And after this?

[Peasant Phill]

I am probably all alone on this board in having big love for Empire. I still play it, although in highly modded form. There's just something about the period, about men in powdered wigs on wooden ships running all over the globe to stamp out dusky heathens ... I dunno, I love it. Even with the bugs and the irritations.

If they made an Empire II and gave it the kind of polish and shine they gave to Shogun II, I would be a happy little lemur indeed.

I support you
I really liked ETW as well and actually had a hard time switching back from guns to swords and spears.

Ah right, I hadn't thought about that. With the battering SEGA has been taking, they'll probably regard CA as a safe source of profit until things change.

I really don't get the obsession over the faces of the soldiers though. Does anyone ever look at them? They also claim that more detailed death animations (or something along those lines) make the player more attached to his men, which would be a rather futile attachment, since they'd already be dead!

I rarely look at animations. I don't mind them being there but I'm surely not asking for more. I do like dead bodies and bomb craters though. That really gives a sense about the scale of the battle you're fighting/just fought.