Total War: WARHAMMER III News

Here's what's coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC at launch next year

Oh Xbox Game Pass, that subscription service I constantly forget that I have. It's always nice to be pleasantly surprised by new games I didn't expect to play (or had no plans to buy outright). Microsoft have detailed a bunch more games I'll likely be surprised by coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC when they launch over the next year or so - from epic space RPG Starfield, to Arkane's vampire hunting adventure Redfall. It looks like they're revealing more later this week too.

Nurglings Unit Spotlight

[h3]Nurglings... Mischievous creatures and tiny versions of Nurgle are swarming the battlefield.

Within each swelling there grows a small and malevolent Daemon called a Nurgling.

They can even be deployed far out from the main force, what's not to love? 🥰[/h3]

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Nurgle vs Slaanesh Battle Gameplay

[h3]The Plaguefather's obsession with breeding new infections has led him to the realm of Chaos and he's met by Slaanesh forces.

Yet, the notorious Keeper of Secrets is not leading the charge. What schemes could N'Kari be plotting?

Find out in our gameplay video below:[/h3]

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Enter the World of Nurgle

[h3]The Urfather's legions march through a garden of blight and poxes — the stench of rot is unbearable for any mortal being.

Swarms of black flies plague the environment and surround this world of death and pestilence.

Accept the gift of affliction and enter the world of Nurgle.[/h3]

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Yes, Total Warhammer 3's Nurgle units are all extremely gross

Nurgle has always been Warhammer's clearest nod to the gross-out phase that peaked in the 1980s, when the conventional wisdom seemed to be that any show or line of toys could be improved by adding slime. Total War: Warhammer III's rendition of Nurgle's forces is true to the source material, and will add plenty of slime, stink, and suppurating sores to the strategy game.

The overarching theme for Nurgle is life giving way to rot, which in turn produces new, frequently disgusting, life. That's an idea present in the Nurgle campaign mechanics, and it'll be present on the battlefield as well. Nurgle's units aren't as cruel or obviously malevolent as their daemonic cousins in the employ of Tzeentch or Khorne, they just understand the phrase "eat, pray, love" a little differently than most of us do.

The basic building block of a Nurgle army is the nurgling, a small daemon born in some kind of cyst that forms in the organs of a Great Unclean One. Nurglings serve a variety of roles in Nurgle's armies, from bearing up legendary lord Ku'gath Plaguefather's palanquin to acting as ersatz gas grenades. They can also be fielded as infantry units with vanguard deployments, although they're weak on their own and should ideally be paired with Nurgle's flying chaos furies.

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