Yes.. I agree. I'm kind of tired of the WC3 instagank keke zerg style of RTS games these days. The slow mining and building up for some reason is damn fun!

After playing for 6 hours......

It is ALOT of fun. lol. It has lost some things but gained many more. Its still a long game to up the tech tree and get everything maxed out. Towers are uber... The AI seems actually smart. If it charged my land and I had 2 Cannon Towers it ran away lol. Also runs when you have more units.

The gameplay is slow but fast as you want it. I could pop troops out ASAP just have to research 1 tech. If you do you will be weak units and nothing special but swordsman. Or ya could tech up and have super troopers

There is alot of people running around for the fact units need food/sleep and stop working and come out to go sleep in Inns and eat at farms you build near. There is no need to create weapons or armor. I first thought this might hurt the game and it still might. The cost to keep troops active really isnt that high. To cheap for captains per turn. I think they need to up it pretty good.

other then that the game is alot better then WC3 to me atm. More economy and exploring and the fighting is fun its not crap anymore.

And for some reason if I have a USB storage device hooked up it locks up after 10 min or so - every time. Mice/KB just fine. Weird.

The peons don't run back and forth to drop off stuff anymore, but they do need to eat and rest. So there is a lot of running around, tons of buuildings and mining and whatnot. You also make armies and have generals that get xp, etc. It's actually pretty fun, and good looking. Peaceful kind of thing. good waterfalls, clay, iron, stone.. wood.. etc.

aren't there for example resource chains anymore? I hoped they didn't mess with the settlers recipe

Wow this games pretty but what happen to settlers??? I always liked those games for there micro managment when I felt like just messing around and building an economy. This game has LOST ALL settlers in it.

People dont walk with resources anymore feels so void. Kind of basic auto buildings once there in resources pour in. I think ill pass. This game is not settlers its like a wannbe with WC3 mixed in.