coh3 will never happen coz relic will shut down after the failure of age of empires
... Given that COH2 is still here and the servers aren't shut down, the game still (even if by community) gets updates / maps / balance tweeks... I assume COH3 will happen just not so sure on a time frame maybe years but I do see a reason to move on from WW2, I mean yeah the pacific but thats just less factions... what Japan and USA? throw in some Chinese? That's less then what they have now in COH2 (5 Factions)... And yes the current fanbase is WW2 passionate... But whats to stop a company from wanting to expand that fan base? (yea yea "they will lose fans if the leave the WW2 Theme" sure you will ...COH3 comes out you will buy it with that hate then say you love it later) Well I assume the general concept is gonna be some "WW3" Type concept With the same amount of factions, Throw in EU, USA, Russia, China, and ? for 5th, some sort of current Superpower... and do a "fantasy WW3 Concept" ... to enforce this idea with the WW2 and WW1 game hay-day was when Battlefields and Call of Dutys (and others) went thru there games set in those time frames and Now you see them all moving toward "Modern Warfare"
If they made a semi-realistic version of the Advanced Powers mod that would be really cool. We could set it in 1945 or 1946, and for plot reasons let's just say Nazi Germany hasn't fallen yet. So you could have tech that bridges WW2 and the Cold War like Panther IIs, Super Pershings, IS-3s, Centurions, and the likes for tanks. For infantry weapons you'd have all the automatic rifles that the Germans already have, along with some experimental Allied weapons. Could also further develop on the infrared technology that both sides had. But I'd really like to see an expansion in the air arm of combined arms. Late WW2/early Cold War had some pretty cool jets, like the Gloster Meteor, Me 262, and He 162. At this stage helicopters were also being developed; the Western Allies had the Sikorsky R4 as a scout helicopter, while the Luftwaffe had the more capable Fa 223. We could theoretically introduce the concept of air cavalry 20 years earlier.
very imaginative ... Mod Sure ... COH3 unlikely