Needs to match Shogun 2 to get me to buy it at this point. I ended up barely playing Warhammer at all.
They have one team working on warhammer and another working on a historical game that will take place in a setting they have yet to visit.
Yes and CA have multiple internal developer teams. One is working on Warhammer, a second team is working on a new historical total war, third one is working on Kingdoms , a fourth team is on Arena while a fifth team recently finished Halo Wars 2. But yes, it will either be the first planned warhammer expansion or the new historical total war game.
With the background they had, there was one clear option which was the New World in Warhammer and that is what Total War Warhammer 2 will add. We can see High Elves, Dark Elves, Lizardmen and there is a rat at the end. Possible teaser?
The 4th will probably only be available if you preorder the gold edition or whatever they call the more expensive version
It's takes place in the New World... of course it's going to be High Elves/Dark Elves, Lizardmen, and Skaven at launch.... those are the chief players in that area. For DLC that can do a Tilea and Amazon DLC to keep people interested. As for Historical, I am more interested in seeing what they do with that.... My Money (and serious hopes) are on Total War Renaissance but they could equally do a China-centric or India-centric game and catch my interest.
Millennia ago, besieged by a Chaos invasion, a conclave of High Elf mages forged a vast, arcane vortex. Its purpose was to draw the Winds of Magic from the world as a sinkhole drains an ocean, and blast the Daemonic hordes back to the Realm of Chaos. Now the Great Vortex falters, and the world again stands at the brink of ruin. Powerful forces move to heal the maelstrom and avert catastrophe. Yet others seek to harness its terrible energies for their own bitter purpose. The race is on, and the very fate of the world will lie in the hands of the victor. Prince Tyrion, Defender of Ulthuan, guides the High Elves in their desperate efforts to stabilise the vortex as it roils above their home continent. Atop his palanquin-throne, the Slann Mage-Priest Mazdamundi directs his Lizardmen war-hosts as they surge northward from Lustria. He, too, is intent on preventing cataclysm, though the methods of The Old Ones must prevail. The Witch King Malekith and his sadistic Dark Elf hordes spew forth from Naggaroth and their labyrinthine Black Arks. He tastes great weakness in the vortex – and great opportunity in its demise. Meanwhile a fourth, secretive race stirs, their motives obscured by sinister plots and machinations. The time for revelation is nigh… Four races, four outcomes, a single goal: control of the Great Vortex, for good or ill. About Total War™: WARHAMMER® II: The second in a trilogy and sequel to the award-winning Total War: WARHAMMER, Total War: WARHAMMER II brings players a breathtaking new narrative campaign, set across the vast continents of Lustria, Ulthuan, Naggaroth and the Southlands. The Great Vortex Campaign builds pace to culminate in a definitive and climactic endgame, an experience unlike any other Total War title to date. Playing as one of 8 Legendary Lords across 4 iconic races from the world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, players must succeed in performing a series of powerful arcane rituals in order to stabilise or disrupt The Great Vortex, while foiling the progress of the other races. Each Legendary Lord has a unique geographical starting position, and each race offers a distinctive new playstyle with unique campaign mechanics, narrative, methods of war, armies, monsters, Lores of Magic, legendary characters, and staggering new battlefield bombardment abilities. Shortly after launch, owners of both the original game and Total War™ WARHAMMER II will gain access to the colossal new combined campaign. Merging the landmasses of The Old World plus Naggaroth, Lustria, Ulthuan and the Southlands into a single epic map, players may embark on monumental campaigns as any owned Race from both titles.
14th to 17th century, oh yea. Start with all the plate goodness, witness the death of longbow, Thirty Years' War, rise of musket and tercio, fall of tercio,... The game would end around the death of Carolus Rex.
I hope the next historical TW game will be set in China, The 3 kingdoms. There is a big rumour it is WW1 thought, Which i don't have much interest in game wise, My company manage The UK head office site of CA in Horsesham, They never want to tell me anything though .
I feel that the moment the gave leaves "Block or Line" type warfare they don't do well. For example one of the worst parts of Empire/Medieval Late/Napoleon was that you couldn't really do hybrid units (i.e. Tercio, Line Infantry with Skirmishers forward and so forth). But otherwise I am hopeful lately, it seems they have reinvigorated that creative spark for the game that they had
Aaaaand we have an answer to the Total War Historical question.... https://www.totalwar.com/blog/quick-word-on-historical-titles/
