Instead of having a specific part in history a TW sequel... (such as Shogun)

[The Spartan (Returns)]

I hereby officially demand that the next Total War be 'Ice Age: Total War'.

You would be in command of a group of hunter-gatherers, there would be little to no fighting and most of the game would revolve around building up your mammoth farming estates.

Also, the currency would be teeth, and would be directly related to your birth rate.

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No, I think it should be Cambrian: Total War, where you can fight as the carnivorous arthropods, with the most powerful weapons of its time, but compete with each other, or trilobite, who can ram the arthropod factions with their superior numbers.

= Pretty damn broad.

I think I played this, you used clubs to kill Elephants, and your villagers said words like "Humanadakas"

It was called

Age of Empires

Ahhh classic. Too bad Ensemble Studios has been disbanded. **** Microsoft...

Anyway being on topic... Well being "broad" doesn't limit to history on earth. For example an LOTR: Total War would really work.