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The campaign focuses around the New World and Great Vortex, seeing the player and AI race to gain control over the Vortex - to then either heal it and prevent destruction, or disrupt it and cause chaos. This aims to create a climatic end-game seeing the AI rush to beat the player to the end-game objective. | The campaign focuses around the New World and Great Vortex, seeing the player and AI race to gain control over the Vortex - to then either heal it and prevent destruction, or disrupt it and cause chaos. This aims to create a climatic end-game seeing the AI rush to beat the player to the end-game objective. | ||
| − | Owners of both [[Total War: Warhammer]] and Total War: Warhammer II can play Mortal Empires | + | Owners of both [[Total War: Warhammer]] and Total War: Warhammer II can play a Mortal Empires campaign, using a huge map that combines both the Old and New world maps and factions from both games. This feature was released in October 2017. Mortal Empires can be played with only Warhammer II installed, as long as you also have the first Warhammer game in your Steam library. |
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Total War: Warhammer II is an instalment in the Total War series, and the sequel to 2016's Total War: Warhammer. It was released in September 2017.
A cinematic trailer for the game was released in April 2017.
Contents
General Information
Set in the same Warhammer Fantasy universe as its predecessor, Warhammer II features a campaign map that spans across the continents of Lustria, Ulthuan, Naggaroth and the Southlands with four playable factions with two legendary Lords each giving players a total of eight unique starting positions.
Features
The campaign focuses around the New World and Great Vortex, seeing the player and AI race to gain control over the Vortex - to then either heal it and prevent destruction, or disrupt it and cause chaos. This aims to create a climatic end-game seeing the AI rush to beat the player to the end-game objective.
Owners of both Total War: Warhammer and Total War: Warhammer II can play a Mortal Empires campaign, using a huge map that combines both the Old and New world maps and factions from both games. This feature was released in October 2017. Mortal Empires can be played with only Warhammer II installed, as long as you also have the first Warhammer game in your Steam library.
Factions
There are four major playable factions:
- High Elves
- Dark Elves
- Lizardmen
- Skaven
Campaign Map
The campaign map is a similar physical size to the original Total War: Warhammer, but with a third more conquerable regions.
System Requirements
Minimum:
(Expected around 25-35 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to "Low", running at 1280×720)
- Operating System: Windows 7 64Bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
- RAM: 5 GB
- Hard Drive: 60 GB
- Video Card: (DirectX 11) NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @ 720p
Recommended:
(Expected around 45-55 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to "High", running at 1920×1080)
- Operating System: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4570 3.20GHz
- RAM: 8 GB
- Hard Drive: 60 GB
- Video Card: (DirectX 11) NVIDIA GTX 770 4GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB @ 1080p
For 60+ Fps:
(Expected 60 FPS+ on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Ultra”, running at 1920×1080)
- Operating System: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz
- RAM: 8 GB
- Hard Drive: 60 GB
- Video Card: (DirectX 11) Nvidia GTX 1070 8 GB
References
- http://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-ii-coming-soon/. Retrieved April 2nd.
- http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-30-total-war-warhammer-2-creative-assembly-answers-the-big-questions. Retrieved April 2nd.
