I thought it was mostly an improvement. I prefer to the new host to the old one, and the lack of the "Victory imminent" thingy is nice. Shame about those darned klaxons ...

Those vicars were scary; love thine enemy indeed. Host: "One of them is saying 'Don't kill them; they're women!'. I can't repeat what the other guy said they were."

We can definitely say for certain that TC does not have the team fighting against RTW's AI. I doubted it in the first series. If RTW's AI fought like TC's enemy armies then there would be very little complaining about how dumb it is.