Instead, choose the one that sounds most interesting and, especially if this is your first Total War, set the difficulty to Easy.
While they're rated on the difficulty of their starting position, don't let that sway you. The first decision you face is which of the four factions to try. No matter which side of things you're more familiar with, you could probably do with some pointers. Plus, siege battles have been revamped, and magic and flying units make a significant difference. Instead, it places its complexity elsewhere-in unit variety and faction abilities. Rather than setting precise levels of taxation it's now an on/off toggle for each province, and thanks to a short timescale there's no worrying about rulers getting old, or armies suffering attrition every winter. If you have played earlier Total War games, Total War: Warhammer does a few things simpler than you might expect.
