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Glimpses of Total War: Warhammer's stylish campaign map in new trailer

Dwarfs level of detail in previous games.

Total War games are made up of two major parts: one part is battles, armies clashing against each other; the other, a strategical campaign map of the world that you push your pieces around - pieces representing armies or special characters. We've seen what a battle will look like in Total War: Warhammer but, until now, we haven't seen the campaign map.

The new trailer focuses in Grimgor Ironhide, who's a really angry and really ugly Black Orc leader. What you're looking for in the trailer besides the quite nice in-game cinematic stuff is at 1 minute 29 seconds when we fly over the game's campaign map. And how mountainous and misty and sumptuous it looks to be - long gone are the static looks-like-an-actual-map days of old. It's more like Google Earth, if Earth were the World of Warhammer. There are more shots of the campaign map at 1.42 and 2.02.

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Back to Total War: Warhammer, and Creative Assembly has promised a full campaign walkthrough video next week. Full game's out 28th April 2016.

The first Total War game, Shogun.
And the new Total War game. I'm getting all misty-eyed.
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