It is a little different to some other Twarham DLC, and the devs say that's on youse: The Tomb Kings will be playable on Total Warhammer 2's Vortex campaign map with, I'm told by today's announcement, 'a raft of race-specific gameplay mechanics, victory objectives, and lashings of authentic lore.' They'll also come to Mortal Empires, the campaign smooshing together the worlds of the first two Twarhammer campaigns - which Fraser Brown declared ' Total War's best grand campaign.' Alongside this news, the developers today released a cinematic trailer giving a peek at the Tomb Kings, them with their skeletal warriors, animal-headed giants, scorpions of stone and bone, serpentine sentinels, bonebirds, Necrosphinxes, and oh my god is that a giant statue shooting zapbeams out its eyes?
We've known for a while that these sandy sorts are headed to Total War: Warhammer II in paid DLC, and now we know when: January 23rd. No, they're a Warhammer rabble riffing on Ancient Egyptian beliefs, a faction of ancients pharaohs and their servants, risen to rebuild their empire. The Tomb Kings are not a crust punk gang who meet in the vaults of Greyfriars Kirkyard.
