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[Rabain]

I have to say my passion for this series of games continues.

I started out on Shogun and absolutely loved the strategy and 3D battles.

Rome Total War was awesome too, always wanted to march my legions to world domination.

I bought Medieval Total War in a bargain bin and loved it to bits...even though its graphics are somewhere between Shogun and Rome TW.

Most recently I've been playing Medieval Total War 2 and its pretty good though I miss some of the features of 1. The various hefty patches really make this game shine.

Sadly though all of the expansions I've tried for the TW series have been pretty lame. They add new cultures and animations etc but really don't improve the games.

I haven't read much on the upcoming Medieval TW Kingdoms but I'm hoping the fact it adds 4 new campaigns covering not just different nations but different periods and one of those enlarges the small incursion into the america's near the end of MTW2 will make it something to look forward to.

Right now I'm taking Scotland to victory on the continent while being at war with France and Denmark and holding the Mongols and the Eqyptians at bay in the east. Fortunately I had 3 crusading armies in the east when the Mongols invaded and they pretty much wiped the floor with them. The fact that crusading armies don't count against your army upkeep fees should be looked at...it makes things to easy.

I rule...literally.