@ brycex99: Thanks for the advice. Very helpful. Do you have a strategy when it comes to research. Do you focus on civ when you start and then on move to magic or do you follow a more balanced approach?
Before you start deleting files and folders, disable your firewall/antivirus. Worked for me.
1.The adventuring part of the game is by far my favourite. However, I don't like that many dungeons, crypts and other locations are visible on the map, but the game won't let you explore them before you research several levels in "adventure" research tree. It would look better if the locations became visible after the research was done. They could also place them on mountains (if they are caves), inside forests (if they are abandoned houses and laboratories, or even swamps. That would justify
After playing a scenario, I have to admit that 70% of the problems I mentioned didn't bother me at all. For those who said I shouldn't fight the drake with peasants: In the campaign I didn't get other units. I just had a couple basic units and I could create new units by loading them with equipment. I wouldn't like it either if 8 peasants could kill a dragon, but the squads I used had 8 fully upgraded "peasants" with the best equipment I had at the time, and they would never hit even
OK, I finally got the game to work. The last thing I had to do was disable my firewall. That's when my nightmare begun. I'm guessing the game will be playable (at least for me) some time in the second half of 2011. STRIKE 1: I, too, experienced the dodge/block mightmare. The stats of the units are misleading. I started the campaign and after ~4 hours I had a battle with a drake. It took alomost 15 min to win because the enemy kept dodging and blocking. I had 8 units total with t