I find them all unplayable in an unmodded state because of the insane unit speeds. Hint to the developers: ever since the Rome:Total War demo, one of the first mods to appear for every single title was a "slow down" mod. Once that is installed, you can finally enjoy looking at those poor sods on the battlefield and you have time to produce some sort of tactics rather than just "select all + attack").

I spent way too much time modding ETW so I got burnt out and never really gave NTW a shot. For me, it's a tie between the Kingdoms expansion for M2TW with its smaller campaigns (especially the Teutonic and the New World campaigns), and the new S2TW. I particularly like how they integrated character development in the campaign in S2TW. And because I have no knowledge whatsoever about Japanese history, I'm not too distracted by any inaccuracies

Oh yes a Victorian era Total War... hmmmmm, now that would be awesome... Zulu re make here I come!!!
Altogether now... "Men Of Harllech Stop Your Dreaming...."

Once again, it's merely speculation, so don't hold me to any of this. I fact I do not know for sure that the developers actually stated that they would not do two sequels in a row, but it has been repeated as an actual quote so many times on several forums that
most(myself included) have taken it for fact.

Creative Assembly has always had a talent for doing the unexpected and the subjects of each of their major releases have usually been a surprise to me.

Cheers

Don't worry I promise I won't sue! :

One can only hope. And not wishing to convince myself on the obvious logic in doing this time period, the thing that always made me think a ACW game was beyond the scope of a total war game was that they liked to have a number of sides and just having " the blue" and "the grey" wouldn't really work on the campaign map side of things.

However I cold see a "colonial" time era where you have the great superpowers, Great Britain, France, Germany, USA, etc along with African nations ( Zulus, Africaan's ) then I think it could fit into the more typical total war game setting. In fact a dedicated ACW game could be done as an expansion, just concentrating on the ACW battles.

Cheers.

I have been playing Empire and Napoleon TW for a long time now - both since release. I'm ready to start a new DLC campaign(s) or move on to Shogun 2.

What would you do if you had just enough money for one of the following: 2 DLC campaigns or Shogun 2?

My initial thought is to wait on Shogun 2 because FOTS will be released and I'm thinking CA will release a double DVD pack like what they did for Empire/Napoleon. So are the 2 DLC campaigns worth it?

i had 600 (showing) hours in Empire Total War. After the DarthMod, It really was my go to game. I got Shogun 2 and unistalled all 30gb of Empire. If you're still hot and heavy with Empire, keep going, but Shogun is a different experience. I enjoy the battles much more, and strategy layer as well. Empire, as awesome as it is, seems 2 dimensional after Shogun. All my battles consisted of laying down artillery, and cleaning up (with varying tactics... but not varying too much) those strong enough to survive it. When I play Shogun, I think tactically and strategically. I think about splitting my troops, using gravity to increase the speed of my charges... its good stuff.

I'm ready to move forward with Shogun 2. I missed the Christmas sale so I am now currently looking for a good deal on a key code to download the game. Steam has it now for $29.

If you're not opposed to getting a physical copy, probably won't beat this price ($14.99 w/ free shipping, and it's the "Limited Edition" which has an extra playable faction I think" : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...Sega-_-32203034

Here we are a month and a half since Dick Dastardly's post and Newegg is now selleing STW2 for 37.99. I just ordered it from Amazon.com for 20 bucks. Tonight.

Since the very first Shogun, still my favorite--although there was something very cool about Medieval I, my absolute dream wish for a Total War game is the American Civil War. I've got to have it!

Even without getting the Fall of Samurai expac, the patch that came with it for ALL of Shogun is great. Being able to field your whole army at once is a wonderful add, the AI is tighter in some places... good stuff, I'm glad they patched those with and without. Thanks CA!