So what will happen is when we release Warhammer 3 eventually, we will actually combine all three games into a bigger map from all three games. RPS: Is the idea to combine it all again after releasing a third game in the series? But that's just far too vast a task to do in one game, there's just so much there, that we thought the only way we could ever achieve that ultimately is by breaking it down into a trilogy, make three full-sized games just ram-packed with content themselves, and then as a free offering for our fans, we can merge them all together and put them all together and create what we ultimately want and what we believe our fans would ultimately want, which is this massive, Warhammer universe, but with everything in it.

Ian: Well, very very early on when we first decided to do the deal with Games Workshop, and you look at the massive, massive amount of content there is in the Warhammer Fantasy IP, we knew that we ultimately wanted to do all of it, and make a game with all of it in. RPS: My first question is: why do this? Why did you decide to take the two games you've made, smash them together as one huge game, and then release it for free? To find out why this is happening and how the Creative Assembly are going about it, we spoke to Game Director Ian Roxburgh and Lead Designer Jim Whitson. To remedy this, they've come up with the Mortal Empires DLC, a free download that will essentially merge the two games' campaigns together in one huge map, letting players assume command of any of the eight races available in the series so far. But in the eyes of the Creative Assembly, that still isn't big enough. Total War: Warhammer is a big game, and the recently released Total War: Warhammer II is even bigger.

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