Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am not your host, Rob Zakney.

I am Rowan Kaiser, filling in for Rob, who is dealing with some issues.

We wish him all the best with that.

But we got to talk about Total Warhammer, too. So here we are.

Our guest today include a friend of the show, writer and editor and proprietor of the

lore sworn order is that all right tj that's that's fairly accurate i am the editor yeah

co-properwriter yeah co-properpriiter and we'd also like to welcome back kataku's cosplay

editor luke punkett hey everybody nice to be back andaku's cosplay editor, Luke Punket. Hey, everybody. Nice to be back.

And like I said, today we're talking about Total War Warhammer 2, the much anticipated sequel to

Creative Assemblies Return to Form from last year.

This one takes place in the new world compared to the old world of Total Warhammer

1, and we got a lot more elves this time around.

TJ, do you want to talk a little bit about what's all different about this one?

Yeah, so I think we're going to basically talk about theortex campaign first and then move into Mortal Empires, basically.

Right. Mortal Empires is the grand campaign that combines both the Total Warhammer 1 and 2 maps.

Right. And we'll get to that later.

Yeah. So as far as the base game, Total Warhammer 2 is...

So they added the high elves and the dark elves, who, despite both being elves,

are probably play about as differently as any two factions in the game, to be honest.

And then the Skaven, who are the underground ratmen, they introduced

like a campaign stealth mechanic, which is something we haven't really seen before where their

armies can hide and even their cities are, they show up as ruins. So it's kind of, it's kind of like

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