OH I agree with many of the comment here.

I've had some infuriating experiences with the controls and lack of unit response.

An example.... I had a few units of Hastati and a few archers fighting off some Gaul warbands. I lose track of part of the battle moving other troops around (Easy to do with these new controls) All of a sudden a warband has moved in right next to my Infantry making a B-line for my archers. I order the infantry to make an intercept course (even though enemy unit is maybe 3-4 man widths away and directly at my flank. My unit takes an ice age to respond.....so I desperately order an attack.

All of a sudden the Gaul unit just hits my flank! wow how manuveorable were they! I couldn't get my boys to do that.

Often I can't even get my infantry to make even 30 degree shifts in facing to plug gaps and protect flanks.....even when the enemy units are 5-6 'unit lengths' away!

Or at times an enemy unit is all most straight in front....offset 10- 20 degree again 5-7 'unit lengths' away. I think to myself....how would they like some Pilum's?...So I order my boys to shot. By the time they even start to get organised to wheel.....and b4 they even dream of shooting.....im getting charged!

In M:TW javelin units were very responsive in letting off a volley just before an enemy charge hit home. Or getting off a volley before making a charge. My legions on the other hand barely function as legionsshould. They have trouble moving when ordered, and move about like crazy with no orders at all or even better when ordered to a particular place and no-where else.

When I got this game I was anticipating using the highly disciplined armies of Rome much more disciplined the the feudal rabble in M:TW. How wrong I was...give me back my highly disciplined peasant and feudal levies over Rome professional armies...

Please Developers, you may have overestimated the powers of feudal discipline but please fix this rabble called the Roman army