Anyone ever played the old school SNES/Sega/PC game Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Grey Wolf?
This was an awesome strategy game for it's time. I still love it a lot. I think a game like TW could learn a lot from such an oldschool masterpeice.
And considering the similiarities between the two games, I think it'd be a nice meld.
I think that the TW series has a nice battle system but I think that the Grand Campaign could be improved by looking at GK2. Or the premise of the next game could be found by looking at GK2.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have a map which stretches all of asia, europe, the middle east and parts of north africa? Including all of the great leaders of the time. Hojo in Japan... Kublai Khan... The Golden Horde... etc.
It would mean that they'd have to make a lot more different factions but it'd be a lot of fun.
IN GK2 campaign you could Buy and Sell items which would take up movement points from your faction heir. The rate of trade would change depending on a number of factors. Different kinds of merchants would travel the map and if they landed on your land you could trade with them. It added a sort of stock-exchange system for gaining money in the campaign mode. It makes the whole merchant system feel like an actual merchant system... rather than moving merchants to sit on resource points. Still, in GK2, countries would have more resources depending on their location to start out with. So if you start in certain areas you have more of different resources depending on how realistic it would be.
Another good aspect of GK2 is that you could name your children whatever you wanted. You would spend your heirs movement points to do things with his family. The more you interacted with your children, the better they would be once you finally appointed them as generals. Your wife would make comments like "Temujin is quite mischevous" and that would increase one of his traits.
The game was pretty old, and TW has some good game mechanics... But there are some things in GK2 that I think could improve a game like TW. I'm not saying have the exact same campaign style as GK2, but if you could somehow combine GK2 mechanics w/ TW i think that would be really awesome. And keep the TW fighting system.
The games are so similar that it seems it'd work great.
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