Warhammer is mostly a turn-based strategy game like Civilization, where you decide all your possible actions and then press a button to end that particular turn. ( Also see: Civilization VI Release Date and Price Announced) You can play as one of five factions: the Empire comprising of humans, under a young emperor and beset by unruliness the Dwarfs seeking vengeance, and fighting a troubled past the Greenskins made up of orcs, goblins, trolls, and giants, who have come together in their lust for carnage the Vampire Counts that use the undead for their own purposes and the Chaos Warriors, a nomadic tribe from beyond the mortal world. Technically, the second cost of war isn't entirely human, considering the diversity of races on offer.

Money can't fight for you on the battlefield though - you need boots on the ground for that - which is where Warhammer's Old World truly comes alive.

The larger the gap between the two, the more breathing room you have to build the future of your choice. From here, basic math dictates that you require a greater inflow than outflow to stay in the green. You earn money as a result of the buildings you choose to construct, be it a livery or a port, and by taxing the proles. Apart from these massive asset investments, armies also entail a daily maintenance cost known as 'upkeep'. Without regular resource collection, money is crucial to everything you wish to undertake, from building up your army to expanding your settlement's capabilities.

For the most part, the latter - currency - could easily be construed as the most important element. Both form the twin pillars on which the game rests, and in turn your survival. 'War is unending,' the narrator proclaims in the introductory video for Total War: Warhammer, the tenth title in the turn-based strategy series from Creative Assembly, and the first of its kind to eschew historical accuracy for a fantasy setting - the world of Warhammer.īut war has a cost: both human and monetary.

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