I love this game, but what about its historical side?

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

Whatz up RTW playaz? Still fighting with Gauls as Julii, qonquering Greek city-states as Bruti or crushing Carthage's fleet with Scipi? Actually the game is superb for me and it will be a complete masterpiece with a patch I am very interested in history, especially antiquity, so wouldn't it be beautiful if game developers realeased an expansion pack, where we could actually follow history steps, when Rome from a small village became an enourmous and the strongest empire the world had ever seen at that time. It'll be great to play missions unifying Italian peninsula, encountering Carthage in Punic Wars (264-146 B.C), while defending against Hanibal's powerful armies untill the final crush of Carthage itself. Then the empire would expand even further, bringing Roman laws, administration, culture to Ilyria, Iberia, Thrace, Numidia untill the Civil Wars break out. Then we could see all kinds of slave rebellions, including the great Spartakus rebellion. And so on and on untill the final collapse of the empire. Of course I'm just dreaming, it's only my imagination, but maybe my dreams will come true one day. Good luck everybody!

P.S. By the way, sea battles would be amazing, just imagine...

[Colovion]

games which must be played in a linear fashion are boring

I finish the game before 200BC every time - the game would be pretty getting the "you can't expand to Africa, wait another 80 turns"

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I agree that history is nice but there is a time and a place, and sometimes games need to skimp on history to allow for gameplay. I think what you want is a movie or documentary, because games are meant to allow us to enjoy changing history; creating an empire of pagan Britons, the Seluecid empire fighting the Scipii in Africa while fighting the Brutii in Greece after becoming the sole power of the east! Without nonlinear gameplay strategy games are dull, make no money for expansions or sequels, have no replay value and never have any impact on the trends followed by the gaming market.

[bmolsson]

I am pretty sure that this game was NOT used by the Romans......