ETW is really two games -the political/diplomatic and empire-building element, and the tactical battle element. I doubt that CA will ever put in the effort or resources to effectively rewrite the empire-building element. I would like to see them at least offer an add-on or separate stand-alone that simply featured the tactical battle engine and the option to set up totally customized battle scenarios on interesting and varied terrain. That could be a nice consolation prize that would offer an hour or two of interesting battle action. They should also offer it free to those of us who ponied up for ETW.