People think halflings are Total War: Warhammer 2’s next race and here’s why

With barely three months left in 2018 and Total War: Warhammer II's next race confirmed for this year, it's time for some teases. Creative Assembly has provided said teases in its latest development update, but they're thin and ambiguous (deliberately, I'm sure). Attempting to draw any definitive conclusions about the next race from them is daft. Which is why the internet has been doing so with vigour. The frontrunners: Halflings and Dogs of War. As ever, the 'what the teams are working on' blog gives a short summary of each team's status, with the fantasy new content team one of the sparsest. Their update, in its entirety, is: "We still don’t have a lot we can say publicly about the Warhammer II campaign pack we’re currently working on (sorry, guys!), but we will say that aren’t that many moons to go now. "The team are definitely proving they’re well worth their salt, and the art department is cooking up something quite unlike anything you’ve seen in a Total War: Warhammer game before." There are one or two words there that ought to leap at you, especially if you've been following CA's not-so-subtle teases before (re Warhammer III: "it's absolute Chaos"). This one's a lot harder to decipher, however. When I first read the reference to 'cooking' I thought of halflings, who love food in Warhammer as much as they do in Lord of the Rings - one of the tabletop game's only official halfling units was a catapult that fired pots of boiling stew.