
Every piece of DLC, aside from the Norsca faction, can be used in Mortal Empires.Īn early threat to the Vampire Counts are the Dwarven factions milling around the mountains to the east and south.

This time, though, I picked one of the DLC leaders: Vlad von Carstein. My very first Total War: Warhammer campaign, back when I first got my hands on it last year, was with the hoity-toity Vampire Counts, so for old times’ sake, I returned to the haunted forests and imposing castles of Sylvania. The cinematics and the tense race for control of the titular Vortex are gone, and it’s a loss, but plenty of other Warhammer 2 improvements have been carried over. Like the first Warhammer campaign, it’s largely a free-for-all with each faction being given specific capitals to conquer and the eventual Chaos invasion to survive. I love it.Īfter Total War: Warhammer 2’s tighter, objective-driven Vortex campaign, I was hesitant to jump into the more aimless Mortal Empires. It took me an hour of second-guessing and two false starts before I finally settled on a faction and leader. In terms of scale, it’s the series at its most ambitious, and its most daunting.

Mortal Empires is Total War’s grandest of grand campaigns: a stunningly huge global war with over 100 factions and 35 leaders duking it out over multiple continents.
