Editing Gunpowder (Warhammer Fantasy) (section)

===[[Vampire Counts]]===
The general tactic for Vampire Count armies is to force enemies into melee and grind them down with brutal assaults before reviving all of your and the now dead enemy's forces in order to break their willpower and morale. Naturally, this will mean very few fire arms, especially as necromancers and vampires of the Old World seek out the dead who were buried before they received Morr's blessing. These barbarians were much more brutish and less civilized, more like the modern Norscans than those who lived in civilization after, though still capable of metallurgy and (presumably) were somewhat nomadic given they are risen with many horses. Von Caresteins, as aggressive as they are ambitious, are often found in Sylvania and so if they need fire arms, will call upon levies to fill their role. Unlike the Tomb Kings, the Vampire Counts use necromancy to completely puppet corpses and so making them manually aim, fire and reload requires much more effort than it would for other factions, and so if available, having humans to act in their stead would be preferable, especially as guns have to be constantly maintained, upkept and resupplied, which can be bothersome for Vampires.

Other vampiric blood lines employ similar tactics with the more bestial and monstrous vampires from the [[Strigoi]] Bloodline wishing to [[rip and tear]] through enemy infantry through rush tactics with [[Ghouls]]. [[Lahmian]]s prefer not to engage in conflict at all, and instead will rather have either puppets fight for them, or use diplomacy as an alternative-but if they must fight, will use primarily skeletons and thralls. [[Blood Knights]] are about closing the distance and charging in with calvary, and are much less likely to use firearms, being more about honor and chasing foes they perceive as worthy rather than fighting enemies. [[Necrarch]]s are all about experimentation, and trying to create Frankenstein abominations of undead necromancy and [[thousand sons|endlessly pursue knowledge]]. Of the bloodlines, they are the most likely to have some gun built into some hulking monstrosity. [[Jade Vampires]] and the Vampires of Ind we know basically nothing about but are in Cathay so are presumably like them, but like all their cousins, probably don't use guns.


Of course, this is ignoring the more obvious exception, which is...