Fair. I am having crash issues and apologies for not uploading them. I am also having clicking issues where i have to click things so many times for them to actually register I'm clicking it. I will try to start sending the crash reports.

Game of Thrones only has Men.  You don't need Orcs, Elves, Dwarves and Goblins for the factions to be considered "different". They just need more features that make them effectively different.

And calling the factions all Men with different facial features and such could be said of pretty much all fantasy universes. What's the difference between an Elf and a man or a Dwarf and a man or even an Orc and a man. 

It's the mechanics that make them different.  And more can be done there (and more can always be done).  Unfortunately, we live in an age where people expect 3D models for everything.  Let me have 32x32 sprites like MOM and I can give you a gazillion "different" races.

Tactical is improving, new maps are great.  Some tile bonuses and line of sight stuff would be even funner...

I would like to see ordinary units gain some special attacks or defenses or just a better critical hit function either as a reward for a great victory or after a certain experience level is reached.  These could be faction or kingdom/empire specific and would make tactical more interesting if the spearmen in front of you suddenly set their spears for your approaching cavalry... 

Also, ordinary units should earn an XP every turn they exist aside from what they earn from battles.  And with the new tweaked hero XP and leveling system, you could go that path for heroes as well and that would make a governor type strategy playable.

I missed an opportunity to choose my upgrade on my second city of the game i started on 0.86 because of pop-ups.  The flavor text for opponents is ok, but maybe there could be a way to have it pop up only on "more boring" turns then ones where the player has to make a lot of choices...

Pathfinding for units coming out of cities and getting onto roads is still a bit rough...

0.86 is a great leap in the right direction, playing the heck out of it this weekend.  The level ups are much more critical now that the xp is more precious, makes me think hard about what to choose.  I LOVE IT!

Thanks for listening, SD!

p.s. Thanks for making venom sacs equippable, would love to see other monster parts be usable for offensive/defensive purposes.  Or can the live beast be subdued and tamed? Or enraged into a rampage across a rivals lands?  That would be a great way to rid yourself of that pesky outpost that sprung up to the south of you...

I voted good.  I think you're definitely on the right track, despite my vote not improving.  It's gone from the low end of good to the middle to upper end of good right now for me.  I've actually held off on buying Crusader Kings II because of this game, which should say something.

Right now, I think this game would get an 8/10 review score from most places. I think you're approaching AoW:SM-level, but with a working AI.

There are still things that look barebones, and AI/balance/pacing still need work.

I haven't had crashes in beta 2 .86. 

Honestly, if it weren't for the Bugs I'd say 0.85 is good enough for launch.  (good enough to be a decent game)

The bugs are a bit glaring and serious however ... so it certainly won't be a walk in the park to tackle them all.

Only my opinion, of course, but I think that's wildly optimistic.  The technical issues alone would torpedo any review scores.  Even if it worked perfectly, it's just not firing on all cylinders yet. But the engine is turning over, unlike WoM (again, IMO).

I dont mean to be negative. Im very optimistic about the game. But it's important to be sober about this and not repeat past mistakes. The stakes are high. Consider that Crusader Kings 2 is hovering near 8/10 on meta-critic right now, and I think that's probably one of the greatest strategy games ever made.

We do have mage units (as of 0.85) in the form of Ice Staffs and Fire Staffs with ranged Ice and Fire attacks.

It would be nice if they each had an equip-able spell or two though

True, intelligence should affect the attack of Staves, and I don't think it does at the moment.

(or rather spell power should, which goes up with level)

makes more experienced mages better than experienced archers (where right now archers seem always the better choice than mages)

It's a half-decent game now. Might get a 65-70 on metacritic.

What's done in the next few releases will determine whether it stays at 65-70, or gets an 80-85.

I don't think I want FE to get a 90+. It's then too mainstream, and I probably won't like it. Many people reviewing these games are not players or enjoyers of strategy games. But it should get an 80-85 if it irons out the bugs and imbalances, and gains that "special" touch no one can describe. It doesn't have that touch yet, but I don't think it's impossible to gain it in the next few months.

I went form 'fair' to 'good'. The 0.77 was a nice game to play. But I found myself playing a game and feeling that WoM good spot feeling. I played on challenging and faced Umber and Gilden. I boosted the music up and was swept away by the beautifull music. I started going around with my sovereign (Procipone) and found two champions to help me out. one of my champions went to an inn and got a request for helping an noble daughter, sadly my champion was not strong enought to fend the bear of right next tot the inn, so I rejected. It would have been nice if I could wait a few seasons before accepting like with the dragon-summoner.  I found that the shadow warg was a little overpowerd, it is fastly more powerfull then the Ice-Elemental that I could cast many many turns later. My two champions also went about and killing evil monsters. I liked that I could make pioneers early so I could capture some nice resources with outposts.  Gilden was sadly killed of by a monster in the middle of the game. Quickly after that I met Umber, which settled next to a shrill-lord lair. It was a good spot, but I didn't take it because of the fear of this shrill-lord. It realy bugs me that it didn't attackt this settlement for the rest of the game (100+ turns). This, while my settlement near the border of a wildland was attacked by a roaming stone-elemental. I really don't  get the monster AI... But wel, Umber declared war on me because I didn't have a standing army. He came at me with hoards of peons within 2 seasons! I liked that. Sadly those peons where in groups of 3, so I decimated them with my sovereign (10 batches of peons). I was wonderd why Umber had such a large but useless army. He had better cities and spots, but because he didn't train more then peons in batches of 3, he was decimated. This was a game in 0.85.

I really liked the exploration of the world, the music added that extra feeling. What saddend me was that the whole magic three is useless if you haven't got any crystals. With the military tech three you have leather armour that makes it usefull even though you have no metal at your disposal. Maybe you could make units which use mana as an attack source. I like the new caravan system, it works a lot more natural. The new death penalties also are a nice addition, I had to laught a little when I saw 'fear of death'. I do have a problem of not seeing the sovereigns in the character selection menu. I just want to say: I like the music, I like the game!

To answer on your question froggy boy, you guys are on the right track! Make me vote excelent!

Game of thrones is not a game but a character driven story.We are not reading books here.

The reality is in a game humans and slightly grey humans are not suffice.I do not see these mechanics that make them different in the gameplay.Paxton did Fall from Heaven2 and I am suprised how bland the factions are in this game.

Personnaly I voted Poor...

I am sorry, FE is far to be poor but let me explain why:

1. First of all, there is WAY too many crashes, the game is really unstable and at each action you do, you are afraid that the game will crash only to leave you with that beautiful screen : Elemental has stopped working

I don't think I succeeded to play any game yet and especially going far in the game without the game crashing except for the tutorial.

2. I really like the game, it's a huge improvement compared to WOM, but some buttons of the interface are not clear enough... There should be more options to see where you want to build your city by showing ressources. Additionally, building your city near or next to the sea doesn't seem to give you much advantage.

3. The tactical battle screen seems too small, units begins the fight too close from each other, so much that it doesn't give you much time to think personnaly or set a strategy that would slow down the opponent so you can kill him from affar

4. Still the tactical battles decor is sometimes preventing the unit to move through a path. I did a battle and there was a pond in the middle of me and the troll I was attacking and the tiles were clearly showing a path to the right and to the left of the pond... however, the path on the left was the only one availabe... And the troll never moved towards me even after 10 turns.

5. Ennemies starting next to you are too powerful and you die really quickly or worse, the computer still seems to die and beeing defeated by that kind of stuff early game when I thought by reading the news that this problem was fixed

6. In tactical battle, the ennemies start off screen, it happened to me 2 times in 10 battles (and I just got in the BETA so I didn't play very much yet) and you just can see or target them unless they move, which is a huge problem if they happen to not move like the troll I had.

7. I regret the dispearance of the spellbook in tactical battles, I don't really like that bunch of icons at the bottom, you are almost forced to hover the mouse above them to be sure of what kind of spell you are casting with that, if you have a lot of spells, will they all be there in a line ?

There are feature with city fights and earth magic and air/aquatic units that I would love to see implemented but I know what was said about it.

In the end, I am sorry for voting Poor but this game is so promising, the changes made are for most of them awesome (I love not to have to take care of building houses for example or the world is WAY cool and well done, coherent, etc.

I think FE can be an amazing game that will get a lot of success and I think poeple might finally think it's the dign successor of MOM with all the changes that have been made ! So I want to congratulate Stardock's team for how amazing they are and I hope FE will still be improved a lot. After all, as it was said, they still have month to go

I didn't vote (since I'm the lead coder of said game).

I think many of you would agree that bringing on Kael to design and lead Fallen Enchantress and bringing the Galactic Civilizations team back together to code it has made a major impact here.

That said, I'd say that game is still months from being ready for general availability:

1. Crashes.  We need crash reports because we're getting to the point where the # of crash reports are very rare but for those who get them, they are getting them A LOT.
2. Glitches / Bugs.  There's a ton of these still. Path finding being near the top.  We're skirting the between area between Good path finding and Fast path finding.  
3. Polish. UI improvements, music, graphics, sound effects, little playability things.
4. Usability. Annoying way units leave cities (I want them to be on top of the city ala Civ). It's a pain to organize units. It's a pain to select multple units. There aren't enough hot keys. The keyboard controls are inconsistent.
5. Game Mechanics. Factions still feel too similar. Champions need more differentiation.
6. Diplomacy. Need  much more in this area.
7. End game stuff. 
8. AI. Needs more units to choose from to train. More tactical AI work. Fix strategic.

That's just off the top of my head.  So there's still much to do before release. But I'm glad to hear people are happy with how we're doing.