Come dribble with me over this pitch for Total War: Redwall, in which Shrimp 'n' Hotroot soup is a vital strategic resource

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A transportation   platform  descent  for a Redwall crippled  with an illustration of immoderate   woodland creatures making a cake. Image credit: BuildsAirships / Christopher Denise

Total War: Redwall is not an existent Total War game, unfortunately, nor adjacent a mod similar Mossflower TW. It's an evolving transportation from Reddit idiosyncratic BuildingAirships, 1 among galore thousands circulating connected yonder internet, similar logboats riding the rapids of Noonvale. The latest update is astir a imaginable cooking and feasting system, with each of the comestibles sourced from the groaning banqueting tables of the Brian Jacques books.

We mostly defy penning up pitches, due to the fact that we are rather susceptible of having monolithic brainfarts each by ourselves, but I americium powerless earlier the thought that Deeper 'n Ever Turnip 'n Tater 'n Beetroot Pie volition boost a unit's max health, armor and complaint defence for 4 turns. Is that with oregon without herb chutney? Bally chaotic idea, BuildingAirships. You person to get this successful beforehand of those Creative Assembly people. Or perchance better, magically find a mode to money your precise ain Redwall strategy crippled that isn't constrained by the needs of Total Warfare.

BuildingAirships came up with the transportation a fewer months ago, creating a pitchdeck which features a fewer classical Redwall caller covers and much caller illustrations by Christopher Denise for The Great Redwall Feast and The Redwall Cookbook. The archetypal doc covers however the task would instrumentality Redwall's assorted taxon arsenic Total War factions, with an accent connected peculiar terrain abilities, specified arsenic pike blocking stream crossings and mole sappers gathering underground fortifications.

There is speech of role-playing elements, inspired by Heroes of Might and Magic, with riddles and prophecies to pursue. Also leader characters, similar Mariel Gullwhacker, the bellmaker's girl who defeated oversea rats with a knotted rope, the precise aforesaid enactment that present hangs from the Joseph Bell of Redwall Abbey. I made a fewer gullwhackers IRL arsenic a kid. They aren't arsenic murderous arsenic they're said to be, but ech, we broke a fewer windows. All successful bully fun.

The cooking pitchdeck reimagines Redwall's galore recipes arsenic strategical resources. It makes a lawsuit for triumph hinging heavy connected commercialized successful roots, greens, grains, fruit, nuts and chaotic game, unneurotic with questions of play oregon climate. Aside from recreating circumstantial dishes, you could acceptable stocks speech for a faction-specific feast, similar The Long Patrol's Hero's Repast. I similar the conception of a real-time strategy crippled with resourcing mechanics that thatch you a clump of recipes, oregon amended you astir foraging. I americium truthful weary of stockpiling golden and wood.

Redwall videogames bash exist, but determination has yet to beryllium a genuinely large one. If you're aft the adjacent champion thing, I urge Ghost of a Tale, though it arguably takes much inspiration from The Secret of NIMH.

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