I need a "historical recap"!

[Armoryk]

Here we are playing a historical game that has no history! I'd like a "great deeds" scroll that I could open up (off the family tree page?), that would say things like "250 BC, Flavius Spurius wins Heroic Battle against Anartaxes (Greek) at Athens, Athens taken by Flavius Spurius." "220 BC, Memphis taken by Teos Epiphanes." "219 BC, Memphis lost to Ptolmey (Egypt)" "218 BD, Memphis taken by Teos Epiphanes." etc.

Also, I'd like to be able to see the personal histories of the Family members, especially the dead ones! I've played my Brutii campain to the point that the map is green. I'd love to be able to step back through the history, maybe with the mini-map territory colors changing colors as I step through the years or select a family member, tracing his route across the map.

I had one General who led the Pontic campaign, then subjugated Spain and some of Gaul, who finally died of natural causes in the snow near Deva.

I'm sure he died like Batty from "Blade Runner": "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

[ChaosLord]

"Memories, you're talking about memories.." Man, what a great movie that was. It would be nice to see a log or something similar to it, would really be nice to look back on the decisive battles and military geniuses your empire created. But as the AI can't even remember its attacking places when you load games, and that CA doesn't think campaign battle replays were something fans wanted, it seems unlikely to happen for any of R:TWs expansions, or the next TW game. :(

[sapi]

Failing this, you should be able to write a short comment on their life when a family member dies, which can then be accessed from the family info scroll.

[pezhetairoi]

Dammit, they should just include a feature that records all your battles large and small, the numbers involved and the casualty lists, AND lets you append battle honours to a call-up scroll that unfurls every family member you click. That way you can also comment on the relative importance of the battles you fought and lets you remember. Otherwise dead generals are just forgotten, like the C-Beams before Tannhauser Gate.

[sapi]

pezhetairoi, since we're dreaming we might as well wish for the battle recorder to keep track of individual units, from the date made to the date combined/destroyed.

eg.
Army Name---Unit Type----------------------------Decorations------------Date Formed---Date Destroyed-----Location of Remaining Members
-------------(player added+pre-determined)
Legio X Victus---Legionaries---Held line at [random place]; outstanding valour (auto)---222BC---Merged with Legio XIV Roma 201BC---Legio XIV Roma

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[Colovion]

all these things would be awesome

I remember wishing for AoK style graphs for the different factions vs eachother and in RTW they were there. Expanding on that stuff like being able to click on a Family Member after they die and see what their details of their reign was; or alternatively doing the same when clicking on the Timeline Details and getting, as stated above, a Historical Recap.

Ohhhh so many possibilities.