Weird really, I think I am playing the same game as some of you, yet I am still enjoying it.

There are a few things that are niggly, the AI passivity, the micro-mangement of agents (something which has always been in the TW series from the start), the way assassins and merchants take sooooo long to become useful and able to take on the opposition (again all that micro-management). The un-intuitive way your agents and generals have to be actively searched for. How often have been so deeply into the game and click on a city to find 5-6 generals? Some of the units seem a bit iffy on their stats (billmen anyone?).

But none of these things are game stoppers to. They are all down to my personal preferences and idionsyncracies. All these things have bugged me from the start with the series. Well, all save the AI passivity. I am confident CA will rectify this. I think it is the result of over conservative setting after the play testing, maybe they felt that unlike the (few) players who come to these forums (who all seem to be VH/VH ) the run of the mill player out there would be too challenged by an overly agressive AI.

The fact remains, that I have had hours of fun already and by the sounds of it it should be getting better - all for £25, not bad IMHO.