Total war: North and south next title?

[Noncommunist]

Yeah the fanbase for TW seems to be overwhelmingly western. I get the sense that even a Japanese setting is too unfamiliar for some people. Plus the marketing likes to put something familiar like a redcoat/knight on the cover. If China has been too much of a strech so far, I suspect we will be waiting a long time for West Africa:TW.

On the other hand, there are quite a few people in the US with descent from west Africa. Still unfamiliar but it would introduce a game where those people would see people of their race are leaders of factions rather than merely being troops that can be raised by the Moors or Egyptians.

Also, I guess if the British or French were present, that would involve some familiar elements even if they wouldn't play a major role till near the end.

Sounds interesting, but several things in this scenario are flawed/unclear:
-What timeframe do you think of? 'Shortly before coloniatization' would be around 1500.
-Christianity did not existed in Africa before colonialzation (except in Egypt and Ethiopia)
-it would be rather Spain (probably not really, given its focus on latin america), Portugal and the Nederlands (besides the obvious two, England and France) to be active as colonial powers, Germany did not played a significant role in Africa until the German Empire was created in 1871, same goes for Italy.

Large scale colonization of Africa didn't start till the 1880s. However, there were trading outposts there since the 1400s. Thus, there was some Christianity but not to a large extent till full colonization. Not sure if it was as common as it was in Japan. As for the Germans, they did establish a colony in Togo though they didn't get involved till pretty late and the Portuguese and Dutch were pretty involved when it largely involved trade.