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

[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…

[Oaty]

I'm all for the asian theatre but I feel CA would be more inclined to do a shogun 2 if they were going to do asia

[Megas Methuselah]

I went for Ancient Egypt, as I'd like a bronze age TW in the Middle-East, but I also like the thought of a 1800's worldwide mod. That'd be sweeeeet, too.

[Samurai Waki]

While I did put in for Shogun:2 which would be dream come true for me. If CA plans on furthering the time line, they still have technically a lot of unused space.

Personally, if CA re-uses it's engine at least twice per game, then naturally the next phase in Gun-Powdered Warfare would be something like Victoria: Total War. A timeline that still uses much the same tactics as the previous, but would run somewhere between 1830-1914. Really, this was a very interesting time period, and chock full of Conflict, between both Empires, Colonial Struggles, Emerging nations trying to find their way, and so forth. Plus, you get the benefit of pretty dramatic battles, just in sheer terms of the manpower used, and emerging technologies like rifles and much longer ranged cannons, etc. I mean, the tactics used by armies during this period were complete madness, and 50,000 men could easily be butchered in a day of conflict if you weren't a very good commander.

You also a lot of social upheavel, and unrest, so being able to manage an Empire, and having to deal with Anarchists, Communists, Social Liberals, market liberals, Social Conservatives, Market Conservatives, Nationalists, and the lot would probably keep you and your enemies fairly occupied, so it would take a real effort to go-a-conquerin'. Especially if you were to play a faction like Austro-Hungary or Russia.

The Sea Combat system wouldn't necessarily go to waste either, because you have enough timeline to see Ships of the Line being replaced by Iron-Clads, which in turn near the end of the scenario get replaced by Deep Draught Juggernauts and Destroyers. Which I think would be so much more fun, than seeing two wooden Junks on the Sea of Japan shout insults at each other, and each go their own way.

Anyway, just an opinion.