Kaiser Vlad

Kaiser Vlad is the main antagonist in the Battalion wars gaming series. He is portrayed as the leader of Xylvania.

Little is known about the Kaiser's past except that he is the ruler of Xylvania and is trying to take over the world like his ancestor, Lord Ferrok. Also, it is suggested that Vlad could very well be more than 100 years old, since the current model of the Xylvanian Heavy Tank had been a "present" to the Kaiser on his 97th birthday. Since his rise to power, he has been intent upon reclaiming Xylvania's historical legacy.

Vlad tried to take over the world after a conflict between the Tundran Territories and the Western Frontier in Battalion Wars. However, his first offensive effort, an Xylvanian Invasion of the Dune Sea, ended in defeat with the destruction and capture of several Nerocrite mining facilities. Vlad then, surprisingly, gathered his forces and marched on the Solar Empire in the Coral Atolls. But the Frontier-Tundran Alliance formed up with the Solar Empire to make the Alliance of Nations and drove the Xers (Western Frontier, slang for people from Xylvania) from the Coral Atolls. The alliance then launched an all-out attack on Xylvania. After the all-powerful Iron Legion was awoken, the alliance destroyed them and captured the Xylvanian capital, the Vladstag. However Vlad escaped via a T-copter and went into hiding for a few years. He reappears during Battalion Wars 2 in which he tricks the Anglo Isles into invading the Solar Empire and then launches an Xylvanian invasion into Tundra while it was preoccupied with assisting the Solar Empire's Invasion into the Anglo Isles. Before and during the conflict, he had been secretly searching for the Staff of Qa-Len, a lost relic from the Lightning Wars that would activate the Satellite weapon, and building a giant machine, the 'Mining Spider', in the far North of Tundra to dig it up once its location had been confirmed. Despite his successful deception of turning the Solar Empire and Tundran Territories against the Anglo Isles and his defensive efforts to keep them away from his operations, Vlad's Xylvanian forces and his Mining Spider were destroyed. But not before he found the Staff of Qa-Len and tried to use it to destroy the Allies. Unfortunately, Vlad's T-copter was shot down by Commander Pierce and he, along with Ubel, ended up being trapped in the caves that the mining spider had dug out. While they are stuck deep in the dark, icy caves trying to dig themselves out, the Kaiser announces that the Xylvanian army will return once again and that Xylvania will have a shining future. However, just when he says this, their (last?) match is going out.