This throws a lot of established Total War strategy in the trash, and I love it. If another faction is beginning a ritual and you want to stop it - something that will happen in a close game, lest the AI get ahead of you - you have two options: you could spend a load of cash and basically summon an army right at their doorstop (there’s a whole button devoted just to this), or you could send in a precision strike with your own units.Įach ritual only lasts a handful of turns, so you probably won’t have time to launch a full-scale invasion of a rival’s entire territory instead you need to get in, strike hard, smash the place up then get out. Siege warfare in this game is small, but the focus makes them bloody little deathmatch arenas. Yes, that dragon flew onto the ramparts and started burning dudes. Instead, we see here the crusading/raiding influence of the first Warhammer’s most enjoyable expansion races (Bretonnia and Norscaa), as players are now encouraged to ditch massive invasions in favour of surgical strikes. So the old steamroller approach to Total War games, where all you care about is taking over more and more of the map, has been tossed out the window. See, the campaign here doesn’t care how many territories you hold or how many armies you’ve slain. While you’re trying to perform rituals the other major factions are as well, and this is where the strategy of TWW2 is flipped on its head. To start one, you need to accrue a certain type of currency from territories you hold, and then to actually perform one you need to protect a selection of your cities from enemy attack for a certain number of turns while magic swirls from their buildings into the vortex.Ĭomplete one ritual and you can move on to the next, so if nothing else they serve as a handy yardstick as to how the game is progressing (letting you easily see who is “winning” at any one time). The pink and yellow lines here show two rival factions performing their own (you can follow them back to the source for a precision strike). That blue bar up the top tracks how many rituals you’ve performed. Instead, the focus here is on four new races: the High Elves, Dark Elves, Lizardmen and Skaven.
Where the first game was set in the Old World, dominated by The Empire, TWW2 takes place in Warhammer’s New World, a completely fresh area where the human presence is limited to some pirates and colonists.
There’s just so much going on here, so much to separate it from its predecessor, from some enjoyable new races to a map that already ranks as one of Total War’s best.
Only this time TWW2 almost does feel like an all-new game.
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In the past we’ve seen a bunch of these, from Napoleon (following Empire) to Attila (following Rome 2), releases that are kinda pitched as full sequels, but which players can quickly tell still have a lot in common with the game they’re following, from unit rosters to the menus. The game continues Creative Assembly’s tradition of building on the release of a new Total War with a sort of semi-sequel. Let’s keep this simple: Total War: Warhammer was a very good strategy game.
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