Total War Warhammer 3's Changeling campaign sounds like a game-changer
If you're bored of doing mundane things like «conquering settlements» in Total War: Warhammer 3, it sounds like the legendary lord being added to the Tzeentch roster in the upcoming Shadows of Change add-on might be for you. The Changeling is a shapeshifting daemon who, based on the latest Creative Assembly blog post, plays a totally different Total War.
We've seen other armies toy with infiltration mechanics before, particularly the skaven and Slaanesh, but it sounds like The Changeling leans in even further. After defeating a settlement, he's got the option to insert a trickster cult, seemingly returning it to the owner as you would after sacking a town. Only not, because from then on the cult can either work to funnel money to The Changeling while spreading propaganda to influence diplomacy, or encourage corruption throughout the region until reality has weakened enough for daemonic armies to come through.
Either way, Creative Assembly notes, «the Changeling loves chaos. When a faction has learned to trust him, he may opt to self-destruct his secret buildings and deploy his own armies, spawn rebels at the border or plunder the settlement without ruffling too many feathers.»
The Changeling can also perform Schemes on the campaign map, the example given of «taking the form of Mannfred von Carstein and commanding his thralls to perform a ritual at Castle Drakenhof». The end goal of Schemes is working up to a Grand Scheme that's essentially a quest battle that «showers the Changeling with special rewards and campaign-changing consequences.»
The Changeling's Schemes have effects on battles as well as the campaign map, Creative Assembly says: «He can use the resources gathered from Schemes to assist in battle and throw off
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