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Question to Activision customer support: In Medieval and Vikings, fatigue played a big part of my battle tactic and when I had an army on an incline I knew I had the advantage. How come being on an incline in Rome: Total War does not seem to give me an advantage?

Answer by Activision customer support: The terrain in Rome: Total War does still give some advantage, however its fatigue impact on troops was reduced to make the game more accessible to the new users.
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Captain Fishpants and GilJaysmith have said that this answer is incorrect, but the fatigue impact of moving may in fact be less because the running speeds have been increased. That will effectively reduce the amount of fatigue because it takes you less time to move between two points even if the fatigue rate hasn't been changed from MTW. There were lots of complaints about fatigue being excessive in MTW on the largest maps so maybe a reduced effect would work out well, but the faster running speeds makes it harder to control multiple units.

Right now in RTW I can only effectively control 2 or 3 units at a time because the enemy can close with you so fast. RTW seems to have a much stronger rock, paper, scissors gameplay and when you combine that with the faster speed of movement it means supporting units have to stay very close. For instance, skirmishers cannot advance without supporting spearmen very close to them. I was in the Prologue tutorial and took a skirmisher and spear unit and advanced. I was concentrating all my attention on only those two units. My skirmisher was less than 30 meters in front of the supporting spear unit. An enemy cav unit came charging into my field of view from the right, and decimated the skirmisher before my spearmen could close the distance. I would estimate the cav were 100 meters away when I saw them coming. I ordered the spears forward immediately, but it was too late to save the skirmisher. The spears did engage and defeat the cav after the skirmisher was killed. My tactical adjustment to this in the future will be to keep a spearman immediately behind within 10 meters of each skirmisher.