I agree with your post Cyclops.
I believe that the spies see just too much. There is no "unknown" feeling, and there should defintely be one. It sucks that when i go where no man has gone before ( in my recent Parthia campaign in Arabia) and all i needed was a spy, and i saw every enemy army, the terrain, their forces etc...
It would be great, if there was a feature in the TW games that didn't even let you see the whole map!
Kinda of a Age of Empires feel, when you had to take a scout to find the borders of the map. Here of course one would know how the EB map looked, but not precisly.
Imagine, you would lead a Roman legion in to the north, where you knew there were some barbaric tribes, but suddenly you would find yourself in a forest, and a hugely garrisoned city just waiting for you to kick your ass.
However if this is not possible, it would be still nice imho to reduce the line of sight of every single unit in the game. The watchtower line of sight in EB is just huge. I mean i know i live in a small country, but now i have a spy and a watchtower in the balkans, and i can practicaly see from Pella to Patavium. That's a bit far isn't it?
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