Hmm… another case of someone asking for small things instead of large things.
While we may very well agree that the combat tweaks of the first Chapter were unnecessary and didn’t really do anything to improve the gameplay, you are presenting rope and horse carts as an alternative to the Age of War.
Rope and horse carts don’t need to be an alternative. They are small things that could just as easily be added to the Age of War without taking away anything.