Im afraid cafine has alot to answer for, after reading all those angry statements about how RTW is crap compared to MTW and STW. Thats a load of bull.

Ive played every game from Vanilla to fully patched - when they were first released. The AI in ALL of them isnt that great (yea including STW).

Out of them all I think MTW is the best but not by that much. STW was easy Im afraid. Sure the battles lasted longer, but I used to speed it up anyway.

Dont glorify the past cos this game didnt live up to your expectations. In my opinion the AI has got better in the last patch - just yesterday I had a routing enemy Gen of 5 horsemen come back from the border ( I stopped chasing him) only to weave his way through my lines and decimate half a group of archers I had firing on a group of hedgehogged spearmen. I was very happy to see that.

Kamikazi Generals no longer charge my front lines....

Oh and btw in history settlements WERE taken with minimal losses, sometimes none. It depended ont he general.

I remember in MTW Placing just 1 stack of Byzantines in the Area just before horde showed up, and I beat all of them with just that stack. Thats more improbable that taking a settlement with only 1 loss.

Besides Im glad of the graphics in RTW I didnt pay all that money to play a jumped up version of the by far old graphics of STW.

Dont get me wrong - Ive been a dedicated fan of all the TW games. I just hate seeing constant incorrect comparisons.

And please dont compare this to real time strat games like C&C etc...
Thats just sick... :P