I must say FE is making a great impression so far. I got two hours of sleep because of it last nigh and i did not want to go to sleep when i did. Big win on the champion progression and inventory it is so much better. champions feel like champions and loot actually feels like loot. the world is much more alive and scary a drake army has a spawn point close to my capital and trying to sneak by it is scary. i have not unfortunatly gotten to spend much time yet with the armies as there was very little grass around my spawn for settling other cities but i have gotten my soverign up to lvl 9 and man be just feels good. it reminds me of getting torin the chosen up to demigod and being able to solo the map.   i am a bit concerned about ballance at the moment. focus plus double strike can net over 200 damage to a single target and that makes it too strong i am soloing the big monsters no problem with meager equipment.  the ui while cleaner is not as easy to understand on citiies i found myself asking "what is grain?" and "where is material?" those were easy to see on WoM but much harder to find on the new interface. my only beef with champ progression right now is the spell lvl ups it feels to easy to just hit a button without reaserch and im not as excited about the magic because its a simple lvl up without having an idea about what the magic does.  all in all i would say that this game has gone from a strong 6 to a low 8 and i know that with this base that its going to be at least a 9 when it comes out unlike its predicessor which was a 3-4