Creative Assembly and Sega's Total War: Warhammer is a typically outlandish turn-based RTS that (finally) brought historical strategy and Games Workshop's fantasy world together when it landed last year. Beyond the base game, a host of intuitive, practical and outright zany user-made mods have since surfaced—some of which alter the original almost beyond recognition. 

With Total War: Warhammer 2 perched on the horizon—due September 28—it's inevitable mod creators will set about the sequel in the same way they did the first. But what of the first's mods? Creative Assembly has said that while Total Warhammer and Total Warhammer 2 are standalone games, there will expectedly be some crossover in terms of lore, mechanics and narrative. So can we expect similar fluidity with regards to the game's mods?    

Chatting to Gamewatcher at E3, game designer Mark Sinclair addressed that very question. 

"The way it will work is that the mods that were created for the first Total War: Warhammer will be only for Warhammer," says Sinclair. "They are two different and separate games, so you can’t necessarily just use a Warhammer mod in Warhammer 2. 

"That said, theoretically, we’ve made it possible to transfer a mod from Warhammer to Warhammer 2. There will have to be some work on the part of the modder to make sure it’s compatible, but ideally it should be relatively straightforward."

Here's hoping we see the HeroQuest-echoing Goblins and Skeleton Warriors in CA's latest, then. Total War: Warhammer 2 is due September 28, 2017.

Total War: Warhammer 2 got right into the action at The PC Gamer show. The Creative Assembly's Al Bickham got on stage to talk about the sequel to one of our favorite strategy games of last year, and the footage he brought along shows the Lizardmen charging against some High Elves. With dinosaurs, which hardly seems fair. The video is actually depicting a specific quest battle, The Battle of the Fallen Gates, which will be playable on the show floor at E3.

Our favorite thing about the original Total War: Warhammer was how much fun The Creative Assembly was able to have with the setting. Instead of the usual true-to-life historical combat units, the artists and animators got to go nuts with spider-riding goblins and undead dragons and flamethrower Dwarfs. The Lizardmen's units—which include a lizard on a throne riding a bigger lizard, which I've been told is technically a carnosaur—look like a damn blast.

Back in April we wrote about what we want from Total War: Warhammer 2, with the hopes of seeing some changes to the Total War formula rather than just new factions. And while Warhammer 2 does have new factions and a new campaign map that will sync up with the first game's, it also has a new win condition that should shake things up. 

As Chris Thursten wrote in our recent hands-on: "In a standard Warhammer 2 campaign, victory is achieved by winning the 'race' to the vortex—a race that involves performing rituals, gathering specific resources, and capturing specific parts of the map. Although it'll still be possible to win through old-fashioned conquest, this shared victory condition is intended to provide drama and challenge all the way to the end of a playthrough.

It'll be possible to both win and lose a campaign at the 11th hour, as even a small force in the right place at the right time has the potential to interrupt a key ritual or intercept a force on its way to victory."

Granted, the video above is mostly about giant lizards beating the snot out of elves, but it's nice to know there are some shakeups coming in Warhammer 2. You can watch the entire presentation from the PC Gaming Show, including our interview with Bickham, right here.

As announced this morning, Warhammer 2 is due out on September 28th. We'll have footage of the entire Battle of the Fallen Gates later this week.

Check out this post for more from The PC Gaming Show at E3 2017. You can watch the show live on Twitch, and catch up on all the news from this year's show right here. 

The four factions of Total War: Warhammer 2 will be kicking off their war to end all wars on September 28, Creative Assembly and Sega announced today. 

Warhammer 2 adds the sprawling continent of the New World, where the four factions will fight each other in a race to take the power of the Vortex for themselves. A post-release patch will also stitch both the new continent and the Old World together in a mega-campaign. 

Pre-ordering Warhammer 2 will net you a new race for the first game. We don’t know what the race is yet, however. 

Alongside the standard edition, there’s a fancy Serpent God Edition. “An artefact fit for a god, or at the very least a devoted Slann Mage-Priest, the Serpent God Edition comes in a scaled turquoise presentation box, replete with stone-effect glyphs modelled on Lord Mazdamundi’s headpiece, detailing the temple-cities of Lustria,” reads the press release. “Treat it with reverence, lest you sully its magnificence.”

As well as a box for your mantelpiece, the Serpent God Edition will also come with the aforementioned race pack for the first game, a stone effect puzzle sphere, whatever that is, bone totems, maps, an art book, stickers, a metal case, a guide, and a necklace that hides a USB drive. A limited edition version will also be available, containing the metal case and guide. 

The race pack for the first Warhammer will be available before the launch of Warhammer 2.