Total War: Warhammer’s Curse of the Vampire Coast provides Luthor Harkon and large crabs

It’s official. Total War: Warhammer II’s subsequent marketing campaign pack might be Curse of the Vampire Coast, and it’s due for launch on November 8.

As a marketing campaign pack, the brand new DLC will add a brand new race and 4 Legendary Pirate Lords as their leaders. A brand new trailer (which you’ll be able to view under) provides a flavourful style of their military: there are zombies with weapons, large crabs, flamethrower-wielding constructs fabricated from ship components, and numerous undead monstrosities with oceanic mutations. It’s all very Pirates of the Caribbean. It’s potential there might be some overlap with the Vampire Counts, however the distinctive monsters, huge number of cannons, and a brand new lore of magic (the Lore of the Deep) guarantees a fairly distinct playstyle.

The Vampire Coast are a faction within the Vortex and Mortal Empires campaigns proper now, so anticipate to see them fleshed out. A extra attention-grabbing query is what’s going to occur with Sartosa, the pirate capital of the Warhammer world, which was intentionally added to the Mortal Empires marketing campaign just a few months in the past. The Rusting Harbour – a Sartosan port – was additionally talked about in yesterday’s tease as a base from which “a dealer of antiquities” plies his commerce.

That suits neatly with the implication within the trailer that we’ll be performing some treasure searching as a part of the brand new DLC, because the 4 pirate lords aren’t within the Great Vortex in any respect. They’re fascinated by what the Great Vortex has woke up: an unlimited and historical Merwyrm referred to as Amanar, which might be the factor you possibly can see on the finish of the trailer.

Amanar might be terrorising the Vampire Coast, attacking ports and summoning colossal sea storms. The pirate lords’ goal is to seek out and empower the Star-Metal Harpoon, which is able to controlling Amanar and thereby dominating the excessive seas. It’s not completely clear how we’ll try this, however the vampire pirate starring within the trailer appears preoccupied with some Lizardmen artifacts, so item-hunting appears to be on the agenda.

That vampire, by the way in which, is Luthor Harkon, a identified determine in Warhammer lore. He was sired by Abhorash, one of many first and strongest vampires ever, and established the undead enclave that turned generally known as the Vampire Coast. While plundering Lizardmen temples his thoughts was addled by their protecting glyphs – you possibly can see this within the trailer – and his speak of constructing himself complete once more would possibly trace that he has a private, secondary goal within the game.

Regardless, you possibly can guess that Harkon might be one of many 4 new Legendary Lords. As for the others, no particulars but, however we’re betting some could also be drawn from Dreadfleet, a specialist Warhammer tabletop game all about naval battles. The titular Dreadfleet was led by one other vampire pirate named Count Noctilus, and certainly the trailer description mentions “dreadfleets”.

Curse of the Vampire Coast is out on November Eight and pre-orders are live on Steam now, and can low cost the standard buy worth of £13.99 by 10%, as is Sega’s wont.