When the options are over...for CA

[Slug For A Butt]

You forgot to mention ginger pubes

Yeah, the ginger pubes poking out beneath the lightly paqdded shirt like albino spider's legs would definitely put me off.

But seriously, I think that CA have to make games that appeal to a broad section of people, which is why AmericanCivil, English Civil, SpanishCivil etc just wont happen. If we ae looking at a potential future release, lets look at a time period and a land mass that enompasses numerous disparate peoples.

[Lamprey]

Considering the distinct military eras in human history, I'd be inclined to agree that yeah - they're getting close to exhausting the different eras TW games can be set in.

While the history of warfare was looong, it did not change much for very long stretches of time. A battle taking place between Egypt and Mesopotamia in 4,000BC would not be much different from a battle taking place between Egypt and Persia in 100AD. Some equipment differences, but similar tactics and unit types (infantry/cavalry) and they're still swinging swords & spears. In other words, nothing RTW hasnt covered yet or that could not be done in mods.

The early medieval era was modeled in Barbarian Invasion. Late medieval era is M2TW.

Shogun covers Asia, and that's really it. When Empire comes out and covers the early modern era, that takes care of gunpowder fighting and we all know the engine is not suited to massive army fights of WW1 or flexible small unit combat of WW2.

The ACW? It was a small war fought in a relatively remote location, not to mention for the wrong reasons since the constitution the southern states ratified after the revolutionary war stated that they could leave the union if they wished. Bottom line is, it wasn't important enough for a game and can/should be handled with a mod. The world's armies didn't bother learning from it and instead learned from Prussia's brilliant 19th century conflicts with Austria and France.