The next game in the total war series?

**Skullheadhq** · 05-28-2010, 15:39

Originally Posted by plutoboyz

and semi-naked general with lot of piercing.

dancing around the battlefield...

**Andy1984** · 05-29-2010, 08:11

Thanks alot for your explanation Tellos Athenaios.

**Andy1984** · 06-03-2010, 00:13

It will be STW2

The "up to 56,000 units in a single battle" looks promising. If it were open to modders, it might be a great hit.

**mlc82** · 06-03-2010, 00:16

"One particularly novel development is the introduction of hero units. These are warriors who have perfected a fighting art and can carve their way through enemy armies without much trouble at all. Based on mythologized historical figures like the warrior monk Benkei, hero units are a nearly unstoppable force on the battlefield, capable of holding bridge crossings against entire armies, or smashing through a battle line to engage the enemy general. You can counter heroes with the right tactics, such as filling them full of arrows, or by having your own hero units engage them in duels. The development team may even consider letting players use political manipulation to sway heroes away from each other. "

And here we all thought Arcani and flaming pigs were bad...

**Andy1984** · 06-03-2010, 00:26

I don't really care about historical accuracy in the vanilla-version. CA wouldn't be able to keep up with the dozens of historians and modders that constitute the modding-community. Therefore, it might actually be a good idea to focus on hardcoded aspects and moddibility rather than on number of units or even historically accurate units. So far, nothing from that frontier however. Closer to the release date, we might know more.

**WinsingtonIII** · 06-03-2010, 00:44

I think a few ridiculous hero units could be fun. I would rather have them and have accurate unit types other than that than have ridiculous unit types. The way I see it, having an entire unit of something completely inaccurate ruins it more than just one guy who happens to be ridiculous. Still, I'd probably prefer neither.

I'm glad they decided to revisit Shogun simply for the smaller scale it provides. The scale of Empire was one of the things that ruined it, and part of the reason Napoleon is better is because the scale is smaller. With Shogun's small scale, a lot of detail can be put into everything. Don't get me wrong, I love the epic nature of Total War games, but sometimes the scale is detrimental, because it means the details are neglected.

**vartan** · 06-03-2010, 01:39

More detail and larger scale warfare in a game are not necessarily incompatible. They are doable and require a dedicated development team with time and resources on their side. Smaller scale warfare games cannot arguably get away with the relatively lesser detail that a larger scale warfare game can get away with. In any case, all of this aside, the scale of warfare that any game adopts goes to show the variety of tastes in people, and the variety of people in general. You have those who wholeheartedly enjoy those games in which you control either one soldier or only a select group, and you have those who select games on the scale of those from the Total War series. I stand on the larger end of the spectrum. Total War is indeed bittersweet!

**antisocialmunky** · 06-06-2010, 13:05

No <3 for China? I would be pretty ticked if the expansion wasn't China. ITs good they have their heads out of hte clouds. If htey expended all the effort they did for Emperor and Napoleon but focused it more, the game owuld be awesome.

**Cute Wolf** · 06-06-2010, 17:27

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

No <3 for China? I would be pretty ticked if the expansion wasn't China. ITs good they have their heads out of hte clouds. If htey expended all the effort they did for Emperor and Napoleon but focused it more, the game owuld be awesome.

nah, I bet All Under Heaven will be much better than standard CA vanilla game