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Mltdwn said:
Or I could simply wait one more month and getting Medieval 2: Total War which is largely the same thing, sans magic/random maps but has far better graphics, and realistic ground battles with 10k+ men on the field per side which you can actually control that takes everything into account just like in real life (with some exceptions with playability). And a relativly deep political/diplomatic interplay (compared to the Dom series) between all of the nations allowing you to turn nations against one another, play all the sides, etc., rather than simply "must destroy everyone" like in Dom3. AND pay only ~$40 for them. Not to mention the mods which will add the fantasy elements to it, like the already released Middle-Earth mod for R:TW.
And as for discount games, yes I bought EVERY single TW game when they hit the bargain bin and I STILL play all 3 of them and their expansions to this day on a fairly frequent basis. M2 is going to be the first I buy on release day because of CA's production values.
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Wow....
That is all I can really say.
First, most of the battlefields in any of the TW games are not realistic based upon the scales that they are representing.
Second, commanders in any of the timeframes that TW models had very little effective control over their troops once the battle was joined, the only exception to this might have been Shogun.
Third, it still amazes me that people think that the battle results or the diplomacy in any of the TW series are realistic. I never had a game of TW where at anything on their most difficult level became anything OTHER than me against the world.
After the first Shogun, which really was a good game although there were plenty of "features" which ruined the game for me once it got to the end game, the other games in the series were not that great from a gameplay standpoint. They looked pretty, but I never played either R:TW or M:TW much after the first week.