The team battles I played with Samurai Wars back in February were tactically richer than any version of Total War I've ever played. I see no point in trying to master or continue playing the inferior MTW or VI who's faults have been pointed out numerous times.
Agreed (although I think that guns in VI are an annoying feature , I get the feeling they aren't as balanced as in STW and work in a somewhat strange way), but VI is as good or bad as you want to make it. 6k works very nice, multiplying the range of useful units, maybe not as successfully as a mod with a very limited unit selection, still it offers a quite strong r/p/s.
I have to admit tho that when re-installing VI, I never fail to get the Com Mod reinstalled , had some very good games on it as well and I didn't have to put up with very small maps and the same large ones - something that was a weird obsession with some SamMod players heh. Ofcourse I realise getting nowdays any players at all for any type of game in VI is more than hard, so mods are out of the question.