I do agree that most kits couldn't be used as they are. This is rather to be discussed with the DM on a case by case basis. Say a player wants to make a fighter different from that of another player. He takes one of his 2e Complete Handbooks and sees a kit that pleases him. Then he has to work it as to tweak the fighter class in a way that make sense and doesn't unbalance anything.
Anyway, my biggest complaint with Castles & Crusades, is not about a flaw this game could have, but the fact that the market is overflooded now, and whatever money I can have to buy books, I only have limited time to play. Since I have got enough (almost fifty) d20/DnD books of all sorts, and have 4 campaigns ready, I won't try another game that will make useless all these books. That is, I like to play long campaigns over one-shot adventures. So i will probably get this C&C PHB for the read, but it comes too late as far as I am concerned.
