Re: Until the patch is released, I am playing MTW!
I was without RTW for a week and reverted to STW & MTW to keep my twitching fingers busy. All I can say is what remarkable games they were in their day ... both still play very nicely, particularly STW. I found myself getting all nostalgic playing on some of the battlemaps where I cut my Total War teeth, some of the landscapes I know like the back of my hand. The music, styling and mood of STW was very immersive, and I enjoyed going back there.
MTW was my all time favourite until RTW, and playing that again for the first time since last September I fell in love again with the Medieval period, but the graphics are so clunky, and the campaign so lacking in RTW's subtlety ... I really can't understand why anyone would ditch RTW 1.1 for MTW, irrespective of whether there's going to be a patch or not.
Clicking to get a general's eye view of the action, and seeing realistically depicted armies panicking when they're flanked - the dynamics of combat in RTW are so much more sophisticated. Units of soldiers don't simply hack away at each other until one or other falls below a 'tipping point' in terms of casualties, RTW makes melees so much more realistic - no unit will stand and fight when successfully flanked and charged from the rear. That alone means that there is no scissors-stone-paper simplicity to this game. I have played about 30 hours a week of RTW since beginning of October ... it is simply the most immersive game I've ever come across, until the next iteration of this series that is.
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