That looks promicing, but the announcement is on the 25th, lets wait for the official word...all the stars may be aligned (CA has the rights for the IP, personnel with Warhammer Fantasy background getting hired in total war team some time ago, that picture of a dev build of Rome II with a "Warhammer" folder in the picture...)...but in the gaming industry I take nothing for granted...
Hope it looks good and great, oh God Emperor i just imagine the battles i will do if the game is good.
It's been 2 years since they started development, 3 years since pre-production. So very likely they are announcing Total War: Warhammer. Signs it is highly likely: CA has recently stopped publicly supporting the Medieval 2 Warhammer mod on the fan website for modders, but GW has wisely decided not to "fox" them, same for Sega; Sega may be a company with questionable monetization and bad customer service, but they don't shoot themselves in the foot if they can help it. Technically being a Medieval 2 mod and being in possession of the licence, it's a "legal" mod anyway. The community managers/rally point presenters have been shifted around and the previous guys are now part of another team. CA has "4" known teams (the studio has approximately ~300 staff); Although part of the Shogun 2 team is working on Alien: Isolation, the rest of that team is in fact working on an "unannounced project". The other 2 teams are working on Rome 2 DLC/patches and Arena respectively. The vast majority of the Rome 2 devs were shifted to work on Arena. Meaning there is a large chunk (a good ~50+ people) who seem to be "not doing anything", yeah their actually working on the unannounced project. Sega Acquired the licence 3 years ago, judging by the "standard" development cycle for PC games being 2 to 3 years, now sounds about the right time for an announcement of it's release. 4 sources of leaks (including a confirmation ) including a phone photo sneaked out by a member of the press of a Warhammer title being listed on the games in production under the world builder in 2013. I think CA has known for a while the cat has been out of the bag, so opted to "keep it a known secret" instead.
I really, really hope you are right! Despite from being an awesome game, think everyone of us realizes what a big popularity boost the game would give to the Warhammer Fantasy universe (and therefore, for Warhammer 40k)! If it's a success, we will see more Warhammer Fantasy games!
Just a matter of waiting now I guess... I may be very excited about a total war Warhammer game, I may be a a total war series fan since Shogun (the first one)... But I still think that the studio that made those King Arthur games would be a more obvious solution for a Warhammer game,as I firmly believed so for some time...after all, they did actually produce a total war game on a fantasy setting, with lore, magic, monsters, flying units and mighty heroes... Those are exactly the things that total war doesn't have and need to flesh out to make a Warhammer game....and those will probably make or brake the game anyway...
I don't think that just because they have experience on a fantasy-like total war game that they are immediatly the right choice. Just because CA have never done fantasy before doesn't mean they're not capable of doing so, they've got years of experience and I'm sure they're aware of what they are doing. Just like how the basic civ games have been developed by Firaxis and although there have been many fantasy and sci-fi-like civilization games I would still trust Firaxis to deliver an actual good fantasy or sci-fi civ game more than the devs that did those other ones. (btw I hope to god civ: beyond earth delivers, and since it'll have mod support like civ V I'm sure many people will be doing 40k mods.)
right=/obvious...CA IS probably the right choice...the other guys already did this kind of game, successfully, so they were the obvious choice...but not necessarily the right choice, due to CA's "know how", resources and brand name. P.S: I never really got into civ games...mostly a 4x and grand strategy fan...that's where my "little" bias towards Paradox, even as a publisher, comes from...
Speaking of Paradox, I have been playing Warlock since the humble bundle gave it away for free last week, pretty good but I still can't get the hang of it.
