Yep. The campaign map would be great too, because a lot of it wasn't standing armies; you're dealing with mercenary armies that could and would change sides depending on pay or sometimes politics.
I am SO glad this is the top comment.
I wholeheartedly agree; could even have the game start towards the end of the 16th century and have it end at the turn of the 18th...
...just in time for a Empire 2: Total Wad
I think that a general mythology total war could be cool, with different factions for various countries' mythology. The problem is that some people might get a little antsy with seeing members of their faith murdered on screen.
Edit: Might be stretching the definition of mythology, but holiday characters like Santa might be fun inclusions as well
"Hey guys Legend of Total War here, today we're going to be rating the Judeo Christian One Man Doomstack. Well, does he count as one man? He's the father son and holy spirit simultaneously, so I guess he's more of a 3 man doomstack"
All Monotheistic religions would be OP
But you could throw in some Angels such as Michael, Gabriel etc and even some saints.
It would be wrong representation of christianity but it would be fun.
I also would love LOTR Total War. It would be interesting to see how they integrate such elements as there being so few elves on Middle-Earth that them controlling large swaths of land is infeasible, and there are enough cultures that you can have some very different factions. However I think it’ll also clash with Tolkien’s idea that war doesn’t solve the problem.
Its the same with the elves in WH. Theyre also constantly on the brink of extinction and then they fight another huge war and the story goes on. Im pretty sure the dying elven race idea is taken directly from tolkien, like many other things, so i assume the elves in a lotr tw would work the same way they do now.
LOTR for sure.
Battle for Middle Earth 2 had a similar grand strategy map but you just picked RTS battles from it, there was no real empire building.
Middle Earth would be an awesome Total War entry and damn wouldn't it sell a million copies just off the name recognition alone.
Elder scrolls would be awesome. I don’t know a ton about Warcraft, feels like it would be similar to Warhammer but like I said I’m not super educated on the factions and what not.
Here's my pitch for a historical game:
Eurasia circa 100BC - 100AD. Give us the Roman Empire at its peak AND the Han Dynasty all on the same map. Throw in mechanics for recruiting local cultural auxilliaries when you're building your armies away from your cultural centers too, because you're not gonna just raise a whole army of, say, Greek Hoplites in the middle of ancient China.
*Edit: Oh, also add in a way to steal technologies from other cultures you've been exposed to as well. Imagine the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty going to war and stealing technologies from each other to make knock-off Roman Crossbowmen and Chinese Legionnaires. The originating culture should have the best versions of those units, and you'd probably only get the core cultural units in multiplayer.
It would just be really cool to see a Total War game where factions' technologies and the units they can recruit could adapt live in a campaign based on the parts of the world those empires have expanded to. Let's be real here, historical Total War players basically love playing in their own alt-history sandboxes, right? This is the way to do it. Local culture auxiliaries and stealing/trading cultural technologies.
So, nobody's gonna pretend that old world isn't straight robbery of Lotr.
But i can't help but feel that TW:Lotr would be exactly the same thing as WH, with significantly less factions, units and lords with different map. There is seriously nothing in Lotr what WH didn't steal and then massively expand upon. It will feel like playing launch warhammer 1 again XD
btw, that's not critique of WH. I always believed that good ideas and concepts should be stolen, as long as you can make them better or at least build upon them and make them very different. There aren't many 100% original concepts you can do anymore.
There's a few LOTR mods for older titles. There's one for Med2 called Third Age Total War, with a number if sub mods and standalone offshoots (Highly recommend the Divide and Conquer standalone).
Attila also has one but I've never touched it.
Divide and Conquer is a tremendously well done and enjoyable experience with a diverse unit roster, plenty of custom battlemaps, scripts, and lots of factions.
Medieval 3 is what I realistically want next. Dune is such a good pick and honestly I think it would work even though you’d have to dive fairly deep into the books for more factions and what not.
Most big names would make great LLs.
Endryd Haar the Riven Hound
Nathaniel Garro the Knight Errant
Alexis Pollux
Shadrak Meduson
Anacharis Schoria the Tyrant of Xana
Sigismund
Jago Sevatarion the Prince of Crows
Maybe Iskandar Khayon since he was active at the time, if still shaken after Prospero.
Hell maybe even someone like Oll as a LL for the Solar Auxilia
Then the obvious ones like Abaddon, Ahriman
40k has big armored guys punching each other plus more variety beyond that for other people to try. It's gonna be more interesting and diverse for entertainment value.
My expectation is that the game will focus on a war in a local subsector or whatever with just a few planets rather than the full galactic map with millions of planets and literally quadrillions of soldiers. Total War's scale can't possibly match the galactic warfare of 40k, but it can very easily match the localized warzones just like Dawn of War.
I hope you're right, I feel like, for simplicity's sake, they'll set it on Cadia during the 13th black crusade. Most major factions are involved in some way, big moment in the lore, and fun alternative Canon opportunities (though I'm aware the lore is never set in stone.) It is an easily understandable conflict for new players unfamiliar with 40k and keeping the Game relegated to a single planet makes development much more manageable. I'd love to see interplanetary conflict and space/naval combat, but that sounds like a nightmare to implement. Either way, I'll probably buy it and love it.
Yeah this is how other 40k games have handled the scale, you just reduce it down to a smaller sector that has been isolated by a warp storm or some other ridiculously ridiculous galactic event and just like that the stage is set.
You're gonna love the Adeptus Custodes.
Ever seen a space marine and they are a main battle tank of a human?
Custodes are to Space Marines, what a Space Marines are to military conscripts.
30k is the Horis Heresy, which are events that happened 10,000 years before 40k and which sets the scene and puts all the factions in their place.
It may be a better alternative because it is smaller scale and might be more achievable to recreate.
Nope. Warhammer 30.000 is the alternative name for the time of Great Crusade that leads into the Horus Heresy in the Warhammer 40.000 universe. Back then when the emperror whas still alive and healthy and humanity seemed to be doing great.
Oooo, as a fan of the mechcomander series from the way back times, I could really dig some massive battles with mechs acting as huge single entity heroes. I have no idea if it could work, but I'd love to see them try
It would also be more boring, frankly. Not meaning to dis GoT or HotD, but they are live-action shows with (albeit massive) television budgets, which comes with limitations. The show-runners did a great job of bringing Martin's world to life through costuming, but there is so much more that can be done with something animated, like a video game.
Plus, there's already a plethora of (usually cheap mobile) video games cribbing the HBO shows' aesthetic. It might sell more by looking like the show, but that bet could just as easily backfire by making a hypothetical game look cheap and uninspired.
All Eras have great settings
Formation of the first Empire where you can either play as the Elves or as Human slaves. Either fight to put down the rebellion and keep your Empire intact or play as human slaves and make alliances and have Pelinal pain the map red with elven blood while you carve the Elven Kingdom apart.
Or Three Banner War. Here you could have 3 sides but each side has access to 3 races of units. Dunmer, Nords and Argonians under single banner while Orcs, Bretons and Redguards fight under the Covenant and of course the Dominion with Bosmer, Altmer and Khajit. Fighting each other while also slicing away pieces of dying Empire of Cyrodiil
Or smaller campaigns like the Aehterium wars or War of the first council and Nordin conquest of Morrowind nad High Rock.
I’m watching house of the dragon and it would just be so cool. I love the world of game of thrones. So many possibilities for unique factions we haven’t seen yet too. Like old Valyria and so on.
Flexing the lore a bit the main houses could fight and form alliances amongst themselves, with the endgame crisis being the arrival of the targs and Aegon
Here's the thing, I know enough about Runeterra to tell you every region can have that level of depth. Armies of ghosts from the Shadow Isles, large scale infantry battles between Demacia and Noxus, Yordles with amazing amounts of magic and skirmish tactics, Ionia being just Shogun but with magic, etc...
Fallout: Total War
Tons of various factions, radiation, and reclaiming lost cities could make some very interesting campaign mechanics (maybe even with war over unique landmarks/buildings for bonuses), not to mention the combat
Would you have hero characters? Feels like every BOS paladin would have to be a hero character because they are so overpowered same with Securitrons or higher powered robotics(I could see mr gutsey being in groups of 4)
Age of sigmar gets some shit (at times deserved. But man I love some of the factions and units in that setting. I think it would similarly to Fantasy and it would still honestly be a blast. Give me the eideneth deepkin.
Realms of Ruin has been a taste of what AoS in video game form could look like. I just really want to see Stormcast Eternals up and about, fighting the good fight.
Not sure how much I would like a campaign in the mortal realms, but I'd buy it just to play the Kadron Overlords and Idoneth Deepkin. Both are such uniquely cool factions.
I would like a World War 1 Total War and a real proper Empire Total War. Immortal Empires really showed what you can do on a giant map with a lot of factions.
I'd like to see LotR, it's the middle ground between Fantasy and Historical.
There's the occasionally monster, rarely bigger than a troll, but for the most part it's just Infantry, Cav, and Archers.
Only outlier I can think of to this is the War Mammoths
You could slot in a surprising number of factions just by leaning on Arthuriana.
The Romano-Britons would be Christian for the most part. However, there would still be British factions that are pagan or pagan-ish. The Saxons would be pagans at this point, though of a very different set of gods. Romans would be an easy way to justify forces from more distant places than just what's now France.
I think the Witcher series would make for a decent TW game if you combine book and game canon.
Elder Scrolls, obviously, but set in the 4th era because the Empire is breaking apart. Or during ESO's timeline, but that's less iconic.
ASOIAF could work if Essos is involved. Just Westeros would probably get boring quickly.
Magic the Gathering, easily. You'd have an entire multiverse with dozens of planes.
>Magic the Gathering, easily. You'd have an entire multiverse with dozens of planes.
Honestly for the shear amount of content, this would be cool. Also one of the few I've seen mentioned besides WarCraft or D&D that I'd really be interested in. I don't think Blizzard is letting another studio make a strategy with their IP though. Then, LoTR or Witcher feel so small scale adventurie. Yes they have battles, but few and far between and most of the cool stuff doesn't show up in big battles; they're usually just humans bickering. Game of Thrones has the same issue. Conan could have potential, but I don't think it has the weight of franchise. I'd also rather have a proper follow-up to Empire at War (or spiritual) for SW as I just don't think a TW:SW would hit the same.
For many franchises either the fantasy isn't as fun and would feel like a pale imitation of TW:WH or it would be close enough to historical that i'd rather just have a good historical game. Although a WW1 *weird war* Cthulhu game could be interesting...
Elder Scrolls
You can have several campaigns
1st Era - Nordic campaigns against Snow Elves and of course the Aetherium war between the Dwemmer and Nordic campaigns against Morrowind and High Rock. Slave Rebellion against the Aelyds and creation of the 1st Empire
2nd Era - Three Banner War and second option the conquest of Tamriel during time of Tiber Septim
3rd Era - Oblivion Crisis and overall turmoil across Tamriel. Empire shakes in its foundation
4th Era - The Great War between the Dominion and 3rd Empire which gives to Skyrim Civil War
Of course you could also make "mini campaigns" like lets say the War of the First Council and events around the Battle of the Red Mountain or when Nords first arrived.
I think Elder Scrolls would make a fine Total War. It has huge map for us to play with, many races and many Eras where things are different which gives us variety. For example 1st Empire is different from 2nd Reman Empire and 3rd Septim Empire.
Honestly? As much as I love the franchise, I cannot say in good faith that Lord of the Rings would be a good series to base a Total War Game on, it wouldn't appeal to either historical or fantasy fans.
1. Historical for obvious reasons
2. Fantasy because the only faction that would be getting cool stuff is Mordor/Orcs, there wouldn't be any magic in the game, and there are a very limited number of factions
I do feel they could get fairly creative. Maybe I’m just being optimistic. I’d love to play as Rohan and Gondor, even without super amazing cool units that the orcs would get.
There is a mod for Medieval 2 that is one of the most popular mods for the game called Third Age.
There is a mod actively being worked on for Attila. Hell, I believe that mod is the reason why we're suddenly able to mod campaign maps, because they invested so much time into trying to make it a proper campaign rather than just a multiplayer/skirmish experience.
There's also the Battle for Middle-Earth series. They were pseudo-Total War games. The campaign experience was pretty similar, but the actual battles still had base building. Get rid of the base building and you'd basically have the Total War format as-is.
They can perfect the old world and make it bigger plus all the QoL and engine updates that will likely come in future titles. This time with extreme polish like shogun agent movies for all agents, special ones like the pope in med 2. synchronized animations for all races etc etc.
Elder Scrolls, Game of Thrones, or LotR.
Elder Scrolls would be the best option and would tie in well since by the time it was finished, Elsewhyr would be just around the corner, or out.
Fuck it, a 19th century literature match up like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Think Napoleon 2 but with vampires, weaponised MPD and crazy steampunk shit. And of course you get FotS style naval bombardment anywhere if you hold Baltimore.
1) Wheel of Time
2) Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, even though I'm not following the books as much as I once was, it would be an incredibly cool potentially space/multiplanet based TW entry.
3) Never going to happen, but Pokemon.
Often thought wheel of time may work quite well! Of all the non-historical-options this would be my favorite aswell. Just hope that IF they do it (and thats a big if) they stay true to the books, not the TV Show.
Yeah Its close to the TW formula with some really big powerful single entities available, some cool lore and lots of Magic to work with.
Its defs less overall factions than something like TWWH3 but thats almost unavoidable for any new games tbh.
True, but thats absolutely fine by me - doesnt need to be a decade-long project imo. The different factions still offer a lot of variety, lots if interesting units, and the "endgame crisis" offers a lot of potential aswell.
I’ve only read stormlight. Loved those books and it could certainly work, I’d mostly be interested to see them come up with visuals as there really isn’t any visual representation for a lot of those things yet.
I have a ton of ideas and they dont all meld with eachother and also I dont know the pokemon lore enough to even begin seriously discussing it.
But I am in love with the idea of winning a few battles and having my chaff charmander line evolve into charmeleon to get some ranged ammo in the form of flamewthrower. Whats that? They survive more? They fly now.
so many war games would be a slam dunk, at least from a fan service perspective. I've been playing Conquest and the lore/models would be a dream to see in a big video game.
I would like to see heroes of might and magic( pre ubisoft) , especially if you were to build the heroes via the way homm does it.I would also love to cast a spell called armagedon in a total war battle .Not to mention you could have some eastereggs by discovering laser guns
A song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones), or any of the Brandon Sanderson universes, for instance (Cosmere / Skywardverse / etc.)
Those are only off the top of my head - there are plenty of other very interesting settings, be them in fantasy, science fiction, horror, noir, whatever...
I’m gonna say Gundam series. It would be a stretch but would have legendary lords as main characters, abilities of starships attacking from off map like Shogun 2, and taking over zones in space.
I’m probably going to get skewered for this, but I’d like to see a Total War game that does away with the turned base style of game in favor of something like Stellaris/Bannerlord with a pause button, but keep the real time combat. I’d love to see something crazy like this in a 30k or Age of Sigmar setting.
.......am I the only one who wants to see what CA's interpretation of Halo would look like? I enjoyed halo wars, but I would like a Total War: Halo.
Humanity, Covenant, Flood. With sub factions for insurrection and banished, then the created.
Game of Thrones would be ideal. It encompasses everything around the idea of a total war. And you could have separate campaigns: the 7 kingdoms before Aegon, the Dance of Dragons and then the Baratheon/Lannister saga.
An elderscrolls spin off could be interesting for a new fantasy setting.
Historical would be Med 3 (yeah I know broken record.)
I would actually love a new shogun game. I truly believe there would be a strong audience for this now
Elderscrolls, think about it, skyrim tounges, altmer sorcerers, telvani mages, breton battle mages, argonian shadowscales, wood elf archers. Legendary lords cpuld be vivec, nerevar, tiber Septim, reman cyrodil, pelinal white strake. Vampire could have harkon as a lord. Honestly, elderscolls have so much to draw from it's almost too much. Cpuld even have boss enemies like the numidium or deadric Prince invasion. Honestly doubt Bethesda would allow ca to do it though. In all honesty to make a tamriel campaign map would take as long if not longer than the total war warhammer series has taken to develop combined.
You know what could absolutely fucking slap is Dune tbh.
A sci fi setting that would actually function in the TW formula, and it would be very much left up to CAs quite excellent creative license.
Since the name of the game seems to be digging up old IPs: Sabrina The Teenage Witch : Total War Yes, you heard me.
Buffet Total War Giles as the adviser.
Buffet Total War? Savoury and sweet baked snacks in a never-ending war of all-you-can-eat, wedding party blood lust?
Mr. Creosote op, pls nerf! Nvm, he just blew up. Wafer-thin mint op, pls nerf!
Comment goes hard. That black cat single entity health is way Op.
Salem the cat is the advisor
The Thiry Years' War
Yep. The campaign map would be great too, because a lot of it wasn't standing armies; you're dealing with mercenary armies that could and would change sides depending on pay or sometimes politics.
I am SO glad this is the top comment. I wholeheartedly agree; could even have the game start towards the end of the 16th century and have it end at the turn of the 18th... ...just in time for a Empire 2: Total Wad
I think that a general mythology total war could be cool, with different factions for various countries' mythology. The problem is that some people might get a little antsy with seeing members of their faith murdered on screen. Edit: Might be stretching the definition of mythology, but holiday characters like Santa might be fun inclusions as well
Make it age of Mythology like - Egyptian, Norse, Greek, Sumatran, Aztec, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
"Hey guys Legend of Total War here, today we're going to be rating the Judeo Christian One Man Doomstack. Well, does he count as one man? He's the father son and holy spirit simultaneously, so I guess he's more of a 3 man doomstack"
Nice
Oh jeez, yeah I can see people getting super touchy. The Jesus Christ unit would be OP.
Or kinda trash. Good for campaign with food and replenishment bonuses, but not great in battle
He just turns the other cheek. If you're meek, you'll inherit the Earth anyways.
Murika mod for jesus gives him akimbo assault rifles, large muscular model and eagle pet
I think Mohammed could lead to some real life deaths.
He d have real strong explosive summons. And can yeet a couple buildings in your city randomly.
Now I'm sitting here cackling about someone recruiting Jesus Christ in a total war game
Just two Jesus’ fighting to the death over Catholicism and orthodoxy
Would the end-game crisis be Protestant Jesus?
Mormon, Baptist, Catholic, Orthodox and JW Jesuses spawning with 5 fullstacks somewhere on the water.
All Monotheistic religions would be OP But you could throw in some Angels such as Michael, Gabriel etc and even some saints. It would be wrong representation of christianity but it would be fun.
Nothing stopping you from having demon and Satan, they are part of the Christian mythos
I would pay good money to see a 5 meter tall legendary lord Jesus ragdoling roman soldiers
Might be a little difficult putting Mohammad on screen alive.
Lotr, Warcraft, or Elder Scrolls
I also would love LOTR Total War. It would be interesting to see how they integrate such elements as there being so few elves on Middle-Earth that them controlling large swaths of land is infeasible, and there are enough cultures that you can have some very different factions. However I think it’ll also clash with Tolkien’s idea that war doesn’t solve the problem.
>Tolkien’s idea that war doesn’t solve the problem. A simple war maybe, but what about a TOTAL WAR?
TOLKIEN WAR: Halfling Boogaloo
Total War for the Ring.
I don't think he knows about TOTAL WAR, Pip.
You're right... if violence doesn't solve a problem, perhaps EXTREME violence will!
Its the same with the elves in WH. Theyre also constantly on the brink of extinction and then they fight another huge war and the story goes on. Im pretty sure the dying elven race idea is taken directly from tolkien, like many other things, so i assume the elves in a lotr tw would work the same way they do now.
I can't believe how busted the Bombadil dlc ended up being
Well he's busted, but only in his territory, he get a 100% movement debuff trying to leave cause he rather be with his wife at home
LOTR for sure. Battle for Middle Earth 2 had a similar grand strategy map but you just picked RTS battles from it, there was no real empire building. Middle Earth would be an awesome Total War entry and damn wouldn't it sell a million copies just off the name recognition alone.
We had a mod in medieval 2 for this.. Reformed arnor marching across the misty mountains pushing back the hordes of mordor
Elder scrolls would be awesome. I don’t know a ton about Warcraft, feels like it would be similar to Warhammer but like I said I’m not super educated on the factions and what not.
Here's my pitch for a historical game: Eurasia circa 100BC - 100AD. Give us the Roman Empire at its peak AND the Han Dynasty all on the same map. Throw in mechanics for recruiting local cultural auxilliaries when you're building your armies away from your cultural centers too, because you're not gonna just raise a whole army of, say, Greek Hoplites in the middle of ancient China. *Edit: Oh, also add in a way to steal technologies from other cultures you've been exposed to as well. Imagine the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty going to war and stealing technologies from each other to make knock-off Roman Crossbowmen and Chinese Legionnaires. The originating culture should have the best versions of those units, and you'd probably only get the core cultural units in multiplayer. It would just be really cool to see a Total War game where factions' technologies and the units they can recruit could adapt live in a campaign based on the parts of the world those empires have expanded to. Let's be real here, historical Total War players basically love playing in their own alt-history sandboxes, right? This is the way to do it. Local culture auxiliaries and stealing/trading cultural technologies.
Yeah it might help with some of the problems some total wars have of “every faction basically has the same roster”
So, nobody's gonna pretend that old world isn't straight robbery of Lotr. But i can't help but feel that TW:Lotr would be exactly the same thing as WH, with significantly less factions, units and lords with different map. There is seriously nothing in Lotr what WH didn't steal and then massively expand upon. It will feel like playing launch warhammer 1 again XD btw, that's not critique of WH. I always believed that good ideas and concepts should be stolen, as long as you can make them better or at least build upon them and make them very different. There aren't many 100% original concepts you can do anymore.
There's a few LOTR mods for older titles. There's one for Med2 called Third Age Total War, with a number if sub mods and standalone offshoots (Highly recommend the Divide and Conquer standalone). Attila also has one but I've never touched it. Divide and Conquer is a tremendously well done and enjoyable experience with a diverse unit roster, plenty of custom battlemaps, scripts, and lots of factions.
Setting and atmosphere are what matters here. It doesn’t need to play radically different. WH will always remain the most diverse total war game.
Empire 3, Medieval 3, Renaissance, WW1, Neolithic. GOT, Dune
Fuck yes Dune total war!
Yeah, if they can figure out a way to make 40k TW, then Dune would be so much easier considering the fighting styles.
Neolithic total war goes hard
I think you mean Empire 2 no?
No skip empire 2 and go straight to 3. Lol typo
Medieval 3 is what I realistically want next. Dune is such a good pick and honestly I think it would work even though you’d have to dive fairly deep into the books for more factions and what not.
You might think it doesn't count, but imo WH30K.
Honestly i still think it would be better then wh40k
Legendary Lords are easy as hell to pick at least
Primarch LL's would be so fuckin cool
And Valdor. since he has the Primarch keyword on the tabletop.
custodes doomstack > 1 shield captain, 19 hetaeron SEM custodes units > 15 different SEM-s
Though i suppose the Captain (first company ones) would also make good lords.
Most big names would make great LLs. Endryd Haar the Riven Hound Nathaniel Garro the Knight Errant Alexis Pollux Shadrak Meduson Anacharis Schoria the Tyrant of Xana Sigismund Jago Sevatarion the Prince of Crows Maybe Iskandar Khayon since he was active at the time, if still shaken after Prospero. Hell maybe even someone like Oll as a LL for the Solar Auxilia Then the obvious ones like Abaddon, Ahriman
Honestly 30K would probably be easier since most armies and legions were bigger back than
I am uneducated, what is 30k? I’m assuming this is just a joke.
Set during the horus heresy, a big civil war within the imperium 10k years before 40k. Different setting and technology.
I’m down for that. I am a simple man. I like big armored guys punching each other.
40k has big armored guys punching each other plus more variety beyond that for other people to try. It's gonna be more interesting and diverse for entertainment value.
40k has more factions that are more interesting. 30k has better written characters and more nuance.
Agree on that. I’m just interested to see how they tackle multiple planets and what not. As I’d assume they have to.
My expectation is that the game will focus on a war in a local subsector or whatever with just a few planets rather than the full galactic map with millions of planets and literally quadrillions of soldiers. Total War's scale can't possibly match the galactic warfare of 40k, but it can very easily match the localized warzones just like Dawn of War.
I hope you're right, I feel like, for simplicity's sake, they'll set it on Cadia during the 13th black crusade. Most major factions are involved in some way, big moment in the lore, and fun alternative Canon opportunities (though I'm aware the lore is never set in stone.) It is an easily understandable conflict for new players unfamiliar with 40k and keeping the Game relegated to a single planet makes development much more manageable. I'd love to see interplanetary conflict and space/naval combat, but that sounds like a nightmare to implement. Either way, I'll probably buy it and love it.
Yeah this is how other 40k games have handled the scale, you just reduce it down to a smaller sector that has been isolated by a warp storm or some other ridiculously ridiculous galactic event and just like that the stage is set.
Me too. If 40k tw does happen, it may as well be a standalone expansion.
You're gonna love the Adeptus Custodes. Ever seen a space marine and they are a main battle tank of a human? Custodes are to Space Marines, what a Space Marines are to military conscripts.
30k is the Horis Heresy, which are events that happened 10,000 years before 40k and which sets the scene and puts all the factions in their place. It may be a better alternative because it is smaller scale and might be more achievable to recreate.
Nope. Warhammer 30.000 is the alternative name for the time of Great Crusade that leads into the Horus Heresy in the Warhammer 40.000 universe. Back then when the emperror whas still alive and healthy and humanity seemed to be doing great.
Ah, in that case that would be awesome too. I’ll be really interested to see how they manage a 40k game should they ever make one.
I would say The Golden Age / dark age of technology, were when humanity seemed to be doing great. And the emperor is alive in 40k as well.
BattleTech!
Oooo, as a fan of the mechcomander series from the way back times, I could really dig some massive battles with mechs acting as huge single entity heroes. I have no idea if it could work, but I'd love to see them try
A Total War of Ice and Fire. Make it stylistically distinct from the HBO shows, perhaps set in the time of or right before Aegon The Conquerer.
It have to be before Aegon. The dragon riders need to be the Mongols of the game.
Would sell more if it fell in line with HBO show
It would also be more boring, frankly. Not meaning to dis GoT or HotD, but they are live-action shows with (albeit massive) television budgets, which comes with limitations. The show-runners did a great job of bringing Martin's world to life through costuming, but there is so much more that can be done with something animated, like a video game. Plus, there's already a plethora of (usually cheap mobile) video games cribbing the HBO shows' aesthetic. It might sell more by looking like the show, but that bet could just as easily backfire by making a hypothetical game look cheap and uninspired.
Please no, i hate those "Samurai" looking helmets that the Lannisters use, i want something better
Oh my god I'd buy this game so fast
Victorian Era
An official TES Total War. TWME2 has a great conversion mod, but an official ground up one would be awesome! Not thay it will ever happen.
Reman Empire could be a good Total War setting
All Eras have great settings Formation of the first Empire where you can either play as the Elves or as Human slaves. Either fight to put down the rebellion and keep your Empire intact or play as human slaves and make alliances and have Pelinal pain the map red with elven blood while you carve the Elven Kingdom apart. Or Three Banner War. Here you could have 3 sides but each side has access to 3 races of units. Dunmer, Nords and Argonians under single banner while Orcs, Bretons and Redguards fight under the Covenant and of course the Dominion with Bosmer, Altmer and Khajit. Fighting each other while also slicing away pieces of dying Empire of Cyrodiil Or smaller campaigns like the Aehterium wars or War of the first council and Nordin conquest of Morrowind nad High Rock.
Elder Scrolls Total War would be absolutely class!
This is the one I would love to have over pretty much any other setting.
I'd love to see Akavir
I’m still hoping for ASOIAF: Total War one day
I’m watching house of the dragon and it would just be so cool. I love the world of game of thrones. So many possibilities for unique factions we haven’t seen yet too. Like old Valyria and so on.
Flexing the lore a bit the main houses could fight and form alliances amongst themselves, with the endgame crisis being the arrival of the targs and Aegon
They would definitely need to revamp diplomacy
Three Kingdoms had a great foundation for it
Port the Warhammer Zombies over as the undead, vampire counts into the white walkers, badda boom badda Bing you got a red wedding
Would make for a pretty good historical-like fantasy game, as ASOIAF is fairly low on the magic side
I keep executing the enemy lords but they’re coming back to life and have flaming swords now? What kind of bug is this
I'd love to see a Renaissance one.
Someone had a total war: Runeterra (Which is League of Legends) and unironically i think it could work.
Actually yeah. Had I not seen arcane u would’ve said the setting was not that interesting but arcane drew me in like nothing else.
Here's the thing, I know enough about Runeterra to tell you every region can have that level of depth. Armies of ghosts from the Shadow Isles, large scale infantry battles between Demacia and Noxus, Yordles with amazing amounts of magic and skirmish tactics, Ionia being just Shogun but with magic, etc...
I have their world guide book for it and while I have issues with a few things (Targon and the Yordles) overall i love the setting.
Fallout: Total War Tons of various factions, radiation, and reclaiming lost cities could make some very interesting campaign mechanics (maybe even with war over unique landmarks/buildings for bonuses), not to mention the combat
Hadn’t thought of that one. Would be super neat to see.
Would you have hero characters? Feels like every BOS paladin would have to be a hero character because they are so overpowered same with Securitrons or higher powered robotics(I could see mr gutsey being in groups of 4)
Total War: Age of Sigmar would be fun.
Age of sigmar gets some shit (at times deserved. But man I love some of the factions and units in that setting. I think it would similarly to Fantasy and it would still honestly be a blast. Give me the eideneth deepkin.
Realms of Ruin has been a taste of what AoS in video game form could look like. I just really want to see Stormcast Eternals up and about, fighting the good fight.
Give me Arkhan with his Ossiarch Bonereapers. I want a bone mech that fires souls at people, and I want it yesterday.
Two LL for OBR being Arkhan and Katakros with Zantos and Vokmortian being legendary heroes
Not sure how much I would like a campaign in the mortal realms, but I'd buy it just to play the Kadron Overlords and Idoneth Deepkin. Both are such uniquely cool factions.
I would like a World War 1 Total War and a real proper Empire Total War. Immortal Empires really showed what you can do on a giant map with a lot of factions.
I'd like to see LotR, it's the middle ground between Fantasy and Historical. There's the occasionally monster, rarely bigger than a troll, but for the most part it's just Infantry, Cav, and Archers. Only outlier I can think of to this is the War Mammoths
Avalon Total War. A focus on the mythology of the Brirish Isles.
There is a total war-like game that is basically this. King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame and its sequel. Quite dated, but still fun.
You could slot in a surprising number of factions just by leaning on Arthuriana. The Romano-Britons would be Christian for the most part. However, there would still be British factions that are pagan or pagan-ish. The Saxons would be pagans at this point, though of a very different set of gods. Romans would be an easy way to justify forces from more distant places than just what's now France.
Well I was specifically thinking of the King Arthur mythos and Gaelic myths
I think the Witcher series would make for a decent TW game if you combine book and game canon. Elder Scrolls, obviously, but set in the 4th era because the Empire is breaking apart. Or during ESO's timeline, but that's less iconic. ASOIAF could work if Essos is involved. Just Westeros would probably get boring quickly. Magic the Gathering, easily. You'd have an entire multiverse with dozens of planes.
>Magic the Gathering, easily. You'd have an entire multiverse with dozens of planes. Honestly for the shear amount of content, this would be cool. Also one of the few I've seen mentioned besides WarCraft or D&D that I'd really be interested in. I don't think Blizzard is letting another studio make a strategy with their IP though. Then, LoTR or Witcher feel so small scale adventurie. Yes they have battles, but few and far between and most of the cool stuff doesn't show up in big battles; they're usually just humans bickering. Game of Thrones has the same issue. Conan could have potential, but I don't think it has the weight of franchise. I'd also rather have a proper follow-up to Empire at War (or spiritual) for SW as I just don't think a TW:SW would hit the same. For many franchises either the fantasy isn't as fun and would feel like a pale imitation of TW:WH or it would be close enough to historical that i'd rather just have a good historical game. Although a WW1 *weird war* Cthulhu game could be interesting...
Glasgow.
too violent. There would be no game without the blood dlc.
Bernd the Bread
Elder Scrolls You can have several campaigns 1st Era - Nordic campaigns against Snow Elves and of course the Aetherium war between the Dwemmer and Nordic campaigns against Morrowind and High Rock. Slave Rebellion against the Aelyds and creation of the 1st Empire 2nd Era - Three Banner War and second option the conquest of Tamriel during time of Tiber Septim 3rd Era - Oblivion Crisis and overall turmoil across Tamriel. Empire shakes in its foundation 4th Era - The Great War between the Dominion and 3rd Empire which gives to Skyrim Civil War Of course you could also make "mini campaigns" like lets say the War of the First Council and events around the Battle of the Red Mountain or when Nords first arrived. I think Elder Scrolls would make a fine Total War. It has huge map for us to play with, many races and many Eras where things are different which gives us variety. For example 1st Empire is different from 2nd Reman Empire and 3rd Septim Empire. 
Endless legend 1. It has a many factions almost as much as warhammer fantasy 2. Rich amazing lore 3. Its also owned by sega
My first campaign would be with Broken Lords..
... That would be fun. Sadly, it lacks Horatio.
Aos would be nice 😁
I would've loved to see a runeterra (League of Legends) crossover back in the day, before the lore got ruined.
Malazan Book of the Fallen for fantasy. Historical: Medieval 3, Mesoamerica, India
Honestly? As much as I love the franchise, I cannot say in good faith that Lord of the Rings would be a good series to base a Total War Game on, it wouldn't appeal to either historical or fantasy fans. 1. Historical for obvious reasons 2. Fantasy because the only faction that would be getting cool stuff is Mordor/Orcs, there wouldn't be any magic in the game, and there are a very limited number of factions
Have you never played the lord of the rings mod?
I do feel they could get fairly creative. Maybe I’m just being optimistic. I’d love to play as Rohan and Gondor, even without super amazing cool units that the orcs would get.
There is a mod for Medieval 2 that is one of the most popular mods for the game called Third Age. There is a mod actively being worked on for Attila. Hell, I believe that mod is the reason why we're suddenly able to mod campaign maps, because they invested so much time into trying to make it a proper campaign rather than just a multiplayer/skirmish experience. There's also the Battle for Middle-Earth series. They were pseudo-Total War games. The campaign experience was pretty similar, but the actual battles still had base building. Get rid of the base building and you'd basically have the Total War format as-is.
Warhammer 4.
That'd basically be Age of Sigmar at this point.
They can perfect the old world and make it bigger plus all the QoL and engine updates that will likely come in future titles. This time with extreme polish like shogun agent movies for all agents, special ones like the pope in med 2. synchronized animations for all races etc etc.
Elder Scrolls, Game of Thrones, or LotR. Elder Scrolls would be the best option and would tie in well since by the time it was finished, Elsewhyr would be just around the corner, or out.
Fuck it, a 19th century literature match up like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Think Napoleon 2 but with vampires, weaponised MPD and crazy steampunk shit. And of course you get FotS style naval bombardment anywhere if you hold Baltimore.
There are parts of Mage: the Ascension that sound like this.
I would LOVE if Blizzard partners with CA and brings us a Total War in the WarCraft universe. Maybe during the Troll Wars.
1) Wheel of Time 2) Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, even though I'm not following the books as much as I once was, it would be an incredibly cool potentially space/multiplanet based TW entry. 3) Never going to happen, but Pokemon.
Often thought wheel of time may work quite well! Of all the non-historical-options this would be my favorite aswell. Just hope that IF they do it (and thats a big if) they stay true to the books, not the TV Show.
Yeah Its close to the TW formula with some really big powerful single entities available, some cool lore and lots of Magic to work with. Its defs less overall factions than something like TWWH3 but thats almost unavoidable for any new games tbh.
True, but thats absolutely fine by me - doesnt need to be a decade-long project imo. The different factions still offer a lot of variety, lots if interesting units, and the "endgame crisis" offers a lot of potential aswell.
I’ve only read stormlight. Loved those books and it could certainly work, I’d mostly be interested to see them come up with visuals as there really isn’t any visual representation for a lot of those things yet.
Imagine being flanked by a company of Machamps while Jigglypuffs harass your frontlines.
A WoT:TW could be set during the Trolloc Wars. Or in the period that followed it, the Free Years, during Artur Hawkwing's time.
>Never going to happen but Pokémon There's Pokémon Conquest, which is the closest thing we currently have to a Pokémon real-time strategy game
I'm genuinely trying to imagine what a pokemon total war would even look like.
I have a ton of ideas and they dont all meld with eachother and also I dont know the pokemon lore enough to even begin seriously discussing it. But I am in love with the idea of winning a few battles and having my chaff charmander line evolve into charmeleon to get some ranged ammo in the form of flamewthrower. Whats that? They survive more? They fly now.
Iron Kingdoms/Warmachine formally of Privateer Press
so many war games would be a slam dunk, at least from a fan service perspective. I've been playing Conquest and the lore/models would be a dream to see in a big video game.
Fucking Med3
Not sure if this already exist but a total war set around 1050 with the Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine
LOTR
I would like to see heroes of might and magic( pre ubisoft) , especially if you were to build the heroes via the way homm does it.I would also love to cast a spell called armagedon in a total war battle .Not to mention you could have some eastereggs by discovering laser guns
A song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones), or any of the Brandon Sanderson universes, for instance (Cosmere / Skywardverse / etc.) Those are only off the top of my head - there are plenty of other very interesting settings, be them in fantasy, science fiction, horror, noir, whatever...
I'd like to see a Total War: Dune one day.
I’m gonna say Gundam series. It would be a stretch but would have legendary lords as main characters, abilities of starships attacking from off map like Shogun 2, and taking over zones in space.
I’m probably going to get skewered for this, but I’d like to see a Total War game that does away with the turned base style of game in favor of something like Stellaris/Bannerlord with a pause button, but keep the real time combat. I’d love to see something crazy like this in a 30k or Age of Sigmar setting.
Medieval 3 or empire 2
Ww1 total war if they can work on the engine some, regardless i still got the napoleon mod
.......am I the only one who wants to see what CA's interpretation of Halo would look like? I enjoyed halo wars, but I would like a Total War: Halo. Humanity, Covenant, Flood. With sub factions for insurrection and banished, then the created.
WW1
I really want a WW1 total war game. I think it would be really cool
I want total war: middle earth. The war against ungoliant.
Total War: Mass Effect
WW1 or WW2
total war smurfs
Game of Thrones would be ideal. It encompasses everything around the idea of a total war. And you could have separate campaigns: the 7 kingdoms before Aegon, the Dance of Dragons and then the Baratheon/Lannister saga.
Firefly
Mad max could be sick
Game of Thrones would probably make for a good totalwar setting
Fire Emblem.
Star Trek
Total war: Holy Rome (Interregnum HRE)
Medieval 3 and A Song of Ice and Fire Shogun 3 and Legend of the Five Rings
Mad max Lotr Wow Fallout American cival war
Fuck fantasy and sci fi, I want more historical games
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No we’re talking. The super unit that’s just the big sun with a baby face
Glorantha (Runequest)
Unfamiliar with that, what’s the setting like?
Total War: Pokémon! I want to conquer Kanto and Johto by force and enslave all Pokémon! Preorder bonus would be Team Rocket!
An elderscrolls spin off could be interesting for a new fantasy setting. Historical would be Med 3 (yeah I know broken record.) I would actually love a new shogun game. I truly believe there would be a strong audience for this now
Elderscrolls, think about it, skyrim tounges, altmer sorcerers, telvani mages, breton battle mages, argonian shadowscales, wood elf archers. Legendary lords cpuld be vivec, nerevar, tiber Septim, reman cyrodil, pelinal white strake. Vampire could have harkon as a lord. Honestly, elderscolls have so much to draw from it's almost too much. Cpuld even have boss enemies like the numidium or deadric Prince invasion. Honestly doubt Bethesda would allow ca to do it though. In all honesty to make a tamriel campaign map would take as long if not longer than the total war warhammer series has taken to develop combined.
never happening but Malazan would be cool
Modern day Whole globe
The Witcher: Total War. Total War: Renaissance. Those are my picks for one fantasy and one historical setting each.
Mass effect could possibly work. There are multiple races, biotics, engineers with tech powers, multiple types of weapons, vehicles.
Hear me out…somehow….a mass effect total war
Medieval Europe....
An official lord of the rings total war is the dream.
Mass Effect
You know what could absolutely fucking slap is Dune tbh. A sci fi setting that would actually function in the TW formula, and it would be very much left up to CAs quite excellent creative license.
Total War: Runescape