in response to celtic
yes the diplomacy will be fxed
( iasked on ETW forums a while ago)
what they did before was in MTW and RTW they had 2 seperate programmers working on diplmacy and AI behavoirs so when they put them together they always nearly contradict each other and when they figure it out its too late and they have to release it due to publisher or other reasons

maybe we can have dismounting knights in EB 3 .. i mean theyres gunna be 50 factions and more than 600 units avalible (i heard)