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The effect of spellcasting on battles is less than expected. When their Leadership drops due to being flanked or attacked by enemies who cause fear they have a tendency to scarper, but recover quickly and need to be shepherded back into the fray for wave after wave. The Greenskins have a bit of everything, but can be hard to control. For them it's all about lurching forward, targeting specific enemies with flying units and Black Knights while the skeletons and zombies shamble up to fill the gaps. Vampire Counts don't have missile units (not even skeleton archers), though their wizards have a decent Wind Of Death spell. Dwarfs don't have wizards but are blessed with plenty of artillery, and are generally more of a defensive, come-get-me-you-lanky-bastards force. There's variance between factions in both the turn-based campaign game and the real-time battles. Each faction is almost a different game, and that's kept me interested.Д¬lothes shopping must be hell for Giants. It's not the kind of game where replaying as a different side means 'focusing slightly more on missile weapons because they have +1 with bows'. As the Greenskins I fought just to keep armies Fighty and raided neighbors without regard for what they thought because that's a significant part of the Orc income even though it went against what I learned with other factions and my regular tendencies.

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Imperials get weirder as they go on, with Steam Tanks and knights who trade horses for eagle-headed Demigryphs while their leader Karl Franz can upgrade to a flying Griffon.ДЄll these differences dramatically affected the way I played. Modelled on the Roman-German Empire, the humans are the most traditional faction, with starting units including crossbowmen, spearmen, and knights that will be more familiar to Total War players than Terrorgheists and Arachnaroks.

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The final of the four playable factions (Bretonnians exist as NPCs but can be used in multiplayer, while Chaos Warriors are available free to those who pre-ordered or buy Total War: Warhammer in its first week and will be paid DLC later) is The Empire.

Unlike the Heroes Of Might & Magic games where the undead grow and grow as they incorporate the fallen into their hordes, Warhammer's Vampire Counts are still reliant on the old-fashioned way to get decent troops, though provinces where large battles have been fought provide a better class of corpses to recruit. It's not as much of a game-changer as you'd expect. The Vampire Counts can also raise the dead to fill armies instantly rather than waiting (like in Rome II, armies are generated by generals rather than settlements, but cost extra away from the buildings that produce specialists). Other factions suffer attrition when moving across corrupted land while Vampire Counts armies are diminished by marching across uncorrupted land. Meanwhile, the Vampire Counts rely on spreading corruption in the form of a grey, sickly taint on the map. It breeds a playstyle all about defence, limiting fronts on which the Dwarfs can be attacked and only marching off to make new enemies when old ones have been thoroughly dealt with.Д®ach faction has their own tech tree, though the Orcs is a bit rudimentary. Any time their land is raided or attacked or Dwarfs are hindered in any way some scholar back at the capital sucks in air over his teeth and says, вЂњThat's going in the book.вЂќ While revenge earns rewards, having too many unavenged grudges drops public order as people lose faith in their leader. They never forget a slight, carefully noting each in a massive book of bitterness. If Fightiness is high enough, and there are at least 17 out of a maximum 20 units in the stack, all that sweet victory encourages other Orcs to band together in a bonus force called a Waaagh! For other species buying and maintaining multiple armies is a huge expense, but for Greenskins can earn them free, which encourages a state of constant aggression that's entirely appropriate.Дwarves never forget a slight, carefully noting each in a massive book of bitterness.Дwarfs on the other hand have to keep track of grudges.

Lose, or squat in your hovels like a coward, and it drops. For instance, the Greenskins have a meter measuring each army's Fightiness. In previous Total War games the factions played in a relatively similar way, but not any more.

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