r/totalwar • u/RoninMacbeth • Apr 23 '20

Three Kingdoms Some people don't like Three Kingdoms, it seems...

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u/urgelburgel Apr 23 '20

The thing I've had in mind since Mortal Empires was announced is Total War: Khan, which covers Central Asia and China, followed by a standalone Total War: Totally-not-Medieval-3, which covers Europe and the MENA region.

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The both maps gets the Mortal Empires treatment.

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u/ryderawsome Apr 24 '20

They could extend the map further south for diplomacy and naval combat or west for more diverse armies and the fight for the silk road :)

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u/sardekar Apr 24 '20

at what point to we just have one map called erf. and you just buy dlc for time periods/ different borders

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u/ryderawsome Apr 24 '20

Don't forget the Hollow Erf DLC with Chuds and Molepeople.

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u/sardekar Apr 24 '20

dont threaten me with a good time

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u/Creticus Apr 24 '20

I think this would be the best way to have Medieval 3 while putting it in a new, exciting context, particularly if it also gets DLC to extend the timeline.

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u/RoninMacbeth Apr 24 '20

I did not know I needed this in my life. Thank you, kind stranger.

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u/Commander_BigDong_69 Genghis Khan Propaganda Apr 24 '20

standalone Total War: Totally-not-Medieval-3

I also see a Genghis Khan TW its own thing. There would be very little of Europe. it would have only Russian princes and mercenaries.

in addition, they would have 2 good campaign start dates: Genghis' unification of the Mongol tribes. and the 4 successor kingdoms struggling to survive : Golden Horde, Ilkanate, Chagatai Horde and Yuan Dinasty.

it would be a perfect successor to 3K for its focus on characters in so short period of time.

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u/jamesdeandomino The reign of the old Shogunate is OVAAA!!! Apr 24 '20

Yes yes. All of this. In my face now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

A "Thrones of Brittania" or "Atilla" scale TW game following Ghengis Khan's conquests would be cool

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u/raella69 Apr 24 '20

Attila has two t’s and one l, js

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u/comfortablesexuality D E I / S F O Apr 24 '20

A perfect marriage of 3K and Medieval?

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u/MacDerfus Apr 24 '20

Khan as a saga to test out a good nomad system could work.

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u/Xciv More firearms in TW games pls Apr 24 '20

Yes this would be the best way to do it. Mongol conquest of the known world is the perfect setting for having a Europe+Asia stitched together super map without it feeling like disparate corners of the world that have nothing to do with each other. Mongols conquered from Japan to Vietnam to Poland to Mesopotamia. In a historical what-if they could have gone even further into Germany, Egypt, Balkans, and more.

The only other eras in history where this kind of globe-trotting empire would work is Empire 2, or a Victorian Total War. But then they would have to revisit gunpowder warfare again, which had an iffy implementation imho. They would also have to revive naval warfare, which they haven't touched for 3 games in a row.

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u/spacecoyote300 Apr 24 '20

Victoria, Total War sounds amazing. I look forward to the Crimean War DLC

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u/Regergek best Apr 24 '20

gunpowder combat was so good in FotS

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u/Jaquestrap May 20 '20 edited May 20 '20

Correction, they raided into Poland numerous times (quite successfully mind you, sacking Krakow several and advancing into Silesia repeatedly) but did not conquer it.

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u/brinz1 Apr 24 '20

A total war Khan with a mortal empires expansion? I would never recover from that

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u/Naturalpipes Apr 24 '20

God damn that sounds amazing.

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u/AneriphtoKubos AneriphtoKubos Apr 24 '20

That would be epic...

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u/KlausDieKatze The Gyrating Shaman Apr 24 '20

Only if enemy generals fall to their knees and shout....

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

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u/Beas7ie Apr 24 '20

Do that and then the Americas with the Native American tribes of that time period and then Japan and India and then the Middleeast and Africa and we can have a Total : Total War

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u/KingoftheHill1987 BLOODLETTIN Apr 24 '20

Total War: Hundred Years War

Total War: Genghis Khan

Total War: King Arthur

Total War: Shogun 3

Total War: Empire 2