I don't really care what game it is as long as CA learned from Empire and went back to doing whatever they were doing when they made Rome and Medieval II.
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i think only a 20th of the sand has fallen. Doing the math, it ends up that it will be around 3500 years ago. 1500Bc
The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
1506 BC ? Cecrops, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.
c. 1506 BC ? Thutmose I (Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt) starts to rule. Alternatively, a date of c. 1504 BC is a possibility.
Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC?1492 BC).
Earliest remains of domesticated ferrets found[1].
Biblical Exodus, according to Simcha Jacobovici in the earliest suggestion of the documentary Exodus Decoded.
Polynesians settle in Fiji.
c. 1500 BC ? Mycenaean civilization starts in Ancient Greece.
c. 1500 BC - Formative/Preclassic period starts in Mesoamerica.
1500 BC?500 BC?Vedas are composed.
wikipedia'ed events.
Chinese astronomers make the earliest record of an appearance of a comet.
c. 1500 BC India [Hinduism] The Hindu Vedic hymns and religious rituals become established in India.
c. 1500 BC Europe [everyday life] The Urnfield cultures flourish in this and the following century in England (in Wessex), southern Germany, and Denmark. The Urnfield people are pastoral rather than agricultural, use bronze extensively, and are ruled by a warrior class of aristocracy. They cremate chiefs and their families and place the remains in urns which are then interred in cemeteries. The culture continues into the Iron Age (c. 700 BC).
c. 1500 BC Central America, North America, South America [everyday life] Neolithic skills similar to those in Europe ? weaving, basketmaking, pottery, the building of houses, and the formation of villages ? develop in the Americas, as well as a priest class. The use of iron, the wheel, the plough, and money will not develop until the coming of European colonialists.
c. 1500 BC Asia Minor [materials] The Hittites of Asia Minor are the first to discover how to obtain iron from iron ore. Although iron is the second most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, metallic iron is only known from the rare discovery of iron-rich meteorites.
c. 1500 BC China [transport] Wheeled vehicles appear in China.
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Expect a bunch of bulllshit and extreme historical inaccuracies.
Hopefully it's still fun.
alternatively, it could be up to a 12th or so, which would land us smack dab back in the birth of Rome.
The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
1506 BC ? Cecrops, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.
c. 1506 BC ? Thutmose I (Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt) starts to rule. Alternatively, a date of c. 1504 BC is a possibility.
Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC?1492 BC).
Earliest remains of domesticated ferrets found[1].
Biblical Exodus, according to Simcha Jacobovici in the earliest suggestion of the documentary Exodus Decoded.
Polynesians settle in Fiji.
c. 1500 BC ? Mycenaean civilization starts in Ancient Greece.
c. 1500 BC - Formative/Preclassic period starts in Mesoamerica.
1500 BC?500 BC?Vedas are composed.
wikipedia'ed events.
Chinese astronomers make the earliest record of an appearance of a comet.
c. 1500 BC India [Hinduism] The Hindu Vedic hymns and religious rituals become established in India.
c. 1500 BC Europe [everyday life] The Urnfield cultures flourish in this and the following century in England (in Wessex), southern Germany, and Denmark. The Urnfield people are pastoral rather than agricultural, use bronze extensively, and are ruled by a warrior class of aristocracy. They cremate chiefs and their families and place the remains in urns which are then interred in cemeteries. The culture continues into the Iron Age (c. 700 BC).
c. 1500 BC Central America, North America, South America [everyday life] Neolithic skills similar to those in Europe ? weaving, basketmaking, pottery, the building of houses, and the formation of villages ? develop in the Americas, as well as a priest class. The use of iron, the wheel, the plough, and money will not develop until the coming of European colonialists.
c. 1500 BC Asia Minor [materials] The Hittites of Asia Minor are the first to discover how to obtain iron from iron ore. Although iron is the second most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, metallic iron is only known from the rare discovery of iron-rich meteorites.
c. 1500 BC China [transport] Wheeled vehicles appear in China.
another site
Expect a bunch of bulllshit and extreme historical inaccuracies.
Hopefully it's still fun.
alternatively, it could be up to a 12th or so, which would land us smack dab back in the birth of Rome.
There's a team making a WW1 mod for Napoleon Total War ( http://www.moddb.com/mods/ww1tw ) which seems to have trenches, tanks and artillery.black orchid1 said:
OT: I was hoping the next TW would be a revisiting of Shogun, but judging by the current speed of the timeline, I would guess that we're looking at something in the 1st millenium AD at the latest, probably earlier.
Yes, yes, yes!
EDIT: 1824? Damn it.
and No! The series turned into a pile of skirmishing gun fights with no fun at all. It lost the magic that made the TW games what they were.RicoADF said:
EDIT: 1824? Damn it.
I really hope this series finally comes to a close. I have played many and they are all so alike. In fact I have played nearly all of them. They just become so tedious.
I think CA gets less and less accurate the further they go back in time. Screeching women? Wardogs? Warpigs? Gladiator units? Arcani? No. Not good. Unless you can prove that Empire is just as inaccurate in such blatant ways...HK_01 said:
They actually did use pigs and dogs. Gladiators? Okay, I'll give you that one. About the others, I don't know. I do doubt that there were women screaming on the battlefield, however the women of the Germanic tribes fought with the dogs when their camps were attacked.Plurralbles said:
Aww I was hoping for a WW1 total war (guess we'll see that at some point though, they've hinted at it before), though I imagine whatever they go with will be brilliant as usual.
Napoleon is the latest in the series, not an addon. But basically, the addition of muskets means that there's effectively only one type of combat. It means that you lose height advantages, flanking is almost pointless, and you hardly have to try to match up units with enemies they'll be effective against because they are all the same.HK_01 said: