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    If CA does make the next total war in Asia, and I don't think they will, where would it be, and what time period? I admit I don't know much about East Asian history but are there any interesting scenarios besides the Sengoku Jidai and the Warring States period?

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    the Mongol Invasions in the 13th century - they fought against states in nearly all areas between Egypt and Japan or Hungary and Java (Indonesia)
    the fights in medieval India between Hindi and Muslim kingdoms during the Middle Ages and early modern areas (with heavy cavalry, elephants and later Arquebuses/cannons/rockets)
    or maybe the 7th/8th century - in the east the Tang Dynasty united China and conquered neighboring states while the Arabs invaded the western Asian areas.

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    Warring States Period is the best choice.

    It fits the Total War theme.


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    They've only just done Shogun 2 Total War which is not only East Asia but would be very close in terms of gameplay to Warring States China or Three Kingdoms (a civil war between a large number of very similar factions). There'd be none of the variety you got in Rome, Med or Empire.

    It'll be an era people are familiar with but really they could do anything.

    Reformation 1500-1660
    19th century
    Dark Age 475-700 ?
    Rise of Islam 600-1000 ?
    (actually the above two rolled into one would be quite a major undertaking)
    Peloponese total war

    Given that they Rome was spectacular redoing that monster would seem appropriate. The mechanics just fall apart around WW1 unless they were too MASSIVELY alter the game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Totalwar14 View Post
    They've only just done Shogun 2 Total War which is not only East Asia but would be very close in terms of gameplay to Warring States China or Three Kingdoms (a civil war between a large number of very similar factions). There'd be none of the variety you got in Rome, Med or Empire.
    Quote Originally Posted by Gen. Chris View Post
    Three Kingdoms era would be interesting. There just wouldn't be enough factions unless they included all of the more minor factions that sprouted up.
    Quote Originally Posted by Metz View Post
    The only Asia-based game that would work has been made and thats Shogun 2 Total War. Anything else would be boring and repetitive.

    The warring states? Chinese killing Chinese.. The may have different color armor and several units but its will be the same over and over again.
    Do you know that Asia means not only two Chinese Civil Wars? There was and is more than just Warring States and Three Kingdoms ...
    This would be the same as saying Europe would be boring because only an English Civil War in the 17th century and various conflicts between Anglo-Saxon Dynasties in the 6th/7th century occured ...

    Any TW game set in Asia could include many different nations with unique fighting styles. Just some examples I can think of at the moment:
    You have the Khmer, Koreans, Persians, Turks, Vietnamese, plus various Malay/Indonesian naval empires, Horse-Archers like the Mongols/Xiongnu/Huns plus Burmese and Thai Dynasties using Elephants, various Indian cultures either Buddhists/Hindus/Muslims fighting against each other or Invaders from outside. Some Indian dynasties created even colonial empires by conquering parts of South-East Asia during the Middle Ages.
    Furthermore you would have all the Indo-Greek, Indo-Parthian, Indo-Saka and Kuschan-Empires originating from Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia penetrating deep into the Indian peninsular. Then there are the large Cities and Emirates in Central Asia (Buchara, Samarkand, etc.), when set in the 17th/18th century an Oman Empire fighting back the Portuguese in East Africa. And also in the later timeframes from the 16th century onwards all the european colonial powers as outside intruders like the Mongols in M2:TW and much more.

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    and then there would be spectacular and impressive battlefields. From the dryest deserts of Arabia and Central Asia to deep and nearly impenetrable jungles, the Highlands of Tibet or Mongolia, large mountain ranges and deep and dark valleys plus Mangroves on some tropical coasts hindering you to create a solid and stable battle line.
    You have areas with tropical temperature the whole year to cold Siberia/Mongolia with 10 months of winter. Also heavy rain (Monsoons), sand storms, dense fogs and thunderstorms will feature you breathtaking effects and low visibleness during battles where you or the enemy can flank the other battleline and appear unexpected in your back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xerrop View Post
    Do you know that Asia means not only two Chinese Civil Wars? There was and is more than just Warring States and Three Kingdoms ...
    This would be the same as saying Europe would be boring because only an English Civil War in the 17th century and various conflicts between Anglo-Saxon Dynasties in the 6th/7th century occured ...

    Any TW game set in Asia could include many different nations with unique fighting styles. Just some examples I can think of at the moment:
    You have the Khmer, Koreans, Persians, Turks, Vietnamese, plus various Malay/Indonesian naval empires, Horse-Archers like the Mongols/Xiongnu/Huns plus Burmese and Thai Dynasties using Elephants, various Indian cultures either Buddhists/Hindus/Muslims fighting against each other or Invaders from outside. Some Indian dynasties created even colonial empires by conquering parts of South-East Asia during the Middle Ages.
    Furthermore you would have all the Indo-Greek, Indo-Parthian, Indo-Saka and Kuschan-Empires originating from Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia penetrating deep into the Indian peninsular. Then there are the large Cities and Emirates in Central Asia (Buchara, Samarkand, etc.), when set in the 17th/18th century an Oman Empire fighting back the Portuguese in East Africa. And also in the later timeframes from the 16th century onwards all the european colonial powers as outside intruders like the Mongols in M2:TW and much more.

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    and then there would be spectacular and impressive battlefields. From the dryest deserts of Arabia and Central Asia to deep and nearly impenetrable jungles, the Highlands of Tibet or Mongolia, large mountain ranges and deep and dark valleys plus Mangroves on some tropical coasts hindering you to create a solid and stable battle line.
    You have areas with tropical temperature the whole year to cold Siberia/Mongolia with 10 months of winter. Also heavy rain (Monsoons), sand storms, dense fogs and thunderstorms will feature you breathtaking effects and low visibleness during battles where you or the enemy can flank the other battleline and appear unexpected in your back.

    All those Asian cultures are similar to one another. You can find a much more variety of culture and unit differentiation in Europe. Plus European themed games always sell more than Asian themed games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metz View Post
    All those Asian cultures are similar to one another. You can find a much more variety of culture and unit differentiation in Europe. Plus European themed games always sell more than Asian themed games.
    If you said Chinese states were all similar to each other, you would've deserved this:



    Han China was roughly the size of Rome, and the people they conquered varied as much as the Britons to the North Africans. Even Han China alone had a multitude of different ethnic groups who spoke different languages and had different writing systems. And their demographics ranged from Eurasian and Caucasians in their north-western and western provinces, to East Asians at their core, to Austro-Asiatics in their south/south eastern provinces.

    But Europeans are all different? Ah yes, Zeus is so different from Jupiter. I'm sure Athena has nothing to do with Minerva. Pluto and Hades are nothing alike. And I'll completely ignore the fact that the Gauls, Britons, Galatians, etc were all Celts. I'll ignore the fact that the Romans got half their military tech and tactics from other Europeans. China is roughly the size of Europe...China today seems less diverse when compared to the European continent because they didn't fracture like the Roman Empire...but back in the ancient era, their people were very diverse.


    However, you decided to say that even the Persians, Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians, Turks, etc are all similar?

    Congratulations, you win the award for the most fail statement I've read in a very long time. Even if you were talking about China by itself, you would still be wrong. But the fact you're saying completely different nations with totally different cultures, languages, writing, lifestyle, etc and separated by thousands of miles and have never even had contact with each other are "too similar" - then you earn the double facepalm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metz View Post
    All those Asian cultures are similar to one another. You can find a much more variety of culture and unit differentiation in Europe. Plus European themed games always sell more than Asian themed games.
    sounds like someone is saying all chinese are asians so all asians must be chinese



    i would like a different total war thats not a remake of a previous one like them making rome 2 which would bore the hell out of me......... yay 3 roman factions since it likely wont be moddable we wont be able to play as any other interesting factions likely, and then there will be faction DLC thats a gauranteed thing right there , i imagine them selling carthage as dlc and such

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    It doesnt have to be in those eras, it could include japan, Korea, Vietnam, Tibet, etc.

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    Three Kingdoms era would be interesting. There just wouldn't be enough factions unless they included all of the more minor factions that sprouted up.
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    The only Asia-based game that would work has been made and thats Shogun 2 Total War. Anything else would be boring and repetitive.

    The warring states? Chinese killing Chinese.. The may have different color armor and several units but its will be the same over and over again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metz View Post
    The only Asia-based game that would work has been made and thats Shogun 2 Total War. Anything else would be boring and repetitive.

    The warring states? Chinese killing Chinese.. The may have different color armor and several units but its will be the same over and over again.
    Yeahhh... right.... because Japanese killing Japanesse not only once, but three times in a role, with different color armor and several units is boring and repetitive.... (and this is not a may be, but a "this is how already is in reality")
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    Japan gets the exception solely cause of this trope.

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...terWithSamurai

    China, Korea, Vietnam, the Manchus, Jurchen and all other obscure states near Xinjiang then include some Indochina do not have some iconic warrior caste to get people's imagination fired up. Well Shaolin monks can get close to that but we dont see any Shaolin unit formations kicking Mongol ass in the bid to create the Ming Dynasty now do we?

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    Maybe not, but I still think China it's pretty meaty on the Total War aspect.
    Even more so if they include not just China but a big part of Asia, then you could play with India too..
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    Nope not in my opinion. China's civil wars was short, consisted of few factions and was in TW aspect nothing, just like ACW. There is simply not enough meat on that bone to satisfy the fans for long. example Three Kingdoms lasted 60 years and had 3 factions.
    The idea of bringing the whole of Asia into a cauldron, well did the whole of Asia battle each other like in Europe? No? well then why create a fantasy game all the sudden, when there are historical periods that still are untouched?

    EDIT: And the idea of having Korea, China, Vietnam, Tibet and Japan in the same game is ludicrous. That is simply a hornets nest CA hardly will stick its hands into. These countries has so much hate to each other that the game will turn politically and be banded in several Asian countries.

    Well that is just my take on it of couse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sneaking Viper View Post
    Nope not in my opinion. China's civil wars was short, consisted of few factions and was in TW aspect nothing, just like ACW. There is simply not enough meat on that bone to satisfy the fans for long. example Three Kingdoms lasted 60 years and had 3 factions.
    The idea of bringing the whole of Asia into a cauldron, well did the whole of Asia battle each other like in Europe? No? well then why create a fantasy game all the sudden, when there are historical periods that still are untouched?

    EDIT: And the idea of having Korea, China, Vietnam, Tibet and Japan in the same game is ludicrous. That is simply a hornets nest CA hardly will stick its hands into. These countries has so much hate to each other that the game will turn politically and be banded in several Asian countries.

    Well that is just my take on it of couse.
    Not to mention china probably banning the game due to having a Tibet faction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sneaking Viper View Post
    Nope not in my opinion. China's civil wars was short, consisted of few factions and was in TW aspect nothing, just like ACW. There is simply not enough meat on that bone to satisfy the fans for long. example Three Kingdoms lasted 60 years and had 3 factions.
    The idea of bringing the whole of Asia into a cauldron, well did the whole of Asia battle each other like in Europe? No? well then why create a fantasy game all the sudden, when there are historical periods that still are untouched?
    Three kingdoms will fit for expansion DLC. The main game will be the 7 warring states. A much bigger and longer conflict though I wish for shorter period. This way we will have at least 4 seasons per turn as in Shogun rather than summer and winter only. Much longer time conflict will probably bring back 2 years per turn like in Med2. Awful !!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Matsudaira Takechiyo View Post
    Three kingdoms will fit for expansion DLC. The main game will be the 7 warring states. A much bigger and longer conflict though I wish for shorter period. This way we will have at least 4 seasons per turn as in Shogun rather than summer and winter only. Much longer time conflict will probably bring back 2 years per turn like in Med2. Awful !!
    So what you want is the same time period as Rome TW, but just in China and with only 7 factions instead of the 20 in Rome. And without any huge naval battles or variation in fractions. I don't know sounds awful boring to me in any length of time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sneaking Viper View Post
    So what you want is the same time period as Rome TW, but just in China and with only 7 factions instead of the 20 in Rome. And without any huge naval battles or variation in fractions. I don't know sounds awful boring to me in any length of time.
    That's why you don't limit it to just 1 cultural faction...you include other factions and nations as well.
    Rome: Total War would've been boring if the game was limited to only fighting other Roman factions.

    And the Han and other eras did see some pretty large naval battles on large rivers, lakes, and coasts. (with Shogun-ish type ships)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sneaking Viper View Post
    So what you want is the same time period as Rome TW, but just in China and with only 7 factions instead of the 20 in Rome. And without any huge naval battles or variation in fractions. I don't know sounds awful boring to me in any length of time.
    7 main ones out of hundreds ? You think an area as big as western Europe all have same cultures ? Just because nowadays the people living there are gerenally known as Chinese does not mean that they are the same. Well they'll be a lot of river battles. Don't worry.

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