I went evil on my playthrough and did the grove fight. Not sure if that worked as designed, but I had four combat encounters, and for all of them I have only one word: atrocious.
It's not that the fights were overly difficult. Except for friendly fire they could be handled without any issues. But the sheer number of participants, and, more importantly, the sheer number of participants doing nothing made this an absolute drag. It took ages for any one round to complete, especially since of lot of toons on both sides didn't seem to know what to do. Getting your teeth pulled is more fun.
I know this is EA, but this kills absolutely any fun.
