This was definitely one of my favorites after a few hours of gameplay. It carries everything a strategy game should but I don’t like the battle screen animations. Watching a bunch of ships with poor pathing and old lego type creatures march towards each other just left me crying for it to end. If this game also included RTS style battles per encounter it would not only provide an endless amount of time spent on a single round but it would also make the player much more involved. Mind you this is coming from someone that loves the Total War collection.
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