Creative Assembly has decided to make their big "May 18th" announcement early. Modders and creative minds up and down the Total War land will be thrilled to find out that a new mod tool is on the way to the front. Simply called "The Editor" (or TEd for short), the tool will allow for the creation of your own spectacular battlemaps, of which you will be able to automatically share with a user joining your own Total War: Shogun 2, or Fall of the Samurai multiplayer game.

"TEd represents an important test for us, if a modest one, and it’s cost a huge amount of time and effort to create and release. We are really excited to see what everyone is going to produce, but just to be clear, it does not necessarily mean that more tools are on the way. We will be keeping a really close eye on it, and working with the leading modders in future to investigate what other ideas might be worked on for the next Total War" Rob Bartholomew, Brand Director at The Creative Assembly

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