First impressions count and my first impression of RTW was the Trebia battle demo. Things happened so fast in that, that it was like a totally different game to MTW. It was over before I really knew what was going on. I admit I have not noticed that problem so much in the BI. I think they raised the defence stats, which is what some mods such as RTR ave also done.

Some of the slowness of MTW was caused by the "reinforcements coming on in waves" problem, which was a big pain and thankfully a thing of the past in RTW (although you do sometimes get subject to consecutive attacks by AI armies that really should have attacked in tandem).