Here's a video from TGBoGs in concerns to a game testing call:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUS2p74WyIU

Nothing concrete of course but it's a reasonable position.

Years I've been waiting for a 40k Total War. The fact that they heavily focus on Warhammer related questions gives me hope. Wish I could sign up and test it online somehow just so I can put my mind at ease once and for all.

It's weird, there were advertisements early in the year, surprised no one saw it on the forum

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torak8988#3885 wrote:
I just pray they don't have any horde or horde-like factions, because they are miserable to play

If TWW40k comes with proper galactic map then there will be plenty of horde factions. The good news is that no one will force you to play them.

There will be no galactic map. The gameplay will hew closer to Dawn of War Dark Crusade or Gladius, one planet with several different races fighting over it. They cut out all naval combat to save money, they'll not bother with space combat. There's also no way they'll make dozens of different theater maps to represent even a tiny fraction of the important planets in 40k. That's not going to happen.

At most you might get the Soulstorm deal, so several planets in the same system, travelling by means other than ships.

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TainBoCuailinge#8335 wrote:
There will be no galactic map.

Who told you that?

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TainBoCuailinge#8335 wrote:

There will be no galactic map. The gameplay will hew closer to Dawn of War Dark Crusade or Gladius, one planet with several different races fighting over it. They cut out all naval combat to save money, they'll not bother with space combat. There's also no way they'll make dozens of different theater maps to represent even a tiny fraction of the important planets in 40k. That's not going to happen.

At most you might get the Soulstorm deal, so several planets in the same system, travelling by means other than ships.

Probably not, they will add most of the codexes over a trilogy at least, all these factions will not coexist on a single planet. It will more likely be a cluster of planets.

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SerPus#7395 wrote:
Who told you that?

Common sense. As I explained right after the part you quoted.

You really think they're making unique theater campaign maps for Holy Terra, Mars, Ultramar, Medrengard, Baal, Armageddon etc.? That we'll get any space combat?  Yeah, not gonna' happen. They are already cutting corners here in WH3, TW 40k will be the one-planet/one-system experience.

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TainBoCuailinge#8335 wrote:
You really think they're making unique theater campaign maps for Holy Terra, Mars, Ultramar, Medrengard, Baal, Armageddon etc.?

Who said anything about theaters?

TainBoCuailinge#8335 wrote:
That we'll get any space combat?

Nope. What does it have to do with the campaign map anyway?

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TainBoCuailinge#8335 wrote:
Would you reduce all planets to a single battlemap?

Multi-stage battles are easy to implement in that context.

TainBoCuailinge#8335 wrote:
Yeah, what would space combat have to do with a campaign map containing lots of interstellar travel?

Absolutely nothing.