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TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER II

Despite Total War: Warhammer III coming soon, I’m still obsessed with its predecessor. After more than three years, I’m still conducting my glorious wars, wiping out empires, and telling my little goblins that I love them dearly. And it’s just kept growing, transforming the already beefy game into a life-consuming behemoth. It’s magic.

With the first , and the historical, Creative Assembly created lots of mini-campaigns, but for the studio adopted a different approach. After introducing two new races, the Tomb Kings and the Vampire Coast, it focused solely on fleshing out its existing ones with new lords, as well as bringing races from the previous game into the Vortex campaign.

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