Sieges usually aren’t the high point of campaigns in Total War: Warhammer and its sequel, unless you make extensive use of mods. Creative Assembly decided to change things in Total War: Warhammer III.
The trailer released today shows exactly that, including an extensive rework of siege mechanics and of the maps themselves to making conquering a settlement more challenging and defending it more rewarding.
You can check it out below.
If you’re unfamiliar with Total War: Warhammer III, which is coming for PC and has recently been delayed to early 2022, you can also read our hands-on preview.
If you want to see more, you can watch the previous trailer, the one that came before, another, plenty of gameplay, and the original announcement.
Here’s how the publisher officially describes the game:
“Far beyond the world and its petty wars there exists a dimension of pure, malevolent magic: The Realm of Chaos. It is a terrible place, incomprehensible to the mortal mind. It whispers promises of power, but to behold it is to be seduced by it. To relinquish your soul to it. To become it.
The four Ruinous Powers rule over this place, ever seeking to slip their bonds and engulf the world in a tide of daemonic corruption. Nurgle, the plague god; Slaanesh, the lord of excess; Tzeentch, the changer of ways; and Khorne, the god of blood and slaughter.
On the border between the worlds, two mighty kingdoms stand sentinel: the stern warriors of Kislev and the vast empire of Grand Cathay. But each is beset by its own trials, and now both have cause to cross the threshold and send their armies into the Realm of Chaos.
The world stands on a precipice. A single push will plunge it into cataclysm.
And there is one who schemes to achieve just that, an ancient figure who desires nothing less than to wield supreme power. But to succeed, he will need a champion…
The coming conflict will engulf all. Will you conquer your daemons? Or command them?”
