Total War: Warhammer 3 roadmap revealed: three expansions announced

Check out what Creative Assembly has planned for the next twelve months

Marco Wutz | May 9, 2023

Total War: Warhammer 3 roadmap revealed: three expansions announced /

The Total War: Warhammer 3 roadmap is finally here, detailing the content Creative Assembly has planned to release for the game in the upcoming twelve months. Long promised and then delayed several times, the community has been clamoring for this roadmap for a while now.

Shadows of Change, which is set to be released in Summer 2023 alongside Update 4.0, focuses on Tzeentch, Cathay, and Kislev. It contains three new Legendary Lords, two new Legendary Heroes (one of which will be free), tons of additional units, and more. The patch finally introduces Immortal Empire achievements, settlement battle improvements, and AI updates.

Thrones of Decay is the second expansion on the roadmap and scheduled for Winter 2023. It’ll focus on Nurgle, the Empire, and the Dwarfs, who each seem to receive another Legendary Lord, new units, and other things. There will be two Legendary Heroes as well, one being free once more. Update 5.0, which arrives alongside this DLC, brings the Nemesis Crown, a new legendary artifact akin to the Sword of Khaine into the game, too.

The final expansion revealed doesn’t have a title or detailed contents yet, though the background art definitely hints at it being Slaanesh-related. It’s supposed to be coming out in Spring 2024 and will follow the same general outline of the other two packs, focusing on three races.

Update 3.1 is first on the agenda, arriving at the end of May 2023 with another free Legendary Hero, the Chaos Dwarfs as an end game crisis, and seven free Regiments of Renown.

You can check out our predictions regarding the DLC lords and heroes to learn more about possible candidates.

Published May 9, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg