New TW Title Announcement: Total War: Attila

[Neric]

I am interested but not very excited at the moment in the next Total War game. Maybe its partly me getting older
Rome 2 was just ok for me and I am still looking forward to Patch 15 and the next additions to the game. So, a new title in 2015 would be too soon for me.
Regardless of the scenario I am hoping for something that makes the next game special and me wanting it. Personally I would like more depth and complexity - starting with a more immersive UI and descriptions in the encyclopedia. And chocolate.

That being said I guess it is going to be Medieval Total War 3...

[Sp4]

I would like something like M3 but it is probably just going to be some standalone expansion like FotS. Something about Atilla? Fall of Rome? Or maybe earlier..

[hoom]

It would drag out the grand campaign immeasurably. Especially since the V1 TW AI would just throw every single military resource it had at couple provinces at once (until either you were destroyed or they were). And make it really boring. It already gets really irritating in the late game as it is.

Yes I've been harping on about it for years.
Because I think its a better way of doing what they tried to do with the Rome1 & later campaign map.

I don't think it would really drag out campaign play because the basic moving armies around between provinces is simplified.
I don't think the mini-campaign bit would necessarily take significantly longer than the current army movement.
Certainly there would be no hardware/software issue, the Risk style map was running on way weaker PCs in the past & the Province level maps would be similar quality to current Campaign map but much smaller so potentially it would be much lighter resource wise.

I do concede that with the end of turn resolution you would have those Province turns all plonked together after the End Turn button, I don't think its necesarily a bad thing though.
There generally aren't that many combats in 1 turn & you would have opportunity to auto-resolve before going into that mini-campaign.

Additionally it would have the advantage of not letting you forget to do certain combats.
I have had an issue in current system where quite often I have been distracted with events in one part of my empire, clicked End Turn without resolving things I had meant to do elsewhere, causing opportunities & even armies to be lost.

Comparatively I never liked the Risk style map. Mostly for how the campaign AI behaved. The all or nothing army rushes that'd be thrown at you were irritating. And that if you survived this army rush the AI faction had a very hard time recovering unless it was the late game and they had over a dozen provinces.

Yes it is exactly that ability to pile in reinforcements and the fact that a significant loss takes some time to recover from which I want.
The ability of Rome & subsequent AI to just spam stack after stack after stack at you is what actually cripples late game play with the current system.
I really enjoyed not only the advantage from winning a significant battle but also the ability to fall back when outnumbered/having lost, regrouping before counter-attacking with combined & reinforced army.

[Hooahguy]

So someone on Reddit posted this:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

And if you look here the cavalry guy is holding a bow!

My guess would be something having to do with Attila. That or Mongols. I suspect it will be another Napoleon/FOTS-esque expansion.

[AntiDamascus]

It's the Mulan tie-in we've all been waiting for.

[edyzmedieval]

Most likely it's Barbarian Invasion II - which means that we're back to saving the Roman Empire from destruction or we get the fun part where we get to have Cataphract battles between the Eastern Romans and the Sasanids.

[quadalpha]

Yes I've been harping on about it for years.
Because I think its a better way of doing what they tried to do with the Rome1 & later campaign map.

I don't think it would really drag out campaign play because the basic moving armies around between provinces is simplified.
I don't think the mini-campaign bit would necessarily take significantly longer than the current army movement.
Certainly there would be no hardware/software issue, the Risk style map was running on way weaker PCs in the past & the Province level maps would be similar quality to current Campaign map but much smaller so potentially it would be much lighter resource wise.

I do concede that with the end of turn resolution you would have those Province turns all plonked together after the End Turn button, I don't think its necesarily a bad thing though.
There generally aren't that many combats in 1 turn & you would have opportunity to auto-resolve before going into that mini-campaign.

Additionally it would have the advantage of not letting you forget to do certain combats.
I have had an issue in current system where quite often I have been distracted with events in one part of my empire, clicked End Turn without resolving things I had meant to do elsewhere, causing opportunities & even armies to be lost.

Yes it is exactly that ability to pile in reinforcements and the fact that a significant loss takes some time to recover from which I want.
The ability of Rome & subsequent AI to just spam stack after stack after stack at you is what actually cripples late game play with the current system.
I really enjoyed not only the advantage from winning a significant battle but also the ability to fall back when outnumbered/having lost, regrouping before counter-attacking with combined & reinforced army.

Yes, I've been saying this for years as well, though not so persistently. An operational layer (like the current 3d campaign map) between a (Risk) strategic and tactical layers. It improves campaign AI, connects the the tactical battles to the campaign in a meaningful way, and simply make better sense of the campaign. Currently, the entire concept of the 3d campaign is ridiculous and non-representative of the actual mechanisms of having an existing force in a theatre.

[Hooahguy]

So apparently, the Huns are playable, despite the rumors that they wouldnt be.

[edyzmedieval]

I wonder if the Huns and other Barbarians will get the option to settle a homeland, just like in RTW:BI.

[Phil of Loreauville]

Those videos look real good.................
Almost as good as the videos right before the release of Rome 2.