Total War: WARHAMMER II

It really is sad that half this game is locked behind a purchase of an earlier game in the franchise. Even worse when that game is the only game to never go on sale.

I like turtles... and lizards.. and dinosaurs. Lizardmen are fun to play and the campaign is fun. I am not good at this game, at all, but it is one of the best games I have played since Bannerlord. 5/5

Ok, fine. This is a good game. A good Total War game, and a good Warhammer game.

It's been a minute since I've stepped into the weird world of Warhammer, but there is clearly a lot of love for the world and its inhabitants behind the scenes here as a clear effort was made to recreate the races, their unique qualities and make that uniqueness play out in game, both in battle and on the campaign map. More than other Total War games I feel, the faction you pick will have a big impact on how you will play your campaign.

As a Total War game, it clearly is Total War, but also not quite. This is fantasy, and it shows. Having a 400-strong force routed by a single angry guy takes some getting used to, as does having giants and dragons rampaging through your lines. This is not Rome, this is not Medieval. This is its own thing. And while it works here in its setting, this would not work in the historical versions of Total War. This is its own thing and needs to remain that way I would say, to its own benefit and to the benefit of the Historical games.

Downsides, for a Total War fan there were elements that seemed, dumbed down. Settlement building being an example. Very dumb down with limited slots. You'll find yourself building repeating city types as you'll just pick the best options available to you to raise revenue to pay for your armies. Sieges are honestly crap in this. For one example as to why, I've had numerous now where the battle begins and your entire force, no matter where you put them, are in the range of the settlement defences. You cannot deploy out of range and commit your forces as you need them. I rarely play them now and just auto resolve.

Another downside is the potential money sink this game has. You do not get all the races, there is a lot of DLC you can add, and while they are not needed as there are plenty of options to play with in the standard version, if you have a preference on what race you want to play then you may find yourself unstuck. The saving grace of this, is they do clearly put some effort in with each race. Not just unique battlefield 'miniatures' for each race rather than repainted clone models like we've seen in older games, but how they play and operate in the campaign can be very different. Do yourself a favour and wait for a sale before adding more, they are good and worth having but you could easily sink so much money into this without realising.

So yes, overall a good game. I enjoy it, plotting to take over the Old World and seeing some of the whacky units from this strange world come to life and batter the cr4p out of each other really is fun.

Awesome gameplay with the Skaven really with recommend thank you

combines two amazing franchises!

Games riddled with micro transaction "DLC" factions.
Lizardmen have cringe AF puzzles. "Dial of the Old Ones" Especially.
Modern (and imo not as good) Total War Building System.
It's ok I suppose but I couldn't recommend getting it even on sale. I think I got it in a Humble Bundle or something.

love the game the dwarfs are my favorite to play as the only thing there missing is the GOAT riders and some and some of them twiddly widdly's from the hobbit battle of the five army's

Addictive, fun although dlc pricing is scummy. Strategic and worth playing if you like rts or total war even if you dont know warhammer. has flying units, monsters magic and different humanoid species (e.g lizardmen, elves, undead) unlike the historical total wars

How do I fix lag in total Warhammer?

Apply Low Preset on the 1'st graphics options screens and then in Advanced options- Enable Anisotropic Filtering 4x, Put Textures and Unit Size to Ultra; Building, Terrain and Unit details to High. Turn off Anti-Aliasing and V-Sync. Go to Nvidia Control Panel and set 60 as Max fps limit. Now run the benchmarks again.

TOTAL WARHAMMER

This was supposed to be the dream match made in heaven, people used to talk about this possible dream combination for years before it was actually announced. there exist warhammer mods for older total war games. However the finished product is extremely meh/alright. Its a rather lackluster total war game with a lot of QOL features missing and a certain laziness/rushedness to all the assets. for example rifle man/ musket man don't even reload their guns and cannons anymore. Now i know its kinda a nitpick but the game has dozens of these examples. also the ai doesn't seem very competent at either campaign, army building or actual ingame battles.

however because of the warhammer IP it does have a high level of replaybility because of the differents factions and gameplay styles, but again with a downside. A lot of it is locked behind DLC and poorly balanced, now its against ai but its kind of a waste to play a faction for 5 hours only to realize you chose the auto win faction.

Also diplomacy is still aextremely poor worked out mechanic, this has been a problem since forever in total war games.

you could argue that the steady decline of quality in total war and warhammer games might still make it a decent match afteral

TL:DR an alright game but in a lot of ways a couple steps backways for total war games, the warhammer setting is pretty dope if it wasn't for the DLC dismembering

After playing the game if just stopped launching. Would go to a black screen and then close out. Steam launcher doesn't show anything on their end. No error message or code to look up. Nothing on Steams end to point to a probable cause. Hardware is on latest firmware, no updates for the game waiting in the background. No OS updates or drivers that would be preventing the game to launch. Just points to something with the Steam launcher for all I can tell.
Game was great while it worked. But now not so much.

Total War gameplay. Warhammer universe. If you like these two things, you will like this game. It is very well executed in every way. I think it is as perfect as it can get. You might need to put in some extra money for all the factions, but you don't have to if the faction does not interest you. However, it is too tempting to try them all, so you probably will buy them eventually, but at least wait until they are on sale. Not much more to say. It is an excellent game.

Yes, fun game and challenging but not impossible, very different from most other rts games

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,

Really enjoying this game. Visually awesome, grand battles, good amount of strategic and tactical decision making, hard, what's not to like tbh...oh, wait for sales to get your DLC's, but they are all well worth it.

The DLC system is absolutely broken. I have downloaded "Mortal Empires" DLC but it still is not available in the game.

Only at 80% off. The DLC policy is still a borderline scam, but you can have fun in the game for the price.

Best strategy game out there. Don't let your bias stop you from trying this masterpiece. It has both small scale stategy (real time battles with armies like 1500 men in each team) and grand strategy (economy, diplomacy, states), it also has special mechanics for every race.

I don’t play it anymore since I’ve moved on to TWWH3, but if you’re considering picking this up, even without the DLCs, do it. It’s an excellent game. As for DLCs, wait for sales. You don’t need them all; just grab the ones that suit your favorite faction or playstyle. My 234.6 hours on record should tell you how replayable and enjoyable this game is, especially since I’ve only had it for six months, and I’m busy with work!

Even better than the first game. Kept me very busy while I waited until I could get the third game

Fuck the Hero System in this game. One Unit. Literally JUST ONE GUY can curb stomp an ENTIRE 2k + army by himself. Its a strategy game, tactics, logistics, economy. Nope just one level 20 on a raptor that has infitie spell casts that obliterate armies and when close to being killed respawns full health and starts casting all over again. Oh and walking Ambushes. Skaven, fully seen can walk up to ANY army and Ambush them. NOT HOW AMBUSHES WORK.

Played for around +30 hours and here are my thoughts on immortal empires.

Buy the game at sale of 75% to 80%.

The soundtrack is extreme repetitive, after a few hours the sound is just ....

Your allies are absolutely useless, for 70 turns my allies has not moved out of their own bases or just run a unit continuously from one base to another.

Negotiating with the AI is pretty much non existing besides, "hello", "war?", "TRADE!" "you disgust me"

The same settlements have been burned 10 times now because at one end of a mountain the AI is chilling with a 20/20 army, and at the other end another AI army is quickly attacking tier 2 settlements razing them to the ground, and there is only so many armies you can have yourself without going bankrupt.

The biggest problem I have with the game is that the different AI factions keep attacking at opposite ends of my empire (over and over and over) every time I try and expand, and there are again only so many armies you can have at the same time trying to catch enemy armies at different ends while allies are there-but-not-there just letting them pass un-hindered through their territory and into yours.

The game has good content
- Open world map is really nice.
- Combat is good.
- Auto resolve is good.
- Settlement fights are fun.
- Graphics are nice
- Model movement (combat) are nice.

But than again
- The game has an in-game knowledge base which is really nice, but you cant search it, you can only click on links to navigate it which gets very tedious because it is 1) large, 2) slow.

- In-game icons such as skaven infestations I had to google to find out how to deal with.
and I also had to google what some icons were as there were no explanation for them within the game.

If I had the option between 1) recommend 2) in the middle 3) don't recommend, it would be 'in the midddle' based on what you like and how much you're willing to put up with the game might be enjoyable for you.

But if you're like me it gets super frustrating that every time you try and do something meaningful you get picked apart little by little because of game mechanics just not being fully thought through, and you're limited in all the wrong places.

Like telling your human "allies" to stop (block) allowing orcs to freely wander through their territory with a 20/20 army directly to you, and than freely run back the same way.

I really enjoy the base game but the vortex mechanics just railroad the player and sucks the fun out of it. I'd play the mode that doesn't have that but it requires the base game (which is still $60 for some reason).

I've gone through a dozen mods to disable that mechanic but it seems none are up to date and so none actually disable the vortex and the rituals.

Not one of my top favs. It's more of a lag festival if anything. Other than that, it runs well and its just as endlessly fun as the rest of the total war franchise. would recommend for bored people with good pc.

Close but no cigar. The battles are pretty good, as you'd expect from a total war game. The real problem is the non battle parts. It's very rough compared to the current total war games and really doesn't live up to the current standard. Its a shame because the concept is amazing. hopefully the can this sorted out.

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.

Kind of difficult to learn, but definatley enjoyable. I found I was losing a lot (still am) but that doesn't take away from how much fun it is to make a rat army and eat away at the world :)

good game, very nice graphics. I have been a fan of the historical total war games for years, and decided to step over into the fantasy.

Game is very enjoyable and immersive. My only complaint is that in longer save files the game is liable to become corrupted. Great DLC, Great mods, an amazing experience overall.

RTS yes. its overwhelming at first but stick with it and its the best RTS I've ever played.

Lots of factions that all play differently. This game is much better if you own the first one as well because of the extra map.

This is one of the coolest games that I have got. This is the first Warhammer game I have played besides those on my phone. And I am very impressed. The amount of detail and different things you can do in each campaign is very impressive to me. And it is difficult! Even on the easy setting, it still takes alot of thought. I have about 26 hours on it and counting. I am just now learning how it works. Highly recommended!

It is playable with a keyboard and a mouse. Just get a deck port and branch it to you tv. It is really good. I am playing it at high settings and all good. Planning to try for WHIII next.

Lots of fun and every race introduces what feels like a whole new game.

i used to love this game, but ever since they made the game require their stand alone launcher, regardless of if your launching from steam, it no longer registers my left mouse button inputs in game, at all. so thanks for wasting my library with your needless conversion.

After 600hs of tutorial in tww2, I finally move on to tww3
Best game of my life.
Hope tww3 would be nice too.

This one alone can satisfy your hunger on the story alone of individual faction that's on the west side of the Old World I mean really there are also so many great mods to choose from it's ridiculous. and if you bought all the DLC in the past including from Warhammer I these stuff will be free if you buy Warhammer III Total War if you haven't bought a copy yet.

Dumb fun. You're not a strategic mastermind managing an empire like in the old TTW games. Instead you get to blow up t-rexes with magic-fueled nukes, tank an entire army with your general who is an unkillable vampire-wizard and watch the very large world burn.

great, many different variations to gameplay depending on faction you choose

This is a great game one of the best my laptop cant run warhammer 3 but this game is tha bomb

The worst part of the game is that no matter how good your army composition is, the enemy lord will easily f**k you up if he is few levels more advanced than your lord. That said you can grind your army leader to level 30 by doing smaller skirmishes and you are basically god. Don't get me wrong, this is nice warhammer vibe, but frustrating as hell when armies dont matter at all.

- Auto battle resolve is buggy and never works nor does calculations correctly
- You need DLC's in order to trully enjoy the game
- Army compositions dont matter, just spam artillery, few pikes and you are good to go
- lords are way too overpowered, luckilly you can disable this before campaign
- no naval combats
- on higher difficulty AI cheats
- It's not balanced at all, 1 settlement for AI can generate 2 full armies, while your 2 full provinces can barely keep the upkeep of 1 army
- When ritual starts your least secured flank of empire gets rected, because 3 enemy armies spawn just like that... logic? None
- Taking settlement is painfull as towers have unlimited ammo and range
- Enemy lord with dragon can easily take out half of your army
- Despite of having huge campain map, battles take place in around 12 maps, which feels repetetive
- Securing mines and diamonds on map is the only essential you need for having loads of money, other resources are crap and don't do much in your favor

I do not recommend buying this game for more than 20 euros with all DLCs - it's just not worth it.

Pretty good genre blender of 4X and RTS-type games with a focus on single-player campaigns and a very heavy lean into tactical, fully-simulated army skirmishes. It's definitely not my favorite, compared to, say, the roleplay potential of Stellaris or the distinct factions and streamlined, simple fun of Endless Space 2, but the game's absolutely a good one, and the Warhammer Fantasy setting's one of my favorites.
I've only played Skaven Clan Mors and Clan Eshin so far because, thematically, I like sneaky critters, and the faction's gameplay focus on stealth, ambushing, and being an opportunistic little RAT, all click with me. Reminds me of the Umbral Choir, in a way.
But from what I've read, all of the other races have similarly unique playstyles, which are further added to and divided up into little sub-factions for each race, so you've got a good selection of varied little experiences to play through, even if you hate elves. Just kill the elves, man! Just get rid of them!
Just like any 4X game, though, it's got a ridiculously expensive backlog of DLC, and the base game in this case could run you for a typical AAA $60 if you don't wait for a sale.
My recommendation: Buy it if you already know you're a fan of Civ-likes, RTS games, or the Warhammer setting, and pick through the DLC for the ones that're free to install, you've got a good handful of them. From there, the DLCs are only really worth it based off of what factions you like (to my knowledge, there're little to no DLCs with general, game-level mechanics that effect all factions), and whatever you do, never ever pay full-price for something that has a history of 75% off sales.

Great improvement from the first of the series Total War - Warhammer.

I committed several war crimes as a crack addicted rat, 10/10

I've been stewing on my thoughts regarding this game and modern Total War for a while and I've finally come to my conclusion. I can't stand modern Total War, it's awful. The Warhammer trilogy has been an absolute disaster for the series. We have not gotten a historical total war, that wasn't just shoving Warhammer mechanics into a 'historical' setting for 6 years.

So hopefully this new gameplay is good. Well its not,battles are now simpler, naval combat just doesn't exist, Diplomacy is basically nonexistent and seiges are just miserable.

I hope Sega takes Creative Assembly to the glue factory sooner rather than later so the strategy game community can move on from this lame horse.

If you're not a huge fan of the Total War games, being a fan of Warhammer isn't enough to make this game worth your time. It's shockingly boring. I've played similar games and didn't find them overly enjoyable, but this is by far the most boring strategy game I've ever fucking played. Every aspect of it is such a tedious drag that I couldn't even get motivated to read the instruction pop-ups after 10 minutes of gameplay.

If you like this type of game and know what you're getting, then this game is worth it ON SALE. I can see that it is a quality game, it's just too boring for me to personally waste time on. I paid $15 but still plan to request a refund after I write this review.

You need to hire a tutor to figure this out...

I spent 3 hours reading what units do and what things are and after that had no idea what i was supposed to do. And that's with the tutorial checked when i start a campaign.

I have heard nothing but good things about this game and i really want to like it, but I personally have no idea how to play it and the learning curve is so steep that its impossible to have fun. You absolute legends that have hundreds of hours and figured it out... i tip my hat to you good folk. Maybe one of you can teach me how to play this...

Lose yourself in this world...of endless gameplay...Great Game

A grand strategy game at its finest, wish i could've played at launch. Bit of a learning curve and some aspects are try and fail and try again to figure it all out but very worth the time spent.

Same with this one...

CA shat on it's old player base (The player base that helped put Total War on the map) and pandered to a all new one because the new player allows them to be lazy drug addicts because "MUH WARHAMMER" and $$$ for their drug addiction.