Okay, I've played through the tutorial just to get a feel for the game. Had to do some troubleshooting to get the launcher to work.

Right off the bat I'll say I like slower speed of the battles, at least in the tutorials. That blazing fast battles were what turned me off from RTW. Now I just have the difficult decision of picking which faction to start with. I'll have to play a bit more with the UI in battles. I felt like I didn't have the control over the units I'm used to. I just need to figure out how to do what I need the units to do.