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Title: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Silver Wolf on December 06, 2012, 05:05:40 PM
It's official.
Creative Assembly and SEGA are working on Warhammer Total War!

http://www.creative-assembly.com/sega-and-creative-assembly-announce-partnership-with-games-workshop-to-create-warhammer-games/

Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Jubal on December 06, 2012, 06:08:14 PM
Oh, armadillo. That could be very bad news.
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Son of the King on December 06, 2012, 07:06:20 PM
It will be :( .

It will hopefully be amazing though :D
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Jubal on December 06, 2012, 07:34:03 PM
Yeah, hopefully it'll be a good game, certainly hopefully better than the previous attempts at gameifying WH.

Just kind of undercuts the best part of five years work on my part. Not to mention the greatly increased possibility someone might try and quietly imply that if I don't stop WHTW I will find myself in a nice comfy padded cell (or more realistically with a fine larger than my actual worldly wealth). Ah well, we'll see.
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Captain Carthage on December 06, 2012, 08:07:10 PM
Well there's no harm in being prepared to start a new project, right Jubby?
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Silver Wolf on December 06, 2012, 08:27:56 PM
I understand your worries Jubal.

But if this turns out as good as Mark of Chaos, just on a bigger scale I'll be more than happy.
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Jubal on December 06, 2012, 08:33:09 PM
Well there's no harm in being prepared to start a new project, right Jubby?
If I thought that, there wouldn't be a poll in the boozer right now asking for advice on which projects I should work on. :P

SW: we'll see. I want there to be a good faction range fairly importantly, and not too much good/evil polarisation, either of those could ruin it really easily.
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: comrade_general on December 07, 2012, 12:57:43 AM
You have the disclaimer thingy, it's cool.
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Gen_Glory on December 07, 2012, 04:17:15 PM
are we going to get lawsuits now for the mods we're hosting?
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Jubal on December 07, 2012, 10:05:02 PM
No, at most we'll get a legal order to desist. We're probably not worth their time though.
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Phoenixguard09 on December 13, 2012, 02:02:30 PM
There better be modability too. Cause they sure as hell won't do High Elves well enough to my liking and I rather doubt they'll do Albion, Chaos Dwarves, Estalia etc.

Honestly, this could be very good, or oh so very bad. :(
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Jubal on December 13, 2012, 05:46:02 PM
My I want list would be unrealistically long, I can assure you.  :P
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Silver Wolf on December 13, 2012, 06:35:02 PM
I'm not expecting that much.

As long as they make something "Storm of Chaos" like.
I just want them to get the feeling right, like Mark of Chaos did.
Title: Re: Warhammer Total War
Post by: Phoenixguard09 on December 14, 2012, 04:00:59 AM
What I Want:
Sandbox open world campaign.
Something very similar to Total War but with recruitable Heroes with abilities like Mark of Chaos had.
Army Painter like Mark of Chaos, but no real need to have all the customisation so that it can retain some modability.
Massive battle maps and a World Map which spans the entirety of the Warhammer World.
Creatures and civilisations which appear only in the background. I will be very disappointed if Kislev does not make an appearance. For that matter, I'd like Fimir and the like as Rebel/Bandit groups.
Naval combat with ships, sea creatures and spells.

What I Fear We're Likely To Get:
Something VERY similar to Mark of Chaos with a linear campaign.
No Army Painter.
A World Map of the Empire.
Armies consisting of four-six of GW's most popular armies: High Elves, Empire, Dwarves vs Dark Elves, Chaos and Greenskins. Maybe some Skaven, Undead and perhaps Bretonnia. But I'm not holding out much hope for those later ones.
Little to no modability.