Jumping into Total War: Warhammer today is a very different prospect to doing so a decade ago. The original 2016 game is now a trilogy, and the series' staple Immortal Empires campaign – a vast map of Warhammer Fantasy's entire world – is close to bursting with the amount of factions and Legendary Lords added across all three games. It's hard to stress how much variety lies within that depth. Want to play as the aristocratic Vampire Counts? Bleed 'em dry. How about building Mordor as the Chaos Dwarfs, upholding knightly chivalry with Bretonnia, or running a vast Skaven under-empire? You can do any of that, too.
Even that vastly undersells how many different campaigns there are. But if you're yet to play Warhammer 3, you can find that out for yourself, as the most up-to-date version of Immortal Empires has been added to the first two Total War: Warhammer games for free. You can play any of the characters from the games you own, while the update also allows for buying DLC from games you don't.
