My two penneth worth.

The English

Longbows - They still seem to be a little underpowered and slow to me to start with anyway. Later on I get the feeling they get too strong as infantry. I have got Retinue Longbowmen and they are nearly as good as any unit as infantry. I know they charged in at Agincourt and all that, but that was in very partcular circumstances. I would've prefered slightly more powerful bows and more fragile bowmen, that would've made you think harder about your deployments. To achieve their best results fire arrows seem to be best. Not becasue they kill more but because they seem to have greater morale effect than in RTW - at least for several units of longbows.

Infantry- forget about them in the early game, they have strong attack values but very low armour ones. Considering these are the blokes that are supposed to have fought it out with the French that got through the arrows they are seriously underpowered. THe ones in the game just can't stand still and take an attack. Attacking with them still results in very heavy casualties becassue of their low armour values. Later in the game they are available as free upkeep troops in cities and they aren't too shabby. The only infantry worth diddly-squat tot he English are the dismounted knights/armoured swordsmen etc.. available later on. But then I think everyone else gets these so nothing unique there.

The English don't seem to get anything that can stand up to cavalry per se. The billment no longer have that attribute. The only unit you have is are the militia spearmen armour upgraded.

Crusades - Can be difficult for England (and other N Europeans) when called randomly by the Pope. As someone has pointed out getting to the target is a major obstacle. However, the solution is to influence the Pope yourself and ask for a crusade against an opponent that suits you at a time that suits. So, send some ships with load of troops into the Med and then call on the Pope to declare a crusade.

Pope - Really does help if you can get on his good side. The best way to do this is to consider all the religious buildings and send your priests off to be missionaries. For the English send them to Russia. Preaching in non catholic lands really puts the piety quotients up, which in turn makes your priests eligible for promotion to cardinal and on to pope.

Campaign map - Not the prettiest, specially when zoomed out - it looks a bit "grainy". Zoomed in it's OK, though the casstles look silly.

AI- Seems to be improved and battles deinitely take longer than in RTW. Siege equipment seems to work better as well, towers and ladders are much quicker to use. Also, there doesn't seem to be the option to have a gatling gun fitted to the top of your towers to clear the walls anymore as in RTW.

Overall, I 'd say it is excellent but he English are not the most interesting faction.