"bringing a game that respects the source material" - Well, Star Wars itself is not respecting its own source material. I don't see much chance.

Have they finally created a brand new engine? I just cannot see how any of those new games would work on the current engine.

its like they are going out of their way to avoid giving us games we actually want

I'm kinda skeptical for this one. It could be a great thing or just a meh title. Personally i'll choose an Empire 2, but if the game is well done could really work. My only concern is the factions, a friend of mine is a huge fan of SW and not everybody in the galaxy has quite the large army, maybe 4 factions at least (this based on Clone Wars setting which can be Republic, Separatists, Mandalorians & The Hutts)

just make empire 2 or medieval 3. its really the simple. they will make heaps.

I need star wars total war to go "MY ALLEGIANCE IS TO THE REPUBLIC TO DEMOCRACY" "If your not with me then your my enemy!" "Only a sith deals in absolutes, I will do what I must" *epic battle total war*

The old Republic scenario vs the sith empire would be also nice.

CA will go to mars but not go to medieval 3 won't they :(

What can work is making ground battles sort of like Men of War but bigger, and space battles like Empire at War. The total war style of battle just won't work. WW1 battles with total war style units has been done with The Great War: Western Front though they might make it work

Nah Idc what these people saying...."oh plz give us lotr tw we want that" like gimme a break we got warhammer (a blades and sorcery like total war) a star wars total war is a breathe of fresh air

if they can make battle of naboo and battle of endor like correctly we would really have a decent star wars total war game...

CA heard us say we wanted Empire 2 and thought we meant Empire at War 2

(I spent at least 20 minutes typing all this and i'm pretty sure that even with grammar-checking etc through it twice i screwed up somewhere but i'm not sure where i did) There is a mod for Medieval 2 called "Divide And Conquer" (currently in its "V5" ) that takes place roughly around the war of the ring in LOTR. Now, there is also "Third Age Total War" which is the OG LOTR mod for Medieval 2... but it hasn't been updated for over a decade (i think) and thus does not have as much content as one might expect. TATW does have a literal campaign for the war of the ring where you play as the Fellowship itself and get to experience battles from the books/movies such as the battle of the Pelennor fields ( i won't spoil more than that though).TATW only has like 10-15 factions though (ish, i cannot guarantee that there is more than 10) Meanwhile, Divide and Conquer has a ton of factions (more than 20 at least) , thus also tons of units and to an extent also a bunch of scripted events, such as being able to reform/remake Arnor or the Reunited Kingdom as the Northern Dunedain (a faction in DAC) ... but again, i do not want to spoil too much lol. IMPORTANT: This mod does have a ton of fan made content including a black numenorean faction that starts as a horde around Umbar... so the mod isn't 100% faithful to tolkien canon, but it's still majority canon-friendly. :) TATW has something similar to this as you can at least form Arnor in that mod (maybe RK too, but idk for sure). My point with this essay being that a Middle Earth Total War / Total war set in the third age of LOTR/ Middle Earth already exists which is something i doubt even CA could do better than these modders already have. Now, there is a 4th age mod for Rome 1(it is basically almost entirely fan-made stuff tho, but with as much as possible from actual Tolkien canon included as far as i know). EDIT: 4th age mod: Fourth Age: Total War . There is a youtuber/maybe even dev of the mod called 'Count MRVHS' that i recommend for those interested in this mod. In addition, there is a 2nd age mod for Medieval 2 but i haven't seen anything on that one for at least 2-3 years- EDIT: 2nd age mod is called "DCI Last Alliance" And finally, there is a 1st age mod currently in development (no properly functional campaign but they do have skirmish more or less set up) which is called 'Silmarillion total war'. I forgot which creator/YTber usually posts skirmish replays on STW but it's something along the lines of 'monster' so if you search 'Silmarillion total war monster' / 'Monster Silmarillion total war' or something like that... you should find him with ease, as he could serve as an introduction to STW to some extent (at least for the unit rosters. And honorable mention, there are 3 DAC / LOTR mods creators i recommend - Ligizd (seemingly borderline retired unfortunately- or something happened IRL, idk. Crap ton of content to watch.) - Izzy (basically on break/ quit / retired... one of the three, but there is a crap ton of letsplays from this man.) - Augimund (more of a 'i impose restrictions on myself to make a difficult mod even harder' creator but some might enjoy this content aswell) To those who read this whole thing, you are legends.

Better to have a Total War set in Middle Earth.

AS much as I want a historical total war, i've been wanting a Star Wars strategy game for eons now. Pretty much ALL of them were weighted to the Early 00's.

Is it so hard for them to focus on what the fan base wants?

A question for all : is there a good mod with a setting during the peloponesian war for recent total wars? Thanks!

I have been talking about a TW Star Wars and would fucking love to have that.

I’m convinced that I won’t live long enough to get a Medieval 3 or Empire 2!!!! CA just forgot about their original fan base.

while i love historical total war games but i feel like a star wars RTS game would be so much fun as i love star wars: empire at war but it is not as big or good as total war and i feel like a mix of these 2 would be amazing

Time to say goodbye! If its true.

They should have given it to the Empire at War developers. They are still updating the game which is nuts.

I imagine the Company of Heroes style game, with hiding inside buildings, destruction etc but without base and unit production (this would be done like in any other Total War) and on a bigger scale.

this has the potential to be my dream game!!

I'm unsure how to feel about this, I do enjoy Star Wars but with the current how TW is played I just dont really see how Star Wars can work. I would probably feel better if it was made by CoH dev's or MoW Style of game play with smaller combat groups taking and holding points or in the style of Halo Wars or Empire at War. I dont know how they will make it feel like TW when there are only a small amount of faction/groups on the campaign map and will they still make it a turn based system/ real time or turn based with all actions taking place at the same time? There are too many unknowns and differences that Star Wars can bring for TW, Will it feel too different for TW style that we have grown to enjoy? How and If we will get Naval/Space battles?

Curious if it will be the old republic, the prequels, sequels or disney star wars. I really hope it's not the latter.

It will be more worthwhile if it has: Galactic grand strat map like in EaW and to a degree like with Stellaris. -Space combat like in Homeworld. -Ground combat like in Close Combat or Deserts of Kharak. -MODDABILITY! Modders need to be allowed to make mods not just set in the Star Wars IP.

Personally, I feel they should have the era focused on in this Total War be the Old Republic; perhaps High Republic. While the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War eras are what started the whole franchise, there are ALOT of mediums where those stories are the focus, or touched upon. May be time for a new feel. I would also be happy with starting out in the Clone Wars era, for familiarity, but expanding to other eras as well; Mandalorian Wars, Sith Wars. Could be a nice way for Disney to also start making some things canon again.

Huge fan of Total War and a even bigger Star Wars fan but I don't see how this will work short of your run of the RTS.

The Phantom Menace featured a battle that was pretty total war-sy, and it was kindof dumb.

Disney wars and current year CA "total war" is like a double negative. But not of the multiplying variant that will make a positives result in the end.

You see Star Wars' battles aren like WWII they are like WWI and that's what make this rumour all the way more plausible. They will give us historical title and in the same time try key mechanics they want SW:TW operates on (it could make a lot of people happy). Then they will go with Warhammer 40K to try all the space stuff how does it work with Total War and after that they will know exactly how to model Star Wars Total War. It has potential to overcame Warhammer I and II. Side effect of that is that we won't get Medieval III or Early Modern TW any time soon..

If it doesn’t have naval battles I won’t be playing

im here for it although i miss my gunpowder and vast navies.

CA devs are simply geniuses! You can't have pathfinding issues in space! There, they fixed their longest standing bug without even hiring a coder!

I am sad for them abandoning a medieval or new shogun game. Actually a new Napoleon with much larger battles and more realistic map for grand tactics would be best for me

Oh boy, they better get the space combat right because ppl WILL be comparing it to Empire at War

I am just worried that they abandon their roots in historical grand army games

To be completely honest with you I just don't see this working out in the total war formula but I can see CA doing something like they did with Halo wars 2. Shoot when they pitched the idea of halo wars 3 to Microsoft they wanted to include space battles

I would love to see a Star Wars the Clone Wars Total War Game.

Very simple, if there’s no space ships then I’m not going to buy it and I think most people will feel like that

If it is clone wars there needs to be an order 66 mechanic

Should be a 40k total war, I'm Star Wars'd out

I haven't been this hyped for a video game in ages. Can we please get more insiders to leak information as to how the combat would look like, we have been starved of a Star Wars RTS for almost 20 years, fans deserve this game.

Hell yeah Star Wars!

Why making a star wars total war would just be reinventing the wheel.

i think in general if you want a good star wars game just look up one of the older games with a modding scene. for instance the giant update mod for X-wing Alliance/Tie-fighter is miles better than star war squadrons

If creative assembly want to go nuts why not a Fate total war.? A) they already make a game for the specific tastes of a country. B) put Alexander plus Genghis khan and Joanne of arc on the same map sounds crazy fun C) why not make Aristotle a life wizard? Fate would work just fine with the Warhammer 3 magic system. I think star wars it's just on that point where it's still way far from what they usually do yet still too conservative to knock it out of the park.

My concern is how do you have faction and unit diversity? Even if you take all the movie eras that’s 6 factions….

The things that need to change for Total War go beyond whatever the theme is. We need a dev team thats actually allowed to create a FULL GAME. Not 80% of a video game and then the last 20% is only included in the pre-order. No coming out with DLC 2 months after release that could have been in the base game. No more of this "17% of the entire funding goes into the pockets of ceos that dont do anything" We. Want. A. Video. Game. Not. A. Virtual. Store. Shelf.

Surely they'd be combining the FPS stuff they would have been developing with Hyenas with Total War-esque gameplay to create battles where you can actually partake on an individual level? To me this would be the most logical reason why they chose Star Wars in the first place. If it were the case then it would be great, so long as they can find a way to make it work.

Can't wait to see how CA will royally fuck this up

I don't like Star Wars, so I won't get it, BUT I respect this if it's a title. Now, I see only one way it could work: if they focused on just one or a few very important planets, maybe divided like the Empire map was between Eurasia and the Americas. That's the only way it could work with the total war formula and, even then, it'll probably have the single-unit and character focuses, which I despise, so eh. Good luck for those that would enjoy it, though.

We got a Star Wars total war before Medieval 3 😭

I’m clearly not looking forward to this game, but if it can bring a new engine and overall better quality I’m all for it.

They better call it Total Star War

CA's next title: Total War "Anything but Medieval"

Hear me out, Its not set in the films time period, people hear "Star wars" and think the films, What if its set long ago in the war between the jedi and the sith, largely with sabers and such

I want middle-earth total war.

Creative Assembly will literally come up with anything before making Medieval 3 lmfao

They abandoned naval and you think they would bring space battles in?? I don't think so

So the rumour is enough to conclude there is a revamp of the engine?

We need Company of Heroes/ Dawn of War 1 dynamic cover systems. Unit AI needs to prioritize hiding behind crap and laying down suppressive fire. They have very limited experience here....I forsee this being a disaster.

Current CA and the current video engine Warscape need to change a lot in order to do a good SW TW. Meanwhile we have SW Rebellion aka Supremacy and fantastic mods to Sins of a Solar Empire (yeah, I don't like EaW that much because of the small space battles)

If we go just by the movies, tactics don’t exist. If we look at the clone wars, clones are clearly segmented into squads, platoons, Companies, etc….

i think star wars as a concept for TW is awesome/something to look forward to by CA but it also depends. if star wars gets made by CA then the engine should be so far away, so "alien" from what we are used to in total war games that it shouldn't be even considered a "total war." game, or branded as such and put in the same series as the other total wars. it should just be branded as a completely different series/game line/franchise, whatever you call it, if the game engine is radically different from what the total war series already is then it should be something other than "total war." and if its not radically different from the total war franchise in terms of engine then it'll already probably fail as a total war and star wars strategy game. I like to be optimistic for the sake of "possibilities." but I'm also quite cautious and skeptical especially considering from my pov that warhammer 40k would be a better starting off choice for a new engine as there is already quite a melee focus in 40k so its not just "guns gun guns and maybe some lightsabers here n there." (since star wars was not really melee focused in comparison excluding the jedi/sith/mandalorian's whose beskar could compete with lightsabers... if they had beskar that is)

I will play star wars total war to death listen I'm a history geek especially total war historical but if they're making star wars total war I'm ALL IN let them make BIG MONEY I will buy a new pc if they do this right. Space battles galactic map heroes huge planetary invasions it can be done it can be done well they need tp listen and il spend money

Hate to think of the DLC for this

IDK why he keeps on going to that random forum post. The information that post is compiling comes from Legend, Darren, and established Star Wars leakers.

I dont want disney touching my total war games is all im saying

You can't ignore Lord of the rings mods are all successful through different games and you just refuse to create one and milk the hell out of it...... Star wars gonna be insane too and im looking forward to. General Grevious with a droid army is dope af

OMG, me as a great fan of SW, spect that no way it’ll be a SW total war, please NO! Enough with Disney SW at all, I would prefer an Empires 2 or Medieval 3!

swtor is a good base for total war

CA has a comparative advantage for making a Dune total war than a Star War total war.

They’re only doing this because Star Wars has a big fanbase. Due to CA messing up on a “historical base game” “called Pharaoh” failed launch which costed them a substantial amount of money loss. They are now then having to go find a bigger fanbase to make up for the losses. So a historical game will have to come later in years to come. As this Star Wars will be focused on a 1, 2, 3, and probably even 4th game series. Like what Warhammer is today for them. They’re playing a risky game into creating this/these series. If this is a success for them. They’ll either keep going with the same mechanics for whatever historical game to come. For example… TW TROY with TW Warhammer mechanics

I hope is the expanded universe and not the Disney one

or you can play modded Empire at War for a great game now

I personally prefer a ww1 total war think of the new mechanics and the large campaign 🎉🎉

Empire at war is good to compare with

I don't think this what Total War fans need tbh, the last few installments have been so expensive and lacking at the same time. I would love to see a modernized empire with amazing graphics/sounds, smooth tactical gameplay and heavy feeling cavalry.

Dont think the total war engine is good for this.. Really hope it works out, but hard to believe without extra information

I think dune would work better

Bro we’re not going to get a new total war Star Wars game in 2-3 years lmao at the very least the next total war game will be 3 years away. Star Wars which unless they’ve been working on this already for a 1-2 years would prob have a 5 year development time period.

Star Wars is cool and all but man...Empire 2? World War 1? Medieval 3? Hell, Rome 3? SOMETHING?!

I disagree, i don't think CA has the tech, nor skill to do this. Maybe thirteen years ago i'd say they lack the tech but they have the skill. That has changed.

And again CA is going for big names in the hope for big money and leaving long time fans who kept the lights on at CA all those years in the dust .... again...yes CA needs to make money but is it too much to ask to give fans first a big historical title and then jump into new things......

i wanted DUNE but ill take it

I prefer i new ip over another remake/remaster

I doubt its total war Probably just a star wars rts from the same devs I have no idea how they would do the star wars combat with total wars formulas If it is it definitely will not be galactic civil war because that had almost only small scale conflict And they would NEED to bring back naval combat in some space type of form

It seems like CA is in trouble.They're trying to get the most profit with the least effort, which isn't good for making quality video games. Honestly, I don't think this studio has the skill or the money to make a good Total War game anymore.

I’m sorry but like historical total war was so much better

Not a huge fan of the idea tbf. Essentially a Star Wars Total War will not be a Total War game, but a Star Wars game by the team of Total War. The IP is actually quite limited in factions (like, 4? max? maybe some additional internal strife mechanics to have emergent factions?) but quite large in territorial scope, a whole Galaxy... I could envision it being a fleet-focused title, that is a hybrid of WarNo and Ultimate Admiral. i.e. not quite base-building RTS, but assigning land units to ships/fleets and some sort of battlegroup system to assign those units to landing divisions, boarding parties and garrisons. And the companies/battallions of said battlegroups then being controllable in real-time battles. And there are ideas unconsidered, like with the size of the space ships: a space ship battle can be real-time, but one could also make that the turn-based campaign system where attacks get a choice of combat styles between fighter duels, boarding action or broadside bombardment. 2 of which are Real Time battles with units (fighter duels and boarding). Something that could be done with 40K too... If I think positively about it, it basically comes down to how fun and practical it could be to expand the tiers of conflict of this style of game with multiple map-levels: Galaxy (turn-based, fleet movement), Star-System (turn-based, ship movement) and Planet/Ship (real-time, unit movement). Leaning into the idea that Space Going Warships in SW and 40K are the size of continents, rather than just flying aircraft carriers/battle cruisers. Empire II would be my preference still ;)

I hope it's Based on the prequels and not on the current Disney shit show .

Maybe they'll take a page from their old playback and auto-resolve naval/space battles

And how many factions will we have ? 2 ? And maybe 10 non playable factions like Jabba or the remainder of the trade federation ? Wow unbelievable. And again stupid heroes, jedis....solo who takes on 20 000 stormtroopers.....wow......will buy it for sure lol

I'd rather a sequel to star wars empire at war

CA has only made Warhammer games or crap for the past 10 years.... 0 interest in this

Pretty sure total war SW would just be a EaW style game 😂

It’s not going to happen. 1. They just let a bunch of ch of people go. Where will the resources for this come from. 2. Space Total war is going to be challenging but if they are going to do it it’s going to be 40k and GW doesn’t like competition. I estimate the chances for a Star Wars Total War in the next 20 years between 0,25 - 0,5 %.

All they had to do was make a truly good historical title like Medieval 3 and all mistakes would be forgiven. But no. Instead we get a game set in the dying fantasy franchise of Disney's Star Wars.