The game begins with the ascension of Karl Franz as the newly elected Emperor of the Empire and the recent turmoil that has occurred with a civil war uprising and the counts of the empire resenting his rule. These characters, which include monsters, warriors, and heroes, are controlled by the player or computer. While previous Total War games feature historical settings, Warhammer introduces the fantasy setting as well as characters from the Warhammer universe.

Total War: Warhammer is a turn-based strategy game with real-time tactical battles between armies. Total War: Warhammer has two sequels: Total War: Warhammer II (released September 2017) and the upcoming Total War: Warhammer III (planned for a 2022 release). Total War: Warhammer was largely well received by critics, and sold over half a million copies in its first few days on sale. These include Dwarfs, Human factions, Greenskins and Vampire Counts at launch, with more added as paid downloadable content. The player controls one of several fantasy factions, each with their own units, characters and abilities. Like previous titles in the Total War series, gameplay unfolds both on a scale of kingdoms in a turn-based strategy campaign, managing cities and the movement of armies, and on a smaller scale in real-time tactics skirmishes and sieges, managing the movement and actions of individual units and characters within an army during a battle. It is the 10th title in the Total War series and the first title to be released in the Total War: Warhammer trilogy. The game features the gameplay of the Total War series with factions of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy series it is the first Total War game not to portray a historical setting.

The game was brought to macOS and Linux by Feral Interactive. Total War: Warhammer is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for Microsoft Windows via the Steam gaming platform.

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