Quote Originally Posted by Prussian to the Iron View Post
I think that if they were to do something original in the Total War series, they should do something along the lines of a mainland Asian setting; China to India, and possibly down to Indonesia. Someone more knowledgeable about Asian military history than myself would have to put a framing time period on that for me, but I think it would be interesting to have a few Chinese factions battling for control of China before turning attention to the South and West. The Mongols would at some point surge outward to attack China (and, being Total War, the rest of the map before their cavalry gets destroyed in the thick jungles of Southern Asia), and I'm sure that something would also be going on in India at the time. Simultaneously, small factions in the South (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, etc.) would be battling it out for control of that area. Every general region (China, India, and the Southeast) would have its own internal warfare, as well as dealing with threats from neighboring areas. Also, unit variety would be retained (unlike Shogun 2 and Empire) due to the differences in each region and their specialized factions.
I believe the timeframe you're talking about regarding China is around the time of the Fall of the Han Dynasty, and into the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280 BC) This is the time period probably most known by Westerners as it is the period that has been exposed the most. Recently there was a movie based around the time period (Red Cliff, which by the way is a great movie) and most of the Dynasty Warrior games take place in that time frame as well I believe.

I'm not sure how active the Mongols were in that period, but apparently Attila was around the mid 450. With that said, I would love to see a Total war around either of those eras. I'd say another time frame to be around the unification of ancient Egypt as well as another timeframe, but I think it would play out too similar to Rome TW (maybe it could be an xpack/DLC for it)