A Modern Total War? (Discussion, Oppinions)

**lenin96** · 12-22-2008, 03:18

What would everyone here think if CA anounced a total war game in the modern era. I don't care where total war goes next, it will probaly still be a great game.

**Wishazu** · 12-22-2008, 04:53

I`m opposed to a "modern" total war game. As many have mentioned before the scale needed to be achieved is mind boggling and to be honest I can`t think of anything more depressing and boring than WW1.

I want a return to Shogun for the next instalment though I doubt that will happen. Like others have already said, I`m bored to tears of playing over the same campaign map, I don`t think I could stomach another European theatre after Empire.

**Polemists** · 12-22-2008, 05:52

Agreed, while they keep increasing the map (aka include India subcontinent, america and carribean this time around) the focus has been since Rome anyway, on Europe.

I like europe, nothing against it, and i'm all for larger, and larger maps, but rather then the next stage being a big old globe, some kind of Asian Total War might be nice, with all of asia, lots of dynasties, factions, etc, and a different vibe.

**Megas Methuselah** · 12-22-2008, 07:42

Bronze Age: Total War! Focus on the mid-east! Yeh!

**Martok** · 12-22-2008, 08:16

Originally Posted by lenin96

What would everyone here think if CA anounced a total war game in the modern era.

I wouldn't get it.

As it is, I'm still skeptical about whether or not I'll enjoy Empire, simply because of the gunpowder aspect. The period's naval battles aside, gunpowder-dominated warfare has never interested me. The only real reason I'm interested in ETW is because of the changes CA is supposedly making to the political/diplomatic system and (most importantly) AI.

**lenin96** · 12-22-2008, 08:42

For the next Total War game i think asia in the medieval era or from europe to asia around 1200BC-600BC would be a good idea. I disagree with a modern total war not because i don't like it when warfare became completely guns or because i think it would be boring (it wouldn't in my opinion) but because the Total War series isn't ready yet, but eventually i think they should go into the 20th century.

**Wishazu** · 12-22-2008, 10:01

If there was a poll here for the next installment(forgive me if there already is, I havnt looked) my vote would go to Shogun 2/Asia total war - aslong as you can command hordes of Samurai.

**Arcana** · 12-22-2008, 10:42

Originally Posted by Wishazu

If there was a poll here for the next installment(forgive me if there already is, I havnt looked) my vote would go to Shogun 2/Asia total war - aslong as you can command hordes of Samurai.

There is :P

**Wishazu** · 12-22-2008, 18:32

Originally Posted by Arcana

There is :P

Thankyou very much mate.

**WarHawk** · 01-10-2009, 07:13

people don't seem to realize that trench warfare wasn't all of ww1...it was a tactic, they didn't have to use, and prolonged the war. Use different tactics.

naval battles, and all the different theater's of war would interest me the most about a ww1 total war.

they could do it say... 1860 -1920, start off with american civil war, franco-prussian war, unification of germany, spanish-american war, then endgame with ww1.

possibility of going ahistoric with say, the CSA in WW1.

then ww2 expansion.