yea i know about the rockets, HONESTLY you can just play pike and shot warfare in med2 or shogun 2 just fine and it's fun. 

 i like trying the opposite going full bow and spear in fall of the samurai
yari spear wall GANG 

 there's lots of paths to victory, that's what makes it a good strategy game, playing a good tactical game is fun. 

 Yeah if they just touched up pathfinding in med2 I think that’d be my go to tw game.  The ai ven feels more confident in battle than the newer ones. 

 only real problem is when gunpowder unlocks it's pretty late so during a campaign you won't really be using it alot. 

 i remember it was darthmod that made empire have the smoke actually be a lot more realistic and it'd linger and start making it hard to see shit, cuz tha'ts realistically what happened before smokeless powder LOL