Quote Originally Posted by Puzz3D
I measured the unit speeds in the demo, and those measurements were independently confirmed by another player. I don't have to play multiplayer battles to understand the impact of these new speeds. They definitely preclude me from coordinating a full army, and I have no reason to expect that the speeds will be different in the full game. It's apparently one of the trade-offs that has been made to appeal to the new mainstream market.
The impact of this being that the MP games will have a faster pace then they have had until now, I suppose. I never played Shogy or Medieval online, so I wouldn’t know precisely, and have never claimed to be an expert in this area of TW, so you may regard my words with a certain reserve. I do intend on playing a lot of Rome online, and I believe that, along with greater maps, this issue with speed will not fall negatively into light. MTW was slow as hell sometimes, the difference between walking/charging soldiers/cav was hardly noticeable, which bogged me a lot. Also, I always figured it to be the extreme and utter nonsense that infantry could run away from my cavalry, no matter how “rested” they are!

And as for the historically aware members, please recall that the warriors of the time were true masters of running, and endurance!

It is good, imho of course, that the tactic pace in Rome will be faster then it has been so far. But making this claim before I actually played one single MP game would be… premature?