Part of it is because there are too many sieges and units are pretty much the same in a siege. Differences between factions are too small.First I identified things I wanted to see changed about vanilla: So I decided to take things in my hands, and do some modding myself. Maybe other people like it this way, I didn't.
Stainless Steel simply made things a lot worse to me, by slowing everything down, and creating this huge boring map on which nothing ever happens. Lands to Conquer was only a bit better than vanilla - on the one hand I finally had a chance of playing with late units, on the other hand it didn't really fix most of vanilla gameplay issues. I tried a few mods but were mostly disappointed with them. There's been some things about Medieval 2 Total War that really bothered me - like how small differences between factions were compared to Rome Total War, or how often the game turned into a siegefest. Yet there's something about me that's never content with what I have, and always wanting to make things better. I really enjoy Rome Total War and Medieval 2 Total War games.
