I sort of know how you feel. I at first didn't like s2tw either. For some reason one day I started enjoying the SP campaign (I now play it with an overhaul mod on a different time frame) and it was just a strange feeling; I was playing a TW campaign for more than 10 turns!. :O
If there is an east Asia TW I prefer it to have it include the steppes/ Central Asia, and south too. Or else you'd end up with s2tw on a larger scale even though China in antiquity has many different groups of people (genetically different too) it just feels awkward to me without the steppes, Korea, the sub continent, south east Asia or even Japan.
Though I think Warhammer is going to come sooner and I feel a TW taking place in east Asia won't do justice for TW for some reason. (I sort of distrust CA representing the east or anything away from Rome or Britian :P)
(Don't worry I'm not going to bash R2 :P)
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