Wow, great job on Fallen Enchantress. I guess creating a good game is kind of an ephemeral calculus, but Fallen Enchantress has the stuff!
I don't really know, but maybe it's the increased characterization and uniqueness of the factions and heroes, or the additional attention to the art that makes the play map so much more diverse and interesting to look at, particularly with those huge creatures lumbering around! Art & characterization, thumbs up!
It has also, thus far, been running much more smoothly on my 2.6 dual core (512mb ATI graphics) than WoM, even patched WoM, although I did still have a crash after playing straight through a couple hundred turns.
Anyway, this is great! I'm sure there are plenty of balancing issues and tweaks to be made and bugs to quash, but the litmus test of FUN TO PLAY is an EASY PASS, for me. This is a good game, because it's fun. Draws me in much more than WoM. I'm already looking forward to an expansion.
Cheers!
-mra