Pretty much everything the Wood Elves do in the game requires a new resource: Amber. This world of contrasts is typified by The Wild Hunt a seasonal period of slaughter that nonetheless has an attendant ministerial role. Manipulating Bretonnian politics is also a popular pass-time. Their Elven ancestry compels a self-aggrandising sense of nobility, but the Wood Elves are not above a spot of child kidnapping or bloodthirsty sacrificial killing if it serves some arcane, ancient purpose. The faction are a mass of contradictions, combining earthy, Pagan-style forest worship with snooty aristocratic hierarchy. Wood Elf campaign victories (in both grand and mini versions) center on nourishing the Oak of Ages within Athel Loren back to full health. Speaking of stretching, Orion stays in shape with a daily bout of Beastman-skewering. Realm of the Wood Elves is more about building a faction around brand new ideas, which makes them more enjoyable to figure out and play, but also a little uneven in places where the systems are over-stretched. This refinement worked very well, to the extent that Chaos themselves may well be getting a more extensive rethink in future. The basic systems were already in place, but they were a better fit for the ambush-inclined Beastmen and their wider roster of farmyard-inspired foot soldiers. With the Beastmen, Creative Assembly took the ‘Horde’ mechanics used semi-successfully by the Chaos faction, and applied it to a more suitable candidate. Bretonnians, the third partner in this bizarre Warhammer love triangle, make a wider appearance in the Realm of the Wood Elves mini-campaign and are in-line to be a full (free) faction early next year. Total War: Warhammer’s second major faction expansion sticks to the forests, but this time adds pointy-eared, isolationist aristocrats as a foil for the grunting goat-men. After the Beastmen, so must come the denizens of Athel Loren.
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