Quote Originally Posted by Matinius Brutus
You darn EB b*stards!!!!
Last night I decided to give Vanilla a go for the first time in a year. At the beginning I was very pleased to rediscover how fast the Title screen loaded. But then ..... I saw the strategic map and it seemed .........just plain, so did everything. I forced a few turns but I never felt the same thrill from a time long past. Ahhh I guess I would never be able to leave EB behind.....
Oh yes playing some turns of Vanilla is a certain cure when feeling like critizing EB:

- Winter every other turn
- Much smaller map
- No economy that you have to think of
- Battles that do not last longer than 2 minutes from first contact to mass rout
- Generals that are able to butcher entire armies on their own
- No AOR, govermental system or reforms (save one for the Romans)
- No faction specific traits
- All Barbarians appear with the same 4 or 5 units
- All Hellenic field nealry nothing but Phalanx, save for the Ptolemaians who field Bronze Age units
- No chance to recruite anything than your factional units
- Not more than 2 or 3 different units of mercs available per province
- All units answer in English, German or whatever language your version of RTW is
- etcpp