After getting the game on the day of its release, I played it a bit and noticed a familiar trend from Total War releases. The AI fearlessly throws its army commander into the fray at all the wrong places and times, generally getting slaughtered and causing his army to rout.

I´ve heard the same happening if the AI commands your reinforcements, causing the death of many a promising character.

Now, the AI isn´t really giving the player a truly hard time tactics-wise as it is, but compounded by this matter battles seem to be a bit easy to win (I play on Hard, as I don´t believe in giving unfair stat bonuses to the AI soldiers)

I haven´t played much after these initial impressions, because I´m positive that CA will fix this and several other issues in the patch, but the question is - when?

I´ve been asking myself whether I should still play, or wait until the patch. I´ve got plenty of other things to do, but still...

What do you think? Have you found this issue to be annoying, and might there be any solutions before they fix it? Perhaps modding?