Originally Posted by LordCurlyton:
And so WWI: Total War is a good choice (don't even try to sya that tech didn't change the way war was fought pre- and post-), as well as Egypt: Total War is you make the timespan long enough (bronze Age to Iron Age, adoption of chariots, etc).
I just can't see how the TW engine could possibly handle 20th century rifles, machine guns, aircraft, and etc in a way that would avoid being ridiculous (Company of Heroes style clickfest, soldiers with life bars, etc). An engine made to handle ancient and medieval era hand to hand combat couldn't hope to have a chance modelling weapons with ranges that would sometimes reach all the way across the map.
Unless you wanted to make it truly silly and give different branches of units special powers Command and Conquer style (ie, "sappers" who have a special attack of demo charges, gimmicky snipers, and etc) you'd really just be stuck with the basic rifle armed infantry , machine guns, tanks, cavalry to be slaughtered, and the occasional aircraft which wouldn't fit the game system at all.
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