when the bugs get ironed out it will be, imho, the best in a series of extremely good games. ETW has soem excellent features - particulaly the tech tree - but has some widely irratating bugs. One of the previous posts said the AI seemed bi-polar and that's very true. I've found that if you leave a very small window for the AI to hurt you, suddenly you've lost 5 territories and the Ai has destroyed all your buildings. It's good to see these raiding tactics.
But the numerous bugs are frustrating and, after being unable to unlock the US as a faction because of a bug, I'm thinking of returning to Milan in MTW2. But just until the bugs get fixed then I'll return to ETW.