What do you want in next TW title?! What?!

[The Blind Samurai]

Well i voted for Shogun 2 total war i would honestly like to control hundreds of Noble Samurai to fight against peasants and the mongol horde

also Rome 2 total war would be interesting with the trade theaters and all and galley fights would be great

But What about Greece i mean the war with persia is epic
like you could play the battle of Thermopylae and win

[Noncommunist]

Could you have a New Zealand Total War? I guess it would start sometime around the mid 1700s and by the early 1800s, muskets would be introduced. Then, in the 1840s, the British would begin fighting. The British found it extremely difficult to defeat the maori forts and I'm not sure if they were ever taken. However, the British eventually won by undermining the economic base that sustained the Maori. It seems like it could be an interesting place for a TW game.

[Sheogorath]

I think that's a bit small for a TW game...maybe as part of an expansion it'd be good, though.

It seems a waste of resources to dedicate an entire TW game to such a local, and relatively brief, conflict.

[Noncommunist]

I guess it would be rather small but Japan was also a fairly small place. Maybe it could stretch back to the 1300s when they settled the islands. So then you could go out and start settlements as you take over parts of the islands.

I guess it probably would function better as an expansion since Total War scales are usually pretty big unlike in the Shogun. Though I still can't see where it would fit unless they made Pacific:Total War.

[Sheogorath]

But Shogun was set in an era when Japan was divided, with a whole slew of factions. And spanned hundreds of years.

There's also the fact that, as I recall, the British never had more than a few thousand soldiers on the island at a time.

[Noncommunist]

There were probably dozens of tribes on the islands and it could extend for hundreds of years. Though before the muskets, there were no distance weapons. I guess that could be a bit of a challenge as you would only have melee infantry for a while. Then I guess you would obtain them like the Apaches and Chichimecs acquire them. They also seem to have picked up a European ship in the 1830s and conquered the Marioris on the Chatham Islands. I'm not sure how they got the ship.

As for the British, they had 18,000 troops according to wikipedia.

[Fisherking]

They would be some fun little wars for an expansion maybe, with some very interesting tactics. They did give the government troops a real pain, but the outcome was never in question. It was also quite late…1830s or 40s I think…

It was the 1800s before they managed to get Briton to take them as a Colony…

As to the ship…I think you have to blame Yankee seal hunters…