What is the single most important thing to be patched?

[The_678]

Everybody has already made good points, but after the A.I. I want the phalaxes fixed. No dancing and bring back rank bonuses. What's the point of the phalanx really if there is no rank bonuses or kickass bonuses against cav that they should have. But especially the dancing. I've played as greeks only in custom battles and have found I've lost fights or got seriously wounded because my men were dancing and got flanked for no reason then had to reform the phalanx to attack the flanking enemy and lose 10 men in the process and had to switch to swords because while reforming the enemy got in close. I really want to play as greece or macedon or even selucids but it's really hard when the phalanxes are all messed up.

Also fix the damn time limit!

[Praylak]

Simon's #1 is probably my number one as well. I like the battles, but they are so frequent and silly they become boring. This is ruining it for me when I have to fight off the AI's waves of pathetic "militia captian rushers". Make a real army,... please. Don't be attacking my superfortress containing 1000 elite with a 3 unit militia hoplite, only to run for the red line when my first unit steps outside the gates. Gad, thats so frustrating. You can't autocalc, because of the Vices your general will get. So everyturn I fight all these wanna be battles.

It's compounded by my #2, "all AI attack the player, and ally with all other AI" cheese. Gaul and the Julii allied for 110 years. I mean, come on.

There is no AI. Anything the AI does is just scripted subsets that fail. For the now, I hold my faith in the mods, but I'll keep an openmind for the upcoming patch.

[Ellesthyan]

unit and faction limit!
They must be taken out, whatever it takes

[zhuge]

Help me, I really, really would like to see almost all of the changes mentioned above and can't decide.
I'm a bit greedy so I'll go with AI (both campaign and battlefield), unit balance and bribing.

I was a HoMM enthusiast for many years (all games before HoMM4) and thoroughly agree with Simon's suggestions. Building an uber stack and using that stack intelligently and aggressively would go a long way to making the AI much more of a threat.

Well, let's see if the coming patch for AI is any good... and if it isn't, it's time for yet more rant... mwahahahaha