What 'New' TW Series Game Would You Like To See?

[LuckyDog Trojan]

(Not that Creative Assembly is paying attention...)
In relation to locality and time era, what new game would you like to see CA come out with in their Total War series? (Not a mod).

Myself, and I know I'm a little biased here, I'd like to see a game centered around the 18th century colonial war in North America (the American Revolution). I believe the game engine would lend itself well to this period as would the potential for a variety of challenging factions. For example: the British, the Americans, the various Tribal Nations, the French, and even the independent colonies themselves.

Your thoughts and arguments?

[Caius]

There was an poll about that.

[Louis VI the Fat]

This topic comes up every three weeks or so. But it is at the very heart of what this site is all about, so it can't be raised often enough.

Me, I've been rooting for M:TW2 ever since the first one came out. So I'm a perfectly happy boy for now.

For a next instalment, I wouldn't choose a modern era. Too many guns just don't work I think. I want up-close combat, old-fashioned man-to-man butchery. Axes, swords, shields, spears, the lot.

I wouldn't mind a Hundred Year's War theme. Where they zoom in on the map, maybe a highly detailed one from Scotland down to the Pyrennees, with the variety of the different regions programmed in, and lots of this era's units.

[LuckyDog Trojan]

Caius:
Thanks - I'll look for that poll.

Liugi:
I agree - a 'Hundred Years War' theme would be cool. Also, don't get me wrong, I like the 'up close and personal' aspects of battle too. Then again, I think that muskets and cannon in the 'age' I'm referring to wouldn't be that bad. It would be a different form of ranged weapons that replace the velite and onagers.

Congratulations by the way as an HoF Award recipient.

[Caius]

Also, we need a game without too amny hardcoded limits...

[LuckyDog Trojan]

Also, we need a game without too amny hardcoded limits...

What, specifically, do you mean by 'hard coded limits'?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I think what he means is a game that you can mod without any limitations.

[Lorenzo_H]

Caius:
Thanks - I'll look for that poll.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=73580

Here ya go!

[LuckyDog Trojan]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=73580

Here ya go!

Diablodelmar: Thanks Man! Some interesting discussion and good ideas on that poll thread. I would agree with many of the posters in that a Napoleonic era TW has the potential to be a great game.

[Whygodwhy]

I think they should have a pre-columbion amerian total war

[Xehh II]

I would like to see any new total war game as long as it had playable sea battles.

[pevergreen]

This would be the best TW game. (IMO and kind of joke)

Campaign Map:

Same as it is, but without bugs etc.

Land Battles:

Heavy Armour stuff only! Plate mailed archers, plate mailed peasants!
Plate mailed EVERYTHING!@!!!!

Sea Battles:

Real time, and boarding. The boarders are ARMOURED GUYS!!!

Overal:

The only missile weapons would be cannons that shoot dwarves that explode on impact (oops i revealed a secret unit for WTW..)

[Veho Nex]

I want a American total war pre columbus so you have native americans though you wouldnt get cavalry untill spanish arrive or somthing like that. or an africa total war but that would have to be pre ww1 or ww2 to be any where near good but a 100 years theme would be so hard to do considering the facts of what happened during it but maybe if they did that theyd have to include M2 TW Crusades? whatchya think?

[Slug For A Butt]

Dude, I don't think it would sell. Thats why it won't happen. I think people in the US have to realise that the only people interested in the history of America are the Americans.
I hope I haven't offended you, but it's true. America doesn't have much international history, and the history it does have didn't affect anyone else really 'till a hundred years ago. In short I suppose I'm saying that there is a better market for bloodthirsty European dark/middle aged history.

[Captain Fishpants]

(Not that Creative Assembly is paying attention...)

<snip>

You know, I was going to pay attention until I read those opening words. Now I've lost the will to live (again).

For the rest, thanks for your speculative thoughts. Obviously, I'm not going to talk about future plans until the moon, planets and stars are in the correct conjunctions (and the marketing people say it's OK to do so).

[Adrian II]

You know, I was going to pay attention until I read those opening words. Now I've lost the will to live (again).

Oh stop it already, Fishpants. You must know there is large, though largely silent majority of players who adore the CA games. You should have grown some oliphant skin by now that helps you shrug off the occasional complaint or irreverent remark from some uncouth or ill-mannered young whippersnapper.

Together with a score of other old hands, I have just been singing the praise of M:TW once more in the relevant .Org forum. Even after several years that game is still superior to anything the competition has thrown at us. To your eternal credit.

Stop whining Cap; into the breach, bottoms up and all that.

[Raz]

Now that the Lordz have gone independent, I'm not interested in CA creating anything in the Napoleonic era. Instead:
Shogun 2 : Total War = Win
or
Three Kingdoms : Total War = Win



With the latter, I'd much prefer to see this in mod form than as a complete game, since a name like that isn't really shelf material. Though, then again, some of the names for games that are coming out now make you say, WTF. e.g. Seaman. <_<
>_>

[Captain Fishpants]

Oh stop it already, Fishpants. You must know there is large, though largely silent majority of players who adore the CA games. You should have grown some oliphant skin by now that helps you shrug off the occasional complaint or irreverent remark from some uncouth or ill-mannered young whippersnapper.

Together with a score of other old hands, I have just been singing the praise of M:TW once more in the relevant .Org forum. Even after several years that game is still superior to anything the competition has thrown at us. To your eternal credit.

Stop whining Cap; into the breach, bottoms up and all that.

Oh dear.

I'd better put an irony/sarcasm alert on some of my posts in future.

I'd love to be able to tell you about future plans so that you could be as excited about them as we are, but life's not like that. But because we're quiet about What We're Up To Next, this is usually interpreted as not listening.

FYI, the UK-based CA designers have a policy of spending a little time each day trawling through forums to see what's going on. We then swap links and information on interesting topics/remarks. It helps to know what people are saying about the way the games play (that's different from discussing bugs) so that we can adjust future titles. The expertise of players is a massive resource, and not one to be casually ignored.

We in the UK don't often comment on M2TW because it wasn't our game (a game that we developed) and we could well say something that is wrong by accident. Better to leave such matters to the Oz experts! But again, this might make us appear stand-offish, I know.

So, there was no whining, moaning or otherwise. These "what next" threads can be quite interesting, if only because expectations can be so... divergent.

[Adrian II]

So, there was no whining, moaning or otherwise. These "what next" threads can be quite interesting, if only because expectations can be so... divergent.

There you go. I am not surprised at all that developers who devote such love and care to a series of games as you lot have done would be interested in how they 'play out' among the war-gaming community. Besides, I think we all understand your position within the larger frame of things, and your occasional comments here are carefully scrutinised and much appreciated.

[Innocentius]

Me, I'll stick with an official Pike & Musket TW, and then do a third MTW. The medieval period is by far the most interesting (and entertaining), but for the variety of it there should be one game from a different time period between each.
A P&M TW with eras, and many of them, would be my choice. Of course it should be simple to mod as well.

...And then back to peasant slashing...

[Lord Cazaric]

I doubt the Alexander expansion would be the type of game I'm talking about - Alexander the Great appeared basically after the fall of the city-states, which is what I think would be great.

(I'm fascinated by the history of the city-states, especially Sparta)

[caravel]

You know, I was going to pay attention until I read those opening words. Now I've lost the will to live (again).

For what it's worth I'm pretty sure that comment was either tongue in cheek humour or a just a "humble" type of statement. Personally I didn't interpret it as a "whatever you say, CA will ignore it and make a game full of fantasy units suitable for ten year old RTS fans instead!" type of comment, and don't believe it to be such a comment.