Another Next Total War Poll

[antisocialmunky]

What's controversial about Switzerland not existing? What did I miss in my history lessons? What nefarious activities were they up to in those days?

Banking? Nope.

They have a policy of neutrality and it seems like for that reason, the Swiss Confederation was removed form the game. We never really got an answer on the Swiss question true, but the faction's unit assets are in ETW, its just that the faction, and that part of the map doesn't exist while tons of other minor factions exist.

Would you like to name a mainstream title that has dealt with that in a game?

Did RTW deal with the crucifixion of any Jews?

1) Those games only detail the military aspect like Company of Heroes and other RTT games like Blitzkrieg. That's how they get away with doing WWII without that bit of unpleasantness. You play as the military, not the civilian government.

In contrast, TW has not been exclusively about warfare since STW with all the random 4xish stuff that was added. You play as the leader or shadow government of your country building infrastructure, charging taxes, developping trade and technology.

And that's the problem: you don't play just as a general in the faction in TW, you play as the leader of the faction. You can't ignore what's going on beyond the battles.

Not that I would care if I was playing as Mr. Hitler, but there would be a fundemental problem in ignoring the policies of the Third Reich in a game that purports to be atleast semi-historical that shows both the civillian and military side...

2) But there were zealots, enslaving, extermination, and Judea was part of the game and you could exterminate Judea :-\. You also didn't start that game 8 years into the process of collecting and slowly killing 12 million people. Similarly the inquisition was in MTW as well as the persecution of the Jews though toned down quite abit. However, again your hands weren't tied.

This is opposed to faction whose starting ideology is based on racial superiority and the extermination of subhumans and undesirables.

Then there's the issue of Japan raping and pillaging their way through Asia for about 10 years...

EDIT:

Actually, what might be interesting is a WWII TW starting in 1930 and let it go from there. America isn't a powerhouse DEMOCRACYWINZ, France isn't dead, Germany is still in a state of flux, Russia isn't crippled by purges, China isn't at its complete nadir, and Japan hasn't declared on China.

You have to do some building so the game starts off kinda slow but they you form your own alliances as factions and watch the League of Nations be sad. France, Britain, Russia, and Japan start fast while Germany, America, China need to be built up.

So you can have a Red Alert style game where Russia invades Europe and America and the Allies have to hold it off or something. :)

You could also have the Chinese Nationalists unite China, get rid of the Communists and Warlords, and invade Japan and Russia.