Total War: WARHAMMER II News

This Total War: Warhammer 2 mod helps Karl Franz keep up with the new lords

There are now more than 60 playable legendary lords available in Total War: Warhammer 2's Mortal Empires campaign if you include the couple dozen that carried over from the first Total Warhammer. As new lords have been introduced, it's been hard not to feel that some of the original strategy game's crew have lost a bit of their lustre by comparison. Now there's a mod that spiffs good ol' Karl Franz up a bit so he can keep pace with his newer, flashier competition.

The Karl Franz Reboot mod by Steam user Vacuumrider reworks Franz's skill tree in several key areas. The mod doesn't alter his base stats, but instead tinkers with some of his abilities in order to make Franz a better late-game contender against the likes of Rakarth of Karand Kar and Throt the Unclean. Franz's legendary hammer, Ghal Maraz, gets an added +50% base weapon damage, for example, and his 'Hold the Line' ability is reorganised to unlock along with 'Leader of Men' at Rank 6. The leadership bonus granted by 'Leader of Men' expands from +50% to +100%.

The mod grants Franz some brand new abilities, like 'Hold the Line!', that allow him to keep his soldiers in the fight longer, but where you'll likely notice the biggest changes is to the bonuses he's able to give to his dedicated soldiers, particularly the Reiksguard.

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Total War: Warhammer 2 patch returns Drycha's missing wolves

While Creative Assembly is calling it a "small interim patch" designed to address just "a handful of issues," Total War: Warhammer II's 1.11.1 patch does something rather important if you've been playing as the Wood Elf legendary lord Drycha. Specifically, it returns her unique Wargrove of Woe giant wolves units to her Wild Spirits pool.

For anyone playing Wood Elves in the strategy game, this will be a relief - Drycha begins with some giant wolves in her army, but now she'll be able to instantly recruit more from the pool of Wild Spirits units unique to the Wargrove of Woe faction. These also include cave bats, giant spiders, and the feral manticore (which implies the existence of a tame manticore, strangely enough), but the giant wolves are certainly a nice addition to the lineup: they're fast attackers who ignore all terrain-related penalties and have vanguard deployment capability. They're also forest stalkers, which means they gain melee defence and accuracy bonuses whenever they're fighting in the woods.

The patch also includes a few other fixes: Rakarth's Whip no longer "jumps back to its original location" when you click on him, Skaven victory conditions have been modified in light of the updates to how Skaven corruption works, Condemned Lizardmen will no longer gain Blood Voyage buffs, and you won't get any more increased supply lines from Lohkir's unique Black Ark.

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Patch 1.11.1 Now Live

[h3]Patch 1.11.1 for Total War: WARHAMMER II is live with improvements, balance changes and bug fixes, including:

Giant Wolves no longer being lost
Rakarth’s Whip staying put
Skaven victory conditions tweaks

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Get your Warhammer 3 fix early with these Total Warhammer 2 mods

Total War: Warhammer 3 is coming, but there's many months to go until its likely release date. What is one to do while you wait? Thanks to the power of Total Warhammer 2 mods, you can get a taste of the highly anticipated strategy game early, especially if you're excited about Kislev.

Expanded Roster - Kislev Reborn is a mod by Dindi, Crisord and Decomposed which is described as an "ambitious project [that] aims to complete and expand the official Kislev lore", which includes "tons of content, including custom models, abilities, technologies, skills, and spells".

If you're a fan of the hugely popular SFO: Grimhammer II, someone's also made a sub-mod that makes Kislev Reborn compatible. We imagine there are plenty of fans would be excited to have these two impressive community creations running alongside each other seamlessly. Kislev Reborn introduces two generic Lords, five generic Heroes, as well as 30+ units and eight Regiments of Renown to the game, all available to be recruited when you play as Kislev.

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No new Total Warhammer 2 DLC news expected "for a couple of months"

Total War: Warhammer III is coming, but its predecessor Warhammer II still has one last arrow in its quiver before it walks off into the sunset, its work finally done. During the big hubbub around the third game's announcement, a bunch of news came out of the official FAQ Creative Assembly always releases whenever it reveals, well, anything.

This document mainly focused on Warhammer III, but it had a few things to say about Warhammer II as well. One was that the popular Total War game would be coming to the Epic Games Store, but another was that there would be one final piece of DLC released for the game before it gets consumed by its younger sibling.

Now, Warhammer II recently received a free piece of DLC as part of the Rakarth update, but we're led to believe the final expansion mentioned in the FAQ will be a premium expansion, probably a final 'Lords' pack. Everyone (no one) hopes it will be Beastmen themed. Whatever it's going to be, we won't find out for a couple of months at least.

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