There was something deffinately lost from MTW ---> RTW. Undoubtedly one of the things that helped to make the game seem and feel more shallow was the arcade style that were thrown into it which totally don't suit the Total War genre. Another reason may be that the Roman Era just isn't suited for a game similar in atmosphere that MTW had; the depth and cool "Medieval" feeling. If the patch fixes the game's many oversights then after that I'm hoping that the EB mod will draw me back into a Total War addict phase... but I'm not holding my breath.