I've had very good games with Lands to conquer I highly reccommend this mod. Its a problem solver first and formost but what Lusted has done is combined many fixes and modification from other peoples work into one mod.

Diplomacy, shield bug, two handed fix its pretty much all in there. I do think the next patch will address most of whats in the mod, but its been my expirence(old paradox fanboy here) to wait out patches until other users have seen what it does and what it dosent do.

Essentially, LTC mod makes the game playable right now, with no immediate need to patch the game further.