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**A1_Unit** · 09-10-2009, 00:22

I don't think an expansion for ETW would take place so close to the time period of NTW.

**peacemaker** · 09-10-2009, 02:08

Well, m2 had kingdoms, which was roughly the same era. Plus NTW is pretty much just ETW with sligthly different units. The battle tactics and such were similar-form up in a line and shoot. It requires less work than trying to apply the engine to a different era.

**A1_Unit** · 09-10-2009, 03:43

I could uderstand if a mod did it but if CA does it then that's way too much focus on one time period.

**peacemaker** · 09-11-2009, 05:57

How is that too much focus? The combat of the era is virtually identical and therefore easy to replicate, not to mention Napoleon is big and important and stuff.

Think about previous games: The medival period had MTW,M2TW,Kingdoms, and maybe MTW expension I dunno what that was. RTW had BI, which was only a hundred or two hundred years later. I don't think that ETW and NTW is too much focus, because they're virtually the same game but..a little different.

Am I just crazy here?

**Peasant Phill** · 09-11-2009, 10:34

Originally Posted by peacemaker

How is that too much focus? The combat of the era is virtually identical and therefore easy to replicate, not to mention Napoleon is big and important and stuff.

Think about previous games: The medival period had MTW,M2TW,Kingdoms, and maybe MTW expension I dunno what that was. RTW had BI, which was only a hundred or two hundred years later. I don't think that ETW and NTW is too much focus, because they're virtually the same game but..a little different.

Am I just crazy here?

It's to focussed because a campaign will only have a span of a few decades AND it's virtually identical.

Every other expansion/follow-up game had a span of at least 100 years (except ATW).

P.S. MTW had Viking Invasion.

**A1_Unit** · 09-12-2009, 03:47

BTW, I posted at TWC my discovery of a table of historical battles; all taking place in the 17th century (they aren't active battles either). Hmm... what could this mean?