Quote Originally Posted by Kraxis
No you did not have two eras in Rome. Besides the post Marius Roman units the game was surprisingly indifferent to the change. Also you couldn't go in and select the post-Marius era. You had to play through it each and every time unless you modded it.

NagatsukaShumi, you seem to forget one thing. We aren't all EB or RTR fans, we aren't all "OMG France invaded the HRE?!?!?! This is sooooo wrong!" We are talking about immersion. If you are making a historical simulation you want the players to actually feel that what they do could have hapened to an extent. But fast forwarding the pace of events fourfold and not telling us, removes any historical connection the game ever had.

M2 has in my eyes now become "another game including knights and abstract time."
Lets be honest, how does not having dates take away any immersion? Yes, you can't see what date it is but I stand by my point that its not historical once you end the first turn. Fact is, if its accuracy people want no game will provide and thats a fact, only in the units will you see anything approaching it. It may go faster, but events will still occur, just not on specific dates, ideally I'd love a game to have hundreds of events and I would rather it was dated not marked as turns, but all I'm saying is TW has never been entirely historical and never will be. What you feel could have happened depends on how you look at history, what if Henry V had become King of France, England could have gone on to conquer yet more land, thats one way of thinking what could have realistically happened but didn't because one event never occurred for example. I prefer turns to be years and have lots of historical events, but I aren't going to jump on the "omg CA are doing this all completely wrongly" bandwagon that many have done, I will reserve my judgement to the release of the game or atleast the demo. I have faith, some people think thats daft but I think its unfair to crucify a game thats not yet released, it may be great, it may be not so great but its a bit early to be against it just yet. Bare in mind I'm not suggesting your one of them, but there are a great number of people who have been quick to dislike new ideas from CA and I think its a tad unfair when their usual argument is its not historical, now if people say its too short I fully understand, but most think its just too unhistorical yet conveniently forget no Total War has been.