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    Default What if TW ended...

    July 1st - the I Corp of the ANV beats back Bufords Calvary and the 1st and 11th corp of the AOP (these forces retreat South, cross the Potomac and end their turn right next to the Rebel capital of Richmond VA.

    July 2nd - the Remaining 5 corps of the AOP attack the I Corp of the ANV (The II Corp arrives as reinforcements). Things were going well for the Rebels until an artillery battery turned 180 to fire at an errant union calvary brigade and took out Ambrose Powell Hill. The I corp of the ANV retreats accross the appalachians ending up in the area of Columbus Ohio. The II corp retreats N to Albany NY. In the meantime the 1st and 11th corp of the AOP along with Buford's calvary lay seige to Richmond VA.

    July 3rd - Longstreets III Corp of the ANV arrives to perform Pickett's charge. It's a slaughter as expected and this stack retreats south west towards Lynchburg VA. The AOP does not pursue the rebels as their calvary ranks seem to have mysteriously thinned considerably while trying to run down routing enemies.

    July 4th - Someone trys to move a gunboat up the Mississippi to blockade Vicksburg MS and the game crashes.


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    ... Wow, I missed that post. Goodjobsir.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ReluctantSamurai View Post


    TW has already ended for me.....I stopped buying with M2. If someone new steps in when CA bites it, and can produce a quality product, I'm in.
    Quoted for truth. My experience with M2 discouraged me from buying Kingdoms and Empire, and it will continue to do so in the future. Also worthy of note: I wouldn't be able to run anything past M2TW on this computer, no matter how much I wanted to, and buying a new rig is simply not justified by games like ETW at this point.

    I have in no way regretted my decision(s), and continue to enjoy playing RTW EB a LOT. I like it so much that I am entirely indifferent to Total War's demise.

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    I Say CA should think about letting it go... they won't since its probably a cash cow but still, if things are gonna keep getting worse and worse (I don't know if it has really since I haven't played ETW yet (7.2 gigs left! AKA 6 days!)) Then they should just let it go... In like 10 years or so the open source community might take the reins and start making some really good remakes.

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    Sooner or later everything ends but I don’t think it is time for TW to go the way of the passenger pidgin just yet.

    In a month or two we may even know what the Next Total War will be.

    I am betting on Rome II Total War...that seems safe enough.

    They, and by extension Sega, have a significant portion of their hardcore fan base ticked off at the moment, with what the fans view as broken promises and substandard product.

    If I were them I would be looking for ways to reverse that, at least to some extent.

    It is just my thoughts but what would make the largest number of dissidents happy would be mod tools and showing further support of the mod community.

    Most people don’t mod and perhaps most don’t even play mods but they do view it as an indicator of the company’s good will toward the fans.


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    Default Re: What if TW ended...

    I got back into Rise of Nations. Pretty good game.

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    That it is. Though if TW ended I'd probably curl up into a ball in a corner and whimper, since it is its own genre.
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    Originally posted by Fisherking
    Sooner or later everything ends but I don’t think it is time for TW to go the way of the passenger pidgin just yet.
    I agree with you - why stop when they have a few more million dollar profits in them yet? everything in good time...
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    Default Re: What if TW ended...

    Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
    Sooner or later everything ends but I don’t think it is time for TW to go the way of the passenger pidgin just yet.

    In a month or two we may even know what the Next Total War will be.

    I am betting on Rome II Total War...that seems safe enough.

    They, and by extension Sega, have a significant portion of their hardcore fan base ticked off at the moment, with what the fans view as broken promises and substandard product.

    If I were them I would be looking for ways to reverse that, at least to some extent.

    It is just my thoughts but what would make the largest number of dissidents happy would be mod tools and showing further support of the mod community.

    Most people don’t mod and perhaps most don’t even play mods but they do view it as an indicator of the company’s good will toward the fans.
    There is RTW2 already and it's called Europa Barbarorum..

    But seriously, I wouldn't mind a RTW2 from CA if it would be a bit more historically accurate than RTW.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ibn-Khaldun View Post
    There is RTW2 already and it's called Europa Barbarorum..

    But seriously, I wouldn't mind a RTW2 from CA if it would be a bit more historically accurate than RTW.
    We can expect to see a R"3"TW much sooner than a EBII
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