These include Dwarfs, Human factions, Greenskins and Vampire Counts at launch, with more added as paid downloadable content. The player controls one of several fantasy factions, each with their own units, characters and abilities. Like previous titles in the Total War series, gameplay unfolds both on a scale of kingdoms in a turn-based strategy campaign, managing cities and the movement of armies, and on a smaller scale in real-time tactics skirmishes and sieges, managing the movement and actions of individual units and characters within an army during a battle. It is the 10th title in the Total War series and the first title to be released in the Total War: Warhammer trilogy.
The game features the gameplay of the Total War series with factions of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy series it is the first Total War game not to portray a historical setting.
The game was brought to macOS and Linux by Feral Interactive. Total War: Warhammer is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for Microsoft Windows via the Steam gaming platform.
