A civ 3 game can only last for 1000 turns. It is likely that you will reach the max score before that happens.
Oh no, did they clean the bloodstains and sand off the sides of the tanks for you? Ok, lets sit you in the middle of a real battle field in 3rd person, so you have to watch the carnage and death, the running of blood, and the true feeling of loss that either side may have friends of yours in it.
Perhaps cartoonish may be a good thing?
Besides, go make your OWN animations and put them in, replace ALL the units and then say they are cartoonish. Lets see your realistic work
On a real world map, I always preferred being the romans... then they made japan bigger LOL