Monday, December 14, 2020

A Few Changes I'd Like to See in Warhammer III

I am a fan of Total War: Warhammer II. The best in-depth introduction, I think, is the videos of the self-proclaimed (and well deserved) Legend of Total War.

Those who are already fans are thinking of what they'd like to see in the upcoming Total War: Warhammer III.

I'd like to see:

  • Campaign customization options as detailed as XCOM: Long War or Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
  • Siege options: I imagine a minigame during each siege turn when units or wizards battle each other as the two armies stand motionless and ready. Skaven would be good siege attackers and poor siege defenders.
  • The ability to get two parties to make peace with each other if they are at war and are both your friends.
  • Better visualization on the map of the settlements that contain unique buildings.
  • More terrifying superbeasts or superspells only available to the PC (but make them fair).
  • The ability to create a chaos tide as well as an order tide. Perhaps the chaos tide responds more to money and the order tide responds less.
  • The chaos invasion should be preceded by agents spreading chaos and harm.
There are changes I'd like to see in Warhammer II as well -- this could be a mod -- if different victory results for different factions in the Vortex campaign (and some benefit from completing the short and long campaigns on the Mortal Empires map):

  • Skaven win: 
    • bonus to relations with _all_ undead including Vampire Coast 
    • Lower malus from dark elves
    • Unrelenting war with the main high elf faction
    • Unrelenting war with any Lizardman faction that's in the top 1/3 of all factions by faction, but a tendency to sign non-aggression pacts if in the lowest 1/3
    • Unwillingness to declare war from Wood Elves
  • High Elves win:
    • bonus to relations with high elves and Lizardmen factions
    • Unrelenting war with the main dark elf faction
    • Ability to confederate wood elves
    • Skaven will be craven
    • Vampire Coast likely to declare war
  • Lizardmen win:
    • Can confederate Skaven
    • Unrelenting war with main high elf faction and main dark elf faction
  • Vampire Coast win:
    • +10 relations with any faction that has at least one port.
  • What about Grom and Yvresse? No suggestions