SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS! Karl Franz Arrives with Upgrades Galore! The Empire Shall Stand Strong!

[@thegreatbookofgrudges6953]

"finally I can't wait to play as Karl Franz for another 800th times" - certain individuals

[@Majora48]

Cultured individuals * my good sir

[@KnoxZone]

I would be offended if this wasn't so true.

[@Valathiril]

Me

[@mikaeldahlqvist399]

Me

[@Brettman04]

Bring me to my men!

[@silasdasgupta4940]

To answer the question: Kislev. Limit the ice court to Katarin and an unlockable to Boris. Either buff the Faith mechanic for Kolstaltyn or change the ice court to be some sort of Ursun Church mechanic to give Lords and Patriarchs some unique options.

[@draconomega]

make an ice court and a patriach court. Both Konstaltyn and Katerine can only unlock each other's court once they have won the faith race. Also to give some stakes to the belief war, make it so at the end you have to fight each other in a mission battle. Whoever won the race gets buffs and a small reinforcing army for the fight.

[@markosimunic4770]

@@draconomega Cool idea for the faith race.......If the ai faction didnt die immediatelly. Seriously i play as Katarin, reach the first point in the race BOOM Kostaltyn kicked the bucket. The race should just go away.

[@draconomega]

@@markosimunic4770 Then make it so that you can recruit the dead lord once you finished the race. You could even change the fight to make it so that you save them from a chaos ambush or something like that :b

[@markosimunic4770]

@@draconomega That.....would be alright.

[@Jpipooly]

I've played the Karl Franz campaign about a HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN TIMES AND IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER EVERY SINGLE TIME I PLAY IT!

[@xerol333]

i have 1500+ hours and i have never played the empire before but i think elspeth is gonna be the ONE

[@eomat]

Praise Sigmar!

[@iconoclastic23]

For me it's Grom's campaign I keep going back to. Something about that gross tubby gerblin just speaks to me.

[@TopShot501st]

I love that the intro cinematics gotta redone in the WH3 engine. Its a small thing, but it shows they care.

[@michaelmorton6566]

just wish they had the cinematic from warhammer 1 and 2 for when you start a campaign they where great

[@capadociaash8003]

@@michaelmorton6566it was cool but not having it allows Moders to change the start position much easier

[@michaelmorton6566]

@@capadociaash8003 the video cinematic not the npc campaign guidance

[@josephclark8026]

Norsca. Let's make Throgg smart, with a system to recruit more troll units. And perhaps a mechanic for Wulfric that gives him some unique bonuses for defeating legendary lords.

[@XcUtiOn96]

19:55 Dark Elves. Their LLs either have lackluster mechanics or don't have one.

[@AuSaxtiamus]

19:35 question, I'd love to see Settra and the Tomb Kings in general see some love, i was so excited for this DLC because my top three races are Dwarves, Empire, and Tomb Kings, so if we got an update for them like this, i would never complain about CA again lmao

[@draconomega]

Dont worry. With Nagash coming you basically garantee a dlc for all undead factions

[@sterlingx2011]

I would like to see The Everqueen get mechanics similar to Karl for making the various High Elf factions work together and lean more into the influence and intrigue at court. Her current mechanic for defending Ulthuan and keeping non HE factions off the island I think should be developed more and given to Tyrion.

[@thegreatbookofgrudges6953]

19:25 VLAD!!!!

[@dan7564]

The whole faction really. The last dlc they got was ghorst which was the first dlx and didn't have specific faction mechanics at that stage.

[@luigisuper4143]

Heinrich Kemmler shouldn't really have the blood kiss mechanic. I would like him to have an alternative mechanic that centers on wights instead.

[@firepengu7410]

Seconding this, Vlad should get elector count mechanic as you've said before!

[@grendelkrieg5742]

I hope they nerf vlad honestly I hate dealing with his immortality, just not fun to fight

[@williams100292]

Ah, I was hoping to start another Empire Campaign soon, this is perfect! Summon the Elector Counts!

[@ThunderInSilence]

I really like when they go back and change up the faction effects and bonuses that certain lords have to take advantage of the expanded design space. Karl Franz moving away from being the Greastsword/Reiksguard guy means that space is opened back up for others to potentially fill, like Kurt Helborg who would focus heavily on the various knight units, especially Reiksguard (and probably come with Ludwig Schwartzhelm as a Legendary Hero)

[@notjake2089]

The only reasonable answer to the question in my opinion has to be Norsca. There are only 2 lords in the faction and while they are on paper so different that its insane that they are even a part of the same faction, atm they are nearly identical with most differences between them being passive unit buffs.

[@kylesunrider1063]

Seeing as I have only recently gotten the game, learned about the update brings me some hope, and speaking my first campaign I did after getting all three and booting up immortal empires with my friends I was instantly drawn to the Skaven, especially after hearing more about their lore from them, Locked in Iket Claw, battle brothers picked Tyrion and Karl, and for my first ever campaign he decided to go for Ultimate Crisis, I got to Role Play Germany fighting the Beastmen and Saltspite, was one of the best introductions

[@Eliwood29]

Honestly I think its time for Vlad von Carstein and the rest of the Vampire counts to get some love.

[@xiaoxiaoxiao4]

And generaly undead faction update would be great

[@epilepticbro]

Dude a champions of chaos style dlc would go so hard, the idea of fleshing out the bloodlines gives me joy

[@sev5348]

They need a reskin and rework damn they’re hideous

[@czarkiddy9543]

I have this feeling that CA will or at least had planned to work on the vampire counts because they may be developing a pattern of leaving Legendary Lords of races they will work on in the Realms of Chaos map, see Karl Franz and Ungrim Ironfist. At least, that's a pattern i am seeing with this latest DLC set. But then again, plans change, and this could be a one-off pattern.

[@euychua]

Seeing Vlad in the empire map really makes me hope that he’ll join in the imperial politics with the VC update Also I do think Norsca NEEDS that update, I’d like to see what they do to update the rivalry mechanic for Kislev in the future

[@AsiniusNaso]

20:10 Norsca desperately need a rework. They've only had 2 lords since WH1 and it shows. I want to see a 'region' mechanic like state troops for a new LL (or maybe Wulfric?), where if you've conquered, vassalized, or allied a region, it will give you region-specific troops, like Kurgan horseriders or Albion druids and giants. That would make Norsca factions feel more unique and when uniting them, really give that feel of uniting a vast confederation of tribes under your bloody banner

[@GrooveNeedle]

Lizardmen! Mazdamundi and Kroq-gar need something flavorful to them.

[@MrEddieLomax]

The core lizardman effect is a wet fart, the geomantic web should be made more impactful - like making places habitable perhaps by enabling extra province bonus's, but then you pay for it.

[@adrienwarad]

as far as i saw in other streams, only balthasar (and elspeth ?) got state troops tree because volkmar gets state troops from books of nagash, and wulfhart got a very rare case of getting some from reinforcement, exept if you checked and saw that they added it (i would really love to have these techs for the other LL)

[@rellek4053]

King Louen Leoncouer and all of Fair Bretonnia next! After all, they are technically a base game race for warhammer 3 now, they should be brought up to standard!

[@nleeb100]

Vampire counts! Love to see Vlad get some empire building with mortal units. 👍

[@Edrahil17]

Looks fantastic. Those diplomatic bonuses and mechanics might make this my favorite campaign. As for your question, I'd love an update for Wood Elves, especially one that would feature more order aligned elves (and I mean actual elves), such as Skarloc (voiced by Orlando Bloom of course) and Araloth (simple-ish vanilla+ lord, he could be implemented similarly to either Alastar or Gor Rok). With Skarloc I'd love to see him being able to travel around the map and perform tasks or quests, similar to Oxyotl, but as a reward you'd get diplomatic bonuses - reflecting his fight with N'kari in Ulthuan to protect Alarielle and Tyrion. Since you want your forests' bumper zones safe and friendly with each other, it all culminates into a big alliance and the bonuses from the Oak of Ages would seep even to your allies (such as removal of corruption). I'd also love a Scarloc specific feature of being able to assist your allies in battles, even if you're not present in the region initially. And being able to upgrade your archer units (glade guards into scouts into waywatchers, similar to Gelu in Heroes of Might and Magic 3 :) ). I think the big mechanic would be healing of worldroots - you could build and upgrade an outpost type of building in allied territories (or maybe even in enemy territories, similar to undercities) that would in the end let you use it as a destination during world roots travel. Giving you the option to save the day or pillage, depending on your current gameplay.

[@TheKFactorHD]

Vlad, definitely. A kind of Immortal Emperor mechanic.

[@VenatorStellorum]

In answer to the ending question: Lizardmen, geomantic web definitely needs a teleport mechanic and way better bonuses for building up to tier 5, I'm talking -2 turn recruitment and -50% recruitment cost and +6 recruit ranks for tier 5 alignment of war, +50% income +50 growth for tier five alignment of crafting though maybe replace the growth with something else since the main settlement would have to already be tier 5 at that point. Something along those lines to make their unique mechanic actually unique lol.

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

Especially as in lore the lizardmen are *Literally* the only faction that can teleport entire armies like that.

[@VenatorStellorum]

@@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547 yeaaaaaahhhh... In effect it does make sense for things like the Worldroots (though ideally I would want those to have a 1 or 2 turn travel timer like the sea lanes), but I don't see how Gardens of Morr should allow Elspeth to teleport unless there's Shadow magic involved but that doesn't make sense since the Morrites don't allow magic inside of them. Oxyotl's XCOM campaign is the only teleport mechanic that I think makes 100% sense lore wise in-game.

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

@@VenatorStellorum Yeah its so weird that she got it. The cult of morr both doesent trust her and death magic doesent allow for teleportation. They also gave her that amethyst armoury even tough canoncially the gold collage is the one doing that...

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

@@VenatorStellorum remember its just normal for the lizardmen to teleport directly into the enemy strongholds to kill one guy

[@KFCID65]

Vampire counts def need some love

[@Kmobful]

It's fair to say it but I think they'll be saving that for nagash dlc

[@KFCID65]

@@Kmobful that or neferata if she comes before nagash

[@Inquisitor_Jeff]

@@KFCID65I imagine Nagash and Neferata will be part of the same set of dlc lords.

[@KFCID65]

@@Inquisitor_Jeff yeah i could see that being the case

[@nate742]

@@Inquisitor_Jeffwith Abhorash as a FLC lord?

[@IAMTHErealBokis]

Give kairos fragment system update! I need it so bad! Make it so you have to go after them in the world like books of nagash and let him have a panel to switch the spells around!

[@Gainerguru]

I'd like to see Wulfrik get Oxyotl's vision of the old ones mechanic simulating Seafang's ability to teleport.

[@darritomasson2569]

19:25 Vampire Counts

[@stegaknight901]

Karl Franz: SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS. (Avengers theme starts playing)

[@MAGS-ik5uj]

This new way of literally summoning the elector counts is going to go brrrrrrrrrrrr so damn hard. Imagine being literally any force invading the empire. You see Karl Franz pull up on the edge of your campaign line of sight, and next turn from seemingly the heavens themselves come 12 empire armies that just swarm your frontline

[@rellek4053]

I’m seeing overwhelming votes for vampires, followed by Lizardmen and Bretonnia

[@Thanatos723]

My pick for your question at the end would be: Bretonnia. My reason is that pretty much none of them has truly unique mechanics. There's pretty much no difference between King Leoin, Fay enchantress or Albaric except for their start positions. The one starting in Southlands has a very small change if I recall correctly but even she is pretty much identical to the others. Other factions all have lords that has differences (Lizardmen has Oxy, Nakai and Tehen. High Elves have Alith, warden and Imrik ect.) So Bretonnia has the most need for it at the moment and you would get the most differences with Bretonnia. (They would get 4 different mechanisms, where the others might only get 2.) Also Bretonnia is in a pretty bad position at the moment after the minor settlement changes and could use a buff.

[@digiorno1142]

Bretonnia is really strong as a race they just need more variety and a slight rework of certain mechanics

[@rellek4053]

For real, the only unique mechanic to Bretonnia is… hang on, lemme check my notes …they can uh… carry water.

[@Navinor]

The most important change for me is the "immune to diplomatic penalties from trespassing". God how i HATED it loosing my good relationship with other empire factions trying to help them!

[@luigisuper4143]

To answer the question I would like the Vampire Counts to receive the update. Specially Heinrich Kemmler should feel much more unique as the only non Vampire LL. He should loose access to the blood kiss mechanic and have a system to recruit special Wights or something like that.

[@alexsawchuk5371]

I would definitely say the lizardmen, one, to get unique mechanics for the lords you mentioned, but two a big one for me being hopefully Nakai getting a major overhaul for his horde and vassal

[@trizick5379]

id like to see the vampire coast get something like maybe one of them has a shorter cool down to making coves another has a treasure hunt mechanic were they can send an army to raid certain factions and hunt the Loot and another could get mechanic similar to groms cauldron but for sheet music and each music peace has different buffs for different units or can spend infamy to boost and army or make cheaper recuting using infamy

[@noahandrulis9077]

I would like to see Bretonnia get an Empire-style overhaul

[@BaronVonMott]

Those new Decrees are my favourite addition by far. Finally, Karl can actually exercise some authority over the provinces, and help them when they get in trouble without having to force-march back and forth all the time!

[@emmahagens]

I would want the lizardmen to have some more unique mechanics. maybe an alarielle type mechanic for mazdamundi where if the other factions are "back where they belong" they get bonuses to the entire faction. that does seem to be very difficult with the current ally and battle mechanics so it might be like the changeling thing where after the ones that "don't belong" are removed from the region, there is a quest battle to complete the region.

[@Rowant-sh7vm]

Vampire counts, Vlad von carstein and The red duke(would love to see them have access to empire and bretionian units respectively)

[@chillylagarto7728]

For the end question, for me, it's the Lizardmen, am I a bit biased? Yes. The Geomantic Web is far too passive a campaign race mechanic for what it could be. Factions like Tehenhauin and Oxyotl are good for where they're at, but I feel like Kroq-Gar and Mazdamundi are just not where they should be. Perhaps Mazdamundi could have a mechanic centered around waking up all the Slaan, culminating in them marching out to eradicate those that shouldn't be on the planet. I could see Kroq-Gar having a mission mechanic sort of like Oxyotl, except his is focused on teleporting to Lizardmen temple cities under siege, then relieving them by assaulting the enemy army.

[@LCliffhanger]

omg they finally fixed the Elector Count Screen, that's one of the biggest highlights of this whole thing for me

[@TwistedAlphonso1]

I want KREMLO to receive a Karl Franz type update.

[@RaxoFilms]

Vampire counts

[@Pontifex777]

It looks very cool, and yes, I'm super excited for another hundred empire campaigns.. Also to answer your question, I think the high elves need an update. Because teclis in particular needs something extra to deal with kairos.

[@Vampire123411]

I know Dwarfs are getting a lot this patch / DLC, but I think they still need a bit more to make them really good. Because I think the new grudge system would make dwarfs more aggresive as opposed to the defensive, grumbling-in-the-holds-over-old-grudges nature in the lore, I propose following chages and additions. 1) Thorgrim If you play as Thorgrim, it should be your job keeping the Karaz Ankor is powerful enough to settle grudges and preventing it from perishing while doing so. So, it's actually you who declares the beginning of Age of Reckoning for whole dwarf-kind. Similiary to the Military alliance system, you could make dwarf faction leaders make an Oath to attack or defend something: "Malakai, don't loose Kraka Drak! Belegar, raze Skavenblight! Thorek, defeat Skarbrand!" and those targets would get additional multiplier to the grudge-points that get's rewarded (or subtracted) if the oath is fulfilled. And if an AI is playing Thorgrim the Grudge system could be kept as it is, or it would be a cycle of X turns until 10 turns of Reckoning. 2) Grombrindal Grombrindal would be simpler. You could spend your grudge-points to give a dwarf army from different faction, a bonus on attack or defending. For small amount increase the auto-resolve by lending only Grombrindal for the battle, or for bigger amount teleport Grombrindal's army to reinforce the other dwarfs, and thus playing the battle alongside them. You'd be spending some of your earned grudge-points to secure a bigger payout at the evaluation of success of Age of Reckoning. Some skills could lower the point cost or even allow you to reinforce armies of non-dwarf factions, if those armies have dwarf units in them. 3) Ungrim If an Oath is unfulfilled at the end of Age of Reckoning, you get new slayer units from other dwarf factions. Slayer-hammerers from Thorgrim with armor sundering, for example. Couldn't think about something truly special for Belegar. Thorek and Malakai already have their really good faction mechanics.

[@addisonhelsper7205]

Danielle. Yeah that's right, I said it. I like the idea of a customizable lord and how it fits into my role playing

[@rottentreatz]

Throgg/Norsca

[@boserbischof1178]

Question regarding the "Summon the elector counts" thing. It says in the tooltip its only unlocked when you controll all elector seats. But doesnt that mean there are no elector counts alive to summon?

[@adrienwarad]

about karl franz treatment, there are potential: top for me: DELF (malekith with ulthuan unification & morathi more in depth when dechala units come with annointed and so on) really special mention to our dear skrolk with no in dept mechanic :( but anything could happen for other races (HELF & NORSCA would be really nice) note: imagine cylostra with a "song crafting" mechanic where she can create different song to curse enemies

[@NightIceWolf12]

I agree that the two High Elves factions you talked about need some love. Teclis needs an Ice Court or Gelt's College of Magic mechanic. Maybe he could get an mechanic where he gets aid every so often from Ulthuan. Tyrion just needs some love as well since he is very vanilla right now and he is in charge of the main High Elf faction. Also, he needs no diplomatic penalty in High Elf territory (most faction leaders need this as well when it makes sense. So, Katarina shouldn't be able to freely walk in Kostaltyn's territory since they hate each other). Since, the beginning Dark Elf faction near Avelorn and N'Kari takes out the northern High Elf factions. Plus, an Vampire Coast faction always takes Caledor every game. I try to help them but I always make the other High Elf factions hate me for trespassing and it takes too long sometimes for some factions to give me access to their territories through diplomacy. Alarielle also needs some love as well. She also shouldn't incur trespassing penalties in High Elf territory since she is the beloved EverQueen.

[@Damedghost]

Dark elves with Malekith (though high elves sounds good too but perhaps a bit samey to Karl). Perhaps a uniting the elves mechanic for the high and dark elves?

[@ryanharvey2662]

Dwarves for sure, they could have some interesting currency involving grudges and sticking to each lords tech focuses. WHOOPS, I missed last Month lol

[@AynenMakino]

I'd love for the races of chaos to have some sort of unholy alliance mechanic between them that can be full of back-stabbing and vendettas and whatnot. If the goals of two or more chaos gods allign for whatever reason, there should be a mechanic for it. It's famously said that if Chaos learned to collaborate with itself it'd easilly win, but it never truly succeeds at this. That's what I'd want this mechanic to represent. Alliances that break for chaos-reasons.

[@10394Troll]

I would love a little fleshing out for Bretonnia. Maybe something like a crusade mechanic, that you can call all Bretonnians (or at least in the area) to war against a specific faction.

[@valdemarramirez6015]

It took me until now to realize that the +5% weapon strength and missile damage per XP rank increase "Base" Strength, but not armor piercing strength. Which explains why my Carroburg greatswords were not getting as big as a buff as I thought they would get. I hope CA considers changing that, otherwise it ruins my plan of an army made of mostly handgunners, halberdiers and greatswords elector count state troops.

[@bigbowss9817]

For the next race overhaul, Id say Lizardmen. Even if it doesnt make every LL unique, the geomantic web mechanic needs a revamp. Otherwise, Dark Elves, especially Malekith, needs a rework aswell. The slaves system has to be more interactive and nortern border needs more protection (such as watchtowers that are already displayed on the map, but do nothing). Also Vlad having access to Elector Counts mechanic, either fron the start or after taking Altdorf would be nice, although its not as urgent

[@eomat]

Really looking forward to playing Karl Franz 300th play through.

[@ratc441]

i feel like bretonnia could definetly use some unique mechanics. Louen could get something simmilar to franz where he has some sort of influence over the other duekdoms and the fay enchantress could have some system with blessings or interracting with the fay

[@xHarra81x]

I'm loving all these changes. CA really did it!

[@sokarxanthus9454]

Vlad von Carstein, Vampire Counts schould get an akcess to part of Empire machinations and if they own Altdorf and have special building Vlad schould get akcess to summon an elector counts and all empire special units. Also Vampires schould have akcess to Chaos Wariors mechanic of force vasalization. But when wampire force vasalize a fraction it schould repleace a current lord of a fraction with a Vampiric wersion of that lord.

[@hoodedwizard4695]

I am very biased on this, but I would want the Greenskins to get this treatment. I want Grimgor to have an "Ard Boyz" mechanic and azhag could have more interactions with the crown of nagash. Skarsnik and Wurrzag could also use some new mechanics.

[@Khichira2012]

Tretch craventail, loan out those stormvermin in a caravan type style

[@bollmeister]

give it vampire counts ... my favourite race i never play because they got nerfed 100 times for mp purposes

[@grendelkrieg5742]

Vc are still busted on campaign map, atleast vlad is.

[@Carforinus]

I would love for the tomb kings to see a empire-like update on them, it seems like they put all 4 lore bits together for the TK in one but i would expect someone like settra or khalida to have something different (settra for a unification of pyramids and khalida with some neferata business) and it would be nice to not have 4 of the same campaign (also add vc to this as well)

[@theniceadmiral8488]

Tbh id love for the Kislev Lords to get their own mechanics. I remember when WH3 got announced CA said that every lord would get their own mecanics. Rn it feels pretty obvious that they only had time for katarin and then just gave her stuff to Boris and kostaltin even tho it doesnt really work imo. I think they really need the Update they didnt get with shadows of change. (Same thing with the iron dragon and the storm dragon imo; but i had to pick one)

[@spyofred1791]

Do I understand correctly that if you reinstall electrol count you will get fealty of all other electrol counts? Because otherwise I don't see reason to not capture settlements instead of revivng them.

[@zotykundel2736]

19:53 Good god! I dont even play Lizardmen a lot but give something to Mazdamundi!

[@goatscream8345]

I think the vampire counts desperately need a rework, I'd like Vlad to be added into the elector count system. Even the devs expressed their desire to do so but apparently its quite hard

[@JustinFike]

When you said "just one lord rework" I immediately thought of Grimgor, so I'm gonna stick with that even though the Orcs overall are probably fine as far as campaign and race mechanics.

[@dillonschroeder985]

I'd like Mazidumdi to get something like the Awakening of the Slann where he becomes more powerful as the web is grown stronger.

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

Mundi definitely needs access to a better spell list, he’s the best caster in the setting by far

[@fidelcashflow4940]

​@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547 I honestly love the comet on him, it's one of my favorite spells, and I think ruination of cities gives him some extra oomph as well, if they wanted to though they could make him better at casting those spells

[@mamaabech]

That's a tough question. I think I'd go with Norsca because I'm a big time chaos fan and love myself some vikings from home. Altough Lizardmen wouldn't be a bad choice either - luckily SFO Grimhammer does a pretty good job there in my opinion.

[@jaspermooren5883]

For the question at the end: I'd have to go for Bretonnia! I'd love to see a simular mechanic for Louen Leoncoeur and some more specific mechanics for Alberic and the Fey Enchantress. Maybe some Knights focussed stuff that is more crusade-like for Alberic (maybe cool knight units if you manage to complete a specific crusade) and some kind of magic court for the Fey Enchantress. But I would love Louen to feel a bit more like a King. Now he's just a random dude in the North of Bretonnia and he can't do anything to stop the rest of Bretonna from callapsing, eventhough Bretonnia is more centralised and united than the Empire is in the lore I believe. Bretonnia has gotten very little love since they released back in WH1, so I'd love to see them fleshed out a bit more.

[@seppafer]

Norsca needs some unique gimmicks. Wulfrik should have a Oxyotl style challenging lords mechanic alongside seafang to teleport his army. Throgg should have a gimmick for recruiting all variants of trolls

[@davizin8563]

vampire counts of couse, vlad von carstein need some love from CA

[@Tull300]

Vampire counts, 100% give them stuff actually related to the bloodlines, not just random undying lords, like the state troops, for example: for each strigoi you awake you can also recruit some specail ghouls and the next tier, crypt horrors and so on.

[@robertwettergren7414]

I want the Tomb Kings to get their damn update! Settre does not serve. But he needs to be served some updated stuff!

[@justonhelf7513]

Answer to question: even though WoC recently got update, Archaon should of got a more special mechanic where he could pull from ALL Chaos races (units, heros, lords in a limited capacity) Dorghar being the shape shift daemon mount that it is, should get another one or two “transformations. Maybe a chimera or chaos dragon.

[@John-lf3iu]

Let’s get a HE race update next: Teclis needs a Gelt like mechanic, and Tyrion well the Phenoix Court mod!

[@ramseycather2836]

Dark elves I think you could do something similar where malakith is trying to rain in all the other dark elves

[@Pedro-wp6st]

Spicy question, grimgor or for the race norsca.

[@ToniCur88]

I would like to see a summon the chaos hordes to Archaon's banner mechanic. Where he invades the empire, kislev, cathay or lustria continent. Now Archaon is still very passive. He should bring the end times with hordes all over the place.

[@runeh3022]

Gotta give them credit for this. I've rarely played The Empire, but now they're starting to look like a lot of fun. Credit where credit is due.

[@madskristiansen]

The vampire counts and Norsca needs it the most, but I personally would like to see Settra get an update like Franz.

[@christopherlane467]

For your final question; Bretonnia. It astounds me that there is no way to reinstate the lords who lost their territories to Grom, Ikit, and Kimmler. It makes the entire top portion of his tech tree pointless aside from the LLs, and even then it doesn't help you if they've been wiped from the map.

[@cscotch1127]

that's a great point, getting a mechanic to restore the lands of other bretonnian factions would make the tech tree feel less bad when realistically, you are confederating maybe 2 minor factions among the entire list you need to go through to reach the other playable factions

[@gamonwillsaveus]

To answer your question, I would pick the Dark Elves, specifically Malekith, to have an additional mechanic where he can start recruiting High Elves after claiming all of Ulthuan.

[@xHarra81x]

Hey Sotek! Can you tell me what kind of processor and memories are you running? Thanks!

[@SillyLittleThey]

For the end of video question: greenskins for sure they have strong mechanics as a race but lack individual lord identity aside from Grom which is especially dissappointing for skarsnik since he's a DLC faction

[@perrycarters3113]

I feel like Grimgor could use some sort of unique mechanic as well, I'm just not entirely sure what it could even be. Grimgor's whole deal is just being the biggest and baddest Orc. Maybe some sort of promotion mechanic? Like, oh, you make two Orc Boyz units fight, one of them dies and the surviving one is reduced to like 50% hp, but they gain some experience, and if you do this with two max rank units they can turn into a higher tier infantry? Orc Boyz become Big Uns, Big Uns become Black Orcs sorta deal.

[@noahandrulis9077]

A lot of Karl’s new unique actions are very similar to Yuan Bo’s unique actions, but better balanced since you don’t get the resources to perform the actions immediately

[@donpizzaplays8529]

I feel like these changes finally make Karl Franz feel like the emperor and not just another other legendary lord of the empire.

[@nosir5596]

I'd love to see Grimgor get an update to that effect, he'd probably be my go-to for that question. But realistically, any of the "Default Lord" characters for a race could use that kind of spice; Tyrion/Teclis, Skrolk/Queek, Grimgor/Azhag, etc.

[@digiorno1142]

Grimgor is not the leader of his race. Same as Skrolk or Queek. Franz got these reworks because he is literally the emperor and leader of his race. Everyone else in the empire are technically his subjects. The same also applies to Louen Leoncour being the king of Bretonnia, as well as Alarielle being the Everqueen. Contrary to popular belief, Tyrion is not leader of the High Elves and neither is Teclis. They are just high ranking and influential figures. Tyrion is actually the consort of Alarielle.

[@nosir5596]

@@digiorno1142 Did you listen to his actual question? He just asked what old, relatively plain LL we'd want to see get a rework to be more unique. Maybe don't be so quick to correct someone when you didn't watch to the end of the video and don't know what the comment is about.

[@digiorno1142]

@@nosir5596 I did watch the end. I thought you were referring to a new mechanic like Franz’s because he’s the emperor, not just unique mechanics in general

[@digiorno1142]

@@nosir5596 Also, for a lot of factions unique mechanics aren’t even really possible unless you just completely rewrite the lore. Like Grimgor. Grimgor in lore is literally just any other orc, but meaner and stronger.

[@nosir5596]

@@digiorno1142 or just keep doubling down ig lol. They can absolutely still do unique mechanics. Doesn't have to be super crazy but even the most straightforward character can be given some gameplay interest

[@Technik-pt6yu]

Why are the Knights of Morr still locked behind the Sylvania Seat?. Elseph can recruit them via the garden of morr . I really hoped that they made them available for the other LL too ;(.

[@hulkingelf4957]

Vampire coast. All of them should be unique. But as for the one Cylostra id like a focus on ethereal units and vs elves like her lore.

[@couchpotato8729]

I'd want dwarf race to get unique lord gimmicks. Pre-patch 5.0 Thorgrim, Ungrim, and Grombrindal all feel like the same base gameplay, and everything people have shown seems to indicate that they'll still feel extremely similar moving forward.

[@MrRasta3600]

Probably Settra. Give him some sort of mechanic that reflects his domination and right to rule.

[@eomat]

Gelt should have Gold Wizards +1 or something like that. Not seen his tree yet.

[@George2001k]

Can you still confederate factions when they reach 10 fealty or is it only done through the unify?

[@alexvergara7294]

Does anyone know if the previous dlcs will be discounted when TOD comes out?

[@TheOneBearded]

A part of me wants Settra and the other TK to get such a similar rework to make them more individually specialized. But I feel Kislev, Norsca, and Ogres need it more.

[@FishboyAbzu]

Add fishmen

[@mitchellline4242]

Could you do a reaction of the original Karl Franz TW trailer. Id love to see you just go over the perfect introduction to Franz that every points to for why they love him