9/10

I love it as I have every other TW game, I find them far superior to other strategy games.

The improvements are fantastic, diplomacy - although difficult - is much improved.

My only gripe is what I had with MTW and RTW that patching will be a slow and painful process and shouldn't be necessary with adequate testing. Anyone remember the units you could get in MTW (like crossbows) when they weren't supposed to appear at the start of the campaign.

If I were to think about a multiplayer campaign then the score may go down but as yet they have never said they would implement one so this is the game.