Given the time span, the China dynasty didn't interested in adding more lands through power. India at that time wasn't India of now. It was separated kingdoms with different religions until British came and united them. On the other hand, even middle eastern empires weren't that aggressive to conquer more lands even though they'd encountered the far easteren kingdoms earlier than those europeans.

Well, what can you understand from the phrase 'Total War'? Means, full scale of wars and battles. Cities management, allies, and more importantly about real world are not really their main dish. Simply a game about war.

On the other hand, even if they included other races, this would make the game bigger in term of hard disk spaces. Plus, they only want to cope with European and American markets (developers).

Do you know that Koei made games like Sengoku Musou for PS2 whatsoever which simply about Chinese Romance of Three kingdoms and Japanese Warring States? The games sold pretty well in Asia. Right now, Koei already released a similar game about Frenchh and British 100 years war (Bladestorm). Guess what? Because the game has included France and Britain inside, the game sold pretty well in the West and also in Asia because people already know about the game. It is just about market needs.

I know and I like to tease fuji because he likes to complaint the same thing before (as in why China/etc. didn't included in the game?).

How do you bride a Pope? Marrying him? It's "bribe" la wei.

3 kingdom? the series of 3 kingdom already licensed by koei.

The means of 'one of the smallest countries in the world' is for current time. Back then, they're colonizing south east asia, africa and also south america.

Guess what? I'd an idea for something like nusantara total war. There were lots of kingdoms like malacca, johor-riau, sriwijaya, mataram, demak, aceh, khmer, thai, vietnam, brunei, sulu, moluccas, etc. and each have their own religions (islam, buddhism, hinduism, pagans) plus uniqueness (like archery was from chinese technology so malay kingdoms didn't really have them). just consider portuguese as mongols and dutch as timurids in m2tw and both brought christianity (catholics). While British brought Protestanism.

This is just my personal idea for making project to develop local games as well as ideas for my master degree. tho i have more other different ideas.

"will be" coming out.

Dude, Mongols only around early 1200s lah. And no, it wasn't from China entirely. You must understand that when the Mongols invading Europe, those groups weren't the ones who came from China. More like people from the steppes, crushing Abbasid and Khwarezmian kingdoms before going into Europe. Most technologies they brought to Europe were from those fallen kingdoms instead of China. That's just a little bit history for you.

Empire Total War is around the 18th centuries. The time where China already declined in its power.

The origin of cannon is unclear though. Despite Chinese being the first who found gunpowder, it is unsure who actually proposed the idea of putting a big rounded metal into a tube where the tube then ignited to launch the rounded metal onto the target. There's a dispute about who actually using the cannon first; Mongols or Arabs? In fact, the recorded battle of the first usage of cannon was between Mongols and Mamluks that happened not far from Jerusalem. Even if its true that it were Mongols who brought the weapon to the battle, I believed the weapon was taken from the fallen kingdoms that stood along the path of the marauding Mongol armies. I don't really think that Mongols were that capable of doing things back then as they're being expansionists and aggressive. Of course, there's claim that it was Chinese who used a new weapon such as that but no physical evidence over that matter except something that proved to be a hundred years later than what the Arabs-Mongols did and also an account on historical journal.

That rocket barrage weapon was origin of Chinese. But it's not like what the game shows though. It's a multiple arrows launcher. In M2TW, the thing can destroy a stone wall (I tried it) but in reality, it's just a bunch of wooden arrows with metal tips that launched against the enemies.

Thus, the origin of Kamikaze appeared at that time. That grenade thing was naphta throwers (in M1TW, it was Naffatun).

there are formations and such. actually factions and units are similar. because they're just a bunch of japanese with different clans.

same size.