Finished my first campaign as Empire last night - Long victory conditions and took me about 180 turns on normal ( think that was the difficulty anyway).
I thoroughly enjoyed it and think the game is very good. From a technical perspective, it is very well made in terms of stability/bugs - Played the whole campaign without a single glitch, bug or crash. very good
. Performance in massive battles still leaves a lot to be desired but have fingers crossed the DX12 patch might help with this though as it should reduce the CPU bottle necking.
A few negatives/ where there is room for improvement:
-Sieges are naff, skipped through most of them and auto resolved ( already posted my thoughts on why earlier in the thread)
-Large battles (ie 2 or 3 full stacks) are simply too cumbersome to control. There is so much more micromanagement what with all the power ups and magic, etc that managing all this with 3 stacks is just a nightmare. Whilst i never thought this would be a downside, the sheer amount of unit variety doesn't help as the AI often fills armies with loads of different units so you are constantly having to try and match your troops with theirs (in terms of what is good against what etc). Doing this with 2 or 3 full stacks coupled with all the micro management of magic and perks/powers gets silly.
- AI agent spam is ridiculous. They should have more armies and less agents. In my campaign i finally got to taking on the Vampire Counts who had about 7 or 8 provinces but they must have had 10+ high level irritating agents buzzing about blocking armies/assassinating/damaging buildings but hardly any armies!? By the end I had so much army power that i just ignored enemy agents until they were wiped out. I couldn't make any agents that would stand a chance against level 28 ones anyway so...
I realise some of my negatives will be due to my shortcomings playing the game but they are still negatives in my view.
Still, great game and very much looking forward to the new races/bigger map etc.
Going to try and take over the whole map with Empire then start a Dwarf campaign i think.
