Quote Originally Posted by TinCow
Well, M2TW is the second game on the RTW engine. The previous engine also had two games on it (STW and MTW). So, it is possible that this could be the first game of the third generation TW engine, which would open up the possibility for changes that would make gunpowder combat more sensible.
It is.

CA always goes revolutionary/evolutionary, and these days appear to have things set up so that CA UK does the revolutionary work (ie new engine), and CA OZ the evolutionary improvements to that