The Empire meanwhile starts as a small faction amongst many others, looking to unify the human peoples of the Old World against external threats.
For example, the dwarfs are a famously static bunch, buried for centuries under their home mountains, aiming only to recover their old fortifications from the Orcs and to cross out lines in their Great Book of Grudges - they’ve no interest in capturing the lands of their neighbours and friends, The Empire. Each faction’s campaign has a different structure depending on their location, their distribution, their attitude and their history. Success or failure in each feeds back, as Total War players will be familiar with. The meta-game is the campaign, which plugs into the battle engine. The lethal hero units here appear as special agents on the campaign map. Here players control each unit individually, ordering them around the field, micromanaging their special abilities, and trying to stop them running away. These factions meet in Total War’s classic RTS battles. The other factions will come in DLC and in two more games, which will take Creative Assembly towards more than ten years continuous development work on the titles. Another faction - the Bretonnians, a knightly army reminiscent of Arthurian legend - are only playable in skirmishes, multiplayer and custom battles, and not the campaign. They are Dwarfs, Vampire Counts, Greenskins, Empire, and Chaos (who are no longer a pre-order exclusive). There are more than twenty factions in the tabletop game, but only five factions will be coming to this edition. To get an inkling of what the game will be like, we headed down to Creative Assembly’s headquarters in the sleepy English town of Horsham to sample it and talked to the developers. In less than a month, Warhammer: Total War will be out in the wild, and we’ll get to hear the complaints and gentle praise of both those sides. Some veterans seem discombobulated that Creative Assembly has departed from its research-heavy historical wargames whilst others have embraced the variety and weirdness this is going to bring to the mechanically-stagnant series.
Meanwhile, given that the game adds flying creatures, giant monsters and devastating magic spells, the hardcore Total War community has been divided. "The Vampire Counts behave differently from the other factions, growing slowly, and raising armies more cheaply where there are mass graves." Lovers of miniatures are generally excited about this. For a generation, Warhammer Fantasy Battle fans have dreamed that Creative Assembly would create a version of their Total War strategic wargame based on Games Workshop’s fantastical tabletop wargame. Against those odds, even Kholek Suneater turns and runs like a whipped hound. But it turns out that all his history is no use if you send him charging on his own into the heart of a enemy Total War army. He’s totally, totally what Warhammer Fantasy Battle is all about. He’s twenty feet tall with six scaly limbs and electricity crackling from his eyes. He’s battled dragons and served the lords of Chaos since time immemorial. He’s stood on mountaintops sucking up the lightning just because he could. Creative Assembly is gambling everything on Games Workshop - which means it must be a safe bet.
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