Recent reviews by Stinky Pete

This game is a great advertisement for Total War. Battles are unmanageable, your troops will inevitably get tangled up with each other or just straight up ignore orders. Without a battle planning stage, you are left to reorganize the sometimes baffling starting arrangements. While the capture point system is interesting, they are put in places that are very hard to defend. There is no tactical withdrawing either, you either fight and win or surrender and lose everything. I was winning a fight against a superior enemy by utilizing the terrain to my defensive advantage, taking two armies on from two sides with several units tasked with holding my last control point. One of the enemy generals swept around and took the capture point, despite being under fire from archers and engaged with spearmen. Despite having twice the amount of troops in the fight at the end, both of my armies were eliminated and my king was imprisoned. the UI is clunky, and while there are some good ideas, they just don't work like they do in Total War games.

Literally thousands of hours of potential fun, and it's not even fully complete!