Yeah I have played lots of RTR- I don't understand why everybody hates the sieges so much. The density of settlement is more historically accurate and if you hate fighting a siege battle then just build up a couple of huge stacks and autoresolve, or wait it out until the AI has to sally. The actual number of largescale set-piece battles in history is quite small, so why should the game be different? Advancing through Greece and Italy being a pain in the arse is kind of the point I'm trying to make, eh? It should be a pain.