Since the next TW will be a completely new game, I think they ought to:
1) lower the detail and truly allow tens of thousands of troops onscreen at once, or keep current graphical levels and give us the possibility to be a soldier on the battlefield who isn't in charge of anything except his blade, his horse, and keeping with his unit.
2) abstract field commands to a division level with rules of engagement, and make runners going from the general's location to the division commanders when objective orders need to be altered.
Napoleonic era sounds great, especially with the M2TW graphics engine.
Personally my favourite setting is the Egypt-Assyria-Babylon-Hattusas-Media-Persia period. No better time for huge kingdoms trying to bash each other to pieces and succeeding after a couple hundred years of it.
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