Total War: Warhammer – The Art of the Games

Good for a half price buy, but like another reviewer noted, there’s a lot of widely available art here. At the least, I would have liked full page versions of each factions loading screen & unit art. Will still be nice to use for paint scheme inspiration for my miniatures.

lo obtuve a muy buen precio y de entrada tiene mucha calidad tambien abarca totalesr hammer 2y3 lo cual fue una sorpresa para mi ya que solo pense que abarcaria el lo unico que me hubiera gustado es que los personajes dibujados tuvieran poses mas dinamicas en vez de eso sus poses son muy estaticas.

Sensacional. Um ótimo livro para quem deseja detalhes das mais diversas raças do universo de Fantasia Sombria do Warhammer, além do mais, excelente para quem joga o Wargame de mesa, e deseja ter inspirações ou ideias para suas pinturas. E pelo preço atual está valendo muito a pena.

Not familiar myself with Warhammer but the book was good quality and the artwork looked lovely

I was very excited to receive this book. As an artist myself, studying concept art of my favorite games is a huge source of inspiration for me. This book talks about the immense undertaking Creative Assembly managed when creating the Total War: Warhammer series accompanied with beautiful concept art for its development.

I give three stars however because there are errors and strange choices made. Several of the descriptions are mismatched to the wrong pictures, and oddly enough the Ogre Kingdoms section is entirely absent of unit or character concept art. I suppose it could be because they were DLC but the book released well after the games release date, it seems odd to have a section about them that only shows off environmental design. You don’t even see what an Ogre looks like in their section!

Overall I’m satisfied.

Sehr fein bei den Völkern, die bereits in den Teilen 1 und 2 TW Warhammer vorkamen.
Bei den Völkern, die erst im dritten Teil erschienen, sind die Illustrationen leider nicht mehr so “verspielt” und mit “Liebe zum Detail” (Zeitfaktor?)
Im Großen und Ganzen aber eine Empfehlung für Warhammer Fantasy Liebhaber!

I had been very disappointed with CA’s first Total War artbook, the one dedicated to their historical series. It had mostly consisted of promotional pieces of art that were widely available online and not what I was hoping for: a good look at the concept art for the units and buildings.

In spite of this, I took a risk and bought this book as I’d been very much enjoying the Warhammer TW games. Was it better than their historical book? Yes. Was it what I was hoping for? No.

Once again, what I wanted to see was the design art for the units and the architecture/environments. ALL of them. This book did improve on that aspect, as it showed a semi-decent number of unit and environment pictures, but it didn’t show all of them. Really, what I wanted was a full collection of detailed artwork of all the units available in the series (which isn’t a big ask, considering the art definitely already exists). Instead what we were given is a selection of unit artwork. Which, once again, isn’t what I was looking for.

The book’s construction seems fairly sturdy, the binding seems tight and the hardcover and dust jacket are good quality. The paper is suitably thick and durable. I found nothing to complain about there. And if you’re just interested in seeing a selection of artwork from the game and aren’t fussed about whether everything is included or not, you’ll likely be satisfied with the book’s selection (though I found their Warhammer III selection to be even more sparse than the rest). If, like me, you were hoping for a comprehensive art collection you will be disappointed.

I feel it is a 2.5 star book, but since that’s not an option I rounded it up to 3.