Creative Assembly made a Definitive Edition of several of their older titles (Medieval2, Empire & Napoleon) giving everyone all the DLC (For Med2 just 1 expansion I already have but a decent chunk of units for the other two titles).
I never really managed to get into Empire so I've been playing that & having quite a bit of fun
Still got some shocking bugs & crashes and I still can't fathom why France is only a single province but there is really something quite magnificent about the battles with musket & bayonet infantry, cannon pounding away, ability to occupy certain buildings, cavalry squares etc.
Also after avoiding the sea part for much of my campaign I've started a navy to get in on those lucrative trade spots & been having some good fun with the naval battles.
eg just had a battle where enemy had 3* 2nd rates to my 2* but I had a solid 6* 3rd rate vs his motley mix of 10 or so smaller ships, enemy had the 2nd rates & stronger ships in a windward line with smaller ships parallel to leeward.
Wind & position allowed me to run a first pass close to the leeward line, knocking it completely out of the battle & putting solid damage on several of his main line with minimal damage received.
I gybed my line round to make a 2nd pass, enemy line also gybed round & were coming back at me, my leading 2nd rate passed to one side of their somewhat isolated 2nd in line, blamming it point blank, then my following 3rd rate immediately passed on the other side also unleashing a devastating salvo -> enemy instantly struck its colours, beautiful.
By the time the pass completed all enemy ships were surrendered/sunk except their lead 2nd rate who routed on final salvo from my trailing 2nd rate.
I scored 2* captured 2nd rates in the after-battle that'll form the backbone of my 3rd battle squadron
