Literally a city building mobile game on PC with all the trash timers and heavy microtransactions to bypass them. A shame on Warhammer franchise, avoid it and buy Total War Warhammer 1-2(+3 when it's out) instead.

Yet another piece of ♥♥♥♥ Facebook/mobile wait game, filled to overflowing with the worst negative aspects that entails.

This is the exact same dog turd of a "game" you've seen reskinned a hundred times, only this time it's wearing Warhammer's crudely hacked off face, hoping that'll blind you from the fact that 90% of the gameplay is waiting for timers to elapse, then picking new timers to wait on. If you don't want to wait, there's conveniently an option to skip the waiting with their stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ RMTbux. The remaining 10% is "battles", where the pay to win is completely shamelessly in full effect.

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate this game, not only because of what a miserable cash-grab piece of ♥♥♥♥ it is, but because of what it represents, and how it's *going* to make money. I literally do not have a single nice thing to say about this diarrhea platter of a game. ♥♥♥♥ Hunted Cow Studios for developing it, ♥♥♥♥ Tilting Point for publishing it, ♥♥♥♥ Steam for hosting it, and ♥♥♥♥ you if you spend money on it.

Avoid at all costs. I know it's a Warhammer game, I know it's cool in the very beginning, and I know the strategy seems engaging in the beginning.... but it isn't what it seems.It is a micro-transaction infested cesspool where players can purchase in a day what a hard working low spender ($20/mo) or free player can do in over a year, then hit them with it (and potentially set a player back months). The best troops, equipment, warlords, etc. are all paywalled with high stats and a 75% combat bonus for every troop below them. They even have a T-Shirt and pins for players that have spent tens of thousands of dollars. There are a handful. I'm not joking.I lobbied with the developers for months to change the direction of the game, but it has slipped further in favor of the players spending more than $20/mo (which is a soft subscription that's heavily encouraged so you can maintain growth without getting curb stomped by spenders). Content releases have slowed, staff has left, we're on our 3rd or 4th community manager this year, there are fewer new servers and more servers merging together. The playerbase is shrinking.Spending money/time on this game is my worst mistake in 2020, and that's saying something.

This game is the most pay to win game I ever played. In other games I don't need to spend money to be competitive. Sometimes I pay 100 $ to support the developers and get a LOT of benefits. In WH:C&C 100 $ is nothing. I met players, who pay about 1000$ a month (!). So you have to pay this amount also to keep your progress going. You can e.g. buy 10thousands of troops for only 1600$ (if you buy this package several times). Some skills cost a year (!) real time to unlock. Or you pay just 3000$ and unlock them. This game is a money sink at it's best. And it's the only purpose of it. Prepare to be a minion to this masters who payed this several thousand dollars. There is no skill involved - whoever pays most can crush everything. BAD

If it was a pve game, I'd say yes, as a pay to win pvp, no.

The game itself is actually very interesting, if incredibly boring.

You know the type: 3 days, 3 weeks, a YEAR to learn a skill - or speed with items for the shop. £20 here, £99 there, you know you want to.

So, from the get go, this game was designed to be grinding slow and nudge you - at every. single. step. - to spend, spend spend £$£$£$$$$.

Loot boxes with RNG based materials, we got your back, broh. You might only get a few random items in each crate, and sure, you need several thousand components, but that's better than waiting a few hours to regenerate stamina and be able to do anything in the game. Am Ii right? Am I right? You know it.

It IS a good game, BUT it's is a cash sink and it was created purely to be a cash sink. It is what it is and a symptom of a diseased industry (Nurgle would be proud).

If you are happy to throw a LOT of money at a game to win OR if you are patient enough to wait years - LITERALLY several years - to complete the training, then go for it.

Otherwise, it's a hard pass.

Not knocking the game for its play, much, (thought spawning needs a lot of work), but equally, even though, for now, I'm playing it, I am very much not a fan of naked greed by developers.

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Revision after 18 fortress levels

Further play has solidly confirmed both my opinion of the completely out-of-whack balance of the game, the use of psychological and design 'tricks' to extract the maximum money from players, and the often toxic nature of a solid percentage of players.

Trolls bullies, sociopaths, call them what you will, they are common to all PVP games, and most prevalent in PAY TO WIN games like this.

Regardless, I will be writing a complete guide. Note however, while the guide will be exhaustive it will reiterate the follow thoughts and beliefs:

The developers and publishers see players are cattle to be farmed, milked dry. Do not let them!

My advice, if you decide to play: follow these 'rules' - or don't play at all.

PLAY - DO NOT! It is described as 'free to play', play it thus.

PLAY YOUR GAME NOT THEIR GAME! Their game, and often that of other players is to farm YOU. Pay to win gamers see you as fodder. The game owners see both them and you as fodder. Bear that in mind.

PLAY THE LONG GAME. This is a game for which unlocks can take up to a year EACH (unless you wish to pay to win) - and years to get to being able to unlock them. There is no point in rushing, you'll only hit the wall unprepared

Do not level up the fortress until every other building AND ritual is learnt AND you have a full army.

Also, importantly, NOTE THIS: as you progress the in-game rewards get harder and harder to achieve - more expensive to achieve iif you pay to win. The reward for a 'gold' achievement is identical at level 2 to level 18 to level 30. The cost and difficulty however rise in orders of magnitude.

This is a solid example, form a recent experience:

48 hours event to 'win' an epic warlord
Playing naturally - it is NOT possible.
Paying to win (with a level 17 fortress): Upwards of £50
Paying to win (with a level 18 fortress): Around or upwards or £150

Increasing by a single level can treble the time and financial cost of the game.

As at every single point of the game you are but prompted and urged to speed-up, to buy power-ups.

DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR FORTRESS BEYOND LEVEL TWO UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND THIS GAME!

DO NOT BUY INTO THIS GAME!

Just a re-skin of your average FB game, there are just a million of them. This one doesn't even have a Warhammer feeling to it.

192 hours. Way too much. I should have listened to my gut and avoid this, although the promo from Alienware Arena seemed interesting - AA is awesome, but sometimes they offer poisoned gifts like this one. All this game tries to do is get your money, nothing more.

There's no fun. No advanced graphics. No story. Just painful grinding to level up, and then all of a sudden comes a "whale" - some player who has been putting a bazillion times more time and money into the game than you - and obliterates you. It doesn't matter if you're a part of an alliance or not, it doesn't matter how well you think you are defended. You're not. You are never defended well enough. Why am I saying this? It's simple - there's NO TIERING! No chance to just mind your business and PvE without disturbing others.

Think about World of Tanks for a bit and let's suppose Wargaming suddenly changes the game and uses the same approach as Hunted Cow Studios/Tilting Point use for this title. You will find yourself fighting a nice game in your Panzer III, leveling up and upgrading it for hundreds of battles, fighting AI-controlled bots and avoiding human players. Out of a sudden, a fully-loaded, human-controlled Maus shows up and blows you and your entire team to pieces for no reason, just because he can. I hope you got the idea.

I'd rather spend 192 hours in a hospital, fighting COVID-19 in a coma instead of wasting my time playing this ... game — that actually has nothing to do with the Warhammer franchise, if you happen to be a fan and you were wondering. Looks like I managed to avoid curse words — not something that I did in my last & final session in the game.

One final word to define this game: TOXIC.

It's literally a mobile game.

mobile games should stay on mobile devices

Don't mistake this garbage for a game, not even for a minute. This here is the example of everything that is wrong with gaming industry, when this preying algorithm is allowed on Steam. GAMES WORKSHOP made a huge mistake to allow their IP to be smeared with this dung and it can hurt their brand in the long run.

For full review, feel free to check this video:

https://youtu.be/cpOnuK_sOAU