I would prefer a return to the commander/risk style strat map.
Because, the RTW map just gets too busy. Every turn you need to scan your entire empire for unrest, rebels, agents and wandering enemy armies. With too many small time wasting battles and sieges. Combined with the need to micro-manage and manually move every piece on the board is too much tedium and not enough fun for me. So after I have conquered 30 or so provinces I get tired of it all and stop playing.
With the risk style map I could easily form a front line and hit the shift key to check my empires status in regards to unrest. Simple agent control, drop on target and forget. Infrequent and huge decisive battles, the option to fight or flee when a region was invaded, This made for a faster and imo a more fun game. I lost count of how many times I conquered the entire map in STW and MTW. I have not completed one RTW game as yet, and I have been playing it for well over a year.
-IceTorque
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