What do you want for next total war after Rome 2?

[General Maximus]

Empire II

This.

Medieval III first I think though. Empire is something I want to be perfected out beforehand, just like I (and a huge number of people) want Rome II to be perfect.

[Maklodes]

TWs I'd like to see:

Total War: Three Kingdoms. A new Chinese setting, with new ways of fighting. Includes northern nomadic tribes and other non-Chinese cultures as well as Wei, Shu, and Wu.

Total War: Caliphate. Dark ages setting, filling the gap from Barbarian Invasion to Medieval, featuring Magyar and Viking raids, the Carolingian Empire, the Arab expansion against the Byzantines, the Sunni-Shiite split, possible Zoroastrian revolts trying to restore the Sassanid glory days, etc.

Total War: Renaissance. Filling the gap between Medieval and Empire, featuring the most intense religious violence ever (the Thirty Years war killed more people than the Crusades), in a period of rapid tactical transformation and innovation.

TWs I'm less enthusiastic about:

Total War: Aegean Pre-Epaminondas Ancient Greece's tendency to deploy fairly homogeneous armies of hoplites (according to Archer Jones), with a few exceptions such as the Achaean's preference for peltasts, makes this seem like a fairly dull period.

Total War: Victoria Like Ancient Greece, the period between the end of Napoleon and WW1 featured fairly homogeneous armies of artillery and infantry riflemen (according to Archer Jones). This constricts tactical possibilities.

Total War: Something we've seen before I say it's time for something new after Shogun II and Rome II!

UPDATE: I'm not sure what to vote for in the poll. None of my suggested "likes" are really there.

[sgt_melin]

Empire II. best total game ever, love the time period, the sea battle and all that stuff. I did like rome to, and i have very big hope for rome II. Love that time period to, but empire is the bigger bang for me. I guess too that medival 3 will come out first, empire is still to new, think it need 10 years before they do a second. But think what that game will look with todays grafik...WOW..

[General Maximus]

Empire II.

This.

[baptistus]

Conan total war !!!!

[Virtanen]

I like how reneissance - early 1700s isn't even on the poll...

[General Maximus]

I like how reneissance - early 1700s isn't even on the poll...

More than half of interesting periods are left out of the poll.

[Iridion]

We had Napoleon TW, so what would you say for Charlemagne:TW (or just Dark Ages:TW and Charlemagne as expansion)? Just think about it - heptarchy in Britain, Slovian invasion on eastern Europe, powerful Bizantium, caliphates and viiiikiiings! I would also like next game settled in 19th century, with American Civil War or Franco-Prussian War as expansions.

[Phillyphries]

No China as an option? Dear God, CA. Please make a TW on China and not screw up royally this time.

[bibouba]

I'm personaly for Victorian age. The colonisation, construction of empire, the race for new technologies, revolution time ... could make a very good game