The immortal empires megacampaign was long awaited by Total War: Warhammer 3. This is due to the success of its predecessor, the Mortal Empires campaign. Warhammer 3’s default Realm of Chaos campaign proved to be a little disappointing on the second playthrough. Warhammer 3’s Steam player count has risen like a Doom Diver since Immortal Empires was released in beta.
Warhammer 3’s maximum concurrent player count on Steam at launch was 166,754, on February 17. It quickly fell, and has hovered between 8,000 to 12,000 players for the past three months. It soared to 119,166 on August 23, after the beta release Immortal Empires. It has remained at a high level ever since, reaching 103,952 today, ranking it at #11 on Steam’s top-rated games by player count, just behind Rust.
The Steam sale currently on the series has the first two Total Wars Warhammerses in bundles for 75%. You need to have all three base games in order to play Immortal Emperors.
Fraser Brown, our own beta tester, played a campaign and concluded that the beta was too large and too complicated. There must be a limit on the number of faction mechanics the human brain can handle. But it’s all brilliant. Sean Martin also played Immortal Empires and was able to complete the campaign with a Black Ark super-fleet. It was a lot of fun.
I expect that players will be interested in Immortal Empires for a long time, with 278 factions and 86 legendary lords available. The new faction adds the Realm of Chaos campaign villain Be’Lakor to the game, along with dedicated factions for existing lords Grombrindal and Helman Ghorst and Volkmar the Grim and Sigvald, the Magnificent. Sea lanes allow you to move armies across distant lands. Randomized endgame apocalypses add an additional challenge just when victory seems certain. You can turn them all on simultaneously in Ultimate Crisis Mode if you’re feeling brave.
