Take for example The Empire, a single faction out of 15. The length of this article would make Brandon Sanderson blush and you would be facedown and drooling on your keyboard before you got through ten percent of it. If I were to try and talk about every facet of Total Warhammer 2. This review was conducted with all currently available DLC, so keep that in mind going forward. Taken together, there are a whopping 15 playable factions and numerous lords between each one, many of which change the game significantly when you play them.

Locking Ratling gunners behind a paywall feels bad in a way DLC units for other factions doesn’t The race of Ratmen is a base Total Warhammer 2 faction but their DLC units feel extremely necessary. Most DLC’s consist of new factions and playstyles that can always be explored later. It’s perfectly reasonable to play Total Warhammer 2 as a standalone game to see if you like it.

You pay for the right to use them yourself. If you don’t have a given DLC, you will still encounter and fight any factions, lords, and units they grant. The amount of DLC isn’t really a negative, each one includes meaty additions that are totally worth their price individually. Each faction and lord have different starting areas and playstyles. If you already own the first game and its add ons, that’s great! If you don’t, it can be a little overwhelming. The entire first game and its DLC’s are also DLC for the second game, bringing over all the units, factions, and lords with it plus a grand campaign to fit them all together. A game on the scale of Total Warhammer 2 can offer the right player countless hours of enjoyment, but it can come with a cost, both monetarily and in-game design. The game’s deep mechanics and breadth of choice are truly staggering, even without the DLC. Each faction has its own goals, play styles, techs, and units. You take on the role of one of many legendary lords within a faction. The game is playable in a grand campaign, custom battles, and online multiplayer. Screenshots don’t do the games battles justice. The game is played in two halves, the strategy map where you manage your empire, city’s and units’ in turn-based grand strategy style gameplay, and the real-time battles when two or more armies meet. Total War: Warhammer 2 is an incredibly massive game made even larger by an assortment of DLC. Purchasing Total War: Warhammer 2 from this Creator Store link directly supports Gideon’s Gaming. This review was conducted by Joseph Pugh with all of the currently released DLC. Total War: Warhammer 2 is a strategy game that’s available on Steam and Humble Bundle.

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