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Champions Of Undeath: Conquest Of The Blood Dragons

A guide to the COU Blood Dragon faction mod, its campaign systems, voice cast, stated requirements and installation steps.

Source date in supplied draft: 24 October 2026 · No in-game test performed.

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Original AI-generated Blood Dragon crypt concept art; it is not gameplay or a Workshop screenshot.
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THE SHORT ANSWER

A DLC-sized, free Blood Dragon faction experience for the Vampire Counts. The COU team built a complete campaign around the vampiric knight order — major faction mechanics, a returning Abhorash, an expanded roster, quest battles, and a fully voice-acted cast. The draft describes a broad set of campaign systems; the feature list alone does not establish compatibility or in-game performance.

If you have ever wanted to play the Blood Dragons as more than a reskin, this is the mod. It is big, it is detailed, and it is free — with a large amount of faction-specific content.

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Blood Dragon faction selection or Abhorash’s return event.

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What Is Inside

The mod describes itself as "a total Blood Dragon faction experience." Highlights:

  • Major faction mechanics that drive the campaign's main objectives and trigger the final battle. At a set point Abhorash returns, which unlocks both major mechanics at once.
  • The Worthy Foes / Worthy Foe Collection and The Hidden Library Enclaves — the headline systems.
  • Minor faction mechanics: Witch Hunter Purges and The Orders.
  • Minor character mechanics: Item Quest Battles, The Errant Duelist, and the Ordo Sanguinis Militiae.
  • The Acts Of Great Renown, a Tech Tree, a Unit Caps system, and War Bands.
  • A considerably expanded roster (too many units to list — the team points to their Discord for the full breakdown).
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New units or a relic quest battle.

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Voice Cast & A Stance on AI

Unusually for a mod, COU hired voice actors for legendary lords and units (Abhorash, Anark con Carstein, Dagon Ithica, Albrecht Nictus, and more). They state plainly:

"COU team does not endorse the use of AI … voice audio. We will never use AI to create voice, nor will we ever offer support/help/compatibility to any mod who chooses to use AI VO."

That is a notable line in the current modding climate, and worth respecting when you credit or build around this mod.

Translations

  • Chinese translation by Tutur.
  • Russian translation by darthcreegan.

Compatibility

  • Not an SFO/Radious/other-overhaul mod, and the team does not plan one — keep it away from total overhauls unless a submod exists.
  • Support is handled via their Discord, not Steam comments (the author closed comments to funnel questions there).
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The technology tree or War Bands interface.

To be captured by the user from their own game installation. This space does not contain fabricated or AI-generated gameplay.

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How to Install

  1. Subscribe to Champions Of Undeath: Conquest Of The Blood Dragons on the Steam Workshop.
  2. Enable it in your Mod Manager. It is a heavy mod (~5.67 GB) — let Steam finish downloading.
  3. Subscribe to the Chinese or Russian translation if you need it.
  4. Launch Immortal Empires and start a Vampire Counts / Blood Dragon campaign.
  5. For questions, use the COU Discord rather than Steam comments.

Who Is This For

  • Yes if you love the Vampire Counts and want a deep, voice-acted Blood Dragon campaign.
  • Yes if you want DLC-scale content without paying for DLC.
  • No if you run SFO/Radious or want a light vanilla-plus tweak — this is a full faction rebuild.

Verdict

For a free, single-faction mod, the production value here is exceptional. If Blood Dragons are your thing, review the current Workshop requirements and compatibility notes first.

Mod & credit: Champions Of Undeath: Conquest Of The Blood Dragons by the COU Team. Independent write-up; in-game imagery should be captured by you from your own installation.

Part of the WarhammerGuide WH3 Mod series. Related: Daemon Prince overhaul · Overhaul showdown.

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