What other total war games could there be?

[REPTILE 0009]

How bout Vietnam Total War.

 

[astrav1]

Three kingdoms: Total war.

 

[Little Duck]

Three kingdoms: Total war.

Three kingdoms?

 

[Nunny]

Dark Age: Total War, bridge the gap between Rome and Medieval

Or a proper full world Total War, Combining Paradox games with Total War

 

[AntiChrist]

Hopefully there's a remake of Rome: Total War on Creative Assembly's to-do list.

 

[astrav1]

Three kingdoms: Total war.

Three kingdoms?

Like Romance of the Three Kingdoms in China. Or even the three kingdoms of Korea.

 

[Quinadin]

Maybe they'll just remake the first four games over and over again. But, if they don't, a Total War focusing on the rise of imperial China would be nice, or a rise of Persia with countries like Babylon, Israel, and Greece. Maybe even farther back when there were the Hittites and the Moabites and the Egyptians, I think Saudi Arabia was more just a land mass at the time than a country.

I'm actually looking forward to the new Total War as I've never played the first Shogun: Total War but love the Total War franchise.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

How about a game about the only war that was actually considered a "Total war" at the time. WWII:Total War.

World War II was the only war to be considered a Total War at the time? I'm afraid your a bit mis-informed there. Total War is the act of diverting all your resources towards the war effort in order to ensure victory no matter the consequences. I might be wrong but I believe the first time the term was used in writing was during the American Civil war, however the concept of it has existed for thousands of years. During the Peloponnesian war Sparta actively declared they would expunge all of their resources and mobilize all of their population in order to in the war, regardless of the effect it had on their economy. This is a direct literal description of total war. The Warring State Period in China (470BC - about 100 years prior to the Peloponnese) also stated that they would engage in Total War.

Sorry bout that, I worded it wrong. People considered other wars as total war, but they weren't. WWII was actually a total war effort. Japanese children were taught how to kill in school. Women were brought back into the workplace and some manned anti aircraft guns. Children dug trenches. Etc. Etc.

 

[badgersprite]

I'm still waiting for Survivor: Total War, to be honest.

 

[Brawndo]

How about Cold War: Total War? You could have the US, the USSR, China, and Non-aligned factions duking it out for spheres of influence instead of total control over territories, both supporting sides in certain otherwise-unrelated conflicts and through actually using "hard power". Much like the actual Cold War turned out.

I like this idea. +1