Vampire Counts · Immortal Empires
The Barrow Legion
wh2_dlc11_vmp_the_barrow_legionThe Barrow Legion is a playable Vampire Counts faction in Total War: Warhammer III, led by Heinrich Kemmler. In Immortal Empires it starts in Blackstone Post with 1 region. It comes with the base game. Faction key wh2_dlc11_vmp_the_barrow_legion. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
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Immortal Empires, patch 9.0.4: facts from the game's data, each linking to the full section.
Start and neighbours
Starts at Blackstone Post (Northern Grey Mountains)
- 1.Karak Ziflin — Karak Ziflin · near (1.8%) · minor faction
- 2.Empire Secessionists — Eilhart · near (2.1%) · minor faction
- 3.Bastonne — Castle Bastonne · near (2.6%) · minor faction
- 4.Skullsmasherz — Grung Zint · near (2.7%) · minor faction
- 5.Marienburg — Marienburg · near (2.7%) · minor faction
Nearest starting capitals, measured on the game's minimap as a share of its width: near ≤ 4%, medium ≤ 10%, far beyond. See it on the full map
Climate at a glance
5 suitable · 4 unpleasant · 3 uninhabitable · 2 climates differ from the race
Victory at a glance
Short victory: 6 objectives · long victory: 6
- Control the following 2 settlement(s) either by direct ownership or through vassals and military allies: Couronne, Castle Carcassonne
- Destroy or vassalise the following faction(s): Couronne, Carcassonne
- Use Blood Decrees 5 times.
Leader's quests
- Chaos Tomb Blade — opens at rank 7
- Cloak of Mists & Shadows — opens at rank 12
- Skull Staff — opens at rank 17
Key units and where they are recruited
COMPUTED — per role, the Vampire Counts unit that tops the role's cost list on best units by the numbers (base stats, multiplayer cost; the race's standard roster — units it has only with Unit caps off, the extended roster, are left out). Recruitment: the first building level that unlocks it (building_units_allowed).
Crypt HorrorsMonstrous infantry · Health per 1,000 gold: 11,058
Recruited from Lodestone of Darkness (Binding Circle, level 3)
Dire WolvesWar beasts · Health per 1,000 gold: 12,800
Recruited from Sinister Copse (Forest, level 1)
Faction leader
Heinrich Kemmler
The Barrow Legion
The Lichemaster prowls his old wanderings in the Grey Mountains, plotting his next move against sworn enemies in nearby Bretonnia and the Empire.
Lichemaster- Immune to Chaos corruption and Chaos Wastes attrition (all armies)
- Diplomatic relations: +50 with Warriors of Chaos, Daemons of Chaos, Beastmen and Norsca
- Starts with Legendary Hero Krell
- Character experience gain: +20% (all characters)
- Faction Leader: Legendary Necromancer
- Immune to Chaos corruption and Chaos Wastes attrition (all armies)
- Diplomatic relations: +50 with Warriors of Chaos, Daemons of Chaos, Beastmen and Norsca
- Starts with Legendary Hero Krell
- Character experience gain: +20% (all characters)
- Faction Leader: Legendary Necromancer
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Heinrich Kemmler, the cunning Lichemaster who has troubled the Old World on many occasions is once more abroad. Freed from the shackles and illusion of subservience to the von Carsteins, the Necromancer now prowls his old wanderings in the Grey Mountains, which straddle the border between the Empire and Bretonnia - sworn enemies who have moved against him in the past. But Kemmler has always coverted power beyond anything else, and this time the Forces of Order will not stop him - the dead will rise and the world will fall!
Faction effects
- Income from post-battle loot: -50%
Victory conditions
Immortal Empires, from the campaign script (victory_objectives_config.lua) in the game's own words. All factions
Short Campaign Victory
- Control the following 2 settlement(s) either by direct ownership or through vassals and military allies: Couronne, Castle Carcassonne
- Destroy or vassalise the following faction(s): Couronne, Carcassonne
- Use Blood Decrees 5 times.
- Win the following battle: Skull Staff
- Construct landmark: Castle Drachenfels' Library
- Recruit 8 Cairn Wraiths or Hexwraiths units and increase their rank to 7.
REWARDS
Vengeful Spirits- Construction cost: -50% for Vengeful Spirits buildings (factionwide)
- Construction cost: -50% for Vengeful Spirits buildings (factionwide)
Follower or item: Wraithbringer
Long Campaign Victory
- Achieve the Short Victory conditions.
- Control the following 1 settlement(s) either by direct ownership or through vassals and military allies: Altdorf
- Destroy or vassalise the following faction(s): Reikland
- Use Blood Decrees 10 times.
- Confederate 2 Vampire Lords.
- Construct landmark: Altdorf College of Forbidden Magic
REWARDS
- Blood: 100 per turn (factionwide)
- Blood: 100 per turn (factionwide)
- Lord and Hero recruit rank: +10
- Lord and Hero recruit rank: +10
Plan a co-op campaign with The Barrow Legion — partners by start distance, climate and victory conditions. Its start next to the race's other factions: best Vampire Counts factions.
Climate
Suitable
Desert
Mountain(race: Unpleasant)
Temperate
Undead Wasteland
Wasteland
Unpleasant
Frozen
Temperate Island
Jungle(race: Suitable)
Savannah
Uninhabitable
Chaotic Wasteland
Magical Forest
Ocean
How settling The Barrow Legion fares in each climate (campaign_group_racial_suitability_effects and its member criteria). What each level does, for every race.
Source: factions, start_pos_factions and start_pos_regions (campaigns wh3_main_combi and wh3_main_chaos), frontend_faction_leaders and faction_groups, patch 9.0.4.