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Come September, you won’t need a single Total War: Warhammer game to play its colossal, trilogy-spanning Immortal Empires campaign
Creative Assembly will make Total War: Warhammer III’s Immortal Empires campaign available to anyone who owns any one of the trilogy’s games, removing the previous need to own Warhammer III to access it. The change substantially lowers the cost of entry to the series’ largest mode, which combines its settings, factions and content into a single strategy campaign.
Players will still need to own particular games or DLC to use the races and Legendary Lords tied to them; the newly opened mode does not grant all paid content. Immortal Empires contains more than 100 playable Legendary Lords across 24 races, while the free access also includes Warhammer III’s The Lost God prologue campaign.
In short
- Any trilogy owner will gain Immortal Empires access.
- Paid factions and Lords remain tied to their content.
- The campaign spans the trilogy’s combined world.
Explained simply
Total War: Warhammer is a series of strategy games made by Creative Assembly, set in a fantasy world created for the tabletop game Warhammer. Players lead armies and factions, manage territory and fight battles as well-known characters called Legendary Lords.
Immortal Empires is a large campaign that brings together the maps, factions and settings from all three games. It is part of Total War: Warhammer III, but the reported change means owners of any one game can access the campaign.
Access to the campaign does not include every faction or character: players still need the relevant game or paid extra content to use them. The change matters because it lowers the cost of trying the series’ largest campaign, while leaving some content tied to separate purchases.