About Total War Naval... The first time I see that idea was in Rise and Fall : Civilization at War , you use the ships as platforms and the units fights and invade other ships, even fights like they do it over the land into ship the platform itself So I don't see the problem , introduced in the same way. .http://youtu.be/xq-ZVyHo5x8 ( the heroes in this game uses 3ird person perspective) but the other use are manipulated a classic RTS