Total War: Warhammer
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It is an age of endless conquest, thousands of warriors clash in titanic battles as entire races wage war on one another, each led by a formidable hero seeking dominion over the world.
All at your command.
Total War: Warhammer is an upcoming turn-based strategy real-time tactics video game in development by the Creative Assembly and published by Sega. The game features the gameplay of the Total War series with factions of Games Workshop's Warhammer series. It's the 10th title in the Total War series and will be the first title to be released in the Total War: Warhammer trilogy. The title is set to be released on 24 May 2016.
Tropes used in Total War: Warhammer include:
- Badass Normal: The Imperial forces, by and large, are just regular humans with Renaissance-era weapons facing up against insurmountable odds.
- Black and Gray Morality: While the Empire isn't nearly as grimdark as the Imperium of Man, even at its murkiest it's far preferable to the realms of Chaos.
- Civil Warcraft: The Empire starts off with the newly crowned Karl Franz having to consolidate the realm from rivals and usurpers.
- Clock Punk/Steampunk: The more advanced technological units that the Dwarves and Empire can deploy come across as this.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Cult of Sigmar.
- Deadly Decadent Court: The Empire's inner workings can be its own worst enemy. Especially with various nobles and internal factions seeking to claim the throne from Karl Franz.
- Death From Above: Some of the magic spells that can be cast on the battlefield amount to this. Not to mention how aerial units can sweep down to kill unsuspecting troops.
- Death World: Territories under the Vampire Counts turn into veritable graves where the undead walk with impunity. While lands taken over by Chaos morph into literal pieces of Hell.
- DLC: The Warriors of Chaos are free DLC, essentially.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Quite a few, befitting both a Total War title and its Warhammer setting:
- The Empire is basically the Holy Roman Empire around the time of the Renaissance and suitably German in inspiration.
- The Vampire Counts are an undead version of Uberwald.
- Bretonnia is a blend of High Middle Ages France and Arthurian myth.
- The forces of Chaos are generally based on Vikings and the Germanic barbarians of Late Antiquity.
- Fantasy Gun Control: As with the source material, averted in the case of the Empire and Dwarven Kingdoms, which have much in the way of firearms and artillery. On the other hand, Bretonnia deliberately invokes this trope with its much more obvious medieval pretensions.
- Genre Shift: Not only from the historical backdrops of previous Total War titles to the fantasy setting of Warhammer. But also in the inclusion of hero units, magic and aerial combat among others into gameplay.
- Hero Unit: The "legendary lords" for each faction in particular even serve as leaders of their particular sub-faction, such as Karl Franz for the Empire.
- Just Before the End: The game takes place in the period just before the "End Times" of the Warhammer universe.
- Legion of Lost Souls: The Vampire Counts can summon undead armies to fight for their cause.
- Massive Race Selection: As of its release, the game has the Empire, Greenskins, Dwarven Kingdoms, Vampire Counts and Warriors of Chaos fully playable, with Bretonnia so far limited to custom battles. Word of God however states that more factions and areas would be fully incorporated as time goes on; by the time the planned trilogy is complete, the roster is expected to be huge.
- Meat Shield:
- Most of Bretonnia's peasant units ultimately amount to this, their purpose being to either soak up enemy attacks or hold the line until the knights and elite troops arrive to get the job done.
- Some of the undead forces the Vampire Counts can send to their foes, such as zombies, also double as this. Their sheer bulk making up for their individually weak attacks.
- Nintendo Hard: The game is stated as being difficult even by Total War standards, especially with the presence of magic and aerial combat.
- Uberwald: Sylvania, the "homeland" of the Vampire Counts is a deadringer for this trope, with its status as a former Imperial domain, Germanic culture and undead reputation.
- World of Ham/World of Badass: This is a Warhammer game after all, with the atmosphere of the source material in full blast.