Had to replay here as your videos are awesome and brought the game to my attention making me pre order it aswell as Distant Worlds!

You point out alot of great things which most people would agree with in the UI, but I personally don't think a larger starting force and/or more of the tech tree unlocked at the start are necessary. At the moment I feel like the AI factions are being largely ignored by the monsters whereas the human player has to deal with both the AI and monsters  making it more of a slower process to get going.

Thanks again for the comments.

At this stage in the game Gilden is a reliable ally and is at least causing difficulties for Yithril. Yithril is still sending troops past and attacking but I assume there are also a number of battles going on in the fog of war. Besides that, sending an army south would mean either leaving the west undefended of my capital undefended. Feel it is best to secure the capital and work in the west at this point in the game.

Regarding the AI not being attacked by wandering monsters, I have seen instances in the game where AI stacks, cities and outposts have indeed been attacked. I really don't think there is a game mechanic at play to protect the AI players from the monsters.

The AI has improved a lot in this version. I'm really impressed with the choices it is making. By-passing protected cities to attack weaker cities is great and now you really need to protect everything. Biggest problem I have with the AI now is that in tactical battles it doesn't re-position melee troops once they are in contact with the enemy.

It's taking a long time to upload each episode into YouTube but I'll try to get a few more uploaded over the next 24 hours.

Thanks for that. I don't tend to use keyboard shortcuts yet for FE.

Here's episode 14...

Always love your videos, not just here for also for Distant Worlds and Crusader Kings 2.  Maybe it's that sexy accent?

Either way, glad you like the same games I do, because you keep surprising me with videos for games I'm considering buying.

I just want to give you some kudos for your videos. I bought FE yesterday night after watching all of them.  

Great work, keep it up!

Did they get rid of the create your own units that were in the original game... Don't remember to much about it.. But I do seem to recall you could make your own army units and outfit them the way you wanted.  Seems now everything is premade.

I have and still do play both AOW and AOW:SM and I have never had a TC battle last more than 10 minutes and that was rare. But I suppose if you take your time it can llast that long. This goes for both SP and MP with multipule stacks involved. 

It is still the best Fanatsy TBS game to date IMHO

Looking at the vids, it seems that the AI has trouble in the midgame to organize its armies. In the beginning we saw some very tight battles due to scarceness of units. That's the part where the AI can keep up, but when you finally were able to create bigger armies the AI started fallling short. Looking at their rating they should be able to come up with some pretty serious armies but it's too loosely organized. I think Brad's going to have a tough nut to crack there.

AI needs to create better units and start using armour

AI needs to create bigger and better stacks and avoid wandering off with small armies or solo heroes into enemy territory.

Hi to all!

First, I have to say that Elemental: Fallen Enchantress looks *so* great and promising! I started to watch "Let's Play" Videos only some days ago. (Not this one jet, but I'll do so for sure!). I like so many things about this game. The graphical representation is only one of them, but not the least. But this is not the reason of this post...

I just registered to throw in a comment, even if discussion moved on already:

I want to refer to the suggestion to have a separate "set up screen" (or something similar) to plan your army formation in advance and don't have to do this again and again when a neew battle starts. I sort of like the idea, but want to suggest a slightly different approach:

Why not doing this *once* befor a battle and then having this formation saved for later use? There doesn't need to be a special "save button", just let it manage the programm automatically. So, only if a new unit enters the party or a unit died, a re-arangement might by necessary. In all other cases, the fight might start emidiately without any further delay.

Lets not take away all micromanagment there are still a few of us that love to micromanage