- Creative Assembly and Sega have revealed Total War: Warhammer 40,000
- There will be four playable factions, plenty of iconic units from the 40K universe, and a galactic scale level
- There’s no release date yet, but it’s coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Finally. Finally! The strategy game that is Total War is finally welcoming the bleak dark future into the fold.
Yesterday at The Game Awards, Sega and Creative Assembly dropped the announcement trailer for Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and it’s got me firmly on the hype train for an epic empire-building adventure.
With combat and turn-based strategy on a galactic scale and four factions – Space Marines, Astra Militarum, Orks and Aeldari – to choose from at launch, along with a host of familiar and iconic units from the universe, it’s a match made in heaven, and can be a true visual real-time strategy spectacle.
The team has said it’s currently “some way off in the future,” but if it lands in 2026, I’ll be up to my visor in delicious 40K goodness, given that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 is also on the horizon.
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I bounced a bit away from the fantasy-based Total War: Warhammer games, but have always had a soft spot for the likes of Rome and the medieval elements of the series. Combine that with my consistent gravitation towards the 40K side of Warhammer over the years and this is likely going to be huge for me.
I can’t wait to master each faction and grapple with the challenges each will face on the battlefield as well as on the empire map.
This will take me right back to moving 40,000 units around terrain in real life over 20 years ago in combat, strategically thinking about what to do and when, all in real time. But it will also give me that sweet empire-building, diplomacy-acing, deal-doing satisfaction too; but how Creative Assembly can make negotiations between Space Marines and orks diplomatically appear – that could be fun!
There is no release date or window yet, but it has been confirmed that when it does, Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will be playable on PC, as well as PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
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