What the distributor publishes today
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Where this the game stands
The distributor’s listing publishes minimum and recommended requirements for the PC version. The block below is read from it directly. One caution belongs at the top rather than the bottom: requirements published before a release date are provisional by construction, and they routinely change between announcement and launch.
What the tabletop establishes
Requirements exist for two audiences at once, and that is why they are unreliable early. They are a technical statement to players, and a marketing statement to everyone deciding whether the game is for them. A publisher with no fixed release date has every reason to publish something cautious and adjust it later, and the figures on an unreleased listing are frequently placeholders inherited from an earlier project.
What has actually been shown
What is published is what the block shows. What is not published anywhere: any specification for the console versions, any indication of how a battle with thousands of models scales on lower settings, and any statement about whether these figures have been tested against the current build or estimated. Treat them as a rough floor, not a promise.
What to watch next
The open question on this particular game is unit count. Total War performance has always been dominated by how many soldiers are on the field at once, and Warhammer 40,000 introduces something the fantasy games did not have: vehicles and war engines with far more geometry per model than an infantryman. If the game keeps the series’ battle sizes, the requirements published today are optimistic. If it reduces them, that is a design decision with consequences far beyond performance — and it would be the clearest answer yet to the question of what a unit is in this game. Information correct as of 18 August 2026.
What is not known
These questions have no published answer as of 18 August 2026. They are listed because an absence of information is information — and because we would rather name the gap than fill it.