Quote Originally Posted by dgb
Nobody is saying the mods introduced those effects. Just the standard game is so easy that nobody cares about them.

Why should I bother to try and take a hill? I'm going to slaughter the enemy anyway, and it will just add another ten minutes to the battle.

As for those saying Rome is the same as Medieval in terms of AI, why then does the AI sometimes smack you round in Medieval? I've lost quite a few games with M:TW, and I'm not a particularly bad player, it's just the AI was better. I have never looked close to loosing in R:TW, no matter who I have played with. Armenia, Numidia, Pontus, standard Seleucids, Thrace etc. I've managed to come out on top iwth little difficulty.

Maybe you guys are just gods or something when it comes to strategy games, but Rome to me is stupidly easy, where as Medieval is not.
Have you played MTW recently?
Maybe you feel MTW AI is better because you were not so good when playing it, and when playing RTW you were a veteran.