Next WG title

[chazwozza]

I think they should do a ship game with wooden sailing ships with cannons etc

Slower paced game 

[invicta2012]

Eras of warships would be nice. I would be interested in the post-ironclad pre-dreadnought era, as those ships are - for want of a better term - utterly bonkers.  But I think that the current dev team lean more towards spaceships and pew pew pew, though, so they'd probably be more interested in 1950s and 1960s warfare and the early era of missiles and jets. 

[Panocek]

24 minutes ago, chazwozza said:

I think they should do a ship game with wooden sailing ships with cannons etc

Slower paced game 

How do you do transformers collab with sailboats?

[Aragathor]

Seeing how Naval Action has been a miss, I'd say WG would have a decent shot at an Age of Sail arcade game in the style of WoWS.

Most of the non-combat mechanics could suit the setting, I'd say little would need to be done save create the models and battle mechanics.

Even the division into ship classes would fit, with unrated ships being like DDs, Frigates serving as cruisers, and Ships of the Line being BBs. Then you'd also have a ton of potential premiums, like USS Constitution, HMS Indefatigable etc.

 

4 minutes ago, Panocek said:

How do you do transformers collab with sailboats?

Pirates of the Caribbean say hi. Disney is big bucks and with how they are failing with Star Wars they would jump on it.

Then you can do a GW Warhammer Fantasy collab with ships done in the style of specific races (look up Flintloque for British ORCS!).

[Panocek]

Just now, Aragathor said:

Pirates of the Caribbean say hi. Disney is big bucks and with how they are failing with Star Wars they would jump on it.

Then you can do a GW Warhammer Fantasy collab with ships done in the style of specific races (look up Flintloque for British ORCS!).

Still, once you exhaust such obvious picks... how do you link weeb/transformers/KFC with sail?

[pra3y]

6 minutes ago, Panocek said:

Still, once you exhaust such obvious picks... how do you link weeb/transformers/KFC with sail?

 

Well there is a KFC dating simulator game so i wouldn't be too surprise if we get a KFC transforming weeb viking ship.

[Aragathor]

15 minutes ago, Panocek said:

Still, once you exhaust such obvious picks... how do you link weeb/transformers/KFC with sail?

You don't, because contrary to modern ship Age of Sail allows for some crazy monetization of ship customization. So collabs would be extra.

Prow figures, different paint colors, paint styles, gilding, sails, custom ship name at the stern. You can charge hard dubs for those. In WoWS it wouldn't work.

 

[Panocek]

1 minute ago, Aragathor said:

You don't, because contrary to modern ship Age of Sail allows for some crazy monetization of ship customization. So collabs would be extra.

Prow figures, different paint, paint styles, gilding, sails. you can charge hard dubs for those. In WoWS it wouldn't work.

 

WG still can't figure your own customization in their most successful games and you're asking for puzzle WT style

Only recently tanks got options to paint things your way

[Maris_Piper]

And the Russians could have a Real Navy that was pretty good in it's own right as well, that puts paid to one problem, It just gives them the chalenge  of screwing over the Royal Navy

[TeaAndTorps]

Gib Spanish galleons, plz 

[Aragathor]

2 minutes ago, motor_g_b said:

And the Russians could have a Real Navy that was pretty good in it's own right as well, that puts paid to one problem, It just gives them the chalenge  of screwing over the Royal Navy

Looking at the period a lot of nations could get in, hell there would be a place for exotic nations like the Ottomans and India/Maratha in the game. Only Wehraboos would be unhappy, as there was no German navy at the time.

 

[Maris_Piper]

10 minutes ago, Aragathor said:

Only Wehraboos would be unhappy, as there was no German navy at the time. 

 

Aaah no problem the Prussians were allies of the British around that time and The Royal Navy had loads of Franco/Spanish ships laying about that were very nice, They could have those and "obviously" improve them  Problem sorted.

[RenamedUser_92906789]

WG should go into SALT business .... production and export.

 

 

 

[Jethro_Grey]

1 hour ago, Aragathor said:

Seeing how Naval Action has been a miss, I'd say WG would have a decent shot at an Age of Sail arcade game in the style of WoWS.

Most of the non-combat mechanics could suit the setting, I'd say little would need to be done save create the models and battle mechanics.

Even the division into ship classes would fit, with unrated ships being like DDs, Frigates serving as cruisers, and Ships of the Line being BBs. Then you'd also have a ton of potential premiums, like USS Constitution, HMS Indefatigable etc.

 

Pirates of the Caribbean say hi. Disney is big bucks and with how they are failing with Star Wars they would jump on it.

Then you can do a GW Warhammer Fantasy collab with ships done in the style of specific races (look up Flintloque for British ORCS!).

This would allow WG to crowbar CVs into the game. Ballons which drop AP burning balls of Iron. 

[Panocek]

8 minutes ago, Jethro_Grey said:

This would allow WG to crowbar CVs into the game. Ballons which drop AP burning balls of Iron. 

And tier 10 being airships/zeppelins

[Uglesett]

2 hours ago, Panocek said:

How do you do transformers collab with sailboats?

They can do a LEGO collaboration instead.

[NobleRipper]

3 hours ago, chazwozza said:

I think they should do a ship game with wooden sailing ships with cannons etc

Slower paced game 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069650/Ultimate_Admiral_Age_of_Sail/ is already around, it seems to have land combat as well.

 

If I'm entirely honest, I really wouldn't want to see WG's take on an age-of-sail naval game, I really don't think they'd be able to do it justice with their usual conventions and order of priorities; variable consumables, paper ships, stylised armour penetration mechanics and arcadey hide-and-seek combat work to a degree with modern warships/tanks (mileage may vary of course), but to do a sail game right it would need less all of that and more learning to use the wind and manoeuvre characteristics of each ship, detailed boarding mechanics and probably rather samey ships for the most part (there wasn't the same scale of technological development during the period as there was in the 20th century).

 

If the flotillas of Russian paper ships in WoWs are an annoyance, it would be a special torture (for me at least) to see them in a period where there were far more real warships to choose from; and the point where a frigate manages to sink a First Rate in open battle as par for the course of the usual balans procedure is not a point I wish to see in gaming. And of course if they went the usual arcadey route, it would turn out as just WoWs with more masts and fewer turrets (although fingers crossed for HMS Captain, perhaps it could fill in for the subs as per historical accuracy ); that wouldn't really be a slower-paced or more thoughtful game at all.

[Maris_Piper]

1 hour ago, Jethro_Grey said:

This would allow WG to crowbar CVs into the game. Ballons which drop AP burning balls of Iron.

Aaaah Komrade, It's strange you say that, We Have found design for Stronk Russian Airship fom 1804 in Kremlin Vaults engraved on Dragon Skin

[Tatsfield]

Leaving aside the jokes and WG insults, I suspect the problem for sailing ships would be the simulation of wind conditions and the need for tacking and running before the wind.  The average player only understands engines and going in the direction that he wants to go.  The player base that would be prepared to master realistic sailing would most likely be too small to warrant developing a game and anything less would be a fraud and historical biased players wouldn't want it so it would probably fall apart.

[RavenWolf1]

Well. There is more competition with games which has historic ships like Sea of Thieves:

 

 

:D

[COPlUM]

Good idea, we got things to work with here, this is a submarine in the 1700s :

[piet11111]

Whatever it is i wont be going down that road again.

 

 

[Itwastuesday]

That would be cool. Personally, I'd take an earlier era WoWs too, for your pre-dreadnoughts and whatnots.

[unterbotesee]

12 hours ago, chazwozza said:

I think they should do a ship game with wooden sailing ships with cannons etc

Slower paced game 

Exactly what I'm thinking most of the time I see two BBs exchanging broadside salvos from point blank range. Unless one of them is mine, then I'm thinking more in the lines of "This strip of water looked kinda bigger, no?"

[Thorsvald]

Someone has said 1700's?

Hi