Creative Assembly have taken us a little deeper into the biomechanical contours of Total War: Warhammer 40,000‘s faction design, with a new development roundtable video featuring principal creative director Ian Roxburgh, lead designer Simon Mann and product owner for battles David Petry.

The short version: the starting faction balance is a question of both asymmetry and calculated familiarity. The Imperial Guard are for Total War traditionalists, with a straightforward emphasis on production and attrition. The Orks are comparably numerous, but they need to keep fighting or they’ll turn on each other, and have some unique capabilities based on repourposed tech. The Space Marines are all about precise usage of very small numbers of fanatical killing machines, with less capacity to build up an economy. And the Eldar are stealthy glass cannons operating out of remote Craftworld bases, who spend a lot of time trying to avert galactic calamities rather than just wrecking the other species.

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“As the internet likes to tell us, it’s been a while.” Please keep waiting, there are some magazines over there if you need them. “It’s a process.” Shouting won’t increase the speed at which it happens. Do you “want the turkey that is in the oven for long enough to be delicious when it finally comes out of the oven”? Some of these are things I often have to say to my cat when the clock ticks to within an hour of feeding time. Some of them are things Todd Howard and co have said about The Elder Scrolls 6 in another little update that’s seen them declare yet again that it is coming and add that development’s going good thus far.

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