I do quite well agree with maxpublic, and this has been my opinion for a long while now.

A few differences though, as I believe that people who are commited enough to make a mod should really make sure it plays well, as I have downloaded countless mods which simply say "OK, I'll just put a bunch of historically accurate factions and units into the map and then I have my mod." but which don't think about gameplay at all.

Duke John seems very conscious of this entire thing in his mod, and I am DEFINATELY going to put as much into gameplay as I damn possibly can.