the concept of "mount&blade with guns" sounds cool, but sadly developers have no clue what to do with any of the problems guns and ranged combat bring to this type of game. strategic part is ... OK-ish. Pretty empty with not much to do, but passable and can be modded so there is some hope for this part. Combat is a disaster. AI is braindead and they have no answer for anything player does. With a sniper rifle you can solo entire enemy army and all they will do is zombie-shuffle towards you. They won't try to rush you, they won't try to flank you, they won't try suppression fire at range, they'll simply keep walking like a bunch of zombies until you mercy kill them. If you decide you don't want to solo everything and use your army it is almost worse ... unlike M&B there is no tactics, no using different units for different purposes, you're looking at modern infantry lookalikes doing 18th century line infantry tactics of standing in plain sight and shooting at each other. Unit with better armor (and higher level/HP) wins. And unlike M&B there are almost no differences in speed/mobility (nothing like cavalry) so no tactics based or movement or positioning ... only viable tactic is stuff everyone into heaviest armor available. And on top of that, most weapons in the game are pointless (which is sad, there are quite a few of them) ... assault rifles and sniper rifles are the only useful weapon types, everything else is useless. Close range combat can't be used because at that distance units will simply grenade each other into oblivion immediately. In the end, this really isn't a game but a glorified tech demo. Concept is interesting, but the execution is deeply flawed and most of the problems are things that are very obvious, problems developers must have seen coming from a mile away and simply decided to ignore. The game can keep you entertained for some time, but you have to find your own fun and don't expect finished polished product, this simply isn't it.
