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The bar fills as your units take casualties, like a big bucket of ectoplasm. On top of that they have a cool feature called the Realm of Souls bar.
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In battle, they enjoy the same broad advantages and disadvantages as other undead: they're impervious to fear, with basic units crumbling to dust instead of routing, but they blend the threat and sorcery of the Vampire Counts with decent archery and artillery. Where the Vampires are a freeform plague, raising hordes in the blink of an eye and corrupting their neighbours, the Tomb Kings are all about fortifying their turf and recovering the treasures - and terrors - of their golden age.
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The Tomb Kings have some things in common with Total Warhammer's existing post-death faction, the Vampire Counts, but they have plenty to differentiate them as well. I spent half an hour getting to grips with their quirks, including a series-first crafting system. Unfortunately for all the younger races, the Tomb Kings are far stronger in death than they were in life. Several millennia and a couple of necromancy wars later, the mummified Kings stumble from their pyramids to find their bodies reduced to KFC leftovers, their southern homeland of Nehekhara trashed, and the continent awash with bearded barbarians, talking rats and stupid sexy dinosaurs. Once upon a time, they ruled a pseudo-Ancient Egyptian empire in which scholars quested for the secret to eternal youth and tyrants went merrily to the grave, confident of resurrection in paradise. If you've ever come back from holiday to find that your flatmates/children/parents have flooded the kitchen/dyed the cat blue/thrown out all your original Jethro Tull LPs, then spare a thought for the Tomb Kings, Total War: Warhammer II's first all-new DLC faction.