Should I return to MTW

[Roark]

If you want an actual challenge and more realistic gameplay in battles then the answer is yes.

If you want to steamroll everyone on the map and experience a lack of a sense of achievement, by all means stick to MTW2... or Rome.

[Kamakazi]

If you look at it MTW is a better game dispite the lesser graphics...it is simpler and i think better made.... M2TW i think is a tad complicated.....then again i might just get sohot for posting this lol

[Tamur]

You haven't played TW truly until you've successfully executed a pin-and-flank with the appropriately clunky spearmen and the slow and difficult to manoeuver heavy cavalry --- or until you've been unable to break your enemies' spearwall. It's a very different play experience, one that I'd highly recommend.

[Ironsword]

I've only played RTW, not M2TW...

But, everytime I fire up an MTW campaign I know that one way or another, the AI will have a really good go at destroying my fledgling Empire. Every battle counts, and depending on what way you go, it can dictate the rest of the game. - That's why I keep coming back...

[A Nerd]

MTW was the best...and I gladly come here to hurt to hear how good it was when I traded it in a few years for a discount on Jedi Knight...oh the humanity!

[Martok]

You haven't played TW truly until you've successfully executed a pin-and-flank with the appropriately clunky spearmen and the slow and difficult to manoeuver heavy cavalry --- or until you've been unable to break your enemies' spearwall. It's a very different play experience, one that I'd highly recommend.

Indeed. There's nothing quite like humiliating a squadron of Crusader knights with some "lowly" Bedouin Camel Warriors, or overwhelming the Almoravids with the sheer weight & numbers of your Spanish Jinnettes. Or successfully executing the Danes' version of the hammer-and-anvil tactic with Vikings & Landsmen against desperate Norwegian defenders who have nothing to lose....

But, everytime I fire up an MTW campaign I know that one way or another, the AI will have a really good go at destroying my fledgling Empire. Every battle counts, and depending on what way you go, it can dictate the rest of the game. - That's why I keep coming back...

Exactly. Even though I play Shogun and MTW less frequently than I used to, I never stop playing entirely. I absolutely love strategy games when you're often risking the fate of your entire kingdom/empire on a single battle. Ah yes, good stuff.

MTW was the best...and I gladly come here to hurt to hear how good it was when I traded it in a few years for a discount on Jedi Knight...oh the humanity!

Well surely you can pick up another copy somewhere. MTW Gold/Eras Edition is pretty cheap, maybe $20.00 (U.S.) or thereabouts. Come on; don't give up man!