STW/MTW or M2TW/RTW style campaign map?

[Ciaran]

In MTW, the first key of any battle was to find the best terrain to fight and everything that you said applied. When you were on higher ground your archers had greater range, your infantry were more effective and your cavalry picked up that much more speed on charges. These things haven't been that significant starting from Rome because when I started RTW I applied MTW tactics and realized immediately how they made little difference.

The most important change that was made between MTW and RTW was removing the line of sight rule for ranged weapons, in MTW a missile weapon which has no direct line of sight to their target suffers a severe accurracy penalty, so missile weapons have to be deployed either in front of the army or on a steep enough hill. This penalty is gone in RTW, sadly.
One thing I noticed in M2TW, however, is that even crossbows are able to arch their fire. In RTW they cannot (that is, in BI they cannot, in RTW it´s the slingers who can´t shoot over their comrades´ heads), something which a) completely defeats the purpose of having archers, since crossbows can do their job as well plus they´re armour-piercing, and b) it looks utterly stupid, the crossbowmen holding the weapon level and the bolts going up like skyrockets.

But this is all battlefield stuff, not concerned with the campaign map and therefore off topic.