Good evening, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host this week, Len Hafer, alongside my comrades-in-arms, Rowan Kaiser.

Hello.

And Fraser Brown.

Hello.

And we were all kind of shocked to discover that we have not talked about Total War Warhammer.

Basically, since Warhammer 2 came out, just like three and a half years ago at this point.

And as we were sort of in the planning phases for a show for this, they went ahead and introduce or announced Total War Warhammer 3.

So we're going to try to in one evening, in one show, talk about the highlights of all

of the changes that have come to Warhammer 2 since the last time we talked about it.

And then also a little bit of what we know about Warhammer 3 so far.

So there's been two new big factions introduced to Warhammer 2, Tomb Kings and Vampire Coast,

which is actually the first one that was not a Warhammer Tabletop Army book,

uh, alongside a whole bunch of new lords and stuff. I think they've redone all of the

base game factions at this point. Uh, they've redone a lot of the DLC factions even, uh, from

the first game. Uh, Mortal Empires has been updated more times that I can count.

Roan, what are the highlights here?

What do you think is the most impactful change that they've made across this whole development cycle?

Well, the change in focus from the Total Warhammer 2 campaign to the Mortal Empire's campaign.

Mortal Empires be the combination of Total Warhammer's 1 and 2, although really it's more grafting Total Warhammer 2's factions and map onto the Warhammer 1.

It's centered around the chaos invasion. It doesn't have the crazy

vortex campaign stuff. So yeah, it's, it's really sort of a generic, not generic, but

kind of a straightforward, focused campaign of just conquering things and dealing with chaos when they try to unconquer

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