Wow. I got my butt handed to me in my first battle. I spent about 1 hour going through the tutorial, and 30 minutes or so reading through the manual before even starting the Campaign. After starting the campaign, I spent another 30 minutes getting familiar with all of the ship and the map, checking out sub screens, etc. My first turn was auto played, and my second turn was 2 battles. The first was a 48%-52% battle that was not in my favor. I auto played it and won. The second battle was pretty even. We both had 4 troops. There wasn't much enemy presence on the battlefield to start, and I went about my business as the tutorials had shown. Building troops and getting ready to head out to conquer. It was within a few minutes and they just kept coming. I was forced to defend. 20 minutes later and the AI had the whole map and a gazillion troops all over, just flooding me. I didn't feel like i had any time to go out and capture empty settlements, yet alone try and build and manage multiple settlements and troops at the same time while also trying to plan how and where to attack the enemy. It was way to fast paced for me on Normal. My brain just isn't as quick as it use to be. Unless there is a way to slow the game speed down in the realtime battles so I have time to think and execute, I'm not going to enjoy this game as much as I wanted to.
I read somewhere else in this thread about someone mentioning that when going into battle with "X" amount of troops, that should be it. That would allow more time plan and execute. I have to agree.
It kinda reminds me of "Age of Empires" without the resource gathering. When those battles got going in that game, you were just pumping out troops out of all of your barracks to rally points appropriately placed to put pressure on the enemy.
I'm going to go back and play more though, and hope that I can make it work for me.
Last edited by brannons; 08/08/13 10:56 AM.
