I have to say that I don't find the new campaign map animations for naval blockades and city sieges up to the normal EB standard. If they're work in progress then I'm sorry for bitching too soon, but I think they're going in the wrong direction. The city siege anim with its tents and siege works and stuff- I can see where you guys are coming from but in reality it just looks messy and cluttered. Maybe tone it down a bit, reduce the number of tiny little siegeworks?
I have essentially the same comment about naval blockades, but I think that for navies the multiple ship deal isn't working out. I often think that navies cruising about on the EB campaign map look like catamarans instead of groups of ships, and the naval blockade anim looks like a couple of catamarans next to each other. Again, I think that I know what ye were trying to do (i.e. move away from the idea of single ships) but the artwork for it just isn't there. And after all, an army stack is still just one guy on the campaign map- think how it would look if you replaced that with a bunch of really little guys. It wouldn't look great, and it doesn't look great applied to ships. Maybe change the unit cards to show a fleet of ships but leave a single ship as the campaign anim?
Don't mean to be negative, just trying to give some feedback. Love the patch- if the patch is only 65/70% of the finished product (I'm just guessing here) then the final release is going to be ueber-affen-titten-geil.