Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
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Release Date: 24 May, 2016

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28 July

Call of the Beastmen is Out NOW!


The Beastmen... Something stirs in the deep dark forests of The Old World. Between the twisted trunks, the Beastlords grow restless with an all-consuming battle-thirst. They gather to them great Warherds of barbarous, bestial fiends, forged in the Time of Chaos; dark amalgams of human intelligence, animal cunning and raw, reckless ferocity...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/404012/

Call of the Beastmen is out now!

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26 July

Total War : Warhammer Patch Notes inside!

You know you've been waiting? well we have a treat for you - in the form of ...

Patch notes! enjoy!

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_WARHAMMER_Update_2

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Reviews

“TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER is two great tastes that taste great together”
86% – PC Gamer

“It's a triumph of real-time strategy design, and the best the Total War series has ever been”
9/10 – Gamespot

“It’s just a damn good time”
8.6/10 – IGN

Total War™: WARHAMMER® comes to Mac and Linux Autumn 2016

About This Game

Total War: WARHAMMER


The Old World echoes to the clamour of ceaseless battle. The only constant is WAR!

A fantasy strategy game of legendary proportions, Total War: WARHAMMER combines an addictive turn-based campaign of epic empire-building with explosive, colossal, real-time battles, all set in the vivid and incredible world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles.

Command four wholly different races: the Empire, the Dwarfs, the Vampire Counts and the Greenskins, each with their own unique characters, battlefield units and play style.

Lead your forces to war as one of eight Legendary Lords from the Warhammer Fantasy Battles World, arming them with fabled weapons, armour and deadly battle magic; hard-won in individual quest chains.

For the first time in a Total War game, harness storms of magical power to aid you in battle and take to the skies with flying creatures, from ferocious dragons and wyverns to gigantic griffons.

Hundreds of hours of gameplay await you at the dawn of a new era. Total War: WARHAMMER brings to life a world of legendary heroes, towering monsters, flying creatures, storms of magical power and regiments of nightmarish warriors.

Lead Extraordinary Races


The valiant men of the Empire, the vengeful Dwarfs, the murderous Vampire Counts and the brutal Orcs and Goblins of the Greenskin tribes. Each Race is wholly different with their own unique characters, campaign mechanics, battlefield units and play style.

Command Legendary Characters


March your forces to war as one of eight Legendary Lords from the Warhammer Fantasy Battles World, arming them with fabled weapons, armour, mounts and deadly battle magic as you uncover their tales through a series of unique narrative quest chains.

Conquer this world

The very first Total War game to feature a fantasy setting. Experience incredible depth and the freedom to conquer as you see fit across a gigantic sand-box Grand Campaign map. Crafted from a twisted magical landscape and populated with an incredible array of awesome and deadly creatures, this is your chance to experience fantasy strategy on a scale as yet unimagined.

Unleash the monsters

The battlefields of Total War: WARHAMMER echo to the swoop and roar of dragons, the bellowing of giants and the thundering hooves of monstrous cavalry. Towering beasts of both earthly and supernatural origin wade into the melee of battle, bringing death to hundreds of lesser creatures at a time.

Harness the Winds of Magic

Smite your enemies with magical storms, melt their armour, sap their fighting spirit or bolster your own forces with devastating spells that split the sky and consume the battlefield. Rally wizards, shamans and necromancers to your armies and bend titanic and unpredictable energies to your whim.

Watch the skies

Harass your enemies with Dwarfen Gyrocopters, plunge into their front-lines with terrifying Wyverns and achieve air superiority with a stunning array of flying units for the first time in a Total War game. Entirely new tactical possibilities present themselves as you deploy your winged minions in open battles and jaw-dropping sieges.

What is more, this title will go on to combine with two future standalone instalments and additional content packs to create the largest Total War experience ever. An epic trilogy of titles that will redefine fantasy strategy gaming.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 7 64Bit Service Pack 1
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz/ AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0GHz
    • Memory: 3 GB RAM
    • Graphics: (DirectX 11) AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB / NVIDIA GTS 450 1024MB / Intel HD4000 @720p
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 35 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: *PC Integrated graphics chipsets require 4 GB RAM, e.g. Intel HD series.
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz/ AMD FX 8350
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: (DirectX 11) AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB @ 1080p
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 35 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Total War: Warhammer is still in development and undergoing optimisation and comparability testing. These specs are subject to change.
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mino
( 25.9 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
It's a good game but I'd like to play more races without selling my house
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[GB] chefvolas
( 201.6 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
great game . I'm so tired of people ♥♥♥♥♥ in about paid dlc in all the games I play. Nothing is free in this world. We want more games we gota pay thats life. If your in country were college is free you probobly can't get a job unless your politicly connected or know someone who is. You want free games play browser games. where you got to pay to compete anyway. I have been gaming since atari. it came cane long way since cartridge games. the internet, multiplayer, steam it all cost money . sad but money makes the world go arround. Its pay to play . Pay or dont Pay JUST STOP WHINING ,COMPLAINING AND ♥♥♥♥♥ING PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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wigman16
( 5.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
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FU C K ING DLC, That's to squeeze buyer's wallet. It's incredible that we have to pay JUST TO HAVE BLOOD ON BATTLES?????

You erased the formations of units on battles, erased legacy of "family" like on Rome Total War.

What the hell is that??

That's clearly just to make us all pay 3 or 4 times to have NECESSARY and already developed characteristics of the game. Pitty

That's a really bad policy. It's going to make all the buyers hate designers companies and forced to use.

It is necessary to pay 100-200$ just to have a complete game?
I am forced to pay. I will NEVER buy the Beastman campaign for 17-20$.
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quiggsley95
( 29.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
Product received for free
I got the game for free from a Newegg promo, I wouldn't actually purchase the game due to the DLC prices. The game itself is very enjoyable and well made, but $3 to unlock blood/gore and $30 to unlock two other races as playable is absurd. I had to double-check to make sure EA wasn't involved in the production.
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Klavi
( 75.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
This is not a review of CA's and /or SEGA's dlc practices, but of the game itself.

For once in the series, the factions are actually diverse. They all play and feel differently, as well as offer - or require - different tactics.
Combat feels quite fast-paced, if not too much so, especially compared to previous titles. It is an issue for some people however, and I can't blame them. Perhaps you just need to get used to it, I've no idea.
Some gameplay features are somewhat streamlined or simplified - like the city management, yet, in general, it doesn't end up impacting the gameplay in a too negative way.
Performance is surprisingly good. After Attila, I was worried about barely-playable FPS and ridiculous turn timers. And - nothing. On my not-so-modern rig FPS only dips in massive battles, and you don't have to wait ages for AI to process their turns, even in the late-game.

Aside from a few issues here and there, what's already in the game works quite well. But there's not enough of it yet. Current 6 playable races are nothing compared to the (planned) 16. As fun as the Grand Campaign is, it's still in need of new content.

Now, the DLCs. My opinions on the pricing aside, DLCs that add new races are good stuff. They're no longer vain palette-swaps with one-two "new" units. If you're interested in using a certain race - buy it. If not, you'll still encounter them in Grand Campaign or MP.
Simply having them around adds a lot, even if it's a Horde that may or may not get wiped out 15 turns into the campaign.

All in all, a solid 7.5 /10 with great potential, it does justice to both Warhammer Fantasy and Total War series. Would kill them /raise them again.
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John Wayne
( 18.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
Product received for free
I thought the graphics would have been better. I don't want to seem like that's all I care about. The problem is that ever few minutes the immersion breaks because I keep thinking to myself, "This looks nothing like the trailers why is everything so blurry and low res?". I really wanted to like this game and I was promised beatiful battles, but even the campaign map is underwhelming.

Oh. Also the DLC policy is garbage. Paying money for blood? Something that is a setting in almsot every other video game? I'd rather kill myself.
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jaredantle
( 26.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
I waited to do this review to see how the DLCs were going to be.
First I started playing Warhammer in 1994 and Total War when Shogun (The First One) came out. This combination I have been wanting to happen for a long time and could have been a great game but it is far from it.

Total War games have continued to remove the strategic elements from the game and primarily just focus on the battles. This is ok for some players but not for me. So individuals that prefer a tactical setting will like this game. Those that grew up with complexity of Rome 1 you will have the same feeling as you did when Rome 2 came out.

The DLCs have continued to anger many gamers including myself but I do understand that making video games is a business. So if this approach is working then continue, I only ask that "they" look at the long term vs the short term business goals and ask will it be worth it.

So the only thing that I can do as a consumer is, write this review and promise that I am done buying Total War games. It is sad because I truly did enjoy teaching younger gamers how to play Rome 1.
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[MP] Simpai
( 117.4 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
Fun game, worthless company with terrible, greedy practices, much like the copyright holders of the warhammer franchise themselves!
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mr. phlemtastic (loonatic)
( 269.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 7 August
For people interested in a propper revieuw:
This is a great game, so please ignore those fruitcakes who give negative revieuw based ONLY on the price of the game/DLC. The game and DLC may have a decent price-tag on them, but if u like fantasy RTS, this is an awsome game for you! It is by far the best Total War game yet! agents can now be used in battles (IF embedded in an army), each race has its own style (diffrent economy system, diffrent units, diffrent evrything :P). There are now also 'special armors/weapons' that you could find after winning battles in the campaign that can enhance your general ('Lord') in several ways. These Lords also have a diffrent skill-trees for each race aswell as additional 'tree's' for the spellcasters, and not to forget; each race has acces to diffrent mounts that you can 'give' these lords when they have the level for it (with the exception of a few lords & the dwarfs :P)

P.S. my revieuw describes the campaign play: both solo & co-op (there is also online play > this is pure battles only!)
P.S. 2 = for people who give this game a bad revieuw based ONLY on the prices > just because you dislike high prices & dont want to pay, does not mean this game is any less good (and if you actually did SOME research into the original warhammer boardgame, you'd understand why they sell the DLC in this manner). Also the following thought occurs: you don't HAVE TO buy the DLC, its a free choice :D)

Greetz,
Loonatic.
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2,495 of 3,274 people (76%) found this review helpful
45 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
78.4 hrs on record
Posted: 16 July
To make it short:

-very good Warhammer game (great lore consistency)

-an ok Total War game (missing gameplay mechanics from previous titles, feels somehow barren)

Now to the biggest issue I have with this title:

The DLC policy is abhorrent. They charge 17 euros for a SINGLE race, when there are still numerous ones to come out. It looks as if they took EA's 'The Sims' strategy, thanks to which by the end of the series you will have to purchase a couple hundred euros/dollars worth of additional content to get the full experience.

I can't stand for that. While I do recommend the base game, please, refrain from buying any of the dlc. Let's show that this is not a policy which customers agree with.

Thanks for reading.



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1,841 of 2,545 people (72%) found this review helpful
59 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
135.3 hrs on record
Posted: 16 July
2,5€ to unlock gore in a war game
7,5€ to unlock a faction that's already in the game
18€ for the first of many still missing factions

There are better content mods for free on the Workshop.

Stop taking a huge ♥♥♥♥ on your users.
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1,274 of 1,813 people (70%) found this review helpful
15 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
79.0 hrs on record
Posted: 17 July
*This review is a statement against recent Total War titles marketing scheme*

Sega and Creative Assembly, show some respect to Total War fans.

We have paid for a complete game. Could you do us the honor of delivering one ?

''2,5€ to unlock gore in a war game
7,5€ to unlock a faction that's already in the game
18€ for the first of many still missing factions''
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1,047 of 1,522 people (69%) found this review helpful
14 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
43.3 hrs on record
Posted: 17 July
Great game.

But the first real DLC is coming and it's $20 DLC for a SINGLE race. Their justification is that it has more content than a normal DLC because they had to make more animations for the new units. Meanwhile for $20 you can get Witcher 3 which offers a hundred hours of gameplay. Yeah, no. $20 for one race is absolutely unacceptable. They also charged $3 for blood. $3 for a 7MB patch that adds some almost invisible particle effects.

Don't buy this until you can get it AND all the DLC on sale, probably months from now. Show CA that their abhorrent price policy isn't okay. Show the game industry that this anti consumer crap won't be tolerated
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521 of 751 people (69%) found this review helpful
5 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
36.9 hrs on record
Posted: 17 July
Had to not recommend the game just because of how they're starting to treat DLC for the game.
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901 of 1,353 people (67%) found this review helpful
16 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
245.6 hrs on record
Posted: 17 July
Great Game but I cant stand by CA's future plan for DLC and its price tag. These reviews are the new boycott!
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949 of 1,447 people (66%) found this review helpful
14 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
42.9 hrs on record
Posted: 15 July
Great game, but they are way greedier then I thought... almost 2 months out and you already have 25 euros of dlc content..

A worthy thing to mention is that even with those dlc's you don't have even half of the races the Warhammer games usualy come with, which means you should expect another 100-150 euros of dlc content untill they decide they milked the fat Warhammer fanbase enough. Sad, just sad...
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466 of 704 people (66%) found this review helpful
10 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
64.0 hrs on record
Posted: 15 July
This is a fun vanilla game. But people need to know that if you are planning to play the campaign map with all warhammer races and not just the starting 4, you will have to pay about 200 dollars worth of DLC. There is already 30 dollars worth of DLC to get another 2 races in the game, and these are just the smaller kind of DLC, not adding any landmass to the campaign map, so you have to assume some other factions will be even more expensive than the already high price of DLCs. This is a very good game that is going to be ruined by the patented Creative Assembly DLC greediness.
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847 of 1,299 people (65%) found this review helpful
15 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
96.1 hrs on record
Posted: 15 July
Typically, I'm a massive fan of Total War games in general, and Warhammer as well as that.

The game itself, is quite fun. However, what you get the base game is the choice of 4 races essentially - with CA now charging ~£14 for the latest DLC installment of Beastmen. If you weren't lucky enough to preorder the game, you're already paying an additional ~£25 for Chaos and Beastmen. Two of the core races of the games setting. God knows how much it will cost for any additional races to be added later, let alone additional campaigns / maps.

Would definitely avoid, or wait a few years until you can get it for pennies from somewhere else.
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775 of 1,216 people (64%) found this review helpful
14 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
55.5 hrs on record
Posted: 16 July
The base game is pretty decent, but again the DLC policy is terrible.
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