Total War: Warhammer 3 review – a thrilling, exhausting mosh pit of strategy

Tutorials! I am a fan. Good tutorials are rare and actually enjoyable ones rarer still, and Total War: Warhammer 3’s is a treat. This is helpful, because there is a lot of Total War out in the world now – this is the third game in its little high-fantasy sub-series and something like the fifteenth full-sized Total War overall – and that means it might be just a tad intimidating for new players.

It’s intimidating for me, at least, and I’ve been bumbling around these turn-based overworlds since the Medieval era. Warhammer 3, as a likely result of those decades of iteration, has an extraordinary amount of systems to it. It’s overloaded at times, caught up in the fun of all that Daemonic excess.

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