Quote Originally Posted by screwtype
Q: Any plans to deepen the strategy map side of things in the Total War series - making it more like the Civilization series? An official collaboration with Sid Meier-san. called Civilization: Total War would be nice, but failing that a cheeky rip-off would not be amiss. I appreciate this would not be universally popular with the existing clientele, but it would create the mother of all strategy games, surely?

A: Sounds like a dream game for some people! Civilization is a great game, but it’s not really got a huge overlap with Total War when you analyze all the gameplay elements in each title. Currently there are no plans for an official collaboration with Mr Meier.
A game like that is not such an impossible dream:

http://www.slitherine.com/GameIndex.htm