CA has announced the next game in the Total War series, which is to be set in the 1700's to somewhere in the 1800's

 

Gamespot First look:

http://au.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/empiretotalwar/news.html?sid=6177177&mode=recent

Summary:

• Real-time Naval battles
  
• Campaign map to cover most of world
  
• The ability to garrison men in buildings.
  
• New game engine
  
• The use of cover in land battles

I just hope it has the Chinese when they had a massive navy that outmatched the Europeans, has the globe map of the world in multiplayer, and doesn't come out for consoles since RTS's on consoles just get too slow. Well I know i'll be having fun with this since I had major fun using these kinds of boats in Rise of Nations.

 

Made a massive British navy before to help someone get to the also navy superior AI so my friend had to cross the channel to the ai. It worked and we were victorious. I think it was either AT-AT, Garbageben, or Gen.Vader.

it wasnt me, i dont have rise of nations. im not sure if the campagin map extends to china, i hope it does but im not sure it will

This would be surely a major step foward in the Total War saga. I hope they will make a ROME TOTAL WAR II with this new engine and perhaps a MEDIEVAL TOTAL WAR III too.I would buy them as I have always done with the TW saga.

PG should lern from those guys.....

and CA should learn from another company how to make a decent AI thats not buggy and knows how to do diplomacy . if they could just fix the AI this would be one of the best TW games ever.

Any suggestion about that?

no not really, its mainly the diplomacy AI that needs fixing the battle AI is fine as of patch 1.2

I'm looking forward to the naval battles.  With the new game engine I wonder how intensive it will be in terms of the system requirements though...