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= Total War: Warhammer (published 20-23/11/2016) =

Gameplay
Total War: Warhammer is a turn-based strategy game with real-time tactical battles between armies. While previous Total War games feature historical settings, Warhammer introduces the fantasy setting as well as characters from the Warhammer universe. These characters, which include monsters, warriors, and heroes, are controlled by the player or computer.

The game features four playable factions at launch, which are the Empire (humans), the Greenskins (orcs and goblins), the Dwarfs and the Vampire Counts (undead). The Chaos faction, made up of evil humans and monsters, was available for free to those who pre-ordered or purchased in the first week of release and subsequently available as downloadable content (DLC). The Bretonnia faction is available in custom and multiplayer battles with a reduced unit roster. Each faction has access to their own unique units and a campaign element, a new feature for Total War. For instance, the Greenskins faction features units such as Trolls and Giants and has the "Waaagh" system, which pushes the player to always be on the warpath.

The campaign map is similar to that featured in Total War: Attila, the primary difference being the bigger changes in physical terrain and climate as one moves from a particular point in the map to another. The campaign map spans from the Chaos wastes in the north to the Greenskin-infested badlands in the south and from the Great Ocean in the west to the Dwarven realms in the World's Edge mountains to the east.

While Total War: Warhammer is built around the Total War system of city and unit building, army manoeuvring and diplomacy with other factions, it has numerous new elements that differ to previous Total War games. In addition to those already mentioned, they include the ability of agents to participate in battles to give your army an edge; a wider variety of animations, with 30 different types of skeleton and body types compared to only five or six previously; flying units such as dragons, which make use of the new animation capacity; corruption is now caused by the presence of Vampire Counts or Chaos armies, rather than internal factors; the renaming of Generals as Lords - they now fight as individuals rather than embedded within a bodyguard unit, and can be upgraded via skill and equipment trees to boost both their own and their army's power; and the addition of a quest mode which tasks players to complete missions and battles to receive unlockable items and abilities. One of the most significant new elements, however, is magic. Different factions have different amounts of access to the various "lores" (types) of magic, with some, such as the Dwarfs, having no access whatsoever. Units with access to magic can turn the tide of battles - their abilities are far more powerful than any available to battlefield units in previous games.

Downloadable content
The Chaos Warriors downloadable content (DLC) was the first DLC to be released for Total War: Warhammer; it was made available to purchase alongside its initial release and was included for those who preordered the game This has been received with widespread criticism from the gaming community and from Warhammer fans in particular, with Creative Assembly, the developer of the game, stating they were "disheartened" by the pre-order DLC reaction. On April 29, 2016, it was announced that the Chaos Warriors DLC would be available for free for a week after its release.

A number of post release content has been announced and released for the game consisting of a wide range of DLCs and campaign packs. So far there have been four DLC packs released in 2016 (excluding the pre-order bonus). The first of these to be released was the Blood for the Blood God DLC which adds blood to the game as well as a charge bonus for units in battle. This was followed by Call of the Beastmen, which adds the Beastmen faction. This is made up of men corrupted by chaos and mutated into human-animal combinations and includes new units such as the Minotaur. The mechanics for the faction are similar to that of the Chaos Warriors in that the player controls a horde. This means the faction's armies and settlements are combined, meaning the armies are essentially moving settlement. Beastmen also have a "Brayherd" mechanic which is similar to the Orcs' "Waaagh!". This "Brayherd" mechanic allows the player to raise an extra allied computer controlled army for free upon raiding and winning enough battles. The next DLC to be released in 2016 was Grim and the Grave which adds a new mechanic called "Regiments of Renown". This mechanic adds units to both the Empire and Vampire Counts, who can be raised as mercenaries based on the player's highest level Lord. It also adds two new Legendary Lords.

In May 2016, Creative Assembly announced that mods and Steam Workshop's features would be supported. Creative Assembly have developed several mods that were released alongside the game, while players can create their own mods through official mod tools.

List
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1st Assembly (MLAs)
!Term !style="width: 90px"|Executive !colspan="2"|First Minister !colspan="2"|Deputy !colspan="2"|Parties (Ministries) !rowspan="4" style="background-color: " | !rowspan="4" style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " |
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 * rowspan="4"|1998–2002
 * rowspan="4"|1st
 * rowspan="4"|1st
 * rowspan="4"|David Trimble
 * rowspan="2"|Seamus Mallon
 * UUP (4)
 * SDLP (4)
 * rowspan="2"|Mark Durkan
 * rowspan="2"|Mark Durkan
 * DUP (2)
 * -style="border-bottom: 2px solid gray;"
 * SF (2)
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2nd Assembly (MLAs)
!Term !style="width: 90px"|Executive !colspan="2"|First Minister !colspan="2"|Deputy !colspan="2"|Parties (Ministries) ! ! !
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 * 2003–2007
 * Suspended
 * Suspended
 * vacant
 * vacant
 * none
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3rd Assembly (MLAs)
!Term !style="width: 90px"|Executive !colspan="2"|First Minister !colspan="2"|Deputy !colspan="2"|Parties (Ministries) !rowspan="5" style="background-color: " | !rowspan="5" style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " |
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 * rowspan="5"|2007–2011
 * rowspan="5"|2nd
 * rowspan="5"|2nd
 * rowspan="2"|Ian Paisley
 * rowspan="5"|Martin McGuinness
 * DUP (5)
 * SF (4)
 * rowspan="3"|Peter Robinson
 * rowspan="3"|Peter Robinson
 * UUP (2)
 * SDLP (1)
 * - style="border-bottom: 2px solid gray;"
 * APNI (1)
 * - style="border-bottom: 2px solid gray;"
 * colspan="8"|

4th Assembly (MLAs)
!Term !style="width: 90px"|Executive !colspan="2"|First Minister !colspan="2"|Deputy !colspan="2"|Parties (Ministries) !rowspan="5" style="background-color: " | !rowspan="5" style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " |
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 * rowspan="5"|2011–2016
 * rowspan="5"|3rd
 * rowspan="5"|3rd
 * rowspan="4"| Peter Robinson
 * rowspan="5"| Martin McGuinness
 * DUP (5 until 2015, 6 from 2015 )
 * SF (4)
 * APNI (2)
 * SDLP (1)
 * rowspan="1"| Arlene Foster
 * rowspan="1"| Arlene Foster
 * UUP (1 until 2015 )
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5th Assembly (MLAs)
!Term !style="width: 90px"|Executive !colspan="2"|First Minister !colspan="2"|Deputy !colspan="3"|Parties (Ministries) !rowspan="3" style="background-color: " | !rowspan="3" style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " |
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 * rowspan="3"|2016–2017
 * rowspan="3"|4th
 * rowspan="3"|4th
 * rowspan="3"| Arlene Foster
 * rowspan="3"| Martin McGuinness
 * DUP (5)
 * SF (4)
 * Independent (1)
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6th Assembly (MLAs)
!Term !style="width: 90px"|Executive !colspan="2"|First Minister !colspan="2"|Deputy !colspan="2"|Parties (Ministries) !rowspan="5" style="background-color: " | !rowspan="5" style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " | ! style="background-color: " |
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 * rowspan="5"|2017–
 * rowspan="5"|5th
 * rowspan="5"|5th
 * rowspan="5"| Arlene Foster
 * rowspan="5"| Michelle O'Neill
 * DUP (4)
 * SF (3)
 * SDLP (1)
 * UUP (1)
 * APNI (1)
 * - style="border-bottom: 2px solid gray;"
 * colspan="8"|
 * }

Boundaries
The constituency lies at the centre of Shropshire, a large inland county of England, bordering Wales.

The constituency was established in 1983, replacing the Shrewsbury constituency, although this change was in name only and not in its boundaries.

Component settlements and landscape
At its heart lies the town of Shrewsbury (2011 population 71,715), which is the county town of Shropshire. It is otherwise a rural constituency. Villages such as Bayston Hill, Ford, Dorrington, Condover, Minsterley, Pontesbury, Bomere Heath, Wroxeter and Atcham are included. Its southern edge is the northern side of the Shropshire Hills AONB. The landscape of the constituency features many small rivers which drain the fields and coppices into the upper plain of the River Severn, which cuts straight through the area. The main roads through the area are the A5 and A49, providing links to nearby Telford as well as North Wales and the cities of Birmingham and Manchester. The total population of the area is around 105,000.

Local government
The constituency is coextensive with that of the Central area of Shropshire Council (the same area as the former Shrewsbury and Atcham borough, after which the constituency was originally named).

Proposed constituency changes
Under constituency boundary proposals announced in September 2016 the seat would take from the Ludlow constituency the ward of Chirbury and Worthen. The constituency would also simply be titled Shrewsbury, dropping the "and Atcham" in reflection of the abolition in 2009 of the Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council.

History
On 10 December 2001, following his demand for a parliamentary debate before military intervention in Afghanistan, the incumbent Labour member, Paul Marsden, left the government's benches to join the Liberal Democrats; he remained there until 5 April 2005, when he sought to show strong solidarity with Labour Stop the War MPs by returning to his old party, becoming the first politician to cross the floor twice since Winston Churchill. During much of his time with the Liberal Democrats, Marsden was a senior health spokesman, shadowing the Secretary of State for Health and ministers.

Shrewsbury and Atcham was part of the Shropshire region for the purpose of reporting the results of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum; the region voted 56.9% in favour of leaving the European Union on a turnout of 77.5%.

Notes and references

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Category:Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire  Category:United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983