Is this game uglier than RTW?

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Is this game uglier than RTW? Now before everyone thinks I have gone mad I do know that everything has more of everything in MTW2, in close on very high settings the game looks amazing but as you zoom out to have a proper view of the battlefield a lot of this beauty quickly disappears the grass becomes superfluous, you then find yourself looking at very colorful blobs.

The movements of the calvary are quite jarring at certain times especially when they turn, very reminiscent of the 2D units in MTW1.I have been struggling to play this game on various settings so I have been fooling around a lot to find a comfortable area. The individual soldiers seem to have their own little space to perform killing movements, loading muskets etc however zoomed out a lot of this is lost or worst looks wrong.

There seems to be a lot of sliding on the landscape this could be due to my settings, sometimes I find a certain number of individual soldiers in a unit (especially horses) will perform no animation and simple slide across the screen. Now if this is dependent on your settings what will happen if you attempt to have larger unit sizes as in RTW. I think most people like the larger unit size, if the only why of achieving this is to lower your settings or have a turbo charged system will you end up having a higher percentage of horses performing no animation.

End result an uglier looking game?