Vampire Counts Immortal Empires Battle Guide | Total War Warhammer 3 

Saying vlad dosent have a mount is completely ignoring isabela von Carstein but ok

Watching that wind of death during the Mannfred spotlight pass through those basic swordsmen without seemingly killing any of them breaks my heart.

Everyone always sleeps on wight kings. They have super high melee defense and are uber tanky. You just need disciplined lords to stack them up to absurd levels.

Playing with Ghorst right now and his frontline simply does not die. Even in sieges, I just rush the gate, knock ay the door until is down and fight at the gate for 20 minutes without losing any unit. After we invade we just keep pushing. The skeli warriors, and other infantry simply stay fighting forever.

Isabella is all about hero support with her unlimited Blood Chalice of Bathori. The biggest single target heal in the game. Coupled with reduced upkeep for some heroes. Very strong

Good guide, my only critique is that Pit of Shades now outclasses Pendulum by an unbelievable amount. You definitely want that as the key spell on your Shadow casters

The drop from tier 4 and 5 to tier 3 is MASSIVE for diverse Counts armies. Unit access was a major problem in 2, and being able to field entire ghost armies at t3 is pretty cool.

So glad i found your channel, i have been looking for exactly this kind of video. I will run a Blood Dragon focused Vampire War version 2 with Vlad the Chad at the helm for IE :)

These videos are outstanding for new players. Well done👍

Great Video! Quality Content!!!

Excellent guide!

great video, will be handy for my first campaign in immortal empires

This is the 2nd video that I watched that you did an example of early, mid and late game armies. I appreciate you giving these examples so much you have no idea. I prefer this formula of video compared to your previous WH2 videos with the example battle of only end game units. There, I would struggle with how fast you play, even while pausing your videos. Worse, I would be at a loss to which units to use until I even unlocked the end game units. I wish i could say I'm new to the warhammer series, but unfortunately I'm not. When I play, I absolutely struggle to understand the many intricacies of the game. i have to constantly keep the battles paused so I can think of what to do next and I almost never know what units to use throughout the game. The examples you gave helped a dumbass like me, thank you for that. I will subscribe to you for more of these types of videos. Thx again boyo.

Very useful video, thanks

Good video as always ! Thx for it even if my first immortal campaign will be the greenskin grimgor ! But i will definitively play the counts !

I disagree on a few points. 1. The Black Coach being too micro intensive, given how the counts work very well defensively, you can set up your line and not have a ton of micro to do for the majority of your army. Don't know if it's gonna be a good chariot, but having a single fast unit to micro doesn't strike me as that bad. 2. On campaign you have such an easy time getting necromancer heroes (unless they changed the hero cap from growth buildings) that getting one on a balefire cart and another on an unholy lodestone cart shouldn't be a problem, so you can just stack the buffs.

it's nice of you to update the factions

Nice videos, thanks for all the info! I've been looking for this type of information for my new campaign - i played ~200h of Dwarves since i totally love Dwarves... but i got bogged down and bored so i wanted to try something different. I am still not sure about the Vampires, but they look interesting and their factions mechanics are less punishing than the grudges system of the Dwarves. I'll have a hard time adapting to a completely different play style than my usual frontline-massive ranged-arty cover.

Mourns are excellent flankers that will annihilate backlines and can seriously wreck even elite units if you charge em into the backside of said unit. Horros are the anvil, mourns are the bazooka.

The reliquary corruption only works when in melee, so you do want Ghorst in melee to get his full potential, but you don't want him fighting anything too dangerous

Hi Colonel Damneders! I’m a big fan and really enjoy this content and your channel, I was wondering if you’d do a review of the latest updates to unit mass mechanics for monsters especially the dragons in Warhammer 3 as compared to Warhammer 2 👌 many thanks and keep up the great content it’s such fun watching and learning 👍

Colonel, sir, please when you do the battle guide for the Warriors of Chaos, can you also show us the units that conform "the small contingent" being added to the Daemon Prince roster

Thanks for the Video! Pls make an indepth Manfred campaign Guide or lets play. Would be so great 😃

I would love to start a VC campaign in Bretonia regions as the Red Duke and play as a more Sword&Sorcery style vilain.

Embargo lifted yeah!

Heinrich is the least vampire looking vampire. He looks like he could be a teacher at Hogwarts

Question: Is vlads healing cap higher or the whole armys when isabella and vlad are in one army?

Insta subbed after this video. Will there be a wood elf one in the future ? Keep up the amazing work, and thank you.

Cairn wraiths nearly impossible to kill without magical attacks...Was false before, and now.with ethereal resistance passing from 75% to 50%, despite a health buff, it's easier than ever.

I think you might be underestimating a bit the power of Mournguls and more generally the power of units with Stalk. They are amazing in siege and settlement battles as you can send them to take position on a point and take/hold it before the AI realizes what's going on. They synergize very well with the rest of the VC roster for that purpose, especially fast cav like Hexwraiths or flying units. Depending on how and how fast the AI reacts, just send some of your flying units/heroes/lord or even Hexwraith/dogs to support the initial stalking squad and you can deprive the defending army of some pesky buffs, destroy defensive structures and overall win siege battles way more easily and way less tediously. Finally your take on Blood Knights might be a bit outdated and that pains me to say it. They're very expensive but don't really perform well for their cost anymore, they're getting pretty overwhelmed by a lot of the new cavalry out there (IIRC there's a video by A Rubber Duck of War out there where you can watch them get simply slaughtered by skullcrushers of khorne) :'(. This is painful for me not only because I love the VC and Blood Knights but also because if Blood Knights aren't viable anymore that leaves the VC with very few options for anti-large counters. I think CA should consider buffing them or maybe reduce their cost/upkeep or maybe finally give us a Grave Guard w/ halberds variant to support them.

I’m gonna need an empire guide to know how to best fight the vamps. Struggling right now.

I keep feeling that Heinrich Kemmler & the Necromancers should be their own faction, Necromancers/Litches. It feels as if they are just gaffer taped into the Vampire faction.

You forgot to say the crypt ghouls has stalk

Lol 1:55 "This Is SYLVANIA!"

I don't understand why they don't just make Krell a legendary hero. Kemmler needs all the help he can get, facing off against so many foes immediately.

Started the two days ago and the vampires always made a cool impression on me therefore I started playing them, but so far I was way too passive as I found my armies too slow to deal with mass ranged enemies as they would chew my army up before I could get close to them.

I can onlx aplode games work shops decision to not make chaos, a faction that is very hell like (and we often asosiate hell with the undead also), also tied to the undead instead make the undead a seperate faction in warhammer, makes the villains more varied and interesting

I was wondering how would be defending a fortification with vampire counts since they dont have range so what recommendations are to defend a fortification with the vampire counts

I play Warhammer 1 only, but a good Vampire strategy is "spam them with zombies and skeletons, while surround them with Vargheists and Black Knights". Also use a Terrorgheist and a Vampire Lord with Dragon for extra maneuverability. That would be 1 Lord, 1 Terrorgheist, 4 zombies, 4 skeletons, 6 Knights, 4 Vargheists

My tip: 1. Play Caravan of the blue roses 2. Make zombie doomstacks 3. Conquer the world

Very interested for the wraiths getting barrier in the late game 🤔 Stil not sure what lord to play first. Could you possibly reach out to CA, that they implement a reskill option for confederated lords? Such bad fealing if the ai messed legendary lords and heros up. Vlad and Isabella in one army with buffs from both fell bat's gonna be nightmares 👻

You disappeared from my feed until today. Hello, again.

I play soul blight gravelords on the table top, when I go with the counts it feels like I never left the game store😂

Such a tease

First comment 💯💯💯 favourite faction can't wait to play immortal empires

Seeing these winds of death not kill a single dude hurts my eyes.

Is the von Carstein RIng still the same?

It’s a real shame Krell isn’t a legendary lord, he could be a lord that buffs mainly skeleton units but doesn’t like Zombies, crypt horrors, or crypt ghouls.

wait, there is no regular* Vampire lord, it' means you should have bloodline lords and necromancer only for regular?

How the hell does your game look so good

Here an actual army composition: 19 vampires or 17 vargulfs+2 necromancers or 17 terrorgheists+2 necromancers

I always hate Vlad when he rushes early in the Campaign as Empire. Sometimes he gets rly hard to stop cause of his artifacts and stuff when he is around lvl 30 at round 20 or so :D

Well, Vampire Counts got buffed in Warhammer 3, or you don't think that it will make any difference? Because the faction review just the same as for Warhammer 2.

FYI to anyone I think Balefire is bugged at the moment.

there's a little bit of blood

Vlad might be the "best" Lord to a lot fo people but i found his starting zone very difficult. The dwarves armor can be a real issue early on and no matter which direction you move into you're gonna have 3 armys against you at once since they're all friendly with eachother. and being in the center of the map makes the mid game really hard since you're always gonna have Heros causing you problems.

What's the title of the background soundtrack?

I gotta say one thing, vampire counts are looking sexier than ever

tomb guard

No range?? In WH3 we are able to hire/use other factions units right??

I _do_ love spooky scary skeletons. 🤔

At Summerslam?

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Yo! Those battle comps are pretty inefficient in campaign when playing legendary difficult and very hard.

Chad Von Carstein

Will every faction get a video ?

Do vamps still have the tech to make skeletons free upkeep?

Lizardmen next pls!!!!

I love all the content... and hate it at the same time 🤣 IE release can't come soon enough

I noticed a problem at 1:00... You seem to be playing with a Jada Pinkett-Smith mod. That Wind of Death hits about as hard as Will, too.

"Vampire Counts Immortal Empires Battle Guide" Should be just a detailed uses of lores and "just take cheap skellie boys and a few fel bats to hunt those rout." If you are expecting your units to do any heavy lifting as VC you are gonna have a bad time. Also Vargheist does not do EVERY job of fel bat better. Because Vargheists have a buggy attack cycle when chasing; run, maybe attack the rearmost person than try to take off and land again, losing all contact in process, fellbats will constantly gnaving arses of those enemies all the way to edge of the map. There are the chasers you should take especially with AP upgrade.

An entire army roster based around early game, and still loses against anything but empire.

One of the sad parts of the VC is that Heinrich has one of the best melee weapons in the game...the Tomb Blade. But as you said, he's not a melee fighter so the only time he gets to USE the weapon is if he gets jumped by the enemy.

03:47 - Is it true, that Isabella has only access to the lore of the vampires? In the last video about the Vampire Counts you showed her having access to the a mixed lore of vampires and shadows: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Znld1pzYOZc.html Also: Great video! Thank you! =)

grave guard with great weapons get a significant boost to their anti infantry stat, making their attack significantly stronger vs inf. remember that the mortis engine HAS to be in melee to enable its damage aura. also it doesnt imrpove the stats of nearby troops like the corpse cart does...maybe they should add that too.

Bro the wind of death looking weak as fuck

Colonel Damneders - Warns that crossbows are going to friendly fire your units in field battles. In the mean time battles is AI in campaign are 90 % settlement sieges...

Why not use bats vs dogs? They seem better to me. Point, click, archer unit deleted.

love to see undead werewolves witch hags and gunry mobs or TK skeleton archers on the vamp counts team & just remove the empire crossbow & gun dudes because u cant heal em & they just dont fit the style guide of the undead ...;),...,,

play helman ghorst get zombies blob up afk

I like your work but dang I wish you weren't talking so fast. o-O

I never play this faction because it give me nightmare😂

The army is too weak actually, all infantry except the wraiths are too wimpy & skeletons are not free. There should be more blood knight units & monster variety. I’ll be disappointed if they don’t make a vampire dlc.

Hey, anyone else remember the SKELETON WARRIORS TV show from the early 90's (I think?) If that's new to you, check out the intro song. It's meme.

Hate to be that guy but melee is pronounced 'meh-ley'. Love the video though!

It's been years, and over 40k subscribers. Please stop calling it mealy.... It's melee. Mell-ay

How the fuck does a zombie lose hope?

Meanwhile, I went back to wh2... Its so bad compared to 3..

Their nerfed, useless in immortal empires.

All ethereal units…are a joke…empire swordsman…can easily destroy them… How unloreful…hahaha…

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They're boring. They're a melee faction, except... Except 100% melee. No joke, something no other race actually is. Yet without any of the fun bells and whistles of a melee faction. Their monsters are dated, the most powerful unit in the game (their dragon) a bygone of Warhammer 1, replaced by the multitudes of way better dragons from multiple other factions. The Vargheists are a thing of the past, and their vargwulf, while cool, is competed against by many, MANY other monster factions. Worse of all, they used to be one of the most interesting factions because of their ability to siege quickly (monsters, flying, Vlad), something that every race now has. Oh, and no artillery because F the counts. Yes, their two spells are gr- no, they're shit. Overpriced garbage that's only useful on certain legendary lords. They're not a "magic" faction. Chaos Dwarves, Ikit Claw, Wurzag, Morathi, Sisters of- You get the pictures. THOSE are magic factions. Vamps are a choice between two overpriced spells they can cast once in a blue moon. They were my favorite faction, now left in the dust and completely outdone and outshone by two fucking necromancers of all things. It's VAMPIRE counts, not NECROMANCER CUNTS.

Good work, great content... but why do are you in such a hurry to speak/tell/read the texts? Remember to breathe and the commas and full stops once in a while, please... kind reagards from Denmark + keep up the good work.

I wish you didn't talk so fast. It's very stressful to listen to.

god are you bad at this game

We have unbreakable mod for undead , tireless for undead daemon contruct mod 😊