Faction Thread 2: Vampire Counts

**Born in lust for blood** · 05-14-2007, 16:44

Maybe then a unit with skeletons and a necromancer(eg like captain) to look like that.
Speaking of the necromancer how do you expect to rise troops in battle?
Or are you not?

**Bwian** · 05-14-2007, 18:15

Raising troops in battle is impossible. There is no provision for this in the game engine.

**uanime5** · 05-14-2007, 23:40

I guess the only way to raise troops would be to convince the game that there was another army nearby and that it could enter the battle. However I have no idea how to do this or if it is even possible.

Hiring the undead as mercenaries would be a better way of 'raising' an army.

**Casuir** · 05-15-2007, 00:27

I think officers have the same stats as the units they're with so dont see them being included that way, you'd either have a unit of skeletons or a unit of necromancers.

**Meneldil** · 05-15-2007, 16:06

From what I understood, you're going with the Von Carstein as the VC faction. If that's so, I guess using Imperial names for the characters is the best thing we could come up with, no ?

**Kesxex** · 05-19-2007, 14:30

As far as recruiting goes the idea of mercenary units for the basic troops is a good one. This covers also that there are graveyards/battlefields all over the map.
As for special units you could do these as buildings in a loose sense of association. Instead of building them it would mean that the burial mounds / graveyards where these units are normally recruited (re-animated would be a better word) are discovered by the faction.
Probably a good building for choice would be the church as it is razed if a region is conquered by a different faction.

**ellydog** · 05-19-2007, 14:58

Just got an idea for these guys, would it be possible to recruit better units at the site of a famous battle. It would make sense due to the lose of lives there.