Vampire Counts Lords and Heroes Fine-tuned

This next iteration of the Vampire Counts Fine-tuned series aims to make extensive additions and modifications to LORDS and HEROES of the Vampire Counts faction, following the leitmotif of more meaningful and lore-friendly gameplay, raising the faction to be on par with its rivals without overreliance on cheese strategies.

Many skills and whole new effects were added, old bugs were fixed, with proper loreful descriptions, everything with a keen eye to keep the intended pace for the faction in an enhanced package. No changes were made to the base vampire lords, as they are an unfortunate leftover of the game’s iteration.

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More so than any other visual and gameplay enhancing mods, Vampire Counts Lords and Heroes Fine-tuned recommended use is in a crossover with Cryswar’s Leaders of Legend.

Thus, with Cryswar’s permission I have balanced the mod around these previous contributions and made my fine-tuning on their work (in what pertains especifically to the Vampire Counts) through a submod, in order to keep overrall balance with the intended “VC Fine-tuned” experience. You may play without the submod, as there are no compatibility issues in-between, but I highly recommend you to utilise both mods together with the submod VC Fine-tuned Leaders of Legend Submod that you get here.

I’m pleased to inform that this mod integrates custom assets developed by jenosite’s Vampire Count Mount extraordinary mod.

I have obtained jenosite’s kind permission to integrate their assets in this mod, which could not be otherwise done through the use of a submod routine. This present work thus make use of jenosite’s “Guardian of Sylvania”, “Vlad’s Barded Nightmare”, “Barrow King Chariot”, “Chaos Dragon”, “Coven Thrones”, “Captured Templehof Luminark”, “Captured Luminark of Hysh”, “Banshee Bodyguard” and “Wight King Bodyguard” mounts.

I must stress out that for the purpose of this mod you only get to use these mounts, as most features of their original mod are not present (dilemmas, majority of abilities and effects, etc.) as they do not accommodate to this mod’s vision. Many changes were made, with a plethora of lore and flavour additions, including name, weapon, stats and effect scope changes. Keep in mind the Vampire Count Mount cannot be used together with this mod, as the integration effort entails total incompatibility between them.

VLAD VON CARSTEIN: +5 Morale; Barded Nightmare Mount; Blood Griffon Mount; Removed Diviner skill; Mist Form; Storm of the Night; Midnight Children; Wild Heart; benevolent Overlord; Cattle Herder; Sylvanian Marksmen; Nehekhara Noble Blood; Over my Dead Body; Awaken the Ancient Get.

ISABELLA VON CARSTEIN: Fixed Lightning Strike position; +5 Morale; +5 MA; +400 BHP and +10 Charge to Barded Mount; Removed Midnight’s Children skill; Coven Throne Mount; Diviner; Brooding Horrors; Fell Nest; Unforgiving Mistress; Bride of Sylvania; Cold and Terrible Beauty; Cattle Herder; Sylvanian Marksmen; Wild Heart.

MANNFRED VON CARSTEIN: +5 Morale; +9 MA to Zombie Dragon Mount; +400 BHP and +10 Charge to Barded Mount; Raise Dead was upgraded to Awaken the Battlefield; Aspect of Dread was substituted by Wild Heart; Cynosure; Transformation of Kadon (Varghulf); Wyrd Engorgement; Champions of the Sepulcher; Harbinger of Screaming Death.

HEINRICH KEMMLER: +5 Morale; +400 BHP, +15 Armor and +10 Charge to Barded Mount; +25 FIR RES to Chaos Dragon Mount; Barrow King Chariot Mount; Chaos Dragon Mount; Diabolical Presence; Gespenst Scythes; Greater Arcane Conduit; Raise Dead was upgraded to Awaken the Battlefield; Hex of Bones; Faustian Bargain; Pyrolisis of Skulls; Fireball; Kindleflame; Burning Head; Power of Darkness; Doombolt.

HELMAN GHORST: +10 Morale; +5 Armor, +13 Charge to Brothers Cart; Captured Templehof Luminark Mount; Cadaveric Machine Mount; Diviner; Harvesting Carriages; Supernatural Horror; Lord of the Scourge; Thrall Master; Loremaster of Vampires; Hex of Bones; Bottomfeeders are Brain Eaters; Enhance the Pox Bearers; Breath of Blue Roses; Plague Rash; Wither; Exude Necrotic Spores.

THE RED DUKE: +5 Morale; +5 MD; +400 BHP and +10 Charge to Barded Mount; +200 BHP to Zombie Dragon Mount; Martial Jousters; Immortal Will; Over my Dead Body; The Red Death; Doomrider and Grave Sentinels are no longer mutually exclusive.

BLOOD DRAGON: Same changes as The Red Duke, but Removed Wind of Death spell and Curse of Years spell.

LAHMIAN: +100 BHP on foot; +500 BHP and +10 Charge to Barded Mount; +5 MA to foot and Barded Mount; Coven Throne Mount; Release the Hounds; Reverie of the Demimondaines; At Dawn they Sleep; Spiteful Conjuration; Unquenchable Lust; Undead Broker; Waltz of the Marionettes; Danse Macabre substituted The Enfeebling Foe (you still get the base spell though).

VON CARSTEIN: +5 MD; +400 BHP and +10 Charge to Barded Mount; Wild Heart; The Ravening Beast; Seethe with Animal Ken; Vampiric Vassalage; Pann’s Impenetrable Pelt substituted Danse Macabre (you still get the base spell though);

STRIGOI: +10 Morale; +300 BHP; +5 MD on foot; +5 MA for Terrorgheist Mount; Skulk in the Night; Midnight Children; Horrid Countenance; Curse of Vorag and Infinite Hatred are no longer mutually exclusive; Schreckenkraft substituted Doom&Darkness; Removed Earthing skill; Removed Magical Reserve Skill.

NECRARCH: +20 Armor; +5 MD; +400 BHP and +10 Charge to Barded Mount; Loremaster of Vampires; Loremaster of Death; Schreckenkraft; Time of Arising; Arcane Connoisseur; Transformation of Kadon (Varghulf); Wind of Death; Fate of Bjuna; Raise Dead was upgraded to Awaken the Battlefield; Soulblight substituted Pann’s Impenetrable Pelt; Gaze of Nagash substituted Spirit Leech (keeps the base spell though); Curse of Years substituted Curse of Anraheir.

MASTER NECROMANCER: +4 Morale; +400 BHP and +10 Charge to Barded Mount; +5 Armor, +13 charge to carts mounts; Hex of Bones; Loremaster of Vampires; Profane Relic; Foul Relic; Life-Leeching; Diabolical Presence; Captured Luminark of Hysh Mount.

Various changes to heroes that do not fit the description.

This mod should be compatible with most mods, with the exception of those that override skill nodes and mess with Mortis Engine animations and models. Texture packs are fine. No, it is not compatible with SFO.

This is compatible with Aexrael’s Vampiric Resurgence. Also compatible with all my Vampire Counts Fine-tuned mods, check their collection and my workshop.

Avoid using alongside broad skill additions like Singe’s Vampire Counts Skills and JR’s Old World Skill Overhaul for they cause skill tree UI issues.

This mod benefitted from the troubleshooting of Cryswar and Cataph, as well as the integration permit by jenosite. Thank you!