Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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Release Date:
Sep 28, 2017

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Reviews

“Four fun, distinct factions and a story-driven campaign in Total War: Warhammer 2 set a new bar for the series”
9.1 – IGN

“Warhammer 2 is Total War perfected”
Recommended – Eurogamer

“A maximalist sequel that improves on almost every aspect of the first game.”
92/100 – PC Gamer

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About This Game

DEFEND YOUR WORLD. DESTROY THEIRS.


Total War: WARHAMMER II is a strategy game of titanic proportions. Choose from four unique, varied factions and wage war your way – mounting a campaign of conquest to save or destroy a vast and vivid fantasy world.

This is a game of two halves – one a turn-based open-world campaign, and the other intense, tactical real-time battles across the fantastical landscapes of the New World.

Play how you choose – delve into a deep engrossing campaign, experience unlimited replayability and challenge the world in multiplayer with a custom army of your favourite units. Total War: WARHAMMER II offers hundreds of hours of gameplay and no two games are the same.



World-Spanning Conquest

Engage in statecraft, diplomacy, exploration and build your empire, turn by turn. Capture, build and manage teeming settlements and recruit vast armies. Level up Legendary Lords and Heroes and arm them with mythical weapons and armour. Negotiate alliances or declare Total War to subjugate any that stand between you and your goal.


Epic Real-Time Battles

Command thousands-strong legions of soldiers in intense tactical battles. Send forth ferocious, twisted monsters, fire-breathing dragons and harness powerful magic. Utilise military strategies, lay ambushes, or use brute force to turn the tide of combat and lead your forces to victory.

The second in a trilogy and sequel to the award-winning Total War: WARHAMMER, Total War: WARHAMMER II brings players a breath-taking new narrative campaign, set across the vast continents of Lustria, Ulthuan, Naggaroth and the Southlands. The Great Vortex Campaign builds pace to culminate in a definitive and climactic endgame, an experience unlike any other Total War title to date.

Playing as one of 8 Legendary Lords across 4 iconic races from the world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, players must succeed in performing a series of powerful arcane rituals in order to stabilise or disrupt The Great Vortex, while foiling the progress of the other races.

Each Legendary Lord has a unique geographical starting position, and each race offers a distinctive new playstyle with unique campaign mechanics, narrative, methods of war, armies, monsters, Lores of Magic, legendary characters, and staggering new battlefield army abilities.

Shortly after launch, owners of both the original game and Total War™ WARHAMMER II will gain access to the colossal third campaign. Exploring a single open-world epic map covering the Old World and the New World, players may embark on monumental campaigns as any owned Race from both titles.


Conquer the world, together


Each of the Races in Total War™ WARHAMMER II will be playable in single and multiplayer campaign, plus custom and multiplayer battles. As the two Legendary Lords for each race all have their own unique campaign start positions, you’ll be able to play a 2-player co-op campaign as the same race. If you own both parts 1 and 2, you’ll be able to play in multiplayer as any of the races you own.


The World of Total War: WARHAMMER II


Millennia ago, besieged by a Chaos invasion, a conclave of High Elf mages forged a vast, arcane vortex. Its purpose was to draw the Winds of Magic from the world as a sinkhole drains an ocean, and blast the Daemonic hordes back to the Realm of Chaos. Now the Great Vortex falters, and the world again stands at the brink of ruin.

Powerful forces move to heal the maelstrom and avert catastrophe. Yet others seek to harness its terrible energies for their own bitter purpose. The race is on, and the very fate of the world will lie in the hands of the victor.


Prince Tyrion, Defender of Ulthuan, guides the High Elves in their desperate efforts to stabilise the vortex as it roils above their home continent.

Atop his palanquin-throne, the Slann Mage-Priest Mazdamundi directs his Lizardmen war-hosts as they surge northward from Lustria. He, too, is intent on preventing cataclysm, though the methods of The Old Ones must prevail.

The Witch King Malekith and his sadistic Dark Elf hordes spew forth from Naggaroth and their labyrinthine Black Arks. He tastes great weakness in the vortex – and great opportunity in its demise.

Meanwhile the Skaven, led by Queek Headtaker, stir in their foetid subterranean tunnels. There they multiply unchecked and look hungrily towards the surface, their motives obscured. The time for revelation is nigh…

Four races, four outcomes, a single goal: control of the Great Vortex, for good or ill.

System Requirements

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SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7 64Bit
    • Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
    • Memory: 5 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @720p
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 60 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS *: Windows 7 / 8 (8.1)/ 10 64Bit
    • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4570 3.20GHz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB @1080p
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 60 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 11.3
    • Processor: 2.0GHz Intel Core i5 or better
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 2GB Nvidia 680MX, 2GB AMD R9 M290, 1.5GB Intel Iris Graphics 540 or better (see notes for more details)
    • Storage: 60 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: The game is officially supported on the following Macs. To check your Mac model and when it was released, select About This Mac from the Apple menu on your menu bar.
      • * All 13" MacBook Pros released since 2016
      • * All 15" MacBook Pros released since Late 2013 with a 2.3GHz processor or better
      • * All 21.5" iMacs released since Late 2017
      • * All 27" iMacs released since Late 2013 with a 2GB graphics card or better (1)
      • * All 27" iMac Pros released since Late 2017
      • * All Mac Pros released since Late 2013
      • 1. Late 2012 models with a 2GB Nvidia 680MX graphics card are also supported.
      Please note for your computer to meet the minimum requirements it must match or better all elements of the listed spec. For more detailed specifications check the Feral website. ———
        The following Macs are capable of running the game but do not consistently meet the standards required for official support.
      • * All 15" MacBook Pros released since Late 2013
      • * All 21.5" iMacs released since Late 2013 with a 2.7GHz processor or better.

      PRE-macOS 11 USERS:

      Players using a version of macOS before 11 can access a compatible version of the game via the Beta tab in the game’s properties window, accessed by right clicking the game name in the Library. Select the ‘mac_retail_1.1.5 - macOS 10.15.7 or older only' branch for a version that is compatible with 10.14 up to 10.15.7.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
    • Processor: 3.4GHz Intel Core i3-4130
    • Memory: 6 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 2GB Nvidia GTX 680 or better, 2GB AMD R9 285 (GCN 3rd Gen) or better
    • Storage: 60 GB available space
    • Additional Notes:
      • * Requires Vulkan
      • * Nvidia graphics cards require driver version 396.54 (tested)
      • * AMD GPU's require Mesa 18.1.5 or better (tested)
      • * Intel GPU's are not supported at time of release
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
    • Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7-4770
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 4GB Nvidia 970, 4GB AMD RX 480
    • Storage: 60 GB available space
    • Additional Notes:
      • * Requires Vulkan
      • * Nvidia graphics cards require driver version 396.54 (tested)
      • * AMD GPU's require Mesa 18.1.5 or better (tested)
      • * Intel GPU's are not supported at time of release

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