Followers

Followers are a type of inventory ancillary item which characters, including lords and heroes , can equip in the campaign map to provide a number of temporary campaign or battle buffs to their army units.
They have to be equipped using the character inventory slots and only one copy can be equipped at any one time. There may be restrictions regarding the type of character or unit that can equip and/or benefit from follower effects. The so-called generic followers are available to all racial factions.
Followers are equipped in ancillary item slots, which they share with banner items (though only lords can equip the latter anyway).
== How to obtain? ==
Similar to other items, there is a small base chance for followers to be dropped after a victorious battle and randomly but according to rarity and subject to the relevant racial restrictions. Therefore, common followers are more likely to drop than rare ones and in greater quantity. You can only earn followers of your race or those termed generic and available to any racial faction. Drop chances can be increased with a variety of abilities, skills and items.
In addition, there is also a small base chance to steal a follower from an enemy lord after a victorious battle. Conversely, there is also a small chance for you to have a follower stolen after a defeat subject to the relevant racial restrictions. That is to say that you cannot lose a racial follower against an army of a different race. Steal chances can be increased with a variety of abilities, skills and items.
Followers can also be obtained via specific game mechanics, missions and quests . Some factions can also unlock special followers from certain technologies, which are usually very powerful but limited to that one item.
Many factions have followers that will be granted at the start of a turn when lords and/or heroes started the turn under specific conditions, even if they already have the same follower equipped directly. For example, they may gain a follower that increases public order when starting the turn in an owned province with low public order, a follower boosting trade income when the faction has a large trade income, etc. Executing hero actions may also grant followers with bonus effects towards said actions or even an overall success rate boost.
== Rarity ==
Items such as followers are ranked according to rarity. However, ingame they lack the color coding shown on equipment items and are displayed the common rarity, so it is not as obvious that some followers are stronger than others. Therefore, it is assumed the game developer is still to address this perceived rarity display bug.
== Lists ==
=== By game ===
There is a dedicated page for each set of followers introduced in each game, namely:
*Total War: Warhammer followers
*Total War: Warhammer II followers
*Total War: Warhammer III followers
Followers are used cumulatively so, for example, those added in Total War: Warhammer are also available on Total War: Warhammer II and Total War: Warhammer III.
=== By race ===
* Beastmen followers
* Daemons of Chaos followers
* Dark Elves followers
* Dwarfs followers
* Grand Cathay followers
* Greenskins followers
* High Elves followers
* Kislev followers
* Khorne followers
* Lizardmen followers
* Ogre Kingdoms followers
* Norsca followers
* Nurgle followers
* Skaven followers
* Slaanesh followers
* The Empire followers
* Tomb Kings followers
* Tzeentch followers
* Vampire Coast followers
* Vampire Counts followers
* Warriors of Chaos followers
* Wood Elves followers
Category:Total War: Warhammer III followers
Category:Total War: Warhammer II followers
Category:Total War: Warhammer followers
Category:Generic followers