I like this concept: http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/legendsofeisenwald/482/interview.html

recently I've played with Rome2 Total War, and unfortunately they took a lot of great things from a 2D startegy game called Knights of Honour (it was a total war like game with real-time startegic map with real-time battle maps, set in medieval Europe) that I wanted to remake in 3D (somewhen in far future), made by a little Bulgarian studio which was bought and then closed by a bigger company. what is very same: large scale of the startegic map, new large sized towns, political map, relations map, happiness map, some ideas of town development, the "hero" system with selectable new experiences etc. basically I really enjoy these great features but I wanted to steal them
what I don't understand is how a total war game could have so much bugs, like shading errors of terrain chunks which sometimes become black, and in some official videos I saw bad transition between shadow splits...