40k seems like a no brainer imo...

i think Space Marine (tabletop) was the first game i played from GW

on the fence about total war in general but this will probably be in rotation for our group.

Yeah. It's like, if you had an Operation Desert Storm game, you wouldn't expect to see 40 US Marines all lined up in a block or a gun line. It wouldn't make any more sense for Space Marines or Tyranids. In a game with landspeeders and grav tanks you'd want an engine that moves a lot quicker than the Total War games.

And even aside from gun lines... diplomacy seems out of place in a 40K game. The whole politics, government, espionage, taxation, trade and religion components would make no sense. Basically everything that isn't moving armies around, and I guess assassins. It's wildly uncanonical to be recruiting and training Marines on-planet over the course of a campaign. I think you'd have to scrap 90% of the turn-based game, and then why are you making a Total War game at all?

Bub wrote on Sep 18, 2015, 08:02:
I think the Total War approach using 40k units would be awesome and I would sign up for it in a minute.

Really? Have you played Empire: total war? because that's what you get when you put guns into a Total War game. Don't get me wrong, I actually liked Empire(and seems I'm one of the few), but I'm with Orogogus on this one.
It doesn't really make much sense for them to shoehorn a 40K setting into the Total War engine, imagine all the marines there standing still and making line battles like in Empire... I just don't get why so many people keep saying they want this.

This does look promising for sure.

I found Dawn of War pretty formulaic and predictable, and therefore boring. I loved the units but there wasn't any replay value.

I think the Total War approach using 40k units would be awesome and I would sign up for it in a minute. I am already sold on this one, go slayers!

The fist few characters that were revealed about this game made me thing they really didn't get Warhammer so I was sitting on the fence with this, but with the inclusion of the slayers, I am sold. I love the slayer series of stories and the individuals involved. First Total War game I have really been interested in. Before it was pretty faceless copy paste manakins in formation, but this looks way more fun.

Orogogus wrote on Sep 18, 2015, 02:33:

The Half Elf wrote on Sep 17, 2015, 20:39:
Can I have a Total War: Warhammer 40k instead?

What do people want out of a 40K Total War game, instead of, say, another Dawn of War? How does the game play, in your head? Like, a hundred Marines all lined up in formation like the Dwarves in this video, as if they were an infantry block?

The time of Heresy could work well, before the Chapters were cut down to a thousand marines each and were actually Legions led by the Primarchs.

The Half Elf wrote on Sep 17, 2015, 20:39:
Can I have a Total War: Warhammer 40k instead?

What do people want out of a 40K Total War game, instead of, say, another Dawn of War? How does the game play, in your head? Like, a hundred Marines all lined up in formation like the Dwarves in this video, as if they were an infantry block?

The Half Elf wrote on Sep 17, 2015, 20:39:
Can I have a Total War: Warhammer 40k instead?

If this does well, there is a good chance of it happening at some point.

Can I have a Total War: Warhammer 40k instead?

Yeah. Looks promising, but I'll wait till a few months after release and look how it is doing.

This actually looks good.

Though CA lost me with their shoddy releases ever since Sega bought them.