my 2c

when sieging a city, your men attack the walls, when you order them down to fight in the streets - some of the men get stuck in various places on the walls so the remaining 90 % of the unit gets stuck against the wall and wont attack the enemy - Ive seen this heaps

and why is their replays for the custom battles and multiplayer and not for the campaign

and another vote for the AI

and yes more challenging goals for all the factions

it would be nice if countries kept alliances and it had a little button like civ3 "what would it take ..." to ally, to attack these guys, to become a protectorate... the AI could make some big gains from the player in this way

at the moment diplomacy is just a token distratction when im really bored - everyone at war with me - no surprise there - oh well roll over them all - hmmm that was too easy - no need for words when you can do that - back to the AI I guess