It kind of feels like the original concept would've worked better(with the huge airships and flying units and lots of dragon knights and lots of different dragons and battles). But during development they decided to scrap that idea and remade the game. And as a result, to me, it feels like the game wants to be something it isnt, and that features are missing. The game is fun, yes, but it also feels incomplete at the same time. It's as if they didn't have the time to finish the game.
If you have the imperial edition take a look at the prototype screenshots those look epic.
The thing about having other dragons flying around during RTS is that it would have really made it a different type of RTS game. While this game does bring the ability of becoming a dragon yourself during the RTS, the rest of the RTS is pretty standard and average fare. Now if I had to deal with average RTS, plus watch the moves of an opponent dragon, and get into dog fights with it when it move in to destroy my units ... that a whole new ballgame.
Currently though turning into a dragon is basically a automatic win card for me. I can take a battle that has 7%/95% odds and win by using the dragon form.
The rts part is pretty boring for me. I don't even micro manage, because its kind of useless, since i dont have 10 arms to use many skills each unit has, and also because the dragon form can be so op at times that it's just not worth using unit skills. It's much faster to just send ur units at the enemy while you support them with your dragon.
As i've said, it feels incomplete, because they switched over to a different concept in the middle of the development, while they kept many things from it(like turning into a dragon), but removed other parts(like enemy dragons and huge airships), also they reduced the scale to a normal below average rts, while with the original concepts, there were huge flying airships around that could take on a dragon, not to mention, those airships would make for good boss battles(used instead of capital building when fighting for someone's capital).
Also right now, looking into quite a few threads, it seems that ppl barely fight skirmish battles, many of them usually use auto calculate.
