Some time stamps to help out. INTRODUCTION 0:00 Vampire Counts General Overview- 0:35 Binding and Crumbling- 1:43 Regeneration- 2:30 Vampires are a Rush faction- 3:17 STRATEGIES 3:28 Rush faction- 3:29 Magic- 3:44 Cheap units and harassment- 4:16 Necromancy- 4:33 Psychology- 4:56 Air Superiority- 5:46 Flank Monsters- 5:58 UNITS 6:35 Value for Money Issue- 6:35 Lords- 8:38 Heroes- 10:14 Infantry- 11:12 Cavalry- 12:25 Monsters- 13:58 War Machines- 16:19 Battle Demonstration vs Wood Elves- 18:04 👍
You should re-do this in your new and improved guide structure. With so many lord options I'd love to hear you analyze each one individually istead of summarizing them in 2 general groups
@@RakkhotI'm no good i english. but i just want to point that you really should get this images changes when you talk about different species of heroes or the beast. best regards thou i realy like your video. :)
Yep. But they also nerf vampire counts badly. Invocation cost more and have less efect and that necomancer efect is less efectiwe it revitalized corpses. Its too much nerfs for vampire counts in my opinion.
Dire wolves on the whole are underated. They counter missile cav fairly well and rack up damage quickly on archers and other skirmishers. Rather than sending them headlong into the enemy as an arrow sponge, park them off on a flank to force your opponent to guard against them. As soon as they turn to deal with your more dangerous units, pounce on their skirmishers. You can also use them to chase down broken units and save you're valuable units for breaking the enemy that's still fighting.
you can improve dire wolves a lot by taking certain skills and tech on campaign! there is also a lord trait called creature of the night which gives them another 10 melee attack.
the reason why undead units are generally more expensive than their living counterparts is for the most part INVOCATION OF NEHEK. I.e.: a jade wizard can heal but not resurrect a unit of greatswords; on the contrary a vampire wizard can heal and resurrect a unit of graveguards for more or less the same mana price (even multiple units)... This is also the reason why it is almost always a bad idea to assemble an undead army without at least a wizard capable of using this spell...all the undead units will start with a disadvantage.
I think part of the reason Vampire units look like bad value for money stat-wise is because Crumbling is considered a benefit, not a detriment. Having your unit die 25% faster is usually preferable to it routing at just under half health. You mileage may vary, of course.
I think Vampires are not bad value, because, for example, skeletons cause fear and more importantly they never rout, unlike spearmen.These advantages are not mentioned when he compares with spearmen; he only mentions stats and crumbling.
I adore the Vampire Counts, but the developers goofed by making them rush-dependent. It should have been made possible to win the tabletop/lore way, by outlasting their opponents, exhausting the enemy's vigour and ammunition and wearing them down. Rush tactics should only be required if the VC army is of heavy hitting composition.
Most badass intro scene ever. Hey Zerkovich! I've have been watching your video for a while now and I have to say they are all some of the best Total War: Warhammer videos I have ever seen. Your guides are comprehensive, well thought out and have helped me personally go from a person who got absolutely stomped on (Foot of Gork stomped) in my first multiplayer to one who is pretty high on the leader board and consistently wins 75%ish of multiplayer battles. I recently watched your Patreon video and I commend you on your hard work, dedication, and what I think is the proper philosophy on content creation and viewer support that so many other UA-camrs lack. Although I cannot help support you financially (as you may well know those still in school have little money), you, sir, have earned yourself a happy subscriber and loyal supporter. I look forward to seeing many more excellent videos, in the futcha.
Well thank you man. That is always the finest of compliments **high five** Glad to help you level up your game! Bit of practice and knowledge is all that's needed! And thank you again, I appreciate the sentiment. I want to maintain a high quality and honest channel, and any kind of support allows me to do that so your views/comments/likes are all contributions to the channel. That's awesome enough for me!
Good guide, nice and clear. I'm not new to the total war genre but warhammer definitely is, and this helped me understand the strengths and weaknesses of the vampires better!
Didn't need this guide, have done very well with vc anyway, But then I watched it and still managed to get a few ideas to improve my game. Thanks a lot man. Educational even for the non beginner ( maybe not for a pro, I'm only a mid tier player at best)
I like these in-depth discussions about the rosters of the various factions. This is one of my favorite games, and learning how to better use the various factions is a huge boon. Keep up the good work. Liked and subscribed.
The Vampires are my favorite faction. First one I managed to take through a complete campaign. I think they work best for my play style, which is funny because I never would have pegged myself as a "hold the line and attack from the rear" style of player.
Another great one Zerk! It's great to see you "leveling up" in your video making, especially the editing! Things that I thought were awesome, 1. Rolling your usual two part faction vids into one succinct bundle 2. Using the army selection screen to go through the stats of each unit 3. That little window showcasing the unit models 4. Discussing the RoR and their abilities Might I suggest in the "fewcha" maybe changing the unit in the window to the one you're talking about each time? It's a unique detail that I've not seen anyone else do; capitalise on it! Also maybe a little discussion about the match ups with other factions? Probably not as hard core as army setups, more like how the factions strengths/weaknesses relate to their enemies Great job mate, looking forwards to more!
Thank you G. I did wonder how the long time subs would find this new arrangement so thanks for the feedback. The window thing did cross my mind, and does make sense. But I didn't want to put too much focus on the visual of the unit, as I think that's what was wrong with the old format. People don't give that much of a shit about looking at the unit, they can do that in their own game. So I was trying to get more of a focus on the details and what I was saying, but keeping it brief as not to get boring. But haven't a different unit up to the one I'm talking about does look/feel a bit odd. So I may experiment. The other idea doesn't sound like a bad one. And I did feel this was maybe a bit short so it may bolster it out a bit, talking about factions match ups. Another useful idea. Thanks. But now that I haven't done in it this one, the next one's will be laughing at this guide for not having it xD That's how my perfectionist mind see's it. I'd like all faction army vids to be symmetrical in terms of arrangement and content. Oh well! Thanks for your support as always!
Late to the party. I think the new format is good as it will cut down on the workload considering you still have a bunch to do, especially with the new games and potential dlc packs and such. I kinda miss having the actual units be showcased since I really liked that touch but again workload. You are right in that it may not be important for the information aspect but it just adds production quality I feel. Anyway as you mentioned having a visual up of one unit and you talking about another was a little off. And I agree with MrLizard in that a factions match ups section would probably be a good thing to have. Better go back and redo the video mister perfectionist ;)
Well, not every but yeah most of them looks like this. It's also Vlad/Isabella/Mannfred as lords, Nehek/Raise Dead/Macabre or Wind of Death for spells. Sometimes it's other support stuff but core units are the same most of the time. Vampires have quite poor roster and decent opportunities of units to choose. Red Duke is most safest and probably best VC lord for now. BK actually is the only choice to have good anti-large unit (there are only 3 anti-large units in VC roster). Grave guard arguably the best VC infantry even though they're basically non-ap anti-infantiy elite fodder unit. Mortis Engine is quite important but I don't think it's "must have" unit after Raise Dead became good. And Claw of Nagash in fact don't get shevrons so you pay extra 200 for 25% magic resistance and chilling aura. Crypt Horrors always were the key unit. VC don't have any cheaper analog with AP and self-regen. Even though they are slightly too good for VC faction, I think now they are at right place, since Crypt Ghouls and Vargheists ain't that good and Grave Guard with GW are expensive.
Zerkovich Yeah. Though it's 20 summons if to be more accurately. But it's there playstyle for now and from what I heard it's supposed to be so (which is a little bit sad since I hoped CA make other VC things work better so they would be more balanced and could use better their stuff, not give VC only one super strong spell instead to make VC competitve). And spamming Raise Dead is the only way to make one of there main support abilities (Curse of the Undeath) work.
Well they don't have much going for them unlike other factions that can win with flexible rosters. Their units just aren't cost effective and have poor leadership. So they are forced to use the typical build. Though i would chose Mannfred over Red Duke any day.
Have to admit a year after playing I tend to come back to vampire counts in sfo. Removal of the regen cap truely makes them an outlast faction with some regen units and nehek.
Just a correction for the Black Coach. It may be a chariot but it shouldn't be used like a chariot because it doesn't act like your typical chariot. You want to keep the black coach in sustained front line combat (with support of course) against infantry. As long as you leave it in combat its three abilities will activate over time which will make it better. Assuming it's still around and didn't crumble.
Well that's the problem. It doesn't stay around and crumbles like a biznatch. 10 Melee Defence and and 80 charge bonus... those are Shock Cavalry stats. Why would it have a huge Charge if it was meant to sit in melee? Even against the crappiest units like Empire Swordsman, it takes SO much damage so quickly in melee. It'll scare off Swordsman. But lose half it's health in the process. So I think there's truth to both sides. It's Abilities say it needs to stay in melee. It's stats say the opposite. Running down routing units seems like a good call with the BC.
When you try to embark on a relentless crusade on the Empire of Man but then you get spanked by Vampire corruption when it makes all your provinces revolt, and you end up sitting in the same town for 20 turns just to get your corruption above 30%
Vlad is to this day my favourite Lord in the game. I once threw him into the middle of battle in a desperate bid to counter an ambush. The mad lad not only took out 2 units by himself, he actually healed from doing that.
Thanks for this cool video. It's quite good and informative. I may not agree with everything but still think it is well made overall. Good luck and keep it up. Hope to see VC campaign playthrough from you someday.
Wow, such a great guide. This will surely help me! I'm new to Warhammer and I am really struggling with armies. Still I don't know how to use them properly in siege battles. Capturing Altdorf is impossible for me.
playing the vampire counts seems to be in some way more like chess than anything:a king to protect most units can only go forward and sacrificing them is worthy to win the battle. (as you will quickly regain your army from the corpses left by the bloodshed anyway.)
Hey man, thanks to your guide i actually managed to survive a grueling battle against overwhelming odds and then survive the Chaos Army and kill them also, i saved the bad odds battle and i'll try to upload in on my channel sometime soon so you can see what you think :D And this is my first Total War game, without this guide i was getting frustrated with my poor decisions and trying to spread to fast and getting put in my place. Now i feel like i know my units a little better and the Vamp tactics, sort of haha after fending the Chaos off i'm hiding in my Castle right now trying to get my Army back with no trade incoming or real finances and still only the starting province under my control.
I'm curious, will you be doing a guide on hero mounts? I've seen a lot of debate among players if mounts are worth it (especially flying mounts), and I'm curious what the pros and cons of the land and flying mounts are.
You explained the units, strategies, and advantages and disadvantages very well but you didn't actually click on the units so we could see them as you were explaining them.
Does anyone know when to use crypt horrors VS cairn wraiths VS varghulf? All three are armor piercing flankers, except both crypts and varg have regen, and cairns have physical resist. When should I use one over the other?
Watching the videos once again through this playlist I've notice the absence of the new units video for the Shadow & Blade and for the Warden & Paunch, have you considered adding them anytime? Greenskins update as the one for the Empire that's already in the playlist would be awesome as well. Loving your Warhammer videos!!!
first time i saw the vid i didnt really understand the crumbling mechanic so i thought all units in the vampire counts army just slowly take damage from the start of the battle xD
The price to quality of the unit mainly comes down to one good heal bringing back 3 units that have lost half their numbers back to almost full in battle and a whole army that lost all 70% of their numbers back to full in like NO Time plus raise undead.
Vargheists at the beginning of the campaign are a game changer. I used a lot of them combined with bats as my main force plus added some skeletons to hold the line and hounds to flank the enemies. Also they work well with capturing castle walls.
I had a battle recently, Campaign, I was using Gelt up against a slightly weaker (though with an overwhelming number of fliers) Vampire Counts army lead by Vlad. It was a tough battle but I wiped out the opponent army *except* vlad.. I had 3/4 of my units still on the field, but all varied between 20 and 40% health. Vlad *routed* the entire rest of my army all by himself. Between his healing and his high armor value I just couldnt hurt him long enough to do anything
I've just done some testing, and the corpse cart balefire seems actually quite good when facing enemy wizards. It works like this: when no unit is in the range of the aura, everything is as normal (power recharge at 1/6secs); when any one enemy unit is in the radius, it is 1/8 secs, when 2 are 1/11, when three 1/16 secs, when 4 1/33 secs, and when it gets to five it stops altogether. The main problem I see with it is that it only really starts taking effect when the main lines clash, so the enemy will still probably have 30 power by that point, and the radius is small so it will be hard to get units in the radius.
Yeah I think the aura radius is it's problem. Even if a wizard does wander into range, it can quickly get out, even on foot. And the Cart is slow so may struggle to keep up.
I think you may have misunderstood, it's ANY enemy unit - not just wizards. The main difficulty is getting that many enemy units in the radius. EDIT: The thing it's affecting is the rate magic transfers from the 'unusable' pool to the 'usable' pool, if maybe you thought it meant the cooldown on the spells. Also, I love your vids! You make excellent content, and I always enjoy them immensely.
I just started WH2 with Imrik and my first dragon had the undead causing fear all over the field. Seems like WH2 added some new units too. That fear just ruins all my plans with HE.
right now red duke and vlad are the most popular lords but i still think Manfred is the best the reason people don't like him is because they put him on zombie dragon and against factions like empire and bretonia he gets sniped pretty easily and then you are doomed you only need to put him on normal mount and defend him with blood knights and you see how good he is ,and he has massive magic pool more than any other lord and that allows him to use both lore of death and lore of vampire
undead 78 I see what you mean although that being said in my experience he is just a lot more squish than the other REAL 'LL of the vampire counts. Vlad can tank and does a very respectable amount of damage. Isabella has her cup and can seriously heal herself and other hero's, although I'm not sure of it works on hero's for other factions but it makes her useful for supporting allied v.c players. and the Red Duke, he is a damn good hero sniper with El Sif (not sure of spelled right) and a great weapon damage of 460, which at first does not look special, but that with spells and his ability, he can take out lords above his paygrade with enough time. Manfred just doesn't seem very viable to me when I can just get a vampire hero (Or 2) with the spell or spells you want, put em on a hell steed and boom a hero nice and cheep with lore of death/shadows.
undead 78 I see what you mean although that being said in my experience he is just a lot more squish than the other REAL 'LL of the vampire counts. Vlad can tank and does a very respectable amount of damage. Isabella has her cup and can seriously heal herself and other hero's, although I'm not sure of it works on hero's for other factions but it makes her useful for supporting allied v.c players. and the Red Duke, he is a damn good hero sniper with El Sif (not sure of spelled right) and a great weapon damage of 460, which at first does not look special, but that with spells and his ability, he can take out lords above his paygrade with enough time. Manfred just doesn't seem very viable to me when I can just get a vampire hero (Or 2) with the spell or spells you want, put em on a hell steed and boom a hero nice and cheep with lore of death/shadows.
Jaden Harrod i really like vlad (as you can see from my profile pic) but his lack of mobility is his biggest weakness how ever you are some how right, like you can pick red duke and 2 necromancers with only raise the dead and you have 21 units of zombies!!!. how ever people usually ban this ability in tournaments (and red duke special ability is El Syf).
Mannfred is WAY better than taking a regular vampire lord and a vampire with lore of death because Mannfred has Mastery of the Black Arts which greatly increases winds of magic reserves and winds of magic regen AND the Sword of Unholy Power which again greatly increases winds of magic reserves and winds of magic regen. He is by far the most powerful spellcaster in the game simply because he can cast far more spells in a given battle than any other lord, combine that with his high armor, melee attack, and melee defense for being a vampire lord and he is an amazingly strong character. Trick is to not bring him on the zombie dragon unless you're confident that you wont get sniped for being in the air. So, zombie dragon is really only good against Greenskins/Dwarfs and possibly Chaos. I prefer to keep him on a regular steed to help keep his cost down and don't forget to drop spells that you don't think you'll be using. Go to's are Invocation of Nehek, Spirit Leech, Fate of Bjuna, Raise Dead, and potentially Doom and Darkness depending on if you're going to try and terror bomb or not. Oh and I'm fairly sure Mannfred can win against Vlad 1 on 1 because he has access to spirit leech.
You forgot to mention the vampire's biggest strength: Wind of Death. It can single highhandedly (castedly?) annihilate three to five stacks of long beards for 23 magic. The vampires are a magic faction first and foremost, and rely on their magic to make up for their subpar troops.
With Isabella plus 6 up to 13 Vampire heroes with Hunger and Invocation of Nehek paths for Legendary lords and 6 Terrorghis or Vaulgarf my army can handle even three armies.
Dude thanks for army help. Do you have a campaign guide as well? As in world map? Also, you say no ranged units but isn't corpse cart artillery? Haven't got them yet but might be wrong 😂
From a top ranked ladder player: I haven't played in ages but vampire lords were probably one of most powerful factions (you wouldn't conclude this by watching your guide btw ; ), their main line works like combination of both types of crypt guards and crypt horrors (at least 4+4 units) - that is your main line. If they are properly supported with mortis engine they cannot lose. Then all tactic revolves if you can keep it alive - if you can - there is no faction that can face your core charge. You will literally grind down anything. If ME dies - you may lose. Best lord is vlad - and no mount is just a bonus - low lord cannot be targeted by missiles among infantry and good luck trying to grind him down in melee. He will kill hundreds every time.
Also which isn't exactly unit strategy and more campaign strategy. You can get a tech upgrade which makes skeletons entirely free -> you can run across the map with 12,16 or even 20 armys full with 19 skeletons and a vampire. Tbf its not a strong army in its own rigth but if you have simply an infinite amount of skeletons and a bit of vampire magix you can beat early and midgame armys as well as every garrison except the largest ones. -> You may loose against specialised armys but you simply siege 2 cities in the time period the wipe 2 of your armies. you just raise in the different provinces skeletons again. Bang armies immediatly replaced. and if you are sieged with the skeleton army inside you are doing decent. And with high casualty battles you can raise more and better troops on the campaign map. I once had a province were I could fairly regularly raise Terrorgheist and that also damn early. Only issue with that strat is you cannot have good armies until you disband everything due to how maintenance works
Nobody has responded but what I learned is mass fell bat spam can work to support an army of Grave Guard with great weapons and Cairn Wraiths. The bats bog down all the artillery and ranged units while the armor piercing melee units get to work. If the Dwarf player has his units lined up drop a good old Wind of Death down on them and enjoy the show. Sadly if the Dwarf is using a lot of flamethrower units you are in a lot of trouble. Why the bats and other fast units are required so you can stop them from firing. I know throwing some Varghiests in with the bats works to if you want to kill the units faster.
You would consider the Red Duke mostly a superior "Vampire Lord" to the standard correct? Probably not up to Vlad's power, but fairly strong in that regard?
Amazing video, thank you so much! Looking at your battle at the end, is there a lot of controls going on in the back or are you leaving your units do their own thing?
Thanks man. You're welcome. I'm not entirely sure what you mean but yeah there's probably a lot going on. Never a good idea to let units do their own thing as such. They'll probably end up in a silly match up.
Some time stamps to help out.
INTRODUCTION 0:00
Vampire Counts General Overview- 0:35
Binding and Crumbling- 1:43
Regeneration- 2:30
Vampires are a Rush faction- 3:17
STRATEGIES 3:28
Rush faction- 3:29
Magic- 3:44
Cheap units and harassment- 4:16
Necromancy- 4:33
Psychology- 4:56
Air Superiority- 5:46
Flank Monsters- 5:58
UNITS 6:35
Value for Money Issue- 6:35
Lords- 8:38
Heroes- 10:14
Infantry- 11:12
Cavalry- 12:25
Monsters- 13:58
War Machines- 16:19
Battle Demonstration vs Wood Elves- 18:04
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You should re-do this in your new and improved guide structure. With so many lord options I'd love to hear you analyze each one individually istead of summarizing them in 2 general groups
I second that^^
@@RakkhotI'm no good i english. but i just want to point that you really should get this images changes when you talk about different species of heroes or the beast. best regards thou i realy like your video. :)
Yep. But they also nerf vampire counts badly. Invocation cost more and have less efect and that necomancer efect is less efectiwe it revitalized corpses. Its too much nerfs for vampire counts in my opinion.
I agree... Hope he sees this... :(
This^^^
Dire wolves on the whole are underated. They counter missile cav fairly well and rack up damage quickly on archers and other skirmishers. Rather than sending them headlong into the enemy as an arrow sponge, park them off on a flank to force your opponent to guard against them. As soon as they turn to deal with your more dangerous units, pounce on their skirmishers.
You can also use them to chase down broken units and save you're valuable units for breaking the enemy that's still fighting.
I agree, I like the Dire Wolves against missile cavs which are a nuisance on the campaign, thinking of the Nausicans
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you can improve dire wolves a lot by taking certain skills and tech on campaign! there is also a lord trait called creature of the night which gives them another 10 melee attack.
ye they're one of the best units. fastest vampire cav.
the reason why undead units are generally more expensive than their living counterparts is for the most part INVOCATION OF NEHEK.
I.e.: a jade wizard can heal but not resurrect a unit of greatswords; on the contrary a vampire wizard can heal and resurrect a unit of graveguards for more or less the same mana price (even multiple units)...
This is also the reason why it is almost always a bad idea to assemble an undead army without at least a wizard capable of using this spell...all the undead units will start with a disadvantage.
I think part of the reason Vampire units look like bad value for money stat-wise is because Crumbling is considered a benefit, not a detriment. Having your unit die 25% faster is usually preferable to it routing at just under half health. You mileage may vary, of course.
Plus your leaders can regenerate one unit at a time for 20 seconds, with a 20 seconds cooldown, so you can help a unit out when needed
I think Vampires are not bad value, because, for example, skeletons cause fear and more importantly they never rout, unlike spearmen.These advantages are not mentioned when he compares with spearmen; he only mentions stats and crumbling.
I adore the Vampire Counts, but the developers goofed by making them rush-dependent. It should have been made possible to win the tabletop/lore way, by outlasting their opponents, exhausting the enemy's vigour and ammunition and wearing them down. Rush tactics should only be required if the VC army is of heavy hitting composition.
Bit you do outlast them,through the raise dead and high hitpoints
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Not really? Not when said abilities come from your lords who are easy to snipe
i play them like that works for me
Honestly, having a caster that works the same as artillery wouldve been perfect for their faction.
Lore of Heavens for VC? :D
Most badass intro scene ever.
Hey Zerkovich! I've have been watching your video for a while now and I have to say they are all some of the best Total War: Warhammer videos I have ever seen. Your guides are comprehensive, well thought out and have helped me personally go from a person who got absolutely stomped on (Foot of Gork stomped) in my first multiplayer to one who is pretty high on the leader board and consistently wins 75%ish of multiplayer battles. I recently watched your Patreon video and I commend you on your hard work, dedication, and what I think is the proper philosophy on content creation and viewer support that so many other UA-camrs lack. Although I cannot help support you financially (as you may well know those still in school have little money), you, sir, have earned yourself a happy subscriber and loyal supporter. I look forward to seeing many more excellent videos, in the futcha.
Well thank you man. That is always the finest of compliments **high five**
Glad to help you level up your game! Bit of practice and knowledge is all that's needed! And thank you again, I appreciate the sentiment. I want to maintain a high quality and honest channel, and any kind of support allows me to do that so your views/comments/likes are all contributions to the channel. That's awesome enough for me!
Kinda disappointed...when going through the various units the pictures didn't shift?
This was the first Army Guide in a new style, was still figuring things out.
I'm kinding liking this though! I want to possibly start playing the new one in September so this is useful for how the base fighting works.
SKELETONSSSSSSS!
Zerkovich :)
WOO! This is so awesome like all your other vids. The great amount of effort and enthusiasm you exert greatly shows. Really looking forward to others!
Thanks man. Appreciate that **fist bump** They shall be done!
"I DEMAND A GREENSKINS GUIDE!!! WAAAAAAAAGH!" "I'll do all the other races, I ask you guys to be patient." "waaagh..."
Your warhammer faction guides were the best on UA-cam hands down! Thanks for making them. I wish you made more for warhammer 2
Much appreciated my man. **fist bump**
This is my favorite faction and class in any game (undead, necromancers, scythes). Thank you so much for the guide.
Good guide, nice and clear. I'm not new to the total war genre but warhammer definitely is, and this helped me understand the strengths and weaknesses of the vampires better!
This needs a newer version for Total War: Warhammer 2 with the overhaul they got, the major part being the Bloodline.
Your channel is amazing! It's taught me a lot of stuff that has helped me improve my game on TW:W and other TW games as well.
That's why I'm here! :D Glad to be of service!
Didn't need this guide, have done very well with vc anyway,
But then I watched it and still managed to get a few ideas to improve my game. Thanks a lot man. Educational even for the non beginner ( maybe not for a pro, I'm only a mid tier player at best)
I like these in-depth discussions about the rosters of the various factions. This is one of my favorite games, and learning how to better use the various factions is a huge boon. Keep up the good work. Liked and subscribed.
**fist bump**
The Vampires are my favorite faction. First one I managed to take through a complete campaign. I think they work best for my play style, which is funny because I never would have pegged myself as a "hold the line and attack from the rear" style of player.
idk you seem like a take it from the rear kind of person.
Another great one Zerk! It's great to see you "leveling up" in your video making, especially the editing!
Things that I thought were awesome,
1. Rolling your usual two part faction vids into one succinct bundle
2. Using the army selection screen to go through the stats of each unit
3. That little window showcasing the unit models
4. Discussing the RoR and their abilities
Might I suggest in the "fewcha" maybe changing the unit in the window to the one you're talking about each time? It's a unique detail that I've not seen anyone else do; capitalise on it!
Also maybe a little discussion about the match ups with other factions? Probably not as hard core as army setups, more like how the factions strengths/weaknesses relate to their enemies
Great job mate, looking forwards to more!
Thank you G. I did wonder how the long time subs would find this new arrangement so thanks for the feedback.
The window thing did cross my mind, and does make sense. But I didn't want to put too much focus on the visual of the unit, as I think that's what was wrong with the old format. People don't give that much of a shit about looking at the unit, they can do that in their own game. So I was trying to get more of a focus on the details and what I was saying, but keeping it brief as not to get boring. But haven't a different unit up to the one I'm talking about does look/feel a bit odd. So I may experiment.
The other idea doesn't sound like a bad one. And I did feel this was maybe a bit short so it may bolster it out a bit, talking about factions match ups. Another useful idea. Thanks. But now that I haven't done in it this one, the next one's will be laughing at this guide for not having it xD That's how my perfectionist mind see's it. I'd like all faction army vids to be symmetrical in terms of arrangement and content. Oh well!
Thanks for your support as always!
Late to the party. I think the new format is good as it will cut down on the workload considering you still have a bunch to do, especially with the new games and potential dlc packs and such. I kinda miss having the actual units be showcased since I really liked that touch but again workload. You are right in that it may not be important for the information aspect but it just adds production quality I feel. Anyway as you mentioned having a visual up of one unit and you talking about another was a little off. And I agree with MrLizard in that a factions match ups section would probably be a good thing to have.
Better go back and redo the video mister perfectionist ;)
Red duke, blood knights, grave guard, Claw of Nagash, Crypt Horrors
Every vampire army ever.
And 200 spawned Zombies.
Well, not every but yeah most of them looks like this.
It's also Vlad/Isabella/Mannfred as lords, Nehek/Raise Dead/Macabre or Wind of Death for spells. Sometimes it's other support stuff but core units are the same most of the time.
Vampires have quite poor roster and decent opportunities of units to choose.
Red Duke is most safest and probably best VC lord for now.
BK actually is the only choice to have good anti-large unit (there are only 3 anti-large units in VC roster).
Grave guard arguably the best VC infantry even though they're basically non-ap anti-infantiy elite fodder unit.
Mortis Engine is quite important but I don't think it's "must have" unit after Raise Dead became good. And Claw of Nagash in fact don't get shevrons so you pay extra 200 for 25% magic resistance and chilling aura.
Crypt Horrors always were the key unit. VC don't have any cheaper analog with AP and self-regen. Even though they are slightly too good for VC faction, I think now they are at right place, since Crypt Ghouls and Vargheists ain't that good and Grave Guard with GW are expensive.
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Yeah. Though it's 20 summons if to be more accurately.
But it's there playstyle for now and from what I heard it's supposed to be so (which is a little bit sad since I hoped CA make other VC things work better so they would be more balanced and could use better their stuff, not give VC only one super strong spell instead to make VC competitve).
And spamming Raise Dead is the only way to make one of there main support abilities (Curse of the Undeath) work.
Well they don't have much going for them unlike other factions that can win with flexible rosters. Their units just aren't cost effective and have poor leadership. So they are forced to use the typical build. Though i would chose Mannfred over Red Duke any day.
Excellent video, thanks!
Thank you for the strategy vid and congrats on 10k subs and many more to come!
Glad you liked it man. And thanks!! :D
Another great video, feeding my obsession for Warhammer Total War!
Have to admit a year after playing I tend to come back to vampire counts in sfo.
Removal of the regen cap truely makes them an outlast faction with some regen units and nehek.
Just a correction for the Black Coach. It may be a chariot but it shouldn't be used like a chariot because it doesn't act like your typical chariot. You want to keep the black coach in sustained front line combat (with support of course) against infantry. As long as you leave it in combat its three abilities will activate over time which will make it better. Assuming it's still around and didn't crumble.
Well that's the problem. It doesn't stay around and crumbles like a biznatch. 10 Melee Defence and and 80 charge bonus... those are Shock Cavalry stats. Why would it have a huge Charge if it was meant to sit in melee? Even against the crappiest units like Empire Swordsman, it takes SO much damage so quickly in melee. It'll scare off Swordsman. But lose half it's health in the process. So I think there's truth to both sides. It's Abilities say it needs to stay in melee. It's stats say the opposite. Running down routing units seems like a good call with the BC.
I say charge in back for charge and leadership effects the leave it there
Been loving these guides man.
Thanks Father
tnx, mate. i was waiting for your new guide.. as always - very informative..
спасибо. делай еще.
SIR YES SIR!
no routing is great for a unit of zombies lol
When you try to embark on a relentless crusade on the Empire of Man but then you get spanked by Vampire corruption when it makes all your provinces revolt, and you end up sitting in the same town for 20 turns just to get your corruption above 30%
Vlad is to this day my favourite Lord in the game.
I once threw him into the middle of battle in a desperate bid to counter an ambush. The mad lad not only took out 2 units by himself, he actually healed from doing that.
this is a really cool video. i figure if i were a vampire count in Warhammer i would be a strigoi.
i always name at least one of my strigoi lords Joseph von warren bow.
finally, some vids from our general ZERK
These big ass guides slow down production on all other videos haha
whats the point of having the unit window if it is showing the wrong unit half the time?
I was trying out different things through making these guides.
Thank you for the work you put in, having a comprehensive guide like this is perfect as I have just purchased WarHammer and will be playing it soon.
No problem dude. Good luck with it!
Thanks for this cool video. It's quite good and informative. I may not agree with everything but still think it is well made overall. Good luck and keep it up. Hope to see VC campaign playthrough from you someday.
By all means, share you thoughts. And thanks!
Wow, such a great guide. This will surely help me! I'm new to Warhammer and I am really struggling with armies. Still I don't know how to use them properly in siege battles. Capturing Altdorf is impossible for me.
Good good =] Glad to be of service. I have a Siege Guide if that helps!
Just watched it. Bloody hell, I played this all wrong. It's a shame for me after hundreds of hours in Medieval II. Thanks so much!
After 7 years of watching this videos, I can finally play the game
playing the vampire counts seems to be in some way more like chess than anything:a king to protect most units can only go forward and sacrificing them is worthy to win the battle.
(as you will quickly regain your army from the corpses left by the bloodshed anyway.)
hell yea dude thats basically exactly like chess
Campaign: pin the enemy down with grave guards, spawn invocation of nehhek, rain of vargheists. Works against any enemy
even though I know all this, I enjoy you faction guides a hell of a lot, great entertainment.
stunning video, I hope there are a lot more like this one!
All factions will be covered. 3 more to go!
Amazing guide! Exactly what I was looking for!
Thanking you Sir
Another great video and another comment to help the chanel grow .
Dude your videos are great, i apprechiate your work thank you :)
Well I appreciate you taking the time to watch! **fist bump**
Awesome guides! Thanks
crypt ghouls are criminally underrated flankers because of poison
Very good channel and good guides, congra for your work!
Thank you broski!
Great new video style, love the cinematics!
Chaos next plz! 👍
Thanks bossman! We'll see who's next...
Great video :) keep the good work up
Hey man, thanks to your guide i actually managed to survive a grueling battle against overwhelming odds and then survive the Chaos Army and kill them also, i saved the bad odds battle and i'll try to upload in on my channel sometime soon so you can see what you think :D And this is my first Total War game, without this guide i was getting frustrated with my poor decisions and trying to spread to fast and getting put in my place. Now i feel like i know my units a little better and the Vamp tactics, sort of haha after fending the Chaos off i'm hiding in my Castle right now trying to get my Army back with no trade incoming or real finances and still only the starting province under my control.
Its up on my channel, i won't link it here as that maybe rude, so check it out if you get a chance, but plz forgive my PC, its not some UBER thing :D
Very well done guide!!! Thanks!
Talking about rush and zombies is somewhat hilarious ! :)
I'm curious, will you be doing a guide on hero mounts? I've seen a lot of debate among players if mounts are worth it (especially flying mounts), and I'm curious what the pros and cons of the land and flying mounts are.
You explained the units, strategies, and advantages and disadvantages very well but you didn't actually click on the units so we could see them as you were explaining them.
Excellent guide, as expected! Like the new way you made it, wouldnt even mind if it would be a bit longer. ;)
Does anyone know when to use crypt horrors VS cairn wraiths VS varghulf? All three are armor piercing flankers, except both crypts and varg have regen, and cairns have physical resist. When should I use one over the other?
Watching the videos once again through this playlist I've notice the absence of the new units video for the Shadow & Blade and for the Warden & Paunch, have you considered adding them anytime? Greenskins update as the one for the Empire that's already in the playlist would be awesome as well. Loving your Warhammer videos!!!
Thanks for the help, great vid!
YES!!!! Been waiting for this Zerk TY Man. Another excellent guide. Ty Ty Ty Ty.
Thank you good Sir!
first time i saw the vid i didnt really understand the crumbling mechanic so i thought all units in the vampire counts army just slowly take damage from the start of the battle xD
The price to quality of the unit mainly comes down to one good heal bringing back 3 units that have lost half their numbers back to almost full in battle and a whole army that lost all 70% of their numbers back to full in like NO Time plus raise undead.
Vargheists at the beginning of the campaign are a game changer. I used a lot of them combined with bats as my main force plus added some skeletons to hold the line and hounds to flank the enemies. Also they work well with capturing castle walls.
This is not about campaign though
@@dramaexterminatus But my comment is.
I had a battle recently, Campaign, I was using Gelt up against a slightly weaker (though with an overwhelming number of fliers) Vampire Counts army lead by Vlad. It was a tough battle but I wiped out the opponent army *except* vlad.. I had 3/4 of my units still on the field, but all varied between 20 and 40% health. Vlad *routed* the entire rest of my army all by himself. Between his healing and his high armor value I just couldnt hurt him long enough to do anything
Badass intro. That slo-mo walk.
Your channel means so much to me
Glad you enjoy my works my friend. Appreciate the support! **fist bump**
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Awesome guide!
Does this still apply to warhammer 2 and will you do another vampire guide for 2 if it doesn't and 3 if they are changed
I've just done some testing, and the corpse cart balefire seems actually quite good when facing enemy wizards. It works like this: when no unit is in the range of the aura, everything is as normal (power recharge at 1/6secs); when any one enemy unit is in the radius, it is 1/8 secs, when 2 are 1/11, when three 1/16 secs, when 4 1/33 secs, and when it gets to five it stops altogether. The main problem I see with it is that it only really starts taking effect when the main lines clash, so the enemy will still probably have 30 power by that point, and the radius is small so it will be hard to get units in the radius.
Yeah I think the aura radius is it's problem. Even if a wizard does wander into range, it can quickly get out, even on foot. And the Cart is slow so may struggle to keep up.
I think you may have misunderstood, it's ANY enemy unit - not just wizards. The main difficulty is getting that many enemy units in the radius.
EDIT: The thing it's affecting is the rate magic transfers from the 'unusable' pool to the 'usable' pool, if maybe you thought it meant the cooldown on the spells.
Also, I love your vids! You make excellent content, and I always enjoy them immensely.
Ah I see. I thought you just meant Wizards. Good to know! Thanks for sharing.
Definitely needs an updated video.
I had so much trouble dealing with them with the empire but finally they're gone
Not talking about the vanguard deployment for the whole Army, wich Vlad has, is a pretty big oversight since that is his best trait
i Consider the giant bats to be Vampires equivalent to ranged, they are fast as hell and can really pick off skirmishers.
I just started WH2 with Imrik and my first dragon had the undead causing fear all over the field. Seems like WH2 added some new units too. That fear just ruins all my plans with HE.
I'm loving this game
Love playing this faction, im not much into archery and love a big swarm of units fighting to the death
How do you get it to display the unit while you are choosing your army??
right now red duke and vlad are the most popular lords but i still think Manfred is the best the reason people don't like him is because they put him on zombie dragon and against factions like empire and bretonia he gets sniped pretty easily and then you are doomed you only need to put him on normal mount and defend him with blood knights and you see how good he is ,and he has massive magic pool more than any other lord and that allows him to use both lore of death and lore of vampire
undead 78 I see what you mean although that being said in my experience he is just a lot more squish than the other REAL 'LL of the vampire counts. Vlad can tank and does a very respectable amount of damage. Isabella has her cup and can seriously heal herself and other hero's, although I'm not sure of it works on hero's for other factions but it makes her useful for supporting allied v.c players. and the Red Duke, he is a damn good hero sniper with El Sif (not sure of spelled right) and a great weapon damage of 460, which at first does not look special, but that with spells and his ability, he can take out lords above his paygrade with enough time. Manfred just doesn't seem very viable to me when I can just get a vampire hero (Or 2) with the spell or spells you want, put em on a hell steed and boom a hero nice and cheep with lore of death/shadows.
undead 78 I see what you mean although that being said in my experience he is just a lot more squish than the other REAL 'LL of the vampire counts. Vlad can tank and does a very respectable amount of damage. Isabella has her cup and can seriously heal herself and other hero's, although I'm not sure of it works on hero's for other factions but it makes her useful for supporting allied v.c players. and the Red Duke, he is a damn good hero sniper with El Sif (not sure of spelled right) and a great weapon damage of 460, which at first does not look special, but that with spells and his ability, he can take out lords above his paygrade with enough time. Manfred just doesn't seem very viable to me when I can just get a vampire hero (Or 2) with the spell or spells you want, put em on a hell steed and boom a hero nice and cheep with lore of death/shadows.
Jaden Harrod i really like vlad (as you can see from my profile pic) but his lack of mobility is his biggest weakness how ever you are some how right, like you can pick red duke and 2 necromancers with only raise the dead and you have 21 units of zombies!!!.
how ever people usually ban this ability in tournaments (and red duke special ability is El Syf).
undead 78 ah yes thank you, but wow 21 zombies that is cheesy as fuck
Mannfred is WAY better than taking a regular vampire lord and a vampire with lore of death because Mannfred has Mastery of the Black Arts which greatly increases winds of magic reserves and winds of magic regen AND the Sword of Unholy Power which again greatly increases winds of magic reserves and winds of magic regen. He is by far the most powerful spellcaster in the game simply because he can cast far more spells in a given battle than any other lord, combine that with his high armor, melee attack, and melee defense for being a vampire lord and he is an amazingly strong character. Trick is to not bring him on the zombie dragon unless you're confident that you wont get sniped for being in the air. So, zombie dragon is really only good against Greenskins/Dwarfs and possibly Chaos. I prefer to keep him on a regular steed to help keep his cost down and don't forget to drop spells that you don't think you'll be using. Go to's are Invocation of Nehek, Spirit Leech, Fate of Bjuna, Raise Dead, and potentially Doom and Darkness depending on if you're going to try and terror bomb or not.
Oh and I'm fairly sure Mannfred can win against Vlad 1 on 1 because he has access to spirit leech.
Please keep making these!
You forgot to mention the vampire's biggest strength: Wind of Death. It can single highhandedly (castedly?) annihilate three to five stacks of long beards for 23 magic. The vampires are a magic faction first and foremost, and rely on their magic to make up for their subpar troops.
When making videos describing troops, hard-click/actually click on the unit you are mousing over for a visual.
With Isabella plus 6 up to 13 Vampire heroes with Hunger and Invocation of Nehek paths for Legendary lords and 6 Terrorghis or Vaulgarf my army can handle even three armies.
Show me this same battle vs a Chaos army. No idea how to beat them when they show up.
Black Coaches are mean't to be left in melee. It gains buffs as it continues fight.
It also has 10 Melee Defence and an 80 Charge Bonus. It would be foolish to leave it in melee.
Oh, I agree. It just serves to highlight why it doesn't hold up in competitive play.
wow its been 7 years already
Does the mass regen on the mortis work in combat?
Just found this channel, really amazing job!
Appreciate that Broseph!
Dude thanks for army help. Do you have a campaign guide as well? As in world map? Also, you say no ranged units but isn't corpse cart artillery? Haven't got them yet but might be wrong 😂
From a top ranked ladder player: I haven't played in ages but vampire lords were probably one of most powerful factions (you wouldn't conclude this by watching your guide btw ; ), their main line works like combination of both types of crypt guards and crypt horrors (at least 4+4 units) - that is your main line. If they are properly supported with mortis engine they cannot lose. Then all tactic revolves if you can keep it alive - if you can - there is no faction that can face your core charge. You will literally grind down anything. If ME dies - you may lose. Best lord is vlad - and no mount is just a bonus - low lord cannot be targeted by missiles among infantry and good luck trying to grind him down in melee. He will kill hundreds every time.
which DLC gets you the Mortis Engine please? thanks
This. After playing Chaos I learnt how to use combat lords well. The Hero's are good value too and can go toe to toe with sun eater.
I love your guides man.
What’s ridiculous is you have 230k veiws and only 48k subscribers. Come on people!!! Subscribe!
Appreciate that homes
Also which isn't exactly unit strategy and more campaign strategy. You can get a tech upgrade which makes skeletons entirely free -> you can run across the map with 12,16 or even 20 armys full with 19 skeletons and a vampire.
Tbf its not a strong army in its own rigth but if you have simply an infinite amount of skeletons and a bit of vampire magix you can beat early and midgame armys as well as every garrison except the largest ones.
-> You may loose against specialised armys but you simply siege 2 cities in the time period the wipe 2 of your armies. you just raise in the different provinces skeletons again. Bang armies immediatly replaced. and if you are sieged with the skeleton army inside you are doing decent.
And with high casualty battles you can raise more and better troops on the campaign map.
I once had a province were I could fairly regularly raise Terrorgheist and that also damn early.
Only issue with that strat is you cannot have good armies until you disband everything due to how maintenance works
Here’s a question: what’s the best way to fight the Dwarfs when playing as the Vampires?
Nobody has responded but what I learned is mass fell bat spam can work to support an army of Grave Guard with great weapons and Cairn Wraiths. The bats bog down all the artillery and ranged units while the armor piercing melee units get to work. If the Dwarf player has his units lined up drop a good old Wind of Death down on them and enjoy the show.
Sadly if the Dwarf is using a lot of flamethrower units you are in a lot of trouble. Why the bats and other fast units are required so you can stop them from firing. I know throwing some Varghiests in with the bats works to if you want to kill the units faster.
Amazing guide, as always!
Can you make a Chaos one? I'll love it :V
Chears! As I said, it shall be done...
great video, just what I was looking for. thanks
Noooo problem.
You would consider the Red Duke mostly a superior "Vampire Lord" to the standard correct? Probably not up to Vlad's power, but fairly strong in that regard?
the picures didnt change when you were selecting them?
How to i fight against gyrocopters they’re so annoying and I can never destroy them.
another weakness for hte vampire counts that is shared among other undead factions, if the lord is killed then the entire army will drop like flies
Is it bad I’d prefer to face most of the armies on Warhammer with some good old fashioned Roman legionaries?
I just made a match with basic Dire Wolves vs The Dire Pack (Regiment of Renown Dire Wolves). The regular Dire Wolves slaughtered my Dire Pack. WTF?
Amazing video, thank you so much! Looking at your battle at the end, is there a lot of controls going on in the back or are you leaving your units do their own thing?
Thanks man. You're welcome.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean but yeah there's probably a lot going on. Never a good idea to let units do their own thing as such. They'll probably end up in a silly match up.
I mean we can see your coach in the background chasing archers and I didn't see you send them any commands
@@Bierederoute Thats because the battle he showed is a replay.