Quote Originally Posted by Puzz3D
The fighting in RTW is in slow motion compared to MTW or STW. In the earlier games, the combat cycle was 1 second. That's men striking with their weapon every second, and men tended to gang up on lone enemies better. RTW isn't even close to this intensity except on the initial impact.
Perhaps that the game mechanics were more frenetics, but in actual visual results, RTW is by far the more energetic, brutal and active game of the lot.
The units seems half asleep in MTW2 and the 2D sprites of STW and MTW don't lend themselves for an actual feeling of mélée.