Much like Total War: Warhammer 2’s vortex campaign, territorial domination is out. What’s more exciting is how this narrative shapes the grand campaign. There’s a trapped God-bear under the imprisonment of a Daemon Prince, a traitorous hero who’s corrupted by Chaos, and a wizened old man desperate to reach the bear for his own wicked schemes. The game’s excellent prologue introduces its core gameplay concepts and story across a three-hour mini-campaign. While narrative takes a bigger role in the game, you don’t need to be a Warhammer aficionado to follow along. If you’re after the most extreme Warhammer 3 experience, pick the Deamons of Chaos, an amalgamation faction that mashes together all the Chaos armies together into one big melting pot, while introducing its own faction mechanics on top. Those who want a run-of-the-mill human army to command can stick with Kislev. With Kislev, Cathay, the Daemons of Chaos, and the Ogre Kingdoms (for those who pre-order the game or buy it in its first week of launch) available, Warhammer 3 has the chunkiest launch faction line-up of all the Total War: Warhammer games. That’s to say nothing of the game’s other factions. Nurgle, meanwhile, is better suited to more invasions, as you wait for plagues to afflict your enemies and your cyclical settlements to decay and rot, before rising again.
Khorne’s bloodletting ability strengthens your armies after every battle, as well as letting you raise reinforcements by razing settlements, encouraging you to constantly keep up the momentum behind your offensive. Little has changed from the core gameplay loop of Warhammer 2, but the specialties of each faction keep things fresh.
You’ll be following the usual Total War formula of recruiting armies, conquering cities, and bunkering down behind your walls to stave off invading forces, before returning to the offensive. That variety plays out on the grand campaign, too. "Creative Assembly hasn't been afraid to embrace the strangest, most surreal, and often silliest elements of the Warhammer universe." Creative Assembly wasn’t afraid to embrace the strangest, most surreal, and often silliest elements of the Warhammer universe to create a strategy game that’s remarkably broad in its visuals. This is Total War: Warhammer at its most colorful.
In the next, you could be tearing your way through the putrid flesh of Plague Toads and gigantic flying mosquitoes. In one battle, you might be fielding flaming hellhounds alongside monstrous beasts with names like Soul Grinder. The melee-focused forces of Slaanesh are adept at hit-and-run tactics, Nurgle’s children crush opponents under swarms of putrid Nurglings and gigantic monsters, Khorne specializes in elite soldiers, while Tzeentch excels at ranged attacks and magic abilities.īesides the tactical variety at play here, the sheer visual assortment of daemons is enough to give each faction its own personality.
Each army feels distinct and more varied than half the historical sword-and-spear factions of previous Total War games. Between the plague god Nurgle, the bloodthirsty Khorne, the debaucherous Slaanesh, and sorcerous Tzeentch, you’re handed an impressive collection of corrupted villainy to spread across the map. Warhammer 3’s topline pitch is simple: you get to play as Chaos, the big bads of the Warhammer world.
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