Yes mandatory 2 weeks passing time when upgrade or claiming land is an unnessesery pain in this game. This should be removed. Let the kingdom upgrade or claim land and let us play. That how it should be. Other then this the game is almost perfect.
This desperately needs patches. Battle over I click debrief - boom crash. Or I drive very close to AT Gun with my armoured car with gun and for some reason he just dont shot. And no he is not damaged or have no ammo. He just stand. To the point the AT Gun crew pick it up and run away and he still dont shot. I drive behind them, stand stil and order to shot, nope. Game is broken.
Enemy AI is set cheating. It sees position of your troops (without having actual look out / recon there) and play accordingly. For example I just leaved town that I previously defended, bc enemy was making no advance and so I made bold move forward but left somewhat little room left on my flank behind - boom enemy will use it and drive straight to the town directly behind your lines - something that normally he would never do. When you move your troops its one way move and thats it - theres no redo. Apparently enemy dont have this restriction so in his turn it says its thinking - it probably doing all those combinations of moves, trying out and seeing theres noone in town it choose the most efficent / striking move. Im playing this game for long time and I've seen this behaviour so many times and its anoying and unrealistic. AI should be oblivious of my move bc it does not had troops around to see it. And yet he did it. Situation like this could be considered fair only if I as well could have this option of redo move just like in other such games (until enemy is spoted). But AI should have this restriction as well so that he could actually drop into traps. Now because of this cheating AI I'm looking how remove Fog of War and see all enemy troops on map. Pissed off really.
Just give us free for all update.exe file to download. This kind of artificial obstacles are only frustrating and couter-intuitive.
Couple years ago I approched this game - having Baldurs Gate & Icewind Dale already finished I was hesitated bc of silly looking portraits. I was wondering is this game any good or is it just junk? But then I had give it a try and BAM! Suddenly I was realy into it. There is something in gameplay with remainds me those classics and after few hours playing I really liked it. Now I can fully recomend it and if you are a fan of D&D party crpgs and BG & IWD like me you gonna like it for sure,
