At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Vampires and Death spellcaster with a melee role
- Content pack
- Total War: WARHAMMER
- Race
- Vampire Counts
- Faction
- The Drakenhof Conclave
Availability
Content pack: Total War: WARHAMMER. Immortal Empires ownership
- Unlocked in Immortal Empires by owning Total War: WARHAMMER, the first game in the trilogy, on the same platform as your campaign access. The Grim and the Grave is a separate purchase for Helman Ghorst.
Faction and the Books of Nagash
Select Vampire Counts, then The Drakenhof Conclave, to begin Mannfred’s Immortal Empires campaign. His interest in the Books of Nagash gives expansion a purpose beyond taking the nearest settlement. Look at the Books panel before choosing a distant war.
Update 9.0 makes Books possessions that can move between characters and settlements. Protect the character carrying one and consider where it belongs before committing that army to a dangerous march.
A caster who can join the fight
Mannfred uses the Lores of Vampires and Death and can contribute in melee. Decide whether his next action should be a spell or a physical attack. A lord locked into an unfavourable duel has less freedom to support the rest of the army.
Let Skeleton Warriors establish an engagement, then commit Grave Guard where their extra fighting strength matters. Use Mannfred to support a clear objective; keep an escape route open when enemy characters or missiles turn toward him.
Build the army around a plan
Dieter Helsnicht adds offensive casting, while Walach Harkon adds a combat caster if you own their Nagash content and unlock them. Consider the overlap with Mannfred’s own jobs before putting several characters in one army.
For a different Vampire Counts campaign, compare Kemmler’s necromancy, Ghorst’s support role, the von Carstein partnership and Neferata’s agent network. Mannfred’s biography explains the ambition behind his search for forbidden knowledge.
The first game, Drakenhof, and the Books
Total War: Warhammer unlocks Mannfred von Carstein. Warhammer III alone does not. He leads The Drakenhof Conclave. After update 9.0 the Books of Nagash are possessions he can carry, separate from the spell list shown in the earlier preview. On the field he is a vampire caster and a melee lord. Grave Guard and mobile troops still need a line in front of him.
Vlad and Isabella are the Sylvania pair and are free with Vampire Counts ownership. Kemmler and Ghorst are the necromancers. Neferata’s Lahmian Sisterhood is the later Free-LC. The novels that name Mannfred are linked from the lore page. A campaign victory is not one of those books.
Sources
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Patch 6.3: Books of Nagash — CA — community.creative-assembly.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — CA — community.creative-assembly.com