Total War: Warhammer II
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. 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.
Game Discussion
Steam User 28
Start with this game before moving on to Warhammer III if you're a new player. This game will eventually function as an over-glorified DLC, but is in a good enough state that you can figure out if you even like the series enough to dump more money on Warhammer III.
Steam User 21
If you're considering buying Total War Warhammer III- try this on a deep sale first. It holds up incredibly well for a game released 6-7 years ago.
Yes, the DLC policy is an utter scam. We know CA have their issues but the cold, hard reality is.... this is one of, if not, the greatest strategy game of all time.
The variety here is absolutely staggering. The number of different races & units is almost overwhelming at first but learning their strengths & weaknesses is unbelievably rewarding.
The Skaven campaigns are a particular highlight for me.
Prior to playing this game, I'd never had any involvement in the Warhammer world so prior knowledge isn't required.
If you're a lover of strategy games or Total War games in particular & you've become tiresome of the linear infantry / spearman/ archer builds in the other games.... buy this game & enjoy the thrill of watching your 3 undead dragons murder an entire army from the skies.
10/10,
Steam User 18
The game lets me play as rats and pirates, befriend other rats and pirates, get betrayed by rats and pirates then kill said rats and pirates on a pirate mecha as a pirate or commit mass genocide with an atomic bomb as a rat.
good game, yes yes.
Steam User 20
The Best of the TW Warhammer Series. Still perhaps a little too difficult, and you can end up 100+ hours in with an unwinnable campaign, just because of events outside your control. In addition a lot of the games require you to be able to win battles outnumbered and outclassed by a long way. That requires a lot of micro-management skill, or hours of stop/starting.
It is just a shame that the developers, obviously good at there own game, haven't the self-awareness to pitch the game at a wider audience. The game got harder and harder with every expansion, even on the lowest difficulty levels.
It is also silly how the AI pays stupidly little maintenance on units which makes factions owning only a single minor settlement to support 2 entire armies, when the player is still unable to afford a second army with 2 entire provinces.
It really does make the campaign incredibly difficult to get going without the gold exploits. At the end of the day though, it is easier to throw many units at the player than write a decent battle AI, to challenge the best players.
This is a problem for a lot of games, who use the DLC model. Your target is the invested player so you can sell DLC to them, not new players. Unfortunately, this has ruined the PC game market in general, and there are no good games for players new to PC games.
Steam User 20
Ah, Total War: Warhammer 2, a game where I can finally roleplay as a grumpy old dwarf with trust issues. The game is fantastic, but nothing prepares you for the true experience: playing with friends and keeping a very real Book of Grudges against them.
Did my friend abandon our alliance to make a "strategic" deal with the Skaven? Grudge recorded.
Did he "accidentally" sack my hold for gold? Grudge recorded.
Did he just exist as an Elf? Grudge recorded.
The game itself? Amazing. The balance? Sometimes questionable. The AI? Consistently drunk. The multiplayer? A friendship-ruining simulator. Would I recommend it? Aye. Just make sure you have a long memory and an even longer axe.
10/10. Would declare a decades-long blood feud again.
Steam User 28
Only at 80% off. The DLC policy is still a borderline scam, but you can have fun in the game for the price.
Steam User 13
If you've played Total War: Warhammer 1, you're familiar with the gig at this point. It's bigger and better, and that's about it. There's a number of new factions, updates to older factions, and a giant campaign which combines the maps of both the first and second game. Warhammer as a whole shines in Total War, adding to an already established series of games a LOT of gimmicks that work entirely differently from one another, the addition of magic and the entirely differing playstyles of, say, running someone over with 5000 rats or blowing them to high heaven with Dwarven artillery, or having your entire objective be to steamroll the living world as the vampires or Chaos.
All of this is combined with a myriad of characters from Warhammer Fantasy, a separate franchise with its own heavy piles of lore. Almost everything will go over your head initially, but there's plenty to love in it, and Total War is probably the most content you'll be getting for Warhammer Fantasy anymore.
I will suggest, put this on an SSD, you'll cut your loading times from like 15 minutes to 2. And get it on sale. It's good, but it's really quite pricy for a game from 2017, and it does go on sale often enough.