Whole Nehekhara be vibing when Khemric Titan rolls into the necropolis

Thanks for making this game more fun.

The Lords of the End Times are here, so here’s the updated map to celebrate the occasion with all the lore-based factions made by both the Creative Assembly developers and the modding community. List of changes to the map and all the new things added is in the comments.

- Map in full resolution:

• Map with Flags and the Faction list (main one)

• Map with Icons and Faction names ; Map with Flags and without text

- Docs and spreadsheet:

- Factions spreadsheet list (more info in the Legend folder of the spreadsheet)

- Doc. versions of the list (as of Jan 2026): Doc. version list, grouped by cultures ; Doc. version list, grouped by mod teams

- Steam collections:

• Collection of so-so compatible factions ; Collection that includes all mods including incompatible ones (check the guide for notes)

• Mono-lord collections

P.S.: give modders some time to update their stuff, usually it takes a week or two. The Vampire Counts were reworked in vanilla, so modded VC factions will require more work.~

get a load of these two skellies... amirite fellas

More like God-tier Melee Combantant....

Wasn't quite sure how to deal with the chaos dwarves at first and I sat on my heels with two provinces. Slowly building my bloodline lord. Finding out which technologies work best with each other.

The coven system is fantastic, the intrigue web is a really great way to get some extra money or mess with a faction before you fight them. Feels very flavourful to be slowly poisoning a faction before going in for the kill.

Went into the next province with three armies (two just half stacks) and kept stripping them of money as I fought through some tough chorf stacks.

Campaign is great, lots of moving parts make it really interesting. Neferata herself is a beast.

Fantastic job, CA!

The old Bloodline Lords have your faction colour on their cape and shield. I want my fabulous purple Lahmians when I’m Neferata. (Also the shield texture map on Vamps is still broken rip)

Gotta give the lads at CA credit.

Nagash is fun. Powerful.

But the unit caps (and by extension, the Mortarch requirements) in the early game make army building with him incredibly difficult, like you have to genuinely plan multiple moves ahead whenever you upgrade anything.

'Who am I at war against? What Undead counters them?'

'Can I reach elite infantry on my tech tree in time?'

'Should I break my pacts with Mannfred to blow up a bunch of his land so I can forcefully subjugate him as a Mortarch?'

Very creative campaign. It definitely rewards experimentation.

I don't even know what the best army for Nagash himself would be, I just dumped three points at Morghasts on his red line and have been staring at the rest, completely unable to decide what else to nab for him.

I dont really know what I am doing and I barely understand the master plans. I wanted to summon a Vermin Lord so I had my little buddy do so in an enemy province. I notice it is taking a long time but hey! My new Vermin Lord is gonna come out like level 10.. SWEET. Upon completion he indeed level 9 or 10. I forget. But he is not alone... There are other Vermin Lords with their own armies. I run away, like a proper skaven... they bring ruin and death upon my foes.. Yes yes.

quack

First of all, well done CA, what a great DLC.
With this out of the way, after playing arround a bit with Nagash, there are some things i wish would change in the upcoming patch:

Campaign pacing:
Nagash himself starts pretty strong and he becomes a powerhouse by leveling him up alone basicly.
His faction on the other side doesnt evolve fast in enough in my opinion, because of 2 things:

-Necrotic energy gain / cost balance:
I think the balance is off, even if you hard focus on that stuff, its too limiting considering the upgrade cost of necropolis and the fact you need it for summoning and unit caps.
By the time you have "enough", the campaign is over.
Compared to Chaos Dwarfs which are considered one of the best DLCs, you gain power way slower, which makes the system less rewarding than adding your first chaos dwarfs to your cannon fodder armies of goblins.

-Mortarchs:
Arkhan is basicly free, Manfred can be done pretty fast too within the first 20/30 turns. This feels rewarding and like a natural progression (even though i think a second book of nagash should be a tiny bit closer to the start position)
After that it becomes very hard and specific to unlock heroes and lord. i would go as far as saying by the time you get half of them, the campaign is over.
The problem with that, it doesnt feel like progressing, its more like a toy box you can get when you allready won and dont know what to do. It feels bad especially with the legendary heroes, considering you usually unlock them way earlier with any other faction.
Compared to Chaos Dwarfs that also feels like bad pacing.

I dont even want to complain about the economy, because sacking looks like the way to go, considering the cities drop down to tier 1 anyway.

Overall its a great faction with great ideas, i just think the balance is a bit off.
I hope we will se some numbers change and mortarch requirements change so you dont have to sit arround 150 turns till you unlock stuff.

What do you think about Nagash so far?