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Many others on internet says 300 is turn limit but you can continue after. I didnt understand how i fail tho, in attila in rome 1 nothing pushed me to achieve something in limited time. Victory conditions on roman campaign doesnt say you have to do this and this until 28 AD. What the Turn Limit Is in Total War Three Kingdoms Indeed, from what we can tell, you’ll be able to really take your time to strategize each and every cunning move in Three Kingdoms. “Four fun, distinct factions and a story-driven campaign in Total War: Warhammer 2 set a new bar for the series” 9.1 – IGN “Warhammer 2 is Total War perfected” Recommended – Eurogamer “A maximalist sequel that improves on almost every aspect of the first game.” 92/100 – PC Gamer.

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“Kill the warmbloods!” The cry resounds over the battlefield, no doubt instilling fear in the hordes of rats who face me. Still they march on, pouring out of desolate ruins towards my scaly soldiers. To the left, a division of spear-wielding chameleons. To the right, a massive tyrannosaurus rex waits with opening jaws. And behind? Well, that’s where my cavalry await—dinosaurs riding other dinosaurs.

Total War: Warhammer II is truly bizarre.

Skaven is a place on Earth

It’s been approximately a year and a half since the release of Total War: Warhammer—the first Total War game to abandon history for more fantastical fields of glory. Do I wish we’d gotten another history-centric Total War by now? Sure. But we didn’t, and instead Creative Assembly has released the second part of a planned trilogy, which for convenience sake I’m going to call Total Warhammer II from here on out.

Sort of a sequel, sort of a standalone expansion, Total Warhammer II adds a new map, a new conflict, and four new races to the Total Warhammer universe. The new map actually spans four different continents from Warhammer lore—Lustria, Ulthuan, Naggaroth, and the Southlands.

And at the heart of Ulthuan? The Great Vortex, a magical tornado that drains magical energy from the world.

This supernatural cyclone is also the heart of Total Warhammer II. Where the previous game focused on ancient enmities—between Dwarves and Greenskins, Empire and Vampires, and so on—Warhammer II is much more focused, more immediate in its concerns. All four factions want control of the Great Vortex, whether to save the world or to corrupt it.

The Lizardmen, ancient stewards of the world, are afraid of lesser races derailing the “Great Plan” foreseen by their ancestors. They seek to protect the Vortex from warmblood interference. The High Elves fear their Dark Elf counterparts will corrupt the Vortex and bring Chaos back to the world—a plan the Dark Elves have indeed put into motion. And the ratlike Skaven? They plan to tear open the void itself.

Before I get into what I dislike, I’d like to praise the factions themselves. The first Total Warhammer was a huge departure for Total War, but not much of a departure for video games in general. Dwarves, Humans, Orcs, Vampires—the latter faction was the most interesting, but none are exactly unexplored territory. The same goes for Elves this time around—that’s well-trod territory.

Rat-men and dinosaurs, though? Fantastic. I played through the opening hours of all four factions during this review, but carried the Lizardmen campaign all the way to completion because, come on—it’s dinosaurs. In all my years of strategy games, watching a T-Rex battle against a horde of plague-spreading rats is a definite highlight.

The original Total Warhammer was tried-and-true fantasy. The sequel is much more unique, and it’s the utter strangeness of this conceit that’s made Total Warhammer II so satisfying despite the fact I think it’s the weaker of the two games.

The problem? Although the sequel’s factions are weirder, you’d never know it from the campaign itself—all four campaigns are structured the same, with only surface-level differences.

Let’s use the Lizardmen for an example. The Lizardmen start out in Lustria, a lush jungle continent. Dinosaur land. Led by Mage-Priest Mazdamundi, the Lizardmen hope to collect enough “Ancient Tablets” to fill a meter at the top of the screen. The meter is split into five sections, with each milestone triggering a Ritual—a ten-turn process where you need to defend three cities from both rival armies and the forces of Chaos who leak into the world. The fifth ritual lasts 20 turns, requires 5,000 of these Tablets, and completing it triggers the Final Battle and (if you win) the end of the game. With me so far?

Okay, so the High Elves need to collect 5,000 “Way-fragments” to conduct the fifth ritual. Dark Elves? It’s 5,000 “Scrolls of Hekarti.” Skaven, it’s 5,000 Warpstone.

My point is: Playing each campaign feels fundamentally the same. The win conditions are identical, save for faction-specific lore.

I found myself missing the first Total Warhammer, where each faction had unique (and thus interesting) win conditions. The Dwarves, for instance, were mostly in it just to take back their lands from the Greenskins. There was a story there, a history that felt important and lent the campaign weight.

Total Warhammer II’s factions still play differently. My favorite mechanic is unique to the Skaven actually. All of their cities appear to be uninhabited ruins until you try to colonize them, at which point an entire Skaven army can pop out of the ground. It adds an element of danger I really enjoyed.

As far as win conditions, though, sure, they all have different reasons for coveting the Vortex, but...well, not that different.

The Great Vortex MacGuffin-rush also changes how the campaign progresses. I praised Total Warhammer for restricting factions to certain parts of the world. You didn’t just rampage across the map, declaring war on whoever you wanted. Vampires only had designs on Empire territory, for example. This had dual effects: It grounded the conflict, made each city you captured feel important, and it also artificially limited how many cities the player had to manage.

In Total Warhammer II, generating Tablets/Scrolls/Fragments/Warpstone is mostly a factor of how many cities you own. Every city you control contributes to your total, and by the end of my Lizardmen campaign I owned something like 65 settlements, gained through some combination of military conquest and unifying other Lizardmen factions under my own banner—a necessity, because other Lizardmen factions won't contribute to your own Ancient Tablet goals, even though you're all sort of 'on the same side.' No city is off-limits, either. Some are in an “unsuitable” climate, which carries various negative effects, but that’s it.

Once you’re past even 20 or 30 settlements, that’s a lot of micromanagement. 65 is awful. Every turn, there were a dozen or more cities demanding attention, asking me to weigh the benefits of another barracks here, another quarry there, and so on. But I needed those cities to generate Tablets as fast as my rivals. It wasn’t like I could abstain from conquest.

There’s also an odd dynamic that occurs by featuring four different continents, two of which are completely isolated by oceans. In the first game, it often felt like Dwarves could finish out a game and barely interact with the Empire/Humans—but that’s because your win conditions had next-to-nothing to do with them!

Here, you could go the entire Lizardmen campaign without ever encountering the High Elves at all, even though you’re directly embroiled in this global conflict with them. That’s a problem when those same High Elves end up being your closest rivals, in large part because their empire’s grown unchecked on the other side of the world.

Your only recourse is a bit of a cheat. Each time a Ritual is started by an enemy faction you can pay to send an “Intervention” army to opposing cities—a means of getting around your innate isolation. But you don’t even control the mercenary army you bought, nor the makeup of said army aside from a Weak/Average/Strong dynamic based on how much you paid. Thus it often feels like you’re in a vacuum, struggling to raise Tablets/Scrolls/whatever faster than an enemy you can’t even see, and then trusting the AI to throw a wrench into the enemy’s plans for you.

What, you’d rather send your own army? Crossing an ocean can take upwards of eight turns, and—even weirder—any naval battles are fought as if the two land armies were facing off against each other, and can only be auto-resolved. No tactics allowed, and no dedicated naval/ship-to-ship combat.

It feels under-baked. This grand conflict, these far-flung continents—it fits the Warhammer lore, sure, but it doesn’t hang together quite as well as a game. The threat is too abstract, mostly represented by a bar creeping ever rightward on the top of the screen, and going back to play the other campaigns doesn’t feel as satisfying when the core loop is basically the same each time. Combine that with some mechanical missteps (mostly the aforementioned focus on micromanagement and the tacked-on naval combat), and it’s just a bit disappointing.

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That being said: It’s disappointment in relation to the first game, which was stellar. I don’t think Total Warhammer II is bad, per se, and definitely enjoyed the presence of the Lizardmen and Skaven factions. Give me more of that in the inevitable Warhammer III actually, by which I mean get weirder. Unbound by the chains of human history, Creative Assembly can finally be truly creative. I love it. I'm also curious to see what new factions add to the conflict—whether they too are embroiled in conflict over the Great Vortex and how it changes the dynamic.

I’d like to see more of what worked in the first Total Warhammer, though. Less world-spanning disaster, more localized enmities and backroom politicking. I don’t just want factions to play differently in pursuit of the same goal—I want them to be different. That’s undoubtedly a hard trick to pull off, especially when it comes to balancing strengths and weaknesses, but I think it made Total Warhammer a much stronger game than this more traditional sequel.

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  Total War: Warhammer II is a more daring take on fantasy than its predecessor, adding Lizardmen (dinosaurs) and Skaven (rat-men) to the mix—but it's not necessarily a more daring Total War game.

  Pros

  • Lizardmen and Skaven factions are unique, fresh
  • Grander scope than its predecessor

  Cons

  • The four faction-specific campaigns aren't actually very different this time around
  • Factions feel isolated, with continents separated by too much empty ocean

Tomb Kings require Rise of the Tomb Kings to play.

Tomb Kings are a major race introduced in Total War: Warhammer II via a paid DLC. They are playable in campaign, multiplayer and custom battles. In campaign, players can choose between four playable subfactions, each led by a different legendary lord.

The Tomb Kings were previously a great human empire called Nehekhara (now known as the Land of the Dead), themed on ancient Egypt. However, the empire of Nehekhara was destroyed by the necromancer Nagash and his vampires, causing the mummified dead of Nehekhara to rise. The Tomb Kings now seek to reclaim their lost glory, and take vengeance on Nagash and the vampires. The armies of the Tomb Kings consist of ranks of skeleton soldiers and chariots, supported by towering animated statues of bone and stone.

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How they play[editedit source]

A summary of Tomb Kings gameplay:

• Units: Tomb Kings focus on ranks of skeleton infantry and chariots, combined with powerful animated statues and constructs.
• Elite units: They also have Regiments of Renown and campaign-exclusive Legions of Legend.
• Realm of Souls: As Tomb Kings armies take damage in battle, a bar fills up mass-healing the army and allowing a Ushabti to be summoned.
• Day of Awakening: In campaign, Tomb Kings do not require money for unit recruitment or upkeep, instead having unit/army caps which are increased by buildings/technolgies.
• Canopic Jars: A unique resource used for research and by the Mortuary Cult.
• Mortuary Cult: A cult of priests who use resources to craft magical items and elite Legions of Legend.
• Nine Books of Nagash: In the Eye of the Vortex campaign, Tomb Kings don't compete with rituals, but rather search for these books. Books can also be searched for in other campaigns.

Background[editedit source]

Across the arid deserts of Nehekhara, vast legions of skeletal warriors rise from beneath the baking sands to slaughter those who trespass into their domain. It is a lifeless realm of endless dunes, stained red from the blood of savages and barbarians. This is the Land of the Dead, where mummified kings are cursed to rule in perpetual unlife. But it was not always thus.

There was a time when the ancient kingdom of Nehekhara stood as a crown of human civilisation; a golden age when its cities shone with majestic splendour, its armies conquered entire nations and its kings ruled as gods among men. But this realm was razed millennia ago by the treacherous sorcery of the reviled Nagash: in a stroke, the living perished and the dead rose from their tombs.

Death is no barrier to glory for the Tomb Kings however. In unlife, they will see the empire of Nehekhara restored to greatness!

In Battle[editedit source]

Unit Roster[editedit source]

Main article: Tomb Kings unit roster

The armies of the Tomb Kings consist of ranks of skeleton soldiers, chariots, and animated statues of the Nehekharan gods, sphinxes, scorpions and other creatures. Unlike the other undead faction, the Vampire Counts, the Tomb Kings do not rely on masses of expendable units. Also, unlike the Vampire Counts, Tomb Kings have access to archers and artillery.

Tomb Kings spellcasters have access to the Lore of Light, Lore of Death, Lore of Shadows and their unique Lore of Nehekhara. They also have a unique Curse ability which reduces enemy armour values.

Regiments of Renown[editedit source]

Tomb Kings have several Regiments of Renown which are elite, unique versions of Tomb Kings units.

Legions of Legend[editedit source]

Legions of Legend are extra-powerful units, even moreso than Regiments of Renown, which can be crafted at the Mortuary Cult.

Realm of Souls[editedit source]

As Tomb Kings units fall in battle, their essences flow to the realm of souls. As certain thresholds are reached, mass-healing and resurrection waves are triggered (map wide) reinvigorating the Tomb Kings’ armies. Furthermore, when the third threshold is reached, the Tomb Kings can summon a unit of Ushabti to the battle.

Binding and Crumbling[editedit source]

Like the Vampire Counts, Tomb Kings units do not rout when their leadership goes down. Instead they stay in the fight, but take damage and lose models via crumbling. This is because Tomb Kings units are fearless undead, but the magic sustaining them can grow weak.

Fatigue[editedit source]

Like the Vampire Counts, Tomb Kings are undead and so their units use different names for fatigue levels to reflect the lore.

In the Campaign[editedit source]

Tomb Kings are a normal, non-horde race who occupy settlements and control provinces.

Playable subfactions[editedit source]

In the campaign, Tomb Kings are divided into 4 playable factions, each led by a different Legendary Lord:

NPCs[editedit source]

• Priest Nerutep: Primary quest giver for the Tomb Kings

The Epilogue for the Eye of the Vortex campaign when playing as Khemri, Court of Lybaras, or Exiles of Nehek reveals that Priest Nerutep is actually Thutep, the brother of Nagash.

Books of Nagash[editedit source]

In the Eye of the Vortex campaign, Tomb Kings do not compete to control the great vortex and do not use rituals. Instead, they attempt to find the Books of Nagash which provide various bonuses and eventually culminate in a titanic battle at the Black Pyramid of Nagash.

Tomb Kings also compete to search for the books in other campaigns, though it is not part of the victory conditions.

Day of Awakening[editedit source]

Tomb Kings do not require money to recruit or upkeep units. Instead, they have a limit on how many units of a certain type they can per army. This cap is expanded by constructing more of the relevant military recruitment building in other cities. However, Tomb Kings still use money to construct buildings or enact rites. For instance each Open Graves building you construct increases the amount of Skeleton Archers you can recruit (faction-wide) by 4.

The following units do not have a limit:

Additionally, Tomb Kings have a cap on the amount of armies they can field. This is increased by researching technology (see below) and paying to increase the cap via the Mortuary Cult.

Mortuary Cult[editedit source]

The Mortuary Cult are the keepers of the Lore of Nehekhara and the secrets of revivification, the Liche Priests of the Mortuary Cult can be called upon to construct unique and venerable items. Using a combination of trade resources and Canopic Jars, the player can order the construction of unique magic weapons, armour, talismans, plus enchanted and arcane items. For a cost, the Mortuary Cult can also resurrect powerful Legions of Legend for use in your armies.

Canopic Jars[editedit source]

Canopic Jars are a unique resource for the Tomb Kings. Ancient containers filled with arcane energy, Canopic Jars can be collected through missions, buildings, and as post-battle loot. They are used to awaken powerful units, unlock techs, perform rites and to craft unique items in the Mortuary Cult.

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Tomb Heralds[editedit source]

Tomb Kings have access to unique, powerful Tomb Herald followers gained through the tech tree.

Inventory[editedit source]

Rites[editedit source]

See Tomb Kings rites.

Tomb Kings can perform several rites to give them various powerful faction-wide bonuses. This is the only way they can recruit Ptra's Necrotect or the Casket of Souls. One rite gives them access to Tomb Swarm, an army ability which summons a swarm of scarabs to consume the enemy.

Dynasties of Nehekara (tech tree)[editedit source]

See Tomb Kings tech tree.

The Tomb Kings tech tree is divided into separate groups called Dynasties. Unlocking a dynasty will raise your army cap, allowing you to field additional armies. It also allows you to recruit a special unique lords such as Lahmizzash of the Fourth Dynasty. However each dynasty you unlock increases the time it takes to unlock the next dynasty. Thus players must carefully plan which dynasties they want to unlock in which order. At the end of the tech tree players can unlock powerful Tomb Heraldfollowers.

Diplomacy[editedit source]

Tomb Kings have some restrictions on diplomacy:

• Tomb Kings factions cannot confederate each other.
• Khemri and Followers of Nagash are in a permanent war and cannot sign peace.
• Followers of Nagash cannot engage in diplomacy/trade with other Tomb Kings factions.

Buildings[editedit source]

See Tomb Kings buildings.

Stances[editedit source]

Stances for Tomb Kings armies:

• Entombed Beneath the Sands - Replaces encamp. Enables replenishment, global recruitment and certain abilities. Despite the name suggesting an ambush, this is not an Ambush stance.

Post-battle options[editedit source]

See Tomb Kings post-battle options.

• Endless March: +Treasury +Campaign movement range.
• Harvest Organs: +Canopic Jars
• Bind souls: +replenishment

Settlement options[editedit source]

Settlement options for Tomb Kings:

Captured settlement:

• Occupy : +Canopic Jars
• Sack : +Gold
• Raze : +Canopic Jars

Ruined settlement:

• Colonize

Ptra’s Necrotect has the ability to colonize ruins and start the settlement off at Level III.

Commandments[editedit source]

See the article on commandments for a list of Tomb Kings commandments.

Climate preferences[editedit source]

The following are climate preferences for Tomb Kings (less Exiles of Nehek and Court of Lybaras):

• Suitable: Wasteland, Savannah, Desert
• Unpleasant: Temperate, Mountain, Jungle, Island
• Uninhabitable: Frozen, Ocean, Chaotic Wasteland, Magical Forest

Tomb Kings events[editedit source]

See Random event and Dilemmas, then scroll down to Tomb Kings sections.

Minor factions[editedit source]

A few minor non-playable factions are grouped together in campaign under the Tomb Kings race:

Chaos Invasion[editedit source]

During a Chaos Invasion, it is not known how AI Tomb Kings will act.

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Tomb Kings trailer[editedit source]