And the next Total War game is....

[Cecil XIX]

I've got a bad feeling about this, though the preview helped somewhat. Since Wikiman said CA can't work on two things at once without destroying the company they're probably not going to release a 1.4 patch for M2TW. So I guess the Grand Campaign will be left unfinished except by modders. On top of that the preview (which doesn't seem to be loading for me anymore) seems to say total war is no longer a part of the Total War series.

But on the plus side they say they're working on the campaign AI, and that there'll be a reduced focus on sieges and more focus on siege battles. That's good, as they were two of the factors that prevented M2TW from being better than MTW.

Of course, since they article says they work on games two at a time I might just skip Empire and wait until the next game, which should come out in 2010 if CA keeps making a new game every two years like they've been doing. Or maybe I'll wait until two years after Empire's come out to buy it, like I did with Rome.

Oh, and don't worry Stuperman. If Empire is anything like Dragoon than all those tactics will still be in there.