If you go with isabella as your main legendary lord you have 5 vampires at turn 3. This army can kill multiple armies. My main army has 7 vampires + vlad + isabella. This army is soooooo strong no faction has declared war on me. Just by having this army on the map makes the ai go: nope, not going to try. I get ignored by every faction untill I declare war.
What about for gorst? They changed him sense this video. No more aoe heals I believe. How does he stack with Jen let given that info? Literally his Mortis engine broke.
I would LOVE to see a "Courts of Blood" DLC. That said, I don't see it coming soon because the changes to their race mechanics have given them enough of a boost they don't need it as badly as others REALLY do.
For Vlad/Isabella the mountains are definitely worth taking in the immediate area as zufbar has a gold mine, and the province to the east has an even better money-making landmark. Edit: As a helpful reply noted -Zufbnar has an Iron Mine, not a Gold Mine. In game 2 this was often my turn 40 - 60 focus, I'm sure the timing has changed in game 3.
zufbar has an IRON mine, nota gold mine. That being said, that makes it even better, because T3 iron mines give a factionwide -3% upkeep to graveguard.
@@ozisponas1593 yea it used to be you could wait quite a while until the Dwarves in your backyard did anything. Now they attack you fairly early so best to hit them first.
Strange, I was actually thinking Mannfred is the best of the VC ATM, mainly because I haven't had trouble in the thunderdome and I enjoy the addition of the books mechanic. His skilltree is a biiit funky, because it's crowded (to the point you can't afford all you want). Honestly, it's probably because I don't play on legendary, and not often on VH. At higher difficulties it would be aids. It'll probably change with future patches as other factions get buffed to parity with VC.
4:40 Well yeah Tik Tak To has Terradon riders but fell bats are faster than them and beat them in melee, on top of that you can deal with them even faster if you pin them down with bats and crush them with vargheist while they're busy. The real problem for Mannfred imo is that until he gets wind of death, Tomb Kings will be a pain to deal with since they can spam armies so easily and dwarves are a big issue cause 1 dwarf warrior can most likely kill 3+ skeleton units without a sweat.
I think all the lords are strong enough but I just hate the VC playstyle of spam chaff and cast magic, like Tomb kings but more so. I'm glad the playstyle exists for people who enjoy it
Should they (CA) force you to do Vlad's quest battles even as a Legendary Hero to get his unique equipment? Unless you feel you really need that 10% campaign move speed for the faction (nice, but maybe not necessary) I feel like picking Isabella for the Carstein Legendary Lord is automatic. Having vampire heroes that can 1v1 melee specialist lords is great, and from level 1 you get a Vlad that not only still gives your army vanguard deployment, but has both his unique equips immediately, making him a god compared to anything you will face in melee at campaign start. VC is already ez-mode, but having a kitted-out Vlad at the start is silly.
@@1006mop the only difference between the red duke and bloodline blood dragon lords is that he gets a LOT of extra ranged resistance and he can take BOTH of the blood dragon yellow skill branches.
If you go with isabella as your main legendary lord you have 5 vampires at turn 3. This army can kill multiple armies. My main army has 7 vampires + vlad + isabella. This army is soooooo strong no faction has declared war on me. Just by having this army on the map makes the ai go: nope, not going to try. I get ignored by every faction untill I declare war.
About Vlad or Isabella.
1) Go smash Zurbaff
2) make them vassal
3) Congrats, dwarfs will love you for treaty with Zurbaff
What about for gorst? They changed him sense this video. No more aoe heals I believe. How does he stack with Jen let given that info? Literally his Mortis engine broke.
Vlad has the best glow-up mods, therefor he is #1.
I hope we get flesh crafting soon. So some lords with actual mechanics.
I would LOVE to see a "Courts of Blood" DLC. That said, I don't see it coming soon because the changes to their race mechanics have given them enough of a boost they don't need it as badly as others REALLY do.
@@johnj.spurgin7037 maybe with Naggash dlc
Yes, we need meat golems!!!
For Vlad/Isabella the mountains are definitely worth taking in the immediate area as zufbar has a gold mine, and the province to the east has an even better money-making landmark.
Edit: As a helpful reply noted -Zufbnar has an Iron Mine, not a Gold Mine.
In game 2 this was often my turn 40 - 60 focus, I'm sure the timing has changed in game 3.
zufbar has an IRON mine, nota gold mine. That being said, that makes it even better, because T3 iron mines give a factionwide -3% upkeep to graveguard.
I just rush the dwarfs first before going into empire
and it becomes easily stomp campaigan
@@ozisponas1593 yea it used to be you could wait quite a while until the Dwarves in your backyard did anything. Now they attack you fairly early so best to hit them first.
Strange, I was actually thinking Mannfred is the best of the VC ATM, mainly because I haven't had trouble in the thunderdome and I enjoy the addition of the books mechanic. His skilltree is a biiit funky, because it's crowded (to the point you can't afford all you want).
Honestly, it's probably because I don't play on legendary, and not often on VH. At higher difficulties it would be aids. It'll probably change with future patches as other factions get buffed to parity with VC.
4:40 Well yeah Tik Tak To has Terradon riders but fell bats are faster than them and beat them in melee, on top of that you can deal with them even faster if you pin them down with bats and crush them with vargheist while they're busy. The real problem for Mannfred imo is that until he gets wind of death, Tomb Kings will be a pain to deal with since they can spam armies so easily and dwarves are a big issue cause 1 dwarf warrior can most likely kill 3+ skeleton units without a sweat.
I think all the lords are strong enough but I just hate the VC playstyle of spam chaff and cast magic, like Tomb kings but more so. I'm glad the playstyle exists for people who enjoy it
Should they (CA) force you to do Vlad's quest battles even as a Legendary Hero to get his unique equipment? Unless you feel you really need that 10% campaign move speed for the faction (nice, but maybe not necessary) I feel like picking Isabella for the Carstein Legendary Lord is automatic. Having vampire heroes that can 1v1 melee specialist lords is great, and from level 1 you get a Vlad that not only still gives your army vanguard deployment, but has both his unique equips immediately, making him a god compared to anything you will face in melee at campaign start. VC is already ez-mode, but having a kitted-out Vlad at the start is silly.
GHORST MAYONNAISE
Why did you say azhag hates Vlad? Azhag has bonus relationships with all vampires. I allied with vampires when I played azhag
I think AI behave differently if you play as vamp instead.
15:51
You forgot the red duke ?
you can't start your campaign as the red duck and if i remember correctly he gets the same skill tree as the blood dragon i believe
@@1006mop the only difference between the red duke and bloodline blood dragon lords is that he gets a LOT of extra ranged resistance and he can take BOTH of the blood dragon yellow skill branches.
@@johnj.spurgin7037 Didn't know about those thanks :D
@@1006mop forgot he has a unique ability too, but it's a procced, not a passive.
Vlad on 4?
Boy, what?