Excellent game. My first wargame. I was not speaking English so I had learned the command by heard. "KF" would move the Knight Forwards but for me K would just select the chevaliers and F would move them.
It doesn't have an abstracted board-game like playing field like the first game does. It's micromanagement hell thanks to all the units you have to move around. The total war games started being bad after Medieval 1, because you want to spend most of your time either planning or being engaged in the battles, not micro your general, their wife, their company and all that junk. It always ends up with a bunch of generals being forgotten in on corner of the map or another and dying of old age because you forgot about their campaign and goal.
Nonsense. It's about what you prefer the game to focus on, in later Total War games you spend much more time on the overmap than actually engaging in significant battles. If you don't care to micromanage 50 towns but would rather just focus on the big important parts on a map over provinces and then engage in meaningful battles then the first two games are far superior to the later ones. I'm not sure who asked for a terrible Civilization clone to become a part of Total War but they got their way.
