If they attack your tiny outpost, all you do is hoping that the siege takes 3-4 turns, so that you can move your 6-unit-stack-armies there quickly. Tactical combat at first is fun, but soon you 4-5x 6-unit-stack-armies vs another 4x 6-unit-stack-armies. It is a bit like the generic faction designer: it only leads to a big brown soup of randomness, unlike in other games.I also noticed how diplomacy in this game flips around like a flag in the wind. Once allied, their opinion ratings increase which makes them move closer. Bad and evil factions ally all the time, even after a war. The bad/evil standing looks nice but you notice soon that it doesn't matter. You siege an outpost for 2-3 turns, but also a big city for 5 turns? And when you beat a large army defending that city of 20 units? Nah, doesn't matter. City sieges are not fun, and make little sense. There are no real Orcs, Elves, Skavens, or Demons in this game, if you need some. dull? Random? I read that some journalists complained about that one too, so maybe it is worth mentioning. If any race can be anything, any time, it feels.

The only complaints I can think of (after 45+ h) are - The faction creator causes generic, boring races with no soul. But the game's pace, gameplay, are really alright. The shadows on the NPCs and beneath trees show the problem. The visuals suffer a little from typical small team issues: everything is too dark, even during the day for light factions, as if the devs had little experience in computer graphics. It had a rocky start in the first hours, where the Steam reviews dropped for a few hours to 40 %, because of crashes, but it is now rightfully much higher. The It is better than Age of Wonders 3, obviously. It is better than Age of Wonders 3, obviously.

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