Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
MP fails in my opinion because the battles do not have a campaign context.
I played chess for 40 years, and there is no campaign context. I played Total War multiplayer for 4 years, and there is no campaign context. Changing the battles into RTS is just what I don't want to see, but you are right that the battles are so bad right now that there is no reason to play the battles in the campaign and there is no reason to play RTW multiplayer. Just as Total War battles don't top standard RTS games, Total War campaigns don't top standard strategy games like Civilization.