History VideoGame / WarhammerMarkOfChaos

* BadassBaritone: Lots of units. But Thorgar slowly goes from deep voiced growling as an Undivided Warlord, to 'impossibly deep and intimidating' as a Khornate Chaos Lord, [[spoiler:and finally to 'THE GROUND TREMBLES AS I SPEAK' when he becomes a Khornate Daemon Prince.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: How Thorgar gets his position.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Hero units in general; but Stefan Von Kessel is a relatively high ranking Imperial officer and can take out Orc Warbosses on his own.
** [[spoiler:Exaggerated when he becomes a Elector Count of the Empire following Gruber's defeat. He can duel Thorgar the Blooded One, a Chaos Daemon Prince in single combat and ''win.'']]

The original game featured the very Germanic Empire and the mighty Norse-inspired and daemon worshiping Hordes of Chaos duking it out in a (pretty good) campaign written by Games Workshop's own Gavin Thorpe. The campaigns mainly feature the exploits of the troubled and driven Ostermark captain: Steffan Von Kessel, and the mighty and bloodthirsty Chaos Champion: Thorgar the Blooded One. And the various supporting characters and other races they recruit to aid them in their quests in an Old World set a year since the end of the Great War against Chaos, fought by Emperor Magnus against the Warlord Asavar Kul.

* TheAtoner: Steffan starts out as this for his father's sins. [[spoiler:When he realizes they were innocent, however...]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Hero units in general; but Steffan Von Kessel is a relatively high ranking Imperial officer and can take out Orc Warbosses on his own.

* BadBoss: Otto Von Gruber is ceaselessly critical and ungrateful of Steffan's efforts to combat the Norse.

* ConspiracyRedemption: Steffan Von Kessel starts out the loyal servant of the Count Otto Von Gruber and tirelessly works to redeem his family's name after the treason of his father and his worship of Chaos. [[spoiler:After meeting up with Brother Gunther however, Steffan learns that it was Otto Von Gruber and Captain Steimer who were the worshipers of Chaos all along, and not his father and grandfather; Von Gruber having framed him in order to deflect suspicion of himself and to ascend to the office of Count of Ostermark. Steffan is very angry at this.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: Steffan and Thorgar are this to varying extents. But Thorgar somewhat moreso, due to the largely un-regimented nature of the Hordes of Chaos allowing him to have a more personal touch with his warriors; a truer sense of brotherhood.

* AnAxeToGrind: The entire Chaos faction, because they're basically daemon worshiping Vikings. But Thorgar the Blooded One in particular, who gets the reforged axe of Asavar Kul in the campaign. Said weapon can also be equipped in multiplayer and is the best weapon available to the Chaos faction.

** [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven when he becomes a Elector Count of the Empire following Gruber's defeat. He can duel Thorgar the Blooded One, a Chaos Daemon Prince in single combat and ''win.'']]

* TheCavalry: Stefan is this in a couple of missions. One of the Imperial missions has an optional objective that requires you to hold a signal horn for thirty seconds. Once the timer runs out, an Imperial-aligned mercenary army appears on the enemy's flank and rushes in with mounted Knights and riflemen.

* TheCavalry: Stefan is this in a couple of missions.

* BaldOfAwesome: Imperial Warrior Priests of Sigmar are clean-shaven up top and defend their flock by taking a massive warhammer to anything threatening it.

* BigDamnHeroes: The Shadow Warrior who saves the Warrior Priest in the opening cinematic.

* WorldOfHam: It's a Warhammer game, what did you expect?

* BaldOfAwesome: Warrior Priests of Sigmar. And Brother Gunther in particular.

* BadassBeard: The Hordes of Chaos and Dwarf factions carry this all their own. Some Imperial units too.
** BeardOfBarbarism and BeardOfEvil: The Northmen of the Hordes of Chaos bear these with pride.

* MultipleEndings: The ''Battle March'' campaign [[DuelingPlayerCharacters ends with a battle between Gorbash and Lilaeth]], with the player choosing who to play as. In Gorbash's ending, he goes on to ransack the Empire, but eventually grows bored [[AndTheAdventureContinues and takes his armies beyond the World's Edge Mountains in search of stronger enemies]]. In Lilaeth's ending, she hunts down the remaining high elves within the Empire, driving them to retreat back to Ulthuan, before returning to Naggaroth in triumph.

* MultipleEndings: The ''Battle March'' campaign [[DuellingPlayerCharacters ends with a battle between Gorbash and Lilaeth]], with the player choosing who to play as. In Gorbash's ending, he goes on to ransack the Empire, but eventually grows bored [[AndTheAdventureContinues and takes his armies beyond the World's Edge Mountains in search of stronger enemies]]. In Lilaeth's ending, she hunts down the remaining high elves within the Empire, driving them to retreat back to Ulthuan, before returning to Naggaroth in triumph.

* TheCameo: The famed High Elven mage [[TheArchmage Teclis]] makes a few brief appearances during the Empire campaign, while [[EvilOverlord Malekith]], the Witch King of Naggoroth and lord of the Dark Elves, shows up in a cut scene during the expansion campaign, threatening to rip out Lilaeth's soul if she fails him.
** As a whole faction, the Vampire Counts also appear in a handful of missions as [=AI=] opponents with a limited roster of units.

[[caption-width-right:350:Steffan von Kessel and Thorgar the Blooded One, teaching us that warring over religion is cool as hell.]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Greenskins to the Dark Elves in the Battle March campaign. The Greenskins are violent destructive and all around a menace to the forces of order. The Dark Elves are all these things and much worse.

* TheCameo: The famed High Elven mage [[TheArchmage Teclis]] makes a few brief appearances during the Empire campaign, while [[EvilOverlord Malekith]], the Witch King of Naggoroth and lord of the Dark Elves, shows up in a cut scene during the expansion campaign, threatening to rip out Lilaeth's heart if she fails him.

* TheCameo: The famed High Elven mage [[TheArchmage Teclis]] makes a few brief appearances during the Empire campaign, while [[EvilOverlord Malekith]], the Witch King of Naggoroth and lord of the Dark Elves, shows up in a cut scene during the expansion campaign.

[[caption-width-right:350:Our two leads, ready to duke it out.]]

''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Mark of Chaos'' is a Real-Time Tactics computer game by Black Hole Entertainment and co-published by Namco Bandai Games and released in November 14 2006 in the US, with a subsequent 23 November release in PAL territories. It is set in Games Workshop's wonderfully bleak and [[RatedMForManly MANLY]] Warhammer Fantasy Battle universe. The gameplay is by and large a simplified version of ''VideoGame/TotalWar''[[note]] A comparison which becomes somewhat HilariousInHindsight considering [[VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer what came later]][[/note]]; an expansion known as Battle March was released 2nd September of 2008, which added the Greenskins and Dark Elves.

The expansion pack; Battle March deals with the aftermath of the invasion of Thorgar (and it's not quite made clear who won) and the encroaching Greenskins who seek to take the scraps of what is left. Led by the brutal Warboss Gorebash and his shaman adviser Wazog; the Orcs and Goblins spill down from the mountains in a mighty WAAAGH! following a set of arcane signs leading them to battle, each leading to one more perilous than the last. Concurrently, the Dark Elves of Naggaroth use the chaos to launch their newest attack against their High Elven cousins of Ulthuan. But both factions are more entwined than they appear at first glance...

* EvilSorcerer: Chaos Sorcerers, oddly enough. Sudubaal in particular, though.

* GoryDiscretionShot: We aren't shown how [[spoiler:Sudubaal]] dies, but the scene starts with Thorgar raising his axe, a cut to black and his last gasps of life.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Sudubaal's is executed by Thorgar for his betrayal]].

[[spoiler:'''Sudubaal:''']] Favoured? Chosen?! You will die on these shores with your dreams unfulfilled, the laughter of the thirsting Gods ringing in your ears! You're NOTHING without me! ''I'' led you to this place! ''I'' raised you up in the Eyes of the Gods!! Now the elves are coming back! They know you are here! Without me, you will be destroyed! I have no regrets! And I expect no mercy...\\

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Sudubaal, the Herald who sets Thorgar on his quest from the Gods. As he wants to take Asavar Kul's power for himself and escape his incorporeal state. Thorgar does not let that stand.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Sudubaal has a MASSIVE one when his attempt to kill Thorgar and steal Asavar Kul's power fails.]]

''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Mark of Chaos'' is a Real-Time Tactics computer game by Black Hole Entertainment and co-published by Namco Bandai Games and released in November 14 2006 in the US, with a subsequent 23 November release in PAL territories. It is set in Games Workshop's wonderfully bleak and [[RatedMForManly MANLY]] Warhammer Fantasy Battle universe. The gameplay is by and large a simplified version of ''VideoGame/TotalWar''[[note]] A comparison which becomes somewhat HilariousInHindsight considering [[VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer what came later[[/note]]; an expansion known as Battle March was released 2nd September of 2008, which added the Greenskins and Dark Elves.

''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Mark of Chaos'' is a Real-Time Tactics computer game by Black Hole Entertainment and co-published by Namco Bandai Games and released in November 14 2006 in the US, with a subsequent 23 November release in PAL territories. It is set in Games Workshop's wonderfully bleak and [[RatedMForManly MANLY]] Warhammer Fantasy Battle universe. The gameplay is by and large a simplified version of ''VideoGame/TotalWar''; an expansion known as Battle March was released 2nd September of 2008, which added the Greenskins and Dark Elves.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Dark Elf Sorceresses wear extremely revealing robes, while the witch elves wear waht amounts to metal lingerie.

* CoolVersusAwesome: The Holy Roman Empire with steam-powered tanks and hammer-brandishing bald warrior priests vs. brutal, war-loving, daemon-worshipping Vikings. The sequel adds barbaric British football hooligan Orcs vs. WickedCultured Velociraptor-riding Dark Elves.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Dark Elf Sorceresses and Witch Elves are this.

* TheCameo: The famed High Elven mage Teclis makes a few brief appearances during the Empire campaign, while Malekith, the Witch King of Naggoroth and lord of the Dark Elves, shows up in a cut scene during the expansion campaign.