Total War: Warhammer 3's Lords of the End Times arrives September 24

Creative Assembly has dated Lords of the End Times, its next DLC for Total War: Warhammer 3, for September 24. The date arrived alongside a new cinematic trailer and a DLC overview outlining what each of the pack’s four Legendary Lords does in campaign, PC Gamer reports.

The four Legendary Lords

Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead, plays as a campaign about assembly: gathering his Mortarch lieutenants and his lost Books in order to ascend to godhood and remake the world. Boris Todbringer channels Middenland’s battle fervour into the Great Temple of Ulric, converting it into army bonuses.

The Glottkin sow Gardens of Nurgle across the territory they lay waste to, and those gardens in turn supply beneficial plagues and daemonic Nurgle units. Grey Seer Thanquol, meanwhile, schemes — with the studio noting his plots will not "always go according to plan," but that a player who manages the collateral damage will see his "grand and destructive plans realized."

Free updates and an Immortal Empires unlock

Creative Assembly said substantial free updates will land alongside the DLC, including gameplay overhauls for the Vampire Counts and for Archaon, new end-game scenarios, and reworked victory conditions for every Legendary Lord in the game.

The studio also described one change as a series first: buying any part of Lords of the End Times, either as a bundle or as individual lords, grants access to the Immortal Empires campaign mode — including for players who do not own any of the Total War: Warhammer games.

The trailer leans heavily on Thanquol, whose schemes in Warhammer lore are as likely to devastate his fellow skaven as their intended targets — including, on one occasion, an attempt to destroy the moon with a warpstone weapon. How faithfully that unreliability is modelled in campaign is the open question the overview only partly answers.

Lords of the End Times launches on Steam on September 24. The End Times is the setting’s apocalyptic endgame, which is why the pack’s roster skews so heavily toward the undead, daemons and skaven.