Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting some absolutely murderous cats

Blood for the humor god, cats for Grand Cathay

Creative Assembly person conscionable elaborate Total War: Warhammer 3’s archetypal quality pack, these being “smaller, focused contented drops built astir a azygous quality with their ain unsocial feature, supported by a fistful of breathtaking caller units”, priced (in this case) astatine £3.99, $4.99 oregon €4.99 apiece.

Yes, it’s Creative Assembly erstwhile again nosing astatine the shards of your smashed piggy bank, but the developers have, successful theory, pre-empted immoderate rancour implicit DLC nickel-and-diming by making the quality battalion cat-themed. Everybody loves cats! Even erstwhile they outgo arsenic overmuch arsenic a mean oatmilk latte. Especially cats similar Bhashiva – an wholly caller Warhammer quality - and her institution of Tiger Warriors. Look astatine her ickle grumpy face! Look astatine her ickle flaming duplicate katara! ARGH get it disconnected maine get it disconnected maine get it disconnected me, etcetera.

Bhashiva and her feline gangsters volition signifier portion of the Grand Cathay faction, though sadly not, it seems, due to the fact that immoderate Creative Assembly decorator spotted an evident pun and was instantly assigned £100,000. The pack’s paid contents are 1 Legendary Lord, 1 Lord, 3 regular units, and a “Unique Campaign Feature, Final Battle, Quest Battle etc”.

What mode of combatant is Bhashiva, then? She’s a stealthy wrecking ball, equipped with incendiary weapons and a Heaven’s Gate blink-style ability. “Each onslaught not lone scorches her victims but weakens their absorption to flame, letting her plough done fights the infinitesimal she commits,” enthuses a blog station connected CA’s site. “Her agility is astatine the halfway of her playstyle; she darts betwixt threats, repositions effortlessly, and uses her mastery of stealth to prime the cleanable infinitesimal to appear.”

Battle decorator Josh King adds that “she’s the quiescent dread successful the backmost of your mind”. How precise dissimilar my family’s ain moggy, champion summarised arsenic “the quiescent shitter successful the backmost of the chamber cupboard”.

As for the Tiger Warriors, they’re a pack of nippy ambushers and so, comparatively exotic among the boxy formations of regular Grand Cathay. Their Clawspeaker spellcasters are vanguard units equipped with a premix of healing, beast and shadiness lore, making them an “incredibly versatile unit multiplier.”

If you don’t already ain the Grand Cathay DLC, buying the Tiger Warrior quality battalion includes entree to “the halfway Grand Cathay roster to guarantee you get a implicit experience”. We tin expect much details down the line. Also down the line: the merchandise of Total War: Warhammer 3’s Lords of the End Times expansion, which is chock afloat of necromancers. And sometime aft that, the merchandise of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 - 1 of Julian's astir anticipated games of 2026. And sometime aft that, a agelong clip probably, the merchandise of Total War: Medieval 3.