History Trivia / TotalWarWarhammerIII

* AscendedFanon: [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1910430680 There is a mod]] for the previous game that allows players to recruit units from allied factions, and while those units join the army immediately they don't join at full strength and have to replenish first. This game adds both those elements, though it splits them - You can recruit allied factions' units via the new Outpost system, while Nurgle factions recruit units immediately but at less than full strength.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The dev team has very diplomatically implied that this is the reason that the Tzaangors introduced in the Shadows of Change DLC don't have any birdlike features such as beaks or feathers as they do in Age of Sigmar or 40k. They eventually expanded this further and indicated that anything that didn't get adapted from the tabletop to the game is due to request by Games Workshop.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The dev team has very diplomatically implied that this is the reason that the Tzaangors introduced in the Shadows of Change DLC don't have any birdlike features such as beaks or feathers as they do in Age of Sigmar or 40k.

** The Shadows of Change DLC was ''very'' poorly received upon its initial release. It was priced similarly to the Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs race pack, but came with only a fraction of the content, and the content it did come with was perceived to be well below the game's usual standards. Not helping was that the initial release had almost nothing in the way of free content being added, meaning people already frustrated by how the Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs low free content were further made angry. In response, CA announced that they would be delaying the release of their next DLC and instead focusing on adding additional content to Shadows of Change in a free update. They also announced a plan to be more transparent going forward with the packs due to the reception of the past few had been.

** The Shadows of Change DLC was ''very'' poorly received upon its initial release. It was priced similarly to the Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs race pack, but came with only a fraction of the content, and the content it did come with was perceived to be well below the game's usual standards. In response, CA announced that they would be delaying the release of their next DLC and instead focusing on adding additional content to Shadows of Change in a free update.

** The Shadows of Change DLC was *very* poorly received upon its initial release. It was priced similarly to the Forge of the Chaos Dwarves race pack, but came with only a fraction of the content, and the content it did come with was perceived to be well below the game's usual standards. In response, CA announced that they would be delaying the release of their next DLC and instead focusing on adding additional content to Shadows of Change in a free update.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A decent chunk of the fanbase took issue with the requirements of owning all three games in order to play Immortal Empires, even those accepting of the amount of paid DLC the series has, due to the fact it would require new players to spend roughly ''$180'' USD, assuming no sales in the meantime, just to unlock the mode without any of the other DLC packs. Creative Assembly ended up listening; when Immortal Empires entered its final release, they announced that they would be shifting to allowing anyone who owned just Game III to play Immortal Empires for no additional cost, with the only caveat being that III-only players would only be able to play as the game's default Legendary Lords, along with all four of Brettonia's, without owning any of the other games or DLC.

*** In addition, the reasoning behind Azazel, who [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers stands out]] among the other Champions for being both a character who'd been DemotedToExtra on the tabletop and starting as a full fledged Daemon, being in the DLC was also clarified. Sigvald, who is normally associated with the other three Champions as Slaanesh's mortal champion, would've been a guarantee if he hadn't already been added as a Warriors of Chaos Lord in the first game, forcing them to look for more obscure characters to avoid Slaanesh being left out.

* IKnewIt: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]], as the game's launch state turned out to be something of a middle ground between numerous camps of fan-speculation:
** Almost everyone expected that Cathay would show up in the game, since Creative Assembly had plenty of Chinese themed assets to work on from ''VideoGame/TotalWarThreeKingdoms''. [[DidntSeeThatComing No one, however, expected them to show up]] '''''[[DidntSeeThatComing as one of the playable factions at launch.]]'''''
*** Relatedly, Kislev was another hotly anticipated fan-favorite, and there were many debates over whether they or Cathay would snag a spot at launch (with the other races expected to be Daemons of Chaos, Ogre Kingdoms and Chaos Dwarfs); often on the notion that the other would be relegated to mere [=DLC=]. Instead, the announcement revealed that both empires would be at launch simultaneously, while Ogres and Chaos Dwarfs would be the ones held back.
** Among fan speculation, there was a small camp who believed that the third game would be a VillainEpisode, splitting the Daemons of Chaos into four distinct races and taking place entirely within the Chaos Wastes/Realm of Chaos, while the remaining mortal factions would only be added later on. With the announcement, the four daemon races and the presence of the Realm of Chaos were both confirmed, while still incorporating other lands and other major races.
** During the extended wait for the confirmation of the pre-order bonus, many theories floated around. Once a pair of articles made a point of the ogre homelands being in Warhammer III and implied story relevance for their Great Maw, the Ogre Kingdoms became a frontrunning theory. Once the floodgates opened for details about the game a few months later, fans noticed that almost every article seemed to end with some sort of hunger joke, arguably turning their eventual announcement into a CaptainObviousReveal.
** When it was revealed that the game will feature nine Legendary Lords on release, the fans quickly assumed (extrapolating from cryptic references to "an ancient power seeking a champion") that it will be Be'lakor, leading Chaos Undivided. As it turned out, the mysterious faction is indeed Chaos Undivided, led by a Daemon Prince... that's not Be'lakor, but an OriginalGeneration representing the player! Be'lakor instead is supposed to serve as a BigBad of the campaign.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Azazel's bio in the Unit & Spell Browser describes him as having been "the chief of the Gerreon tribe, one of the twelve great peoples of Sigmar," as a mortal. There is no such tribe in ''Warhammer'' lore; Gerreon was Azazel's own human name, and he was actually a member of the Unberogens, the tribe ruled by Sigmar himself.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://totalwarwarhammer.gamepedia.com/Total_War:_Warhammer_Wiki The Total War: Warhammer Wiki]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A decent chunk of the fanbase took issue with the requirements of owning all three games in order to play Immortal Empires, even those accepting of the amount of paid DLC the series has, due to the fact it would require new players to spend roughly ''$180'' USD, assuming no sales in the meantime, just to unlock the mode without any of the other DLC packs. Creative Assembly ended up listening; when Immortal Empires entered its final release, they announced that they would be shifting to allowing anyone who owned just Game III to play Immortal Empires for no additional cost, with the only caveat being that III-only players would only be able to play as the game's default Legendary Lords (and Bretonnia's for some reason) without owning any of the other games or DLC.

* WordOfGod: The devs stated that the reason why Greasus isn't carried by a swarm of Gnoblars is because the skeletons used by the Gnoblars makes it too time consuming and expensive to animate the swarm needed to carry the Overtyrant. Ku'Gath retains his Nurgling-carried palanquin because the Nurglings have a much simpler skeleton and are easier to animate, and even then, he is only carried by a handful of them, while the lore describes them as being a massive swarm. This was later amended to reveal that the real reason was that the Ogre Kingdoms' team had a smaller budget to work with than the Daemons of Nurgle team (with the previous explanation being a result of miscommunication).

** Doubly so as a similar feature was already in the Call of Warhammer mod for Medieval II Kingdoms. You could build elven/dwarven quarters in some human cities and hire their basic units.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/RichardArmitage is the voice for Be’lakor in this game.

** The playable factions added by the then-yet-to-be-announced ''Champions of Chaos'' DLC were accidentally shown in a FAQ video published on the Total War [=YouTube=] channel, which included footage of Lokhir Fellheart's Immortal Empires campaign and victory conditions.

** The God-Slayer Legendary Lord, the existence of extra mini-campaigns and co-op campaigns now supporting up to 8 players were leaked in a Russian news website three days before they were officially revealed by Creative Assembly.