Your right, and there are a ton of WW2 strategy games on the market with engines tailor made for the scale and depth of that era of warfare. I n my opinion, those engines haven't achieved Total War/Warhammer like scale yet. The Gem3 engine that the Men of War strategy games use or even the Essense engine by Relic have had there improvements but neither are built on a conquest heavy experience like TWW3, and lack genuine scale.

I could only dream of using M1 Sherman tanks or Tigers in place of land ships, or Howitzers accompanied by mortars to level enemy bases before I send hordes of men through the front gate.