Vampire Queens and Sneaking Armies

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
The chance of a vampire appearing is 5% times the current dominion level of the province the VQ is in. In dominion 10, she gets one every other turn.

And a VQ that's out on the borders of the empire thumping indies and kicking *** is not going to be sitting around in a dominion-10 province most of the time. Furthermore, a vampire in the occupied province every other turn tends to result in a trail of little vampires with no master. A single vampire lying around with no way to get home until somebody comes along and kills it, sending it back to the capitol, is hardly a real threat: A VQ that sits around spawning mini-vampires in the comfort of a 10-dominion zone is one that is not having much effect on you.

In all my games with a VQ, never have I gotten auto-vampires in quantities that make them more meaningful than as a bodyguard for an occasional death/blood mage. It's just too hard to round them up when you're constantly on the move.