so there are many cool things about this game, it has pretty cool graphics and a nice setting, it tries to take a lot of factors into account and tries to use some decent features, but overall when you get to a decent skill level its stupid game after stupid game.
Its come to the point where if I want to win I have to use fairly extreme and cheesey tactics myself like one click super arty in several flavors and over powered units or abilities that do way more damage then they should and can wipe out a whole army in a single click, and give a pathetic warning to the enemy that even then when you see it coming its usually too late because the interface has a 2 second delay or more if it gets the commands issued at all (cant stress how slow multiplayer response is for controls).
that and the hit system is a joke. Ive seen a whole army shooting at the weakest unit in the game and cant hit anything (when its in the open) then it turns around and wipes out half a squad of your elites in cover by itself and still ends up making it away despite half a dozen units that are supposed to be anti infantry shooting at it.
And im not exaggerating. counters are not counters in this game. Ive seen time after time on both sides of the coin cases where the unit that's supposed to be a hard counter gets raped by the unit its supposed to be good against regardless of tier level or player involvement or half the time even numbers involved. Just one unit all of a sudden cant hit, and the other unit is scoring all kinds of super crits, its enough to drive you insane if your following the numbers.
There are too many strange mechanics in this game that weren't thought out that overlap each other for this game to really shine. In many cases even when i win i feel like the other guy got robbed when my tank gets a lucky shot that wipes out his whole anti tank gun squad and he never even saw my unit or had a chance to react.
And either many people use map hacks or theres something in the game that lets you see 10 times further then all my existing units ive ever tried put together. You will just lose units that might even be on the move in the your backfield just out of the blue, and theres no way that he made a blind guess on a specific moving target with artillery. Its game after game and case after case of just asking yourself constantly: 'wtf?'
Oh and forcing people to buy decent commanders as a dlc is the very definition of a scam.