Just watched a Zerkovich video playing a demo of Todbringer campaign for lords of the end times and he said at the end of the video

‘I am going to be playing another new thing that’s part of this gamescom demo but I can’t tell you about that until next week so keep your eyes peeled for that’

He must of course be referring to 40k which is great because now we know we won’t just be getting gameplay released from CA themselves but lots of total war creators releasing their own footage. Potentially hours of content coming our way sounds very tasty.

I personally hope for an actual proper symbol maker system.
This is the most unlikely option we could get though.

The option I think we will most likely get is like space marine 2.
Where we will be stuck to a massive pool of logos that we can make our own colors for.

I just hope there’s enough symbols to make bumping into a duplicate faction unlikely

Just wondering if there have been any updates on how far specific units shoot on the battlefield. Do you think it’s similar to total war Warhammer? Infantry 150-200 while artillery is 300+?

The purpose of this is just as a catch all place for discussions for people that don't want to create a post for.

When news and rumours start coming more frequently we'll set up more specific threads.

Now, I'll admit, I don't play them on tabletop (I haven't even met anyone who does), but I just can't really imagine what an ingame Agents faction would look like. It seems a lot of their codex is using Grey Knights, Sisters of Battle or Deathwatch units. So, at least, we'd have to wait for these three other factions to be added before we got Agents. And, aside from those units, what else do they have? Arbites? Navy Breachers?

I was wondering if agents (or the inquisition generally) was more likely to be campaign mechanic rather than an actual playable faction in-and-of-itself. I just think it might be a little strange to have one singular Inquisitor in the middle of a battlefield surrounded by Baneblades and Gorkanauts.

If anyone has a better idea of how an Agents faction might be realistically added, I'd be interested to hear it.

I read this on another post;

For IG its been confirmed that Yarrick will in at launch. And then I think Lady Creed will be the second LL as all of Cadias unique units have been confirmed to be in at launch (Shock Troops, Karskins, Castellan).

I don't know if it's been confirmed yet, but I really really hope we get a decent spread of different guard regiments rather than just Cadians. Because A) I think Cadians are done to death. I know they're probably most people's favourite and the most inconic guard faction, but they're so over used in almost all forms of media.

But most importantly; B) Armageddon seems to be big focus in this game, as well as in 11th edition. If we end up with another 'everyone but Steel Legion is on armageddon' situation like we did in that release trailer and the 'paint your krieg like legion' stuff, I'll be gutted.

From this other post, it seems that Yarrick is confirmed (but I don't know from what source that came), and if he is we can get a really good amount of representation for Steel Legion in-game. And not just legionaries as infantry, but like other Steel Legion-skinned units, like Heavy Weapons teams, Tank-Commanders, Hellhounds and Chimeras, ect. I think that would be absolutely amazing.

I'd also like to see a few other regiments too; Catachan would be nice. Although I know their models are incredibly old at this point.

Shower thought I had. But I was just thinking that its obvious they would want to justify some Imperial faction vs Imperial faction stuff so that you weren't just fighting Orks and Aeldari all the time. So people figured rogue Guard elements would be a thing to mix things up.

But then I was thinking how they could do the same with Space Marines. Given it will be a bit before we see any CSM representation. And the obvious conclusion was renegade chapters. Those that broke off from the Imperium but hasn't necessarily done so because they drank the Chaos Flavoraid.

Which got me thinking, could you play a Space Marine custom faction is Renegade? Or go further and could you play a Space Marine faction that starts loyal but can become a Renegade chapter as campaigns go on?

If you could build one as a Renegade right off the bat it would be interesting if they let you customize faction aversions. Like having your Chapter from the get go being capable of having friendlier relations to Aeldari or the like. To show their more neutral position compared to mainstay Imperials. But it does make me wonder how far the "make your own story elements" go if they do allow Renegades from the get go.

Only found out about this pretty recently and quite excited but from what i can see there’s no “official” release date yet (understandably so) but does anyone have educated guesses/information about release dates? Thank you!

People were talking about how titans could potentially work in the new game. It seemed some people thought they couldn’t be implemented because not every race has a Titan equivalent(Necrons, Tau, Drukhari, Genestealers, Votunn).

Now I was thinking the best way to implement Imperial Titans would be in a Horus Heresy game. You got loyalists and traitors, that’s it.

Now I’m sure a lot of people will point out that the diversity of the races in 40k is the big appeal but I still think a game about the greatest civil war in the universe’s history would be dope. Either trying to race to the palace as Horus or holding the line as the loyalists. Sure it would be a bit basic in some regards but I think it would give them the ability to focus on the campaign mechanics. Plus the 18 legions do have their own flavors so I think it’s possible.

What are yall thoughts? Any ideas?

Who do you think the base game Legendary Lords/Renown Warlords/Epic Chracters (or whatever CA calls them) are going to be?

From the steam page and CAs comments we know they are going to be in the game in addition to the custom faction system.

CA/GW have confirmed two Ork LLs, which suggests that each faction will launch with 2 LLs like in the TWW trilogy.

I assume that atleast at first CA will focus on TT Chracters as thats what GW will want then to do. This isn't a dead IP like fantasy and we have seen that GW has gotten more strict recently since old world released.

Orks

It has already been confirmed that for Orks we will have Ghaz and Nazdreg as LLs representing Goffs/Orks as a whole and Bad Moons respectively.

Imperial Guard

For IG its been confirmed that Yarrick will in at launch. And then I think Lady Creed will be the second LL as all of Cadias unique units have been confirmed to be in at launch (Shock Troops, Karskins, Castellan).

Space Marines

Space Marines we have seen Calgar from the campaign gameplay. And I can't see them launching with two Ultramarines in a game where they have emphasised customization.

Blood Angels, Space Wolves, Dark Angels and Black Tempalars will almost certainly be kept behind for DLC. As they have unique chracters, units, lords, hero's, and mechanics.

That leaves us with Imperial Fists (2 TT Chracters), Salamanders (2 TT Characters), Raven Guard (2 TT Chracters), Crimson Fists (1 TT Chracter), White Scars (2 TT Chracters) and Iron Hands (2 TT Chracters).

Salamanders and Raven Guard could potentially be kept for DLC bringing Flamer/Melta and Stealth units respectively.

Iron Hands and White Scars I doubt will be base game due to low popularity.

Crimson Fists could be due to rumors that Pedro Kantor is getting a model refresh.

Eldar

Potentially the hardest to guess. Eldrad is obvious as the first lord.

But the second is hard. Yvvraine and the Ynnari don't work till after the Dark Eldar are in the game. She will probably be a DLC bringing Harlequins and have access to some Dark Eldar units as a mechanic.

Yriel and Eldar Corsairs are likewise probably DLC due to having multiple units, vehicles, Chracter and a LH.

Pheonix Lords are probably better suited as LH, but I can see some of them being Lords just because there are so many and other eldar Chracters are lacking on TT.

Maybe Jain Zar for some female representation. Shes lead armies before.

Or CA use a Chracter who used to be on TT but isn't anymore (maybe GW will reveal a new model for an older TT Chracter like with Nazdreg)

I was just watching this interview with the Total War VP Roger Collum from a few months ago, at 57:21 he says;

I know that people are gonna really wanna see campaign. We are talking about showing campaign....... (pause) very....early summer, I think, at an event. And then as we release it from there, we'll probably start talking streaming more of that stuff...as...as..as we go.

So, surely this 'event in the early summer' is gamescom right? So, in only a couple of weeks, will we get out first propper look at campaign? I sure hope so.

I think it's safe to say that performance is something that a lot of us are concerned about currently; people talking about needing to upgrade before release, ect. But, I've been thinking, if the game is being released on console, and so long as it's not a Cyberpunk-on-old-gen level crisis, shouldn't PC release be okay? Obviously, I'm sure it's not gonna be easy to run, but if it can run on an Xbox, shouldn't a lot of us on PC be okay? Especially since we're in Alpha at the moment so in the game play we've seen is nowhere near any sort of future optimisation.