Since this is my first Total War game, I'm in a learning process of getting hold of the RTS and Turn elements separately. This might not be a good way to practice realistic battles but I practice RTS with Quick games and I play Campaign the traditional turn way for the moment. Once my first Campaign is over, then I'll start playing my own battles and such.

I am just too shaky atm with siege battles and I don't want that to hinder my learning process with the turn based elements of it.

I'm actually playing this game and Civilization IV: Warlords and my experience from civ is making the turn based elements very manageable.

But I'm not too used to the "clunkiness" of the unit responses in battles because most of my RTS experiences have come from Warcraft III, Starcraft, and Age of Empires. Personally my micro in battles aren't making too big of a difference because the lack/delay of unit response. If it's for the realism, I'll take that for immersion. If it's a bug... :/