Total War: Warhammer III Hotfix 8.0.2 Patch Notes

Tiger Warriors were clearly priced a touch high out of the gate. Hotfix 8.0.2 drops today and its most player-facing change is a round of recruitment and upkeep cost reductions across the Tiger Warrior roster, with Dual Axes seeing the sharpest cut from 1200 down to 1000 gold. If you've been eyeing those units but bouncing off the cost, this makes them a more reasonable proposition.

Beyond the economy tweaks, this is largely a stability pass for the Cathay content that arrived with Update 8.0. Two end-turn crashes are fixed, the Armies of Shang-Yang panel no longer locks up, and Zhao Ming's Goals now properly include Tiger Warriors in melee infantry buffs. That last one was a fairly obvious oversight given the entire update was built around these units, so it's good to see it addressed quickly.

A few fixes extend beyond Cathay: Norscan homeland settlements were misconfigured blocked Warriors of Chaos vassalization, Epidemius' Tally of Pestilence now counts plague spread correctly, and the AI's habit of blasting AOE spells at single targets in battle has been corrected. Small stuff, but the kind of persistent annoyances that add up over a campaign. Here's everything that changed.

Hey folks,

We have another Hotfix for you today, including some cost balancing to Tiger Warriors and some crash fixes, as well as some additional bug squashing and adjustments.

As always, if you run into any new issues after updating please report them over in our bug reporting forum.

See you on the battlefield!

— Steve // Senior Community Manager

Campaign

Cathay/Tiger Warriors:

Reduced campaign costs for some Tiger Warrior units:
Tiger Warrior Iron Claws:
Recruitment = 1700 > 1600 per unit

Tiger Warrior Stalkers:

Recruitment = 1550 > 1400 per unit
Upkeep = 300 > 275 per unit

Tiger Warrior Dual Axes:

Recruitment = 1200 > 1000 per unit
Upkeep = 250 > 225 per unit

Changed the Desert Tigress Insignia for Jade Crossbows benefit to Armour-piercing missile weapon damage; Increased effect benefit from 3 to 4

Increased Desert Tigress Insignia for Jade Infantry Armour-piercing effect from 3 to 4

Made completing Zhao Ming’s goals more rewarding by increasing the drop chance for higher tier units when accomplishing them

Fixed a crash on end of turn while playing as Bhashiva

Fixed a crash that would occur when opening the Armies of Shang-Yang panel

Fixed an issue so that the Clawspeaker Hero provided to Caravan Lords by the Deeply Devout trait now correctly start with spells and abilities unlocked

Fixed an issue that would occur when capturing settlements from rebels with Bhashiva

Campaign movement range bonus has now replaced "Strider" from the "Fleet of Foot" traits since "Wayfarer" under the same trait already provides "Strider"

Tiger Warriors now receive proper recruitment cost reduction from Prophecy of the White Tiger buildings

Fixed a bug so that benefits targeting Melee infantry provided by Zhao Ming's skills and faction effects now include Tiger Warriors

Fixed an issue so that Bhashiva's direct allies are no longer targets of Zhao Ming's Goals

Fixed caravans being counted towards the army count in the faction summary screen

Fixed the banner upgrades menu closing instantly after opening if you have an agent selected before opening it

Improved consistency when generating Zhao's Goals

Fixed error in mission execution for Bhashiva around the Chaos Invasions

Interacting with Zhao Ming's end turn goals now opens the missions tab instead of the default units tab in AoSY

Fixed an issue where the text pointer would not fire as intended on the Armies of Shang-Yang panel

Fixed a rare post-battle crash after Miao Ying’s Realm of Chaos Battle

Fixed an issue with an animation where Auto resolving battles with Lord Magistrate while he is on a Sky Lantern mount

Fixed an issue where Armies of Shang-Yang missions were not displaying unit cards for the relevant unit requirements

Fixed an issue where the Insignia assign menu loses functionality if it's opened whilst the army is moving

Other:

Fixed an issue where some Norscan homeland settlements were incorrectly set up, causing Warriors of Chaos factions to be unable to vassalize their respective Norscan factions when conquering the settlements
Fixed an issue so that When playing as Skarbrand in the Realms of Chaos campaign, the mission "Chaos Invasion: Despoilers" should now spawn a fully functional Cultist of Khorne. Note that this will not affect save games where the mission has been already started or completed
Fixed an issue so that Epidemius' Tally of Pestilence should now properly count plagues that spread to settlements

Battle

Resolved a problem where the AI was constantly prioritizing single entity targets for AOE spells
Fix a softlock that would occur when opening the Unit & Spell browser after a Mirror of Madness battle
Fixed an issue so that the Sky Lantern Gunner crew's effective range is now aligned with the sky lantern's
Fixed an issues with Bhashiva's teleport attacks not playing their sound effects in quest battles

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Total War: Warhammer III Hotfix 8.0.2 Patch Notes (2nd June 2026)

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