Now, I've had this great idea for a Civil War era expansion to the Total War series stuck in my head for a while, but I decided it'd be best if called Victoria: Total War, as when someone suggests an ACW expansion they automatically go "Two sides? Boring!" But there would obviously be more than two sides. Now, as the Victorian era would go from roughly 1840 to 1900, this'd have to be the last TW game chronologically speaking as the 20th century is just unfeasible for TW-style gameplay. But anyways, I can imagine this having much, much more potential and variety than Napoleon Total War.
Now, the Victorian era covered many MASSIVE and HUGE (yes, all-caps are necessary, that's how huge it is) wars that were possibly much grander in scope than anything in the ETW era. First off (that I know off) there's the Mexican-American War, the Afghan Wars, the Opium Wars in China, the biggy: The American Civil War, another biggie: The War of the Triple Alliance between Paraguay and Brazil/Argentina/Uruguay (nearly as bloody as the ACW) and Britain's various colonial expeditions. There's much potential for changing history here, whether it's turning Mexico into the North American superpower instead of USA, making the South an independent nation, preserving the strength of Paraguay or Bolivia, planting your name on as much soil as possible as any European nation, the list can go on and on. Suffice to say, a Victorian expansion could be the biggest and most expansive TW yet if CA really tried. Your thoughts?