World war II Total war

[DeliCiousTZM]

We are trying to predict the next Total war all of us but all thou i doubt the next game would be World War II. Would it be such a horrible thing ?

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World war II is a sensetive subject and to make a strategy game featuring the Wehrmacht and nazi germany as playable is obvioulsy scary, but Who else but a Creative assembly can actually capture the epicness of World war II tho?

With FOTS they opened my eyes a little and showed what their actually capable of with third person and bombardment.

[PietroMicca]

I'm not interested in this period of history

[Szlachta]

Would be awesome, but would have to be the whole 20th century. Just WW1-2 is too linear. Nobody wants another Nap/Fall.

Expect a lot of trolls, afraid of change in this thread. People that would rather play Rome 8 and Medieval 12 before something actually new and ambitious comes out.

[Kinjo]

Nope

[MrBoBo1]

It could be interesting seeing a more convoluted battlefield (mashed up housing e.t.c...) than the typically barren open battlefields you usually get.
We have alot of World War II games though, World War 1 or something that hasn't been done much before would be interesting.

[Kazang]

World war II is a sensetive subject and to make a strategy game featuring the Wehrmacht and nazi germany as playable is obvioulsy scary.

Not really.

You can play as the Wehrmacht in Company of Heroes.

There are loads of WW2 strategy games, Sudden Strike, Hearts of Iron, Codename: Panzers, Blitzkrieg, to name just few. The WW2 strategy market was completely saturated during the 00's.

[MrBoBo1]

Company Of Heroes: OF portrayed the Nazi's as quite human and not cliche bad. It was quite refreshing to be honest.

[Niftyeye]

Company Of Heroes: OF portrayed the Nazi's as quite human and not cliche bad. It was quite refreshing to be honest.

Not every German was a Nazi, most were simply Professional Soldiers doing their jobs.


As for a WW2 Total War.. it would be interesting to say the least.. but you would have to combine several genres.

Think Company of Heroes style battles (but a lot more refined) with Hearts of Iron strategy map.

[Szlachta]

20th Century Total War FTW.

[Tim_Ward]

I would not buy a conventional Total War game re-skinned for World War 2 stuff. Like, the battle of Stalingrade wasn't 60 minutes of 12,000 dudes fighting on an urban themed map. I would by one if they somehow managed to find a way to reflect the scale of battles of the era I might give it a shot. Such a game would arguably not be recognizable as a Total War game.

[Szlachta]

I would not buy a conventional Total War game re-skinned for World War 2 stuff. Like, the battle of Stalingrade wasn't 60 minutes of 12,000 dudes fighting on an urban themed map. I would by one if they somehow managed to find a way to reflect the scale of battles of the era I might give it a shot. Such a game would arguably not be recognizable as a Total War game.

...It would be recognizable as a TW game as soon as you started it up and started a campaign... Not like TW ever went for correct scaling anyway, ever.

[Froggie38]

Personnaly

WW 2 was not really instersting in term of strategy and diplomacy.

I'm just dreaming about a Rome 2 ...

[Aeneas2020]

Darth Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That is all

[Szlachta]

Personnaly

WW 2 was not really instersting in term of strategy and diplomacy.

I'm just dreaming about a Rome 2 ...

...You must know absolutely nothing about either great war then...

[Noif de Bodemloze]

There is already a lot WWII games, so no thanks.

[Froggie38]

...You must know absolutely nothing about either great war then...

I meant for me ... I prefer to play without guns in TW game

[CptAustus]

It wouldnt be interesting at all. Besides, it was a different type of warfare than the one TW focus on.

[cevap]

A WW2 TW as Tim_Ward said wouldnt be anywhere near current TW style battles. They might as well go modern warfare since its so popular now or future warfare, think battles on Mars, colonization of Saturn etc. hehe

[Szlachta]

I meant for me ... I prefer to play without guns in TW game

So you only play Rome?

It wouldnt be interesting at all. Besides, it was a different type of warfare than the one TW focus on.

Actually it would be, lol at the afraid of change crowd, that want to wallow in the same 3 rehashed titles year after year..

It would be the most epic TW ever made, and isn't too much of a leap from Fall, it would have to entail the whole century though.

[Tim_Ward]

...It would be recognizable as a TW game as soon as you started it up and started a campaign... Not like TW ever went for correct scaling anyway, ever.

It would either by recognizable as a Total War game or recognizable as World War 2, but not both.

Total War battles have always been smaller in scale than the real world counterparts, but there's not usually more than a single zero (two for the gunpowder era games) different between Total War armies and the real historical deal. War World 1 and 2 saw battles involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers, fighting over areas about the size of a typical Total War province, for months. Then add concepts like strategic bombing, naval battles carried out over vast areas of ocean thanks to aircraft carriers and ships packing weapons with ranges measured in miles.

Even allowing for typical Total War downscaling, you're looking at a game which is closer to the more abstract strategy games like those of Paradox or the Civ series than the turned based/rts hybrid the TW series is known for.