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.
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