Total War: Warhammer

Total War: Warhammer
Developer(s)	Creative Assembly
Publisher(s)	Sega
Director(s)	Mike Simpson Ian Roxburgh
Writer(s)	Andy Hall
Composer(s)	Richard Beddow Ian Livingstone Timothy Michael Wynn Tilman Sillescu
Series	Total War Warhammer Fantasy
Platform(s)	Windows, Linux, macOS
Release	Windows 24 May 2016 Linux 22 November 2016 macOS 18 April 2017
Genre(s)	Turn-based strategy, real-time tactics
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Total War: Warhammer is a 2016 turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for Windows via the Steam gaming platform. The game was brought to macOS and Linux by Feral Interactive. 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. It is the 10th title in the Total War series and the first title to be released in the Total War: Warhammer trilogy.^[1]

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. The player controls one of several fantasy factions, each with their own units, characters and abilities. These include Dwarfs, Human factions, Greenskins and Vampire Counts at launch, with more added as paid downloadable content.

Total War: Warhammer was largely well received by critics, and sold over half a million copies in its first few days on sale.^[2] Total War: Warhammer has two sequels: Total War: Warhammer II (released September 2017) and Total War: Warhammer III (released February 2022).