I will tell you I was one of those people who saw the DLC on a unfinished game and I was pissed off. I later learned those DLC are the kickstarter backers reward. This is a pretty nice system. As I have come into a game late never hearing about it and seeing that there some nice features excluded from me because I was not a kickstarter member. This is a nice way to balance out Kickstarter rewards. Where people who kickstarted got the rewards for free. While those who did not. Well they can pay a little more if they truely want it. So please ignore the DLC hate people. As they do not know what is going on. I do feel that the Devs should have posted on the store page. "Kickstarter backer reward for non kickstarter backers." So people can see that this is not a DLC but us who have not backed it can still get kickstarter rewards.
So it basicly takes the older game and dumbs it down for the Civ fans to play it. Combat is easier and less stragitic. Less specialization then AoW3. Less units then AoW3. Basicly less of everything. AoW3 is better and you can get all the dlc for 60 bucks.