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The best Total War: Warhammer 2 DLC

With Total War Warhammer II Creative Assembly seemed to take a more cautious approach. Even two years after it originally launched, there'd only been a couple of larger expansions and Lord packs, but in recent years the team have settled into a more regular cadence as we await the inevitable Warhammer 3 announcement.

But one thing's for sure - they didn't want to flood the game with DLC post-launch like they've done for previous titles (although not Warhammer 1 either, now that we think about it). It definitely took a while for it to finally cross the threshold for us to make one of our DLC guides.

As it is, there's probably only a few Lords Packs left for Warhammer II before Creative Assembly shift focus on to the next game, which has reportedly been in pre-production since 2018 but not formally announced. While we wait for the next known lord pack, which will be focused on the Wood Elves, here's everything you need to know about Total War: Warhammer II's DLC and expansions, should you wish to expand your Warhammer II experience.

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The best Total War: Warhammer 2 mods

Total War has always been a series which has attracted modders, and the Warhammer 2 mod scene is thriving as a result of this long legacy. It's also benefit from the fact that in Total Warhammer, Creative Assembly committed to a single consecutive series of games rather than individual games from select time periods. Not to mention supporting that idea through their inter-game (and biggest ever) grand campaign, Mortal Empires.

This represents a unique opportunity for modders, who can now create ongoing content spanning a whole trilogy, as well as drawing from the extensive lore of Warhammer Fantasy to introduce game elements that CA may never have the chance to due to time, money etc.

Total War: Warhammer's modding community is, at its heart, a collaborative effort, as creators work together, adding hundreds of hours of replayability to the series, while also working to realise the in-game fantasy world. Below, we've assembled a list of our favourite mods. Some add simple quality of life changes, while some - like the massive SFO - are drastic overhauls that affect nearly every aspect of the game.

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This Total War: Warhammer 2 Skaven mod lets you catapult luminous green fart gas at your enemies

There's an unspoken agreement among Total War: Warhammer 2 players that the warpstone-huffing, warpstone-sniping, doomwheel-riding Clan Skyre got all the best toys, while all the other flavours of rat pal got their friendly pink noses rubbed in the dirt and told to deal with it. Well, the snuffly bin-lickers aren't taking it anymore, and neither is modder GreyTiger. The Plagues of the Liber Bubonicus grants an Ikit Claw-style workshop to Clan Pesitlens in both Vortex and Mortal Empires campaigns, giving rat fanciers access to upgrades for clan-specific units.

The new mod "allows the player to spend food and a new warpstone gas resource to upgrade Clan Pestilens specific units," says GreyTiger. "The units affected are Plague Monks, Censer Bearers, Plagueclaw Catapults, and a new unit: Scourge Sentinels. Each unit type supports three tiers of upgrades with each tier costing more food and warpstone gas than the last."

The new mechanics, says GreyTiger, aren't necessarily intended as a complete overhaul. Instead, the modder aims to make Clan Pestilens campaigns more interesting, giving them a fresh injection of fragrant verminous flavour.

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This Total War: Warhammer 2 mod lets you play as any faction, including rogue armies

Total War: Warhammer II has a lot of factions now, but there are more of them than players normally have access to - plenty of the 'less important' entities you run up against in the fantasy strategy game are strictly meant to be NPCs, with whom you can negotiate with or do battle. But hey, wouldn't it be fun to take control of some of these? Now you can, thanks to the magic of modding.

The Mega Faction Unlocker by Juggernaut999 lets you command just about any faction in Total War: Warhammer II. Savvy readers will likely be ready to point out that there are several mods that do this already, such as Crynsos' Faction Unlocker and Mixu's Faction Unlocker. The Mega Faction Unlocker goes a few steps beyond existing mods, however, by giving each faction its own goals in both the Mortal Empires and Eye of the Vortex campaigns.

It also allows you to command Total War: Warhammer II's rogue armies, which are nomadic warbands composed of units from various factions that wander around the campaign map looking for a place to settle down and/or steal from someone.

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The best Total War games

Shogun: Total War released in June 2000, which means the venerable strategy series has been going for almost 20 years now. That's longer than iPhones, broadband, and most memes. There have been 13 games in that time - not counting mobile spin-offs or the shuttered and underrated Total War: Arena - with another (Troy) due this year. It's quite a lot to keep track of.

Enter: us. If you've ever been curious about this stalwart of PC gaming, look no further. We've put together a list of the best and most essential Total War games, from Shogun to Three Kingdoms via the fantastical foray that is Warhammer.

It is, of course, impossible to crown one single Total War game the 'best', because - especially since Warhammer - they do so many different things, with their various settings affecting the feel of their campaigns and tactical battles. So instead, we'll walk you through what each of our picks does well and differently from the other games in the series, and why they may be regarded as 'essential' - beloved by fans and yet to be truly imitated by any other game in the series, or even in all of gaming.

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