Slaves

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This page is about the current WH3 version. For the old WH2 version, see Slaves (Total War: Warhammer II).

Slaves are a special resource/currency used by Dark Elves in the campaign of Total War: Warhammer III. Slaves are primarily gained in battle, and a small number can be gained passively. Slaves provide additional income from buildings and can be used to rush construction, but they reduce control. Slaves are required to pay for Dark Elves rites.

Note that Dark Elf slaves have gone through multiple reworks since the release of Immortal Empires, and may go through more. This page was last updated for patch 3.1.

Overview

Unlike in Total War: Warhammer II, slaves are not stored in a specific province, and are instead owned by the faction as a whole. The total amount of Slaves you own is shown in the top center of the screen, when viewing the campaign map. Having a low number of slaves (below 2000) will increase control across all provinces, while having a large number of slaves will reduce it.

Getting Slaves

The following actions will gain slaves:

• Winning a battle.
• Choosing the Enslave post-battle option. This provides a number of slaves depending on how many captives were taken.
• Sacking or Looting an enemy settlement.
• Raiding enemy territory.
• Port buildings and Black Ark Slavery buildings generate slaves per turn
• Khainite Assassin Heroes generate slaves per turn
• Slaanesh corruption generates slaves each turn for the Cult of Pleasure

Spending Slaves

Certain Infrastructure buildings generate additional income and other benefits if your total number of slaves is above a certain threshold, but then expend that same number of slaves. Slaves are consumed and bonus effects are applied on a per building basis, so buildings may provide their bonus effects and then consume enough slaves that other buildings do not. High levels of control will reduce the number of slaves consumed by buildings, while low control will increase that number.

Like Chaos Dwarfs, Dark Elves can spend slaves to rush construction of buildings. Whenever you construct a building, a button will appear next to the number of turns that the building takes to complete. Pressing this button will immediately finish the building at a cost of 150 slaves per turn that the building was rushed. You can reduce this cost with commandments, technologies, and other effects. You can also rush construction when the building is already partway done, which will cost fewer slaves. For example, if a building would normally take five turns to complete, you could spend 750 slaves to complete it immediately, or wait three turns and then spend 300 slaves to complete it then.

Slaves are also expended to pay for Dark Elves rites.

Dark Elves have three Diktats, which are special abilities that can be activated in a province at the cost of slaves. When a Diktat is activated, it goes in cooldown in all provinces. Each Diktat lasts either one or five turns, and only one Diktat can be active in a province at a time. The three Diktats are:

• Fights to the Death: Increases control in the current province
• Open Markets: Generates treasury when activated
• Slave-Drive: Provides growth in the current province

Related buildings

Certain Dark Elf buildings provide extra benefits related to slaves:

• Residence buildings
  • Provide increased growth if you have enough slaves at the start of your turn, but then expend slaves
• Industry buildings
  • Provide increased income if you have enough slaves at the start of your turn, but then expend slaves
• Entertainment buildings
  • Provide increased control if you have enough slaves at the start of your turn, but then expend slaves
• Slave-Keeping buildings
  • Reduce the number of slaves used by buildings in the local region
  • Reduce the slave cost of Diktats in the local province
• Transportation buildings
  • Increase income from slaves in the local region
• Port buildings
  • Generate slaves per turn
• Black Ark Slavery buildings
  • Generate slaves per turn

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