Even bigger map?!

[antisocialmunky]

Try and tell me that Phalanxes/Legions/Cataphracts/Gaesatae rampaging down the Yangtze isn't awesome, and believe it. Go on, I dare you.

Yes it would be a pretty epic reward to run down the Yangtze naked if you spent 10EB years wandering through all that empty inhospitable terrain. Except then the Qin era military machine would have sucked to have run into...

It would make more sense to add in the Sahel and a rich Proto-Niger civilization than China.

@paramedicguyer: Didn't see your post up there for the longest time. I was responding more to the OP than anything else if you still care.

[Subotan]

Yes it would be a pretty epic reward to run down the Yangtze naked if you spent 10EB years wandering through all that empty inhospitable terrain. Except then the Qin era military machine would have sucked to have run into...

That's why it would be fun. The Makedons probably thought that the Achaemenid's military machine would have sucked to have run into.

YIt would make more sense to add in the Sahel and a rich Proto-Niger civilization than China.

Although, thinking ahead into the far far future, perhaps the trading zones in E:TW could be utilised for a similar-ish purpose, or for China?
(I know I'm being implausible, but I don't care :D)

[tarem]

except for adequate AI and naval battles (oh how i love them naval battles) i don't think the ETW engine gives much hope for a new EB

[Ludens]

The main problem with modding E:TW is that you can't. No modding tools have been released, so very little of the game is actually moddable. Never mind that the A.I. and engine presumably aren't optimized for melee battles.

[antisocialmunky]

The main problem with modding E:TW is that you can't. No modding tools have been released, so very little of the game is actually moddable. Never mind that the A.I. and engine presumably aren't optimized for melee battles.

Eh, it gives you MTW moshpit type melee battles and the AI can do it well enough for whatever reason but really ETW =/= a good engine for EB.

It would only work well for Renaissance/Samurais/Rifle-Pike-Musket-Era/WWI and stuff like that...

I wanna make a WWI mod.

[bobbin]

I think WW1 would be impossible to portray in a TW game correctly, infact anything after the Crimean war or American Civil war just wouldn't work.

[Julianus]

Yeah, aircraft, artillery, entrenchment...

[Subotan]

So I'm being very implausible?