The Total War franchise has always been a creature of small, iterative changes. Since Rome: Total War, the core experience has been fairly consistent, with each game introducing new systems, mechanics, and detail to make each historical period covered feel more authentic. Now, however, you’ve caught us daydreaming about Total War: Warhammer 3.
Apr 02, 2017 Total War: Warhammer Thread starter Dangerman; Start. Skaven and Lustria means that there might end up being Estalia and Tilea(the two biggest conquistador factions in Warhammer, plus they border Skavenblight) The Vortex plotline means that there's a chance that Albion might show up. Total War: Warhammer 2 introduced a new kind of campaign, a fresh selection of factions, units, and many quality-of-life upgrades over its predecessor, such as the ability to combine the campaign.
The first official game to jump into Games Workshop’s classic fantasy setting, Total War: Warhammer, represented one of the most significant departures from the core formula. Though the basic structure is the same, the introduction of powerful hero characters, giant monsters, destructive magic, and a wide range of distinct factions makes the experience markedly different. Total War: Warhammer 2 introduced a new kind of campaign, a fresh selection of factions, units, and many quality-of-life upgrades over its predecessor, such as the ability to combine the campaign maps from both games.
In July 2018, Creative Assembly dropped some not-so-subtle hints that Total War: Warhammer 3 is in pre-production. Though we still don’t have a Warhammer 3 release date, or many details at all for that matter, we thought we’d put together a list of the things we’d like to see from a new installment to the seminal strategy game series.
New Races
This is an obvious one, but nevertheless essential. That said, Creative Assembly is starting to run out of Warhammer factions – at least the ones that had full Games Workshop model ranges. Ogre Kingdoms is the most notable absence, a faction of cannibalistic monsters from across the eastern mountains. Though the Warhammer 2 Norsca DLC dabbled with the idea of a monstrous faction with Throgg and his chaos-worshipping trolls, this would be the first faction to rely so heavily on large units. It would be a unique, but fun, challenge.
From there, the Chaos Dwarfs are the obvious choice – they haven’t had an official Games Workshop book since 1994, but Forge World has produced models for them for decades. Araby, an Arabian-Nights-style faction, is another possibility. Though not fleshed out as much as others, they’ve been referenced in official materials, and even had a Warmaster army.
CA could also expand on some of Warhammer’s minor races. Kislev, Tilea, and Estalia are all currently in the game, but they use the same units as the Empire. If those factions were enhanced with some new units, mechanics, and unique Lords, they would be worthy additions to Total War: Warhammer 3.
Proper naval battles
Naval battles were first introduced in Total War: Empire – the 18th-century installment – and have featured in every game since. Until the original Warhammer, that is. Originally, all naval battles in Warhammer and Warhammer 2 were decided via the game’s auto-resolve system – which, as any experience Total War player will tell you, is not always accurate or fair.
When Total War: Warhammer 2 Curse of the Vampire Coast DLC released, this was changed so that naval engagements were resolved as land battles ‘on a nearby island’. While it was an improvement, it was a far cry from the epic seabound conflicts of games past.
With Total War: Warhammer 3, Creative Assembly have the chance to introduce full naval combat. Just imagine it – a ramshackle Beastman battleship, stuffed to the gills with monstrous Cygor hurling boulders at other ships. Sleek, maneuverable High Elf fleets clash with heavily-armoured Dwarven dreadnoughts. A Lizardman floating temple trades devastating spells with a hoard of Skaven raiding ships. The possibilities are tantalising – although we have sort of seen it already thanks to this Total War: Warhammer 2 naval battles mod.
More diplomacy options
The Warhammer universe is a perfect fit for the Total War games, perhaps more so than any historical setting ever could be. Why? Because it’s all war, all the time, baby. None of that diplomacy, state-building, social and political change, and other boring nonsense for nerds: it’s just a load of angry, murderous factions beating the snot out of each other forever. This could be why the diplomacy options in the Warhammer games have been much more limited than in previous entries. You can’t trade settlements with allies or in peace agreements, you can’t arrange political marriages, trade hostages, or spread religious beliefs.
If this was an intentional decision, limiting diplomacy in this way was a good one, but perhaps things went a little too far. The lack of ability to trade settlements, for instance, means that you’re constantly having to monitor your allies to make sure they don’t grab something you want. If an enemy razes one of your cities, your allies might just jump in and recolonise it.
If they do you’ll never get it back unless you declare war on them. So it’s usually better to not bother calling for their aid when a war begins. In peace agreements you can’t sweeten the pot of a peace treaty by offering a settlement or two, and you can’t demand more land from a defeated foe. The ability to abandon an unwanted settlement would also be welcome. Though diplomacy should naturally remain more limited than other Total War titles, Total War: Warhammer 3 should expand your diplomatic options.
Short Challenge Campaigns
Unlock icloud iphone 4 7.1 2. Specific factions Total War: Warhammer 2 factions are designed to be more difficult than others. Skarsnik, the goblin warlord of Karak Eight Peaks, can only recruit goblin units until he retakes his capital. Crone Hellebron, mistress of Har Ganeth dark elves, must regularly sacrifice hundreds of slaves in order to avoid prohibitive faction penalties.
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However, these are long-form campaigns that take dozens of hours to complete. A nice addition to Total War: Warhammer 3 would be short-form, limited-size campaigns that pose a smaller scale, but refreshing, challenge each time. For instance, you could have a campaign based on the border between Kislev and the Chaos Wastes, where the player has to hold back the Chaos Hordes as long as possible with limited resources. Or a Necromunda-esque campaign where the Skaven and the Empire battle over a large city.
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And that’s what we want to see added to the famous series ahead of the Total War: Warhammer 3 release date, whenever that decides to turn up. Creative Assembly boasts a track record of making small but worthwhile improvements with each new entry, so we’re confident that at least some of our wishes will come true. In the meantime, we’ll just have to start yet another Warhammer 2 campaign, we suppose.
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The Tsardom of Kislev, sometimes known as the Realm of the Ice Queen or simply as Kislev, is the northernmost Human civilization within the Old World not in the thrall of Chaos. From the World's Edge Mountains to the East and the Sea of Claws in the West, Kislev stands at the very frontiers of Human civilization, a land covered in wide-open steppes and thundering icy rivers, where lonely villages stand isolated in the empty wilderness, while mighty cities rise from the landscape like great islands of stone. The climate is harsh and unforgiving, and only the strongest, most determined people can survive here. To its north, Kislev borders the monster-infested Troll Country and the land of Norsca, where the Marauders of Chaos make their home, leading to Kislev always being the first human nation to feel the wrath of the Chaos-worshippers. This has led Kislev to become a fierce and warlike nation, known far and wide for having some of the greatest horsemen to ever roam the plains of the kingdoms of Men.
Kislev is not playable, and reuses many, if not all, units from the Empire.
General Tropes:
- Bears Are Bad News: Kislev's coat of arms is a bear, they revere something known as the Great Bear, and are mentioned to have bear cavalry in the lore.
- Beef Gate: Kislev is this to the Warriors of Chaos; they can't invade the Empire (and thus the rest of the world) without getting past Kislev first, which is intentionally made stronger at the start of their campaign to prevent them from getting past it too early.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: An amalgam of the big Eastern-European kingdoms like the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Being in the way of the hordes of Chaos also brings to mind the Kievan Rus', who took the blunt of the Golden Horde's invasion of Europe. Interestingly however, the northernmost parts of Kislev are inhabited by nomadic Ungols, who are essentially equivalent to real world Kazan Tatars and Bashqort Turks. They serve as defenders of the kingdom against their Chaos-worshiping Kurgan cousins, who are in turn an equivalent culture to Huns and Mongols.
- Merchant City: Erengrad, Kislev's great port city that sits on the end of Warhammer's Fantasy Counterpart Culture version of The Silk Road. In-game, this is represented by a special building chain for the Erengrad port that greatly boosts economy.
- Non-Player Character: In the campaign, Kislev is controlled exclusively by the AI. Many assume they're being saved for the third and final game since it'll be focusing Eastward of the Old World.
- Palette Swap: Of the Empire, like the other non Empire, non Bretonnia human factions. This is especially jarring in their case as Kislev has significantly more detailed lore than the other minor human nations and its military is not even remotely similar to that of the Empire. They also have their own unique voice actor doing a 'Slavic' accent on the Diplomacy screen.
- Russian Guy Suffers Most: Or Kislevite Suffers Most. Given their closeness to Norsca, Kislev is often the first target for Chaos raids. It has become institutionally quite good at surviving them, giving rise to the saying 'The ice of Kislev does not easily crack.'
- Sacrificial Lion: Kislev is usually the first faction to fall to Chaos invasions or particularly aggressive Norsca. After which point they usually have a clear line to the Empire.
Tzarina Katarin
The ruler of Kislev, a powerful ice mage.
- An Ice Person: A practitioner of the Lore of Ice, an obscure branch of magic practiced almost exclusively in Kislev.
- The Ghost: Katarin does not appear in game personally (currently at least) but her name is occasionally mentioned when engaging in diplomacy with Kislev. Many modders have made it a point to add her in as a unique lord, complete with her unique Lore of Ice.
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The Southern Realms
Total War Warhammer Estalia Mod
The Border Prince Confederacy, known also as the Borderlands, the Frontiers or simply as the Border Princes, is a region within the Old World located between the Black Mountains and Black Fire Pass to the north and the shores of the Black Gulf to the south. This region of vast wilderness is home to a multitude of petty Human kingdoms that were established by highly ambitious adventurers who sought to create realms of their own. Many times, these adventurers consisted of political or religious refugees from lands such as the Empire, Bretonnia and Kislev.
Tilea is the southernmost of the realms of men, located between the Border Princes to the east and Estalia to the west. Tilea is home to a series of city-states whose internal wars are legendary and attract mercenaries of all races from all across the world to battle for the wealthy merchant-princes. Tilea also sits right next to the Skaven capital of Skavenblight, and has the most experience of all human nations on battling the furry plague.
Estalia is a region of the Old World consisting of a peninsula to the south-west of Bretonnia, bordering the Great Ocean to the northwest and the Tilean Sea to the south. The region is mountainous and humid, with territory that is easy to hold and a nightmare to take, and home to a number of petty kingdoms that are dominated by the two biggest city-states of Magritta and Bilbali. With the grip of chaos weak so far away from the Northern Wastes and no great threats of orcs or beastmen present, the people of Estalia spend most of their time fighting each other, Bretonnia and Tilea instead. Six hundred years ago Estalia was the staging ground for an invasion by the southern kingdoms of Araby, until a combined alliance of the Empire, Bretonnia and Tilea repulsed them.
The Southern Realms are a group of three minor factions representing independent human nations of minimal importance to the greater setting. They are not playable, and reuse many, if not all, units from the Empire.
General Tropes:
- Ascended Extra: The Pirates of Sartosa became a major faction in their own right following the Vampire Coast DLC, lead by the legendary lord Aranessa Saltspite.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Tilean politics make the internecine wars of the Empire look like playground fights by comparison.
- Duel to the Death: Honour duels are an important part of Estalian culture. Unlike the nobles of the Empire, Estalian nobles prefer duels on foot, using rapiers.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture:
- Tilea is one for Renaissance-era Italy, in case the name didn't already make it obvious.
- Estalia is this for the middle-ages/Renaissance Iberian peninsula, before the rise of a united Spain. According to the lore, their armies are mostly based on the tercio (a mixed formation of pikemen, handgunners and swordsmen in the same formation) much like real-life Spain at the time.
- Sartosa bears some similarities to the Nassau Pirate Republic, although it's located closer to the Mediterranean equivalent than the Bahamas.
- The Border Princes are vaguely one to the Balkan states. Geographically, they are located where the Balkan states should be, and they even border a Dwarf faction that somewhat resembles Byzantium (having a purple color scheme and a thriving trade city where Constantinople should be).
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Each of the Southern Realms is a collection of petty kingdoms that are as independent from each other as they are from the major factions, united at most by shared culture, and in the case of the Border Princes not even that. The game treats them as three singular factions for simplicity's sake.
- Hired Guns: Lacking a standing army or levies to call upon, the city-states of Tilea do most their fighting using mercenaries. While these mercenaries do not exist in the game proper, mods have been created to give Tilea a mixed army of units drawn from multiple races to represent this.
- Hufflepuff House: Estalia, Tilea and the Border Princes are minor human nations with only nominal importance in the history of the Warhammer world, and they don't even have unique unit rosters — instead, they reuse the Empire's units.
- Lady of War: The southern nations worship Myrmidia, Goddess of War, and her high temple is located in Magritta, in Estalia. Clicking on their cities reveal their temple buildings are dedicated to Myrmidia instead of to Sigmar.
- Merchant City: All of the Tilean city-states are this, as they control the southern sea trade. In-game the province capital of Miragliano has a special main building chain that further boosts the province's economy.
- Non-Player Character: In the campaign, the Southern Realms are controlled exclusively by the AI.
- Pirates: The island of Sartosa, south of mainland Tilea, is infamous as a pirate haven. See the Vampire Coast for more details.
- Palette Swap: Of the Empire.
- Throw-Away Country: The marauding Beastmen race (if led by Khazrak the One-Eye) can start the Grand Campaign in Estalia, and their bonus objectives for the first chapter involve razing the place to the ground. In addition, with the release of the Prophet and the Warlock dlc, both Estalia and Tilea have found themselves among the first targets for Ikit Claw and Clan Skyre.
- Vestigial Empire: Like Bretonnia, Tilea was built on old elven ruins.
- Weird Historical War: Estalia was the site of a fantasy counterpart to the Muslim invasion of Spain, except it failed.
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Numerous expeditions have been launched from the Old World to the New, drawn in no small part by the tales of wealth and gold to be found in the ruins of Temple cities. The towns of Port Reaver and Swamp Town are the culmination of those efforts; two semi-established human coastal settlements bordering the Lizardmen homelands. For their part, the Lizardmen regard these new settlements with a mixture of indifference, curiosity and periodic xenocidal disgust, and subsequently these settlements tend to be temporary at best.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: To Hernan Cortes and the early European expeditions to Central America. They've been far less impactful.
- Hungry Jungle: Usually on the receiving end, and one of the main reasons they haven't advanced further.
- Misplaced Wildlife: From the Lizardmen's perspective.
- Palette Swap: Of the Empire.
- Wacky Wayside Tribe: They more-or-less exist to give Mazdamundi an early-game ally and later the opportunity to kill some humans.
Araby is a minor human nation based in the western half of the Southlands. Whether they are a descended from the Tomb King empires of old or are an expedition from more temperate climates goes unstated, but they were once powerful enough to occupy Estalia before being driven out by a combined Empire/Bretonnian force. The resulting animosity has lead to several Crusades being launched in the modern day and the occupation of northern Araby by the Crusading Bretonnians.
- Always a Bigger Fish: At one point in history Araby threatened Bretonnia itself, before being pushed back to its holdings in the western Southlands. The mass awakening of the Tomb Kings threatens to engulf both warring factions.
- Anti-Frustration Features: The two other Crusader States will happily propose confederation with Repanse de Lyonesse once she takes the region capitals of their respective provinces.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Araby is one of North African Arabs and the Middle East in general. They even mounted an invasion of Estalia and Bretonnia like the Umayyad Caliphate. The Bretonnian Crusader States are directly based on the crusader states established by the first and second crusades.
- Palette Swap: Of the Empire and Bretonnia respectively.
- Took a Level in Badass: The arrival of Repanse de Lyonesse technically puts the Crusader States at the same level as the other non-vortex major factions, though their overall situation is still rather dire.
- Inverted with Araby who has gone from a regional minor nation to the starting victims of Clan Eshin.