Or, you can create custom, one-off matches with various toggles for maps, army size and budgets and much more.Ĭampaigns see you through a pretty well-told, lore-rich stories (if you're into high fantasy) that require you to stamp out the threats surrounding your kingdom on an overworld map representing Warhammer's world(s) of the Old World and New World – it's complicated and very hyper-violent Tolkien-esque, if you catch my drift.

You can either see numerous campaigns through across four playable races-slash-factions – the human Empire, the Dwarfs, the Vampire Counts and the Greenskins (Orcs, Goblins, etc).

The game's single-player modes consist of two major play styles. (That is, if outfitting, setting up and deploying armies across vast battlefields, accounting for strategies like flanking and height advantage, and then commanding said armies like a god is your thing. But, hey, forget about that – it's here now, and it's a helluva lot of fun. It kind of makes you wonder why such a game took this long. It seems so effortless in how it caters to the Warhammer rules and structure while simply being a Total War game. With 10 Total War games under its belt, the CA team seems to have had this in the bag from the start.

The way in which you deploy units is so reminiscent of placing miniatures on the tabletop covered in turf and painted styrofoam that it almost feels like a homecoming. Almost as if on account of Creative Assembly's pedigree, Total War: Warhammer seems poised to please both ends of the fan spectrum easily. The fortunate thing for Sega and Creative Assembly is that this game has two sources of dedicated fandom to play toward: the Total War nuts and the Warhammer fanatics.

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