Still, the fact Creative Assembly made playable races out of Norsca and the Vampire Coast always meant it was only a matter of time before Kislev got its turn. Kislev got some threadbare tabletop rules in a mini army book for Warhammer’s sixth edition (back in 2003), and it has plenty of lore, but it was never one of the 15 ‘core’ races to get a fully fledged rulebook. That’s pretty badass, and has made Kislev into fan favourites.
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It’s a cold, harsh land full of cold, harsh people, sometimes scorned by the Empire as savages, but as the first line of defence against Chaos the rest of the world owes them a debt. Warhammer’s analogue of Russia, Kislev borders the Empire to its north and thus is the first place to get reamed whenever the hordes of Chaos in the north pole decide to beat up someone other than themselves. The reveal trailer and the accompanying announcement were clear: Kislev will be a launch race for Total War: Warhammer III. If you missed the reveal trailer, you can watch it and an in-depth breakdown of every little detail with our Total War: Warhammer 3 trailer analysis.
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These are all the races currently confirmed for Total War: Warhammer 3, plus a few others that are native to the lands where it will likely be set, and thus are candidates to arrive later via DLC.
And we're also able to speculate further into the future with a little more accuracy. Such were the questions ahead of the Total Warhammer 3 reveal trailer. But with the Daemons sort-of breaking down into four smaller armies, one for each of the Dark Gods, how would Creative Assembly handle that? And who, other than ogres and daemons, could otherwise populate the new map? The studio has also promised that each game would have four races at launch. (I assume that Beastmen, Wood Elfs and Lizardmen get no DLC) Some races will end up without DLC content, the is simply not enough slots for all.One of the biggest questions and causes of speculation around Total War: Warhammer III is simply: what will the launch races be?ĭeveloper Creative Assembly has promised to include all 15 of the Warhammer eighth edition core races in its Total War games, which at this point leaves only Ogre Kingdoms and Daemons of Chaos. That leaves 8 DLC lords to divide among 13 old races. At least 12 of the DLC lords will be Cathay, Kislev or Monogod, at least 6 FLC will be from those races, probably more. If Warhammer gets as much content as the two older games combined that would 10 lord packs with 20 DLC and 10 FLC lords. Sheer math makes it unlikely that Empire will get more than 1 DLC.
The only other races that could feasibly reach that number without it feeling forced or dragging in literal who's would be the Vampire Counts and Warriors of Chaos (before they were split into God-specific factions). They have so many characters and - more importantly - so many missing units to add in that they could easily get 3 more DLCs and still have more stuff that could be added. They should end up with 8 LLs in my opinion.Įmpire is one of the factions that could end up with 10+ LLs. The problem is the missing FLC lords which we are unlikely to get since that would hurt the sales of an Empire DLC. It added only limited content to the other Empire factions.Įmpire has as much chance as any WH 1 & 2 race to get DLC if not more since Empire vs Chaos is a classic matchup. But rather that his DLC was a very good Markus Wulfhart DLC but a below average Empire DLC. The problem with Markus Wulfhart is not that he is an expedition, expedition starts are simply necessary if we want more variety for a race. ( CA's focus at that time was likely the army book characters who for the most part were Karl Franz' subordinates.) Toddy can still be made playable as an FLC or a TW Access lord, the problem is not adding him but adding the Middenland roster which would require a DLC to do well. Toddy was probably 'wasted' because he was not a legendary character with special rules in 8th edition. So now there are a lot of Empire characters who have been held back and no way to add more than 1 or 2. But then Kislev and Cathay were added and took over the role as the main defenders against Chaos in WH3. Some decisions have had unforeseen consequences, for example CA only gave the Empire new wizards as FLC content, probably because they were saving Empire legendary lords for use against Chaos in the original version of Warhammer 3.