Ikit can be surprisingly reliable, I have won many a battle because Ikit backed me up when I was playing as Aranessa. Also having the ability to give ikit a non aggression pact and him accepting on turn 1 is quite good. Ikit claw nuked the wall away so my armies and his army could invade Miragliano and then I got to keep it!

I had a lot of fun with Cylostra when playing her, yep it was a real challenge but a fun one. I actually like all these Lords though. I mean mostly Vampire Pirates = winner lol

I love the background music so much

Mannfred Von Carstein: You are without a doubt the worst vampire I've ever heard of. Luthor Harkon: But you *have* heard of me.

Have only played her on the vortex map, but there Cylostra is probably the strongest legendary lord of the bunch. Why? Good starting area, and what the Colonel did not mention was that she also starts with a ghost paladin with immortality and a lot of good extra skills that can get him to 90% damage resistance. The Colonel is also undervaluing her unique skill that gives 5% physical damage resistance. Every ethereal unit (herself, Syreens, the Paladin, her summons) already have 75% physical resistance. Add 5 more and you get to 80% That's a 20% reduction in damage taken! And if you can get a skill for an additional 10% damage reduction which brings them to 90% (which is max effective resistance in the engine) and that's a whopping 60% damage reduction compared to other lords. Making them almost immortal to anything without magic damage. Finally, she is an amazing Nuker. She has a skill that reduces the cost of her magic, and she can go out alone, use her summons / immortal paladin to tie up /bunch up enemy melee and then use Overcasted Revenge or Tentacle vortex to kill several hundreds of enemies before they even reach her lines. No other Pirate lord can do this quite as easy.

My mannn. I just got the dlc this morning. Hell yeah

Definetely my next faction to do a campaign so good timing with the guide. So far Grom takes the cake for the funnest ME campaign for me.

the video I've been waiting for. YEEEESSS

Cylostra is not the worst one, especially thanks to the unique eternal (bretonnian knight) hero. I maneged to get him 95% physical and decent magical resistance with regeneration, because of this he can tank solo any hostile army.

Aranessa is a lot stronger than you'd think: the AI just doesn't attack your starting settlement. Ever. I don't know if it was a bug in my game or what, but I left it unwalled, at tier 5, and went around raiding and sacking without conquering anything else, and in 60 turns my settlement, surrounded by enemies, was not attacked once

Love the vids man. I must disagree with one thing. Luthor in my opinion is the better late game fighter lord and can become completely unstoppable by himself. But I agree Noctilus has the best start and best doomstack if you get an army of Necrofex. Continue the good work :)

I would say saltspite is worse than cylostra. The big reason for this is because aranessa isn't undead! Thus she can't regain hp from lore of vampire's!

didnt much mention that cylostra starts with an ethereal paladin hero in her army and she can summon ethereal knights of the realm which can easily take out a few enemy units, and her mount is way better than aranessa's.

personally I think cylostra should be second. Her syreen doomstack can be made early in the game and will have 90 physical resist. Have one army defend the starting area and a second setting up pirate coves to have mourngul hero stack. It's really fun.

cylostra syreens are so tanky and her magic is so good how is she worst than aranessa that has no magic

Really? Aranessa is probably tied with Tretch for worst lord in the entire game! Cylostra is definitely better. Yeah her starting position is brutal, but lore of the deeps is pretty good, she becomes a great fighter, and having a free unit of questing knights to summon in combat can turn the tide instantly in battle.

Count Noctilus might have the best magic line in the game. It is vampiric magic with Pit of Shades and the Lore of the Deep Raise the dead. I think that he also has Smoke & Mirrors? But having Wind of Death and Pit of Shades is awesome especially because the Vampire Coast don't have shadow mages. A shame that he has no skill to buff his magic (cooldown, winds cost reduction, etc. ...)

anyone have a list of good mods to use for vampire coast?

I suggest taking a closer look at some lords abilities, because sometimes they can really change how the faction plays. For instance, Cylostra can really take advantage of the syreens in general thanks to specific buffs she gives, and that is something to take into account.

But isnt because of the starting location, noctilus the most boring as well? Luthor Harkon my favourite stilL! =D

Nice

I'm sorry, but I can't seem to find the wood elves Have you don't one for them yet?

I love vampires and I wonder out of all the vampire lords in Warhammer world Who Is the Strongest who would win

Noctilus is definitely strong and defensible but lemme tell ya as Fae Enchantress after getting harassed and repeatedly warred on and peaced out all game, finally getting together with the woodelves and sailing out to delete his fancy capitol with four massive armies was very satisfying.

Do Norsca next please

the mount is pretty crab

Count nauctilus deserves the number one slot. I absolutely love his starting location and his necrofex colossus mount. I make it my mission to take over lustria and ulthuan when I'm playing a dread fleet campaign.

Who is cylostra shes the only one i dont recognize?

Yes, but Harkon is funny pirate man.

i was going to swap luther with noculis

I am the best obviously.

Luthor all day!

Your ranking seems to be okay

i tried harkon endedup at war with 5lizardmen and chaos b-line for my cities lol. defended it all but didnt gain a new settlement for 100turns, rubbish combat lord too

lol cylostra worse than aranessa? No. Shes better in literally every way, and her items are all better. Her unique units are better BY FAR, and her spellcasting is insane. Her campaign start is a smidge harder sometimes, but other times aranessa will get High Elf aggro and get absolutely shitstomped by their doomstacks by turn 30

More or less everybody agrees about the line up But i wanted to say something regarding Aranesa from my personal experience The fact is that real danger for her is not coming from the north from the dwarfs or empire or tillia or border prince In all of my experience it is the southern bretonnians that always harassing you from the sea The biggest problem for her is the fact that expanding with few armies when you have potential to get attacked from the rear is so damn painful But there is one more thing that i think you didn't mentioned in your video and that is the amazing landmark that aranesa have access to in her capital Once you building that light tower you are pretty much safe from any kind of sea invasion cuz you always see what is going on the seas

Saltspite and Harkon above Clya? This guy for real?

Cylostra the worst? Hard disagree.