At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Vampire spellcaster and melee fighter
- Content pack
- Isabella von Carstein Free-LC
- Race
- Vampire Counts
- Faction
- Sylvania
Availability
Content pack: Isabella von Carstein Free-LC. Immortal Empires ownership
- Free-LC for Vampire Counts. SEGA lists access through Total War: WARHAMMER or The Grim and the Grave, with content owned on the same platform as your Immortal Empires campaign.
Choose Isabella for Sylvania
Isabella and Vlad are alternative starting leaders of Sylvania. With Isabella selected, she commands the campaign and Vlad takes the hero role. Keep that distinction in mind when following advice written for a Vlad-led start.
The hero partner can become a lord through a later skill unlock added in update 9.0. Think about whether another army would help your borders before moving the partner out of the force you have built together.
Give the partners different jobs
Isabella combines vampiric fighting with spellcasting. Let a supported Vlad occupy a suitable enemy while she influences the wider engagement, or commit both to a target that needs their attention. Reassess when enemy reinforcements arrive.
Use Skeleton Warriors to keep the front connected and Grave Guard where you want the infantry to fight harder. Avoid sending every character after one retreating opponent while the rest of the line loses support.
An army beyond the couple
Other characters should add a useful job to the army. Walach Harkon adds a combat caster and Dieter Helsnicht an offensive caster through the paid Nagash content, after their unlocks. Neither needs to be included simply because the army is led by a vampire.
Isabella’s background connects her to the human nobility of Sylvania and to Vlad. Their shared faction makes that relationship part of campaign selection, while your wars and alliances determine what follows.
Free-LC, Sylvania, and the partner lord
Isabella von Carstein is Free-LC for Vampire Counts. SEGA lists access through Total War: Warhammer or The Grim and the Grave, on the same platform as the campaign. Selecting her makes her the Sylvania lord and leaves Vlad as the starting hero. Update 9.0 adds a later skill that can raise that hero into a lord.
She fights and casts. Vlad, when he starts as the lord instead, is the swordsman. Mannfred, Kemmler, Ghorst, and Neferata are the other Vampire Counts campaigns, each with a different office. Isabella’s wars in a sandbox are the campaign you play.
Sources
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — CA — community.creative-assembly.com