My same thoughts... I was thinking of buying it... in fact I have it on my wishlist since 2019... doubtful that purchase will happen.Every time I see screenshots from this I become less and less interested. The battles are the same scale as the original game, they have the same bizzare routing mechanics, the music is more generic, and everything they've shown from the campaign map makes it feel more like a paradox game. I'd very much like to be wrong, but I have a feeling this is going to be yet another 2020s stinker.
The music is probably trailer music, so there is hope! The rest might as well be ****, but low expectations are always a good thing.You guys are making me sad, where's the Hope™?
good chunk of playerbase skipped the battles altogether,
While this is true for historical games, you can't deny that campaigns in Warhammer 2 (Mortal Empires) and Warhammer 3 (Immortal Empires) do add lots of flavor since the races are so different and the gameplay experiences heavily skewed towards styles that you might naturally not go for, which forces you to experiment with tons of fun new mechanics and tactics.Everything after Empire Total War is about as shallow as Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator, just with smaller battles and paradox-ass percentage modifiers.