GA should def makes its way back into the series. That is what I miss the most from MTW. It changes the your entire outlook and a large part of the feel of the game. I understand if it is not your style to sit back more and build up slowly and achieve goals through other means than blitzing. But just like people have been saying, that gets old after awhile. CA tried to capture that different feel with the short campaigns but that only went so far.

For example, things like recreating the HRE, creating a dominating wool trade as the English, or building Notre Dame as the French. This gives the game a totally different option for players. I say forget the short campaigns and bring back GA.

On a somewhat related note, bring back different starting periods!!! Having to start at 1080 EVERYTIME with the same world setup EVERYTIME got really frustrating and probably the biggest overall drawback to the game (big picture wise). Having to play for hours until I could have access to certain units and buildings - not cool. We should be able to jump into certain time periods without having to log hours of gameplay to get there everytime we start with a new faction.


The setup of this new game sounds like it has a lot more room for winning through means other than warfare. I know - the title of the series is Total War. But, it is still a lot of fun to use diplomacy, economic warfare, etc. to win. And during the 1700-1800 period, we saw how nations used other means of establishing themselves of as world powers (Think British East India Company and the likes)