This affects all factions, player or AI. It doesn't ruin them though - they are more than capable of recruiting master necromancers :)

Does it affect the AI as well, or just we players?

This Mod has been ported to game 3 :)

When VC lords are killed in battle, the army on the campaign map is represented by a Dark Elf lord until the dead lord is replaced. Minor bug since they don't actually receive a DE lord, it just looks like they do.

Loving the mod; solves the post-Bloodlines MC redundancy issue.

I can echo that something's up with the garrison lord portraits - when I fight VC garrisons, occasionally I see a Warriors of Chaos Lord as the portrait for the garrison commander (not sure if a model appears during real-time battles). So, not game breaking, but pretty immersion-breaking!

I wonder if this is because the game relies on the (standard, non-Bloodline) Vampire Lord portrait files to occasionally populate the character portrait for garrison commanders when the player assaults a VC garrison. If this mod removes them completely, does the game default to a WoC Lord portrait when it has a missing portrait file for a faction? The female Vampire Hero portraits appear fine, presumably because the mod doesn't touch VC Heroes.

I'm not familiar with WH2's file structure, so could be completely wrong on this count. But, if this minor portrait issue could be verified and addressed that would be *chef's kiss*.

does this affect the vampire AI? if so it might be a big nerf for AI vampires and I've noticed they get rolled very quickly in my games

@Dissolution It worked on my SFO campaign. Source, I was using it for my recent Von Carstein playthrough on the latest SFO build and had absolutely no problems.

This is a super neat mod, really unbloats the roster. Makes decisions more meaningful.
Any ideas if this is compatible with SFO?

hay we have the same pfp. nice.

@Fennec cop Excellent

This mod doesn't touch that. My gut tells me the issue is with another mod.

Hey for some reason I see doubles of the bloodlines in the menu, with the exception of Fallen Knight? is that normal? Doesn't seem to affect anything but still weird

Just a small bug I found - when your garrison is attacked, or when your lord is defeated and the AI attacks your army again, the portrait shown for you is that of a Dark Elf admiral.

Mod works with Mixu's Mousillon too, just a heads up folks. :D

Thanks so much for the update!

Thanks for the quick answer! With this mod I can fight loreful vampire factions. Awesome!

No, this mod affects the AI too. You should generally see more Master Necromancers, and only LL or bloodline vampires.

Will the AI vampire factions be able to recruit vampire with this mod on?

I'll get around to updating this soon. No changes will be needed for the update, so it will work with the current game version.

update please

+1 to tweak to use master necromancers

Whenever an AI army gets defeated in an auto-resolve while reinforcing another army in a city, they seem to trigger the resurrection mechanic of the vampire faction and survive with a couple of tattered unitt, no actual lord and visually their army's model in the campaign map is a Chaos Lord.

They don't seem to actually get a Chaos Lord leading them, the issue seems to be visual.

I could likely resolve the garrison issues easy enough, by tweaking them to use master necromancers. What other scenarios cause the chaos lords to appear?

Broken mod.

Vampire Counts' lords sometimes visually turn to Chaos Lords, especially in garrisons

Found an annoying bug: your garrison portrait (and leader dummy if you lose a lord) are transformed into Chaos Lords.

I feel like making vampire lords rarer should also come with a buff to them. Maybe a higher AP ratio and speed?

The vampires in this game are way too slow (should be faster than elves), and the AP values really suffer in game 2 where virtually every lord has more AP with a few notable exceptions.

The AI responds in the same way as the player. I believe that the AI has readier access to legendary lords and bloodline vampires though - so it doesn't really gimp them too much.

This has no impact on garrisons.

Additionally, how do automatic garrisons for siege defenses or attack defenses work regarding this mod?

How does the Artificial Intelligence work regarding this mod?

nice and speedy update! Cheers bro!

got it cheers

I'll upload an update soon - but note that the upload is purely for version number flag. The mod will absolutely work in current form. (it has such a minor table edit)

Update mate?

Still works or no?

Has been working fine, not sure about the most recent update though.

I have just started a SFO VC/Manfred campaign with this mod enabled and it seems to work as intended - no bugs whatsoever.
Ps.
@thesniperdevil – thank U for this simple, clever and enjoyable mod. IMHO a must have for any VC player.

Just reinstalled this game to play this mod. Great work dude.

You'll need to chat to Mixu. This mod is insanely simple so I'm not sure why it would not work.

Any chance of this working with Mixu's Mousillon ?

Thanks for updating so quickly!

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks and rep+, deserved my friend

Some poeple there say they're not using Bloodlines, but still crashes with new Mixu's Mousillon, so it might be something else.

To anyone playing Mixu's Mousillon - He just had an update that added different bloodline lords and causes ctds when used with this mod.

So good, thanks!

yup!

One of the coolest and simplest mods on the workshop! It applies to AI right?

Alright, thanks

@Sargento This will work with the new patch. I'll re-upload it in the near future to get rid of "outdated" flag

Does this work with the new patch or needs updating?

Note: With the Prophet and Warlock - AI factions now have access to bloodline lords. So this mod should synergise very well with them now.