Poll: Next Total War era?
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I'd like to see something new, a fantasy Total War. King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame did a decent job making a fantasy Total War game, and I'd to see love something similar done by the real Total War crew.
The Total War formula works best in settings where groups actually fight in big blocky formations where melee troops are still an important part of any battle. So no Modern Warfare: Total War for me.
The Total War formula works best in settings where groups actually fight in big blocky formations where melee troops are still an important part of any battle. So no Modern Warfare: Total War for me.
Shogun. hands down.
But Rome would be good too.
I can't see them doing anything later than the 1600's as why would anyone buy it? It's just napolean/empire reskinned...
But oen of the older games would be a favorite time period of hte fanbase reskinned and revamped into something truly inspiring.
But Rome would be good too.
I can't see them doing anything later than the 1600's as why would anyone buy it? It's just napolean/empire reskinned...
But oen of the older games would be a favorite time period of hte fanbase reskinned and revamped into something truly inspiring.
the Rome era but with all of Eurasia would be awsome remember the Americas were unknown so take all that area from empire and use that map space for the rest of Asia all the way out to china
this way they could have rise of Christianity the fall of rome how the Arabs rose ect a detailed Greece all sorts they could do now the technology is so much better
was there much going on in India in those days?
my ideal game would be one with an insane time-scale encompassing all the current times and just build the AI and scripted events to follow history if possible have multiple start dates (every 300 years or something this would also allow some interesting skirmishes as you could mix eras but i doubt PCs can handle it development and release could be episodic say you start with everything say 800BC to 100 AD each episode would add 300 years. would be a real cash cow too have the eras narrow as the Americas get discovered each episode could add more land as well i guess.
this way they could have rise of Christianity the fall of rome how the Arabs rose ect a detailed Greece all sorts they could do now the technology is so much better
was there much going on in India in those days?
my ideal game would be one with an insane time-scale encompassing all the current times and just build the AI and scripted events to follow history if possible have multiple start dates (every 300 years or something this would also allow some interesting skirmishes as you could mix eras but i doubt PCs can handle it development and release could be episodic say you start with everything say 800BC to 100 AD each episode would add 300 years. would be a real cash cow too have the eras narrow as the Americas get discovered each episode could add more land as well i guess.
I think the most modern they can go is possibly early ww1, then again 1 machine gunner could take down a couple hundred people if set up right, so that would be kinda stupid.
The boer war was more of a classic insurgency than a true war, and was eventually won by british forces sticking the local boer population into concentration camps to cut off their supplies.
Though anything prior would be amazing. I too have to buy the new expansion that came out, so far I've been slacking
The boer war was more of a classic insurgency than a true war, and was eventually won by british forces sticking the local boer population into concentration camps to cut off their supplies.
Though anything prior would be amazing. I too have to buy the new expansion that came out, so far I've been slacking
I think that if they foward to, say, WW1 the game will have to be totally changed. It will be a Total War game in name only and nothing like the games that came befoe it. For this reason, I really hope they dont do it.
I too would like to see a return to Shogun or Rome, they were to two games I enjoyed the most. Also, Shogun was ther first pc game I ever played.
I have little doubt that we will see an American Civil War DLC for N:TW very soon.
I too would like to see a return to Shogun or Rome, they were to two games I enjoyed the most. Also, Shogun was ther first pc game I ever played.
I have little doubt that we will see an American Civil War DLC for N:TW very soon.
Try the SPQR mod. It fixes a lot of balance issues (try using blitzkrieg tactics with cavalry and see how far you get), pretties up a lot of stuff and does away with the 3 original Roman factions by combining them into one single faction.Downfall89 said:
I haven't played through it far enough to find out what happens after the Marian Reforms without two opposing factions to have a civil war with, although Rome itself is still controlled by the SPQR faction as opposed to being a playable faction, and they get an insanely huge army of their own. If the early game is anything to go by though, it's going to be enough of a challenge just getting the 155 required territories for the win, never mind the civil war!
That said, the war between the various Roman factions in the "vanilla" version of the game is about as historically accurate as the cyborg-Hitler boss at the end of Wolfenstein 3D. There was a war (the Social War, 91-88BC) between Rome and the Italian cities who had generally been allied to Rome, but it wasn't the epic "No sir, Fuck You!"-fest that the second part of RTW descnded into.
OT: A TW game that covered the period from say, the post-Napoleonic era to the present day could be insanely good if it was executed properly. The progression from Militia and Hastati through to Praetorian Cohorts and Onangers would pale into insignificance when compared to the transition from Dragoons and Musket armed infantry through to air power, mobile armour and nuclear arms races. I would spend whatever I had to to upgrade my PC to play that.
late 19th century, so you get all the european superpowers desperately trying to grab new territories with their new-fangled maxim machine guns and pithy pith helmets, and end up against eachother, as well as the territorial inhabitants, I.E. the Sudan.
I hope WWI.
I also hope by that time that I have a computer that can run Empire and this supposed sequel.
I also hope by that time that I have a computer that can run Empire and this supposed sequel.
Since Napoleon is a stand-alone game and not an expansion, the Total War series actually goes up the the Napoleonic era.HotFezz8 said:
If I'm looking forward I'd like to see the American Civil War, maybe .
However I'd certainly support going back on Rome and Shogun with the shiny new technology.
