Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky View Post
If you mashed Civ and TW up, that would be the one game to rule them all(4x).
As I've said before, gief a game with a mash-up of Civ and EU diplomacy, domestic politics and trade, a mixture of strategic gameplay of Civilization and Total War with a tinge of EU, and top of that the glorious battle scenes of Total Wars - with a slower pace and more realistic feel (... yesh, like in EB, duh ;( ) and you should have a pretty good game at your hands.

As it is now, you have to choose between empire building of the Civilization series, empire management of Europa Universalis series and the oh-so-delicious battles of Total War series.

Thankfully, EB makes the battles more realistic and I love history, so it makes the otherwise rather dull R:TW playable - however, the battle AI is what it is, the diplomacy doesn't work, the AI factions cannot manage themselves and are suicidal at best, there's quite a few glitches, et cetera.

Oh well, one can always dream.