It's a fun game. Battles are great, the card system is fun and the art is just beautiful.

However. While I can recommend this game, the 4x element to it, the building of bases, AI and AI camps and heroes from all 3 factions need balancing. A lot of it. They also need to rework how to obtain heroes. Sure, 1/2 Skirmish wins, not a big deal but the 75 STOLEN loot chests? Goodluck. Not unless you 1v1 a friend and just steal from each other.

AI will literally sit in the same spot for the entire game if you're a crusade player. Thousand Armies? They will constantly take back cities you just took instantly. Crusade doesn't need to worry about.

Heroes are either so good or so bad. A 2/2 Thousand Army Paladin is grossly under powered vs a 2/2 Crusade hero.

Healing from moment to moment needs a buff. Unless you got lucky and got a healing card from a hero or from the city level up (because its random) you may struggle with keeping up with everyone. Healing is so slow. Even then, when a heal card pops up, it competes with other strong cards and feels so lame to toss them away never to see them again.

It's clear they pushed out the 1.0 without balancing in mind. The polish is really good and while I understand why, it makes the first impression harder to enjoy when so many things are just not balanced and it makes it even harder to stay when everything is set up for your failure if you're trying something new or rolling the dice.

Would purchase as a sale product. Not full price as of 1.0.

It's a fun game. Battles are great, the card system is fun and the art is just beautiful. However. While I can recommend this game, the 4x element to it, the building of bases, AI and AI camps and heroes from all 3 factions need balancing. A lot of it. They also need to rework how to obtain heroes. Sure, 1/2 Skirmish wins, not a big deal but the 75 STOLEN loot chests? Goodluck. Not unless you 1v1 a friend and just steal from each other. AI will literally sit in the same spot for the entire game if you're a crusade player. Thousand Armies? They will constantly take back cities you just took instantly. Crusade doesn't need to worry about. Heroes are either so good or so bad. A 2/2 Thousand Army Paladin is grossly under powered vs a 2/2 Crusade hero. Healing from moment to moment needs a buff. Unless you got lucky and got a healing card from a hero or from the city level up (because its random) you may struggle with keeping up with everyone. Healing is so slow. Even then, when a heal card pops up, it competes with other strong cards and feels so lame to toss them away never to see them again. It's clear they pushed out the 1.0 without balancing in mind. The polish is really good and while I understand why, it makes the first impression harder to enjoy when so many things are just not balanced and it makes it even harder to stay when everything is set up for your failure if you're trying something new or rolling the dice. Would purchase as a sale product. Not full price as of 1.0.