Any reviews of realism Mod ?

[frogbeastegg]

I flank and manoeuvre just fine with the defaults; just ask Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe about my cav control in some of our MP games. I found the demo too fast but the vanilla normal game feels about the same as the old games unless the units start running. I can now handle 16 units without pause and I'm working my way up to 20.

I hate spending five minutes or more waiting for the melee in the central square to end; my victory is a foregone conclusion and watching hastati swat at a single warband unit for that length of time is dull in the extreme. Nothing is happening, there is nothing left to do and no strategy left to plan, just simple a slugfest as the warband slowly drop dead. I would rather get on with something that requires player input and tactics than stay and watch.

I also find units look stupid walking with their legs cycling at a different speed to their movement; it makes them look like they are on ice-skates. Even worse are the times when my units have difficulty trying to get up the sloped edge of the central square in a siege. I had a unit of merc hoplites which found it impossible to get into the square because they kept sliding back down the slope. That is not a problem I ever had in the vanilla game.

[Slyspy]

Just a quick bit of praise for the loading screens in RTR which are far more professional and superior to the original versions. Sadly my enthusiasm for the tactical battles is so low after one and a half vanilla campaigns that I cannot bring myself to play again.