How to play the Vampire Coast Roster & Battle Strategy | Total War: Warhammer 2 

One thing that's worth mentioning. Coast can actually run some pretty terrifying rush armies built around Prometheans and leviathans supported by syreens and chaffe. Very little if any ranged units are needed. Natural bulk and healing makes the army very very strong. Normal gunline armies will struggle with sieges, a monster rush will not. I highly recommend running a couple rush armies specifically for this purpose.

Bloated corpses give me a good laugh when they delete a unit, mine or the enemy’s.

Bloated corpses are actually pretty sweet units early and mid game. Use them like an emergency button since they're always in the raise dead pool. To use them efficiently make the enemy blob around one of your units, preferably a summon, monster or hero, then send the bloated corpse into the blob, you can absolutely destroy 3-4 units if you do it right. You normally want to hide the bloated corpse in trees until the right moment so they don't get accidentally triggered. You can do a similar thing in sieges. Take down the gate and push a summon/monster/hero through the gatehouse. The enemy will blob around him and that's when you send the bloated corpse for great damage! He's also really useful for taking out elite units, particularly elite cav that you might otherwise struggle with. Just don't use him against single entities or low unit counts and you should be fine. Bonus in that he's also great when raising a quick army to take out revolts.

my favorite vampire coast lords are count nauctilus and Luther harkon. "i have decided not to kill you... but my minds can be fickle."

The pistol and bomber gunnery mobs also have the Meat Shield trait, so you could theoretically use them as a front line - charge them toward the enemy, shooting all the while and lobbing bombs once they get close enough. Also, don't discount the AP damage on the polearm deckhands: while they get an accuracy and damage bonus against Large units, having a significant chunk of armor-piercing damage means that they can punch well above their weight class against higher-tier infantry while still holding the line long enough for you to flank.

When you are skaven and have brought 2 to 3 units of ratling guns and 40% of there army are ethereal.

I love how every monster was a "normal" creature.....and then the Animated Hulks and onwards appeared.

you underestimate the bloated corpse's use i feel. they can wipe out ANY unit they are thrown against basically, and in campaign they are often an option for the Raise dead mechanic too. and if you get them into a proper clump of enemies, you can wipe out multiple units. course they are harder to utilize in pvp because they will always target them with ranged if they have any. still it is a situation where they HAVE to target them with range unless they want an explody boi stagediving into their expensive units. meaning they have to draw their fire away form your other units. an army slot sacraficed but it can be used tactically. if you get a stealthy flag or ability you basically got a stealth bomber.

Amazing to see how much you have improved since I found your channel a year ago. Great videos, keep it up.

Interesting zombies are clever enough to operate and use fire arms in warhammer. Perhaps the zombies are also doing manual labour and armory work

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So far in my experience, what you need is arty for siege battles. Cannonades or necrofexes can take down towers or walls, while mortars sweep the walls. Use your frontline to absorb tower hits, while you keep killing infantry that deploy on walls. Of course if they rally out that is a different story, but I’m not sure rushing gun lines or monsters is a good idea for anyone.

You forget one crucial thing: Those bloated corpses are just fun to use. Not particularly good. But it's so fun to just blow up a whole enemy unit in one go.

Two things he didn't mention: Deckhands mobs can actually beat other chaf units like sk.warriors or zombies(sk.warriors not by much but still counts); Rotting leviathans have handguns on their back so they do like rotting promethians gunnery mobs, having constant (if weak) ranged damage.

heres a mini guide the late game army of the vampire coast has two types and heres a basic version of it although i have my own comp disclaimer, always get winds of death and invocation of nehek as top priorities for magicks and never, ever get the regiment of renown version of the necrofex collosus unless you are fighting these factions, norsca, vampire counts, or chaos because it has reduced range and unreliable shooting animations gunnery deck hands mob can shoot through a rotting promethian and its other version type one, non cheese 1 lord 2 vampires that doesn't have the magic of the lord( if the lord has lore of vampires, the vampire captains has deeps and shadows and if the lord has deeps, get a lore of vampies) 2 gunnery wights queen bess 5 deck hands pole arms 3 depth guard 4 deck gunners 2 necrofex collosus 1 queen bess or any of the monsters rotting leviathan for factions with good cav another necrofex for factions with good ranged deathshriek terrorgheist isnt really appropriate for vampire coast armies because they are large unit snipers(even though they dont have anti large damage like the vampire counts variant) and ranged units eat any large units but you can make do with them if you replace the necrofexes with these and have a goon squad for killing heroes so you have to get atleast 3 to snipe them and the artillery, use the deathshriek ability on the artillery(note, put the terrorgheist close to the artillery piece to instantly destroy the artillery piece it only takes one to wreck an entire banner of artillery pieces due to them having 3 charges for each terrorgheist so stick close to them and also, they regenerate the unit card doesnt shoe it but if you look at the traits area with all the circles and stuff you can see the regenerate icon in there now for the cheese army noctilus 19 necrofex collosus target any anti large units like ranged, cavalry, artillery, and anti large flying units first the leave the others for later my personal army 1 lord 2 vampire captains same as the non cheese 2 gunnery wights 6 rotting promethians with deck gunners (front line) 3 rotting leviathans (flank protectors) 6 necrofex collosus give queen bess to another army

did you realy just insult our bloaty bois?

How can you say they're bad at sieges when you can just blow up the enemy's towers and walls?

Tbh I like having bloated corpses in my army, usually 2. I keep them in the reserve and push them forward if I see my line is getting weak in a section. They almost always cause the damaged unit(s) to withdraw and create a gap for me to exploit and start flanking.

Three words: Necrofex colossus spam!

Last time I was this early there was no quarantine

I personally actually recommend a frontline of Zombie Deckhand Mob with Halberds that is supported by several unit's of Depth Guard, personally.

Bloated Corpses are pretty handy in the first few turns of the game but that's about it

How in the world do the Mournguls not cause terror?! Imagine being a swordsman and seeing that thing charging at you.

I personally used Rotting prometheans ( 4) as a front line and used depth guard as a support Damn did I rake up those kills

I saw the exploding corpses running at me and had flashbacks to suiciders from dead island. I ran as I was running I saw a few stragglers that didn’t keep up the exploding corpses jumped and blew up killing 2-3 straggling units each. The rest of my army turned around to support my struggling front line for a sweeping victory. Dumbest unit ever. I expected a nuke but got a firecracker

army suggestions I would make : 1. if price is no object: get one of the fleet captains or the legendary lord and fill their army with necrofex collosi. 2. if you want hyper efficiency, use the raise dead function to fill your army ONLY. after that fill your army depending on who your up against (ie, look for anti infantry or anti large or armor peircing depending on what units you expect to go against) but the one common thing in all of my lists: 8 handgunner mobs, 4 mortars, 1 cannon, 1 lore of vampire female lord. this creates a solid gunner core, you find a good hill to sit on and you sit on it waiting for the enemy. you use your vampire lord to go bait the enemy to chase them then run back to your gun line nad watch as the enemy is blown apart Pros and cons of this gunline: Pros: its unstoppable in siege battles, if the enemy hides behind walls their screwed due to the sheer amount of mortars. It is also incredibly effective against any infantry focused or infnatry-archer-guns army. Cons: It is very weak to cav, fast moving units that can run around your gun line are a problem, their are ways to offset this such as corner camping, but the inherint cav weakness of the strategy on top of the lack of any anti-charge means bretonia will be a scary faction to face so i recommend sending necrofex spam at them instead of this army. I have beat the game with full map completion on very hard difficulty never having built a single unit recruitment building on anything but my fleet captains and legendary lord. this also allows you to be constantly on the offense never having to take much time recruiting.

Gunner rotting Prometheans have the advantage of shooting over things too. Means that while the enemy approaches they can shoot over your gunline, and more Daka is always needed

I like how some peeps tried to defend bloated in a late game settings, when things like necrofex exists

I tend to basically ignore walled settlements until I've got a good few units of artillery. With the inability to put artillery on walls usually only the towers can shoot back, so if you stack ~4-5 artillery/necrofex with a gunnery wight you can take out all the towers and large chunks of the walls. From there you can fight them a lot more like normal. You'll be awakened and low on artillery ammo, but the fight won't really be siege anymore and that's enough

One additional point regarding the fat bomb boys: They ALWAYS die in auto-resolve. The power difference doesn't matter...they will 100% die. Btw, I really liked the battle at the end. It's one thing to tell the viewers how you can use a unit but it's quite another to SEE them in action! Well done!

For offensive sieges I use depth guards as a spearhead to immediately take the walls. If I successfully take the walls it’s pretty much the end of the first (second?) phase of defense because my gun mob will be up on the walls just letting loose on the enemy below. If it fails, though, that’s a lot of expensive units I just lost

Brooo the bombers in the front they can STILL THROW EVEN IN MELEE COMBAT, and the muskets for example behind in the early game, have u played that faction actually? =D

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It's worth mentioning that Count Noctilus can get an easy Necrofex Doomstack that has a minimal upkeep cost as early as turn 40-50ish.

i kind of feel like the rotting prometheans and leviathans replace the varghiests and the varghulfs for the vampire coast. i love the animated hulks and the necrofex colossus. the ranged and artillery units really hit home the vampire pirate themed army. i can hear the pirates of the Caribbean theme in my head every time i play them.

I chuckled a little, the Sartosian units shown are backwards, militia are the ones with pistols

Terrorgheists aren't meant to be used on artillery crews. Brilliant in sieges on walls and attacking committed cavalry and monsters from behind on the ground. For infantry, use their breath attacks from maximum range once the infantry is stationary and blobbed

I like using Bloats early game 2-3 and the early enemy armies go boom.

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You get a pirate ship transformers at the end tier... Who doesn't love that...

10:34 those aren’t Handguns, they’re Rifles

Bad at siege attacks? Dude, they're the best siege faction in the game. Bring lots of artillery, and just bombard whatever is on the wall untill you run out of ammo. Then send in the melee infantry to secure the wall, and then ranged infantry to stand on the wall and shoot whatever monster and cavalry the enemy has left, since they can't get to you on top of the wall. If the enemy has too many units for you to clear out with artillery, then use what ammo you have and withdraw and try again next turn.

There are other cons, also costs of their buildings, establishing pirate coves as agents costs a lot and 20 turns cooldown so you have to use Lord to do it by declaring war on said target settlement. Slow economy means by the time they will get decent income your enemy will be far superior. I have love/hate relationship with this particular Race tried multiple times as Pirate Horde or standard conquest, and it's better to play as standard faction rather than Horde. Also some units are horrible in AR (auto resolve) they are nuked instantly, for example Rotting Prometheans, Syreens, Mournguls (they're generally bad in combat) That's comparison with Skaven Undercities that have only 10 turns cooldown (5 turns with Skavenblight landmark), can spread Undercities around them with building that is a lot cheaper (4000 g) comparing to VCoast (5000g) the one that gives 50% income.

Can you do nurgle tzethc slanaaash and khorne and can you do the beastmen next

I just started playing the faction & game recently, this shit confused me.... They are using what looks like Matchlock Rifles.... YET they're marked as (Handguns)????? Is that right? I feel like somebody messed up the Localization?

I absolutley love the coast, but I can't for the love of Nurgle get my battles straight. I do worse than auto resolve :(

I love your guides

Use Queen Bess for every siege. With one of those and some necrofexs, siege battles become extremely enjoyable.

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Bro u do realize, that the Polearms have better melee defense so will buy MUCH more time for your range troops in the early game???

Lol I love all the bloated corpse hate from everyone! I can make hay with them, I love Fat Bastard

I like my army comps like how I like my women EXTRA THICC

Hey, Colonel! Love your videos, man. I'm new to the game and I'm really early in the Vampire Coast Campaign, but I'm having a ton of problems beating the High Elves, since they have some huge range for their missile units. How can I get closer to them without taking too much damage or exposing my missile units? Anyway, thank you for all your videos! They help a lot!

I am still sad that this is the first TW since a long time without ship battles

4 Necrofex + Noctilus, 6 depth guard (4 axe 2 halb), deck gunners, 2 terrorgeist, then deck gunners, bomb deck droppers and a queen bess for final measure. The sheer amount of pain from 5 necrofex and a queen Bess is nothing more than unbelievable. Hard disagree on the terrorgeist by the way, they can annihilate back lines and seem neigh unkillable.

3:48 *These guys*

Bad at siege attacks? 5 mortars 3 cannons and you bombard shit out of defenders till they give up if they not, then you send your troops to clean up the remaining survivors,

How do you do alt fire??

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Emo elves next ?

0:40 * nerd voice activate * um ACTUALLY in HISTORICAL COMBAT pirates would be forced to carry 5 or so guns because you could only fire each gun once in a battle because of how long it took to reload them

mongrels actually scare me

I had some vampire rebels once and just destroyed them with bloated corpses and cannons.

Good video but... clean up your room, bucko.

Why do the fall betts have 265 speed? Lmao

Did you leave out the Mournghoul Haunter and the Queen Bess?

So your terrogist review is based on one time? Lmao!!

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