Time acceleration is where MTW other gaping black hole of a flaw was made appearant. That gods aweful battle interface. I lost 50% of my troops at hyper speed more than once because of that counter inteutive mess.

On RTW's AI. The AI was actually better with less than half stack armies. Hence why I fought rebels and brigands. You could still trick the AI into doing something really moronic but with fewer than 10 units it wouldn't be as bad. Not that it was great, RTW is really indered by less than stellar (I will be generous) AI. Which is great for when your learning the game but after a while it gets old.