Quote Originally Posted by kekvitirae
There's a reason I mod MTW and refuse to touch RTW. It's because MTW is enjoyable and RTW is not.
The campaign map killed it for me. It felt like I was playing 'Civilization' or 'Heros of Might and Magic' instead of a Total War game.
The battles are wonderful, but come on... the AI certainly needs a fix when the enemy king will sit in front of your stone walls and do nothing while your towers and archers pelt him with arrows. Good job, CA, you just emulated the Suicide Squad from Monty Python's Life of Brian. "Suicide Squad, attack!"
I suggest playing the patch, many a fix has been implimented.

At the least, you can update the things you dislike about it rather than using one that's been fixed already.

and Johnny the reason why we care that RTW is less enjoyable than MTW is precisely because we're fans of the Total War series and want to see RTW be as addicting to us as MTW was. Unfortunately, there are a few problems with RTW that many people can't get over - these are not just bugs and whatnot but more to do with the 'feel' of the game manifested in the kill speeds, fantasy units and shirtless barbarians; the bugs the patch fixed were just annoyances surrounding a larger situation.