Confession time

[King Kurt]

As many of you will know, I have been an ardent MTW player and contibuter to these boards for some time. Just recently I have had to replace my PC at home and a consequence of the upgrade is that I can't play MTW on the new machine. Now, like many others on this forum I have held a slight disdain for RTW - seemed like a flashy up-start and so many people said that it was flawed etc etc etc. But as I couldn't play MTW any more, I thought I would give it a go ( My previous machine was not up to it)

So I went down the local Game shop and brought the 3 in 1 version - RTW + BI + Alex - loaded it up - well RTW only at the moment - and gave it a go - expecting to be a bit disappointed.....only to be really surpised!!

I haven't played a lot, but the game seems to have a lot more in it - more subtlety in the strategic movement, more diplomatic posabilities, no mega naval moves moving units from Norway to the Holy Land in an blink of an eye. The game has a lot of roots in MTW so an old hand can get stuck in quickly, but enough differences to make things interesting. It obviously looks very nice and the few battles I have fought produced no major surprises.

So I suppose my question is - where are the areas of contention?? what causes so many people to be so dissmissive of it?? I shall miss playing MTW - I expect to get back to it eventually as our old machine has been passed on to our 10 year old son but is in need of a monitor - but I see at least a couple of years of interesting gaming to be had with RTW and its add ons etc, let alone mods.

What do people think??