JTS Napoleon - Where to Start?

[Fonebone]

Hello, fellas. Hope you don't mind a noob question. Here goes.

I'm interested in trying one of these games, but I'm confused. I downloaded the demo from JTS and found it very hard to play. The 2D map is too small to play on and the 3D is not much better. I'm hoping the demo does not reflect the current state of the game.

I see that a “2D magnified view” has been added via updates. Does this make the 2D maps playable? What mods do you guys recommend to make the 3D better? My main problem with the demo 3D was that when stacked with leaders, the units were sort of indistinguishable. If the game were exactly like the demo, I would avoid it. But when modded and with the JTS updates applied, is the game better than the demo shows?

Thanks in advance for any help.