Haven't rated it as the games simply not finished yet, waiting till they close the patching to determine whether its too easy.

Main gripe with the game as it stands is predictability. From a few other threads I've had one place surrender, I was playing the same faction, & it was the same city as the other poster. Largest fleet battle, same faction same location as the other poster. Fleet invasion, same faction invading, same location & with the same force, I think that was shared with at least two other posters.

This is not what I was expecting based on the other TW games where each game felt different. As an simple example, knowing that bordering a faction is 98% likely to result in a declaration of war results in game play become increasingly predictable.

Finally, (and fingers crossed many of these items will be fixed in the upcoming patches), troop types, well they're are pretty much all the same, so playing one faction or another simply results in having a differently skinned clone of every other factions troops. There is slight variation but not nearly enough yet, and the main troop variations not appearing until the very end of the game is simply frustrating.

Once again, the update news does seem to indicate that many of these items will be improved/fixed, & as others have said here, if they get the AI right this could be a very challenging game.