Total War: Warhammer II’s The Prophet and The Warlock DLC is out now alongside the free Doomsayer replace. Among the various tweaks and reworks in that patch is the under-empire mechanic, which I totally take pleasure in, however which lets you do some really dastardly issues when paired with Ikit Claw, one of many DLC’s new Legendary Lords.
Such escapades gave the builders at Creative Assembly a few of their favorite tales from making the DLC. One nasty new tactic is to unleash an upgradeable military of ratmen from beneath an enemy metropolis, taking it abruptly – and battle designer Gary Deans managed to make use of this vanguard to carve out a brand new, verminous realm within the coronary heart of the Empire.
“I was playing as Ikit Claw in Mortal Empires, so I was in Skavenblight, and I sent my Warlock Engineer north,” Deans says. “I got to Nuln, established a war camp, and took what was a ragtag bunch of isolated Skaven and managed to carve out a small empire within that region. I felt like I was paratroopers dropped into enemy territory, because I had no support – you can’t replenish, and can’t recruit for a decent chunk of time after you’ve spawned this army. You really are on your own. But I managed to survive this insertion, against all the odds – I was taking settlements when outnumbered two-to-one, and stuff like that. It was one of those moments in the game that I’ll never forget.”
Any Skaven Lord can construct a battle camp and use it to spawn an under-city military, however Ikit Claw has a novel trick – he can construct a Doomsphere. This gadget, his lifelong obsession, is the Warhammer equal of a nuclear bomb, and if detonated efficiently, it may well cut back a tier-five metropolis to a smash.
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“One of the QA guys was testing some stuff out – the Doomspheres – and he’d spread a massive under-empire throughout the Southlands,” Heastie tells us. “I said to him, ‘I wonder what would happen if you put a Doomsphere in every single under-empire region in the Southlands and detonated them all at once?’ So half an hour went by, and he sent me a little video. All you see is just a massive, green explosion, and these other massive explosions, just destroying essentially a whole continent. And that’s when I was like: ‘yes. We’ve done it.’”
You can see Heastie’s story within the video above. If you fancy getting in on the Chaos, the DLC is on Steam here for the cheap value of $8.99 (£6.99). Head to the Total War blog for Doomsayer replace patch notes, together with particulars of the under-empire, Bretonnia’s Mortal Empires rework, Lord Kroak, and rebalances and bug fixes galore.
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