You can check out the High Elf army roster here. They’re a little light on artillery, but otherwise have ample choice in every troop type. They have a long-standing alliance with the dragons and some of the best elite infantry in the game, such as the Phoenix Guard – they get a perpetual magical ward that makes them very tanky (by elven standards, at least).
Think of that cool bit at the start of the Lord of the Rings, where glittering ranks of elves take an orc charge and chop them up with cool efficiency, and you’ve a sense of their flavour. On the tabletop, the High Elves are a flexible and disciplined army. “ really fun to play if you want to get that flavour of being a master manipulator,” says Hall. You can then spend this influence in the diplomacy menus to manipulate relations between other factions: “You could make two rival High Elf and Dark Elf factions go to war, to weaken them both,” suggests Hall, but you’re not limited to toying with third parties if you want to trade with someone but your relations aren’t quite good enough, you can spend some influence to improve them. High Elf spies enable them to see whatever their trading partners see, and they can earn ‘influence’ by using their agents or resolving events called Intrigue at Court dilemmas. Thousands of years later, this has given their descendents a certain sense of entitlement they look out only for themselves, and yet, because they also consider themselves the rightful rulers of the world, they stick their noses into everyone else’s business anyway. Long ago, the Elves were the favourite (but not the first) creations of the Old Ones, the original gods of the Warhammer World, who also built them an idyllic island called Ulthuan. By completing their own sub-quests you can essentially recreate special characters from the old Warhammer army books.“The High Elves are quite an insular race,” says game director Ian Roxburgh.
I caught sight of this during the map flyover:Ĭould this be an underway entrance? It is found at 2:23 on the video above.Ĭharacters have their own journey to make in the game. After all the preview battle I played was itself set in the underway. The underway was revealed as a potential way of travelling quickly – if you can access it. I wondered if there was more to this than simply cutting journey time. This gives Warhammer players some idea of which factions will be in or out of the game even after launch.
Here is the campaign map showing what areas will be covered by this game. There were a few interesting game elements revealed in this video, which I have pulled out below: The newest video for Warhammer Total War shows off the campaign map and it’s great to see the Old World brought to life:
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