Has anything really changed from CA?

[resonantblue]

Uh, the campaign AI is better. There is no doubt. It may not meet your expectations, but this is the first TW game I can remember when the AI consistently merges smaller units built all over its empire into larger armies and maneuvers those armies about to give you _good_ battles (from a campaign point of view, I'm still not a fan of the battle AI).

I do remember the good old days of MTW when the only good stack vs stack battles you usually had were either when the Mongols invaded or when you sieged enemy cities at the start of a campaign.

This is the best campaign AI yet and diplomacy _has_ improved. Granted, there are annoying idiosyncracies.

But really, the self-entitlement of many of the posters in this thread is not normal. Talking about taking legal action? Taking your ball and going home (ie "not buying another CA product ever" - yeah right, you said that about M2TW, RTW and MTW I'm 99% certain)? Assuming you did follow through (yeah right), let me just suggest that I'm thrilled I won't have to read another unreasonable, petulant rant about whatever TW game CA does next.