I bought the Total War Anthology recently which has the two official expansion packs, Barbarians and Alexander. Absolutely brilliant, but the Alexander campaign is next to impossible. Those damn Persians know how to amass a vast army of well trained killers, and Alexanders men are all idiots who don’t seem to know which end of a spear to hold and which end to poke at the enemy.
Barbarians is great though, very nicely balanced and loads of new units to command. Saxons ftw.
Hmmm – cant wait for this now – read a preview in pc gamer which has wetted my appettite. The sea battles sound quite complex… you can use gusts of wind to get speed boosts, and all the old naval tacticts used by nelson et al are available for use.
Just hope the land battles have all the bugs ironed out that dogged the older games.