Trivia / Total War: Warhammer

• Ascended Fanon: A mod was made for Medieval: Total War that reworked the game into a Warhammer adaptation. Now there's a canon Warhammer entry in the series.
• Ascended Meme: In Total War: Warhammer I, AI recruitment was occasionally a bit dodgy before a number of patches somewhat alleviated the issue. This led to armies having odd compositions, like being completely filled with artillery units. One infamous example was Surthu Ek, the faction leader of the Norscan tribe Varg who often led an army completely filled with Chaos Chariot units. This gained him an infamous reputation among the player base due to the AI's ability to micro chariots to devastating effects, leading some to call him the "True Everchosen" just because of how much of a pain he was to deal with. This meme was acknowledged by CA with the latest patch that came along with the Norsca Race Pack, having him start with a chariot mount right off the bat.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: Grombrindal is voiced by none other than Gimli.
• Dummied Out:
  • Isabella Von Carstein was set to appear in the base game (she was later added in a FLC) going by some unused files.
  • To many fans' displeasure, a voice clip belonging to none other then Gotrek & Felix was found in the games files, implying they were originally going to appear in some form. They would later be added to Total War: Warhammer II.
  • Unit cards for recruitable ships exist in the files with each race having their own distinct set of ships.
• Executive Meddling:
  • One of the reasons why Chaos was made a preorder DLC was the fact SEGA forced Creative Assembly to either make Chaos a preorder incentive, or have them in the game as an unplayable "boss" faction, with much less units. CA choose the lesser of two evils.
  • Because of Games Workshop strict (and often times unreasonable) stance on copyright, modding tools were severely limited, and were originally not going to be in the game at all.
  • Gotrek and Felx were originally meant to appear in Total War: Warhammer 1, and unused voice clips for them were found in that game's files. They finally were added to the series during the second game.
• Meme Acknowledgement: From the greater Total War series, the phase "shameful display" pops up in a few places, though nowhere near as in your face with it as Rome II was. Of particular note is when an Orc faction sues for peace, which will occasionally lead to the Warboss grumbling, "Peace, a shameful display it is."
• Playing Against Type: Franchise example. You wouldn't expect a historical simulator series like Total War to dip its toes into something as fantastical and fictional as Warhammer much less the original version as opposed to the more popular Warhammer 40k.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally, the "office" system for the Empire and Wood Elves was going to be available for all factions, but was presumably cut to make the two above factions more unique.
  • Black Orc Immortulz were going to be in the game originally, as Grimgor's skill sheet shows an unused trait that increases the Immortulz unit size, and were mentioned as units in earlier alpha footage.
  • An early model for Tzeentch Horrors, horrid lesser Daemons of the Chaos God, were shown in an early promotional screen (showing the various skeleton rigs of units), but are absent from the base game. Horrors would be added alongside full rosters for the Daemons of Chaos in Total War: Warhammer III.
  • A screenshot depicting the in-game render of the Chaos Dragon is labelled as "Galrauch", which fans of the tabletop would know as the progenitor of the horrid beasts, exists, implying he was planned to appear in the game. Along with the above, instead of Chaos Undivided represented in-game, it seems CA was going to go with Tzeentch as the main Chaos faction.
• Word of God: Besides confirming the "full horrors of Chaos would be represented eventually" Creative Assembly has revealed, that the adviser and the corrupted Light Wizard in the trailer are not the same person.

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