I must admit....

[Beskar]

For some reason, the battles to me seem more lacking than RTW's which wasn't perfect in itself. In Rome:Total War, you had a choice of units and could pay more for better units. In Empire:Total War, all the units are basically the same, with Line Infantry being the superior choice, especially after the upgrades and seems no reason at all pretty much to have any other unit. No real contending choices.

[Dutch_guy]

For some reason, the battles to me seem more lacking than RTW's which wasn't perfect in itself. In Rome:Total War, you had a choice of units and could pay more for better units. In Empire:Total War, all the units are basically the same, with Line Infantry being the superior choice, especially after the upgrades and seems no reason at all pretty much to have any other unit. No real contending choices.

Less diversity is part of the chosen timeframe though, an upside is that the game is arguably better balanced than Rome (and M2, actually) because of that lack of diversity.

[Beskar]

True, but the fact is, I don't want the game balanced. I want tactics to make a very real difference. It just seems battles at the moment are lining up line infantry and just fire at each other. With technology, the horses become uses useless and superior units have half the men so lose out because of that.

Unfortunately, there have only been a couple of "Wow" battles, one of them was when I was heavily outnumbered but using tactics I managed to win it, and that is what I find fun. In that battle, I retreated into a town and as the enemy were mass piling men behind the buildings, I used to cut them off and load a few nades off into their ranks, then retreat doing hit and run.