Before this day i haven't watched any movies about RTW or read a lot of info. I knew it was a stunning game a thus did not want to get myself too excited https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/biggrin.gif So if any of what i say has been told then bare with me.
Anyway, i downloaded a long movie, that introduced RTW, campaign map, battle map, units etc.
Watching this great gift of fortune i noticed that there is almost no such thing as a province. In this demo a Roman army defeated the Gauls and the Romans got a small territory that was previously occupied by the barbarians, but it was hardly a province. It had no borders, no towns, nothing, just a small piece of land on the foot steps of mountains.
Secondly the campaign map totally reflects the reality. Let's say there is a small passage surrounded by mountains. If you move your army into the passage, the battle will take place there. If you conquer the area you can build a fort there and nobody will get through the passage without having to destroy the fort first.
You can build a fort anywhere on the map, no more one town per province, this adds LOADS of strategy, i just hope the AI will know where to build them.
The siege equipment is built before the battle begins, you may choose what to build at the start.
Diplomacy is huge, you can negotiate treaties with loads of different proposals.
There are no fixed turn as in MTW. In the demo i saw that one army was ordered to attack a town. After that the assassin killed a general, that army was defeated and only then the town was attacked.
This video came as a shock to me and exacly what i was afraid of, i now want to play RTW bad
