Diplomacy at the end of a sword is the Norscan way. The Norscan tribes respect strength, and if their leader has been defeated in battle, they’ll usually agree to join a confederation. While diplomacy is an option, assimilation is best achieved by fighting their leaders and winning. Initially, though, they must contend with the other northern tribes by conquering or assimilating them. Though harbours, mines and other buildings can be erected in some settlements, their main source of income is raiding foreign lands and sacking foreign settlements with relentless forward momentum. The business of running an empire and new types of quests don’t get in the way of what the Norscans do best, however: looting and pillaging. They’ve got the same pace and ferocity, but they’re a richer army, with empire management wrinkles and a new quest system fattening up the campaign. Somewhere between squashing Dwarves with my enraged mammoths and burning down the Bretonnian capital in the name of my dark god, I realised that the Norscans contain most of what I felt was missing from the Chaos Warriors, Warhammer’s first DLC faction. They’re aggressive, experimental and blessed with an exotic and intimidating roster of warriors and monsters. These mammoth-loving Viking analogues, despite being a minor faction that don’t quite have the star power of the Orcs or Empire, manage to encapsulate and then build on all that’s great about Creative Assembly’s post-release armies. From the unpleasantly chilly northern edge of Total War: Warhammer’s Old World comes its final DLC faction: Norsca.
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