Going back to MTW from M2

[caravel]

**returns home strapped to the saddle of his camel**

After playing RTW on and off for the last year, I would say that I have warmed to the new engine somewhat. I can now finally see the point in the new campaign map design but I do still think it needs masses of improvement. I haven't played M2TW yet, I own the game because I managed to pick it up cheap but it won't run on my system because I don't have an SSE2 enabled CPU.

The learning curve is indeed quite steep. You can grasp how battles work overnight and if you're an experienced STW/MTW vet, battles won't provide much of a challenge, but the complicated settlement management, traits system, and movement points system, are rather tiresome and difficult to get the hang of.

The reason I play it and will probably move on to M2TW, is because I've played MTW quite literally to death, but I'm under no illusions as to which is the better game engine and which has the better AI.