In fact, some multiplayer games of, for instance, Napoleon, allow 8 separate armies operating on the battlefield at one time - as long as each army represents a different faction. Several cinematics have been rendered for the games using the engine in which more troops appear than what would be possible in most battles. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to state that the engine will support over 56,000 units (or whatever the figure quoted is) and compare that number to what appeared in Napoleon or prior Total War games - the AI/combat/rendering engine has always supported more troops than actually are allowed in-game. Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.96.73.70 ( talk) 11:23, 22 November 2011 (UTC) Comments

Totally agree, how can there not be an item called 'DRM' or similar in this article? Several years back this was a smaller issue, but today it is a very important piece of information that should be included in all video game pages in Wikipedia. MikeCz - Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.31.70.43 ( talk) 00:09, 28 September 2011 (UTC) Steam does up to multi-hundred megabyte downloads UNANNOUNCED to newer Total War games - at dial-up speeds? Who are you kidding? Creative Assembly lost me as a customer because of this requirement for Steam. For Medieval 2 and previous Total War games, I could take a thumb drive to the county library (with high speed Internet) and download patches, etc for the games. I live out in the boonies where no cable provider will ever be able to afford to hook me up for high speed Internet. It says so on the box in VERY small print, which I only discoverd after purchusing. It should really say in the article that the game requires steam to play.

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