So, on the Steam forum for Hegemony 3, I came across Rob's post. In it, he reveals the direction he would like to take Hegemony 3 to:
I'm planning to do a more official road plan in the coming weeks, but the quick summary is that you can expect us to continue expanding the Hegemony III platform for the foreseeable future i.e:
- In the short/mid term we're going to focus on some smaller expansions centred around new/expanded mechanics e.g. siegecraft and diplomacy. We're still in the early stages here but they will likely be smaller (and cheaper) than the Eagle King and we hope to have the first out later this year.
- In the mid/longer range our plan had been to do a Punic Wars expansion similar in scope to the Eagle King where we expand the base map, add a full Carthage faction, and have a historical scenario around Hannibal's campaign.
Eventually, we would like to do a multi-player Hegemony IV, but what period or location that might cover is entirely up in the air right now. I'll say that I'm leaning away from the Greek/Rome classics because it's going to have been pretty well covered by the time we're done with III.
As always, the time tables on all of this depend a lot on how sales are going. In particular, we're going to be annoucing something totally different in the next month or two and how well that goes will determine how ambitious we can be on the Hegemony games.
I'm excited for Hegemony 3's future and hope that future sales will be strong enough for them to continue improving/expanding on the base game. As for Hegemony IV, if they decide on a different locale, I would love it if they choose to do China during its warring states period.
