[QUOTE=Guyus Germanicus]I would love to see a verion of Total War that starts, say, in 500 BC, goes through the Persian invasion period and/or the Peloponesian War period, pre-Alexander, and lets you play a faction from that setting. Or, even before that time frame. But there's a lot of conceptualization work that needs to be done for that to happen. QUOTE]

Unfortunately CA wouldnt Bother as there are so many mods doing this for them already. I dont think we'd even get an expansion pack of this now. sucks. cool thing is though you can start the dates from as early as you want and give every faction only one province and very little money and see what happens, could be interesting and rename the rebel factions to the names of civilisations of that era, of course you couldn't play them all but its a small start.