Creative Assembly and SEGA Group have entered into a multi-title licensing deal with Games Workshop

[Karabekian]

Kind of curious about how they will handle one man armies and all that. theres some powerfull single units in warhammer after all.

One man armies? Very powerful individuals yes, but the "great ones" are mostly dead or otherwise gone in the current world. Dragons mostly sleep etc. etc.

Magic is the thing you could compare to one man armies, and it has been implemented in Call of Warhammer and the Sundering already. Perhaps simply more spectacular effects.

A (more) sandbox game with customization would be a killer!

[Shaio]

^ wouldn't really be warhammer without all the extra strong hero units would it? And heck I've had the odd general in med2, and moreso in medieval 1 that was a one man army.

I imagine magic and such would be just like bombardment in fall of the samurai, except maybe for chaos using some sort of "favour of the gods" meter or just limited number of casts, depending on level of your sorcerer.

I more wonder how they'll do the daemony stuff, summoned units with a time limit? or summoned units that will go berserk and attack anything if you don't give them someone to kill?

or skaven on the campaign map, I'm probably wrong, but marching around stacks of skaven troops would seem weird to me.

[Inhuman One]

Considering that the land will probably be divided with all the existing factions and all that who have their own defined colors, I wonder how they will implement custom armies. Hopefully not exclusive to multiplayer.

[Shaio]

I get the feeling the game will be something more akin to battle for middle earth or dawn of war then a total war game.

[oberst_ag]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormrise

[Confederate Soldier]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormrise

I was actually gonna buy this game once, liked the idea of the story .

I know it wont be warhammer total war, though if it is, I want all the codex Factions, plus Chaos Dwarfs, and just throw us a bone with some special units from the other un-codex armies. That way we can add them ourselves latter. So while we can take a water down knight and change the skin and throw it to araby, we still need a camel, and elephant added so it can then be changed from special merc unit, to army conscripted.

[Inhuman One]

Considering that its the creative assembly tackling warhammer, I am sure they will make it quite a bit like total war since people are expecting this from them. They would be braindead not to do it.

I can of course imagine it being on a somewhat smaller scale, with perhaps less soldiers in a unit. Each warhammer army is very much unique after all, as well as their cities so it will cost a great amount of work to create all that.

[herne_the _hunter]

How do we know it might not be an app for Android/IOS?

[Inhuman One]

True, they might hate money and waste the use of this license on something simple that nobody cares about.

[Londinium]

So SEGA ended up getting Relic, good fit for them. I don't think anyone would have ever thought that SEGA would emerge as one of the strongest PC publishers by 2013 (with CA, SI and Relic) when they left the hardware business back in 2002. So weird to see them in this position but they've treated CA and SI relatively well so I assume they'll do the same with Relic.

Now to see whether the 40k license transferred to SEGA as well or whether there was a break clause in it. I imagine it probably has transferred given the hefty price that SEGA paid for the company ($26m).

[Wothan]

So SEGA ended up getting Relic, good fit for them. I don't think anyone would have ever thought that SEGA would emerge as one of the strongest PC publishers by 2013 (with CA, SI and Relic) when they left the hardware business back in 2002. So weird to see them in this position but they've treated CA and SI relatively well so I assume they'll do the same with Relic.

Now to see whether the 40k license transferred to SEGA as well or whether there was a break clause in it. I imagine it probably has transferred given the hefty price that SEGA paid for the company ($26m).

SEGA in one stroke got:

A very competent strategy games developer house
The Warhammer 40k IP completing the set of Warhammer fantasy and Warhammer 40k
Two popular IPs, which are Company of Heroes and Dawn of War

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

We don't know if they got the license for 40k tho.

[Lord Baal]

OH, THE EMPRAH IT SELF!!! It's really you?!!

Well, Relic do retain the 40K IP.

[Shaio]

I had a funny thought.....

What if there making a blood bowl game, and not a strategy game atall?

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

What if there making a blood bowl game, and not a strategy game atall?

There is already a blood bowl game tho. They won't dip into those waters again anytime soon.

[SkyTrickster]

Meh.. actually you do have a point. CA is a pretty eurocentric developper, focussed on RTS which is big in europe, Relic on the otherhand, is american/canadian and knows the american market and knows football/bloodbowl is huge there. With them combined they could split the market...

[Úlfhéðinn]

This is great news! I remember the good, old Warhammer game as one of the really entertaining strategy games next to TW (I guess Medival 1 at the time).
I'm genuinely psyched to see how this will turn out with dwarves clashing with ogres and mages shooting fireballs on the battlefield with R2TW quality graphics.

/Getting ready to throw money at screen

[ioannis76]

It would be nice if they made a good turn based game, I think. Turn based combat and strategic map, and various goodies on the battlefield, eg troops equipped with extra armor that shows on the battlefield (rather than just having a card that says "you have armor+1", special resources, fortifications, etc.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Well they could just copy the system that they have in fantasy right now. It's a great system IMO and would work in a video game as well.

[Úlfhéðinn]

Hmm, too long since I played Fantasy battle so I barely remember the rules. How many upgrades is it for weapons and armor?
And obviously it should be changing the skins for the units to display the upgraded armor or weapons.

And I'd love it if they would make it more sandboxy instead of standard missions gradually harder. Like take your band of mercenaries to whichever country/region you want instead of a default chosen path.