Having played (and loving the mod) so far, and having played around with Empire, Chaos, Wood Elves, Bretonnia campaigns. I feel as though I want to give my feedback and let others chime in. I'm going to order these in what I feel is the most critical being #1 to least problematic at the bottom.

1) Time sensitive missions are completely out of whack.

Example is the De Lyonesse mission, her very first mission to get the sword is to save 3 squads of Dwarves from getting annihilated. This is.. quite frankly.. nearly impossible, unless you're nearly end game with a max high tier army.

THe reason is because the game originally intended you to smash and route these armies quickly before the final army showed up. You simply cannot do this anymore. I can smash the first army fine, semi smash the 2nd one, but they'll get bogged down slightly and by then the third army will march in and now you're in a slug fest, and that's before the 4th final army shows up.

By this time 75% of the dwarven army has already routed, and you're holding on by a hair despite still smashing everyone. simply due to the time limit and how long it takes to kill things now.

Many other factions quests are not time sensitive, some are. This completely throws the balance out the window, especially for Multiplayer, where a player with a time sensitive quest early on like De Lyonesse will have to wait nearly 100 if nto more turns than the other player to start getting their special weapons.

2) Campaign is a bit of a slog with Public Order and maintence fee's through the roof.

I originally read in the changes, etc. that you would be able to have more armies early game, and that Imperial mechanic is now the deciding factor in the ceiling and cap of army numbers. Making it more difficult to defend your growing empire as you gain more land.

This is fine to me, makes sense even, and forces you to have to play the diplomacy game a bit more and choose where to expand. However, the problem is that you can't expand.. Not very well ever. Your ability to field armies is no less different than vanilla early game, if not far worse, and you're punished severely for expanding with public order, and income nerfs.

This creates a seriously slow grind as you wait for 40-50 turns for your provinces to grow to finally be able to push out and take another province, only to wait another 40-50 turns to stabilize it.. and those length of waiting times only get worse as the Imperial mechanic goes up and you have to spend even longer stabilizing your public order and income..

If this is how it was for provinces and land which does not match your favored, that would make entire sense.. A plains favored nation pushing into mountains should require vastly more time to stabilize and grow in that province, but it's just a slow tediuos grind no matter what.

3) I'm going to talk about Public Order specifically even though I did above about the campaign speed.

Public Order in my opinion should vastly depend on the province and type of terrain your faction favors. Favored terrain should have a bonus to growth speed, happiness, and regeneration speed for both garrisons and armies. Unfavored terrain should see a significant nerf to those, and take much longer to grow and stabilize, while hated or red terrain should require vast amounts of time to properly stabalize.

I still think all terrain should be colonizable and eventually stabalize it into at least a net 0 gain 0 loss public order, but it should take time, effort and focus on a hated terrain type.