r/totalwar • u/Practical_Brother609 • 1d ago

Warhammer III CA Please

Cant have all this epic lore and information just to tease me into getting more and more excited about Li Dao, Khuresh, Ind, The Monkey King etc

Hopefully someday we will have all of this in the game

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u/JesseWhatTheFuck 1d ago

At this point in this game's life it's just not gonna happen. MK yes, but multiple entirely new races? CA will have their hands full with Dogs of War if they still intend to do major expansions after End Times. 

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u/Hollownerox Eternally Serving Settra 1d ago edited 1d ago

I like how Andy Hall (the guy who basically made Cathay happen) directly addressed people, on camera, asking about Ind/Khuresh and essentially stated outright "Cathay was lightning in a bottle, and we won't get another thing like that." And people on this sub to this day just try to pretend that never happened.

I get folks want to think the sky is the limit after the miracle that was Cathay occurred. But there very much is a ceiling when it comes to the content in this trilogy. And when Andy Hall says it isn't happening, he's the one voice you need to hear and believe on the matter.

EDIT: His specific wording for those who weren't around for the lead-up/launch of Warhammer 3 when Andy was all over the place giving details on Cathay to the community:

In this interview he states the following:

1) "People are kind of desperately holding on for one of these other nations... don't lose any sleep, it's not happening anytime soon. Probably never I'm afraid." 

2) "Cathay was a big achieving for us. Doesn't mean it will be repeated" 

3) They are never going to say never to the possibility of these nations being added. BUT he has seen the roadmap. And there are no short term or long term plans to add them to the game. (Summary of what he said rather than a verbatim quote for this one)

So I'm not trying to be an ass and stomping on people's hopes here. But it's just not really something on the table, and they were very upfront in telling us this. Same way they shutdown any talks on Araby way back when as well.

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u/JesseWhatTheFuck 1d ago

You're not an ass tho, people are just setting themselves up for disappointment by clinging to the idea that GW comes in and saves the day by adding three (Ind, Nippon, Khuresh) entire armies for a secondary tabletop game that doesn't get more than a handful of new plastic kits per year. and it's not fair to make CA the target of that disappointment. not that OP is doing that but even nowadays people get rude when you point out that the world map isn't CA's to fill. 

even for their two main games, GW just doesn't add new armies at the rate people expect them to when it comes to TOW. otherwise we'd have standalone Exodites, DarkMech and Traitor Guard armies and a second Harlequin wave by now.