The making of Total War: Warhammer’s Necrofex Colossus

Perhaps it’s the slime glinting off its hull in the sunlight, but one star shines particularly brightly in Total War: Warhammer 2’s brilliant Curse of the Vampire Coast DLC trailer - the Necrofex Colossus. A towering construct built from pirate shipwrecks and corpses, it may be made of wood, but it’s the most metal unit in the game so far. That’s why, when we got the chance to discuss the Vampire Coast with Total War developer Creative Assembly, the origins of the Necrofex Colossus were upmost in our minds. “We always go really deep into the lore, and we always know that we want to get big units that are crazy to look at,” explains designer Mitch Heastie. The Necrofex Colossus is mentioned in old White Dwarf magazines and army books, if you dig back far enough. The primary source, though, was Monstrous Arcanum - a compendium of rules for the outsized models that represent Warhammer’s more obscure monsters. “There's lots of little tidbits here and there that we kind of all pulled together just to create one kind of overall vision,” Heastie says. Fitting for a monster cobbled together from driftwood and drowned sailors.

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