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[Tack]

I joined a war and my brayherds didn't join.
Which, apparently, caused them all to turn hostile.

I cannot attack them, but they're nixxing all of my weakened armies, and every new one is another threat.
What has just happened.

[Mech#4]

I think that was an issue with the Greenskin armies before the last patch. While that one was fixed, it doesn't suprise me a similar problem with the brayherd exists.

[Tack]

Well, getting them all killed seemed to fix it, but it was pretty tough, especially as they no longer took directions.
I'd like to consider it a little bit more difficulty on top of the VH.


Edit: Insult to injury, I finished the mini-campaign and didn't get the VH/L achievement for some reason, nor did I get the cutscene of todbringer losing his eye.

[ATHATH]

I haven't played with the new DLC yet, but from what I hear, Beastmen tribes tend to get killed shortly after they spawn, denying you the opportunity to form a coalition with them. Has anyone tried to map out the spawn locations/times(?) of the tribes?

[Mech#4]

I don't know how reliable they are to spawn each game but I've seen a Beastmen herd spawn to the west of Averheim. I think another spawns closer to Talabheim and Middenheim.

[Teneb]

I don't know how reliable they are to spawn each game but I've seen a Beastmen herd spawn to the west of Averheim. I think another spawns closer to Talabheim and Middenheim.

There's also a mod to make them spawn more frequently, if you feel like it's too rare.

[Mech#4]

New content has been anounced as up coming, specifically a Legendary Lord pack with a "grim" theme along with 18 regiments of renown spread across 2 races.

A wiki article goes into some more depth with screenshots showing two of the units in the pack being the "Royal Altdorf Gryphites" and the "Hammer of the Witches", being a demi-gryp knight and artillary unit respectively. It also mentions how these regiments of renown will be recruitable through a mercenary recruit system for lords with enough levels during a campaign as well as them being usable during custom battles.

[Teneb]

Regiments of Renown sounds awesome. I wonder what the other race is. Probably dorfs or greenskins.

Also the "grim" lord is probably Volkmar the Grim, the leader of the Sigmarite faith.

[Mech#4]

Suspicions are on it being Volkmar. The other legendary lord though is a bit more difficult since the book which the mentioned renown units are from, called "Sigmar's Blood" outlines battles between the Empire and the Vampire Counts but there is a dwarfen rune priest called Kragg the Grim.


I've looked through the book and one nice thing is that, while the models might not be hugely different from the base ones, they'll still be more different than the featured models from Games Workshop where most of the photos are of stock models. It mentions things like units of flaggalents, Knights of the Blazing Sun as well as a necromancer called Ghorst on a corpse cart.


If one of the legendary lords is Volkmar, he might have a unique mount of the war altar of Sigmar which would be neat.


I was also thinking on the mercenary mechanic being added alongside this. It could be used so the Empire can hire giants into their army as well as Beastmen units for Warriors of Chaos or Empire swordsmen for Vampire Counts. Units that don't fit the armies base unit list but are mentioned as being used in the lore.

[Tack]

So, Krell?

[Teneb]

So, Krell?

All DLCs, free or paid, are about Krell.

[Mech#4]

I do wonder whether they'll add named heroes, as a number of the characters for races aren't really the "lead army" type. Krell is one, as is Konrad von Carstein who isn't capable with magic enough to command undead and, later, Deathmaster Snikch for the Skaven who is an assassin.

[Teneb]

Konrad von Carstein who isn't capable with magic enough to command undead

Konrad didn't have any problem with commanding undead, having even lead the VCs in the lore after Vlad got himself killed. Manny only took over after Konrad himself died.

[Grim Portent]

Konrad did have a problem, he himself couldn't animate the dead or control them directly, he had to use vassal necromancers to do it for him.

Prior to becoming the leader of the von Carsteins he would murder necromancers frequently for insulting him due to his lack of magical ability.

[umiman]

All this talk of vampire murders reminds me of a recent Warhammer CK2 game I played where about 50 years into the game I noticed that Manfred had singlehandedly assassinated every single member of the Von Carstein line including Vlad, Konrad, their other brother, his own mother Isabella, etc. making him the de facto leader of the Vampire Counts.

So I arranged a vampire slaying party and went to go finish him off. And that was the end of the geheimnisnacht. No climatic battles over castle walls. No legendary rings of immortality. Just people backstabbing one another.