I still play Rome: Total War - mainly because my PC is too rubbish to play Medieval 2!
There's someting to be said for zooming in close to your troops and watching your legionnaires crash into massed ranks of gallic infantry however.
In the UK we had this TV series called "Time Commanders" which used the R:TW engine to re-enact famous historical battles with contestants acting as the generals. They usually failed spectacularly. I especially liked the guys who got massacred when they re-enacted the Battle of Guagemela
