Quote Originally Posted by Poor Bloody Infantry
Is the campaign map really that demanding? I always got the impression that the real number crunching went on on the battlemap. Broken Crescent has about 200 provinces and that seems to run fine for me. Although, I had forgotten that the buildings will all be represented on the campaign map so I suppose the ETW map will be considerably busier than the M2TW map.

I sincerely hope that both Europe and the rest of the world have enough stuff (settlements, buildings, regions etc) in them to do them justice; it would be disappointing if conquering an empire were too easy or quick. It is Empire Total War after all, so most of the action should happen overseas.
Well IIRC the reason the number of provinces in RTW was limited to 200 was to prevent mods becoming too demanding on peoples' PC's, considering the system requirements they gave.