Quote Originally Posted by Dayve
Since i'm banned from the .com i thought i'd say it here...

I acquired MTW a couple of days ago and i have to say that, once you look past the bad battle graphics... It's better than RTW was! RTW's AI is so terrible compared to MTW, how did CA manage to make the AI worse than their previous game? I almost lost a battle yesterday in MTW to an army which was a lot smaller in number and also inferior as they had only peasants and archers, i had spearmen and archers... In RTW that wouldn't happen... The game is so much more challanging, even more challenging than the EB mod is!

I just lost over a quarter of my huge army just now conquering Wales! All they had was 2 longbowmen units and 1 spearman unit, it was those longbowmen which they deployed on a hill! They were devastating...

I like the risk style campaign map also, it's not as good as RTW's campaign map obviously but it doesn't look bad at all... But it's difficult sometimes to keep track of all your provinces when there is no list but it's no really big deal... It's a really good game... I can't say it's better than RTW yet for sure but at first glance it is superior in a lot of ways, i'm still learning how to play it completely yet.
Just remember that the campaign AI did not have too many options either when it came to invading or defending, as it was RISK-based.