Decided to get back to Rome: Total War a few days ago (Shogun 2 Previews make me wanna play it NOW!!!!!).
I picked Scythia with the intent to have a cavalry-only barbarian empire. Schythia has the most dedicated cavalry options. They are not necessarily the most powerful cavalry units, but their best units are horse archers that are slightly better at melee than their highest level purely melee cavalry. Also, with barbarians, i don't loose a lot of money developing the cities, as the options are limited (but effective). Finally, as veterans of Total war games know, cavalry are overpowered, and twice as fast on the campaign map as infantry.
No other games. I haven't been taking as much time to play games as i might want, even if i currently have all the time in the world. I suppose i fear feeling guilty over playing games, rather than do something useful with the large amount of free time currently available to me.