Leaked image of their booth, where they are announcing the next Total War game:
I’m going to say dark age/migration period expansion to Rome II.
I wish I could like Rome II, but given a choice I’ll just play Shogun II. It works, and the interface makes sense.
The Emperor Edition adds a lot of nice changes. Buildings now take 1 food instead of 4 so you can actually build up more. The generals get three traits in one now when you promote them. Everything is smoother and less glitchy although a few glitches are still there.
The Emperor edition is what the base game should have been all along. Much smoother and fun to play. They’ve changed a lot of little things in the interface as well and the game looks beautiful.
The announcement on the new game should come today! Not sure at what time. Will update if I find out.
Looks like it’s in an hour. 4pm London time 
Some people on other forums are saying they’d like ot see a Total War: Asia themed game.
I am not very familiar with asian history, and my immediate (and probably wrong) reaction is to say that Asia lacked the diversity of factions and cultures that Europe and the middle east had.
Am I right? In my ignorance, I’m picturing A huge China, Japan, and the Mongols, and a few tiny states to the south, which doesn’t sound evry fun.
Total War: Attila.
Looks like Barbarian Invasion 2 basically. Starts in the 340’s CE. Basically what I thought it would be. Migration period, fall of the empire, Germanic tribes being pushed west and pushing everyone else further west. Those darn Germans 
Waiting for links, they are still live streaming it.
It could include the various powers on the Indian subcontinent, the various Persian dynasties, Georgia and Armenia, the various Turkic steppe tribes, maybe even Russia.
But I think east Asia would probably have enough on its own without getting into central Asia and the Middle East. That’s a nice mix of civilized powers, mountain people, jungle people, seafaring people, and steppe nomads.
CA is pretty liberal about flexing history to get a variety of units into the games they’ve already made. Having Pharonic-era armies in Ptolemic Egypt, or turning the Areani into squads of Roman ninjas. I’d say Eastern history provides, if anything, an even richer ground for that sort of thing.
I’d say the main obstacle is just that people like to play in time periods they’re familiar with, and the Western video game market is a lot more familiar with Japan and European military history then that of China, India and SE Asia.
Steam has a Total War weekend sale this weekend, with Total War Rome II free to play during it so anybody who wants can give it a try.
Kind of dissapointed with Attila. It’s basically what I wanted Rome 2 to be in terms of graphics, gameplay mechanics, UI, etc, but I’m just not that into the setting.
I love ROME, specially, because of the huge variety in terms of faction size and units. You’ve got Rome with just part of the Italian peninsula, a ton of barbarian tribes north and west, Carthage as another mid size empire, Macedon and the greek city states, more city states and tribes north of them. There’s just a ton of faction to interact with, many of which feature totally unique units that look different and even fight differently. There’s a sense of progression for everyone involved. No faction is very large, and specifically, Rome is pretty vulnerable.
Looking at Attila’s map, it’s just completely dominated by the Western and Eastern Rom empires. It’s like 2 factions and a couple of tiny ones. It looks tedious to play as Rome, and boring to play as anyone else (since you’ll pretty much just be fighting Rome).
::sigh::
Around a **very **widely defined medieval era (300BC to 1200AD) you have more or less the same diversity the Greco-Roman antiquity + medieval Europe can boast : Middle China (spears/halberds, big shields, big armour, lotsa compound bows, static line, civil wars… also semi-auto crossbows :p) vs. Mongols (horse archers ahoy !) vs. Japan (horse archers, shieldless spear walls, pirates, extreme xenophobia) vs Korea (very ingenious stuff: rocket launchers & grenades, proto-dreadnoughts…) vs India (sword dudes, elephants, buddhism…) vs Persians (maybe ? I know early Muslim conquests stretched East all the way up to the frontiers of China, not sure if they ever made inroads later)
And bear in mind : that list ? I know fuck all about the *actual *specifics of the conflicts involved, it’s based on purely osmotic knowledge. I’m sure in China alone Han then Wu/Shu/Wei then Jin then Tang each had their specialities and discrete ways of doing war and their competing strategic philosophies. Surely as much so as medieval Europe.
Honestly, I’d welcome a ChinaTW just for the opportunity to learn about the history of the Far East while pwning d00ds, grooming degenerate generals and slaughtering prisoners :o
I obviously haven’t played Attila (still haven’t picked up Rome 2, still not sure I ever will) but the point is that both the Western and Eastern Roman empires got the everliving shit kicked out of them. In the similar expansion to Rome 1 (Barbarian Invasions) playing as Rome itself (i.e. Western Roman Empire) remains, to this day, one of the hardest campaigns in a TW game. And not just because of the titular invasions - you’ve got tons of internal problems as well with slave revolts, internal uprisings, bickering w/ the Eastern part of the empire etc… and military-wise you get to HOLD THE LIIINE against Frankish barbarians, desert camel raiders, displaced goths, huns, traitor romans, maybe even the Eastern empire. So it’s quite varied.
As for the other factions “just fighting Rome”, not really - there were quite a bunch of different Franks fighting over France+Germany, Goths pushing them further West, Vandals driving by them all (and eventually settling in North Africa but they obviously kicked a lot of butts along the way, hence their inclusion in everyday vocabulary), Saxons and Danes invading Britannia, Sassanids taking advantage of Rome’s woes in the east…
And of course, the motherfucking Huns. Which I understand were something of an issue ? That kinda displaced millions of people all across Central Asia and Europe ? 
Gameplay-wise, that was always the big selling point of either BI or Medieval : “can you stand up to a gigantic horde of OP’d horse archers bent on not just territorial conquest but burning everything you ever held dear, then raping the corpse ?”
And, of course, Koei has put out almost as many “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” games as there are Madden games.