new comer question

[Kekvit Irae]

[alicia]

I have done one thing that makes the game more even. If I do not have a commander I fight on automatic. You will lose a fair amount this way and can even lose cities.
Also hibernating instead of saving avoids the AI siege glich.

first off sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.

Basically I have recently bought RTW and it is the first TW game. I noticed some thing that disappointed me and after coming to this form I see that I'm not the only one.

It is very frustrating b/c in rome total war I feel like there is the frame work of one of the best games I've ever played, but to some degree the bugs and to a much higher degree the totally crap AI really limit it. I'm not suggesting that they should have got the the pentagon and the top universities in the world to help them develop a software napoliene, but the AI should, at the very least, it should follow some of the very basic military principles someone like me has picked up from reading history and shouldn't do things that are totally Illogical

this brings me to my questions:
I've read that by installing mods and/or bug fixes you can correct some of this.
How much does this help with the crappy AI?
What mod/fixes are recommended? I've read alot and am a little overwhelmed by all the info. I'm not really looking to totally change the game just have improvement to especially to the AI.
Do the mods have uninstall apps provided so that if they don't work for me or I don't like them I can undone what was done relatively painfree?
thanks