{"id":74628,"date":"2015-04-23T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=74628"},"modified":"2015-04-23T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T07:09:39","slug":"when-total-war-and-warhammer-clash-you-get-goose-bumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/74628-when-total-war-and-warhammer-clash-you-get-goose-bumps","title":{"rendered":"When Total War and Warhammer clash you get goose bumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re as big a fan of the Warhammer universe, both Fantasy and 40K, as well as the <em>Total War<\/em> series as we are, then this trailer really only has one possible outcome, goose bumps.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve known that <em>Total War: Warhammer<\/em> was on its way for a while now, but nothing could have prepared us for how well The Creative Assembly has treated the franchise and its license in this trailer. There\u2019s just so much to see, to marvel at and to contemplate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7i4d3ignBNQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the trailer reveals four playable factions thus far: the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orcs_and_Goblins_%28Warhammer%29\">Greenskins<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Empire_%28Warhammer%29\">Empire<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/warhammerfantasybattle.wikia.com\/wiki\/Vampire_Counts\">Vampire Counts<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dwarf_%28Warhammer%29\">Dwarves<\/a>. Those four races, and potentially a few more, will duke it out in the way <em>Total War<\/em> does best: turn-based strategic overviews and real-time, large scale tactical combat. It\u2019s really exciting.<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Assembly and Sega have also announced that two expansions will be added subsequent to <em>Total War: Wahammer\u2019s<\/em> release and eventually form the largest <em>Total War<\/em> game thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warhammer and Total War go together as well as waffles and ice-cream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":74630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1969,15397,5536,1105,723,183,3496],"class_list":["post-74628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-the-creative-assembly","tag-total-war","tag-trailer","tag-video","tag-warhammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}