At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Melee commander and Vampires spellcaster
- Content pack
- Vlad von Carstein Free-LC
- Race
- Vampire Counts
- Faction
- Sylvania
Availability
Content pack: Vlad 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.
Sylvania and Isabella
Vlad and Isabella share the Sylvania faction. Selecting Vlad makes him the starting lord and gives Isabella the partner’s hero role. Choose the leader before planning how to use the pair together.
Update 9.0 also lets the hero versions of Vlad and Isabella become lords through a later skill unlock. That opens a decision between keeping the couple together and giving the partner a separate army.
Use Vlad to hold a useful fight
Vlad is a swordsman with necromantic magic. Send him into a fight that helps your formation: pin a dangerous character with support or reinforce the infantry where it is under pressure. Keep an eye on enemy missiles while he is occupied.
Skeleton Warriors can hold nearby enemies in place; Grave Guard give the line a stronger fighting regiment. Leave enough room to move Isabella or another supporting character rather than crowding everyone into the same melee.
Plan for another army
The shared Vampire Counts recruitment economy still shapes Vlad’s conquests. Reserve resources for replacements before committing to a second front. A strong lord is easier to use when the rest of the force can keep up.
Compare Isabella’s starting choice if you want her as the campaign leader. Mannfred offers the Books of Nagash, while Neferata offers a campaign built around agents and the Web of Power.
Free-LC and the Sylvania pair
Vlad von Carstein is Free-LC for Vampire Counts, on the same terms as Isabella: access through Total War: Warhammer or The Grim and the Grave. Selecting him makes him the Sylvania lord and Isabella the starting hero. Update 9.0 can later turn that hero into a lord. He is a swordsman with necromantic magic. The infantry still has to hold a front while he fights.
Mannfred is the other von Carstein legendary lord and starts displeased, in the wording of the first game’s Update 3, with a suspension of hostilities. Kemmler, Ghorst, and Neferata are the remaining Vampire Counts campaigns. Inheritance is the novel of Vlad’s rise. It is not a script for the sandbox.
Sources
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — CA — community.creative-assembly.com