Interesting to read all of this. Myself personally, I remember hearing claims way back before AoW was even out that it was going to be a modern version of MoM. This turned out to be very inaccurate. It was more of a Heros of Might and Magic clone. So while I will have to wait and see what AoW2 will be like, I'm very doubtful it will be any more modern MoM than AoW was. AoW2 might be a really great game, but it's still going to leave me and others still wanting a a true modern MoM.
I've come to the conclusion, though, that big commercial developers out there are never going to make a MoM2 or anything similar. So I've decided that any hope for a MoM2 type of game is going to have to come from the fans. Thus I've been coming up with ideas myself for a MoM2 game. Heck, look what happened with FreeCiv (http://www.freeciv.org). Why couldn't we do the same with a MoM2?
So for everyone out there still wishing for a MoM2, there may yet still be hope.
[This message has been edited by Tclord (edited 01-30-2002 @ 05:34 PM).]