Quote Originally Posted by hoom View Post
Mainly its basically impossible to retreat. Nearly every time you just get chased & forced to fight to the last man anyway.
The old style let you strategically give ground. Also it allowed allied forces to be actually useful & I liked the relative simplicity, it can be a big drag trying to keep track of everything in the Rome style.
That and the AI wasn't as bad because it had less to deal with. Sometimes less is more.