The 13 new screenshots

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/medieval2totalwar/screenindex.html?sid=6156399

M2TWs Battlefield graphics, designer diary:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/medieval2totalwar/news.html?sid=6156383

M2TWs Missions, developer diary:

http://www.totalwar.com/index.html?page=/us/medieval2/gameinfo/med2devdiary/index.html&nav=/us/medieval2/1/5/

The graphics look worse than before?

Yeop, it's funny I thought the same. The Turn Based campaign's graphics look worser than RTWs, at least in the 13 new screenshots !

However if you check out the Missions link, the TB campaign map looks really good with rich colours and graphics.

The total apathy with respect to borders is almost insulting!

Though I must say that the battle maps are great (and the unit details are pretty good).

And amazingly, all the men in the units don't look identical, it looks like they made clones of TWO different men as opposed to creating a unit entired cloned from ONE man!

And I'm guessing those were assassin scenes in there as well. My next question is this: are they adding RPG into this game now too?

I think I read somewhere that what they did was make numerous body parts (so head #1, head#2, body#1, body#2 etc) and just randomised the body make up so that you get a small change in the appearances of the men, for a minimal amount of work.