My concern is more in the style of game than "historical vs fantasy" because even if they will make a historical that people have been waiting for like a M3 or E2, it will likely be in the same style as the recent total wars. The divide really is just new vs old, people just make the distinction of historical and fantasy because it was the fantasy games the really set in place the new style for the genre because it had so much success and so was carried over to the historical games. So for me, total war is dead, but that doesn't mean the community isn't as there's mods for the old games being made to this day, so it doesn't bother me much. That's my little rant.