What is the mix of turn-based and real-time play?

You manage your empire, research, and army movements on a turn-based campaign map, then resolve battles in real-time tactical combat where you command every unit.

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Your first turn as the Empire. A greenskin horde is three marches from Altdorf, and your spearmen are out of position. You spend five minutes weighing province upgrades, then click End Turn—and a rival faction’s hero assassinates your battle priest. Thirty seconds ago you were studying a building tree; now you’re ordering handgunners onto a ridge while a wyvern circles overhead.

Steer the campaign map

Move armies across the Old World in turns, manage settlements, and conduct diplomacy. Every decision reshapes your faction’s standing before the next battle begins.

Deploy on the battlefield

Position regiments, set up flanking routes, and time your charges. Flying units ignore terrain, artillery tears through formations, and magic storms can scatter an entire advance.

React to faction mechanics

Each race operates under distinct rules. Vampire Counts raise the dead after large fights, while Dwarfs settle grudges through specific quests—your campaign goals shift with your choice of lord.

Snags you may hit

Campaigns that ran smoothly for thirty turns sometimes stutter after turn eighty—especially during the Chaos invasion. Drop shadow detail to Medium and switch unit size to Large instead of Ultra. That combination preserves frame pacing without making formations look sparse.

Another frustration: the launcher occasionally refuses to recognise an already-installed copy after a macOS point update. The quickest fix is to quit the launcher, navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/, and delete the folder named Total War WARHAMMER. The game rebuilds its preferences on next launch—your save files stay untouched in a separate location.

If a legendary lord quest battle fails to trigger despite meeting the level requirement, move the lord to your faction’s capital and advance one turn. The scripted event usually fires once the character is stationed at the home province.

Reinforcements now respect campaign stances

The 1.1.5 fix tightened up several behaviours that quietly annoyed campaign regulars:

Reinforcement direction — armies arriving from off-map now respect the campaign stance they held before the battle, so ambush reinforcements deploy behind the enemy line instead of marching in from the predictable side.
Unit responsiveness — large monster units, particularly the Arachnarok Spider, turn and re-target faster after a charge, which reduces the old problem of them standing idle while skirmishers peppered their flank.
End-turn times — the update pruned redundant AI diplomacy checks between minor factions, shaving a noticeable chunk off the wait when twenty-plus factions share the map.