Uniforms and Heraldry of the Vampire Counts
Hi followers and fans!!
The Uniforms and Heraldry of the Vampire Counts is here!!
This is a graphical mod that changes appearence, in a more lore-friendly way, for some units. There are no specific Vampire Counts heraldry official documentation, so I tried to give some more love to this faction and I hope you will understand the big effort behind this little mod.
The results are:
– Three new different armour and textures,some shields variants and better colour patterns for Grave Guards and Black Knights (f.e. Vlad Von Carstein’s Grave Guards wear rusted iron armours, Kemmler’s Grave Guards wear bronze armours, Mannfred Von Carstein Grave Guards wear discolored painted bronze armor)
– Two new armours and shields types for skeleton warriors ( iron with bronze edging version and bronze with iron edging version). No different factions shields decals for skeleton shields, only alternate colour variants.
– New reworked factions banners, emblems and colours (BIG BIG thanks and credits to [HN] who gave me permission to use some of his banner mod stuffs)
– New Wight King armour textures (no more bronze armour)
– Restored Vlad Von Carstein diffuse face texture (using parts of WHI texture)
– Some others minors textures fixes and improvements
A lot of you know me, and you know that when I plan lore-friendly goodies I do lore-friendly goodies …
I was a Warhammer Fantasy Battle miniatures collector and painter since I was a child. I collected a lot of miniatures of different races (Empire, Dwarves, Orcs and Goblins and High Elves). I ‘m an accurate observer and interpreter of Warhammer Fantasy World lore and sometimes I would like to consider myself as a sort of Lore-Keeper… ;).
The main guidelines I used to make heraldry and shields emblems are taken from all recent warhammer fantasy official documentations and artworks (thanks to Dave Gallagher splendid artworks).
Every textures was wisely edited keeping always in mind these documentations and, if missing, keeping always in mind lore standards.
The new armours and shields texture are applied differently to each Vampire Counts faction:
– Vlad Von Carstein : Black Knights and grave Guards wear rusted iron armours and specific shields decals, Skeleton Warriors wears iron with bronze edging armours and shields
– Mannfred Von Carstein (Vampire Counts): Black Knights and grave Guards wear discolored painted bronze armors and specific shields decals, Skeleton Warriors wears iron with bronze edging armours and shields
– Heinrich Kemmler (The Barrow Legion): Black Knights and grave Guards wear bronze armors, Skeleton Warriors wears bronze with iron edging armours and shields
– Red Duke (Mousillon): same Mannfred armours and shields types but with black Lily shields decals
– Strygos Empire: same Mannfred armours and shields types but no shields decals
– Templehof, Rebels, Lahmian Sisterood, Necrarch Brotherhood, Silver Host: same Heinrich Kemmler armours and shields variants
Probably I’ll improve this mod with more decals, don’t worry and if you have suggestions comment!!
I suggest people to use Reshade [reshade.me]. With this new FX Injector you can directly create your custom profile.
Please, read the Reshade instructions and installation process in the official site forum.
Here you can find the link for my preset for Reshade 4.3 : Gigiauz’s Reshade Preset [sfx.thelazy.net]
To load the preset on Reshade click "HOME" key, then you will see a bar with a "+" at the top , click the "+" key and add my preset.
This mod is a part of a big lore-friendly retextures project. Other uniforms and heraldry will be realized for other faction too and probably those graphical mod will be used for a possible new regional recruitment system… soo do not forget it! 😉
I do not have a Patreon page and I could never afford it since I already have a full time job and also because my works come from my passion for warhammer and not from lucrative prospects.
If you like my mods and love my jobs, help me with a little PayPal donation clicking on the buttons below. Sometimes a little concrete contribution could be a booster for my motivation. Do not let me feel alone 🙁
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Donation is an act of extreme generosity but is not mandatory and mod will ever be free.
– To [HN] for his stuffs and suggestions about faction banner creating process (yours are the best)
– To Creative Assembly and Total War developing team for this game
– To the artist (maybe Dave Gallagher) who designed the empire book cover image I used to create my mod icon e mods page top banner
– To Games Workshop, and GW artits for the Warhammer Fantasy tabletop game and documentations
– To my fans who supported me
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
