I never had those problems with M2. I rarely had 3500+ anyway since I play on medium, but if there were 3500+troops then it meant I was way outnumbered and saved me time ;)

As for the micromanage and saving campaign and stuff, this never hapened to me. I always left it on read-only as OFF and it never overwrote the file. Same deal with the graphics, never happened to me.


But all in all I completely agree it would be nice if you could just check and uncheck those options during hte game rather than messing with the files.