I have to say I commend the design of the chinese civ, they are very unique and well designed (OP heroes and god powers aside)
They almost felt like anti-norse cause they are often very range based and oh boy are they slow, every thing feels slow and their cav coming later in the game makes it so often times if you werent playing like slow and steady and pushing out with like building crawl I often find myself getting caught out so easily
Their eco is also surprisingly kinda ok and the dance between the shit peasants and the kuafus are interesting and definitely needs careful management, many times I thought I should prioritise kuafus to pump my eco has resulted in many unbalanced eco. The fact that kuafus are also a favour drain has also made it so i couldnt get techs and myth units a lot.
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Sadly it was too short. The New Atlantis campaign where already short (12 missions) and the story was massive rushed, this one managed to be EVEN MORE rushed.
You can barely know the characters and things happen suddently, like the god of war cutscene: “haha, you where my puppet all along!” “oh yeah? then you are trapped” end lol
The next DLC they need to give the designers way more missions to flesh out the story better. (just like The Battle for Greece did)
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Cool man! I’m glad you had fun. I’m still like a long way away. Just about finished up first campaign for Greeks and now I’m doing Egyptians. Maybe at current rate, a month out before I even dabble with Chinese campaign.
Would you skip any of the others and go straight into that? Was it that good?
I don’t think its worth to skip any campaigns. The Chinese campaign is not better than the original Fall of the Trident campaign, for example.
In fact, it just reuse the same storytelling and missions format.
Does it have to be better than the FotT campaign? That’s a high bar to reach.
What it has to be is good enough that someone that has experienced the FotT campaign can have fun and have a good time, even when comparing it with FotT and finding FotT better. So it can be worse. But it can’t be a lot worse.
Remember Tale of the Dragon? That one was universally rejected. To a degree where the entire online community almost unanimously agreed we’d rather have no content than that content.