Heinrich Kemmler Immortal Empires Campaign Review 

Kemmler was brought back to life by the chaos gods for entertainment and krell is an undead chaos lord so it makes sense chaos is kinda ok with him Also kemmler infinite necros and skelly bois was my favorite campaign

Do you think you might go back to some of your first campaign reviews and expand them as you have the more recent ones? I'd be particularly interested in an expanded Skarbrand review, because I can't seem to get a solid start with him in IE

I do love how these reviews contain little mini guides. It gives people planning to start the campaign a good chance of kicking off well and enjoying it!

Love this campaign review videos. I have high hopes for 3.0 and if it does fix at least most of the issues plaguing the game, especially ranged unit behaviour, I'll get working on your recommendations from this list.

Heinrich Kemmler is actually one of my favorite campaigns. I didn’t really like it at first but it’s really grown on me now that I know the best way to go about playing it. I took out all of the Bretonnians fairly easily. In a strange turn of events, I ended up killing Grom on 3 separate lords unintentionally. I went through the campaign and ended up becoming military allies with Yvresse, Eataine and Avelorn 😂

Heinrich Kemmler can actually get his winds of magic cost for Winds of death down to 7 if you get all the right skills. He already starts with 10% reduced cost, lowering it to 11, then upgrading WoD itself lowers it to 9, then getting his last skill in his magic line lowers it to 7.

Kemmlers my Favourite Vampire LL I just like the fact he has a lot of necromancers early on and u can just spam the raise dead spell because its so cheap to cast and also having good cairn and hexwraiths is very nice I like those units a lot

Since CA is taking the "legendary heroes" route, I hope they will make Krell into a legendary hero at some point, a separate entity with unique skill lines instead of just a summon

Heinrich Kemmler, close friends with Adolph Etler

Just played a Kemmler campaign yesterday. The beginning was ridiculously steamrolly. Necromancer heroes were a dime a dozen, zombies were almost free and came by the truckload, hiring multiple armies and fill them with chaff was effortless. Racking up Blood Kisses with hero actions allowed me to send parties of 1 Necromancer Lord, 1 Strigoi Ghoul-King that could wreak havoc all by himself. Krell was a one-man army, and could goon any Hero or Lord, or tarpit blobs of infantry forever. Louen Leoncoueur never knew what hit him. The problem came later. I found myself in the middle of a region absolutely surrounded by enemies. The Fay Enchantress and Grom to the south, all of Athel Loren to the east, and all of the Empire to the north. Without access to the Underway stance, dealing with the mountains that separate Bretonnia from the Empire was hellish when I was being attacked from both sides of the mountain chain. Also, for all of the Chaos diplomatic bonuses Kemmler enjoys - N'kari is just across the pont and has an unbridgeable -100 Aversion penalty for him, and *will* abandon Ulthuan to invade you if you ever make contact.

I had no idea this man held so much potential! I'll have to play him for my next campaign. Thanks for the no-frills, informative video!

Found the balthesar vid, but still amazing content it's kept me going over the last year, just wanted to say thank you for the content

One of the best thing for Kemmler is his banner for zombies, they can regenerate in melee. You can transfer this banner by unequip it from him and equip to other lords. It is especially good in the early game, zombies can tank while you killing the enemy

The +10 relationship with Chaos dint do shit for me, Be'lakor declared war on me almost inmediately after taking out Louen Leoncoeur, and so did N'kari. Both of them (+ Be'lakor's norscan minion) would actively send armies making me go back north to defend, such a pain in the ass. I had to go all the way to Albion as well as Ulthuan to put an end to their bullshit. Good thing is I've become allies with all 3 elven factions in Ulthuan as well as Ikit Claw, after that I eliminated the Wod Elves and took on the Empire, I even turned Karl Franz into my vassal.

Krell can become such a Beast and is the reason HK basicly runs around with 21 units

Kemmler definitely is a very powerful lord and the beginning is super easy, but the difficulty sort of creeps up on you once you get later into this campaign. The thing about playing as Heinrich Kemmler is that your surrounded by people that hate you on all sides. If your not careful, or just unlucky, you'll end up fighting brettonia, the empire, green skins, and possibly even the elves all at once, which is an incredibly difficult situation to deal with. Its almost a requirement to farm Grom's defeat trait (+10 relations with all Elves) at least 2 or 3 times to make sure that the elves dont declare war on you.

Rakarth next maybe?

One day... one day Krell will be a legendary hero. Can't wait for it!

Thank you Bad Gandalf ..

I always liked Heinrich Kemmler iwth his rogue wizard vibe and the powerful magic + lots of zombie summons. Also his hexwraiths are very cool.

I love this campaign review videos, i hope you make one on ikkit claw :)

I always wondered why, from 2 to 3, they removed his immune to living attrition.

RU-vid subtitles: Legend of Terrible here!

I know you’ve probably approached this subject to death on livestreams, but I would love to see a breakdown of what you want to see changed to each faction to elevate them in your personal view. Personally the VC are my favorite faction but I absolutely understand why they turn a lot of people off, I’d like to see a more in depth analysis of what you don’t like about them and what in your view would be the best way to improve them while keeping their core integrity, for example with the VC how would you improve them whilst keeping the importance of lords and heroes and spells at the expense of military units. At the very least if people bug you about it on stream or anywhere else there’s now a video that outlines all of it

Also, you're the best VL faction to confederate Moussillon, which gives you a pretty good LL early if you manage it well.

Hell yeah, brother.

I love Kemmler, but I wish he had some more flashy mechanics.

Heinrich Kemmlar was my recent campaign and I had a lot of fun. Load up Save Friendly Mod, CTrait Manager, and start your Heinrich campaign up - Force March toward the Red Duke on turn 1, don't even fight the battle, end turn, force march toward the Red Duke - In 2 turns, you can check if Red Duke is whatever trait, through CTrait Manager. I did the same for Kairos Faithweaver and Sathrorel the watcher - First turn, force march Kairos north, check Sathrorel's stats, restart the campaign until desired results. My personal favourite in these regards is the Strong trait for laziness. I don't feel like shifting through the 50+ unique traits on what's META and whatnot, so I sometimes lazily settle for Strong.

Even Nagash had his limits.

Strange how you didnt mention the dwarf next to you and that your starting province settlements are separated, also the empire to the north wood elf will declare war and grom also. Funny is that the high elf will like you based on your action and also with first item quest you will teleport down south meeting vamp coast and skaven, easy allies. Same for norscan and chaos but you have to decide which bunch to side with because the other dont like who you are friend with.

Can't wait to see your review for Teclis - would love to know your views on his campaign.

Legend, where's the second Skarbrank campaign? I can't find it in live or videos.

Kemmler - bringing beating a dead horse to a new level.

I legit thought you said Heinrich Himmler instead of Kemmler and I had to kinda do a double take. I do guess Himmler would fit into the Warhammer world.

Yeahhhh my boiiii Kemmler

Love these videos.

i think early game he is extremely easy you snowball pretty hard, but i think fighting siege battles against specific races like lizard men once you leave the continent can be difficult and autoresolve doesnt usually favour you with trash units even with higher tier units into any armies with ranged or armored units you have to manually fight them and spam coy and wod. krell is on another level hes free you have 21 units. its annoying to have to disband/trade specific armies for other ones if you need to fight on multiple fronts, alot of vc units are straight up garbage and it kind of sucks that he has a buff to probably some of the worst units in terms of utility for example skeleton spearmen are super cheap and very effective against cav and can get perfect vigor and decent melee defence, zombies have super high health and alot of entities and can hold down melee infantry for your monsters or heroes to attack, kairn wraiths and hex wraiths are ok at dealing with dwarves very early on but they cannot stand toe to toe with any units even against trash they trade like shit, they have physical resist but no armor and low melee defense relative to their tier unless you specifically go out of your way to buff them they are trash, hex wraiths are decentish but you have to micro them, i think bats are way better to deal with empire or bretonian arty or ranged units bc you can set it and forget it, they are a disposable problem that you send to their backline.

kemmler crashes for me all of the time - it's the only campaign that does this and I cannot figure out why. also, several siege maps around brettonia are bugged and do not allow summons

Dude ! These campaign reviews are awesome , thanks for doing them

Kemmler just needs a little something to make him more interesting imo, like a little flavor to his faction. Maybe add spirit hosts to the raise dead pool for Barrow Legion like the woodland creatures for Drycha? Spirit hosts get mentioned a lot but wouldn't really bring much to the VC roster besides flavor, this could be a fun way to add them in and make Kemmler more unique.

Love his campaign. Turn 67 on Legendary and I practically have the entire Empire territories under my grasp. Killing nKari and going to Ulthuan for a bit helps improve relations with the High Elves. In this campaign I turned Allarielle into my vassal by taking Nkari's settlements and seeling them back to her. Took ages to confed Vlad. For the first parts of his campaign I always take out Artois by turn 2. By turn 4 the dwarves in your mountain range are gone, and this leaves you with options. Finish off the Bretts, go to the Forest with those pesky trees, deal with the Empire, etc. Also Belakor doesn't like you after sa bit. But his trait is pretty good for vampire armies. Also Heinrich's unique sword the Chaos Tomb Blade is amazing.

How about a video about what kind of Armies you would use to fight popular Doomstacks and the Strategies

Uncanny prescience, the final perk of the blue line, reduces Raise the dead cost even more.

Did they fix his campaign? I Played him several times in October, and n'kari would declare war on me as soon as he saw me. Be'lakor would declare war on me around turn 14 or 15 as if he was programmed to do it, lol. He and his vassal would be over in my shit two turns later. It's kinda annoying. It keeps me in that area to defend it. Grom is going to declare war around that time as well. He is fun to play, but I stopped because I'm waiting for them to fix that.

Surprised there wasnt any mention of the dwarfs next to starting location in karak ziflin, in wh2 advice was to take them out quickly, is everything so easy in wh3 that you can ignore them in first 20 turns ?

In my campaigns a few patches ago, I was actually able to make a non-aggression pact with one of the bordering Bretonnian minors near me, I think the one to the South. They got taken out pretty quickly, but it allowed me to tackle Louen aggressively.

Thanks!

I just came back to the game so these reviews are great. Kinda crazy, in TW2 his diplomacy bonus with Norsca and Demons were pretty meh, but now it seems pretty useful.

Today i discovered that when properly built, kemmler can raise troops for free

it’s ma boii kemmler, he is cracked

Kemmler is probably the best Vampire Count character to build a powerful tactical army with. Blood Kisses can give him 3 ranged units, and relations with Chaos can be used to get allied units that fill in gaps in the roster like ranged skirmish cavalry and high armour troops.

Skrolk campaign next 🥺

What I didnt get is your reference to Wind of Death, did they revert some change to it? Cause when I first fired it up it was complete garbage compared to TW Warhammer 2, making it more viable to save magic for Neheks. Ergo is it even worth using Wind of Death in Warhammer 3? Cause it seemed better to use a vampire with shadow magic for damage dealing.

A bit sad he lost the upkeep reduction for necromancers, it was a satisfying plus

So it would be good to save skillpoints so you can get lichmaster immidiatly

I play total warhammer 2 and loved playing markus campaign, liked how you had to stay active and questing also accumulating instant recruit army units. What other campaigns can you suggest for me to play next? TW warhammer3 included.

Belakor got mad at me that I smashed Louen by turn 5

hey legend , how come we can't see the second part of the skarbrand stream ? wish i could watch the replay but it's not here smh

Anyone else renames Blackstone Post into Castle Drachenfels once you rebuild 2 unique buildings in it?

Ah yes. Kevin wettsworth.

Trying to play Heinrich Kemmler game keeps crashing as soon as I press recruit lord after taking first settlement the button remains pushed in game crash's took all mods off restart computer same tried three times after restart same is any one else having this problem

I can't wait to see what you do for boris's campaign, d-rush arguing and take him out early like I do? Do you relocate like others recommend? Do u do something else?

Can we see Boris

It would help for legend to use a no-fog of war mod for these videos

Funny that, when playing as beastmen, kemmler AI happily declares war on me.

Himmler is great

He has mountains as habitable terrain this is a big deal.

GrandPa is Op. I like him

Im currently playing Kemmler with the mods that allowing cairn wraiths and banshees to fly (like ghosts) and another that makes Hex wraiths to transverse between units without colision (like true spirits) oh boy its the most fun campaign I had played recently

just wish the AI got the likes chaos, so i could be chaos and have kemmler as my undead bro

I do remember as Kemmler being it was great by the mid game being able to rehire elite troops for basically the cost of a skeleton. You could afford to lose your entire army basically as he could just replenish the best troops so easily.

Azhag please!

I usually kill the starting army of Artois I think and than go strait back raise dead to overwhelm the dwarfs in your territory. Before they are able to recruit a lot or build bigger walls. Than hop arround and conquer altdorf.... Pretty easy that way 🤔 but I think I only play on hard so... Anyways hope we get a rework soon. Simulacras for him and maybe krell as a hero... And maybe a buff to wraiths atm they feel pretty bad to me them having only 50% physical resist totally takes their specialty away.

this lord seems to have really good and relevant skills and stats.

I've recently played and won as Vlad, Manfredd and Ghorst. Be a while before I'm ready for Kemmler, as I wanna to Isabella, first. But they're all really quite easy. Even enemies with AOE spells do hardly any damage with the healing caps as they are, now. Nice, easy intro to moving armies, building cities, etc. Vampires are great intro races.

I'm surprised you didn't mention his habitable climates which kind of make him the second best for controlling the entire map without massive penalties, only behind Oxyotl. But honestly the charm for me is ghost army. You basically go around pretending you're in the final movie of the Lord of The Rings.

Heinrich Kemmler the only LL that saying his name demonetizes your video.

give us throgg streaaaam ice trolllsss

vampires are dee most powerful AI factions to fight against. no other race spam so many armies.

He was the last one I played in 2 his start looked really hard, but was hands down the easiest VC lord, sounds like nothing changed.

I actually like to ignore the bretonnian starting army and instead raise the dead and attack the dwarfs immediately in the first turn, as they will be very annoying to fight when they start recruiting more units.

krell should be a legendary hero

The Dead Rise Again mechanic is so frustrating to fight against, in addition to promoting brain dead plays (well, it's thematic at least), I hope it's nerfed in the next patch.

As someone who had never managed to pull off heimrich I was seriously expecting him to say that it was a shit start with lots of enemies......

Weird that he's so strong but gets bodied in all of my campaigns. You'd think that Raise the Dead cheats would help him out a lot lol

i am speed

:)

they just turned vampire counts in a overeasy boring race for children, so no one ask for a rework.

The VC are way too strong. Playing VC become boring, playing against VC is annoying. CA should nerf them at least if theay are an AI faction.