I don't like battles on anything above medium... I like to zoom in and watch the action a lot, i like to let the lines thin before charging my cavalry around like madmen. On hard you can't do that, as soon as combat starts it's a frustrating click-fest. I would like to feel as though every battle counts in the mod, but it can never happen. Not because of EB... EB is the best R:TW can ever be, it won't get better than this, it's just the way the game was shipped, battles have no importance unless you're playing as Hayasdan or something equally as insanely difficult.

Even on VH/VH if you suffer a crushing defeat, what then? You raise a new army and go at it again. What happens if you get a heroic victory and destroy a powerful AI army? He raises a new one and sends it straight at you. At the end of it all, it turns out just as it would on VH/M.

Mind you, i did suffer rather a devastating loss today as Epeiros. I had Phyrros as my general with his 5 stars, a good army, trouble is i was facing 2 Makedonian armies with a 7 star general. Thanks to Sinhuet's formation modifications the AI actually tied up all of my units and then attacked my phalanxes from behing leaving me absolutely no choice but to sit and watch them be slaughtered.

So you see, VH/M doesn't always go the way you want it.