

I’ll cover the Warhammer setting a little more in the next paragraph, but I felt it more prudent to start with what Total War actually is. Then, Creative Assembly announced they were doing a Warhammer fantasy game, going so far as to use the tagline “ our rules have changed” (no doubt referring to their long-standing “we want to focus on historical titles” stance up to that point) in the announcement trailer.

I also knew about Total War from about when Napoleon came out, but tried them and couldn’t really get too involved (it didn’t help that I tried to start with Empire, since it was the setting I was most interested in). I played Dawn of War 2 not knowing anything about the setting and ended up getting really interested in it. I’ve always been more of a 40k person, personally.

Full disclosure: This is one of my reviews from Steam, built upon a bit more since I don’t feel the need to “cut to the chase” as much if it’s not integrated into the client.
