Fewer but larger battles?

[Spino]

Someone stop me if I'm not remembering this correctly, but it seems to me that waaaaay back in development, CA hinted/promised that RTW would have far fewer battles than MTW, but the battles would be much larger and far more significant and meaningful. I confess to not having played this game for the last week or more, simply because I am very tired of fighting battle after battle. There just is no end to the rebels, small stack harrassment, etc. This is NOT the way I remember MTW, where things could be quiet for turn after turn until the axe fell (literally) with 3 or 4 stacks hitting one province. And I ain't talking Mongals or Papacy here. What went wrong?

PS: Yeah, I play campaigns on VH, but it doesn't seem much different than my first campaign which was Julii Medium. Still, every turn the rebels are sitting there, going

Your memory serves you well. I distinctly remember CA stating in either an article or a post in one of the official/unofficial forums that we should expect fewer, more significant battles than we fought in Medieval.

Personally I don't mind the rebels but the incessant stream of understrength AI armies is driving me insane.