true but the theme in starcraft IS fantasy, science fiction. RTW claims to be historically (quite) accurate, but the battles don't give me a realistic feeling at all. So much for gameplay over realism.

I remember about a year ago there was a flamewar going on at a gamespy forum: RTW fans VS BFME fans. I myself thought "how can those BFMErs diss RTW when CA has released both MTW and STW while no one has a clue how BFME will play". How wrong was I to think that CA would continue to build on their experience of the previous TW games (which I loved). It's such a shame that so much potential has gone to waste, especiallly considering the ancient world was my favorite theme.