Assuming a Victoria Total War would go up to about 1900, that means you'd get guns that fired extremely fast and were incredibly accurate and lethal, on top of the increasing obsolescence of the type of structured formations that every Total War intrinsically relies on. Fall of the Samurai and thus the Civil War era is probably the latest era that Total War's gameplay formula accommodates without a complete overhaul.
Not really. Funnily enough a lot of nations that didn't have any actual war experience with repeating weaponry still used bulk line formations and volley fire, like the Spanish during the Spanish-American War. Obsolete? Yes. Still in use? Also yes.
Oh, line formations would still be a major part of the game considering the fact that it would probably start in the early 1800s, but there would be huge problems reworking the gameplay to reflect the decline of line infantry and the rise of modern infantry. Battle maps would have to be hugely expanded or unit sizes massively decreased to accommodate the fact that you'd probably be able to research extended order drills. That's not even getting into how Total War's campaign map would be completely ill equipped to deal with how wars changed strategically in the late 19th century.
Yeah, I was pondering some of that myself, and really, 1900 has to be the cutoff before machine guns become more than just small field guns in terms of mobility.
Apparently, the team that worked on TWW3 is different to the team that worked on post-release TWW2.
I don't know the intricacies of what exact teams Creative Assembly has, but if the people who worked on TWW3 are the same people who did Thrones of Britannia, they should have been fired ages ago.
I just don't want to get used to that because the Chaos Gate campaign seems to have an inflated economy, based on Diff.
Mac release date was announced on the 4th of May. To release on the 5th. It's nice to have some prior warning about a release, I suppose.
The more I read about this shitshow, the more glad I am that I got burned out on TWW2 and haven't bought it. Honestly I'll wait til the combined map, or maybe the expansions get released and then grab myself a cheap key for just the basegame and use CreamAPI to unlock everything else.
Meh, I got the game through a pre-order and don't regret it. This game will eventually be fixed up and good with plenty of interesting content and such. It's just funny to me how much of a dumpster fire it is right now.
I played the shit out of Empire. The campaign AI was brutally retarded but I loved a lot of the rest of it. As you mentioned, the naval battles. Also— you could garrison buildings, which we haven’t had since. The field battles in and around the towns were fun. Rush square formation in the research tree and watch your ground pounders shred enemy cav.
I'm one of those strange creatures that actually liked the naval battles in Empire and Napoleon. They're clumsy but the ships involved in them were just like that. Shogun 2's base naval battles were just as weird but they made the FOTS naval battles a game of rocket tag. It's a shame that isn't the way of things in Warhammer with all the fancy ships in the lore. Dwarven ironclads fighting off ramshackle orc ships, or smashing their way through norscan longships. Or even better ending up in a fight with a Druchii navy. That would be a lot of fun but there's no way in hell they'll bother with that. They barely let you fight on Black Arks.
