TW games - the future

[ReluctantSamurai]

Without a complete redesign, essentially meaning the game is no longer "total war" in the true sense, more modern settings won't be feasible.

My sentiments, exactly! My belief is that CA got into fantasy because feudal Japan has been done twice...Medieval Europe twice...and the Roman Empire twice. Going further back in time (the warlord era of China, or the rise of Greece, for example) probably doesn't have enough mass appeal like fantasy. That doesn't leave much to do except move forward in time, and that would require a completely new game engine at the very least