To be honest, I did find MTW harder though.

Shoggy wasn't really harder than either. I fought tons of battles where I just used my faction leader's cav to lead the enemy in circles while my archers rained hell from above.

I kept winning battles of 5:2 odds in Shoggy except it came every turn and became annoying.

Vanilla RTW is even more a joke.

MTW still had some sense of tactics.