Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is officially on the way, following its long-awaited reveal during 2025’s The Game Awards. Its official unveiling raises many questions about its **full campaign map ** and whether it will differ from its predecessors.
As the first sci-fi game in Creative Assembly’s grand strategy series, Total War: Warhammer 40K operates on a larger scale, its theming no longer limiting it or its full campaign map to a single planet. The aim here is to give us a sense of the interplanetary conflicts that shape Games Workshop’s universe, making for, perhaps, the developer’s most ambitious effort yet.
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 Full Campaign Map
Sega and Creative Assembly have yet to reveal Total War: Warhammer 40,000’s full campaign map, which isn’t all that surprising given how the brief look we got at actual gameplay of the grand-strategy game came from a pre-alpha version. This, of course, means that, as of late 2025, development is still underway and things might change.
The first details regarding Total War: Warhammer 40K’s full campaign map, barring the screenshots included in above, come from a paywalled article from German publication GameStar, as summarized by Reddit user westonsammy.
They explain that “the galaxy map functions as a hybrid between a campaign selection menu and meta-progression. You don’t actually move armies or end turns here, instead you’re given an overview of the galaxy at large and offered several campaigns to take part in.”
Total War: Warhammer 40,000’s campaign seemingly operates on several layers, offering “full campaigns, short campaigns, and singular decisive battles,” that could potentially cater to both shorter and longer play sessions.
Although it is currently unclear whether the galaxy layer involves any amount of management, completing campaigns will result in changes.
Campaigns “will feature multiple planets in single systems/sectors,” connected, as the screenshots above depict, by what appear to be star lanes. Each planet acts as a smaller traditional campaign that series veterans should already be accustomed to.
This sounds quite different from what we’re used to in Total War games, and it will be interesting to see how Warhammer 40K’s campaigns will play out.
That is what we currently know about Total War: Warhammer 40,000 full campaign map. Creative Assembly will likely share more details, and perhaps a look at the whole galaxy, as release draws closer.
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