Warhammer Total War: Warhammer III

[Lacrymas]

Climate preferences actually play a big role in how a campaign/faction goes.

 

[Lacrymas]

Turns out you can get a bunch of free high-tier armies by forcefully confederating an endgame crisis dwarf LL.

 

[Lacrymas]

Oh, and you get credit for the legendary grudges if the endgame crisis armies (specifically those not controlled by you) annihilate the requisite factions, so it's doubly easier to confederate them later.

 

[Space Satan]

 

[Elttharion]

I dont know if it was just bad luck or if they changed something in the AI but my current Franz campaign is hell on earth and I love it. I am at war with Kemmler, Vlad, Festus, Azagh, Skrag, Skarsnik, Grom, some small Norscan factions and even fucking N'Kari is attacking me (he has land in Bretonnia). Never seen something like this before. I started doing the usual clockwise tour along the Empire but when I looked back Kemmler had half a dozen stacks bulldozing Marienburg and Middenland. I had to go push him back and at this point everything went to hell. Great fun.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

OT:

Total War: Star Wars reportedly in development at Creative Assembly​

The crossover we're looking for.

Image credit: Lucasfilm

News by Ed Nightingale Deputy News Editor

Published on 17 May 2024

11 comments

Creative Assembly is reportedly working on three new Total War games, including an officially licensed Star Wars game.

The news comes from DualShockers, which has reported as of October 2023 Total War: Star Wars was one of three games in development at the studio.

The studio's most recent game was Total War: Pharaoh, but a Star Wars game would see it return to the more fantastical settings of Total War: Warhammer and (to an extent) Total War: Three Kingdoms.

The report from DualShockers does not provide further detail on Total War: Star Wars, nor does it name the other two in development. As such, it's impossible to know how far along in development the game is.

Still, with Creative Assembly releasing new games almost annually, perhaps an announcement for its 2024 slate is due soon.

Until then, the studio is working on a free update to Total War: Pharaoh, which will rework the campaign to expand its map and add new playable factions.

Before this, the studio apologised for missteps with the series and offered refunds on Pharaoh after its poor reception from players due to high price and lack of content.

This, alongside the high profile cancellation of loot shooter Hyenas last year, suggests a tricky time for the studio. The studio will now refocus on strategy games, adding further credence to reports of these three new Total War games. A Star Wars version would certainly help turn around the studio's fortunes.

It was bound to happen. But CA hasn't made a good TW game since Shogun 2, so fuck them. I'm more curious about the RTS from Bitreactor.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Damn, I'm really hoping they are actually dumb fabulously optimistic enough to try tackling 40k and/or SW with their clowncar of an engine. The results will be absolutely hilarious.

 

[Tyrr]

Do you think it will be better than this gem?

 

[Lacrymas]

Taking into account they are 99% also doing WH40k, I doubt they are making 2 space-themed TW at the same time. It's fake news, imo.

 

[Space Satan]

Do you think it will be better than this gem?

FFS 99% of film star destroyers were blasted by some pew-pew ramshackle interceptors. Trying toput them as something that were destroyed casually is funny

 

[Bohrain]

Have Star Wars games been succesfull after the disney trilogy? That shit definitely brought the value of the IP down, but I don't know by how much.

 

[Lacrymas]

Have Star Wars games been succesfull after the disney trilogy? That shit definitely brought the value of the IP down, but I don't know by how much.

Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor aren't bad actually (Survivor is awfully optimized, though, but it's a good game otherwise). But like I said, I very much doubt CA are developing a Star Wars Total War. It will surprise me greatly if it turns out to be true.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I see no reason why they shouldn't develop both. Big cash cows.

 

[Space Satan]

Leaky leaky

 

[Fedora Master]

In other words CA are retarded and Warhammer is the only successful game

 

[Elttharion]

Leaky leaky

Wow I am so excited to play a game based on Disney Star wars or nu-40k.

 

[Hydro]

Well SW has some huge amount of source material elaborating on every aspect of the universe thanks to its golden years, which will require as minimum as possible input from CA — a big plus imo. On the other hand during the last decade franchise has devolved into something utterly hideous. Guess I could be somewhat interested should it lean towards something tonally serious. Curious, but don’t keep my hopes high.

 

[Average Manatee]

I fail to see how TW SW could be such a DLC treadmill. It has two factions, empire and rebels. If you do new shit SW it still has two factions just with less characters people like. If you do old republic star wars it has two factions. If you do prequel SW it has two factions. How much DLC can you sell with any of these time periods? Do they really think people will buy a whole DLC just to add Chewbacca to the game or something? At least with Warhammer and 40k you have dozens of different factions/races to churn out content for. Maybe if you really stretch the bounds of lore and logic you can include some extra factions like other SW games have but I still don't see how its anywhere near as good as TW with this.

I also dread to imagine how bad space combat will be, whether it comes in 40k or SW. The last time CA tried to do something new we got WH3 sieges.

 

[9ted6]

Leaky leaky

So they'll make a new engine for World War I combat where you can almost sort of justify infantry fighting in line formations but they'll use the same engine for 40k and Star Wars where line formation battles make no sense? And remember that all of this is after they sank a ton of money into Hyenas which was in every sense of the word wasted.

I can see Creative going the way of Telltale, taking on too many projects and spreading their money too thin on mediocre at best titles that only cost them more and more. After Telltale went bankrupt it was found out that ever since The Walking Dead Part 1 their only other game to make a real profit was the fucking Minecraft one. Same thing will happen for Creative Assembly and Warhammer.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

What will even be Total War Star Wars be? How many factions with full-fledged army do we even have in Star Wars? We have several decent RTS I guess, but like what will the DLC be? Wookies armies?

 

[Frank Capicoli]

What will even be Total War Star Wars be? How many factions with full-fledged army do we even have in Star Wars? We have several decent RTS I guess, but like what will the DLC be? Wookies armies?

Start in Galactic Civil War era base game. Sell a few unit packs like Shogun 2 from EU content that Disney will cannibalize.

FoTS larger campaign dlc: Old Republic, or Clone Wars.

RoTS smaller campaign dlc: New Republic.

Faction DLC: Hutt Cartel vs a copied Tyber Zann from Empire at war. Could try Yuzhan Vong but Disney probably won't allow it.

It will be lame but that's the story of CA for the past 4-5 years.

 

[Space Satan]

Easy

 

[Space Satan]

What will even be Total War Star Wars be? How many factions with full-fledged army do we even have in Star Wars? We have several decent RTS I guess, but like what will the DLC be? Wookies armies?

It is a magnificent dlc milk potential with a million-strong army of retarded fans who casually buy jabba and wookie dildos

 

[Tyrr]

CA seems to be out of touch again, like with their canceled tranny shooter. A "huge audience" for Star Wars? Not anymore.
Disney fucked it up. The new movies and shows didn't generate new, younger fans (just look at the toy sales for all the new characters) and they also drove away the old fans by killing and disrespecting the old characters and lore.

 

[Lacrymas]

Also, the golden age of Star Wars is no longer canon and can't be used by official licensed products, so they really don't have enough material to work with.