Your own TW style game: What features would you like to see?

[Ibrahim]

@ Centurio: I largely agree with your assessment. however, I do feel the need to state a few things here, in response. a devil's advocate, so to speak.

I wonder a bit though that nobody besides me thinks that technological progress would be a good idea. I can imagine, for example, when Greeks conquer Rome, they could easily adopt the 3rd tier roads and the bigges aqueducts.

I see where you come from, but to me, the Civ series' technological progress system strikes me as busy work. If you can come up with a more hands-off system, I'd be eager to support it, but I don't see where it is possible. and for the record, I have the same opinion of E:TW and N:TW regarding technology.

To summarize it, I think TW games could benefit more from the Civilization series.

I agree, but to an extent. I do admire the Civ series deplomacy, and the way cities can be founded, and built up in all manner of ways. but as mentioned, I have reservations regarding the technological progress feature. Having played Civs I through III, they all come across as great games. but that last part always feels like busy work.

I dunno, it's just a feeling I get regarding the technology thing.

this simply can't be a true reflection of reality, the units are an abstraction of the roughly the same people of a social class. Levies being 'promoted' like that en masse is wholly unrealistic, a group of farmers don't simply become citizens, which is what a professional soldier would be.

true, but what about cases where the soldiers are simply re-equipped, so as to pretty much get "promoted"? like, for example, the so called "Marian reforms"? otherwise, I see your point.