Second restart

So since I got bored with the other ET games and also since I got stuck in a standstill in EW5 I decided to reset EW5 again. For the second time in hopes of it going a bit better. This time I'm going to go without IAPs all the way until Gunpowder Age-ish. And I gotta say, it's way better this way. With IAPs you just stomp everything with Washington/Genghis Khan until you get stuck. Now I'm going to play with an actual plan, so I haven't invested a single medal into any of the lousy starter people and instead rushed to Attila and Edward. I haven't used either before, but they're awesome. I'm going for CavCom which has some huge benefits but requires some skill to use.

And the campaign gameplay is actually really good. You really need some teambuilding skill and tactical skill to play the game, so I'm having fun. Still, there's some elements I don't like. Fog of War as usual serves no purpose other than to induce as many restarts as possible since you can't actually plan anything when you don't know what you're going up against. Conquest is really lame, and the AI in AI controlled missions just cannot use cavalry efficiently. 

I also think the unit balance is pretty good too. Maybe the only thing I'd change is to have infantry take -50% instead of -25% damage from archers since infantry can't actually beat archers even though they're supposed to.






It is indeed a good game, maybe because they seen EW5 as unfinished or needs improvement. The unit balance as you said is effective.  The only problem is that Artillery have more health then all units snd there is no unit that gives a bonus effect to destory Artillery.