Warlock and either Elemental or FE have about as much in common as they both do with Civ V, Civ IV, FFH, and AoW.  In other words, they're part of the same basic turn-based, fantasy-themed strategy genre.  Beyond that, they're worlds apart.

Meh, I bought Warlock, but I'm still not taken by it (though I'm still happy to support 4X TBS in general).  Reasons why it will never scratch my MoM itch, that currently only Fallen Enchantress looks like it may scratch:

• Very thin on diplomacy.  It's essentially a wargame, where all there is to do is fight.  Sure, MoM's diplomacy was pretty crap too, but hopefully FE can shine in this area.
• Very, very thin on economics and empire management.
• No heroes, and no magic items.

It's still a great game, but it's pretty thin on some of the features I really care about, and it's certainly no MoM successor, nor is it even trying to be the same thing Fallen Enchantress is trying to be.  I don't see it having legs for me.  It'll be fun for a while, but unless they flesh it out substantially with DLC and expansions, it'll be a brief infatuation.

I've been playing it myself, and just as Frogboy said, it's not that much like Elemental. The focus is pretty different. It's more like a board wargame.

The game is pretty fun, and I'm wasting quite a bit of time with it, but there are also a lot of things about it that bugs me. The silly quests, the unbalanced units, and the fact that I can't demolish buildings to change my city's role is pretty high on my hate list atm. Also, the AI... it's kind of a let down. It's supposedly "fighting" two wars and yet most of its units are just wondering back and forth in my territory (I'm at peace with them)... I don't have a clue what it's doing... certainly not fighting. Every once in a while you'll see them send some scouts into the other side's territory that gets killed... and it likes to bombard stuff with ships (and never actually killing anything with it, mind you). All it seems to do right so far is cast spells.

It's quite a fun game, but the strategic and diplomatic AI are still a mess, and the quest-god system really isn't implemented, yet: it's just a few endlessly repeating quests.  It's also missing multiple victory types, which are mentioned in the documentation.  Tactical AI is excellent, screen design is great, so are graphics and animation, and the thing really has the I'll-just-play-one-more-turn feeling about it. 

Nevermind, found it.

It's a decent game but unfinished. I really worried about the city spam. The population grow isn't related with anything, it's fixed. I have seen screenshots with players handling 40 cities ( 300 turns)

There is a teleport spell you can research.

There are Hero Units for those who preordered (Blademaster and Demonic Advisor). Also available as DLC.

Both are kind of overpowered.

Interesting.  It caught my eye on Steam earlier tonight.  I'll have to keep my eyes open for it, especially when it gets to $10 with all extra content thrown in.  For now Sins and FE are about all I can handle without putting aside real life for gaming.  Haven't even logged into LoL in a couple of weeks.

Cheers,

-tid242

That button doesn't work. That's why it frustrates me to no end. Apparently they removed the option during beta or something? (Not sure, I wasn't in it)

Actully it does have the teleport spell in the game. I agree it is a very good game and I much perfer how they do they handle buildings (one per hex and your limited on how many buildings you can build by the level of the city. Level 5 city only allows 5 buildings so specilizing a city is a must....love it)

I perfer a tactical battle type set up however the next best thing is they way they battle in Warlock which is very similar to Civ 5.  Although I have always liked the Civ games since the first Civ I never really liked the fighting mechanic until Civ 5 came out. For me it is a lot like turning the whole would into a giant Tactical Battle map which I love.

I think the look of the game is very good as well (never liked the Art in FE.) 

I hope it can be moded like FE can.

It does have a weak Diplomancy however it is simple and does work. FE is going to dominate in this area I think. And even though I like the combat in Warlock I perfer the style of TC that FE , MOM, AOW, AOW:SM has. Now currently the combat in Warlock is a lot more fun than it is in FE but that is due to FE still being in beta with months before release.

Oh and I love the fact that you can have multiple worlds (up to 6 of them) I loved the this feature in AOW and AOW:SM but there were only 3 in that game (Underground, Shadow world) But you can mod the other levels any way you want top create other worlds. Hopefully Warlock will let you do that too.

Oh and Warlock has sea creatures, naval ships, and Flyers which unfortunatly FE does not have (something that has always been a pet peeve of my about the game.)

I actully like the "City Spam" but then I never liked the concept of limiting the number of cities you have in a TBS game with silly mechanics.

In FE I try to build or capture as many cities as I can.

It's a really good game, but it's pretty different from FE, I think.  Warlock is a really good game, I can't stress that enough.  But FE is a much, much deeper game.  They are different enough that one doesn't replace another.  Good time to be a fantasy 4x fan.