(Image credit: Creative Assembly) If someone told me two years back that Creative Assembly was actually going to make Total War: Warhammer 40k , I wouldn't have believed them. It's not that the studio isn't a natural fit after all its work on Total War: Warhammer, it's more that the universe of 40k is both absurdly massive and ill-defined—a big challenge to overcome for any would-be grand strategy game. You've got the broad strokes of Holy Terra and the Segmentums that the galaxy is carved into, but 40k's universe is a haphazard amalgamation of games, Black Library books, and codices, not all of which are necessarily considered canon. It's like trying to create a strategy game that encompasses the entire Star Wars' galaxy. Written by As someone who's read over 100 Black Library novels and has around 9,000 hours sunk into Total War, it's safe to say I'm somewhat invested in how Total War: Warhammer 40k turns out.…