Is anyone else bored?

[Red Harvest]

I'll admit that the battles have bored me quite a bit and I can't bring myself to finish even a "short" campaign. I started playing recklessly on VH/VH last night to get some challenge to the battles. After 130 straight VH victories, I was ready for a few losses. Big battles that should be interesting rarely are because the AI is so inept. The sad thing is that in MTW, the AI fared better in battle, despite the fact that it carried around a lot more low tech units than the RTW AI carries around. Better AI armies should have resulted in tighter battles in VH, if the AI was as strong as MTW.

The strategic side still holds my interest. I've played the weaker factions on VH/VH and they are worth the challenge. Stronger factions are too easy to win with.

Still it is a bargain for what I paid. I also fully expect that CA will improve things considerably with a patch. There is obviously plenty that didn't get finished to their liking, so I expect things will be much better after a patch or two.

[TheDuck]

I'll admit that the battles have bored me quite a bit and I can't bring myself to finish even a "short" campaign. I started playing recklessly on VH/VH last night to get some challenge to the battles. After 130 straight VH victories, I was ready for a few losses. Big battles that should be interesting rarely are because the AI is so inept. The sad thing is that in MTW, the AI fared better in battle, despite the fact that it carried around a lot more low tech units than the RTW AI carries around. Better AI armies should have resulted in tighter battles in VH, if the AI was as strong as MTW.

The strategic side still holds my interest. I've played the weaker factions on VH/VH and they are worth the challenge. Stronger factions are too easy to win with.

Still it is a bargain for what I paid. I also fully expect that CA will improve things considerably with a patch. There is obviously plenty that didn't get finished to their liking, so I expect things will be much better after a patch or two.

Agreed. I'm about 3/4 of the way through a Julii long campaign, and I've taken to bribing the Brutii and Scipii stacks that come towards me and throwing them at the follow on stacks (I never bribe all of them, only a portion). I never know the real mix I'll be fighting with and it forces me to be creative. My 'standard butt-kicker' stacks are merely for mop-up. It guarantees that most of the fights are 2:1 to my disadvantage. Woohoo!

[Colt374]

Still it is a bargain for what I paid. I also fully expect that CA will improve things considerably with a patch. There is obviously plenty that didn't get finished to their liking, so I expect things will be much better after a patch or two.

Or after the inevitable expansion pack....

Sorry if I'm being too cynical, but it wouldn't suprise me at all if the patches for the most part only fix the bugs, and it takes an expansion pack to make the game more like what everyone would really like it to be.

But I'm hoping CA proves me wrong on that.

Colt.