For example, the Empire’s political figurehead, Karl Franz, grants an extra five percent campaign movement range and lowers upkeep costs for heavy infantry and cavalry by 10 percent. In Warhammer, though, the only option is to start the campaign as a different Legendary Lord – your faction’s uber leader, of which each has a choice of two – which does not feel like a substantially different experience. I’m used to having a good dozen or so starting scenarios and minor spins on a few common themes to play with. By the time I’d played about 100 turns of each, I was struck by the feeling that I’d seen most of what the campaign had to offer in a relatively short time for a Total War game. While each of these factions are quite entertaining and different, they are few in number and their starting positions are fixed. The moment you introduce fantastical characters like lumbering giants, soaring pegasus knights, fireball-flinging wizards, and ancient vampires who can take on entire formations of infantry single-handed, it unleashes a bloodsoaked bounty in terms of army differentiation, unit diversity, and new tactics that makes Warhammer’s dark fantasy feel like a more natural fit for the Total War series than the real-world past ever was.
During the eras of Rome II and Attila, you could assume that almost every unit was going to fall into a few categories: guy with a sharp object, guy with a longer sharp object, guy with some kind of missile weapon, and guy with a sharp object on a horse.
As I unleashed a slavering horde of savage orcs on a hapless, dwarfen artillery crew or watched my brave Empire pikemen swarmed by killer bats and legions of the dead in Total War: Warhammer, the thought I kept returning to was, “Why did it take so long for someone to make this game?” Creative Assembly’s foray into fantasy loses its footing in a couple spots, but the sheer, bloodthirsty synergy between the time-tested Total War formula and Games Workshop’s often humorously grimdark Warhammer world made me forget most of my grumbles almost as quickly as they appeared.īy casting off the shackles of history, Total War: Warhammer eliminates a problem that has existed in the last couple iterations of the series: overly similar factions.
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