Hey Longjohn, I think I've seen you on the Longbow forums. :P I can't wait for further patches for Hegemony (got an annoyingly persistant crash up in the far eastern Danube area) and for future games from Longbow based on this engine and some of the gameplay concepts. The combat is quite abstracted (or contrived, if you're in a bad mood :P) but I don't think it's really much more abstract than TW games, really. The tactical fights are obviously much more simpler but there is a lot greater strategic depth to it.

I've really only been playing games recently to hold me over until I get more patches for this. I've fallen for it pretty bad. :P