Quote Originally Posted by Maleficus View Post
I honestly think the American Civil War would be absolutely awful. I mean, there's only two factions, the weapons are far too advanced for Total War to still be Total War, and it's just not as interesting as you probably think.

I don't know why people keep saying that the style of warfare had so radically changed since the turn of the century. I don't understand why weapons had become "sooo" advanced.

Can we use examples? Rifling became popular during the civil war, but troops still predominantly used smoothbore muskets. Additionally, rifling was around way before the revolution.

If you are talking about the gattling gun, it only saw limited use during the ACW. Line combat was still predominant.

We are talking out of our hats if we think that the Civil war was lightyears ahead of 18th century warfare.




PS - we could have numerous factions and countless units. This would be a unit heavy expansion. Mexico was around, various native tribes were still vibrant, Canada was irritating at that time, the UK was fence sitting - waiting to throw its hat into the ring, The Spanish were still in the Americas, France was still in the Americas, etc. Sounds like a similar expansion to viking invasion with endlessly varied units. Uniforms were at their peak at this time.


Napoleon to the American Civil war would be a beautiful expansion with huge potential. polar opposite campaign maps.