Total War Asia

[Chosun]

I know people have been requesting Japan and China as possible expansion or next in line main game for the Total War series. I think a whole Asia game would be nice. In my brief stint with EU III, I thought it was cool with the absolute humongous number of countries available to play. Unfortunately, I really couldn't get into the game much. I also know that a Total War game including the whole world would probably be unrealistic but man would I like a go at a possible Total War Asia game. Just some of the nations I would like trying out:

Korean
Japanese
Chinese
Mongols
Thai
Indian
Malaysian\Indonesian
and alot more.....


Maybe around 20 or so factions would be nice. I think the weapons, soldiers and navies of the different time periods would be awesome. Who wouldn't want to use some ninjas?

[Suraknar]

Yup yup, that would be awesome indeed :)

maybe before the time of the 1st emperor that way china could have several factions in it.

But having played with ninjas in Shogun Total War I would definitelly want Japan having a similar level of technology in any Asia Total War game, selecting the right period is the toughest part.

[Werner]

I dont see why this couldn't be integrated into Med2 with an expansion? The koreans, chinese, and japanese were all strong powers then. A game DEVOTED to asian countries would be overkill and frankly hard to pull off with Shogun TW being the best ever TW IMO.

[HoreTore]

IMO, the current time period would be best, or perhaps 100 years earlier. Can't do an asian TW without the rise of the mongols!

[dumas]

Personally, I'd like to see it in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" era. Of course, those common(?) hundred thousand men armies or even that one million-men army would have to be scaled down quite a bit.

[Budwise]

Actually, lets just end this issue ONCE AND FOR ALL. I hope the next TW game or a series of expansions will do the following.

Start a little before Roman times and go ALL the way up to the revolutionary war. Of course you should be able to start around the time you want but I think Asia as well as the new world should be able to get to eventually. It should go all the way up to about the US revolutionary war timeframe because after that, combat drastically changed. Think about it, it could be done. For instance, they could have guns evolve with multiple upgrades to be more effective and so many other good ideas.

[Werner]

Holy crap, that gave me a great idea !

How 'bout a Civil War TW?! I'm going to recruit lots of "cowboys" to kill off local generals and raid cargo trains with. Mercenaries could be desert thieves and indians

[JCoyote]

Holy crap, that gave me a great idea !

How 'bout a Civil War TW?! I'm going to recruit lots of "cowboys" to kill off local generals and raid cargo trains with. Mercenaries could be desert thieves and indians

No, really this idea fits into "Colonial TW" or "Napoleonic TW" that we've argued over. It's a subset of the eras and warfare involved there. Considering TW is expansive and always has more than 2 sides, it would be better as a part of a larger TW game. I think a colonial game could start sometime after the Reformation and going up to as late as the Zulu wars. The US Civil War would fit inside that time frame, and the game would cover the whole planet so it'd be in there.

And cowboys to kill off local generals... huh?

[Chosun]

I thought I had posted a realistic idea for a new game for CA. A whole planet game is not possible IMO due to CPU limitations. A nice dream would have been to merge the EU III map with Total War gameplay but that will not be possible in the near future unless you could run it on a supercomputer. Think of how long a turn would take waiting for the AI? As it stands, I love the Total War Series and especially MTW 2 even with all it's bugs and it shows in how long it has kept my attention. This was just an idea I had for a possible future game from CA. As I said earlier, EU III is not for me. The learning curve is too high and as ugly as the graphics are, it still taxes my PC more than MTW 2 does I think due to the real-time component.

[pike master]

it would be cool because you would have at least 3 elephant factions

[Suraknar]

I thought I had posted a realistic idea for a new game for CA. A whole planet game is not possible IMO due to CPU limitations. A nice dream would have been to merge the EU III map with Total War gameplay but that will not be possible in the near future unless you could run it on a supercomputer.

Not necessary...it depends how you program the thing...take a look here:

From bacteria to Whole Galaxy ;)

http://www.spore.com/

[dumas]

Start a little before Roman times and go ALL the way up to the revolutionary war.

(Or even further even )
That sounds great but it'll never work with the current AI. It'll keep popping out Hastati when it could produce F-16s just because the pilots don't have any armor or weapons and Hastati look better on paper. Or how about a sailboat trying to blockade a nuclear submarine base for no reason? OR perhaps a player 'exploiting' with a fort in the middle east on the oil resource so you can have 50 Halliburton agents camping it? Or how about a 80 year old British monarch who refuses to die while the faction heir is already 60? Or how about the leader of the mysterious land of America... hmmm... too many jokes there so I shouldn't go there.

[Budwise]

(Or even further even )
That sounds great but it'll never work with the current AI. It'll keep popping out Hastati when it could produce F-16s just because the pilots don't have any armor or weapons and Hastati look better on paper. Or how about a sailboat trying to blockade a nuclear submarine base for no reason? OR perhaps a player 'exploiting' with a fort in the middle east on the oil resource so you can have 50 Halliburton agents camping it? Or how about a 80 year old British monarch who refuses to die while the faction heir is already 60? Or how about the leader of the mysterious land of America... hmmm... too many jokes there so I shouldn't go there.

Whoa whoa hold on, thats why I kinda stated that you have to stop SOMEWHERE in time. We can't do trench warfare with the engine (WW1) nor can we have massive troop engagements with machine guns and foxholes. We have to stop somewhere for now. Maybe they could add all of that later but not at this time.

[Rilder]

Please no Asia stuff >.<. Don't ask me why I hate Asian history I just do.

[pike master]

asian total war rocks. i like asians especially nice petite asian women. i like asian war elephants and asian dog recipes 8)

[rosscoliosis]

Oh ok, they won't make an Asian game because you don't like them. *sigh*
Personally I think it would be amazing to put Europe and Asia onto the same map. REALLY re-write some history! ;-)

[Budwise]

Please no Asia stuff >.<. Don't ask me why I hate Asian history I just do.

Dude, my gf is a cambodian Blasian (Half Black, half asian) and I love the history. And hell, I had to put up with Rome. Just no more Mythical stuff like I heard Shogun was like. I never played it, MTW was my first TW game ever but I still heard stories..