Watch On
When Creative Assembly announced it was ending support for Total War: Three Kingdoms it did so by saying “we are now looking at the future of Three Kingdoms”, so when it announced that Warhammer 3’s next DLC will be released on the same day as a 25th anniversary celebration where “the future of the franchise will be revealed”, you can be forgiven for flinching.
But it doesn’t seem like this is the death knell for Total War: Warhammer 3. If anything, it’s a reason to hope it can be dragged out of the Slough of Despond that led to its recent review-bombing. At least we got a cinematic trailer for Tides of Torment that looks sick as hell.
The upcoming expansion adds a High Elf faction led by Sea Lord Aislinn, complete with Merwyrms and Skycutters—eagle-powered flying chariots that look great in motion—as well as a Norsca faction led by Sayl the Faithless, who gets a two-headed giant troop called the Curs’d Ettin, and a Slaanesh faction led by Dechala the Denied One, a six-armed snake lady who gets a flying chimerical mutant called the Preyton. A surprising choice of monster, Preytons were expected to show up in the Beastmen roster instead, though they do fill a flying-beast niche in the Slaanesh army.
