Recently it was announced that Sega and Creative Assembly were teaming up with Wargaming for a collaboration on Total War Arena, one of their upcoming games. Now an image has been released on the official Facebook which along with e-mails sent out, confirm the date of closed Alpha tests for the game.

The image is of Roman soldier’s pauldron with the roman numerals  XXVI.XI.MMXVI. visible on it. For those of you who get confused with Roman Numerals or just can’t be bothered to decipher it, in numbers we’d recognise more easily it reads 27.11.2016. You might be reading this and realise that it happens to be tomorrow’s date. So we won’t have to wait long for news.

We know that it’s closed alpha as well because the subreddit for Total War Arena is currently filled with players saying that they’ve received alpha keys, and a number of people have screencapped and posted the e-mail that came with the key. Said e-mail suggests that the tests will start from 8am tomorrow, so as long as NDA isn’t put in place you may see the game popping up on Twitch and Youtube Gaming tomorrow.

Of course, the partnership with Wargaming means that the game is not available on Steam and must instead be played through Wargaming Game Center, along with a wipe of any previous tests’ progress. So everyone’s starting from square one which is probably a good thing.