I used to love realistic movement, then I got dependent on it, and it messed up my groove.
Now I have since returned to normal after enslaving my self to it.
The game is far more fun with normal movement on. The AI can't handle the increased movement. The factions with good starting positions grow monstrous! When you use toggle_fow you no doubt notice too.
I enjoy hard and very hard! (with normal movement) It usually stops yellow fever (sometimes) and keeps the Romans on their toes. But with realistic movement, the romans get steamrolled by either the Green Fungus (Monster Epirus) or the late great maksplosion (Macedonian refulgence), it just takes a while.
You see, Rome dominates western Europe way to early; the automatic AI polybian reforms usually have NOT kicked in yet (They kick in sooner for the AI), so they are left with crappy Camilan troops and have to no ability to build MIC's that get them good units for the fight they get into.
I have seen it myself:
Playing as Pahlava, its 240 and I'm wondering when will I get my late bodyguard, only to find out that the Romans steamrolled the Gaul and made too many enemies to early in the game; case in point:
I turn on toggle_fow to see that Capua (the city that usually triggers the MOT) does not have enough people.....in fact it only has 5000 people.....Epiros just exterminated it!
I had to assume control of the Roman faction and cheat Arrimnium up a huge city and try to fix the Roman position.....heck I even arranged their forces to defend their city's...
And guess what, when I put them back under AI control, they fudged it up all over again, but at least I had my late bodyguard...
Simply put:
Realistic Movement is bad, becuase the AI is not smart enough to use it....