I might be really, really tacky, but I find almost 3 dollars too much for what it's supposed to be. But well, I won't be buying it, so I don't care that much... still pissed about the fire at will thing. Not all nations used a throwing weapon as heavy as a pila, so it's a really gross simplification. I do really think it was in part to simplify the game for the many newcomers to the TW series (which seems to be pivotal in CA's current policy, as they have shown in that interview where they said they would delete features based on Metacritic reviews, or something like that... TotalBiscuit had a video on that), as they don't have the "Loose Formation" in the default game, although it is within the game files (there is a modder that enabled it). In any case, I was checking the forums again, where I had read the comment on disregarding the pila-throwing animations, and it seems it was just a pun from a user...
I'm just worried that the game is changing to favour a wider audience: rather than making them adapt into the pretty good mechanics in former games, they are trying to introduce elements that could make it more attractive for newcomers. That's the perception I've been getting anyways, and I know it isn't entirely fair for me to comment on a game that I don't even own (more by the fact that my current pc barely handles RTW on "Large" unit settings, rather than skepticism).