2009/9/6 Keith Muir keith.muir@blueyonder.co.uk:
My understanding is that all Total War games work off the Rome Total War engine and you are correct the wine project under no circumstances should it focus on individual applications. That said if there is a game engine which several games use in this case fixing the problems the engine has will fix multiple games. So the justification is there. Also I am the maintainer for Medieval II and no it doest work well.
Patches are welcome, but it's very unlikely that the main development team will be able to spend time/effort fixing problems for a single game (or series of games). If coding for Wine is not your forte, there are other things you can do to try to get bugs fixed. At the very least, if there are no relevant reports on bugs.winehq.org, you can report the bugs. If the games are toggling between Garbage and Silver, then regression tests would be useful.