Fire up the forges – the Chaos Dwarfs are officially on their way there Total War: Warhammer 3. Developer Creative Assembly revealed the upcoming playable race as part of a Blog post and trailer for Update 3.0, which will be released on April 13th.
The trailer features the three Legendary Lord generals of the race, each of whom will lead their own faction within the race: Astragoth Ironhand, Drazhoath the Ashen, and Zhatan the Black. The post also details new units the Chaos Dwarves have access to, such as Bull Centaurs and Bale Taurus, as well as a glimpse into the race’s economy and the Tower of Zharr, a unique campaign mechanic that acts as a stage for political maneuvering and devious.
The Chaos Dwarves, as the name suggests, are the evil cousins of Warhammer’s burly, mountain-dwelling race. Worshipers of Hashut, the god of fire, greed, and tyranny, they value diligence and firepower above all else. The majority of the faction’s “Legendary Lord” generals will almost certainly be based in the Dark Lands, their lore-centric home and a space that’s been suspiciously empty on the Immortal Empires map since the expansion’s beta launched last year .
This is the first new playable race since Warhammer 3‘s initial release in February last year. A leak from a data mine follows Warhammer 3The release early last year featured lines of dialogue referring to the Chaos Dwarves, or Dawi-Zharr as they’re called in the Khazalid dwarven language. This ushered in frequent references from Creative Assembly in blogs and trailers.
At the start of the Total War: Warhammer trilogy, developer Creative Assembly claimed that it would bring any army that had an 8th edition army book (detailing the units, abilities, and powers of each faction) into the trilogy to the end of its lifespan . However, the studio exceeded that promise by bringing the Vampire Coast, Norsca, Kislev, and Grand Cathay factions into the games, none of which had their own official army books. The Chaos Dwarfs similarly did not have an 8th edition army book, but instead had an army list in the 8th edition “Tamurkhan” supplement. So the upcoming DLC will probably be the most polished version of the Dawi-Zharr we’ve seen.
In the blog post, Creative Assembly claims that more news regarding the 2023 content roadmap is on the way.
