This game is a buggy mess that I will always love and return to. The scope of this game is insane. The campaign is addicting and packed with content and its always interesting to try new factions and learn all the new units, buildings etc. Unfortunately it has some fairly game breaking bugs/ flaws. A lot the sieges are just down right broken. The AI is not very challenging in general and on very hard it will just spam you will stacked militia armies which is not very fun but very tedious. Also - and this is not a bug - once you have 10+ cities there starts to be a major snowball effect where no one can stand in your way and the game basically loses all balance. I always wished that there would be an AI faction that grew to be as big and powerful as the player so that there could be a huge war at the end of the game. It sometimes happens but its pretty rare.

Despite all its flaws I still love it though. It has a lot of charm and I highly recommend it

This game is a buggy mess that I will always love and return to. The scope of this game is insane. The campaign is addicting and packed with content and its always interesting to try new factions and learn all the new units, buildings etc. Unfortunately it has some fairly game breaking bugs/ flaws. A lot the sieges are just down right broken. The AI is not very challenging in general and on very hard it will just spam you will stacked militia armies which is not very fun but very tedious. Also - and this is not a bug - once you have 10+ cities there starts to be a major snowball effect where no one can stand in your way and the game basically loses all balance. I always wished that there would be an AI faction that grew to be as big and powerful as the player so that there could be a huge war at the end of the game. It sometimes happens but its pretty rare. Despite all its flaws I still love it though. It has a lot of charm and I highly recommend it