Finished the first Dvar campaign mission. It ended in a very familiar fashion: I’ve besieged the only province of cyber-undead guys for dozens of turns. Same often happened in AoW3: they have several stacks of units and only one province, in this game they’re even weaker cause you can capture parts of the city. I’ve won but I had to throw units in there, and in those cases it’s very tempting to autoresolve combat, you’re drowning them in bodies anyway.
But in general I liked bigger battles more than in AoW3. In AoW3 it was hard to care about all the little units when there are a lot of them. Here you see more diversity. Robot minor race gave me a lot of support units linking the net, and those are perfect for sieges. Basic Dvar infantry unit is great bullet sponge. Brigadeers have explosive damage and support stuff. It’s all much more interesting than AoW3 where every unit still had to be a good damagger expended to do at least some melee.