Editing Heinrich Kemmler (section)

==Total War: Warhammer==
Heinrich was one of the starting legendary lords for the vampire counts in Total War: Warhammer. Unfortunately his rather lackluster stats, the absence of Krell and lack of differentiation from a generic master necromancer have led to him becoming something of a joke to the playerbase. Indeed it got to the point where [[Helman Ghorst]], an extremely minor character that a significant portion of the fanbase were unaware even existed, was generally considered more useful than Heinrich. Granted, Heinrich is more or less the same as his tabletop version, a cheap necromancer lord with Krell on his side, at least until you start grabbing his magic items in the campaign, whereupon he becomes a great necromancer who casts well and isn't fucked if he gets in melee combat.

As of 20/07/2017, Krell has been added in the free DLC An Old Friend. Sadly, he is not a unique lord like The Red Duke, but a special summon usable only by the Lichemaster himself. He also comes with the downside of constantly deteriorating due to his summon status, but he can be kept around longer with Invocation of Nehek and has his own skill tree to make him even more powerful in Kemmler's skills list (one of which removes his deterioration). Still, Krell is a solid lord slayer who is capable of challenging and killing powerful heroes with nary a problem.

With the free Bloodlines DLC, Heinrich splits off from Manfred in a new subfaction called the Barrow Legion and has a new location in the Grey Mountains, along with some new tricks. He gets his own mount, bonus relations with Chaos factions (so Beastmen don't instantly try to wipe your towns off the map) and attrition immunity for his army (which is huge). Caveat that this faction only appears in the Mortal Empires campaign, which requires both TW1 and TW2; in the Old World campaign of Total War 1 Kemmler is still Manfred's underling. Still, this gives him a much-needed boost in usefulness as he actually plays differently from the rest of the Counts, and his new location makes confederating with Mousillon actually viable for once. His attrition immunity also means his army can traverse in climates usually hostile to undead leading his AI to wander the old world like actual Warhammer Gandalf.

Now with the Silence and the Fury patch Heinrich Kemmler has been updated for the last time (at least until Total War Wahammer 3 releases). In it, Kemmler has returned to his 6th edition bad ass-ery. Since making an updated lore of Vampires just for Kemmler would be too much effort, they instead updated his trait to reduce the cost of his spells by 20% (this, coupled with other traits he has access to, reduces the cost of overcasting Wind of Death from 23 to 15! Take that Helman Ghorst!). Additionally, most of his skill tree for buffing Krell has combined into 1 talent and with this newfound space in his skill tree they have given him his own unique talent tree which includes fun options such as making your wraith units regen health and models throughout the game. To top it all off, they also gave him greater arcane conduit, which finally makes the question of "Who is the best Vampire Counts spellcaster" a tough pick between yours truly and Mannfred Von Carstein (as it should be).
 
A mod is currently in progress to grant the Barrow Legion the old Army of the Lichemaster units.

THE MOD IS HERE! thanks to cataph, the lichemaster now own a horde-kind army. Even if probably not everyone love this or the fact that his faction can only have four armies, ruled by legendary lords, this greatly reflect his errand life, going around all over the old world, looking for knowledge and artifacts. Plenty of units from his army are now at your disposal, with a unique perk. When you explore a destroyed settlement, you can open the barrow, having all your barrow units back at full capacity. Nasty!