. Then also, each primary centerline research unlocks the ability to recruit a new tomb king army. There is also a fifth tier building which unlocks an army. Then LAST is the ever more expensive paying to specifically unlock one more army.

Getting started with the TK factions is the hard part. Once you are rolling, free units means combining lower tier units and adding better as they become available and never missing a turn to add more units to available slots in your armies.

The mechanic I would have liked to have seen would have also been heroes added on as attachments rather than taking a unit slot, but if that were the case, once TK were advancing they would truly be unstoppable.

[wpegg]

Originally posted by Shadow Aimai:

Yeah, I was hoping to unlock more armies a bit faster with their canopic jar hoarding talents and deal with the enemy agents.

Having to gather 1600 jars for another army when each victory only gives me 30 jars each is murderous.

You can use the Canopic Jar cheese to whatever extent you wish to allow you a few more armies. This involves having 1 army with a replaceable lord, (i.e. one you're not likely to need in combat soon or that you wouldn't mind losing) and enough lord recruit rank bonus to get them to level 5 (early on there's a rite you can get that will provide this, with lvl10 your liche priests get a skill that allows this). You then recruit a lord and get their blue line skill to generate canopic jars each turn. Then you move on a turn, next turn you replace that lord and repeat. Lords that are not on the campaign map still generate passive jars, so each turn you'll increase your jar generation by 3 (9 for the initial burst). I think there's also one of the level 10 options that gives a factionwide buff you can also cheese. With this method you can easily be outputting 100 jars per turn by about turn 50 (not 33 as it takes time to get the rite, and you'll probably forget to do it on some turns).

EDIT: You can also double this up with getting Rapanse stuck in a sack city, then the Lords you keep killing her with will get the research buff too.