Total War: Thrones of Britania Announced

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Erttheking

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This is an odd development.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/11/14/16649348/a-total-war-saga-thrones-of-britannia-announcement-sega-creative-assembly

The next Total War game has been announced, but apparently it's not going to be "era spanning" but rather a game with a smaller scale compensated by the fact that it will have microscopic attention to detail, geographic and cultural. The setting is 878 AD in the British isles, so we'll be seeing a lot of Anglo-Saxton, Gaelic and Norse violence.

Apparently this is a "spin off" called Total War Saga, which Creative Assembly wants in order to have smaller scale games with greater focus that cover "pivotal moments in history" where things could have radically changed if they had gone differently.

I'm rather curious about this, in a good way. I think I'd rather like a Total War game where things are scaled down. It probably helps that, in this era, the size of the armies would be a lot closer to the size of the armies you typically see in Total War.
 

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The concept is exactly what I've been wanting for a while now. I'd be interested if I didn't think SEGA would fuck this up with their shitty DLC policies like the last four games.

I can see it now: King Alfred is in the base game, but the Norse and Celts will be DLC factions.
 

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Ironman126 said:
The concept is exactly what I've been wanting for a while now. I'd be interested if I didn't think SEGA would fuck this up with their shitty DLC policies like the last four games.

I can see it now: King Alfred is in the base game, but the Norse and Celts will be DLC factions.
Thankfully it's been confirmed the base game will have ten factions, among them being Vikings and Gaelic Clans.
 

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erttheking said:
Ironman126 said:
The concept is exactly what I've been wanting for a while now. I'd be interested if I didn't think SEGA would fuck this up with their shitty DLC policies like the last four games.

I can see it now: King Alfred is in the base game, but the Norse and Celts will be DLC factions.
Thankfully it's been confirmed the base game will have ten factions, among them being Vikings and Gaelic Clans.
Hmmm... I am considerably more interested, now.
 

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erttheking said:
I'm rather curious about this, in a good way. I think I'd rather like a Total War game where things are scaled down. It probably helps that, in this era, the size of the armies would be a lot closer to the size of the armies you typically see in Total War.
That part always bugged me a bit. I never fully understood how I could menace the entire world with my stack of 800 dudes. Northumbria, OTOH, I could probably realistically take.