History Characters / TotalWarWarhammerTheVampireCoast

* UselessUsefulSpell: Subverted. Nearly every unit in their roster has the "Aquatic" trait, allowing them to ignore the usual penalties of wet terrain and giving them a buff from fighting in shallow waters. While this seems like a complete non-factor given how few land maps have any water on them, many of the island maps used for naval battle possess shallow lakes and ponds. Making the Aquatic trait very useful when fighting at sea, which is the Vampire Coast's main territory.

* {{BFG}}: ''A lot'' of them. They may lack the overwhelming horror of their parent army, but they more then make up for it with a massive assortment of ''big'' guns.

** Fourth, the Zombie Pirates themselves. Hideously malformed corpses, they look decayed alright, but unlike regular Zombies, they're absolutely covered in various sea growths, like barnacles and algae, giving them an even more disgusting appearance then regular ones.

* WeHaveReserves: Similar to their parent army, but different in that it's based on gathering massed ''ranged units''. Whilst they have impressive elites, the best tactic for any Coast army is to bring ''legions'' of horribly inaccurate, but still plentiful Pirate Zombies, mainly their ranged variants, and they have ''the'' largest unit sizes in the series for ranged units. While their accuracy is poor, well, you don't [[MoreDakka really need accuracy when there's so many zombies.]] What melee units they do possess exist mostly to hold enemies in place, allowing them to get shot even more, and allow for unengaged ranged units to fire into exposed flanks. Further {{Downplayed}} in the sense that even Deckhands are moderately more expensive then regular zombies, and cannot be treated like them.

* AdaptationalUgliness: Her description in Dreadfleet suggested that she's beautiful (in a very much TakeOurWordForIt sense, since she had no model and [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Saltspite_Portrait.jpeg the only piece of art depicting her]] made her look pretty much as gritty and grimy as everybody else). In game, her mutations are more pronounced and she's given a far more realistically athletic, powerful body, with almost no hint of traditionally feminine beauty. She's not hideous, but she's not exactly a seductive mermaid, either.

* CoolGun: Many of them wield ornate firearms: flintlock pistols, blunderbusses or rickety muskets.

* BladeOnAStick: '''Kraken's Bane''', a serrated halberd partially made from bone which increases the melee attack of nearby allies and gives them a bonus when fighting large enemies.

* AntiMagic: See CursedWithAwesome below.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: See AffablyEvil. Harkon has more than a few screws loose.

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Introduced in ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'', the Vampire Coast are playable in custom games, the Vortex Campaign, and Mortal Empires if ''Curse of the Vampire Coast'' has been purchased. In ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerIII'', they are playable in the ''Immortal Empires'' combined mega-campaign for owners of ''I'', ''II'' and ''III''.

* AnAxeToGrind: Very atypically for a Vampire, Noctilus wields an ornate halberd covered in vampiric iconography. Doubly-so as his artwork in ''Dreadfleet'' depicted him with a rapier.

* WeaponOfChoice: As they are pirates, they primarily make use of flintlock pistols, rickety muskets, and of course, {{Sinister Scimitar}}s.

Introduced in ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'', the Vampire Coast are playable in custom games, the Vortex Campaign, and Mortal Empires if ''Curse of the Vampire Coast'' has been purchased. In ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerIII'', they will be playable in the upcoming ''Immortal Empires'' combined mega-campaign for owners of ''I'', ''II'' and ''III''.

* OurOgresAreHungrier: Animated Hulks are resurrected husks of drowned Ogres, with the added "bonus" of having ''parasitic'' sea creatures placed inside their powerful stomachs, resulting in truly horrific maws and tentacles of SeaMonster sticking out them. This is the first appearance of Ogres in the trilogy, and is presumably an EarlyBirdCameo for them.

* EliteMook: Somewhat downplayed but marginally. On one hand he gains some unique skills that most Paladins don't get along with having traits and mechanics seen among undead and ghostly units (all of this on top of being both armored and shielded). On the other hand he can't unlock and mount a Pegasus the generic Paladins have access to, thus he's stuck with a ghostly horse.

--->''"Damned Paladin: This Paladin is cursed to 'live', forever damned, at Cylostra's side. He doesn't even like music..."''

* TragicHero / TragicVillain: A Paladin of fair Bretonnia, devoted to the Lady...now bound in undead servitude to an impossibly selfish person responsible for his IronicHell and forced to do anything she commands no matter how vile it is.

* TheBermudaTriangle: The Galleons' Graveyard is the ''Warhammer'' equivalent; a swirling vortex at the center of the Great Ocean, drawing to it dark magic and undead undersea horrors. Noctilus is the master of the dark, watery realm, and it is his starting position in both Mortal Empires and the Eye of the Vortex campaigns. In-game, the Graveyard itself takes the form of a huge attrition-dealing reef swirling with magical energy, with a ten-slot major settlement floating in the water at its heart. It also doubles as an EldritchLocation, as the FlavorText for its building chain mentions it's ''actually sentient and self-aware''.

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* NiceHat: Noctilus is never seen without his giant red captain's hat. Taken to InterfaceSpoiler levels before release, when the identities of the Vampire Coast Legendary Lords were kept a mystery and were only shown in silhouette, but Noctilus' iconic chapeau instantly gave him away.

Introduced in ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'', the Vampire Coast are playable in custom games, the Vortex Campaign, and Mortal Empires if ''Curse of the Vampire Coast'' has been purchased.

* BrilliantButLazy: In the tabletop lore he had the potential to become a major player in the world, but lacked the ambition, and was content to terrorize the waters of Lustria. Subverted in-game where he can expand his influence across the world and is competing with other pirates to obtain an artifact which will grant him control of the seas.

* BadassBeard: We don't know if he has a real one, but he wears a piece of ''beard armour'' on his chin, which is undoubtedly as cool, if not cooler than a real one.