In many editions of the game, Vampires are some of the most powerful individual generic characters from any army with strong close combat abilities and reasonable magical talent.

Authority Equals Asskicking: While the game system itself means that a character is more powerful the higher their rank, this is particularly prominent in Vampire Counts armies.

Other vampires have also been shown to be unambiguously good and are more than capable of feeling affectionate love. However, while the playable vampires on the tabletop are undoubtedly evil, this is not actually the case in-lore while Vampires are generally feared, some have displayed positive qualities and even noble aspirations.

Always Chaotic Evil: Vampires are bloodthirsty creatures who, above all else, desire to instill their dominance and power over mortals and will occasionally go as far as to terrorize others for their own amusement.

With the ability to replenish their ranks, the omnipresent Fear rule, an array of tricks, and general maneuverability, the Vampire Counts tend to outlast their opponents in a bloody grind rather than outperforming the enemy troops. The army lacks shooting options and is based around hordes of mediocre undead soldiers supported by more powerful units, either fast beasts bound to the general's will, more powerful kinds of undead soldiers or monsters and terrifying undead constructs.

The Vampire Counts field an unconventional army made of undead centered around the General (either a Vampire or a Necromancer) whose presence is key to keep the dead animate and moving. The most notorious bloodline of them all are the Von Carsteins, masters of the cursed province of Sylvania South-East of the Empire. These dynasties raise the dead into armies and eternal ambition drives them to try wars of conquest during which they unleash hordes of undead against the living. First created in Nehekhara when Queen Neferata studied the Nine Books of Nagash to become immortal, the Vampires have since that time dispersed around the world, forming dynasties with their own distinct characteristics but all sharing a unnatural control over the world's dead. The Vampires are powerful undead humans characterized by superhuman strength, speed, and an affinity for necromantic magic in exchange for an eternity of damnation and hunger for blood.

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