There has been a flurry of Total War news recently with Creative Assembly refocusing resources on its most successful franchise, beginning with the long term support of Total War: Warhammer 3. One of those announcements contained quite a lot of hints about potential future DLC with the Monkey King and some Dogs of War being name-dropped. While detailing the new Cathay content featured in the upcoming free Shadows of Change DLC update, game director Richard Aldridge wrote that Grand Cathay fans should not be disappointed by the lack of elite infantry among the additions. “There is a very good reason for this and trust me we aren’t monkeying about,” he stated, adding that the Celestial Courts controlled by the dragons simply didn’t offer additional units of that sort. Aldridge concluded this section by assuring that a lot more content would be coming in the future: “We’ve only just scratched the surface of the possible content we can create for Grand Cathay and as I mentioned earlier, we have plans to support