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[PBI]

A CA member commenting on Chinese history. Is this a hint that there is at least the possibility of a future TW game with a Far-East setting? I know, I know, you couldn't possibly comment.

There's a possibility I hadn't thought of though; a game focused around the relatively outward-looking Ming dynasty. The problems I've always seen with a China-centred game have been:
*Not much scope for naval combat.
*Not much scope for the fun "clash of culture" type battles we get in Rome and Medieval due to the relatively inward-looking nature of Chinese history.

That's why I like the idea of a Mongolia: Total War, since it has the far-eastern setting and solves the second problem due to the expansion of the Mongols, but it has the problem that ships really aren't that useful on the steppes. A Ming dynasty setting would solve both problems though; a relatively outward-looking dynasty with a big emphasis on naval exploration (Zheng He being the most obvious example).

[Mailman653]

I've seen a few shows on the 1421 theory. Granted they had that huge fleet but the argument the main proponet of that theory does not really convince me that it happend.

But, going back on topic, I'm out of TW ideas lol, I think we should collect all the ideas in this thread and make a poll. I would be surprised if Antartica:TW made it to the top three.

[PBI]

I've seen a few shows on the 1421 theory. Granted they had that huge fleet but the argument the main proponet of that theory does not really convince me that it happend.

But, going back on topic, I'm out of TW ideas lol, I think we should collect all the ideas in this thread and make a poll. I would be surprised if Antartica:TW made it to the top three.

I believe the general consensus on the 1421 hypothesis (that the Ming dynasty discovered America before Columbus) is that it's nonsense, but the Chinese admiral Zheng He certainly did make some impressive voyages in the Indian Ocean, reaching India, Arabia and East Africa. And even though they didn't reach America, I suspect they could have done, if they'd had any interest in trying to sail east across the Pacific. Anyway, even without the Americas, I think there's still more than enough actual history in the Ming dynasty to make a game.

There was such a poll a while back in the Entrance Hall, I guess we could do with a new one since the last one was before Empire was announced.

[Captain Fishpants]

A CA member commenting on Chinese history. Is this a hint that there is at least the possibility of a future TW game with a Far-East setting? I know, I know, you couldn't possibly comment.

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It's a hint that I need to know a metric shedload (that's 2.2 Imperial shedloads and 2.4 US shedloads) about historical stuff in order to do my job properly.

I can't talk about future plans other than to say they exist, and this means that people's TW cravings will be satisfied for a good long while yet.

Right, back to getting an interesting hundred years of history into Empire. Busy century, the 18th, all things considered.

[PBI]

Or maybe it's a hint that I'm so eager for a Chinese based TW that I will jump upon any mention of anything Chinese by a CA member as being equivalent to an announcement that the next game is to be China:TW. Apologies.

[Che Roriniho]

I think eventually they will have a game called simply Total War, which willl cover everything: Ancient Native Americans, to Modern-Day Zimbabwe. There will be over 300 factions and almost limitless Units, HUGE battles (millions on each side is possible). Just you try Taking the Sioux to capturing Bombay... Wait, I think my head just exploded from how awesome that would be.

[pevergreen]

And at this point, how impossible.

[G^2]

Maybe they could do a fantasy-historical blend ...

If it were historical, I wish they would include the whole world in the campaign map. They could still keep it focused on Europe, but you could try exploring west or east or south whenever you wanted to ... and you could play as an Asian faction in the far east if you wanted to ... kind of like Europa Universalis except with Total War game mechanics. Zor

@ Zor

Most TW games already have an element of fantasy about them, for example could England really conquere all of Europe in the Middle Ages? However, I do see your point and a historical fantasy game would be interesting.

That would be very interesting but as many have mentioned (Che Roriniho/Peverpink) probably impossible to do with the current technology. Perhaps in anouther ten years though. . .

I do however, like the idea of the Kingdoms expansion where there are many focused campaigns better than one large campaign. This is because I usally get bored after conquering a region and the game gets tedious having to manage more than 20 settlements. Thus, if CA did a World TW set throughout the world with four or five maps, like Japan, East Africa, India and Ceneral America, that would be really cool.

[Belgolas]

I can see chinese boats coming from Russia to Alaska now. Technically they could.

Anyways a total war on Asia would be nice. Need to get away from Europe. Plus how many games are set in Asia? Not many.