Kingdoms certainly needs a patch to restore the advertised features which are broken and missing from the game.

I'm not certain there are any remaining "game-breaking" bugs which would make me believe a further patch for M2TW is a necessity. Of course, further patches are always desirable as there is always improvement that can be made.

I haven't up to now considered the poor performance of the AI in battles and on the campaign map to be a "bug", and have felt as others have described here that it is unrealistic to expect this to be improved with a patch.

Having said that, Sinan's recent post in the "Losing at M2TW" thread has inspired me to try out GrandViz's Ultimate AI 1.06.

If that makes a marked improvement, perhaps there is a case for expecting CA to tweak the AI in a patch to improve the game difficulty.