

In addition, Hag Graef benefits from +30% income from Iron Mines, Gold Mines, and Marble Quarries in all their regions. This effect means that Malus will get special missions from Tz’arkan which offer powerful items and followers as rewards.

This factor is represented in his Faction Effects by “Tz’arkan’s Whispers”. While his Vortex campaign will include the standard Dark Elf campaign mechanics, Malus also has his own supplementary mechanics, representing his possession by the Daemon Tz’arkan. Malus Darkblade is the new Legendary Lord coming to the Dark Elves in The Shadow and The Blade. If you have never played a Total War game the wait between turns could be a downer for you.Malus Darkblade – Total War: Warhammer 2 Faction and Lord Effects There are just a ton of factions on that huge map for the AI to try to run through every turn. Although the faction specific win conditions are new to Total War, Mortal Empires time between turns while the AI is thinking is still long and annoying. I suggest you start with the Vortex campaign. They will be on the map to fight but you cannot pick them to play.

So if you do not own Warhammer 1 and its DLC factions, you will NOT be able to play them. However the only factions playable on the Mortal Empires map are ones you own. Just overall level of domination across the whole map. No special "story" type win conditions for specific factions like the Vortex campaign. It is a traditional sandbox style Total War game. The Mortal Empire campaign is mashed together map of Warhammer 1's map and the Vortex map. Each playable factions on this map have a special win condition, ie control the vortex, collect faction specific artifacts.It is the main campaign for Warhammer 2 more or less. Plan and simple the Vortex campaign is it's own map with the new playable factions.
