Editing Total War: WARHAMMER (section)

====Free DLC====
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*'''Mortal Empires'''
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The first piece of free content post-release will be a long-awaited combined map, called the '''Mortal Empires Campaign'''. Released a few weeks after launch due to the technical issues involved, Mortal Empires is smashing the Warhammer I and Warhammer II maps together with pure conquest as the objective (so no Vortex campaign race). Other than just combining the two games' maps, it also adds rogue armies, ranged breath attacks for dragons, treasure hunts, the UI improvements, climate mechanics (replacing regional occupation) and 10/8 slot cities to the Warhammer I parts. Also, it has been confirmed that at least some Legendary Lords from Warhammer I will be changing positions in the Mortal Empires campaign. Norsca wasn't immediately present on release due to technical issues and was added in later.
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*'''The Laboratory'''
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Yup, CA has finally snapped, as shown in their second FLC, The Laboratory. The madmen producing this game have decided to add in a new game mode where you can play custom battles and adjust... well literally everything. Do you want to play as the Skaven and have units with 900 MODELS EACH?!?! This will let you do that! Want to increase the size of your monsters and create a dinosaur army with Carnosaurs so big it'll make the Indominus Rex look like a legless puppy? This will let you do that! Want a 40 unit army of just oversized DOOMWHEELS!? THIS GAME MODE WILL GIVE YOU ALL OF THE DOOMWHEELS!! This was clearly just meant for fun and to screw around in, but be warned, as all but the best PCs out there will most likely be crying in agony while playing this, though some optimization has been done by CA..
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*'''Tretch Craventail'''
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Released with the Tomb Kings is Tretch Craventail leading Clan Rictus, with his main differentiating traits being his ability to gain +4 global public order whenever he breaks a diplomatic treaty and... [[Creed|Vanguard Deployment for his entire army]]. Yeah, you thought Vlad Von Carstein was bad? Wait until you face Tretch who vanguard deployments a DOOMWHEEL or a Hell Pit Abomination behind your backline. A supposed leak that predicted Tretch also claimed that Shadow Warriors would be released together with Tretch but this has been proven false and were later released in the Queen and the Crone DLC.
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*'''Steps of Isha'''
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The next addition being Multiplayer Maps, Steps of Isha, for the Make Love Not War event instead of the initial listing of another Legendary Lord. This is a bit odd because the first game also added a bunch of multiplayer maps with each content drop, so it didn't really seem like a big enough deal to fill up a slot on the FLC chart.
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*'''Alith Anar'''
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Coming with both Norsca and the Queen and the Crone DLC is everyone's favorite Elven Terrorists, Alith Anar as a High Elf LL, and the '''Shadow Walkers''', a powerful skirmishing unit. Ironically, Shadow Warriors themselves are DLC content, but the fact he comes with his own elite Shadow Walker variants softens the blow considerably. He leads the faction of Nagarythe (with a starting position in Naggarond, Alith having taking the fight to the Dark Elves), which has several unique mechanics, such as all of his armies being to ambush in their default army stance, the ability to access the "Shadow Realm"; which lets them bypass terrain and remain hidden, and having a special hero, '''The Hand of the Shadow Crown''' which is an assassin who has a ''100'' percent chance to kill any Lord of Hero they're sent against.
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*'''Resurgent Update'''
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A massive Mortal Empires patch called the Resurgent Update including Norsca (fully restored and integrated into Game II along with new monster hunts, as long as you own the DLC), 30th Anniversary RoR, many new landmark buildings, battle maps for the New and Old World, the Dawi getting a new crafting mechanic akin to the Mortuary Cult, Giant Slayers as a unit, and Ungrim moving back to his Slayer Hold at Karak Kadrin with his own subfaction. Also, the Sword of Khaine will now become a campaign mechanic and an obtainable item that will give ''massive'' stat boost (''450'' armour piercing damage is just the tip of the iceberg, and at it's ''lowest'' power level) and [[Rape|an insane Vortex that rips apart even the most heavily armoured units and causes the rest to go insane]] at the cost of your own people hating you ([[The End Times|looking at you Tyrion]]). One thing of note, while any faction can use the Sword, only one of the elven factions can draw it, meaning a non-elf faction needs to defeat the wielder in order to get it. This means that the Wood Elves can draw the sword, so we might need to suck Durthu's tree dick for mercy. Sartosa has also been confirmed to be added as a settlement in Mortal Empires, adding hopes to a possible Dogs of War DLC. Furthermore, the Tomb Kings now get their (almost) full roster with the addition of the Bone Giant/Necrolith Colossus (''which uses a gigantic bow''), a secret which was kept hidden before it was, yet again, leaked.
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*'''Lokhir Fellheart.'''
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The IMDB leak was wrong, it's actually Lokhir Fellheart. Everyone's favorite Squid-Helmet wearing Dark Elf will be leading The Blessed Dread faction in Lustria, in the city of Chupayotl, making him the first Dark Elf to not start in Naggaroth (THANK CHRIST!) Honestly we should have seen him coming considering A. the DLC is pirate themed and B. They just did a rework of Black Arks. As expected, he has cost reduction for Black Ark Corsairs and unlike the other 3 lords doesn't need to use a rite to recruit Black Arks. Instead, he can recruit one from any major port city. To replace that rite, he gained the Sacrifice to Anath Raema, which gives Corsairs Fear, Stalk and AP missiles along with more armor to the Kharibdys, which we're sure will help the Corsair plunder some more booty, if you know what I mean. Lokhir additionally gains something he didn't have at the tabletop. CA gave him a mount, a unique Black Dragon named Maelstrom (though honestly it is [[skub]] in this regard).
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*'''Aye-Aye! Patch'''
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The next major patch coming in is the Aye-Aye! Patch. (Get it? The DLC is pirate themed?) Not much is known yet, aside from the Vampire Counts getting a rework. They now have access to the Bloodlines, which allows them to pay a special currency called "Blood Kisses" to recruit one very powerful lord based off one of the five Vampire Bloodlines. Also Kemmler has had enough of Mannfred's shit and moved out to start his own faction with blackjack and hookers in Blackstone Post in the Grey Mountains, where he'll kick the shit out of some Bretonnians. Also someone finally taught him how to ride a horse. Boris Todbringer on the other hand got some much needed love as he, apart of getting the Middenheim Runefang back, can now choose to ride a Pegasus or a Griffin. Auto-resolved naval battles are removed, and instead will take place as a land battle on a small island between the two forces. In addition to that, pirates now roam the seas of the Warhammer World, with the Vampire Coast factions actually competing with them for prestige in the pirate notoriety mechanic, while the pirates (both minor and major faction) just make life difficult for all the other factions. Pirate Flagships are mobile sea-based capitals. More is to come, including balance changes for all Legendary Lords.
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*'''Festag Update'''
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Released during the holidays after the Vampire Coast DLC, Festag Update came with a series of balance changes and bug fixes. A lot of the Vampire Coast's roster got nerfed to adjust to their prices, while lots of units and abilities from other factions went through balance changes. For example Pegasus Knights got 300 extra mass, helping them to get stuck into infantry less often, while Thanes got the Rune of Slowness in multiplayer, finally giving you a reason to bring them to the battlefield. The Skaven, whom CA is probably waiting to update until their lord pack arrives, only got a hilarious +1 attack to their Plague Monk Censer Bearers. Among the bug fixes the Red Duke no longer T-Poses on the campaign map and destroying pirate coves no longer crashes your game, along with many other common complaints. The skill trees for many game 1 races got updated to compete with game 2, with a lot of abilities and mounts needing less skill points to obtain. Inviting other players into Spectator More was also made much easier, for you streamers out there.
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*'''Doomsayers Update'''
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With The Prophet and the Warlock DLC, we are getting a bunch of free stuff in the Doomsayers Update. It's Bretonnia's turn to get their update. Apart from general updates and fixes, they'll be getting a new and improved vow system. Instead of just being skills, taking a vow requires the player to go on quests to reflect the quests Bretonnian knights go on while looking for the Lady's favor. (Plus Alberic actually got a trident! Just two years after modders gave him one!) This understandably pissed off A LOT of Empire and Greenskin fans, considering those two have way more problems with their campaign than the Frenchies but in a way it kinda makes sense. Most of Bretonnia's problems are comparably easy to fix, mainly needing adjustments to their confederation and Green Knight mechanic, whereas the Empire and Orcs would need whole new mechanics and re hauls that would be way more expensive. While those two certainly need it more, it makes sense for CA to deal with the cheaper and easier to fix problems first before tackling the big boys.
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*'''Tiktaq'to'''
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Meanwhile Tiktaq'to will be the Lizardmen FLC lord we get with the DLC, a pure flying lord who starts mounted on a terradon. He provides buffs to all Lizard flying units and has a special ability to make Gor-Rok and Nakai fans cry. He leads the Tlaqua faction down in the Southlands, and has access to his own unique rite that looks to be hilariously broken, as upon use it resets the campaign movement points for all your armies and heroes. Also, '''[[Lord Kroak]]''' will be added as a Legendary Hero to all Lizardmen factions after completing a quest to wake him up. Probably the most exciting change is that CA is reducing the amount of buffs and cheats they give the AI and instead making it more capable in the campaign map, so it will construct settlements more intelligently.
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*'''Amethyst Update'''
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The Empire will be getting another buff in the Amethyst Update. Unleashing the Lore of Death these “‘Amethyst Wizards’” will make an excellent addition to the Empire’s over bloated list of heroes. All that is left is Balthasar Gelt’s Gold boys and the rainbow Winds of Magic will be complete.
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*'''Empire Undivided Update'''
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It's a good day for the Empire, as they will get their update along with The Hunter and The Beast. Gelt has moved to the new Empire province of Solland, where he will lead The Golden Order against his not shiny enemies. A new fort settlement has also been added in The Empie's mountain settlements, functioning like the High Elve's High Gates. Most importantly, the Office system has been replaced with The Elector Count system, allowing you to confederate without going to war. New resources like prestige and fealty will be given out via Electoral Machinations and dilemmas which allows you to control the other empire territories. New units, items and lords will be given out when commanding certain cities, flushing The Empires unit roster by a lot. Also, whenever you use this feature, Karl Franz yells "SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS." Well memed, CA, well memed.
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*'''Gor-Rok'''
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The Lizardmen get another Legendary Lord in the form of '''Gor-Rok the Great White Lizard''', who will be starting in Itza. This puts the lizards up to 6 Lords, beating out even CA's favourite faction aka the Vampire Counts. As expected of the Rock of Itza, he is absurdly tough, as well as surprisingly good at dueling. With many hailing him as the standard for Foot Lords to come. He also starts off with Lord Kroak in his campaign, since starting in Itza wasn't enough of a bonus. He is also unique among FLC Lords in that he actually has a unique animation set, instead of just reusing the Saurus Oldblood set like everyone expected him to. Setting a good precedent for future FLC lords to come.
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*'''Gotrek & Felix'''
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The Old Friends have been announced to be none other than [[Gotrek & Felix]]! The iconic duo came out in October 2019, though subscribers to the White Dwarf magazine were able to get a code to download them a month early. The pair serve as a mercenary army for The Empire, Dwarfs and Bretonnia to recruit, with Gotrek serving as lord and Felix as a hero. You can give them troops and send them across the old world to fight your battles until about 20 turns later when Gotrek gets sick of not dying and takes Felix somewhere else. They increase in power on their own in the meantime, though also gain new enemies that may start to hate you if you recruit them. Also Gotrek is voiced by BRIAN MOTHERFUCKING BLESSED, so you know it will be a grand old time.
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*'''Repanse de Lyonesse'''
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Neither the Edge Elves nor the Stinky Rats will be getting a FLC this patch, for that honor will go to Bretonnia's [[Repanse de Lyonesse]] AKA totally not Jeanne d'Arc. We knew jack shit about her other than she was playable in both the Vortex and ME, and that she comes accompanied by Henri le Massif as a Legendary Hero; she has her own side story, helping unite Bretonnia in the Southlands.
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*'''The Potion of Speed Update'''
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New patch that focuses primarily on QoL changes and giving updates to factions and mechanics that needed them. The big takeaway here is a massive increase in turn speed, with end turn times now moving up to 60% faster, making those grueling grinds of ending turns on Mortal Empires much more manageable. Several main factions for game 1 races got renamed to fit the current naming conventions better, Gotrek and Felix for a rework along with Black Arks and Clan Pestilens got an update to put them more in line with the other great clans.
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*'''The King's Shilling Patch'''
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Basically a patch meant to fix a lot of the bugs and issues that came up after The Shadow and The Blade. The most important being fixes to the bug where stat changes caused by abilities would be included in the calculations when a unit gets experience in a battle. If your start dragon was hit by a stat nerf using an ability, then got a chevron, it's stats would return to normal and then go up when the ability wore off. Needless to say this caused much rage in multiplayer. The Vampire Coast relearned how to raise dead at sea, and a bug that made it so The Lizardmen, Vampire Counts and Vampire Coast ai would only ever have one army on the map at a time was fixed. They also made readjustments to Malus's sanity mechanic to make his campaign less shitty. There are still issues like The Ordertide, but that likely won't get fixed til the next DLC patch.
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*'''Imrik'''
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The Dragonlord is coming!!! He brings plenty of dragons, Elves who like dragons, and he's in game 2 and HE'S ACTUALLY NOT IN LUSTRIA BOWL THANK ISHA!!!!!!
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*'''Black Orc Big Boss'''
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Released as a tie-in to Skulls for the Skull Throne IV, the Greenskins finally receive a hero that won't drop dead after being slapped by a wet noodle. The Black Orc Big Boss fills a nice hole in the hero roster, and brings with him an ability to give immunity to psychology to the boys around him. Has a sweet model (that is surprisingly not just a reskin of the existing Black Orc one), but at first didn't have many voicelines, most likely due to the whole Covid situation, though thankfully they added them later. He's even better on campaign, gaining the ability to use the "Smash ‘em Faster!" ability, a skill that increases the range and effect of his Encourage aura ''and'' a unique skill tree that lets him boost Orc units' replenishment and either reduce vigour loss for Orc units, charge frontlines with ease with Furious Charge or buff his campaign skills. Finally, it's nice to have a hero added that isn't a bloody Battle Mage for the Empire for once.
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*'''Drycha'''
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Though full details have yet to be released on this genocidal tree-Hitler, Drycha has been confirmed to be the FLC legendary lord slated to release alongside '''The Twisted & The Twilight''' DLC. For now, she is strictly locked to the Mortal Empires campaign. <strike>You could argue this isn't ''really'' FLC since you need The Realm of the Wood Elves to get her, but still nice for people who bought everything for the game so far.</strike> She's the same type of FLC Lord as Morghur was in game one, being FLC obtained by owning the Realm of the Wood Elves Campaign Pack, so it isn't anything new.
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*'''Glade Captain'''
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The Total War Access FLC for the Twisted and the Twilight is the Wood Elf Glade Captain. Hybrid Hero unit with melee and ranged attacks with a heavier emphasis on the former. Has some nifty abilities like giving melee defense around her with her Dance of Loec ability. And can ride on a Great Stag mount as a cherry on top.
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*'''Skaven Chieftain'''
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FLC Hero accompanying the Twisted and the Twilight DLC. Adding the Chieftain into the Skaven roster, finally completing their hero selection from 8th edition. He's your typical sturdy (for a Skaven) melee hero, with a unique twist on the Guardian mechanic. Instead of always giving a physical resist to characters nearby, he grants it conditionally when he above 50% health. But once he gets below 50% his physical resistance buff stops working on others, and changes to work on himself. More importantly, if the lord is killed he'll take control of the army, giving everyone a Leadership boost to make up for the loss of the lord. On top of that he also gets access to a Bonebreaker mount, something he didn't have on TT.
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*'''Beastlord Rakarth'''
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A new FLC Legendary Lords for the Dark Elves VIA Total War Access. Rakarth will introduce a beast flavoured campaign to the Dark Elves and round up all game 2 factions to 6 lords. Evidently we needed 3 Dark Elves in silly helmets who ride dragons. He's also voiced by Iwan Rheon, who just can't seem to get away from voicing psychopaths.
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*'''Thorek Ironbrow'''
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The other new FLC lord after Rakarth and which is not, like in case of Drycha, a rumored Beastman FLC lord. Thorek Ironbrow comes in with a further rework to the Dwarfs along with unique mechanics and a campaign that focuses on collecting lost artifacts along with reforging them back into functionality (among which a runic collar that allows him to recruit a Yolked Carnosaur and one allowing him to recruit a unique Ghost Hero). There was some division over him. Some are pleased with him and the rework as it is, but some thought he would be part of a DLC with runic units. Either way he allows Dwarfs to go and play in both Mortal Empires and the Eye of The Vortex campaigns leading his own faction called Thorek's Expedition. In the former he starts in Karak Zorn close to Queek, while in the Vortex Campaign he starts in the Spine of Sotek as another contender to the Lustria-Bowl.
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*'''Great Bray Shaman'''
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Surprise, The Silence and the Fury got a double-dose of FLC! The Great Bray Shaman is a generic caster lord for the Beastmen, giving them some very needed lord variety.
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*'''Ogre Mercenaries'''
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<s>Ogres, my lord</s>The final FLC for Warhammer II adds the ability for Ogre Camps to spawn anywhere there's lots of raiding or big battles going on. Interacting with an Ogre Camp lets you hire on a few units of the big fellas to round out your armies. Ogres'll work for anybody as long as the pay is good, and they come in basic, Maneater, and Mournfang Cavalry variants depending on what flavor of stompy you need.
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