BI is good compared to rome, if rome was released with the same balance as BI it would have been great, but BI was released after the game was dead, at least to the mp community (but was a big change for the good for SP campaigns, even over RTR), it just never picked up with the same enthusiasm shogun and to a larger extent mtw did

nothing sofar has felt the same as elmo's fantastic 4 vs 4's or games i hosted for fun in old MTW, where if you were good, you could take any semi functional army and make it work and have a blast while your at it

rome and now mtw2 seems a battle of forced unit selection, unless you host good ol novelty game