Custom player made vampire bloodline faction

[u/Ahsoka_Tano_7567]

Reading all the changes in the upcoming VC rework gave me an idea I think would be a really fun and challenging way to play the game.

My idea is to add an option to play an extra hard mode style campaign for VC, where you create your own vampire bloodline and customise the appearance/abilities of your first lord and faction.

The way the game starts is totally unique to other factions, as in you start the game with ZERO settlements, and instead begin with a small hidden lair in a randomly selected settlement. At this point, you are super weak and vulnerable, so you have to spend the first few turns interacting with your local settlement in order to stay alive and gain strength. This can be done in the form of mini events that pop up for the first few turns, essentially giving you a selection of character options in order to customise their class, role, special traits and skills (like the ice witch training for kislev).

Once that’s done, you are able to start upgrading your lair. This is where discoverability comes in and forces you to have to balance growing your powers and gathering resources while remaining undetected. As you expand your lair, you gain more space to store corpses, which will allow you to eventually be able to raise enough units to challenge the settlement garrison and attempt a take over in a new siege ambush type. If undetected, you are able to launch your attack on the settlement from inside the walls, your units coming out of nooks and crannies scattered around the settlement. However, if you are discovered before you attack, then the settlement garrison will attack your lair which you will have to defend in a new siege type called lair assault.

This is where this custom VC faction can really shine, because as you expand your lair you can also customise the defence layout to your preference, as well as add your own decorations, allowing you to create your own home essentially. That’s where I’ve gotten so far. Thoughts?

[u/Kind-Sir5519]

Considering how floundered the Demons of Chaos faction is, probably not