No need to be pessimistic here..

lets do some innovative thinking as to how to explain their new ideas and innovations to TW series..


"Spain": the game starts 1080 a.d. at which point this nation would be referred to as the kingdom of castile. However, by the time it will end, 1530 a.d. it has become spain. we'd like to hope that this is worked out through the progress of campaign. lets give CA the benefit of the doubt.

"Aztecs": Alot was going on in the new world in the 1500's.. the age of discovery. The struggle between european nations in the caribbean was just getting under way. Legendary SPANISH conquistadors were beginning to make a name for themselves; Cortez, Pizarro, just to name a few. Desoto and his journeys. The original MTW actually had 3 campaign maps: Early, High, and Late era maps. although only slightly different from each other, one could hope that since CA already has a war engine already established, that they would have time to make a new world map exclusive of europe.

Rome Total War vs Medieval Total War 2: I remember for like a month straight prior to its release that i was making constant phone calls to every game shop in town trying to find out if they would happen to be getting it in earlier than the other guy, learning that it had been pushed back several times grr. I even asked for the strategy guide just to have something to at least keep me occupied prior to its release. When i finally called the day of its release and heard "yeah we have it", sure enough i fired up the camaro and hit 100 on the i-state to get to Gamestop. My girlfriend went with me and thought i was just out of my mind over a computer game. RTW didnt turn out to be what i expected.. games never do, but RTW still ended out a damn fine game.. in some ways better than i expected, and the modding community helped make it that way. MTW2 wont turn out to be what we expect, but modders like the EB team, RTR team, and the great guys at the forge and strat center will make sure a good quality product with result in the end. My girlfriend is no longer with me, but RTW and its mods still are hehe.

Also you should wonder on questions such as when will the Total War series finally be all inclusive of a "total war" it proclaims and finally introduce naval battles