The first video to explore Herald’s Start Positions, besides my own videos, was from MightBeRuku, also a TW: Warhammer III channel, but Gaming For Immersion’s video overview is the first one to be dedicated entirely to my mods.

The video describes the features of the mod series using the examples of Malakai and his start position changes from HSP – Kislev & Norsca, as well as the changes to Balthasar Gelt from HSP – Gelt in the Empire. It is an engaging introductory video for anyone looking to explore or revisit my start position mods.

Gaming For Immersion’s channel also explores other games, such as Age of Wonders 4 or XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but it is focused mainly on Total War: Warhammer III and its news, mods and let’s plays, as mentioned earlier. I’ve been a viewer and subscriber of the channel for a longer while, as it is a very useful resource, which helped me discover great TW: Warhammer III mods, many of which I use in my playthroughs.

I’m using this opportunity to thank Michael from Gaming For Immersion for this awesome video, which is now featured in the media preview of Herald’s Start Positions – Mod Compilation on the Steam Workshop.

Consider subscribing to Gaming For Immersion on YouTube, as well as joining his Discord server, where I also interact with other Total War: Warhammer III modders and players.

The first image of the mod preview shows the starting positions of all the Legendary Lords affected by this mod compilation, even in the slighest way. One such example is Wulfrik the Wanderer who has only been affected by an additional starting war with the Skaeling when he’s controlled by the AI. The faded grayscale faction icons represent the LL’s vanilla starting positions which have been changed, and faded coloured icons represent player-only starting positions, which is the case only for Wulfrik.

The second image, created using nopeace.net, shows the starting regions of ALL the factions in Immortal Empires. Legendary Lords which start without a settlement are represented owning the region they start the campaign in.

The following changes have been made to the mod compilation.

Three new mods have been added to the compilation:
Skarbrand in the Empire,
Skrag in the Mountains of Mourn,
Belegar in the Badlands.

Athel Loren:
– removed 2 units from Malron Eyebiter’s starting army, as he tends to occupy Karak Azgaraz early on instead of defending or attacking Karak Norn, resulting in border gore. This remains open to further changes.

Drycha in the Forest of Gloom:
– compatibility polish for use with Mixu’s Legendary Lords, these two mods should be used together only if you disable Wychwethyl the Wild in Mod Configuration Tool options for Mixu’s Legendary Lords.

Morghur in Bretonnia:
– if you’re using Mixu’s Legendary Lords, all changes affecting the Bastonne faction take place for Montfort instead, as Mixu’s Legendary Lords moves the Bastonne faction to the Darklands.

Ostankya in Kislev:
– made the change to Grigor Kyriakin’s army happen in all cases, not only when using Mixu’s Unlocker.

The main changes of this mod are the following:

• Belegar starts the campaign in the Western Badlands, at war with the Teef Snatchaz Greenskins;
• his new starting settlement is Stonemine Tower, which has been upgraded to a tier 2 settlement with a tier 1 Dwarfen Barracks;
• Belegar’s starting mission objectives now focus on the Western Badlands;
• Teef Snatchaz have taken over the Dragonhorn Mines;
• the Skaven minor faction Clan Verms has been moved to Zarakzil;
• Feastmaster Ogres have been moved next to Valaya’s Sorrow in the Eight Peaks province;
• Crooked Moon Mutinous Gits have received garrison upgrades in both Valaya’s Sorrow and Karak Eight Peaks, making the capture of Karak Eight Peaks a bit more difficult;
• Clan Volkn has been introduced into Immortal Empires by owning Spitepeak and Dringorackaz in the Eastern Badlands. This change was made to reduce the size of the realm of Karak Azul, as Mixu’s Unlocker already introduces this faction into Spitepeak as well;
• Belegar is no longer at war with the Broken Nose Greenskins;
• Broken Nose is now at war with Karak Hirn;
• Teef Snatchaz and Clan Verms are no longer at war;
• Belegar’s confederation dilemma no longer rewards the player with the option of confederating Karak Hirn, but Karak Azul; no longer for two victories against Broken Nose, but against the Crooked Moon Mutinous Gits.
  
  

To retain geopolitical balance in the south of the Old World, I recommend using this mod alongside Herald’s Start Positions – Volkmar in the Border Princes.

I also recommend using this mod together with other Herald’s Start Positions mods, and my mods in general, as they are all being developed in conjunction.

Herald’s Start Positions are now also available as a single subscription mod compilation, which will be continually updated with every future HSP mod release and update. This mod will be added to the compilation quite soon.

This mod is fully compatible with Mixu’s Unlocker and Immortal Empires Expanded. It was not developed keeping new faction mods in mind.

Herald’s Start Positions mod series should work with mods like SFO: Grimhammer III, which rebalance different aspects of the game, but generally do not touch the start positions of the factions.

Credits go to Porkenstein and Swissbob for the script framework which I’m using across my start position lua script mods.

News & Updates

You can find the list of all of my upcoming mods in my complete mod collection‘s description.

If you’d like to know when the newest mods and mod updates drop, you can follow me on the Steam Workshop, Facebook and X.

If you’d like to browse news about my mod releases and updates, find links to my social media and more, you can now access everything in one place on my website, Herald’s Journal.

Feedback & Support

If you enjoy this mod, be sure to like it and add it to your favorites. 

To discuss any aspect of my mods, report a bug, or drop by for a chat, feel free to join my Discord server. I’ve also started making videos about TW: Warhammer III, so consider subscribing to my YouTube channel. For those who’d like to support financially, contributions via PayPal are greatly appreciated.

Any form of support means a lot. Thank you!

Herald’s Start Positions – Skrag in the Mountains of Mourn is a lua script start position mod which moves Skrag the Slaughterer from the Border Princes to the Mountains of Mourn in Immortal Empires and IE Expanded.

The main changes of this mod are the following:

• Skrag starts the campaign in the Bone Road province of the Mountains of Mourn, at war with the local Blood Guzzlers Ogre minor faction;
• his new starting settlement is the Vale of Titans, which has been turned into a tier 2 settlement with an Ogre Barracks of the same tier;
• Skrag’s starting camp has been moved to the same region, but to a more central position in the Mountains of Mourn;
• Blood Guzzlers have received another army to try and defend against Skrag’s onslaught;
• Skrag’s starting mission objectives now focus on the Bone Road;
• the ownership of Karak Angazhar in the Eastern Border Princes depends on the other mods you might use: if you don’t use Cataph’s Southern Realms, Karak Angazhar switches ownership to the vanilla minor faction of the Border Princes. If you use Cataph’s Southern Realms, Karak Angazhar and Akendorf both switch to the local Creeping Death Greenskins, and if you happen to use HSP – Drycha in the Forest of Gloom as well, they switch ownership to Clan Kreepus introduced into the area by that mod instead. Valmir Gausser’s starting mission objectives have been adjusted to these changes;
• Skrag is no longer at war with the Border Princes;
• his victory conditions have been adjusted to the Mountains of Mourn.
  
  

To repopulate the south of the Old World with Legendary Lords, I recommend using this mod alongside Herald’s Start Positions – Volkmar in the Border Princes and the aforementioned Herald’s Start Positions – Drycha in the Forest of Gloom.

I also recommend using this mod together with other Herald’s Start Positions mods, and my mods in general, as they are all being developed in conjunction.

Herald’s Start Positions are now also available as a single subscription mod compilation, which will be continually updated with every future HSP mod release and update. This mod will be added to the compilation quite soon.

This mod is fully compatible with Mixu’s Unlocker and Immortal Empires Expanded. It was not developed keeping new faction mods in mind, with the exception of Cataph’s Southern Realms. The Victory Conditions Overhaul mod overwrites the vanilla victory conditions, including the changes made by this mod.

Herald’s Start Positions mod series should work with mods like SFO: Grimhammer III, which rebalance different aspects of the game, but generally do not touch the start positions of the factions.

Credits go to Porkenstein and Swissbob for the script framework which I’m using across my start position lua script mods.

News & Updates

You can find the list of all of my upcoming mods in my complete mod collection‘s description.

If you’d like to know when the newest mods and mod updates drop, you can follow me on the Steam Workshop, Facebook and X.

If you’d like to browse news about my mod releases and updates, find links to my social media and more, you can now access everything in one place on my website, Herald’s Journal.

Feedback & Support

If you enjoy this mod, be sure to like it and add it to your favorites. 

To discuss any aspect of my mods, report a bug, or drop by for a chat, feel free to join my Discord server. I’ve also started making videos about TW: Warhammer III, so consider subscribing to my YouTube channel. For those who’d like to support financially, contributions via PayPal are greatly appreciated.

Any form of support means a lot. Thank you!

By expanding into Averland, AI Skarbrand becomes a threat that demands the attention of all surrounding factions, while the player can enjoy wrecking the Empire using the mighty forces of Khorne when controlling Skarbrand.

The main changes of this mod are the following:

• Skarbrand starts the campaign in Black Fire Pass, in the vicinity of laxly defended Grenzstadt, at war with Averland.
• Averland has received a new starting force guarding Black Fire Pass (not for long), while Marius Leitdorf’s starting army defending Averheim has been reduced;
• Skarbrand’s starting mission objectives now focus on Averland;
• the minor Skaven faction Clan Gnaw has been introduced into Immortal Empires by owning the entirety of The Barrier Idols province. This facilitates multi-layered expansion of the surrounding Legendary Lords into the Badlands, as the Top Knotz Greenskins now own only the Southern Badlands province;
• Black Venom Greenskins now control Pfeildorf, becoming the sole owners of Solland, thus allowing other factions cleaner expansion into this province;
• Skarbrand is no longer at war with the Top Knotz;
• if neither Elspeth nor Skarbrand are controlled by the player, Elspeth starts at war with Black Venom, and there is a 75% chance that Skarbrand declares war on Elspeth at turn 10 through script. This solution facilitates Elspeth’s expansion path towards Sylvania or her earlier ruin, and the avoidance of the usual border gore in the south of the Empire. Skarbrand and Elspeth otherwise tend to ignore each other when they are both controlled by the AI, so this small script should help with immersion.
  
  

If you don’t enjoy having the south of the Empire and its surrounding area be completely covered in red because of other factions, and would like to be able to differentiate between the various region owners on maps, I recommend using Herald’s Faction Map Colours – The Empire alongside this mod.

I also recommend using this mod together with other Herald’s Start Positions mods, and my mods in general, as they are all being developed in conjunction.

Herald’s Start Positions are now also available as a single subscription mod compilation, which will be continually updated with every future HSP mod release and update. This mod will be added to the compilation quite soon.

This mod is fully compatible with Mixu’s Unlocker and Immortal Empires Expanded. It was not developed keeping new faction mods in mind.

Herald’s Start Positions mod series should work with mods like SFO: Grimhammer III, which rebalance different aspects of the game, but generally do not touch the start positions of the factions.

Credits go to Porkenstein and Swissbob for the script framework which I’m using across my start position lua script mods.

News & Updates

You can find the list of all of my upcoming mods in my complete mod collection‘s description.

If you’d like to know when the newest mods and mod updates drop, you can follow me on the Steam Workshop, Facebook and X.

If you’d like to browse news about my mod releases and updates, find links to my social media and more, you can now access everything in one place on my website, Herald’s Journal.

Feedback & Support

If you enjoy this mod, be sure to like it and add it to your favorites. 

To discuss any aspect of my mods, report a bug, or drop by for a chat, feel free to join my Discord server. I’ve also started making videos about TW: Warhammer III, so consider subscribing to my YouTube channel. For those who’d like to support financially, contributions via PayPal are greatly appreciated.

Any form of support means a lot. Thank you!

I aim to release three new Herald’s Start Positions mods in the following week: Skarbrand in the Empire, Skrag in the Mountains of Mourn and Belegar in the Badlands, which will complete my start position changes for the south of the Old World.

Herald’s Start Positions – Mod Compilation will be updated after all three new mods have been released.

HSP – Grombrindal in the Black Mountains will remain a Discord-exclusive standalone mod available for download for anyone interested in such a mod, as I’m not happy with its influence on campaign dynamics. Grombrindal tends to expand into the Empire when controlled by the AI, resulting in damaged campaign immersion. Perhaps I would try to reimagine this mod at some point in the future, but I do not have any plans for it for now.

The aim of this mod is to improve the faction overlay map readability in and around the Empire, as red is dominant in this area in vanilla Warhammer III.

If you’d like to use this mod independently, it is fully operational and works well on its own. I recommend using it alongside the rest of my mods, as they are all being developed in conjunction.

Herald’s Other Mods are now available as a single subscription mod compilation, which will be continually updated with every future HOM mod release and update.

HFMC – The Empire is fully compatible with Mixu’s Unlocker and Immortal Empires Expanded, and should be compatible with the Old World mod as well. It affects both the vanilla Immortal Empires and Realms of Chaos campaigns. This mod is save game compatible.

News & Updates

You can find the list of all of my upcoming mods in my complete mod collection‘s description.

If you’d like to know when the newest mods and mod updates drop, you can follow me on the Steam Workshop, Facebook and X.

If you’d like to browse news about my mod releases and updates, find links to my social media and more, you can now access everything in one place on my website, Herald’s Journal.

Feedback & Support

If you enjoy this mod, be sure to like it and add it to your favorites. 

To discuss any aspect of my mods, report a bug, or drop by for a chat, feel free to join my Discord server. I’ve also started making videos about TW: Warhammer III, so consider subscribing to my YouTube channel. For those who’d like to support financially, contributions via PayPal are greatly appreciated.

Any form of support means a lot. Thank you!

Such availability turns besieging a settlement for at least one turn into a more viable strategical option, as it magnifies the reward for choosing to build siege equipment – easier sieges with less casualties. As the player, this change will incentivise you to expand a bit slower, while you will face more organised and dangerous sieges from the AI.

This mod also halves the autresolve strength value of siege equipment, as they are built more easily.

If you’d like to use this mod independently, it is fully operational and works well on its own. I recommend using it alongside the rest of my mods, as they are all being developed in conjunction.

Herald’s Other Mods are now available as a single subscription mod compilation, which will be continually updated with every future HOM mod release and update.

HSM – Faster Equipment Construction is fully compatible with Mixu’s Unlocker and Immortal Empires Expanded, and should be compatible with the Old World mod as well. It affects both the vanilla Immortal Empires and Realms of Chaos campaigns. This mod is save game compatible.

News & Updates

You can find the list of all of my upcoming mods in my complete mod collection‘s description.

If you’d like to know when the newest mods and mod updates drop, you can follow me on the Steam Workshop, Facebook and X.

If you’d like to browse news about my mod releases and updates, find links to my social media and more, you can now access everything in one place on my website, Herald’s Journal.

Feedback & Support

If you enjoy this mod, be sure to like it and add it to your favorites. 

To discuss any aspect of my mods, report a bug, or drop by for a chat, feel free to join my Discord server. I’ve also started making videos about TW: Warhammer III, so consider subscribing to my YouTube channel. For those who’d like to support financially, contributions via PayPal are greatly appreciated.

Any form of support means a lot. Thank you!

Do you agree with some of my opinions on Total War? Do you not agree? Let’s discuss in the comments of the YouTube video.

For this let’s play series, I’m utilising most of my currently available mods – Herald’s Start Positions and Herald’s Other Mods compilations, available on the Steam Workshop, as well as a list of beta mods, currently available on my Discord server.

If you enjoy this let’s play and showcase episode, please like the video, and if you want to see more, check out and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Any form of support means a lot. Thank you!