Thank you for all the answers, I will get the game, if only for the reason that I played MTW and RTW.

I would like to explain myself a bit better regarding the historical accuracy, to answer the people who spoke of Henry V, Timurids and Mongols. I know that large scale conquests were possible and I do not deny it, but they should be hard, very hard to pull off. Reading some of the strategy guides a player is expected to triple in size at the very start, which a find rather iffy. When I speak of historical realism I mean that in most wars the gains were rather limited, there were many sieges and battles, but there was no blitzkrieg style land grabbing, that was my biggest concern.

Having said that, I believe I shall still get the game.