Total War Hammer

[darmaster]

Apparently they're never going to make a 3rd title in a series darmaster, so no Medieval 3 for you.

NOOOOOOO

Source pls who approved that bs

[gallonigher]

Curse of the 3s.  No Half-Life 3 and no medieval total war 3

[ecorcheur_brokar]

I'm pretty sure it will be crap.

First, it will all be about DLC bullshit warhammer is perfect for this.

Second, the fun part of warhammer (especially the new gen) is the randomness. Especially the randomness of magic. I don't think they will dare to put as much of randomness in their game and I'm not even sure it would fit in a PC game.

Third, the best you could exploit out of warhammer mechanism apart from randomness, is the clear difference between civilization. But for this there is starcraft and I'm pretty sure TW can't get to their level.

Apart from that, warhammer universe is cool and diverse, it could produce great PC game but TW has become too fucked up to succed in that task.

[[ptx]]

I watched some videos regarding use of magic in the game, and, apparently, there is going to be randomization to it. As in, the great strength of magic will be balanced out by making it highly unreliable (dependent on the strength of winds of magic, iirc).

[Angantyr]

Warhammer Fantasy worked pretty well in Shadow of the Horned Rat and, though I've played it less; Blood Omen. I think CA have a good chance of pulling it off aswell.

[Angantyr]

It's disappointing that the Empire seems to be one faction, they should've learned something from the Call of Warhammer mod.

[[ptx]]

Are we sure it's going to be one faction? The impression i got is that, even though there are only like 4 factions, each one is split into counties/chiefdoms/etc and you got internal politics/da-big-boss-aint-dat-big stuff.

[Angantyr]

We can only hope.

And yes, the DLC milking is going to be apocalyptic.

[Xant]

Which is why a smart player pirates. Nothing is more fun than paying sixty dollars for a game and knowing pirates get half more content than you.

[[ptx]]

Don't forget Blood & Gore DLC - which would be fucking hilarious for a Warhammer game

[ecorcheur_brokar]

you forgot DLC "offered" if the game is pre-ordered which I still struggle to grab the justification

[Mr_Oujamaflip]

NOOOOOOO

Source pls who approved that bs

"I doubt we'll have the appetite to go back and visit anything a third time - I very much doubt we'll ever do that. I'll never say never, but that certainly wouldn't be high on our list, going back a third time."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-13-the-future-of-total-war

Obviously Sega may change their minds but that's what they said a while ago.

To be fair I'd like a more focused game anyway, like Crusader: Total War or something, the big world map ones can be frustrating at times.

[Angantyr]

No matter what they choose to call it I think it is safe to assume that we'll see more Total War games in a Medieval setting.

[Leesin]

Yeah they did state they don't plan on revisiting any of the era 3 times, but Medieval on a newer engine is what a LOT of people want including myself, they've redone Shogun and Rome while Medieval 2 is massively out dated now. I will buy Warhammer TW but if they make anything other than a Medieval 3 outside of the Warhammer series, I probably won't be buying it. I'm not much interested in the line battles of Empire/Napoleon, I played them both quite a bit but found I got bored of them a lot quicker than the other games, line battles just bore me. People call out for WW1 etc and I don't really want to see that either, I found the ranged combat boring enough in Empire/Napoleon I can only imagine how boring it would get in something beyond those years. Not sure what else they would consider making but I don't think there's much they haven't already touched upon that  I would care to see.

[Angantyr]

A fun melee-oriented way to play NTW is by playing the French Empire historically; mass-conscription armies using the colonne d'attaque, aggressive blocks of massed infantry rarely deploying into lines but just punching holes in the enemy by bayonets and sheer weight of numbers, following concentrated artillery fire. Especially fun with double unit size mod.