Quote Originally Posted by Mikeus Caesar
How can anyone feel over-whelmed by MTW? To tell the truth, when i first played it, i found it quite easy, even though i'd played no games like it in the past.
I'm just passing on what one of the senior members said.

But maybe it partly depends on your introduction to it. I started out with STW which has far fewer provinces and even so took a considerable time to beat, especially for a methodical type like me. I thought STW was big enough already and when I saw MTW I just thought, no, too much work in trying to conquer all this.

After all, at a certain point in a game of this type the "steamroller effect" kicks in, where you're obviously going to win even though there are still a lot of provinces to conquer. STW, being smaller, didn't really have that problem. By the time you got into a winning position, there weren't that many provinces left to take anyhow.

And then there was that huge plethora of "strategic" units in MTW cluttering up every province and complicating the gameplay unnecessarily. So I guess you could say I still consider it as an obese version of STW (although to be honest, I find STW to be not quite big enough these days).