Anybody check out this new trailer out today?    
 
The campaign map looks stunning. Best new feature has got to be the experience points/family stuff; I wonder what the progression of time will be like for this game. Since your unlocking technologies Civ style now. I hated losing good generals in previous titles due to old age, always a bummer. Especially when it was an army that was far from any of your territory. Getting a replacement general out to that army took a lot of turns.

Oh, my penis appears to have exploded.

HUGE fan of all the Total War games (my personal favourite being Medieval 2 Total War). Everything I've seen thus far has made my loins quiver in anticipation. 
 
My one gripe, and this is not unheard of either, is the AI. So many times I've spent 20 or so minutes setting up the pieces prior to a climatic, epic battle with 10's of thousands of footmen, only to have the AI suicide their General(s) into my frontline of heavy infantry a few moments once the fight begins causing the battle to easily sway in my favour with little effort done on my part... 
 
Still super-stoked for this, and fingers crossed for the return of General speeches before battles.