Silly Proposal: Warhammer 40,000: Total War

[Mr Kriegtooth]

First off, this is just me throwing out ideas. I have no modding skills, and my internet connection doesnt allow me to do anything worth a dang

But anyway, Warhammer 40: Total War. In the future..there is only war. Total war.

Grand campaign based around the galaxy, or a certain part. Im just throwing out ideas Oceans would be made to look like space, planets would be small islands of various size, with a number of settlements/fortresses

Factions would be done similarly to Call of Warhammer, where the Imperium is a forever allied(except in certain circumstances) group of factions. They would include several Imperial Guard regiments(the most unique ones), Space Marine Chapters(most unique), Inquistorial Forces, and an Adeptus Terra to represent be the "pope"

Further factions would be various Chaos, Ork, and Eldar forces. Tyranids, Dark Eldar, and Necron would probably just be one faction each. Not sure for the Necron though

While Total War isnt meant for modern style combat, 40k would probably sorta work due to the massive amount of melee and cavalry type units

Just throwing out some thoughts since I had it rattling around in my head and wanted to share Probably a crap idea and nobody will take it up though

[Bu11seye00]

Learn modding and try do it yourself

[paradamed]

Mechanized cavalry will never work on the M2TW engine. Not to mention it would require a masterful animator to make the mod make sense.

[Col. Tartleton]

The sheer amount of models and textures and animations required to make it palatable would probably require a team of animators. I mean you'd need pretty much every single unit to have it's unique animations.

It could be done, but it'd be the biggest mod yet.

Even my "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" concept is far easier to make happen than this.

We should just hope Dawn of War III, if it ever happens (when), is good.

[Mr Kriegtooth]

Gosh, I didnt think it'd be THAT complex o_O Mostly infantry and all, and Call of Warhammer has the Steam Tank with wheels. Cant imagine treads would be much harder. Granted, the Tyranids and such would probably be hard

Oh well, as I said, silly proposal Had it in my mind and wanted to post it, even if I figure it'd never work XD

And im on dial up. Took me a year to download Stainless Steel 6.1(and by the time I got it, SS was up to 6.4). Dont ask me to mod I can make up ideas, but until thats fixed, no modding for me

[Wayfaerer]

And think about the map. How could you make a space map ? Or maybe the Kronus campaign for example, but mechanized cavalry is still a problem. And how can you make an economy for tyranids ?

[Mr Kriegtooth]

Like I said for the map, it'd be 2D, and ocean recoloured to "space"(if thats even possible). Planets would be "islands", with a various number of towns/forts depending on the importance of the planet

Aaaand, didnt think of Tyranid economy, shoot Maybe they'd have endlessly spawning armies of their weaker units, and by "Devouring" a "settlement", they can use the money to buy better units. But they cant get money any other way. Or something.

If it could be made, it'd have to be highly scripted like Call of Warhammer

Edit: Maybe im being too simplistic, but I dont see why tanks and such would be that special since theres Steamtanks in Call of Warhammer. They have wheels, and I think are based off of the elephants coding, minus the rampage. If you could change the weapon to various things(Ribault for assault cannons, flamethrower for....flamethrower, so forth so on), seems functional. Dont know if secondary weapons would work though

Like I said though, just some wildass ideas Someone had suggested Star Wars Total War..and I was thinking about it the other day, and im into 40k. And theres already Call of Warhammer(fantasy)

[Wayfaerer]

But strategically, making islands-planet would be a little bit "boring", as you just have to take a ship, put your guys in an land on an island to take the settlement. In W40K, the geography has an very, very important role.