Hey all! Thanks for stopping by. Just to be clear this is not the finished game. Medieval 3 is in pre-production. It's an early preview of how the game might work from CA's official team. It’s a rough prototype at best, and is designed to show us the general direction they’re headed and get some feedback from you, the community.

I too feel burned by CA’s past decisions, but made this video because I’m optimistic for the future.

Many of the past issues were down to their old engine, Warscape. But this new rewritten engine “War Core” has the potential to solve so many issues of the past.

I remain skeptical, but hopeful for the future ❤ I’m going to reserve any judgement until we see something closer to a final build. I hope you will too, but appreciate that can be difficult given mistakes of the past.

In the meantime, I’m just going to sit back and enjoy the dev updates for what they are, glimpses at unfinished/unpolished work. I hope you’ll join me 😊

Full In-Engine Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/live/6tqz2tdXg20?si=ZInvESpZB10jdlmJ

1980: Wow games are starting to look like real life!
2000: Wow we can play with other people!
2026: Wow archers can go on the roof!

Add another $3.49 for the option of blood and gore.

Actual moats around castles would be a nice addition for historical accuracy. No historical Total War has ever had them to my knowledge.

Keep in mind this is so early you can't even call this an alpha. This is a skeleton.

I hope difficulty won't be "the AI gets cheats + 100 buffs and you get debuffs". Maybe the AI could make more use of those walls and towers in harder difficulties, or the enemy army composition gets harder to deal with.

"Just 12 meters"
Or in terms of medieval city: just about narrow enough to depict the main road.

Can't wait to pay $9.99 each to unlock more than half of the factions

Friendly fire is being considered 🤔 you mean that core historically accurate mechanic that we've had in TW since the beginning ? Another step back by CA.

Looks likes its gonna have all the classic Creative Assembly rough edges like bad pathing

If they want 'historic wall thickness' they should probably add all the other stuff walls actually had.

CA needs to add the ability to dig siege trenches/earthworks (depending on the era) as the attackers, also, the ability to dig ditches and such around settlements when defending. Sieges should actually be more than one turn,

One thing I don’t get – why is there actually a walkable river crossing here especially in the city? I don’t think you can just walk across most rivers like that. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a river as part of defense.

lets all remember the rome 2 preview video

Looks like a Total War Pharaoh mod right now

Old wine in new bags

Looks like stronghold. Would also love to see tunnelers/sappers collapse sections of walls.

The suppression effect of archer fire was present in Attila. Can't shake the feeling that the recipe for a perfect TW is already there if they just take the best stuff from each game

For me a positive is the return of multilayered settlement defenses, whereby the somewhat tedious second ring of gates and walls of m2tw are apparently, and perhaps sensibly, replaced by bridges and rivers within settlements.

Old unit collision seems to be back? I hope it stays that way. Especially the cav charges were just amazing.