Total War: WARHAMMER III News

Total War: Warhammer 3's Daemons of Khorne look metal as hell

Total War: Warhammer III's tagline asks players to "conquer your daemons," but it'll also offer a chance to join them and lead them into battle. Today's Warhammer Skulls showcase featured a first look at the upcoming strategy game's Daemons of Khorne, and at their first leader: the Exiled One, the daemon lord Skarbrand.

The new trailer is about as metal as any of these reveals has ever been. It begins with a daemonic voice reading off a list of Skarbrand's titles: the Lord of Rage, savagery incarnate, the epitome of brutality - you get the picture. Skarbrand is not a friendly fellow, and in the Warhammer lore he's piled mountains' worth of skulls for Khorne's infamous Skull Throne.

"Enact the wrath of the Blood God," the voice beckons monstrously, as daemonic bloodletters, flesh hounds, and Chaos warriors rush across the blasted landscape. They're backed by massive skull cannons, which grind up hapless foes as they press across the battlefield, igniting their skulls with Khorne's own rage and firing them forward into the ranks of the enemy.

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SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

Tune in for the Warhammer Skulls Showcase tomorrow at 6PM BST to get a first look at some big incoming WARHAMMER II & III news...

Watch the event here: https://www.twitch.tv/warhammer

We'll see you there.

Total War: Warhammer 3 and Darktide devs set for Skulls Showcase stream

If you're a fan of digital adaptations of Warhammer, you've got an exciting week ahead of you. The Skulls for the Skull Throne event returns with a shorter name on June 3, and the event begins with a stream promising news from some of the biggest publishers with access to the Warhammer license - including the studios behind Total War: Warhammer 3 and Darktide.

The Skulls Showcase will broadcast on Thursday, June 3 at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST on Twitch, and it will feature "world premieres, exclusive first looks, details of special offers and free-to-keep video games, and new video game announcements". A tweet about the event includes logos for Fatshark, Sega, and Creative Assembly, so updates for some of the most hotly-anticipated Warhammer games out there are very likely.

There's also a logo for Frontier Foundry, a publishing venture from the studio behind Planet Coaster and Elite Dangerous. Frontier told investors last year that it had picked up the rights to the Warhammer license for an Age of Sigmar RTS, though it sounded like that project would be developed internally - if it's a Foundry game, that means they'll be working with an external studio on it.

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Who is Kostaltyn?

Insane fanatic, or invincible force of nature?

Whatever you say think of him, you can’t deny that Kostaltyn is hard to get rid of.

Check out our latest blog to find out more about this mace wielding man of faith: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/who-is-kostalyn-kislev/

Total War: Warhammer 3's Kislev faction goes sledding with bears and guns

Why bother with pointless frippery like wheels when you've got a massive ornery bear population right on hand? That's the philosophy Total War: Warhammer III's Kislev faction takes to the strategy game's battlefields anyway, and you can see it in action in the latest unit reveal, which shows off the Kislevite War Sleds. They're big sleighs full of angry lads with guns, and they're each powered by two large armoured bears.

The sleds come in 'light' and 'heavy' variants, although we reckon it's probably a distinction that makes very little difference from the perspective of the infantry they're meant to trample. If a unit is somehow left standing after the sleds' initial charge, there's still a follow-on volley of gunfire to worry about.

The war sleds feature similar feathered structures to the Kislev winged lancers Creative Assembly revealed last week, and the heavy sleds are crafted from what look like timber beams clad in steel scales. The bears are yoked by high arch structures, which gives them room to move around and do bear things to any Chaos units in front of them.

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