Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest
Being a bad guy takes commitment to Chaos, micromanagement.
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Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest
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What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Warhammer: Chaos and Conquest is a free-to-play fantasy real-time strategy game, available for download on Android and iOS mobile devices. The game is based on Games Workshop's popular Warhammer fantasy franchise, which has crossed into a wide range of products and media. The game requires a lot of micromanagement, as players build up and maintain a base of operations for their own Chaos army. Violence is core to both the story and gameplay, though the game's smaller scale keeps that violence from being overly graphic in nature. Parents should also be aware that the game heavily pushes microtransactions, allowing players to bypass time limits and to add powerful units to their collection.
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What’s It About?
Spread the word of Chaos throughout the Old World in WARHAMMER: CHAOS & CONQUEST. Set within Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy universe, players must build up and maintain their personal warbands, capable of sowing death and destruction on any that stand in their paths. To succeed, you'll need to recruit and summon the most powerful Daemons, Warlords, warriors, and soldiers, eager to serve at the behest of the deities' whims. You'll collect resources and build your essential war college including forges, citadels, conclaves and more. You'll also swear fealty to your chosen Chaos God and craft a temple in its name, perhaps gaining a blessing in return. Once your forces are sufficient, you'll lead them into the Old World and pillage to your dark heart's content. Eventually, you'll further increase your influence by joining with other warbands in grand alliances, pooling your respective resources while defending each other from rival warband attacks. Rain down bloody Chaos prove to your god that you are worthy of the title Everchosen.
Is It Any Good?
While most games tend to put players in the role of the heroes, sometimes it just feels good to be the bad guys. But if Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest is any indication, being bad isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be. The game looks fantastic, though building up your base quickly becomes a highly detailed, but extremely cluttered, mess. Whether you try to zoom in tight on the action or out to try and take everything in, it's difficult to make out much of what's happening onscreen. It doesn't help that everything the Chaos touches seems to have inherited a look that blends together into a hellscape ripped from a '80s heavy metal album cover.
While you might think being an agent of Chaos would be a job full of carnage and destruction, the truth is, most of the time Chaos & Conquest winds up being a bureaucratic and logistic nightmare instead. You'll spend more time in menus, building structures and recruiting or training units than you will on the battlefield. It's frustrating because the tutorial doesn't do a great job of explaining how the mechanics of the game operate. It directs players to Point A and B, but never explains why you're doing any of the things there. Then, after you're left to fumble around on your own, the game turns into more of a slog of wait times between orders and/or a constant trickle of money spent on microtransactions to either move things along or to buy new units powerful enough to survive against those that have been playing longer (or spent more money). In time, once you get into the swing of things and choose to commit to the investment of time and/or money, the game offers a decent glimpse into the darker side of Warhammer Fantasy. It's just not too inviting for newcomers to the franchise and definitely not an entry level game.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about violence in entertainment. Is the impact of the violence in Warhammer: Chaos and Conquest affected by the kind of fantasy violence shown during play? Does fantasy violence with magic have any less of an impact than more realistic forms of violence? What about violence in mobile games versus that in bigger console or computer games?
What are some other types of gaming besides video games? What are some of the positives about things like tabletop games, board games, pen and paper, etc.?
App Details
- Devices: iPhone, iPad, Android
- Pricing structure: Free
- Release date: May 28, 2019
- Category: Strategy Games
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy, Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires
- Publisher: Tilting Point
- Version: 3.8.2
- Minimum software requirements: Requires iOS 11.0 or higher; Android 5.0 and up
- Last updated: December 11, 2022
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