After recently mentioning that A Total War Saga: TROY for Linux was no longer happening, the other side of the coin here is that Total War: WARHAMMER III is still coming to Linux officially from Feral Interactive.
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Now that Total War: Warhammer II has received its last expansion, all eyes are turned towards the horizon and the impending arrival of Warhammer III, whenever that is. We know it won't be before September; it might not even be until October or later. We know this because Creative Assembly posted today to confirm that the big Grand Cathay reveal won't be coming until mid-September.
In fact, there won't be any Warhammer III news between now and then. "We're taking a break over the course of the next month or so," the official blog post reads. "When we come back - currently we're aiming at some time in September - we will be lifting the lid on the mysterious and majestic empire of Grand Cathay."
Not only that, but the highly anticipated rework to siege battles will also be revealed. As an empire that routinely has to defend itself against the onslaught of Chaos, Cathay has some unique mechanics associated with sieges, but CA will also go into detail regarding the general siege changes as well.
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It's great that Creative Assembly is giving life to Warhammer Fantasy's Grand Cathay in Total War: Warhammer III. Cathay is a Chinese-analogue faction that's only ever had references in older editions of the now-defunct tabletop wargame, and it's not the only one. Nations such as Ind, Nippon, and Araby are all (fairly obvious) mirrors of real-world cultures that are also known to exist, and little else beyond that.
Even Kislev lacked the same level of support as the major Warhammer Fantasy factions, and Total Warhammer fans have been wondering what else Creative Assembly might be able to pull out of its hat. If the studio can bring Cathay to life, why not another lost nation? Why not Araby?
Araby - a fictional fusion of Middle Eastern and North African cultures - has cropped up before as a faction some fans would like to see brought to life officially, and people were hoping they would appear in Total War: Warhammer II. With Warhammer III now firmly on the horizon (and Cathay's inclusion expanding the map eastward), fans are wondering if perhaps Creative Assembly has changed its mind. That would be no, in case you were wondering.
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Total War: Warhammer III, while not being the end times, is going to be pretty apocalyptic as Kislev, Cathay and whoever else have to contend with not one, but four flavours of Chaos. We got a taste of this when we went hands-on with the new 'survival' battle type that was revealed last month.
Today, Creative Assembly released a blog post that goes into further detail regarding what changes are coming to tactical battles in general in the highly anticipated strategy game. There is a surprising amount of tweaks being applied to your run-of-the-mill engagements, also known as 'standard' battles.
In-battle resources - which in Warhammer II is a hard-coded system that's only used by Dark Elf, Greenskin, and Tomb Kings factions - have been redesigned so that it's a more flexible system, and this change is one of the main reasons it's resources can be deployed in survival battles. All of the game's new and existing abilities have been given a quality of life pass, which has allowed for cool new spells to be brought in for Warhammer III, and the changes don't stop there.
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