Total War Warhammer II is a bit of an oddity as far as Creative Assembly games are concerned, lacking the flood of DLCs that usually accompany every Total War title. Two years since launch, the game has only received a couple of large expansion, and a couple of Lord Packs. It took over a year for it to finally cross the threshold for us to make one of our DLC guides. As it is, there's only two Lord Packs left for Warhammer 2 before Creative Assembly focus their resources on Warhammer III, which has been in pre-production since last year but not formally announced yet.
Total War: Warhammer has far more DLC, and you can check out our complete guide to all of it here.
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Regardless of how much there is, here's everything you need to know about Total War: Warhammer II's DLC & expansions.
Total War: WARHAMMER II - Rise of the Tomb Kings (£13.99) (Review)
Warhammer II’s first DLC is also its best, bringing the undead rulers or Nehekarah to virtual life for the first time in history. Rise of the Tomb Kings is a massive expansion, adding the Land of the Dead in all its sandy and pyramid-y glory and tasking players to find five of the Nine Books of Nagash to gain complete control over the eternal unlife of its eponymous rulers.
The story takes place in the same map as the base game’s Eye of the Vortex campaign, but the addition of the Tomb Kings as a playable faction upends every other mechanic Total War relies on. Units require no upkeep nor incur recruitment costs but have caps that require the construction of certain buildings, allowing these faux-Egyptians to raise an entire 20 stack army in a couple of turns. Due to being a bunch of reanimate obsessed skeletons, Tomb King units are also impervious to morale loss and never rout, but unlike Vampires and their thralled brethren, retain enough independence and self-will to not immediately crumble to dust if their leader dies.
Even better, the Tomb Kings have access to massive stone constructs that can wipe the floor with pretty much any flesh and blood monster in the Warhammer franchise, . Add to that four legendary lords, a unique Dynasty system to replace the research tree, and a RPG-like loot-crafting mechanic to equip your Lords, and Rise of the Tomb Kings proudly stands as not just the best DLC in the Total Warhammer franchise, but in Total War as a whole.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
- Land of the Dead Map.
- Unit recruitment and upkeep system.
- Mortuary Cult loot-crafting system is novel.
- Completely different experience from every other Total War faction ever.
IS IT WORTH IT?
Yes. Get it.
Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Queen & The Crone (£5.99)
The second DLC is less of an expansion, and more of a rounding up of things that *really* should have been there at launch. The Queen & The Crone adds new units, two factions, and a bunch of Regiments of Renown to the ranks of the High Elves and Dark Elves, finally adding the elite special units to one of the base game’s races.
The High Elves expand their roster with the addition of the Everqueen Allarielle of Avelorn, while the Dark Elves get the Hag Queen of Har Ganeth Crone Hellebron. Both Legendary Ladies are the heads of their respective factions, offering powerful bonuses based on their campaign performance. The Everqueen leaves lingering effects through every province she passes, buffing the region and bolstering public order while gaining strength when Ulthuan is free from enemy control, while the Hag Queen needs to constantly kill thousands of slaves in ritualistic sacrifices in order to keep her youthful appearance and maximum power.
Those changes offer a higher degree of investment in the campaign than usual and are complemented by the new units quite well. The Asur gain access to the Sisters of Avelorn -- mixed ranged/melee fighters -- and the Shadow Warriors -- ranger-like scouts who shoot undetected and fire in any direction while running. The Druchii, on the other hand, can play with the Sisters of Slaughter -- poisoned whip-wielding lady gladiators that cause fear -- and the Doomfire Warlocks -- spellcasting magical cavalry that deals both magical and poisonous damage in melee.
Those new units are more powerful than the base game’s standard ones -- a gap that is only widened by the inclusion of the Regiments of Renown such as flaming lance Dragon Princes. The final additions are a High Elven Handmaiden Hero for Avelorn and a Supreme Sorceress army Lord for the Dark Elves, adding a bit more of asymmetry to what is overall a very balanced pack.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Avelorn and Har Ganeth new mechanics are very different from base game Elves.
- New units are devastating in the field.
- Regiments of Renown are mostly unimpressive, and hardly necessary.
IS IT WORTH IT?
Yes, if you are mainly an Elven player. I expect a Lizardmen & Skaven pack to be in the works now and bound to be released soon, so keep your eyes peeled for that.
Total War: WARHAMMER II - Curse of the Vampire Coast (£13.99) (Review)
Arr, the high seas. Who doesn’t love pirate battles, where crew swing between decks with swashbuckling prowess and ships blow the crap out of each other with broadsides? Unfortunately for all of us, the pirate themed expansion to Warhammer II has no ship battles, so… arrr, who doesn't love giant pirate armies fighting… on the land… like… regular… armies. Arrrr.
Curse of the Vampire Coast was one hell of a curveball, taking a very minor aspect of Warhammer lore and expanding it to mainstream status. It adds four new factions and their Legendary Lords to the game, from the crazed Luthor Harkon in Lustria to the mutant Aranessa Saltspite in Sartosa, and all of them are focused on living on the high seas with armies of undead people under their thumb.
The biggest differential for pirate factions is their possession of a legendary ship, the personal vessel of their legendary lord. The big boat serves as a mobile base, allowing players to upgrade buildings and churn out units anywhere, granting a degree of mobility matched only by horde armies. Unlike horde armies, however, the undead pirates can conquer settlements or install Pirate Coves that syphon the money of nearby cities without any of the admin work, making this one of the versatile playthrough options one can have.
The campaign also brings treasure maps for treasure, Infamy lists for stat bonuses, and cursed Pieces of Eight to unlock Regiments of Renown, keeping the pirate theme running strong. Similar to the Empire in Warhammer I, players can also appoint Lords to positions in the hierarchy that benefit both that army and the faction, though loyalty is an ever present concern if you want to keep the scallywag in office.
In battle, the focus is obviously on ranged units, with most of the roster possessing firearms of some kind. Zombie sailors and vampire pirates let out a wall of gunfire upon approaching enemies, while giant walking animated shipwrecks, mortars, and cannons let death fly from afar. Add to that a giant walking crab and a gigantic cannon bigger than a dragon, and the pirate faction is easily one of the most diverse and interesting ones in Warhammer II.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Great unit design, especially visually.
- Every mechanic is tailored to be as pirate-y as possible.
- Legendary Ships are a great idea.
- No ship battles are obviously inexcusable.
IS IT WORTH IT?
As novel as it is, this DLC can only be recommended if you like the idea of sailing undead vampires. The lack of ship battles or boarding doesn’t really capture the feel of being a pirate on the seas, and the DLC does end up playing as a normal Total War faction due to huge 20 stack armies fighting each other on land maps all the time.
Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Prophet & The Warlock (£6.99) (Review)
We all love Skaven and Lizardmen, for different reasons. Not me, of course -- I love to kill Skaven and ignore Lizardmen, but I’m a High Elf player. A lot of people do like them, however, and Creative Assembly finally found time to give those two factions their first cup of love cocoa since Warhammer II launched 2 years ago.
The Prophet & The Warlock is a Lord Pack, similar to The Queen & The Crone. It brings two new legendary lords -- Lizardmen prophet Tehenhauin and Skaven warlock Ikit Claw -- with their new respective factions, adding in new units and mechanics along the way.
The Lizardmen, as the religious, devoted, biological computers that they are, are all about order and orders, doing their best to fulfil a prophecy by following its tablets while preventing chaos in all its forms (but mainly Skaven) from taking a hold. Tehenhauin’s main end-goal is the completion of the Prophecy of Sotek, which will bring the serpent-god back into the world.
Meanwhile, the Skaven are all about disorder and decay, spreading corruption left and right while killing and eating everything they can. Ikit Claw, being the greatest Warlock Engineer who ever lived -- is a few steps ahead of his brethren on the “killing” part, able to field giant hamster balls of death called Doom-Flayers, fire warpstone nukes called Doomrockets, and level whole settlements via a huge spherical bomb called the Doomsphere (they’re clever, but they’re not very creative at naming, these ratmen).
Besides those unique features, you get the standard package of all Lord Packs -- new units (such as the salamanders and red-crested skinks for Lizardmen and Ratling Gunners and snipers for the Skaven), as well as Regiment of Renown variations of most units in their respective rosters. The RoR tend to be pretty cool -- from regenerating Doomwheels to unbreakable infantry, these can act as pillars if used correctly in any field battles they are employed.
HIGHLIGHTS:
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- Skaven get some great units, while Lizardmen’s couple of ranged units are a welcome addition.
- Mechanics are extremely thematic appropriate, and add interesting strategic considerations.
- Free patch released alongside this brings Skaven Undercities into the game, which completely changes the way they are played.
IS IT WORTH IT?
If you ever wonder about playing as the Skaven, definitely. If you are a Lizardmen fan, you will want the new units. The one problem with this DLC is that most of the new features are faction-specific, so you won’t be able to play as Clan Pestilens on Mazdamundi and enjoy them. If you are cool with that, however (or just want the units), go and get it.
Ranking
- Rise of the Tomb Kings
- The Queen & The Crone
- The Prophet & The Warlock
- Curse of the Vampire Coast
What's been your favourite TWW2 DLC to date? What would you like to see them do next? Let us know in the comments!
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Stepping back into the world of Warhammer is always a fantastical journey, and with Total War: Warhammer 2, never before has an adaptation of the source material felt quite so natural.
With the second installment in its massive strategy game trilogy, developer Creative Assembly has begun flexing its design muscles. Battles are bigger and more expressively animated, and scores of soldiers of all different types--be they ghastly undead or blood-thirsty dinosaurs--sound impeccable, but the improvements run well beyond the aesthetic and into the fineries of tactical and strategic play.
Where the first entry in the series kept to standard Total War form with an open-ended, Risk-inspired campaign of territory control, now there's a directed focus--a vortex which is said to seal away legions of Chaos Demons.
Within the context of the Warhammer universe, Chaos is an all-consuming malevolent force that corrupts and distorts. Long ago, a ritual helped quarantine the forces of Chaos behind a seal so that normal life could thrive. Now, though, you, and a number of other forces across the map will be racing to take control of that seal--to whatever end.
Your target takes the form of a swirling Vortex comprised of magical energies. As you progress through a pre-made set of special quests, you'll be able to start performing rituals that will, in time, allow you to wrench control of the Vortex from everyone else. But, since all the other races of the world are pushing towards the same end, your progress will be marked along a track with five milestones. Each time you (or anyone else) performs one of the five successive rituals, the pace of the entire campaign picks up.
This mode still balances Total War's signature dualistic design. As you're worrying about the stability of the Vortex, you'll also need to manage cities and tax your people, as usual. You'll research new tactics, weapons, and monsters, and conduct diplomatic consorts with the various races of Warhammer. And, should talks break down and two or more armies meet, you'll be ushered into a tactical view that will task you with micromanaging your troops.
Rituals often take quite some time to complete, and, in the interim, three of your most powerful cities will be marked. Opposing factions will try to sack, capture, or raze any of them. And, if you don't control all three by the end of the ritual timer, you'll have to try again; and still deal with the invaders you directed to your lands.
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Completing rituals marks major steps in the game, in part, because you'll need to ensure the safety of your home front while you presumably press battle lines across the map. It complicates play with an interesting, macroscopic challenge that every player will be able to approach a little differently.
The global quest tracker/countdown has been seen before in Masters of Magic-descended strategy games, but here it's backed with specific quests that play to the lore of each race within the Warhammer universe. Lord Mazdamundi, for example, is struggling to revive the great Slann mage-priests who once guided the feral Lizardmen on the fields of battle. And your quests will revive and recruit the long-slumbering Slann to use in your own armies. That's quite distinct from the approach the Dark Elves or the rat-like Skaven will take to victory, for example. The former specializes in naval combat and tailor-made invasion vessels known as Black Arks, while the chittering clan rats of the Skaven are better suited to hit-and-run attacks. Their whole civilization being subterranean means they need not worry so much about foes razing their ritual sites.
As you progress through the campaign, your foes become more numerous and the evil forces of Chaos will filter onto the map in an attempt to stop you. During the late-game, after 50 hours or more of play, they will be monstrously powerful. These are tests, in a sense, as they'll gauge how well you've distributed your forces and managed the challenges posed to you thus far. And they encourage you to seek help from your neighbors, as it's difficult to pull together the might all on your own. That brings up one of Warhammer 2's most engaging consequences of the Vortex rituals.
Progression yields huge impacts for diplomacy, encouraging you to forge alliances with those of your own faction. This make sense, in play, because each group's broad goals are distinct within the lore. Lizardmen, for example, believe themselves to be the only ones following the will of the old gods and they are among the closest this universe gets to an unambiguous 'good.' Dark Elves, by contrast, are fueled by torture and slavery and causing pain to others. Should they wrench control of the Vortex, they will, of course, use it for their own violent ends. This confluence of goals can lead to the creation of confederations, which are a fancy name for one of the most useful ways to build your empire. Like minds can, over time, be persuaded to let themselves be absorbed. This merges politics, economies, and research trees, and gives you a quick, sudden expansion of territory, often with a new legion of eager soldiers for your command.
This keeps the game from chugging in the middle and latter stages, where you'd have to take back razed cities from marauders only to carry the dead weight of a developing province for a while before seeing any return. The new system both fits thematically and boosts the importance of diplomatic and factional ties on the map. Generally you'll get along with your own groups better, but you'll also find yourself stepping into long-standing political alliances, many of which aren't always the easiest to navigate. The focus, of course, is still on the battles, but this breaks up long stretches of action with some careful maneuvering from time to time.
As you pick up more subjects and commission larger and larger armies, you'll no doubt unearth some of the other major new additions to play. Choke point maps, for instance, give you a lot more to consider in your approach to special in-game locations. Some will funnel your forces through a bridge, giving you a very narrow front on which to concentrate, others will use different types of land to give bouts more depth.
Through a thousand tiny tweaks, they've refined the experience into one of the most intriguing and exciting strategy games ever.
The effect on play with that alone is huge, as it means many powerful strategies aren't always applicable. At the same time, you may find that a holdout army formed of all cavalry can repel a far stronger force in the right conditions. In time, you'll learn where these battlefields lie on the map. That, in turn, opens up countless other broad-scale strategies designed to guide foes to the points where you've got the strongest defenses. You could always do this to a degree, of course, but the results are far starker here, on top of adding much-needed variety to play. Combined with the pacing changes that the race to control the Vortex brings, Total War: Warhammer II feels fresh, even though you'll be stepping into the same universe as last time.
Eye of the Vortex, as the single-player mode is called, is among the best a campaign of this type could be. It encourages the right amount of conflict to keep you moving, paces itself well, fits plenty of in-universe lore for diehard fans, and fine tunes about every other facet of its predecessor. Plus, as the game wears on, you can rest assured there's a definite, clean ending. Someone's going to complete the rituals--even if you don't. At the same time, the multi-part and complex victory conditions can often lead to some of the most nail-biting matches around, made that much better by diverse maps that encourage novel tactics with each bout. Nothing feels quite as exhilarating as holding a key province against multiple unsuccessful assaults thanks to your own cunning.
Every piece in Total War: Warhammer II is designed to force you to innovate and create new plans on the fly, testing your prowess over and over in new and exciting ways. In fact, Warhammer II surpasses its predecessor in nearly every respect. Everything except the camera--which doesn't zoom out far enough and has been a source of frustration for several Total War games now--and multiplayer.
The complaint with its online multiplayer is simple: there aren't enough factions for competitive play. At present, you can only use the four groups featured in the Eye of the Vortex campaign--Dark Elves, High Elves, Lizardmen, and Skaven. Given that the first game started with five for multiplayer and rapidly expanded from there, it feels like a step backwards to have so few options for now. Not being able to pit vampires against dinosaurs is a shame. And it'd be cool to see how Elven dragons fair against the mighty Dwarves, but that'll have to wait. There are some planned free content expansions coming, including a massive campaign map that spans the lands and races covered in both games, but that's some time off. Those fans who were put off by the monetization of content in the first will likely have the same complaints, though they can rest assured that the base game is robust on its own.
With Warhammer II, Total War doesn't reinvent anything so much as it iterates on the ideas that made the first so special. At its heart there's still the marriage of Total War's big-scale strategy and Warhammer's precise tactical play. But, through a thousand tiny tweaks, they've refined the experience into one of the most intriguing and exciting strategy games ever.
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How to use total war warhammer 2 console commands?
Usually the list of total war warhammer 2 console commands is quite large. The bulk of the game commands is used to control the game. Having been trained, the meaning of each key on your control unit is given. Some of them are used to make technical changes to your game. With them you can customize the game to your preferences and desires. Change the character view or camera direction of perception. If you have a weak gaming console, you can optimize resource consumption with the help of special total war warhammer 2 console commands. There are also game commands aimed at improving your capabilities in the game. They give you advantages, open hidden abilities or give you endless possibilities. To do this, enter these commands in a special window – the console.
Where can I get acquainted with the existing total war warhammer 2 console commands?
To find out what total war warhammer 2 console commands are available in the game, you need to first go to the menu, the settings panel. Usually there are all possible functions in the game and the assigned keys for their use. It is certainly difficult to remember them immediately, but you will quickly get comfortable and with time you will no longer have to go there. For true gamers it is not difficult. To change the technical parameters with the help of total war warhammer 2 console commands, you will have to go to the official game forum. Usually they are presented there to allow players to optimize their game and immerse themselves in comfortable conditions.
How to change the total war warhammer 2 console commands?
To do this, go to the menu, settings panel, select the total war warhammer 2 console commands we need and assign a new value to it. Using the keys convenient to us, the process of the game will become even more attractive and cozy. The ability to customize the gameplay for yourself is a very convenient function in games, this indicates the developers concern for gamers. They want to make the game process as comfortable as possible for everyone. Use all the capabilities of game commands to achieve their victories.