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orangelex44 posted:Or that ninth leader could be a full wildcard, like Nagash, Neferata, Thanquol or a TW:WH1 faction leader. It might also just be unbalanced between Cathay and Kislev. It's too early to call at this point - most people didn't really think Cathay was going to happen at all, much less be a release faction. I wouldn't assume that the "logical" lineup is what's going to happen at this point, CA is breaking the patterns on this one. Neferata has some pretty neat ties to Cathay and is on the way to the place in terms of her nation, so that'd be one way they could take it. Honestly, my money is against it though. The Lahmian's thing is that they're stealth focused and don't really do wars. When they do, it's a bunch of humans backed up by a few vampires pulling the strings, which themselves are backed by the Putting them in requires a major overhaul to the diplomacy system and how it works on top of a working espionage system that is varied and replayable. So my money is on an ogre faction being the most likely one assuming it isn't going to go to one of the known factions in the trailer. The reason being that if they don't just have a tab you can switch over to view Cathay (And this would be the smart way to do it, seeing as how the Chaos Realms would be hard to implement on the current map barring a massive rework. It'd also add all sorts of potential modding abilities, adding in new maps and all. Imagine a proper Skaven underworld. But on the other hand it'd be disappointing in that it would rule out a lot of other content. So maybe not.) then they're going to have to fill that vast empty space between the two nations. And that's going to require filling the area with something. Meaning there's probably going to be at least one LL for a new nation at release centered there. If it's not that, and they're going all in on the undead factions then it might be Nagash. Archonex fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Blooming Brilliant posted:So I got this wrong before so I'm re-sharing, because I think it's cool that this Cathay musical stinger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAr7yUlM0Po&t=171s I can't believe I missed that. The trailer that introduces Cathay for real is going to be nuts.
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drat i'm sad that theres no ogres (just yet) but cathay is awesome!
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Yeah, honestly I hope they do some rad stuff with Cathay. I'm not really excited about Kislev or Chaos and was really looking forward to Ogres
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There's now a pretty good chance we will see Ind and maybe even the Tiger beastmen in an expansion. The tiger beastmen are cool because they are way more civilized than typical beastmen. Sort of neutral-good-ish.
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AnEdgelord posted:I think there is also a a Naga kingdom out there somewhere Excuse me, but their proper name is Snake Men.  https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Hinterlands_of_Khuresh
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Things Cathay will probably have: Big stone lions, Lightning Kirins that can fly, Monkey Kings. terracotta army except they walk around and hit things
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President Ark posted:terracotta army except they walk around and hit things Cathay will have the constructs of Tomb Kings, the artillery and rockets of the Empire, the cavalry and heavy infantry of the High Elves and a bunch of mythical creatures for monstrous infantry.
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Liu Bei but he looks like he's described in the novel
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So Khorne doesn't use wizards, but I'm wondering if they'll include Slaughterpriests? Maybe to fill a similar role that Runepriests fill for Dwarves. Basically I'm just curious how much Chaos stuff they're going to lift from AoS. AoS Chaos stuff fits nicely into Fantasy without looking out-of-place. MonsterEnvy posted:I can't wait to fight a Bloodthrister and have Grimgor stomp it.
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Dramicus posted:Cathay will have the constructs of Tomb Kings, the artillery and rockets of the Empire, the cavalry and heavy infantry of the High Elves and a bunch of mythical creatures for monstrous infantry. High Elf cavalry sucks *chugs from grail, stomps on peasants*
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:High Elf cavalry sucks We can't let Cathay have everything.
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Give them Lu Bu on a dragon, it might actually match Imriks stats and isn't he smug af as well? The duel of the ages!
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Noir89 posted:Give them Lu Bu on a dragon, it might actually match Imriks stats and isn't he smug af as well? The duel of the ages! I hope they implement the dynamic duel system from Troy, except when Imrik and not-lu bu duel, they just cross their arms and smirk at each other until one of them cracks.
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If you own 3K and TW3 the three kingdoms map gets added to Warhammer 3, please. Total Warhammer 3 Kingdoms
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liu chong riding a tiger, firing a crossbow that shoots drycha
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The 10th Legendary Lord will be Tretch, but somehow even worse than he is in TW2
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So Cathay is in and they're just skipping Araby who have an actual army and fully fleshed out lore in the old small scale Warhammer game (forget its name), because China has lots of market potential. Anyway I don't think either race is that interesting and Chaos Dwarfs would have been much more hype as a base game army. Here's hoping they're a launch DLC faction!
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Lol the Cathay emperor is Pu Yi. I thought they put at least a modicum of effort into changing the names slightly.
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Fools! Cathay has always been on the map. Just to the west of total war three kingdoms. Combine the games. Be able to take ma chao over to the chaos wastes.
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V for Vegas posted:Lol the Cathay emperor is Pu Yi. I thought they put at least a modicum of effort into changing the names slightly. The same guy who designs the maps thinks up the names. They asked him if he's sure, he just shrugged his shoulders and went back to sleep.
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V for Vegas posted:Lol the Cathay emperor is Pu Yi. I thought they put at least a modicum of effort into changing the names slightly. The Holy Roman Empire analogue is called “The Empire” and its led by Karl Franz
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I am expected puns on cao cao and lu bu
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Cao Cao but it's the Dynasty Warriors 3 pronunciation.
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What's really important is "FEEL THE POWER OF MY... MAGIIIIIIIIIIIC" is never more appropriate.
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For DLC races I think chaos dwarfs and ogre kingdoms are obviously guaranteed, and Nagash is a big maybe depending on whether they want to try to slap together another undead race or just make a turbo-lord pack centered around whatever his deal is at some point. I guess they could leave him out entirely since they've pointedly said this isn't End Times, but I still think bone daddy will find his way in. Anything beyond that (Kurgan, Ind, Nippon, Snakes, etc) can't be written off at this point given that Cathay's in, but my guess is CA itself doesn't have firm plans beyond those first 2-3 races yet. One of the reasons they don't have to plan for a shitload of races yet (if ever) is because they still have a bunch of lords to add. Thanquol and Neferata are 100% in, and I think it's extremely unlikely that we get through the whole cycle without a new lord for the Empire and Dwarfs. Probably Greenskins too, though as with Nagash, something that blurs the lines between a lord pack and a new race could happen with hobgoblins. Then obviously there will be more lord packs for game 3 races too. They have a LOT of stuff to play with here, so even if the far fetched stuff doesn't seem as far fetched anymore, I wouldn't hold your breath on seeing much of it any time soon.
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Reading on the wiki of the Emperors of Cathay, there was a Mokney King who declared themselves Emperor. More interesting, he made a warlord of Clan Eshin an advisor and started trading with the skaven.
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Total Warhammer 3: Cathay Will Grow Larger
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Josef bugman posted:Who does everyone think will be the new lords that will eventually be coming out? Kislev is Katarin and Boris almost for sure. Cathay is probably the Dragon Emperor and ???? Chaos is going to be interesting because it'll heavily depend on if they're going with Greater Daemons as their legendary lords or mortal champions. One of the issues with doing mortal champions is that Sigvald is the pick for Slaanesh but is, you know, already in the game.
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Since they’re publishing blog posts bilingually in Chinese too now I just want to call out the amazing translations of the Chaos gods. When you translate names into Chinese you have to either transliterate (sounds the same but the characters don’t mean anything in Chinese) or you try to find characters that look and sound like a native language Chinese name, which implies that the meaning of the characters is consistent with what a native speaker would expect. It’s insanely hard to actually find a translation that works as both a transliteration and a natural-sounding name, especially for fantasy stuff. IMO they absolutely killed it with the names of the Chaos Gods and Cathay (Kislev is just a transliteration); Nurgle: 纳垢 Nà gòu : “Offers Filth” Slaanesh: 色孽 Sè niè “Sex Shame” Tzeentch: 奸奇 Jiān qí “Bizarre”, also individually 奸 means “evil” and is used in compound words to do with treachery, and 奇 is “strange” and is something like “Thaum-“ in Greek derived languages Khorne: 恐虐 Kǒng nüè “Dread”, individually 恐 means “fear” and 虐 means torture, oppression or tyranny. Cathay: 震旦天朝 Zhèn dàn Tiāncháo “Celestial Dynasty of Aurora” - I feel they pulled this by starting with the sound of 契丹 Qìdān (Khitan, an ethnicity that ruled the Liao dynasty just before the mongols wrecked poo poo up and from which we get Khitai, which is the basis of the English word “Cathay”), and then searched around until they had a couple of characters that sounded more traditionally Chinese. It rocks to see this. Someone earned their loving pay at the translation company.
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Josef bugman posted:Who does everyone think will be the new lords that will eventually be coming out? Chaos has so many it could add, they're gonna make the Skaven dlc look restrained
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Kazzah posted:Total Warhammer 3: Cathay Will Grow Larger God I loved Command And Conquer: Generals
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Reading on the wiki of the Emperors of Cathay, there was a Mokney King who declared themselves Emperor. More interesting, he made a warlord of Clan Eshin an advisor and started trading with the skaven. With our thoughts we make the world ...and the adjacent chaos realm.
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I want two combined maps: One that's a reasonable, tightened-up Mortal Empires map suited for stable, enjoyable games, and another that's literally just all three game's campaign maps haphazardly stitched-together into a hideous, barely-playable thunderdome where every AI turn takes roughly ten minutes to complete. Also does Cathay have any precedence for insane, Shaw Brothers-esque kung fu nonsense to appear in this game? I want to fight watermelon monsters with amputees wielding flying guillotines.
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