If it went modern it will include a Chinese faction for those China bucks
Look how well Sega did with total war kingdoms.
But I don't think SEGA will risk such a dramatic redesign with how badly they fell on their own sword with DoW3. SEGA just want a stable money maker and CoH2 was a commercial success. So the game is not leaving WW2
Most likely well get same CoH but with alternative theatres, Italy, africa, Japan etc. If they make the game into "what if" with the invasion of mainland Japan there's a lot of interesting tanks and weapons that could be added. War thunder already has a lot of those fun toys
Yes, for CoH3 there are many options for the game:
- For example, take the early period of World War II: France with its many strange tanks + British Expeditionary Corps against Germany and the expansion of the Forgotten Far East - the USSR against Japan during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, with a bunch of very early and interesting tank, skins and equipment.
Or an extension of Barbarossa.
- Africa and Sicily. With the Italian faction
- The unrealized Eastern Front.
Late events of 1944 - 1945. There may be Hungary with its interesting own tanks, equipment and obtained from Germany (Pz.4, 13 Tigers, Hetzer, etc.) + German last major offensive operation against the Soviet Guard Army / Soviet Army in Europe
- The offensive in Germany, the Soviet Guard Army / Soviet Army in Europe against the Fatherland Defense Army - the last ditch weapon, a bunch of captured weapons, Volksturm.
- Karelian front. In which there were a bunch of interesting tanks T-28, T-40 + the latest equipment.
- Soviet - Japanese War of 1945.