A agree with you to some extent. It is the same as Shogun. My counteragument is so how could it be any worse. Remember the siege portion of the game was designed to add more variety to the game. The patch is planned to make sieges more viable than battles so that fewer battles occur and more sieges. Fewer battles will give greater importance to each battle so that you will not auto-click. In any case hopefully this is how they'll so it in the patch. In any case I spent forty bucks on this game and cant take it back. Additionally, I'm interested in the Middle Ages and no game comes close to this one in terms of huge realistic medieval battles. I suggest you sit tight and wait for the patch to come out to make the game more challenging, and try the game on expert to give you more competition.