So we need to start bombarding 2K with requests now?

Once you get to 1940ish does the interface warp into a horrible hard to use, fiddly mess? (This is a comment about old super complex hex grid turn based WWII wargames which I did noteth enjoyeth!)

6th or 7th one.... woah ... isn't time to start something new? doesn't seem like there is nothing new left to add besides going from squires to hex based...

Anyways Elemental is something new and looking forward to it!

I agree, 2010 seems unlikely unless they are REALLY far along already.

What a great year for strategy fans though. Elemental Civ5, and Starcraft 2? Wow!

Yet another game for me to get excited about this year.  

Even though I'm excited about the announcement, I must admit I would have preferred a sequel to X-COM or Alpha Centauri 2 (EA owns the rights to it unfortunately, last time I heard). Still - I'm not going to complain.

What we desperately need is Jagged Alliance 3, Silent Storm 2 or an equivalent... turn-based tactical combat games are few and far between these days.

I think Disciples 3 is only game i might consider getting before ElemWarMag. It is a game built by graphics artist that happen to be game developers too. But they have been working on it for like six years so it might come out in 2020 for all I know. Also stardock is as mentioned above more userbased content so that gives more replayability, I'm still trying to perfect the AI value of techs for galciv2 to get them to behave properly

Its gonna be a good year for strategy gaming. Supcom 2, Star Craft 2, Elemental, and civ 5 this year! busy busy busy!

Now if we could just get a Falcon 5.0 I'd be set for the rest of my life for PC gaming......

If I have to pick one I'll be going with Elemental, for the simple reason that Stardock tries to support the average user, while Civ 5 will likely require me to upgrade my PC. If by some miracle Firaxis has designed Civ 5 to work on less powerful systems I'll try to get both, but Elemental will be my priority. I think that kind of attention to ordinary users should be rewarded.

I've bought and played to death every version of Civ from the Atari release, which we had to petition to get.  I'm looking forward to geting it but dreading the mess of hoops I'd have to jump though in the name of DRM.  They've not announced the DRM so fingers crossed it's something simple and benign

Oh if gamers let Ubisoft get away with it, you can bet your last dollar that every publisher is going to want to do the same. EA is already yanking servers on PC games that are just over a year old. I am sure they'd love to do that to every game they have.

I dunno about Civ V.  I mean, the screenshots look cool and all, but the modding scene for Civ IV has just about got Civ IV to the point where the AI plays a passable game.  I don't much fancy going back two steps in terms of challenge.  The selling point in my opinion will be how soon the AI will give you a run for your money without relying on handicap or handouts to play well.  If not at launch, then when?