There's no other game that stimulates both my mind and my emotions. I enjoy the strategy of exploiting certain regions, building armies, and attacking enemies for specific goals just as much as I enjoy to see the fruits of my labor actualized on the battlefield up close and personal. It makes me care about a single company of soldiers making it through the fight, whether they be levies or the general's own cavalry. I enjoy the variety and the uses of every unit for different jobs. I enjoy that as I move to new lands, new and unique kinds of warriors with different weapons and formations can be recruited, and this is true of their mercenaries too, unlike vanilla RTW where units seemed so generic and simple, and where differences between faction units were superficial. I am and will always enjoy the company level (or cohort) style of combat and I am not bothered that I can only bring 20 of them, or ~3000 per battle. I realize that computers and game engines have limits, especially from 2006. I enjoy seeing generals mature and develop and am always surprised by the traits and ancillaries they pick up. I am not bothered that I don't have control of it. Sometimes it makes me want to foster those traits that I didn't expect or want and make them become what they were destined to be. If they are truly awful I let destiny show them their course as they bravely charge at a stronger enemy, falling in the process. That's why I think EB is the best TW mod out there.
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