Medieval had the periods as well as the years, so you could start in the Early, High, or Late. RTW has the Marius event to divide the game, but it is only in game, not two seperate periods. If the new Medieval has periods it would make games started in the later periods shorter than full games.

Of course I have only played one game to the end of years in MTW, all my other games I got bored and bum-rushed to victory.

mfberg