Total War: WARHAMMER II Hands on previews

Good day everyone! Many news about Warhammer 2 today. Several articles been released and its time to look at them! Here are some highlights, links included:

 Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/2/15724926/total-war-warhammer-2-e3-preview-hands-on

"Races  you do not own will show up as adversaries, and with new mercenary  armies being added with Warhammer 2, they’ll be able to pull in units  from multiple factions.

“They're all found the deep, dark  archives of all of the Games Workshop literature,” said Millen. “As an  example, there's one that's led by a goblin beast master. His army is  filled with beasts. So there's Squigs from the Greenskin army, there's  feral bastiladons from the Lizardmen army, and there's Wolf Riders and  Boars and all of these different units from other races."

Venturebeat: https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/02/segas-creative-asssembly-unveils-a-massive-new-world-for-total-war-warhammer-ii/

"Each  of the races will be playable in the single-player campaign as well as  multiplayer. Each race has two Legendary Lords, each with a different  starting position in the campaign. You’ll be able to play two-player  cooperative campaigns with the same race. The High Elves, for instance,  engage in a lot of political infighting. They also try to manipulate the  other races to battle each other. They dispatch traders and emissaries  to spy on the other civilizations.
Flying over the map, the  developers pointed out things like massive fortresses, region-wide  storms, sunken ships, a Vampire Count city, ancient ruins, rogue armies  full of mercenaries, and mixed-race armies."

Gamesradar: https://www.gamereactor.eu/previews/540443/Total+War+Warhammer+II+-+Lizardmen+Hands-on/

Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-02-everything-weve-learnt-about-total-war-warhammer-2

"If  you're playing as the High Elves, for example, you can go for Prince  Tyrion and start your campaign with a city in Ulthuan surrounded by  other High Elf factions, or instead select his brother Teclis and find  yourself on an entirely different continent. Those two campaigns will  inevitably play very differently, as your initial goals, enemies and  allies change as a result."

"The High Elves have a couple of  tricks up their overly-flamboyant sleeves, particularly when it comes to  foreign politics. As a general rule, once they begin trading with  another faction, they gain line of sight of everything under its  control. This is information that's only usually shared between allies.
They  also have a unique currency to think about called influence. This is  generated by agents on the campaign map or by solving political dilemmas  that crop up from time to time. It can then be spent to alter the  relationships between different factions from afar. Are the Dark Elves  and the Lizardmen getting a bit too cosy? You can do something about  that."

"Those familiar with the fiction of Warhammer Fantasy will  have heard about the Geomantic Web, an impressive matrix of natural  energy spreading across the New World and beyond. The Lizardmen's temple  cities are each built on specific places of power within this web.
Controlling  these temple cities in Warhammer 2 provides significant bonuses for the  Lizardmen, especially if they connect directly

"If and when you  own that capital and you upgrade the building chain for that building,"  explains Roxburgh. "You strengthen your ties with the other cities. If  two built-up cities are linked together, they'll both operate at a  higher level."
This is reflected through the use of commandments that  are unlocked as more and more cities are linked together. Unlike the  commandments offered by other races (small increases to growth, income  etc.), these are meant to feel much more impactful."

COMBINED CAMPAIGN MODE

"combined  campaign” mode. In it, players will be able to take the reins of any of  the game’s eight factions and march across the entire, combined land  mass of the two games."

"If you own both games and you’re  playing on the combined map and you go back to play as the Empire,  suddenly you have rogue armies and treasure hunting to contend with. You  have more stuff going on at sea. You have all the improvements we’ve  made across the UI. Going back to play the Empire again, it’s a new  campaign" -

"We’re adding in the choke point battles, so if  you’re defending a bridge, that’ll load a different battle type. If you  fight at fortress gates that will also load a different battle type. We  want that play of, when you do something on the campaign map that’ll  result in a certain kind of battle. You can use ambush battles in your  favor ... We have a whole new suite of siege maps coming with Warhammer  II ... The number of maps we’ve done is quite incredible, really" -

"the  Old World races from Warhammer 1 have a presence in the New World ...  races like the Empire sending expeditionary forces into the New World."

"In  Warhammer 2 every race can claim every city on the map. That being  said, some cities make more sense than others depending on the needs of  the race in question ... There are some disadvantages to growth and  public order to consider if you capture cities that are deemed  inappropriate" - not sure if this is new, but maybe new detail. I wonder  if it's just public order and growth penalties, surely you cannot build  awesome buildings everywhere on the continents?
"features like the Great Vortex victory conditions won't translate to this [Grand Campaign] version of the game.
Creative  Assembly anticipate this will eventually be seen as the de facto way of  playing Total War: Warhammer."        

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