Necrarch Vampire Lord

Necrarch Vampire Lord
Overview
Race	Vampire Counts
Category	Lord
Unit size	1
Recruitment
Tier unit Cost (MP): 800 (750) Turns: 1 Upkeep: 250 Weight: Heavy
Statistics
Health: 4060 (4060 per model) Leadership: 80 Speed: Melee Attack: 50 Melee Defence: 40 Charge Bonus: 20
Melee Weapons
Base Damage: 280 Armour-Piercing Damage: 150 Melee Interval: 4 s Melee Reach: 3 Bonus vs. Buildings: +1%
Protection
Armor: 70 (52.5% reduction)
Attributes
Can Cause Fear: This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack. Encourage: This unit provides a leadership bonus to nearby allies. Units within range of both the Lord's aura and an encouraging unit will receive the larger of the two bonuses. Hide (forest): This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close. Undead: The unit is Undead (does not rout, immune to terror, becomes unstable when is low). The Hunger Crumbling Disintegrating Wounds Missile Resistance: 15%. Damage of missile attacks is reduced by this amount.

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Grotesque and withered, Necrarchs may be weaker in combat, but their magical prowess is second to none.

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Necrarch Vampire Lord is a Vampire Counts Lord unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer II with Aye-Aye! Patch.

Recruitment

• Selecting any Settlement and recruiting them in the Lord Recruit tab after awakening the Necrarch bloodline through the Bloodlines mechanic

Description

“	Forever there shall be cold under the sun, Rivers will run dry and the forests wither, The stars shall grow dim, flicker and die, And death shall reign from forever to forever.	„
	~ From the Black Curse of the Necrarchs

The Necrarchs are the most learned of Vampires, more skilled at sorcery than with the blade. These skills have come at a price, however. The appearance of the Necrarchs has grown so hideous and unnatural that an ordinary man cannot bear to look upon them, and many run screaming at the sight. When their great library was burned to the ground by fearful mortals, many Necrarchs remained to burn with it, so strong was their devotion to knowledge.

Attributes

• Wizard
• ▲ Spellcaster: This unit can cast spells.
• ▲ Armoured: Armoured units can block damage from any source apart from Armour-Piercing damage.

Spells

Mixed lore from Lore of Vampires, Lore of Beasts, and Lore of Death.

• Spirit Leech
• Pann's Impenetrable Pelt
• Raise Dead
• The Curse of Anraheir
• Invocation of Nehek
• The Purple Sun of Xereus

Character Abilities

Active Abilities

• Dark Protection

Campaign only

• Magical Animus
• Undeath Resurgent

Passive Abilities

• The Hunger
• The Curse of Undeath
• Life Leeching
• Wild Heart
• Arcane Conduit (multiplayer only)

Campaign Only

• Greater Arcane Conduit
• Evasion

Item Abilities

• None

Multiplayer Only

• Earthing Rod
• Scroll of Leeching

Items (Multiplayer)

• Earthing Rod
• Scroll of Leeching

Mounts

• Barded Nightmare
• Hellsteed
• Zombie Dragon

Talent Tree

• Skill Tree on TotalWarhammerPlanner

Strategy

This lord is the top spellcaster among the Vampire Counts' lords, so he naturally has weaker combat stats. While he costs 200g less to recruit, he has 20 less Armour (while also not carrying a shield), 20 less Melee Attack, 5 less Melee Defense, 50 less Weapon Strength (30 ordinary and 20 AP) and 5 less Charge Bonus.

His level 10 unique skill tree shows where he really shines:

1. Cynosure (-10% miscast, +10 Winds of Magic Reserve, +5 starting amount)

2. The middle path has two skills, both of which can be taken:

• Wild Heart, passive increase to power reserves and recharge rate available normally to the followers of the Lore of Beasts
• Life-Leeching, increased recharge rate ordinarily available to the followers of the Lore of Death

3. Nehekhara's Noble Blood

• 1st level (-2 Winds of Magic cost for Invocation of Nehek, -10% base miscast, +2 Raise Dead uses)
• 2nd level (-3 Winds of Magic cost for Invocation of Nehek, -20% base miscast, +3 Raise Dead uses)

Being not really a fighter, he has a shortened combat skill tree, having no distinction between base and advances combat skills. Having no access too Blood Lust, he also lacks Devastating Charge, Dark Knight, Master Strike and Blade Shield skills, normally accessible to Vampire Lords. Instead of the final Red Fury skill, he has Dark Protection.

In the magic skill tree, Necrarch Vampire Lords have only the Invocation of Nehek and Raise Dead from his standard lore. The other two thirds of his spells are from the Lore of Beasts and Lore of Death. In the basic tree, he has Spirit Leech and Pann's Impenetrable Pelt, while his advances spell are The Curse of Anraheir and The Purple Sun of Xereus. Finally, he is the only Vampire Lord spellcaster that has Greater Arcane Conduit instead of the ordinary one. With the only mass damage spell he has being The Purple Sun of Xereus, he won't be scoring a large number of kills in battle, but with his healing, buff, and debuff spells, along with his low risk of miscasting and absurdly high magical recharge rate, he can control the battlfield exceptionally well. It is often worthwhile to bring along a a Necromancer on a corpse cart to leverage the high winds recharge rate into more usage of the Winds of Death, and to provide even greater augments to your army, doubling down on the Necrarch's strengths as a buff and debuff caster.

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