Historical Accuracy: How Important Is It to You?

[bubbanator]

Ludens, that is what many see when they think of realism. We don't want (nor can we) and exact replica of history.
We want realistic units that existed, and we want to aproximate the military, social and political reality as close as possible the beggining of the period, and approximate as close as possible future unit, social and political evolution.

I agree with Ludens, I would love a game like that if it would still be fun to play, however I can't see anything close to that anytime soon.

[LordKhaine]

I've always liked the mix of realism and fantasy that the total war series has had. And let's remember that previous total war games have also had their fair share of fantasy units (kensai anyone?) I really hate it when people bitch and complain about how fantasy RTW is and blah blah blah blah. It was never designed to be total realism!. It was designed like the previous games as a nice blend of realism with the odd injection of fantasy for fun. And I think it works very well.