The next game in the total war series?

[moonburn]

technically they could if they found a way to limit your army sizes to 2-3 regiments and then forçed people to cooperate together to win

the most fun part of any online game is comunicating and doing stuff as part of something

all the great games have that particular aspect (given that it´s normally with just caracthers)

but they could take the development part of for instance dark omen (trust me towards the end of the 90´s that was the best game out there) give players a chance to do a few single players campaigns to develop both their small armies and learn to use them properly and then they would have to pick a faction (given that carthage and rome where both senatorial factions you would get a senate vote to decide wich general would lead the batles against other factions)

then you would have a team of "romans" with armys of 20-30 regiments all trying to work together to achieve victory

you could always take the eleutheroi path and become a mistoporoi general and actually get payed by this or that faction to go to war and give an hand here and there (ofc you could also get destroyed once you lost your usefullness so you would end up creating leagues with other misthoropoi)

problem wich such a schem is that most people would pick rome giving rome and uneven amount of manpower (did i mention you would have gold and experience from the batles and you would have to save up some gold to retrain and better reequip your troops )

then it would just be a matter or combining warzones with proper wartimes when the time for a great batle beteween the seulekids and ptolemaioi came all of the generals would pick their leaders and their leaders would pick their best 10 generals to go with him to batle while the rest went back to single player campaigns to try and get more gold and experience then what they loose in men

just me brainstorming a bit but i think a lightning might have broken a few circuits

[Vilkku92]

Something makes me think, that we won't be seeing WW1 or WW2 Total War games - EVER! The TW games have always had their focus on formation battles with all of the army standing on a field shooting or chopping each other, marching by the signals of drummers and flagbearers in good parade field-order in battlefields the size of a few square kilometers at best. Since that kind of warfare stopped by the end of the 19th century, I have no way of imaging CA making a TW-game taking place after those times. Especially since there already are games like Combat Mission, Company of Heroes and quite a few others portraying those times. I would bet my money on them making a Rome 2 next.

Though a pre-hellenistic Total War would be nice. After all, smashing the nose of the Sphinx would be the dream of every Assyrian.

[Finn MacCumhail]

Every following CA game moves from the Ancient times to Nowadays. Rome, Middle ages, 18th century Empire, Shogun (yes, one goose step back but then three steps ahead, welcome 19th century!). It seems that the next game would be late 19th century Europe with Americas, India, Africa, Pacific Region. And then there would be WW1 official addon.

There are very interesting ideas already introduced in S2FoS, which wouldn't be abandoned because they are very good and they eat lots of time and human resources to be made just for one addon. Trench war, hiding in buildings - possible since Empire. Railways, iron ships, machine guns - sins S2FoS. Come on, pilla throwing and ballista shooting seems childish from the technical (in-game realization) point of view. What might replace this interesting features in Rome 2?

Plus RTW is not outdated yet. Why would they make Rome 2?