I got this last spring, and started immediately into the Grand Campaign, and was totally overwhelmed with all the stuff that had to be managed. After all, you're basically playing on the entire world. It was too much of a learning curve and I was getting my ass kicked all over.
About a month ago I fired it up again and this time decided to try the Road to Independence campaign, which starts the player out as the Colonial British, then switches to the newly-created United States, and now you're in the Revolutionary War. It turns out that this also has a lot of tutorial elements in it, which I hadn't realized before, and am absolutely LOVING this game. It's great to start with a very manageable scale of lands to administer and defend, and being able to beat up on the British is rather satisfying.
It seems like this game made a decent-sized splash when it came out, but also suffered from a lot of bugs. Well, they've got that sorted out, and it plays great and is very stable.
Just wanted to put this back on the radar in case some of you were fans of the series. Excellent game.
About a month ago I fired it up again and this time decided to try the Road to Independence campaign, which starts the player out as the Colonial British, then switches to the newly-created United States, and now you're in the Revolutionary War. It turns out that this also has a lot of tutorial elements in it, which I hadn't realized before, and am absolutely LOVING this game. It's great to start with a very manageable scale of lands to administer and defend, and being able to beat up on the British is rather satisfying.
It seems like this game made a decent-sized splash when it came out, but also suffered from a lot of bugs. Well, they've got that sorted out, and it plays great and is very stable.
Just wanted to put this back on the radar in case some of you were fans of the series. Excellent game.