: Temperate climates for Empire, Bretonnia, and other human factions, as well as Vampire Counts.
This map represents The Old World campaign for Total War: Warhammer.
The Regional occupation system limits which races can occupy which provinces.
Each of the factions (unless you yourself are playing the Warriors of Chaos) needs to deal with Archaon in one way or another - either through joining him or defeating him. It is much like the arrival of Attila in Attila: Total War.
The Chaos Invasion is a scripted event that happens later in the campaign.
DLC content adds many new playable races/factions/lords (even if you don't own any DLC, those factions still appear in the campaign for you to interact with, they just won't be playable).
Each faction has a different starting position, difficulty, and unique gameplay.
See the bottom of the page for a list of playable factions/lords.
There are 5 free playable races, divided into 8 playable factions with 13 starting legendary lords.
The latter game, however, was not made at Total War HQ - Creative Assembly UK - but in Sega's Australian studio that has since been closed.See campaign for a general guide on how to play campaign. The Total War series has visited the medieval ages (my favourite age if you're asking) twice before, once in 2002 (the second-ever Total War game) and again in 2006. There's a trailer, although it's scene-setting CGI mumbo-jumbo rather than gameplay, but there are screenshots that show a bit more. The press release touts 50 conquerable provinces and "hundreds" of hours of gameplay, and, well, that's about all we know for now. A trifling 32 years later he became the first Holy Roman Empire having united Western Europe. Beside Knights there will be Housecarls and other period-appropriate units from 768AD, which was when Charlemagne - Charles the Great - took the Frankish throne. There will be Knights, there will be a whole new medieval campaign map, and there will be new campaign mechanics, although the press release doesn't say what they are. Ooh Total War is getting all medieval again, in an expansion for Attila called Age of Charlemagne, due 10th December.