Total War: Warhammer

- Malakai a slayer engineer, with the full advantages of both jobs, being unbreakable and focused on enhancing ranged units. He's a mostly ranged lord, tossing explosives, shooting with his repeater pistol or wacking enemies with his spanner if they get in melee. He excels at making his artillery better by giving them deranged munitions that turns one artillery unit's missiles magical while also increasing damage. His items allow him to create an Ao E buff that increase allies' missile damage and range or replenish and heal artillery units.

- Malakai's main campaign mechanic is simply called "Malakai's adventures". Each adventure is a series of quests against a specific race or powerful creature that leads Malakai to research his foe and enhance his war machines to make the perfect counter against that creature. Reaching the end of the questline leads to a quest battle and winning that battle grants great rewards, including the enhancement of an existing Dawi weapon and the development of the Spirit of Grungni, his ultimate weapon.

- The Spirit of Grungni is a massive airship that serves as Malakai's base while he's one the march. The blog post doesn't get into too much detail about just how it works, I imagine that will be left to the video on Thursday, but it provides support both on the campaign map and in battle, and is enhanced through completing quests in Malakai's adventures.

- Garagrim Ironfist is the new legendary hero for the Dwarfs. He is the son of Ungrim Ironfist and like his father, is a slayer. Unlike all other slayers in the game, he's an anti-infantry powerhouse who gives damage and magical attack buffs to his nearby allies, making him an ideal frontline unit rather than an anti-large specialist. He can deal Ao E damage around himself, has a ward save to make him difficult to kill and the more he slays, the more powerful he becomes.

- The new generic lord is the Daemon Slayer, a slayer lord who specializes in killing, shockingly, demons. With inherent magical attacks and the ability to buff other slayers by making himself and them unkillable, this lord excels at stopping a monster's rampage cold. Furthermore, the Daemon Slayer gains increased killing power when facing enemies that cause terror.

- The new generic hero is the Dragon Slayer, and his focus is on facing enemies with flaming attacks. Like the Daemon Slayer, he gains increased killing power against terrifying foes.

- The Doomseekers are an anti-infantry type of slayers, who are very similar to Garagrim. They dual-wield axes chained to their wrists and become whirlwinds of death when sent in the thick of an enemy formation.

- Slayer Pirates are a strange type of ranged infantry, being ranged slayers. They wield cutlasses and pistols. Their Ro R version has damage resistance as well.

- Grudge Raker Thunderers are shotgun-wielding ranged units, exchanging range for sheer firepower to adapt to the new type of warfare brought on by the Chaos Dwarfs. Like the blunderbuss-wielding Dawi Zharr, the Grudge Rakers excel at blasting apart enemy formations, but they deal good numbers against single entities as well.

- The Goblin Hewer is a strange, terrifying contraption invented by Malakai. The Goblin Hewer throws powerful axes to decimate the ranks of approaching infantry. Its attacks are fast and precise, making them quite capable at singling out parts of the battlefield. And because its crew is composed of slayers, should it run out of ammo it is quite capable of still making an impact on the battle.

- The Thunderbarge is the showcase unit for the Dwarfs in this DLC. A massive flying machine capable of saturating the battlefield in cannonballs and bombs, with a contingent of Grudge Rakers to protect it from other flying units or add their firepower to close ground units. This flying machine is quite slow normally, but it can be fueled by a special type of Bugman's brew to massively increase it's movement speed at the cost of constant damage as the airship tears itself apart from the strain. A final ability of the barge involves shooting a massive harpoon, which I assume is particularly effective against single targets.

- Grudges are getting an overhaul. The mechanic was starting to get stale, less encouraging campaign decisions and more being extra rewards for things you were already doing or punishing you for not doing things you no longer needed (or could no longer do).

- From now on, grudges will be made against any faction that commits wrongful actions against any Dwarf faction in the game. Every ten turns, an age of reckoning will start, asking you to strike out a certain number of grudges from the book. If you're successful at striking out grudges, you will gain increasing rewards, but a poor performance will give factional penalties.

- Legendary grudges are added to the book from the beginning of the campaign, giving massive rewards should they be struck out. The example given, destroying Skavenblight or Hellpit, allows you to summon armies of miners in your territory as they suffer fewer Skaven attacks. You can even set out to rebuild the Karaz Ankor and create a fast travel system between Karaks.

- Confederating other Dwarf factions is made easier by out-grudging them. If you strike out more grudges than other Dwarf factions, you can confederate them.

- The tech tree has been revamped. Since it was so massive, it's been split in two trees and had its effects updated. A few buildings have also been tweaked.

- The Forge has also received a minor update, making it give more rewards in smaller increments so that it feels more useful overall.