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In summation:

- After Total War: Warhammer 2 Creative Assembly asked GW to do Cathay or there wouldn't be enough juice for a game 3
- Games Workshop said "no you can't do Cathay we forbid it"
- Creative Assembly sees no way to make a Warhammer 3, they need a new cash cow though
- Creative Assembly develops and releases Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Huge success in China
- Games Workshop is notoriously obsessed with penetrating the East Asian market
- Games Workshop change their mind and tell CA that old Cathay idea is now allowed
- Creative Assembly goes back to their original project of a Total War: Warhammer 3 with Cathay
- Cretaive Assembly makes Warhammer 3 and kills Total War: Three Kingdoms

(this is also noteworthy on the Warhammer tabletop side because 2019, the year of release of Three Kingdoms is when GW kills the Warhammer Legends compendium project for the Old World and begins officially the Old World tabletop project - right after the success of Total War: Three Kingdoms)