i have been a total war player for a long time, i am now playing as rome, after one campaign with egypt, where i tried to learn the basics of DEI, and i can say that this is the most exciting total war experience i have had in my life. First the war against carthage was great, it was hard to me to destroy em (the punic wars ended in 170 turns) when carthage has died, in the north massalia and arverni become real serius powers and in the east basilea odrysson took over greece, by that moment egypt and galatians declare war over me and over basylea (so we become allies) i kick galatians out from greece when they tried to took it, and reach the gates of alexandría. In the moment i was preparing to make my final hit, a huge army from the arverni massalia alliance attacked me in the mediterranean sea and in the north of italy, obligating to a "trench" warfare, where i seems to be dead. i started this campaign just after ending my western roman empire campaign in attila (it was cool too) and i say, a great game like attila total war, will be a very good field to the DEI team skills, or even the 1212 ad mod pack (i just can dream with a mod like DEI for medieval times)