anybody wish this game started earlier?

[Gelgoog]

anyone else interested in the period before this game starts. like the period between the fall of rome and hastings. cause you got all kinds of cool things, like charlamagne and the carolingian empire, you got the vikings invading everywhere from the coast of england, to rome, russia.

[Lavastein]

i would have liked to play early too. But i think it would have been better to have the split of the three kingdoms. (Louis the Pius's sons) since it gives you more factions.

[Axe-Battler]

well maybe that should be the next total war if not an imperial age (napoleanic), it could be dark ages, like showing the follow up of "the barbarian invasion" and fall of rome lol.
I would also CRAVE to see the islamic jihad around the 8th century ad, that i would kill to have in a total war game!!!
But that would be very hard for them to combine military styles for all those different time periods if your talking 450 ad through 1000 ad.

[Lugotorix]

Yes. I've always held a certain fondness for the early period.

[Henry of Grosmont]

Maybe expansion will bring us back the Viking Invasion

[Petavian Belgae]

why not a rome mod with the MTWII engine?
I love the Rome Period?
Something for the modders???

[chris watton]

why not a rome mod with the MTWII engine?
I love the Rome Period?
Something for the modders???

Agree completely! Roma Victor!!!

[stemix]

I'd like an earlier period too, like 800 ad - 1500 ad. Basically, I hate gun power and love old time battles.
But for next, I would like MTW give us the Greek-Persian war. Difficult though, because of few factions. As an expansion maybe.

[jimbob]

The dark ages are cool, but I can see CA using a lot of "artistic lisence" for the units, as the dark ages weren't documented very well. With the stuff the invented for rome, I shudder to think what they'd come up with for a lesser documented period.

I reckon a whole game based on the mongol invasion in asia would be cool. I'm fed up with the european map.

[Saintaw]

My crystal ball* tells me something about the next TW game will be either napoleonic(?) or the american civil war.

* Mostly because of the new gunpowder units.

[Stalins Ghost]

Starting earlier would have thrown all sorts of problems into the mix. I think the start date works just right, since its not part of a transition period in history. 800AD - 1000AD is however a transition period, and generally these are marked by many dissolving and emerging factions, advances in technology, changes of tactics (just look at how the change to renaissance is handled already; not brilliantly). I would love to see a mod/prequal specifically focusing on 800-1000AD however, since confining it to this period would reduce the problems of representing both periods.

[Reiver]

I'd love to see a TW game that stretched from the Micean period through to the Crimean with the whole world as a map. There would need to be massive AI improvements and a shift in gameplay from the land grab style that exists at the moment but it's probably my "ideal game".
An earlier start would have been nice but it would probably have overlapped the end of I and there's also the Norman invasion which would have been hard to simulate. The England faction would have been unrecognisable.

If they're going to do gunpowder units they better build an entirely new engine and way of handling them. Tbh the gunpowder units have always sucked in TW games and they'll really need to get them right if they're going to model the strategy of the Napoleonic period.