Quote Originally Posted by Bijo
TW's poor strategy map could be improved by Civ's, and Civ's team could in return learn from TW's battles.
They should simply team up to make the ultimate (PC) strategy game.
I've been a Civilization fan ever since version 1 in the early 90s, and I really wouldn't want to see the TW style tactical battle map in Civilization... it simply doesn't fit the spirit of the game, which is supposed to be more of a high-level nation leadership simulation than a plain war game, although of course war factors into it a great deal, as it has in real history. Civ is more of a builder's game, and your army's generals are really below you in rank...

It wouldn't be practical to pour resources into developing two decent games in one... for TW, the strategic map is more or less there to eventually get to what that game is supposed to do well, and that is the tactical battles, while it would be completely unwieldy to do that well within the through the ages scope of Civilization... you'd get two crippled games instead of one great one.