I haven't played in a long time, but I decided to give it a try. I played on the "hero" difficulty as the red faction. The map isn't very difficult, especially if you know that there are joining troops, and there are a huge number of them. I got rid of the starting, weak hero as soon as I saw him. In the tavern, I bought Dugal and played as him. My impression of the map is mixed. The map layout is very good, and the landscape is well done, but... The map name in the game menu is Map11, not something like "The Squeeze." On the loading screen, it says "custom map"—was it really that hard to write something there? All the cities are unnamed—"undefined." These are glaring mistakes that can't be missed. The artifact at 39.110 can be taken without a fight; the Zealots join without a fight with the Militia, but the red Archers cannot be joined—there's no way to reach them. There might be something else, but I was already getting bored running around, so I just quickly captured the enemy cities without paying attention to anything.