Sorry, but DW6E not fully developped, uninspiring, boring and looks like DW3 on Xbox but worse...
Concerning gameplay: to implement a strategic level through this kind of conquest mode is a good idea. But the elements aren't worked out properly, for example:
- Surprise attack: What the intention to start a surprise attack if it didn't change to flow of battle?
- No. of soldiers: their existence is only for the camp's sake. I as a player doesn't see them at all. That's why I prefer my old bodyguards from DW3; I see them whimping, dying, helping me out, growing, and so on. In other words: I take care about them, they influence my gameplay. My huge army of 20k are not existent for me as a player.
- Marriage/oaths: the only advantage I see is to avoid them as my insanely strong opponents. But there is no influence on other officers. What I'm saying is: I would like to see more dilemma decision if for example I have Cao Cao in my roster, it should influence the flow of battle when encounter (or allies) with his companion like Dian Wei, Xiaohou Dun or the like.
- Stables, jewelry, smith and training: their individual allocations are nice but not balanced. If I start in a province without training or smith, I'm quite a loser…
- Weapons: the offset of their power really disappoint me. It seems to me that it absolutely doesn't matter what kind of weapon I use. Every weapon are equal, there is no inferiority/superiority logic behind. Just hit like stupid x buttons. Especially the effects which you can buy are ridiculous: as player there is no motivation than to get Flash, Musou, Arrow awareness three others with every character.
There are more points but I'm too tired to count them all. In short: DW3 had for me a hell of a lot more fun and replay value than the so called "strategic" DW6E; the latter is for me a real setback.