I have to agree with Divinus Arma on a couple of things.

The battles are rubbish, they are truely terrible. You don't actually get access to alot of the formations until you have researched the sciences to make them, and even then only some units can adopt the advanced formations. The square is very amusing to form however.

Fortifying buildings in this should be brilliant, but falls very short as they don't really seem to get any benefit from doing it.

The only tactic that seems to count is how many units you can put on the field at the one time. 120 militia will rip apart 60 grenadiers most of the time even if they are meant to be elite.

The units are severly restricted and the factions share the same troop types. Think there are only 5 or 6 nation specific troops in the whole game.

The speed slider is an essential why haven't they got it.

The diplomcay section is very good in my opinion.

I'd have to disagree with Divinus Arma on a few things though.

I thought the naval battles were awesome. This is much better than the total war series where they are not interactive. Reminds me of the old games workshop game Man o War. I'd love to see something like this in total war. I play custom games and you can really get proper naval tactics going with a few big ships.

In summary I'd like to have the naval battles (maybe improved upon) and diplomacy from Imperial glory in a Total War game.