Total War: WARHAMMER II

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.

epic gameplay and lore look forward to more content

Worst total war i played so far.

cpu draining all the time, room is hot AF, even on ultra low settings

loading takes ages, forcing player to pick auto battles with bad results [hmm CPU have catapult, and some bad units.. you have cavalery, strong top tier units, some flying units? naaah, valiant defeat... when on manual you lose just liked 5% and win... casaulties counting is horrible, pathfinding is horrible. coop games takes ages [2 months for single game after job]

there are few cool things, like variety of races/units but dark elves always win or lead all the time.

cannot play undead.. cannot play orks... unforgivable....

diplomacy? just "function random" all the time.
one turn they sign non-aggression, next turn they melt your towns, because F U

they siege? you lose 1/2 of army in 1 turn
you siege? naaaah, lets wait 13 turns.

no crossplay between linux and windows...

worst game in series... its my first negative opinion in steam for 13 years.. no game made me this frustrated and angry because of bugs and lack of logic and broken counting and unoptimized trash...

Better AI than Warhammer 3, but lacking the quality of life improvements. My recommendation is to geth all three, but only play 2 and 3 interchangeably.

As an avid fan of the Total War series, Warhammer II is a solid entry. The combat and combat variety between all the races is phenomenal. The campaign diplomacy is probably the most lacking in all of Total War games but at least it's there. Otherwise, it's just a great game.

Great 4X play and real time battles. For Warhammer and fantasy fans alike!

Better than Warhammer 3 IMO and I think Warhammer 3 is great!

My best friend bought this for me years ago, and it was my jumping on point for Warhammer. At first I was playing it strictly because I liked the Total War gameplay, but after enough time I developed an interest in the lore and the universe, and 40K after that. I love the sheer number of options available in a game of Immortal Empires, and it kept me entertained for like a thousand hours. Great game.

easily the best total war game ever i like 3 but this one just hits different when u play it idk the UI is so nostalgic and the fights feel right it was fun to experience this when it was first released and now that i play 3 more now i have this urges to do a wh2 campaign if just for the first starting turns

Plenty of factions and playstyles to choose from. Strategy, nation building and combat by the truckload. Awesome game, may not be for inexperienced RTS players

It's just not fun. Too many strong enemies, too many negative events and too much to read. Total War Warhammer I is much more fun than this game, and is a lot better balanced.

actually addicted will move to totalwarhammer 3 so hours on this one wont go up but rest assured i am still playing but the third one

After 4k hours, I can no longer recommend this game. Vanilla version is a foot deep and mile wide, but it's preposterously better with mods. Playing while the game was constantly updating and having to restart games was a pain, but when they finally released TWH3 they stopped doing frequent updates on this game and I was really able to sink my teeth into long modded playthroughs. However, TWH games have a game mode that blends all the games together into a giant map that's still a foot deep but now 10 miles wide, so they've been putting out little infrequent updates to THW2 that have gotten to the point where staple TWH2 mods are breaking but nobody is updating them because they all either playing TWH3 or they stopped playing.

So if you still haven't gotten this game, you're just in time to watch the best version of it fall apart and revert to its vanilla version, which looks even more lackluster than it used to given what's been put out since then.

Also CA is a callous and mean developer that doesn't deserve your money.

outstanding, better with mods, 10/10, an all time classic

If you're in a campaign there is no option to reload if you make a mistake. You need to exit the game to windows and then relaunch it to load from your last save point. Fuck that.

A good sequel to the first game and a continuation to the Total War style games and a solid prequal to the third game.I love the Lizardmen in this game by the way buy this on sale or else this`ll game alone will bankrupt you with all the DLC.
And by glory to The Emperor why is there so many Skaven factions Holy Moly!

Just the right amount of Warhammer Fantasy for the extremely casual fan (iykyk).

Works as intended on appropriate hardware & running very well off of Linux using latest Proton compatibility model.

The AI in this game is ridiculous. If left unchecked it can spawn an unreasonable amount of major armies and overwhelm you and the economics don't make any sense. When playing as the high elves with Tyrion, I started off the game playing decent and every time Nagarath just ends up spawning 15+ major armies at a time and there's no way to defend it. I would rate this game 1/10 if I could. It has a lot of potential but the AI needs to be re-balanced.

Total War: Warhammer always scratches that: make kingdom, go to war, burn idiots to the ground, itch that i get sometimes. Making your empire grow and beating down others is just satifying when done right. And this game does it better than any other i know. Warhammer fantasy is a great setting for this. The factions are cool even if a bit Cliche, depending on who you play but thats part of the charm too, Balance can be an kinda meh but as long as you don't play on harder difficulties you should be fine with even weaker factions. I will warn you that this game needs you to invest some serious time into learning at least the basics and what your faction is good at or you won't get much enjoyment out of this and it can be a slow burn but its worth it in my opinion. Its so satisfying if you manage to beat that bigger empire back and take their shit because you outplayed them. Another warning for new players: The game can be way more difficult or easy depending on where you start with what faction. If you want to learn the game first (on ''easy mode'') play Tyrion (that vanilla basic bitch elf) cause elfs are easy to understand and the campain is simple. Perfect for beginners. If your not convinced all i can say is the game does what its supposed to do better than any other game i know. Its competent and impressive most of the time even if far from perfect. The simple fact that they made all these beautiful armies that smack the shit out of each other, The monsters and all the other stuff.. well theres a lot of good stuff here and if your up for it you shouldn't regret buying this.

general
if you are a culture dude, looking for different playing experience, armies and technology tree, and like smashing monster, this is your place.

Best combination of war tactics and grand strategy.

Nice strategic gameplay...thanks to my mate I win always

Great strategy game with tons of mechanics that make each army feel unique and fun to play. A definite recommend for any Warhammer fan