At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Armoured melee commander and spellcaster
- Content pack
- Chaos Warriors Race Pack
- Faction
- Warhost of the Apocalypse
Availability
Content pack: Chaos Warriors Race Pack. Immortal Empires ownership
- Chaos Warriors Race Pack unlocks Archaon the Everchosen in Immortal Empires. Own the pack on the same storefront as your campaign game.
The Warhost in Immortal Empires
Archaon is a Warriors of Chaos Legendary Lord returning from the first Total War: Warhammer. His campaign combines the race’s Dark Fortresses and growing warbands with a particular ambition: bringing other Chaos leaders under his command.
Build a secure fortress base while developing experienced troops. An army that survives several campaigns carries progress in its regiments as well as its characters; use that strength to fight the rival leaders you intend to bring into the Warhost.
Subjugating Chaos leaders
Update 9.0 expanded Archaon’s subjugation. Defeating an eligible Chaos Legendary Lord can add that character to his faction. A Warriors of Chaos target brings its faction into confederation; a god-specific target’s settlements instead pass to a new vassal of that god.
The system covers Warriors of Chaos and eligible Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh and Tzeentch leaders. Beastmen, Chaos Dwarfs, Norsca and the Daemons of Chaos race are outside this subjugation system. A later dilemma can also offer a battle for a defeated eligible lord.
The irreversible End Times choice
After his Short Victory, Archaon can continue the campaign normally or become the Lord of the End Times. Taking the latter option ends further settlement conquest for his faction and vassals, replacing expansion with razing and Devastation.
That decision cannot be reversed. Decide whether your fortress and vassal network is ready before accepting it; Archaon’s subsequent rewards follow the devastation of provinces.
Lead the infantry fight
Archaon combines close combat with spellcasting. Let Chaos Warriors engage a manageable front, then commit him where his presence can help break a contested fight. Keep mobile troops available to reach missiles while the infantry holds.
Supporting heroes also contribute Dark Authority. Match their allegiance to the troops they accompany when organising a mixed warband.
Race pack, warhost, and the lore
Archaon, Kholek, and Sigvald come with the Chaos Warriors Race Pack. Be'lakor is the base-game Warriors lord. Champions of Chaos is a separate purchase for Azazel, Festus, Valkia, and Vilitch, and the Glottkin are a later Lords of the End Times lord.
Use him when the plan is an undivided warhost that can bring other Chaos lords under one faction after a defeat. That subjugation rule, and the choice to become Lord of the End Times after a short victory, are campaign systems. The older account of the templar who took the gods' treasures sits on the lore page, with the two Archaon novels kept apart from the button that stops conquest and turns the map toward razing.
Unlock, campaigns and start position
Archaon needs the Chaos Warriors Race Pack on the same storefront as Warhammer III. He leads the Warhost of the Apocalypse in Immortal Empires; the Realm of Chaos selection screen does not offer him. CA's 2022 Immortal Empires list starts him at The Writhing Fortress.
Update 9.0 built his campaign around two systems: subjugating defeated Chaos Legendary Lords, and the Lord of the End Times choice at Short Victory. The Chaos Invasion endgame scenario also puts him at the head of its final battle.
First turns and subjugation targets
Plan the early wars around who you want to subjugate. Beating a Warriors of Chaos lord such as Kholek, Sigvald, Be'lakor, a Champion of Chaos or the Glottkin confederates that whole faction into the Warhost, so one victory adds settlements as well as a character. A Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh or Tzeentch lord adds the character and hands his regions to a new vassal of that god.
Beastmen, Chaos Dwarfs, Norsca and Daemons of Chaos lords cannot be subjugated, so treat those factions as ordinary wars. If an eligible Chaos lord is wiped out by someone else, a dilemma can appear some turns later and offer a battle against that lord's army; win it and the lord joins your roster.
Update 9.0 also limits Regiments of Renown per army. Every lord starts with room for two, and Legendary Lords such as Archaon unlock more as they rank up. Archaon's Short Victory reward raises the cap for the Swords of Chaos, and Patch 9.0.5 lifted that bonus from two to three.
Questions
Which DLC is Archaon in?
The Chaos Warriors Race Pack, alongside Kholek Suneater and Prince Sigvald. Owning it on the same storefront as Warhammer III unlocks him in Immortal Empires.
Which lords can Archaon subjugate?
Warriors of Chaos, Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh and Tzeentch Legendary Lords, from Kholek and Be'lakor to Skarbrand, Ku'gath, N'Kari and Kairos. Beastmen, Chaos Dwarfs, Norsca and Daemons of Chaos lords are excluded.
Should Archaon become the Lord of the End Times?
Only when your fortresses and vassals already hold the ground you need. The choice comes at Short Victory, cannot be reversed, and stops your faction and vassals from conquering settlements; rewards then come from Devastated provinces.
Sources
- Update 9.0 release notes — community.creative-assembly.com
- Patch 9.0.5 notes — store.steampowered.com
- Immortal Empires starting positions — totalwar.com
- Chaos Warriors Race Pack — store.steampowered.com
- SEGA Immortal Empires ownership guide — support.sega.com