* The Next Official Total War Game *

[Nelson]

Oi! Such an orphan this thread is!

A Shogun redo would be fine by me.

[m4rt14n]

The Movie "Alexander" was crap beyond reason. Sorry bout all yall fans out there, but I'd rather watch the History Channel Special on Alexander, or the Discovery Channel ones, rather than succumbing to the all mighty turd of a mumbled, disorganized, scenes without plot that Hollywood called a movie.

I'm guessing the game would prolly be the same thing, heh. I'm sticking with RTW even with all them bugs for now... sadly

[Pericles]

Maybe a "Greek: Total War" might be able to use the current RTW engine.

With tweaks to the engine there could be the "Age of Revolution: Total War" spanning time period of 1700-1900.

Then there is always "Age of Empires: Total War" - giving us a world map with discovery of the new world, being able to play Asian countries as well as European. . .

A "Lord of the Rings: Total War" - look how well the movies and books did

Personally, I think the possibilitie are endless.

[m4rt14n]

Civilization: Total War :drools:

[Oaty]

The U.S. civil war would never be a totalwar game in itself ........... well I'd at least be willing to bet on it.They'd go with a Napoleonic era with the civil war being an expansion pack.

Of course for me I want a ChinaTotalWar. And why not, they believe 1 fifth of the world is an indirect descendant of Ghengis Khan. This way 1 fith of the world could relive the days of there great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfathers glory days.

Noone ever talks about Africa. Never hear about the wars there except at the height of world colonization. Anything interesting ever happen there. I'm talking about south of the Sahara here. Or was it all tribal warfare on a small scale.

[Saracen_Warrior]

Or maybe a stoneage total war. You could either be grizzly underwears, the nakeds, or the loin cloths. Huge battles between 10 person tribes. You could train guys with sticks, guys with bones, guys with rocks, or guys that jsut punch, biters, kicking people, or even wooly mamoth riders, which might be a little unbalanced compared to the other untis but hey its game. the trading system would work. "hey grog give I bone or i smash your face in"

[Master Zen]

I think a Totalwar series based on China would be awesome. Has anyone here ever read Romance of the Three Kingdoms or played the games based on this wonderful Chinese epic, like Dynasty Warriors and the other KOEI ROTK series? For those who are not familiar, China experienced a civil war on a massive scale after the fall of the Han dynasty in the second to third century AD. The whole empire split into various factions under feudal warlords. Gradually, three men established supremacy in three parts of the country (hence Three Kingdoms); they were Cao Cao in the north, Sun Quan in the south, and Liu Bei in the west. Not only is the story compelling and epic, but the Totalwar people could make the battles REALLY interesting. For instance, the strategy of the various generals in the Three Kingdoms is detailed throughout the epic and is quite brilliant. There are ambushes, fire attacks, city assaults, the cutting off of supplies, the use of naval and marine forces, the use of floods to drown enemies, and myriads of ruses. One particular stratagem is famous and I shall account for it here to give you a sense of what I mean: Zhuge Liang, the adviser to Liu Bei, was given the task of delivering 100,000 arrows in three days time to the armies of Sun Quan. If he failed, he would suffer the death penalty. Obviously, he was not going to be able to make 100,000 arrows in three days. Instead, on the third day, when the weather was extremely foggy, he borrowed twenty ships and attached many bundles of straw to them, to give the impression of a huge landing force. He used these twenty ships and took them close to the enemy's naval base. Since it was foggy, and the ships gave the impression of a large force waiting in ambush, the enemy commander ordered his soldiers to oppose Zhuge Liang's force by shooting arrows. The discharge of arrows was immense, and the twenty ships, with their bundles of straw, managed each to catch over 5000 to 6000 arrows. Thus, by a small effort, he had managed to steal 100,000 arrows from the enemy which could then be shot back at the enemy. Besides exciting battles and subtle strategy, the diplomacy could be quite intricate as it was during the Three Kingdoms period. The warlords had to carefully balance alliances in order to succeed. I would say more, but I want to know what others think. I have thought long about such a Totalwar game based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and each time I imagine it I feel like buying it (haha). Another great possibility, with China as the map, would be Totalwar in the time of the Warring States. This period is earlier than the Three Kingdoms era, and was again a civil war following the collapse of the Zhou dynasty.

[discovery1]

I agree, China Total war would be great(after expansion)

Zen, It's a good idea to break up your posts into paragraphs. Easier to read.

[Sir Toma of Spain]

I think a Totalwar series based on China would be awesome. Has anyone here ever read Romance of the Three Kingdoms or played the games based on this wonderful Chinese epic, like Dynasty Warriors and the other KOEI ROTK series? For those who are not familiar, China experienced a civil war on a massive scale after the fall of the Han dynasty in the second to third century AD. The whole empire split into various factions under feudal warlords. Gradually, three men established supremacy in three parts of the country (hence Three Kingdoms); they were Cao Cao in the north, Sun Quan in the south, and Liu Bei in the west. Not only is the story compelling and epic, but the Totalwar people could make the battles REALLY interesting. For instance, the strategy of the various generals in the Three Kingdoms is detailed throughout the epic and is quite brilliant. There are ambushes, fire attacks, city assaults, the cutting off of supplies, the use of naval and marine forces, the use of floods to drown enemies, and myriads of ruses. One particular stratagem is famous and I shall account for it here to give you a sense of what I mean: Zhuge Liang, the adviser to Liu Bei, was given the task of delivering 100,000 arrows in three days time to the armies of Sun Quan. If he failed, he would suffer the death penalty. Obviously, he was not going to be able to make 100,000 arrows in three days. Instead, on the third day, when the weather was extremely foggy, he borrowed twenty ships and attached many bundles of straw to them, to give the impression of a huge landing force. He used these twenty ships and took them close to the enemy's naval base. Since it was foggy, and the ships gave the impression of a large force waiting in ambush, the enemy commander ordered his soldiers to oppose Zhuge Liang's force by shooting arrows. The discharge of arrows was immense, and the twenty ships, with their bundles of straw, managed each to catch over 5000 to 6000 arrows. Thus, by a small effort, he had managed to steal 100,000 arrows from the enemy which could then be shot back at the enemy. Besides exciting battles and subtle strategy, the diplomacy could be quite intricate as it was during the Three Kingdoms period. The warlords had to carefully balance alliances in order to succeed. I would say more, but I want to know what others think. I have thought long about such a Totalwar game based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and each time I imagine it I feel like buying it (haha). Another great possibility, with China as the map, would be Totalwar in the time of the Warring States. This period is earlier than the Three Kingdoms era, and was again a civil war following the collapse of the Zhou dynasty.

I reckon that this would be a great idea and would also be great fun to play as although there would really only be three factions but otherwise it would be great
Good idea Master Zen

[Slon]

Will there even be another Total War game? I thought they were just going for a trilogy. However, I'd love to see the previous two Total War games remade with the Rome: TW engine. Perhaps it will be done and then released as a bundle, meaning: Shogun, Medieval and Rome together in one package remade into the new engine with all the bugs fixed.

[Raijer]

Civilization: Total War :drools:

My thoughts exactly.

[Raijer]

And you could fight the infamous tank vs. spearman battle in all its glory!

[marcusbrutus]

I can see it now, my blitzkreig halted by spears, just like Civ 1.

On a lighter note, I don't really mind when they set the next TW game as long as they fix up Romes engine and make it as modable as possible.