Just to be fair, Imperial Glory has some advances (notwithstanding the Naval one):

The soldiers are grouped in units but each soldier acts independently from another.

They can garrison buildings during battles, take positions behind trees/boulder, giving them advantage over the enemy (lots of screenies at the UK site version).

One caveat is that there is a 2000 soldier limit per battle and there are only 50 land maps/region.

I'm gonna wait this out (for more info). So long as the gameplay is deep