Ultimate Guide - Gotrek & Felix

A quick guide on HOW to get and WHY you should get Gotrek & Felix when you are able to.

Gotrek & Felix Essentials

SEE THE GUIDE BY JACKSHA FOR BEST INFO

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2596275899



WHY BOTHER RECRUITING THIS DUO?

For BRETONNIA: Because they both cost no upkeep and are ridiculously strong combatants particularly together, because Felix gives a fast-acting regeneration buff to himself and those around him that is frankly awesome (his regeneration saved a battle where Felix kept himself and 2 of my Bretonnian Lords alive when they should have died and would have died if he was not present). And if you don't have any army use for them, you can always send Gotrek to explore and treasure hunt in the ocean and Felix to go explore the land map, discovering factions to potentially trade with.

For Empire and Dwarves (Updated): per "Daemon Lord Marcus Fey" in the comments below, Gotrek does increase supply lines, so more consideration needs to be given here. If you were already going to send a lord out treasure hunting without concern for the supply lines penalty, then Gotrek would still be a good choice. If you already need to recruit another Lord to start a new army, then you can just use Gotrek for 20ish turns and replace him once he leaves. You could even get Gotrek and then get him killed to reduce supply lines penalty but keep Felix. Felix could be added to any of your armies to help that army's lord kill and survive better, or, you could send Felix to explore the map, without concern for where he ends up because he will disappear eventually anyway.


They stick around for "around 20 turns", and then they will disappear from your army or the map if they were on their own; if Gotrek lead an army, you will get option to replace him with a different Lord in that army.

They will then go off on adventures for a bit, and then eventually again become available to recruit, potentially being higher level and even stronger, better fighters.


Only "Good" factions can recruit Gotrek & Felix. Factions that can recruit them are:

Empire
Bretonnian
Dwarves

If it is not obvious, this includes the sub-factions like The Huntsmarshal, Repanse and Belegar and not just Franz, Louen and Thorgrim.



HOW TO GET THEM

Build a: Tap Room (Empire), Tap Room (Bretonnia), Refectory (Dwarves)

Once the "Hostelry" building finishes being built, a notification should alert you that Gotrek & Felix are available, and a little blue icon should spawn in that Region (or in the province's major settlement, I have only built the hostelry building in the Major settlement for Repanse and Louen so far, and the icon spawned next to the Major settlement. If you built the hostelry building in a minor settlement, I'm not sure if the icon would spawn next to the minor settlement or still near the major settlement.

NOTE that this means that if you build your first Tap Room in the farthest dump-hole region of your empire just for public order purposes without taking the duo into consideration, and they are way far away from where you want them to be, especially if you want them to put in some work for you, whelp, that's why I wrote this guide to remind you to consider this so you do not face precisely this "smack yourself in frustration" situation.



WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY DIE IN YOUR SERVICE?

If Gotrek "dies" (becomes wounded), after the normal 5 turns (possibly less) he will become available in your Lord pool and can be re-recruited for free in whatever region you own.

If Felix "dies (is wounded), since he is a hero, I think he would respawn close to where he "died" like normal Immortal heroes do?

HOW TO RE-OBTAIN THEM AFTER THEY DEPART YOUR SERVICE?

See the "Spawning times" section of the guide by Jacksha for how they respawn after they depart:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2596275899

Indefinite Gotrek & Felix

How to Keep Gotrek & Felix Indefinitely

Credit to Jacksha and his guide for this info:

Save the game at the beginning of the turn when they leave (before event shows) and then reload that save. The game will forget to remove them latter and you will keep them forever.


How to save before event pops

On Legendary difficulty it's easy as the game saves automatically at the start of the turn so you reload a game after they leave.

On lesser difficulties you spam "CTL+S" (quick save) just at the end of the end turn. It may not work first try but you can reload the autosave and try again.


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LegendofTotalWar showed a trick to get practically unlimited Gotrek lords and cause the leave event to be delayed for like 1000 turns if you do the trick 30 or so times.

Once I figure out how he did it I'll update the guide, or update that the trick was fixed.

Unlimited Gotrek Clones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5f8MKAph3g


At 8:55 in the above video, MercytheMad explains how to duplicate Gotrek to get as many Gotrek lords as you want (you can only get 1 Felix). This may only work in Grombrindal's campaign but you could try it in another scenario, let me know if it works.

[MinMaxRex]

@gg - Thank you for confirming

[gg]

yes they can tested today.

[MinMaxRex]

@DMMAG - I believe they can equip items now, I think they had issues when first implemented but CA improved them to a degree afterward.

[Magrusaod]

Don't bother recruiting ever. They cannot have items equipped, or gain levels, while soaking up XP that the lord who replaces them in 20 turns should be getting, leaving your new lord gimped hard by a lack of XP he should have gotten. All while costing you gold. Horribly implemented.

[gg]

Dont they also give xp to your other lords ? When Gotrex gain xp your other lords gain a small amount.

[MinMaxRex]

@Marcus Frey - Thank you for that info, I will update the guide with that info.

[Lord Holland of Wessex]

they are crap

[Daemon Lord Marcus Fey]

The no upkeep is actually false, only for Bretonnia is it no Upkeep because Gotrek is still considered a new army and increases the supply route by 1.